Shepherd University

		Robert A. McMillan Chair, Board of Governors Robert A. McMillan, of Martinsburg, is president and CEO of Jefferson Distributing Company, Inc. Previously he had been president and CEO of McDonough-Caperton-Shepherd Association Group; vice president of McDonough-Caperton-Shepherd; product/sales manager for Mobil Oil Corporation-Chemical Division; assistant vice president of Continental Mortgage Investors; and director of marketing for Phipps Harrington Corporation. He earned an A.B. degree in economics in 1965 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from Emory University in 1971. McMillan served in the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. McMillan has served on the board of directors of the United Way of Berkeley and Morgan Counties, the Shenandoah Community Health Center, National Beer Wholesaler Association, and One Valley Bank East.
		Andrew D. Michael Vice Chair, Board of Governors Andrew Michael is a partner in The Woods Resort, located in Hedgesville. He served as a board member of the Contemporary American Theater Festival for nine years, as president of the board for five years and is currently a member of their honorary board. He is a former member of the Theater Communications Group's (TCG) National Council for the Arts. He currently serves on the boards of the Matinsburg-Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, Court Appointed Special Advocates of the Eastern Panhandle, the Gateway New Economy Council, and the Shepherd University Foundation. He is a past president of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Eastern Panhandle and has served as a grant review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and for the TCG/NEA Playwright's Residency program. A Shepherd alumnus, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1975.
		Gat Caperton Secretary, Board of Governors Gat Caperton is the president and CEO of Caperton Furnitureworks, a West Virginia manufacturer of hand-made, solid-wood home furniture that he acquired from its founder in 1996. Originally named Tom Seely Furniture, the 40+ year-old business now employs over 100 skilled people in Berkeley Springs and sells its furniture throughout the U.S. Prior to acquiring the company, Caperton worked six years in Chicago for a large, diversified manufacturing company. While working full-time, he earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and membership on its Dean's List. In 1990, Caperton received a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College, where he also played on the school's football team. He currently serves on the boards of the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation, the Natural Capital Investment Fund, and the West Virginia Nature Conservancy. Caperton and his wife Susan live in Berkeley Springs and have three daughters: Eliza, Katie, and Evie.

		Manny P. Arvon II Member, Board of Governors Manny P. Arvon II is beginning his 12th year as the superintendent of Berkeley County Schools. He began his career as a teacher then became an assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent, and now is the county's superintendent. Arvon is a board member of Centra Bank, American Association of School Administrators, Edvantia, and RESA VIII. He is past president of the West Virginia Association of School Administrators, council member of James Rumsey Technical Institute, and member of the 21st Century Jobs Cabinet of West Virginia. He was named Superintendent of the Year by the American Cancer Society, South Atlantic Division (2006), the West Virginia Music Educators Association (2005), and the West Virginia American Association of School Administrators (2004). In 2004 he was named a Distinguished West Virginian by Governor Bob Wise and in 2005 received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Shepherd University. He earned a bachelor of science degree in education in 1974 from Shepherd and a master of arts degree in education administration in 1979 from West Virginia University. He and his wife Pam have two sons--Matt and Trey.
		Lauri M. Bridgeforth Member, Board of Governors Lauri M. Bridgeforth, of Winchester, Virginia, is the owner of Valley Photo Centre, a retail camera store, and Full Frame Photography, Inc., a portrait and commercial photography studio. Bridgeforth's regional and national clients include Summit Financial Group, Con-Agra, Amtrak, Sheetz, Rubbermaid, Georgetown University, Dr. Pepper, and the University of Virginia. Her portrait commissions are included in several corporate and private collections. She also produced and edited images for the publication Winchester: Proud Heritage, Progressive Future, a hard-bound book used as a regional marketing tool by the local Chamber of Commerce. Bridgeforth received an associate of arts degree in photography and a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography from Shepherd College. She is a member of the Greater Frederick County Advertising Federation, a certified photographic counselor with the Photo Marketing Association, a board member of the Winchester/Frederick County Chamber of Commerce, and a former board member of Braddock Street United Methodist Church.
