Vice-Chairman and Member
Finance Committee: Dr. Kenneth E. Alberts,
Rockford, IL. Board member since 1987. D.Div. (honorary), Jerusalem
University College; B.S., Providence Bible College; B.A., Northwestern
University; JUC board member since 1988.
Dr.
Alberts was the chairman of the board at JUC/IHLS from 1987 - 2007. Now retired, Dr. Alberts spent
several decades in the insurance and health and retirement sectors and as an
owner and administrator of a multi-faceted retirement and health care
facility. He is active in numerous non-profit organizations and boards at
the local level, including church activities and several community-based
charities.
Treasurer and Chair Finance Committee:
Dr. Duane R. Wood, Cedarville, OH. Board member since 1996. D.B.A., Indiana
University; M.B.A., Butler University; B.S.M.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology; P.E. in Indiana. Dr. Wood is Executive Director for Program
Development and professor of Management at Cedarville University, having
previously served as Vice President of Academics at Cedarville for 18 years.
Dr. Wood has also served as Dean of the School of Business, Economics and
Management and as Director of the interdisciplinary M.S. in Administration
at the University of Southern Maine; as Director of the Perry School of
Banking; and as Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration at
Central Michigan University where he was awarded the Lyle W. Wilhite Award
for teaching excellence. Dr. Wood has conducted management training and
development sessions and served as a consultant to over 25 business and
non-profit organizations, including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Bath
Iron Works, Dow Chemical, IBM, Dow Corning and the U.S. Armed Forces, as
well as several banks, hospitals and universities. He has also served as a
founding member and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Church Extension
Ministries, as a Trustee on the Board of New England Baptist Bible College,
as a member of the Governor’s Technology Advisory Council for the Ohio Board
of Regents, and is currently on the governing board for the Ohio Learning
Network. He has authored over 60 articles and papers which have been
published or presented in professional management and higher education
conferences.
Secretary and Member
Education Committee:
Ms. Dianne H. Benton,
Austin, TX. Board member since 2005. M.A., Jerusalem University College;
B.A., LeTourneau University; additional studies at the Rothberg Overseas
School of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ms. Benton has been a business
owner (franchisee) of McDonald’s restaurants since 1972. She has traveled in
Israel and neighboring countries extensively and participated in
archaeological excavations at Tel Rehov, Tel Dor and Tel es-Safi. She is
also active on a number of civic boards and initiatives.
Chair of the Consortium of Associated Schools: Dr.
Bryan E. Beyer,
Columbia, SC. Board member since 1994; chair of the Educational Committee
and the Consortium Membership Committee. Ph.D., Hebrew Union College; M.Div.,
Denver Seminary; B.A., Colorado State University. Dr. Beyer is professor of
Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Columbia Biblical Seminary and School
of Missions. He previously served as Dean of Students and as Academic Dean
at Columbia Bible College, Columbia International University, and holds
membership in the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of
Biblical Literature. Dr. Beyer has authored or co-authored several books,
including Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey with Dr.
Bill Arnold.
Representative for Colleges and Universities: Taylor University,
represented by Dr. Michael A. Harbin, Upland, IN.
Term expires in November 2010. Th.D., Dallas Theological
Seminary; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; M.A., California State
University, Dominguez Hills; B.S., The U. S. Naval Academy. Dr. Harbin is
Professor of Biblical Studies at Tayor University, where he is the Chair of
the Biblical Studies, Christian Education and Philosophy Department, and
Director of the Master of Arts in Religious Studies program.
He is also
active in Taylor University’s Irish Studies Program, where he and his wife
spent three semesters in Ireland supervising students involved in this
program. He is a retired Naval Aviator, having retired with the rank of
Captain (USNR). He is currently a member of the Evangelical Theological
Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute of Biblical
Research, and the Near Eastern Archaeological Society. Dr. Harbin is the
author of To Serve Other Gods: An Evangelical History of Religion,
and The Promise and the Blessing: An Historical Survey of the Old and
the New Testaments.
Representative for Colleges and Universities: Philadelphia
Biblical University,
represented by Edgar B. Hardesty, Bel Air, MD.
