Midlands Technical College Foundation Announces Seven New Board Members, Launches New Website
August 10, 2015
COLUMBIA, SC – Seven local community leaders have joined the Midlands Technical College Foundation Board of Directors for the 2015–2017 term. The newly elected board members bring extensive talent and experience to the board and join other current board members in advancing the Foundation’s mission to connect people, ideas and resources with Midlands Technical College.
New board members include:
- Ryan Dukes, Partner and Proprietor Blue Marlin Restaurant and Blue Marlin Signature Catering
- Randall (Randy) Halfacre, President and CEO, Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center
- Gwen Hampton, Director of Leadership Development, South Carolina School Boards Association
- Ernest (Ernie) Magaro, III
- Joseph (Joe) Powers, Complex Director, Merrill Lynch
- Michael (Mike) Williams, Site Personnel Manager, Michelin North America
- David Woolard, Founder and Owner, Midlands Tooling Systems, Inc.
They join current board members:
- Marion (Lex) Knox, Jr., MTC Foundation Board Chair, and Chairman, Terminix Service, Inc.
- Walter (Joe) Johnson, MTC Foundation Board Vice Chair, and President and COO, Palmetto GBA
- Scott McClelland, MTC Foundation Board Treasurer, and shareholder, Elliott Davis, LLC
- Scott Adams, MTC Foundation Board Secretary
- William (Bill) Barker
- Barbara Blau, President, DP Professionals
- Donald Corry, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
- David Dubberly, Attorney, Nexsen Pruet
- Solomon Jackson, Jr.
- William (Bill) Kirkland, Executive Director, USC/Columbia Technology Incubator
- Ernest (Ernie) Margaro, Jr.
- Gerald (Jerry) Sweetland, Plant Manager, PurePower Technologies
The MTC Foundation develops and nurtures relationships with individuals, businesses, and foundations that allow each to realize their own philanthropic goals through the support of and engagement in the programs and services offered by Midlands Technical College.
In addition, the college’s Office of Advancement, in partnership with the Midlands Technical College Foundation, recently launched a dynamic, new website that will raise awareness of its wide-ranging giving opportunities and how those gifts benefit the students and the community. On the website, visitors can learn more the importance of private philanthropy and opportunities to support MTC, the various ways they can give, and the impact of that support on students and the community.
Visit the site at giving.MIDLANDSTECH.EDU
About Midlands Technical College
Midlands Technical College (MTC) is a comprehensive, multi-campus, public, two-year college serving Richland, Lexington and Fairfield counties of South Carolina. The fifth-largest provider of higher education in South Carolina and the largest provider of transfer students to four-year colleges and universities in the state, MTC enrolls approximately 18,000 credit students annually. The college’s Corporate and Continuing Education program, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the Southeast, annually has 30,000 enrollments and provides continuing education to hundreds of area businesses each year. MIDLANDSTECH.EDU
