Advancement Office Staff
Hub Burton
Associate Vice President for Alumni and College Relations
Dept: Alumni
740-376-4402
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2012
Hub Burton brings more than sixteen years of communications, marketing and public relations experience to the Office of Alumni Relations. As an information specialist and assistant news director at the University of Maine and as associate vice president for communications and marketing at Ohio University, he has developed and implemented significant outreach campaigns to alumni, prospective students, the media and community audiences. His programs have included the development of print publications, web sites, radio and television productions, sports networks and broadcasts, media relations and satellite communications.
Prior to entering higher education, Hub pursued a sportscasting career in Arizona, North Carolina and Massachusetts covering everything from the Final Four to the World Series, Super Bowl and Stanley Cup Playoffs. A 1976 graduate of the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in Radio-TV production, Hub completed his master’s in journalism at Ohio University in 2001.
His outside interests include the activities of his twin son and daughter as well as journalism history. Hub and his wife, Kelli, reside in Pickerington.
Linda Stroh
Director of Advancement Services and Donor Relations
Dept: Donor Relations
740-376-4451
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2006
Ms. Stroh, who has more than 30 years of experience in higher education, is the Director of Advancement Services and Donor Relations at Marietta College. She has been a member of the Advancement Team since July 2006.
Prior to joining Marietta College, she worked at Virginia Tech as the Director of Alumni Relations in the College of Engineering. She was responsible for planning and executing stewardship activities for the College's alumni in coordination with the central Office of Alumni Relations. These activities included acknowledgment and recognition events for scholarship donors and recipients, faculty holding alumni-endowed chairs, and other special events designed to bring alumni to campus or university faculty and staff out to alumni.
From 1979-99, Stroh was a member of the Dean's staff at the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University. She coordinated the College's public relations, stewardship, scholarship and special events programs. She also advised prospective undergraduate students.
During her last five years at Ohio University, Stroh served as Director of the Ohio University Airport, administering a $2 million annual budget. Stroh earned a bachelor's degree in organizational communication and a master's degree in interpersonal communication–both from Ohio University in Athens.
Ms. Stroh resides in Marietta, Ohio.
Brandee Norris
Director of the Marietta Fund
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4821
800.274.4704
Fax: 740.376.4989
Degrees:
Office: Mills 301 suite
Year appointed: 2009
Norris serves as the Director of the Marietta Fund. Her primary role is to conduct fundraising efforts with the Office of Advancement, manage the Marietta Fund professional and student staff and to provide leadership to the Marietta Fund's strategic initiatives addressing donor participation and leadership annual giving.
Norris is no stranger to fundraising in a university setting. She has worked to implement a variety of annual fund raising initiatives at a handful of institutions including Johns Hopkins University, Lipscomb University and Ohio Dominican University. Most recently, Norris served as the program manager within the MASTERS division of RuffaloCODY, a national fundraising services firm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Angela Anderson
Director of Advancement
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4705
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2007
Mrs. Anderson, who has more than 10 years of experience in the academic world and 10 years of experience in corporate human resources, joined Marietta College in July 2007. She works in the major gifts area of Advancement.
Prior to joining Marietta College, Anderson was the assistant dean of career resources and director of corporate leadership fellow program at Ohio University's College of Business. During her time at Ohio, she revived the College of Business Internship Program and increased student participation in the program by more than 400 percent. She also originated the College of Business Internship Fair, hosting between 25 and 45 companies and hundreds of students over the years. In addition to the fair, she coordinated alumni events in various cities, including Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and New York City.
Anderson also served as an instructor of human resource management and professional communications at Ohio University. She instructed juniors and seniors on relevant human resource topics, such as Equal Employment Opportunity, affirmative action, labor relations and union history.
Anderson earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management and Health Care Management in 1987 and a Master of Business Administration in 1992, both from Ohio University.
Angela and her husband, Jeffrey, reside in Athens, Ohio, with their two children, Reed and Hannah.
Susan Allender
Assistant Director of the Marietta Fund
740-376-4502
Office: Mills Suite 301
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Management from Marietta College
Year appointed: 2002
Ms. Allender, who has a background with more than 20 years of sales, marketing and management experience, is the Assistant Director of the Marietta Fund, a position she has held since May of 2002.
In that role she works to advance the growth of the Marietta Fund, the College's unrestricted annual giving program. She is primarily responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of fundraising programs that encourage support for the Marietta Fund from alumni, parents and students. These programs include leadership annual giving, direct mail, the Marietta College Phonathon and the Senior Challenge campaign.
Prior to joining Marietta College, Ms. Allender worked in Athens, Ohio, where she owned and operated two businesses simultaneously for more than a decade. Previously, she had been employed by Forma Scientific in Marietta as an inside sales representative.
Susan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Management from Marietta College and is a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She resides in Marietta, Ohio.
Myra Reich
Administrative Assistant to Vice President
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4711 Person email:reichm@marietta.edu
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 1998
Ms. Reich, who has worked at Marietta College since 1987, has been the office manager and administrative assistant to the Vice President of Advancement since 1998. She began her career at Marietta as the secretary in the Music Department, and later became the administrative assistant for Academic Grants and Special Events, and in Career Services. She was also the graphic designer and office coordinator for the Institute of Education and Training for Business in the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business.
Ms. Reich resides near Lowell with her husband, Vern. She has two sons, Nathan '04 and Greg '06. She enjoys reading, gardening and traveling with her husband.
Jill Deming
Prospect Researcher
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4710
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2004
Ms. Deming, who has more than four years of experience in prospect research at Marietta College, rejoined the Advancement staff in January 2004. She initiates research on potential donors to Marietta College.
She worked at Marietta College from 1994-97 as the Director of Research and Information Systems in Advancement. In between her time at MC, Ms. Deming was an office manager for Diversified Components, a machine shop and manufacturer of screw machine products, located in Ashville, N.Y., and as an onsite supervisor for Adecco Employment Services at the Cummins Engine Company onsite location in Lakewood, N.Y.
Ms. Deming is a graduate of both Marietta High School and Washington State Community College. She serves on the board of EVE, Inc. She resides in Marietta.
Tara Meagle
Administrative Assistant Marietta Fund
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4756
Office: Mills 301 suite
Year appointed: 2008
Mrs. Meagle, who has previously worked at City Financial, joined Marietta College in August 2008 as an administrative assistant to the Marietta Fund. Prior to joining Marietta College, she was a stay at home mom for four years.
Meagle is a lifelong resident of Marietta and is married to James "Bo" Meagle '96. They have two children, McKenzi and Dillon.
Outside of work, Mrs. Meagle enjoys watching her children play sports, taking family trips and spending time with family.
Jonna Munfield
Gift Processing Coordinator
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4706
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2006
Ms. Munfield, who worked as a receptionist and internal auditor at a Marietta company for more than two years, joined Marietta College's Advancement Office in August of 2006 as the office assistant/receptionist.
Prior to joining the College, she worked at Par Mar Oil Company from March 2004 until arriving at MC. She also worked as a bookkeeper at Cernus Printing Consultants in Marietta.
Ms. Munfield resides in Marietta, Ohio, with her son who is a student at the college. Her hobby is watching him and the pioneers play football.