Board of Trustees, Cabinet and Faculty

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• Board of Trustees
• President’s Cabinet
• Teaching Faculty, Academic Administrators and Adjunct Program Directors
• Emeritus Faculty

The University was founded in 1898 by the Society of Friends (better known as the Quakers) who operated the University until the 1930s.

Governance of the institution was then turned over to an independent Board of Trustees.

Mr. Michael Bankston
Mr. Craig Bay		Wichita
Mrs. Marilyn Brown, LCMFT		Harrisonville, Missouri
Mrs. Pam Chambers		Great Bend
Mr. David Depew		Wichita
Mrs. Kim Dugger Attwater
Mrs. Ardith Dunn		Moscow
Mrs. Lynn Ghormley
Mr. Duane Hansen		Wichita
Mrs. Leatha Hein		Valley Center
Dr. Kevin Hoppock		Valley Center
Dr. Jace Hyder
Dr. Denis Knight		Wichita
Dr. John Lewis		Andover
Dr. Cliffton Loesch		Wichita
Mrs. Jana Mullen		Valley Center
Mr. Edwin Roberts		Overland Park
Trustee Emeritus
Carl W. Sebits		Cheney

Executive Committee

Dr. Amy Bragg Carey

Dr. John Lewis, Chair

Dr. Denis Knight, Vice Chair

Dr. Clifford Loesch, Treasurer

Mr. Duane Hansen, Secretary

Mrs. Pam Chambers

Mrs. Ardith Dunn

Dr. Amy Bragg Carey, President

Ken Faffler, Vice President of Enrollment Management

Dr. Joan Gallagher, Vice President of University Relations

Dr. Jasper Lesage, Vice President for Academic Affairs & AVP Academic Affairs (interim)

Dr. Carole Obermeyer, Vice President of Student Affairs

Dr. Patrick Sehl, University Chaplain & Director of Campus Ministries

Kellie Williams, Vice President of Administration

Open, CFO/Vice President of Finance

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Robert Leroy Brightup, Emeritus
	A.B., Friends University; B.D., Nazarene Theological Seminary; Th.D., Iliff School of Theology.
C.G. Chacko, Emeritus
	B.A., Azusa College; M.A., San Diego State College; M.S., University of Oregon.
Brenda Cain, Emerita
	B.S. Pittsburg State University; M.E.Ed.S, Wichita State University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
G. Robert Dove, Emeritus
	B.S., M.S., Pittsburg State University; Ph.D., Kansas State University.
Gretchen Eick, Emerita
	B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.A., Northwestern University, Ph.D., University of Kansas.
Vivian Fleming, Emerita
	A.B., Friends University; M.M.E., University of Oklahoma.
John P. Freedlun, Emeritus
	B.S., Ph.D., Kansas State University; M.S., Wichita State University.
Harold Friesen, Emeritus
	B.S., M.S., Mankato State University; Ed.D., Oklahoma State University.
Willard Dale Goodrich, Emeritus
	B.A., M.S., Wichita State University; Ed.D., University of Arkansas.
Wayne L. Howdeshell, Emeritus
	B.A., Friends University; M.A., Wichita State University; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University.
Marilyn Jones, Emerita
	B.S., Wichita State Unviersity; M.S., Emporia State University.
Ann Marie Miller, Emerita
	B.M., Oberlin College; M.M. New England Conservatory.
Philip Nagley, Emeritus
	Curator of Museum; B.S., Wilmington College; M.A., Columbia University; Honorary Doctorate in Humanities, Friends University.
Raymond S. Nelson, Emeritus
	B.Th., Trinity Seminary and Bible College; B.A., M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Nebraska.
Cecil J. Riney, Emeritus
	B.M., Friends University; M.M.E., University of Kansas; D.M.A., University of Southern California. (Lewis M. and Selma M. Miller Distinguished Professor of Music.)
Elizabeth G. Ross, Emerita
	A.B., Mt. Holyoke College; M.S.W., The University of Oklahoma; M.B.A., Wichita State University.
Al Saber, Emeritus
	B.S., University of Isfahan, Iran; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.
Kjersti Swanson, Emerita
	A.B., Friends University; M.S., University of Oklahoma.
David Weber, Emeritus  (Posthumous)
	B.M., M.M., University of Cincinnati; D.M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City.