{"id":51013,"date":"2010-11-10T02:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=51013"},"modified":"2010-11-11T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T08:42:29","slug":"new-trustees-at-letourneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=51013","title":{"rendered":"New Trustees at LeTourneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=51014\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/11\/LeTourneau-University-new1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LeTourneau University-new\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51014\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW &#8212; LeTourneau University welcomed two returning and three new trustees to its Board of Trustees at the semiannual meeting. The new board members are:<br \/>\n*Joe Bickley of Montgomery, Texas, is a certified public accountant and co-owns an accounting firm.<br \/>\n* Timothy Morscheck of Portage, Mich., retired as a vice president of technology for Eaton Corporation: Truck Group. He is a former LeTourneau student.<br \/>\n* James Schreder of Yorba Linda, Calif., is the president and owner of Danjon Engineering. He is continuing the family tradition, since his father was on the LeTourneau University board during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Returning as a board member are two former board members. Returning to the board:<br \/>\n* John Solheim of Phoenix, Ariz., is chairman and president\/CEO of Karsten Manufacturing Company and President\/CEO of PING, Inc. which designs and manufactures golf clubs and equipment. He has served on the LETU board since 1992, previously chairing the facilities committee. The Solheim Center on campus is named for his family.<br \/>\n* Patrick A. Bertsche of St. Charles, Ill., is superintendent of the Westminster Christian School where he formerly served as president of its board.  He has served on the LETU board since 1996. He is a 1989 graduate of LETU His wife, Melanie, is also a 1989 graduate. He was recently elected vice chair of the LETU board of trustees.<br \/>\n* The new chair for 2010-2011 is Nancy Mendez, assistant city manager of Whittier, California. She has served as a board member at LETU since 1990, most recently as vice chair. She follows in the footsteps of her father, Justin Longenecker, Ph.D., Chavanne Professor of Christian Ethics in Business at Baylor University, who was a trustee and officer on the LeTourneau College board for more than a decade in the 1970s-1980s.<br \/>\n* Kenneth Moore of Longview was elected secretary.  Moore is an airline<br \/>\npilot and captain, having prior experience as a naval carrier pilot and<br \/>\npetroleum engineer for an oil field service company.  He earned his<br \/>\nbachelor&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering (aerospace option) from<br \/>\nLeTourneau and his master&#8217;s degree in aeronautical systems from the<br \/>\nUniversity of West Florida.  He has served on the LETU board since 2006.<br \/>\n* Merle Stoltzfus of Elverson, Penn., was elected treasurer.  He is a general partner for Stoltzfus Enterprises, Ltd., a custom home builder and real estate developer. He graduated from LETU in 1971 with a degree in electrical engineering technology and has served on the LETU board since 1997, serving previously as chair and as treasurer.  One of his daughters is a 2008 graduate and another is currently enrolled at LETU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; LeTourneau University welcomed two returning and three new trustees to its Board of Trustees at the semiannual meeting. The new board members are: *Joe Bickley of Montgomery, Texas, is a certified public accountant and co-owns an accounting firm. * Timothy Morscheck of Portage, Mich., retired as a vice president of technology for Eaton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=51013\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Trustees at LeTourneau<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 12:46:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51013"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51335,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51013\/revisions\/51335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}