Board
The Board members of SAFE were chosen for their particular expertise, and
experience in board membership and matters of education and business administration. They also demonstrate quality character and interest in serving students. Dr. Hans N. Sheridan is a career educator. He began as a teacher of business education and accounting. He was an instructor of School Administration and Law courses at Ball State University. He was a school administrator in Muncie Community Schools and Fort Wayne Community Schools. In Fort Wayne Community Schools’ central office, he was the Director of Student Services and Assistant to the Superintendent in the development of Magnet Schools. He was the principal of Wayne High School. In business he was the Vice President of software development company KBSI, Inc in Texas, Director of Human Resources for the City of Fort Wayne, and the CEO of the Scottish Rite Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Dr. Donald F. Williams currently serves as Senior Associate Pastor of First Assembly of God Christian Center in Fort Wayne, IN. He has served in this capacity for 18 years. In addition to his pastoral ministry, he has served as an adjunct instructor with Taylor University, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, and Sofia Pentecostal Bible College in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is on the board of directors of the Sofia Pentecostal Bible College in Sofia,Bulgaria, and International House, a Fort Wayne based organization that provides resettlement support to refugees in the Fort Wayne area. Don also served as the Associate Editor of the Greek-English Dictionary for a sixteen volume bible study reference system entitled, The Complete Biblical Library. He has authored over 50 Greek word study articles related to New Testament studies, and has produced a series of video-based small group studies for churches called, Group in a Box. Remound W. Wright II is currently President, Strategic Growth and Acquisitions Division at Gregory Holdings dba Blue Water Mortgage. He holds an M.B.A. and has had extensive experience in the business sector. Remound was a Senior Auditor with increasing responsibility in the automotive, healthcare, retail and not-for-profit business segments. He then, had a series of financial positions of increasing responsibility within the Westinghouse Electric Company including several rotational assignments in Westinghouse's Corporate Audit Staff, Senior -Financial Analyst, and Senior Planner Financial and Strategic Planning. Wright served as Director, Business Development and Strategic Planning for Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire Company, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana. Reporting directly to the President, he had responsibility for coordinating the development of new business development plans and strategic plans. Remound has also been Director, Financial Planning and Analysis for North American Van Lines where his primary role was development of annual financial and three-year strategic plans. Latter, he accepted the role of the inaugural Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CEE) at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center. Wright has served from 2003 to the present as an associate faculty member in the Entrepreneurship program at Richard T. Doermer School of Business and Management Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Patricia Edwards currently serves as a Communications Instructor at Ivy Tech State College. She is also on the Communication and Conference Leadership faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Patricia is a Medical Speech Writer for Novartis Pharmaceuticals at the present time as well. At the University of Saint Francis, Patricia was Assistant Professor of Communications, Director of Study Abroad Program, and Faculty Advisor of Public Relations Society. She has also served as Community Relations Manager and Speaker’s Bureau Director for Park Centeras well as Easter Seals’ Communication and Media Director. Dr. Roger W. Ringenberg has served in numerous teaching and pastoral roles. He has taught classes for the Weber School at Grace College; Taylor University, Upland; Taylor University,Fort Wayne; Fort Wayne Bible College/Summit Christian College; and Jamaica Theological Seminary. His teaching experience at these institutions includes a myriad of Biblical Literature classes, Religious Studies classes, and Philosophical Studies classes. Dr. Ringenberg has been a youth pastor, assistant pastor, interim preaching pastor, and head pastor at various churches. He has written for publications, sat on multiple discussion panels and given a great number of presentations on a variety of subjects such as spiritual leadership, the Old Testament, world religions, and cross-culture communication. Glenda Ervins is the Regional Outreach Coordinator for 13 northeast Indiana counties which include over 16,000 21st Century Scholar families in Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitely counties. Glenda is responsible for recruiting Scholars and providing early college awareness through workshops and college visits. She works with community youth-serving organizations, local schools and colleges to promote messages about planning, preparing and paying for college completion. Glenda earned her BA from Indiana University and has been involved in providing youth support services for the past several years. Her career with the 21stCentury Scholars program began in 2005, when she served as Student Coordinator, and later promoted to Regional Site Director in 2008. Glenda has also had vast experience with public speaking and human resources consultation and management. |
