Trustees

Bill Zahner, chairman (CEO and president, A. Zahner Company, Architectural Metal)

Officers for 2011-12

Mary Lou Brous, vice chair (global brand visual identity senior manager - Accenture)
Bill Lyons, vice chair (CEO - Terra Capital LLC)
Pat McLarney, vice chair (managing partner - Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP)
Steve Metzler, vice chair (president/CFO, Metzler Bros. Insurance)
Maurice A. Watson, vice chair (partner, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP)
Annie Hurlbut Zander, vice chair (CEO and co-owner - Peruvian Connection )
Joan Horan, secretary (retired vice president human resources - DST Systems, Inc.)
Grant Burcham, treasurer (president & CEO - Missouri Bank)

Board members for 2011-12

Hugh Andrews (president and CEO-Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Robert Bernstein (president - Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Inc.)
R. Philip Bixby (president, CEO and chairman - Kansas City Life Insurance Co.)
Evelyn R. Craft (vice president and CFO - Belger Cartage Service Inc.)
Faye Davis (Faye Davis, LLC Consulting)
Tracy McFerrin Foster (vice president and secretary - Hall Family Foundation)
Allan Gray (councilman, City of Lee's Summit)
Shirley Helzberg (community volunteer)
Nancy Lee Kemper (community volunteer)
Herb Kohn (Partner, Bryan Cave LLP)
Barbara Marshall (community volunteer)
Pat McCown (CEO, McCownGordon Construction)
Susan Seidler Nerman (community volunteer)
Brad Nicholson (owner - Nicholson Group)
Margaret Silva (community volunteer and owner - Grand Arts)
Mark J. Spencer (creative resource manager - Hallmark Cards, Inc.)
George Terbovich (owner, George Terbovich Inc. Designs)
Katie Wendel (art educator/community volunteer)

Jacqueline Chanda, ex officio (president - KCAI)
Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, ex officio (professor and chair, fiber department at KCAI, faculty representative)