FOOTBALL GAMEDAY MAGAZINE - of College Football Games
FOOTBALL GAMEDAY MAGAZINE - of College Football Games
FOOTBALL GAMEDAY MAGAZINE - of College Football Games
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WE ARE SPARTANS<br />
MICHIGAN STATE <strong>FOOTBALL</strong><br />
BOARD OF TRUSTEES<br />
As members <strong>of</strong> the Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees <strong>of</strong> Michigan State University, we welcome you to our beautiful campus and to Spartan Stadium. While we eight trustees<br />
came to the board by different paths, from different backgrounds, and representing different political parties, we are, first and foremost, advocates for and proud<br />
members <strong>of</strong> Team MSU. When we arrived on the board, any partisanship was replaced by a full commitment to MSU. As the university’s policy-making body, the<br />
board works closely with President Simon and her team to provide MSU’s students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other supporters with the resources and advocacy<br />
they need and deserve. Our unified belief in the history and the future <strong>of</strong> MSU called us to serve. We are proud to have been elected by the people <strong>of</strong> Michigan to<br />
be part <strong>of</strong> a university that has set a standard for advancing knowledge and transforming lives around the globe.<br />
Joel Ferguson, Chairman<br />
Michigan State University Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees<br />
Joel I. Ferguson<br />
Chairman • Lansing<br />
Joel I. Ferguson was elected to the Board<br />
<strong>of</strong> Trustees in 1986 and re-elected twice.<br />
He is the co-founder <strong>of</strong> F & S Development<br />
Company, the developer <strong>of</strong> 14 multifamily<br />
residential complexes throughout<br />
Michigan. He is the co-founder <strong>of</strong> Lansing<br />
television station WFSL-TV (Channel 47)<br />
and the founder <strong>of</strong> Lansing’s WLAJ-TV<br />
(Channel 53) television station. He is also<br />
owner and developer <strong>of</strong> many major <strong>of</strong>fice<br />
buildings in the Lansing area. Ferguson<br />
was one <strong>of</strong> the organizers <strong>of</strong> Capitol National Bank, which has expanded to CNB<br />
Corp. A member <strong>of</strong> the Democratic National Committee since 1988, he was<br />
appointed by President Bill Clinton to the board <strong>of</strong> directors <strong>of</strong> the Federal Home<br />
Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). Ferguson, a U.S. Marine Corps<br />
veteran, graduated from MSU in 1965 with a degree in elementary education.<br />
DIanne Byrum<br />
OnOnDaga<br />
Dianne Byrum’s eight-year term on the<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees began on Jan. 1, 2009.<br />
She is a partner with Byrum & Fisk Advocacy<br />
Communications, an East Lansing-based<br />
public relations firm that she founded<br />
in 2006. Prior to this enterprise, Byrum<br />
served as a member <strong>of</strong> the Ingham County<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Commissioners from 1983 to<br />
1990. She was elected to the Michigan<br />
House <strong>of</strong> Representatives in 1991 and<br />
to the Michigan Senate in 1995. She<br />
returned to the House in 2002 as the first woman elected House Democratic<br />
Leader. Since 2007, Byrum has served as co-director <strong>of</strong> the Michigan Public<br />
Leadership Program, an MSU program that trains future public policy leaders.<br />
She has received the Champion <strong>of</strong> Hope award from the Children’s Trust Fund<br />
and the Public Official <strong>of</strong> the Year award from Habitat for Humanity.<br />
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melanIe Foster<br />
ViCe ChairpersOn • east Lansing<br />
Melanie Foster was elected to the board<br />
in 2004, and previously served on the MSU<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees from 1991 to 1992. In<br />
1997 she was appointed to the board <strong>of</strong><br />
trustees <strong>of</strong> Central Michigan University<br />
and served until 2004. Upon graduating<br />
from MSU with a degree in ornamental<br />
horticulture, Foster returned home to Flat<br />
Rock to become CEO <strong>of</strong> a family landscape<br />
company that grew into a nationally<br />
recognized landscape contracting firm with<br />
<strong>of</strong>fices in four states. Foster spent six years on the Wharton Center Advisory<br />
Council and is currently on the board <strong>of</strong> the Michigan Dyslexia Institute. She<br />
resides in East Lansing with her husband and three school-age children and<br />
currently manages a personal real estate portfolio.<br />
Colleen m. mCnamara<br />
Lansing<br />
Colleen M. McNamara is executive<br />
director <strong>of</strong> the Michigan Cable<br />
Telecommunications Association, which<br />
represents cable television companies<br />
throughout Michigan. She was elected<br />
to the MSU Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees to<br />
serve beginning Jan. 1, 1995, and was<br />
re-elected in 2002. She is chair <strong>of</strong> the<br />
board’s Policy Committee. She sits on the<br />
Michigan Higher Education Student Loan<br />
Authority and the Governors’ Residence<br />
Foundation. She received a bachelor <strong>of</strong> arts degree in social science from MSU<br />
in 1974. Born in Detroit and raised in Livonia, McNamara and her daughter,<br />
Marissa, live in Okemos.
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