The slate of officers for the WSU Foundation Board of Directors is Craig Barton ’83, chair, managing general partner of Olympia Partners LLC; Bill Moore ’74, chair-elect, president and CEO of Westar Energy Inc. in Topeka; John Morse ’72, immediate past chair, general counsel and secretary of LodgeWorks LP in Sanibel, Fla.; Dale Maltbie ’69, ’72, secretary, retired president and CEO of Professional Engineering Consultants PA; and Marilyn Pauly ’72, treasurer, vice chairman of Commerce Bank.

New board members are Julie-Ellen Acosta ’80, ’84, senior vice president of human resources for Boeing Commercial in Puget Sound, Wash.; Tim Buckley ’71, vice president of Polyplastics, Division of Buckley Ind. Inc. in Austin, Texas; Kelly Callen, co-owner of Edminston Oil Co. Inc.; Curt Gridley ’80, consultant; Maltbie and Moore.

Returning board members are Paul Allen ’70, CEO of Allen Gibbs & Houlik LC; Bill Ard ’64, owner of Security Holdings LLC; Barton; Mike Burrus ’77, president of Kapaun-Mt. Carmel High School; Justus Fugate ’60, ’62, chairman of the board of Kansas Venture Capital Inc.; Debbie Haynes ’76, physician with Preferred Medical Associates; Brian Heinrichs ’96, executive vice president for finance for Bickford Senior Living in Lenexa; Ed Pack ’02, vice president of support services for Cessna Aircraft Co.; Barry Schwan, president of House of Schwan; Morse and Pauly.

Ex-officio members of the board are Ted D. Ayres, vice president and general counsel for WSU; Donald L. Beggs, president of WSU; Elizabeth H. King, president and CEO of the WSU Foundation; and Steve Cohlmia '74, board president of the WSU Alumni Association.