		Mary Clare Eros, Esq. Member, Board of Governors Mary Clare Eros, of Shepherdstown, retired as a member of the law firm of Jackson Kelly PLLC in January of 2007. With the firm since 1981, she served as the managing member of the Martinsburg office where her practice areas included banking, corporate, bankruptcy, government contracts, bonds and financing, leases, business and commercial, legislative services, contracts, real estate and property law, and intellectual property and trademarks. Eros previously served as a summer intern for the U.S. Department of Justice in Elkins, a faculty research assistant at West Virginia University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center, and co-director of the International Language Institute at Davis & Elkins College. She holds a B.A. in English literature from St. Louis University, attended West Virginia University law school and earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She previously served on the Shepherd College Board of Advisors. She served on the Higher Education Policy Commission from 2001 to 2007. Since her retirement, she has been appointed as a visiting instructor during the spring semester at Vytautas Magnus University School of Law in Kaunas, Republic of Lithuania.
		Doris M. Griffin Member, Board of Governors Doris Griffin, of Martinsburg, previously held positions in hospital management at the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and was a management analyst at the VA Medical Center in East Orange, NJ. Prior to her positions at VA, Griffin completed a hospital administration residency in 1974 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She received the B.S. degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. and an M.B.A. from Cornell's Johnson School of Management. She is a graduate of the first Berkeley Leadership Class in 1991 and the VA Leadership Class of 1994. She is currently a member of the West Virginia Board of Medicine and the City Hospital Foundation Board in Martinsburg. Griffin is also on the executive committee of the Martinsburg-Berkeley Branch of the NAACP and vice president of the Martin Luther King Scholarship Committee. She previously served on the boards of the Eastern West Virginia Rural Health Education Consortium, RESA Head Start, Martinsburg Rotary, and Berkeley-Morgan United Way. She also served on Shepherd's Strategic Planning Committee.
		Diane Shewbridge Classified Employees Representative, Board of Governors Diane Shewbridge, of Martinsburg, is an administrative associate in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Shewbridge earned a bachelor of arts degree from Shepherd in 1973.
		Anders H. Henriksson Faculty Representative, Board of Governors Anders H. Henriksson, of Harpers Ferry, is professor of history and chair of the Department of History. A faculty member since 1985, Henriksson is a member of the College Honors Board and co-coordinator of the women's studies program. Henriksson earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and Russian from the University of Rochester in 1971 and a master of arts degree in history in 1972 and a Ph.D. in history in 1978, both from the University of Toronto. The author of numerous articles, books, book reviews, and translations, Henriksson is currently researching the role of class, language, and gender in the construction of collective identity in the Imperial Russian Baltic provinces (contemporary Estonia and Latvia) during the period 1900-1917. He has spent six summers, as well as a spring sabbatical leave, at work on this project in Latvia and Estonia and has conducted additional research in London, Helsinki, and several archive repositories in the United States.
		Lacy I. Rice Member, Board of Governors Prior to founding FCP in 1999, Lacy Rice was a principal at The Carlyle Group, where he helped raise and invest Carlyle's $475 million real estate fund. There, he also served on the Fund's Investment Committee. Prior to joining Carlyle, Rice was a member of the Investment Banking Group at Alex Brown, where he was involved in $2.5 billion of REIT M&A and underwriting transactions. Rice began his real estate career as a principal at Haas & Haynie Corporation, a leading Northern California development company. Before entering the real estate field, he served as a corporate account officer at Chemical Bank, where he structured private placements, interest rate swaps and loans exceeding $1 billion for Fortune 100 companies. Rice serves on the boards of Shepherd University, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and BB&T Bank. He received a masters in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University.
		W. Mark Rudolph Member, Board of Governors W. Mark Rudolph, of Winchester, Virginia, is a 1984 graduate of Shepherd and the president and CEO of Yount, Hyde & Barbour CPAs, Winchester. He joined the firm in 1984, became a principal in 1994, and has served as president and CEO since 2005. The firm has offices in Winchester, Culpeper, Middleburg, Leesburg, and Richmond. The firm has a strong record of hiring graduates of Shepherd's accounting degree program. Rudolph's personal areas of emphasis in his accounting practice have included accounting and auditing services for financial institutions as well as consulting services in the health care industry. He has been an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on the board of trustees of Winchester's Handley High School, is a past president of the Lions Club, and is an elder of the Presbyterian Church.
		Jessie Sigley Student Representative, Board of Governors