FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/15/2007

Ten Elected To Bridgewater College Board Of Trustees

BRIDGEWATER, Va. — Ten new members were elected to the Bridgewater College Board of Trustees at the board's meeting on Nov. 2. Members will serve up to a five-year term.

Nancy Miller Bowman, of Waynesboro, Va., is a financial secretary in the dental office of her husband, Dr. Kenneth D. Bowman, '63. At St. Mark's United Methodist Church, she is a lay leader, membership secretary and teacher who has also served on the Staff/Pastor Parish Relations Committee and Administrative Council. She formerly served as the director of the Augusta County Fair.

Mensel D. Dean, Jr., '67, of Bridgewater, Va., is a partner in the accounting firm of PBGH, LLP. Dean, a Keezletown, Va., native who served in the U.S. Army from 1968-70, was named in 2001 (and each year since) by Virginia Business Magazine as a "Super CPA," and received the Commonwealth of Virginia Small Business Veteran of the Year award in 2005. He serves on the board of directors of Rockingham Memorial Hospital, and has served on the boards of directors of Rockingham Memorial Hospital Foundation, Bridgewater Retirement Community, Blue Ridge Community College Foundation and Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce.

Dean, who is a frequent speaker on estate and business planning, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants, and is married to Linda Taylor Dean.

Carl R. Fike, '78, of Oakland, Md., is vice president of O.C. Cluss Lumber in Uniontown, W.Va. A licensed Church of the Brethren lay speaker, Fike is a member of the board of directors of My Father's House International which operates an orphanage in El Salvador, founding treasurer and member of the board of directors of Garrett County Memorial Hospital Foundation, a former member of the board of directors of Garrett National Bank and past president of Mountain Top Chamber of Commerce.

He and his wife, Suzie, established and are directors of Shalom is My Home, an orphanage in Bolivia.

Asa Wesley Graves VI lives in Harrisonburg, Va., and is managing director of Investments at Wachovia Securities LLC. A 1963 graduate of Roanoke College, Graves is a member of Asbury United Methodist Church and a member of the Massanutten Regional Library Board of Directors.

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Originally from Lacey Spring, Va., he is a former member of the boards of directors of Rockingham Memorial Hospital and James Madison University Foundation, and is a past member of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Community Services Board.

He is married to Glenna M. Graves.

Stephen L. Hollinger, '70, of Haymarket, Va., is president of Construction Options Inc. He is a member of the Manassas Church of the Brethren and a charter member of Brethren Housing Corp. Hollinger also is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and is an authorized OSHA Disaster Site Worker Safety Trainer.

He is married to Linda Livesay Hollinger.

Stephanie LaPrade Naff, '00, lives in Tryon, N.C., and works as church secretary for Mill Creek Church of the Brethren and gives private piano lessons. She serves on the church's Music and Worship committees and is a member of Southeastern District's Program and Arrangements Committee. She is also the church's liaison with Thermal Belt Outreach Ministries and is active in the local food pantry.

Naff is married to the Rev. Noel Naff, '00, who is pastor of Mill Creek Church of the Brethren in Tryon.

Ronald E. Sink of Blue Ridge, Va., is a retired treasurer for Norfolk Southern Corp. He is a former board member of Bethany Theological Seminary and is active in the Church of the Brethren and civic activities in the Roanoke, Va., area. A former member of the Parents Committee at Bridgewater College, he is married to Janice Sink.

Barbara B. Stoltzfus of Mt. Crawford, Va., is former vice president of Dynamic Aviation Group Inc. She attended Blue Ridge Community College and Eastern Mennonite University, and is a graduate of Milford Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.

Stoltzfus is a former board chair of Rockingham Memorial Hospital and serves as a board member for RMH, Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, and American Hospital Association. She was awarded the 2004-05 Charlie Wampler Jr. Community Builder Award from the United Way.

With her husband, Karl, Stoltzfus established K&K Aircraft in 1967, which expanded to Dynamic Aviation, and which is now an international leader in the delivery of diversified flight services. Her husband is chairman and her son, Michael, is president and CEO.

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Donna Lee Walker, '75, of Glenshaw, Pa., is vice president for tax administration of PPG Industries Inc. She is a member of the board of trustees of Point Park University and serves on the boards of directors for Girls Hope of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

Walker is also a member of Tax Executives Institute and has served as president for the Institute's Pittsburgh chapter. Additionally, she has served on the International and IRS Administrative Affairs committees, the board of directors and the Executive Committee, and has chaired the International Awards Committee.

Walker, who is an elder of Glenshaw Presbyterian Church and plays in the handbell choir, is married to Stephen Walker.

Kathy G. Wright, '81, lives in Richmond, Va., and is logistics coordinator for Philip Morris USA, Inc. She is involved with Meals-On-Wheels, Habitat for Humanity and Central Virginia Foodbank, and is a member of Woodland Heights Baptist Church in Richmond. She has also served as president of the Bridgewater College Alumni Association.

Bridgewater College, a private, four-year liberal arts college, enrolls more than 1,500 students. Founded in 1880 and located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it was the state's first private, coeducational senior college.

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