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New Trustees Join Alma College Board

Prominent business executives from Lansing, Chicago and Skaneateles, N.Y., have been appointed to the Alma College Board of Trustees.

“We are very pleased to welcome these three new Board members,” said Alma College President Saundra Tracy. “They bring an impressive and diverse array of expertise and accomplishments that will be extremely valuable to Alma College’s Board.”

The new appointees include two alumni and the parent of an Alma graduate:

Glenn Granger

• Glenn D. Granger, a resident of Dimondale and president of Granger Construction in Lansing. He is active in several professional and civic organizations, including Business Executives of Lansing, Associated General Contractors of Michigan, and Capital Area United Way.

He has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Alma College and master’s degrees from the University of Utah and the Harvard Business School. He is a graduate of Holt High School.



Thomas McDowell

• Thomas McDowell, a resident of Chicago, retired executive vice president for risk management and corporate banking at First Chicago NBD Corporation and former president of NBD Mortgage Company. He is a past member of the Economics Club of Detroit and the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and is currently involved in the Cluster Tutoring Program in Chicago.

He is a graduate of Albion College. His daughter, Teresa McDowell Ott, graduated from Alma College and Redford High School in Detroit.


Stephen Meyer

• Stephen Meyer, a resident of Skaneateles, N.Y., and executive vice president for Welch Allyn Inc., a producer and marketer of diagnostic and monitoring solutions for healthcare providers. An Alma native and Alma High School graduate, he has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Alma College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Rochester.

His father, Stephen Meyer, held faculty and administrative positions at Alma College from 1952 until his death in 1982.

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Posted: Thu, September 7th, 2006 at 2:46PM

 

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