Advancement Office Staff
Lori Lewis
Vice President of Advancement
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4711
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Degrees: BA, MA, Ohio University
Year appointed: 2005
Ms. Lewis joined Marietta College in July of 2005. She directs all functions related to alumni programs, prospect development, fund raising, college relations and the overall advancement of the institution's mission.
Prior to joining Marietta College, Lewis directed the strategic planning, and implementing and executing the management of the fund raising and alumni relations efforts for the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech – the state's leading engineering college, which consists of a dozen departments with some 300 faculty, 5,500 undergraduate majors and 2,000 graduate students.
Before accepting the position at Marietta College, Lewis raised more than $30 million of a $129 million campaign goal in the first 22 months of the silent phase. In addition she was appointed the lead Director of the fund-raising effort for an $85 million university initiative, the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science.
Lewis holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree from Ohio University. Lewis was the Assistant Dean of Development for the Russ College of Engineering & Technology at Ohio University. During her tenure at Russ College she played a role in negotiating the details of the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, one of the top two engineering prizes worldwide. The $5.8 million endowment supports a biennial $500,000 prized awarded by the National Academy of Engineering.
She also worked at Ohio University as the Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Affairs in the College of Health & Human services. Prior to her fund-raising career Lewis was a classroom teacher and administrator for Athens City and County School Districts and a part-time faculty member at Ohio University's College of Education.
Evan Bohnen
Assistant Vice President for Advancement
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4446
800-274-4704
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2007
Evan has been involved in higher education fund raising and gift planning since 1995. Evan joined Marietta College in July 2007. He directs the annual gifts, major gifts, and gift planning areas of Advancement.
Prior to joining Marietta College, Evan was the Director of Advancement at Radford University since 2005. In addition to his work at Radford, he served as the Director of Development in both the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech and at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Prior to higher education fund raising, he worked in industry as a quality control manager for Silgan Containers, a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm.
During his time at Radford, he crafted a campaign plan to prepare the university for a $100 million comprehensive campaign—which was double the size of the university's prior campaign. While at Virginia Tech, Evan reorganized the college's volunteer councils to encourage greater participation and representation from the college's alumni and friends in the $1 billion comprehensive campaign. At Minnesota State, under his direction, the college's historical baseline support jumped from $94,000 annually to more than $500,000 annually.
Evan attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Communication. He is an active member of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning (former National Committee on Planned Giving) and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Evan and his wife, Tonia, have twin sons, Alex and Grant.
Linda Stroh
Director of Donor Relations
Dept: Donor Relations
740-376-4451
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2006
Ms. Stroh, who has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, is the Director of 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.
Debora Lazorik
Special Assistant to Vice President; Interim Director
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4977
Office: Mills 302
Degrees: B.A. College of St. Francis, M.S. George Williams College
Year appointed: 1980
Ms. Lazorik, who has more than 30 years of experience in higher education, joined the Advancement team in September 2007. She provides leadership with the Pioneer Club and assists the Vice President on special assignments.
Prior to joining Advancement, Lazorik spent more than 25 years as a coach, teacher and administrator at Marietta. She has served on several NCAA committees and had a leadership role in the Ohio Athletic Conference by bringing women's athletics in as members in 1985.
She was the College's full-time athletics director from 1991-2007. She worked tirelessly at helping Marietta focus on equity and fundraising in the athletic department. She is the winningest women's basketball coach at Marietta with 131 victories in 12 seasons. She also coached volleyball for six seasons.
In 1988, she received the Professional Achievement Award from the St. Francis Alumni Association. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from the College of St. Francis in 1977 and her Master of Arts in Recreation Administration from George Williams College in 1984.
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 Development
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
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 programs that encourage support for the Marietta Fund from alumni, parents and students. These programs include the phonathon, direct mail and the Senior Challenge campaign. In 2009 the phonathon operation reached a new milestone, raising more than $275,000 and the Senior Challenge program set new records in both dollars raised and student participation.
Prior to joining Marietta College, Ms. Allender had started two businesses in Athens, Ohio, which she owned and operated 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. She resides in Marietta with her husband, Rocky, and their son, Ryan.
Kristin Garrison
Assistant Director of Advancement
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4382
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Marietta College
Year appointed: 2008
Ms. Garrison, who has over five years of experience in advancement and alumni positions in higher education, joined Marietta College in July 2008.
Prior to joining Marietta, Garrison worked as the executive assistant for the vice president for University Advancement at Ohio University and as the executive assistant for the assistant vice president for the Ohio University Alumni Association. During her time at Ohio, Garrison worked in conjunction with the executive director to manage the alumni board. This included planning, directing and executing three meetings a year and one executive committee meeting.
Garrison also spent nearly a decade as a buyer/coordinator for Princess Cruise Lines in Santa Clarita, Calif. She managed a $13 million annual purchasing budget for the fleet's furnishings department.
Garrison earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Marietta College in 1984.
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 taking classes, reading and traveling with her husband.
Jill Deming
Prospect Researcher
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4630
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 with her husband, Jerry, and their two dogs, Abby and Max.
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.
Mary Jo Pedersen
Administrative Assistant
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4704
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2008
Mrs. Pedersen, who spent more than five years as an executive assistant in Virginia, joined the Advancement Office in August 2008 as an administrative assistant. She most recently worked as the executive assistant and office manager at M.C. Dean, Inc. Openband Professional Services Division in Dulles, Va. Prior to that she was the executive assistant to the vice president of Oracle in Reston, Va., from 2003-06.
Mrs. Pedersen has also held a variety of positions with the American Red Cross of Falls Church, Va., West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Charleston, W.Va., Barboursville Tae Kwon Do Center in Barboursville, W.Va.., BASF Corporation in Huntington, W.Va.., and Shawnee Hills Behavioral Health Services in Barboursville.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Marshall University in 1998. She resides in Davisville, W.Va., with her husband Chris and daughters Grace, Brittany and Lauren. In her spare time she enjoys camping, golf and horseback riding.
Timothy Binegar
Advancement Associate
Dept: Advancement
740-376-4447
Office: Irvine, 3rd Floor
Year appointed: 2008
Timothy Binegar ’00, who recently served as the Director/Senior Consultant at Chyten Educational Services in Lexington, Mass., joined Marietta College in August 2008. He works in the major gifts area for Advancement.
Binegar is returning to Marietta, where he previously worked as an Admission Counselor from 2002-04 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Marietta, Binegar looks forward to being part of the advancement team.
Binegar, who also earned a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology from Boston University in 2001, resides in Marietta. He is the son of Tom and Barbara Binegar of Marietta. He is also a 1996 graduate of Marietta High School.