New Phi Theta Kappa Foundation Trustees Named
JACKSON, MS - Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society has named four new members to
the Board of Trustees for the Phi Theta Kappa Foundation. The Foundation
was created to direct the Society's fundraising and development programs.
New Trustees include Dr. E. Ann McGee, Diane Barrett, J. Mark Davis and Ray
Hites.
Dr. McGee has served as President of Seminole Community
College in Florida since 1996. Dr McGee graduated from St. Petersburg Junior
College where she was inducted as a member of Phi Theta Kappa. She earned
a B.A. in speech and M.A. in communications from Florida State University,
as well as her Ed.D. from Nova Southeastern University. Phi Theta Kappa
honored her in 2005 with the Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction, and
she currently serves as the Phi Theta Kappa Presidential Ambassador for
the Florida Region.
Diane Barrett, Vice President of Education
Sales and Services for USA TODAY, launched the national college Newspaper
Readership Program initiative in 1999. She earned a B.S. in history and
political science at Adelphi University. Barrett previously taught social
studies and career education in New York and Pennsylvania public schools
and also serves as President of the USA TODAY Charitable Foundation.
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Mark Davis serves as President of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Davis
is an alumnus of the University of Georgia, where he earned a B.B.A. in accounting.
He went on to work for Price Waterhouse & Co. and eventually joined the Coca-Cola
Scholars Foundation as Vice President of Finance in 1987, when the program
started. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in 1994, and then became
President in 1998.
Ray Hites serves as the President of the Hites
Family Community College Scholarship Foundation and is the brother of
Robert Hites, the late founder of the Hites Foundation. Ray Hites was the
Director of Manufacturing and Director of Employee Relations with IBM
before retiring over 20 years ago. Since his retirement, he has been involved
in The Landing, a real estate business, and served on the Board of the Habitat
for Humanity in Savannah, Georgia.
Officers of the Phi Theta
Kappa Foundation's Board of Trustees are Dr. Matthew Quinn, Executive
Director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Virginia, Chair; Dr. Jo Marshall,
President of Somerset Community College, Kentucky, Vice Chair and Treasurer;
and Rod A. Risley, Executive Director of Phi Theta Kappa, Mississippi,
Secretary. Dr. Nancy Rieves is Executive Director of the Foundation and
a Trustee.
Other Trustees include Westley Moore, global investment
banker, CitiBank, New York; Mirta Ojito, Assistant Professor in the Graduate
School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York; and Dr. David Shinn,
Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society,
headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in
American higher education with 1,250 chapters on college campuses in all
50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Republic
of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British
Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions.
More than two million students have been inducted since its founding in
1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
