Dear Alpha Phi Official Family:

The Board of Directors and the Alpha Phi Foundation Nominations Commission are pleased to announce three new members who will join Foundation Board of Directors for the 2006-2008 biennium: 

Sheri Allen (Delta Delta, Oklahoma City), Los Angeles, Calif.
Since graduating from college, Sheri has become very active with both the Fraternity and Foundation.  She currently serves on the Foundation’s development committee, is a former Loyola Marymount chapter adviser, and was a member of the Fraternity’s finance standing committee. Sheri has an extensive background in business, finance, and investments at the corporate level, and is a trustee for her family foundation.  

Cathy Stembridge (Omicron-Missouri), Evanston, Ill.
Cathy is currently Associate Vice President of the Office of Alumni Relations and Development for Northwestern University in Evanston. Her responsibilities include serving as executive director of the Northwestern Alumni Association with oversight of the association’s 50-member national board. She also serves on the five-member executive committee, leading the operation for 180 development and alumni relations officers. Cathy’s Alpha Phi connections have been strong since her college days where she served as chapter vice-president and president. She traveled as a Field Representative and held a number of positions in the Alpha Phi Executive Office including assistant general manager for the Fraternity. She also worked with Martha Mast, the Foundation’s first Chair, in the 1970's and 80's. Cathy serves on the board of the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club and is vice-chair of the club’s community service committee.

Diane Straker (Delta Alpha-East Carolina), Reston, Va.
Diane’s Alpha Phi leadership experience started in college when she served as pledge class president and vice president-scholarship. Some of her official titles as an alumna include finance adviser to the University of Maryland, District Governor and Executive Board vice president of finance and housing. 

Professionally, she has held several positions in the finance and business management arenas where she was responsible for contracts, procurement, purchasing, property and estimating for organizations with revenues in excess of $50 million. She also owned her own firm, conducting project management and financial management training.

 

These three women will join the following directors in the 2006-2008 biennium:

• Chairman Susan Weiskittle Barrick (Beta Omicron-Bowling Green)

• Vice Chairman Amy Jordan Tvrdik (Omicron-Missouri)

• Treasurer Linda Gardner Massie (Delta Alpha-East Carolina)

• Secretary Ann Brinkman (Zeta Delta, Iowa State)

• Director Susan Bevan (Sigma, Washington)

• IEB President-Elect Laura Malley-Schmitt (Zeta Phi-MIT)

The Foundation Board of Directors joins me to thank Commission Chairman Gayle Goodman (Beta Delta-UCLA), Ann Brinkman, Jennifer Holsman (Gamma Pi-Arizona State), Brenda Sanders Mullins (Delta Alpha- East Carolina) and Alin Hernandez Wall (Beta Delta-UCLA) for serving and working tirelessly on the 2006-08 Nominations Commission since November 2005. (As you know, the By-Laws of the Foundation are separate and different from those of the Fraternity, and provide that a Nominating Commission will nominate Directors and officers of the Foundation. The Board as a whole then votes on such nominations.)

We also thank all the talented and well-qualified Alpha Phis who were nominated and applied for Foundation Board positions.

Please join me to congratulate and welcome our new board members. But also join me to say thank you to outgoing directors Gayle Goodman and Alin Wall and outgoing IEB President Crista Cate Vasina (Delta Gamma-Northern Colorado) for their tireless work with the Alpha Phi Foundation Board of Directors. We look forward to their contributions as volunteers in new capacities!