Ruth Williams, Chairperson, Pinetree Foundation, Gladwyne, PA

Melvin R. Allen, Esquire, President/CEO, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Millersville University, Lancaster, PA

David H. Blair, Director, Corporate Relations, Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Ted Brubaker, Esquire, Hartman, Underhill & Brubaker, Lancaster, PA

Cheryl Cheston, Financial Advisor

Karen Haley Field, MBA, The Manor Group, Lancaster, PA

Marie Field, Joseph and Marie Field Foundation (Entercom, Inc.), Bala Cynwyd, PA

Martin Field, Field Hotel Associates, King of Prussia, PA

Leon Buddy Glover, Deputy Superintendent (Retired), School District of Lancaster, Lancaster, PA

Andrew Levy, Esquire, McNees, Wallace, & Nurick, Mechanicsburg, PA

David Ruef, Ruef and Associates, Philadelphia, PA

Jerry T. Simpson, Simpson Foundation, Mechanicsburg, PA

Robert C. Smith, Working Director, Philadelphia, PA

Mark Stewart, Esquire, Vice Chairperson, Partner, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, Philadelphia, PA

Kimberly Stoltzfus, Lancaster, PA (E.G. Construction Company)

Saul Treiman, Esquire, Senior Counsel, Berwind Corporation, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Sonya Wallace, Lancaster General Health

Academic Council

The Academic Council advises the Board of Directors and the President to ensure that PFL’s academic programs are of the highest caliber in their design and implementation.  All members are accomplished professionals and academicians at the K-12 or university level:

Prof. Kathy Blouch, Ed.D., Director, Center for Master Teaching & Partnerships, Project Forward Leap. kkblouch@aol.com

Douglas S. Brophy, Upper School Faculty and Grade Dean, Friends’ Select School, Philadelphia.  DougB@Friends-Select.org 

Prof. James Earl Davis, Ph.D., Education and Social Policy Research and Evaluation, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department, Temple University, Philadelphia.  jdavis@temple.edu

Marie Field, PFL Board Member, Ex Officio

Prof. Mary Klinedinst, Ed.D., Ed.S., statewide Director of PA Governors’ Schools for Excellence (retired) and Director of the Governor’s School for Teacher Education at Millersville University (retired).  mary.jr@mindspring.com

Randy Leonard, Enrichment Facilitator, Fulton Elementary School, Lancaster.  rleonard@projectforwardleap.org

Prof. H. Jerome Maddox, Ph.D., Social Science Research and Methodology, Political Science Department, U. Penn, Philadelphia. jmaddox@sas.upenn.edu

Richard Pool, Facilitator, Wheatland Middle School, Lancaster.  wepools5@aol.com

Valerie Perry, English, Principal, Columbia High School, Columbia, PA.  vperry@columbia.k12.pa.us

Prof. Janine Remillard, Ph.D., Mathematics Education and Professional Development, U. Penn’s Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia.  janiner@gse.upenn.edu

Irvin Scott, Building Principal, McCaskey East High School, Lancaster, PA. Irvin_Scott/SDOL%SDOL@lancaster.k12.pa.us

Theresa Stahler, Ph.D., Middle School Education, Professor of Education, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.  stahler@kutztown.edu

Ruth Williams, Ex Officio, Chair, PFL Board

Wendell Yorkman, Principal, Steele Elementary School, Harrisburg  wyorkman@hbgsd.k12.pa.us