The OHIO Alumni Association appoints four new members

The OHIO College Alumni Affiliation is proud to announce the collection of 4 new members to its Board of Administrators. Bobcat alumni Anthony Webb, BS ’76; Jeff Lenihan, BSJ ’83, MSA ’84; Ron Minto, BS ’98; and LaWanna McKinley White, BSEd ’65, have been all appointed to the board in July.

“We’re honored to welcome these inspiring graduates to the Ohio College Alumni Affiliation Board,” mentioned Jennifer Shutt Bowie, BSJ ’94, MS ’99, interim affiliate vice chairman of alumni relations and government director of the OUAA. “The Board endeavors to symbolize all of OHIO’s alumni. Every of those people deliver distinctive experiences and various viewpoints to the group. Additionally they stand as examples for tomorrow’s graduates, demonstrating profession success, neighborhood influence, and private achievement. We welcome them of their persevering with dedication to Ohio College and its college students.”

Because the official group representing Bobcats from internationally, the Ohio College Alumni Affiliation goals to attach, inform and serve the College’s various alumni and associates in assist of the College’s mission and imaginative and prescient. Composed of 25 OHIO graduates from many alternative backgrounds, the Ohio College Alumni Affiliation Board represents the range of greater than 275,000 Bobcats worldwide.

Meet the Board

Anthony Webb, BS ’76

Webb is a consulting college psychologist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the place he gives psychological providers for each constitution and native college districts all through the metro space. His major focus is to each counsel and help college students to assist resolve their studying and habits issues.

Graduating from OHIO in 1976 with a B.S. in communication, Webb has been a devoted Bobcat ever since. 5 years in the past, he helped create the OHIO ’70s Group, which was created by 5 Ohio College alumni with the objective of assembly in Cleveland every June. What began as a small group gathering has since exploded into an annual weekend celebration of African American Bobcat alumni. The primary gathering in 2017 welcomed 120 individuals, and this previous yr, 200 individuals gathered. The group’s Fb web page has over 430 members from throughout the nation.

Along with his work in class psychology, Webb has taught as an adjunct psychology professor at Delaware Group Faculty, the Artwork Institute of Philadelphia, and Arcadia College.

He has resided in Philadelphia for the previous 34 years.

Jeff Lenihan BSJ ’83, MSA ’84

Lenihan has spent the majority of his profession in asset administration, the place he has labored for a number of high-profile corporations akin to RBC Dain Rauscher, Dreyfus, Mainstay, and Blackrock earlier than retiring in 2020.

Lenihan graduated from OHIO in 1983 with a B.S. in journalism and a grasp’s diploma in sports activities administration in 1984. After commencement, Lenihan labored as a journalist for 15 years overlaying sports activities, politics, and enterprise earlier than transitioning his profession into finance.

Since retirement, Lenihan returned to Athens and lives along with his spouse and three canine. He at present works with OHIO’s Sports activities Administration program, the place he and his spouse created an endowed scholarship.

He’s additionally the president of the Board of Pause4Paws and is a board member of Live shows for Hope.

Ron Minto, BS ’98

Minto works as Gross sales Engineering Chief for Rubrik, Inc., an information safety firm. He and his spouse Sarah additionally personal the small enterprise Dogtopia of Columbus – Downtown, which was voted Columbus’s Greatest Doggie Daycare by readers of 614 Journal for the previous two years operating. Minto can be an Amazon Net Companies Licensed Options Architect Affiliate.

Graduating from OHIO in 1998 with a B.S. in communication from the J. Warren McClure Faculty of Rising Communication Applied sciences, Minto has remained an lively Bobcat ever since. As of 2014, Minto has been serving as president to the advisory board that oversees his former college. Minto has been a member of the McClure Faculty Board since 2005. Furthermore, he’s the founding donor for the Pupil Senate Management Fund and the McClure Faculty Innovation Fund. He additionally served on The Promise Lives marketing campaign committee for the Division of Pupil Affairs.

Minto lives in Powell along with his spouse and three youngsters.

LaWanna McKinley White, BSEd ’65

Having graduated in 1965 with a level in schooling, White spent 33 years working within the Cleveland Municipal Faculty District. 5 of these years have been spent within the classroom and the opposite 28 as an administrator in science schooling and federal education schemes within the district’s central workplace. All through her profession, she helped develop new alternatives for college kids, academics, mother and father, and principals to reinforce their real-world information and expertise – all issues she attributes to her time as an OHIO pupil within the Sixties.

White was a trailblazer throughout her time at OHIO as the primary president of OHIO’s first Black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta.

In 2010, impressed by then-OHIO President Roderick J. McDavis, BSEd ’70, who additionally attended OHIO within the Sixties, White and a bunch of fellow ’60s alumni created the Ebony Bobcat Community, the place White served because the group’s first president. The first focus of the group was to assist an endowed scholarship for the City Students program. As we speak, the Ebony Bobcat Community has associates in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati/Dayton, Washington, D.C., and Akron/Canton. She is at present president emeritus of the Ebony Bobcat Community’s Nationwide Board.

Moreover, she is a member of the OU Girls’s Membership and sits on the Board of Administrators of Cleveland’s Ensemble Theater, which is led by OHIO alumni.

Ohio College welcomes these 4 completed and devoted graduates to the OUAA Board of Administrators.