Rainey Institute Board of Managers 2009-2010

OFFICERS:

Rachel Wayne Nelson, Chair:  Retired Director, Cleveland Heights/University Heights Library; Former Interim Director Children’s Museum, President (retired), Global Issues Resource Center.

Dora Rae Vactor, Vice Chair: Cuyahoga County Employment and Family Services, Dance Advocate & Choreographer.

Theodore J. Horvath, Treasurer: Assistant General Counsel (retired), First Energy/Illuminating Company; Member 25 years (retired), Cleveland Orchestra Chorus; President, Rainey Endowment Board of Trustees.

Robert Finn,  Secretary: Music Critic (Retired) Cleveland Plain Dealer; lecturer; freelance writer; author.

MEMBERS:

William Bradford:  Manager, Carnegie West Branch, Cleveland Public Library.

Madeline Columbro, SND: PhD; Director of Development; Sisters of Notre Dame; Musician; SND Provincial Center.

Robert Conrad:  Founder/President and CEO WCLV-FM 104.9; Board of Trustees Musical Arts Association and Cleveland Institute of Music.

Germaine Gibian:  Librarian (Retired); community activist and volunteer.

Andres M. Gonzalez:    Director, Office of Diversity and Community Outreach, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Jeffrey Grover:  President, Grover Group LLC, Executive Producer, Luminaries Productions Ltd., Executive Producer, Both Sides Now, Professional Actor, Board President, Fairmount Center for the Arts

Ron Lang:  Principal, Northcoast Portfolio Management, investment advisors.

Charlotte D. Lofton:  Program Chair, Medical Program Management Associates Degree,  Kaplan Career Institute

Leah Martinez:  Office Manager, Fox Sports Ohio

Alexander McAfee:  Education advocate, Board member Cleveland Institute of Music, Finlandia University, former Vice President, Cleveland Cliffs, Vice Chairman Fairmont Minerals, Chairman The Garwick Corp.

Robert McDonough:  PhD, Professor of English, Cuyahoga Community College; published poet; past Chairperson, Rainey Board of Managers.

Michael Meissner:  Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

Lu Anne Morrison:  Managing Director, MAI Wealth Advisors, LLC

David M. Pavlich:  Partner & Chief Information Officer, Dealer Tire, LLC

Arline Pollard-Naboulsi:  Cleveland Police Officer, Rainey parent

Monyka Price:  Chief of Education, City of Cleveland, former Principal, Citizens’ Academy

Jan Thrope:  Project Manager, MaryRuth Books, former Employment Director, New Life Community, Co-founder, Shaker Heights Arts Council

TRUSTEES OF THE ENDOWMENT

Theodore J. Horvath:    President and Treasurer

Ronald Lang:  Vice President

Sandy McAfee:

Michael Meissner:

BOARD ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Bernice Barris:   Nurse professional; aviatrix

Clurie Bennis:   Community activist;  arts advocate; volunteer for school Performance Indicators Review Process, Cleveland Municipal School District.

Toby  Gillespie-Mobley:   Pastor New Hope Community Church

Regina Johnson:   Insurance broker, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.

Annie Key:   Former Representative, Ohio House of Representatives.

A. Grace Lee Mims:  Arts advocate, Singer, Host of Arts Log and Black Arts on WCLV 104.9FM, Board of Trustees Cleveland Institute of Music.

Clarence Rogers:   Community arts advocate.

Martha Gillespie-Shipps:  Musician; violin instructor; member, Forest Hills Quartet.