Term expires in November 2011. B.S., Philadelphia College of Bible;
Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; M.A., Baltimore Hebrew University;
Reading for Ph.D. comprehensive exams, Baltimore Hebrew University. Edgar is
Associate Professor of Bible at Philadelphia Biblical University and
currently teaches in the Bible and Israel Program. He has been in pastoral
ministry since 1972 and has been a senior pastor since 1981. His love for
archaeology, biblical studies, historical geography and Jewish studies first
took root at Philadelphia College of Bible and continues through his studies
at Baltimore Hebrew University. He has attended Short Term Programs at
Jerusalem University College on three occasions, co-leads the annual PBU
study tour to Israel and has dug at Ekron (Tel Miqne), Beth Shemesh and
Gezer.
Representative for Seminaries and Graduate Schools:
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
represented by Dr. Russell Fuller,
term expires in
November 2009. Dr. Fuller was born and
raised in Atlanta, graduated from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in
1992. He taught Bible at Mid-Continent College,
and is now a professor of Old Testament at The
Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is
married to Donna (Sanford) and has three
children, David (14), Christine (12), and Katherine (10).
Representative for the Canadian Scholarship
Foundation: Dr. Norman Gunn,
Toronto, ON, Canada. Board member since the 1980’s. C.D., D.P.M.; Fellow,
Podiatry Association of Great Britain. Dr. Gunn, now retired, had a long
practice in podiatric medicine and as a forensic pathologist. He has served
the RCMP, the FBI, Interpol, other worldwide intelligence agencies and the
police in forensic pathology, and was instrumental in creating breakthrough
technology in finger print identification techniques. Dr. Gunn is
responsible for the Canadian Scholarship Foundation which encourages
Canadian alumni and other donors in charitable giving for Canadian students
at JUC.
Member Finance Committee: Mr. David P. Peterson,
Rockford, IL. Board member since 2005. B.A., Greenville College;
graduate, Moody Bible Institute; graduate studies in Industrial Psychology,
Northern Illinois University. Mr. Peterson works for the
chairman of Winnebago County. He was the president of
Rockford Cold Form
Products Group. He has previously held management positions with The
Ingersoll Milling Machine Company, Camcar Division of Textron, Inc., Kysor
Industrial Corporation and the Mechanics Division of Borg Warner
Corporation. He is currently a member of the board of directors of The
Howard Center, Rockford Spring Company and Bates Financial Services.
In
addition, Mr. Peterson has held leadership roles with a number of local
governmental and health care organizations, including the Rockford (IL) Mass
Transit District, the Rockford (IL) Board of Education, the Rockford (IL)
Police and Fire Commission, the Winnebago County (IL) Crime and Public
Safety Commission, the 911 Emergency Telephone System Board, the Northern
Illinois Law Enforcement Commission, the Black Healthcare Initiative, the
Rockford (IL) Council for Affordable Health Care, the Janet Wattles Mental
Health Center, the Rockford (IL) Area Substance Abuse Council, the Employer
Coalition of Health and the National Advisory Council for the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment.
Board
Member: Mr. Scott Bolinder,
Grand Rapids, MI. board member since 2010.
Since Dec, 2008, Scott W. Bolinder has served
as President, Global Publishing for Biblica (formerly IBS-STL Global), a
worldwide non-profit biblical resource ministry. Prior to that, he served
almost twenty years as Executive Vice President & Publisher at Zondervan,
responsible for all acquisitions, author relations and product development.
Before Zondervan, he served ten years as Senior Vice President at
Christianity Today, Inc.
Scott is a graduate of
Wheaton College where he earned an English degree in 1973. He also has a
master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois (Chicago),
which he earned in 1975. He then served four years as an Army officer in the
Medical Service Corps fulfilling an ROTC commitment prior to beginning his
publishing career.
He has been married 37
years to Jill and has a married daughter, a married son, another young adult
daughter and three beautiful granddaughters! He is active at Thornapple
Evangelical Covenant Church where he has served as an elder. He also serves
on several non-profit boards—currently North Park University and Jerusalem
University College. |