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	LaRITA R. BOREN Born: May 13, 1944 Rush Springs, Oklahoma Resides: Upland, Indiana
LaRita Boren is the mother of three grown children and five grandchildren and resides in Upland, Indiana, with her husband, Leland E. Boren. She and her husband, who have been married fifty years, reside on a thousand-acre farm in Grant County. They also own approximately 1,200 acres in Oklahoma, where they have raised cattle and hay for 40 years. While farming is a real point of interest, LaRita’s focus and activities are in manufacturing. Mrs. Boren is the major shareholder of Avis Industrial Corporation and holds the position of Executive Director, which is the highest ranking position in the Company. Avis Industrial Corporation is a privately-held corporation with manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Mrs. Boren serves on the Board of Directors of Avis Industrial Corporation and each of its subsidiaries: The American Baler Co., Badger Equipment Company, Crankshaft Machine Company, CUMSA, Edgerton Forge, Inc., James Steel & Tube Co., Pacific Forge, Inc., The Pierce Company, Inc., and Sellick Equipment, Ltd. LaRita also holds majority interest in a publicly held company in Jacksonville, Florida, called Waste Technology Corp., which manufactures and sells a wide variety of baling equipment under the name International Baler. LaRita was born in Rush Springs, Oklahoma, which is about 70 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, and was raised by a father who was the owner and president of a small-town bank and a mother who was an educator. LaRita received her Bachelor of Science degree from Oklahoma State University in 1957. She was president of the Mortar Board at Oklahoma State and was active in many of the student activities in that university. After graduation LaRita became a stewardess for TWA Airlines, where she worked until she married her husband, Leland. LaRita also holds an honorary Doctor of Business Management degree from Indiana Wesleyan University and a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Taylor University. She has also been honored with the Sagamore of the Wabash by two Governors of the State of Indiana. LaRita has been active on various boards and organizations. Most notably she has been a member of the Taylor University Board of Trustees since 1975; a director on the board of Heartland Truly Moving Pictures, Indianapolis, since 1998; and a director of Lyford Cay Foundation, Nassau, Bahamas, since 1991. The Lyford Cay Foundation has been instrumental in providing college educations for more than 2,000 Bahamians in the U.S. and Canada. LaRita also enjoyed serving on the Governor’s Residence Commission with Mrs. Judy O’Bannon during Frank O’Bannon’s term as governor. LaRita is very proud of her association with and tenure on the Prevention of Child Abuse Board, the Indiana Chapter of the National Committee. She also serves on the boards of The Boren Foundation, Inc., Citizens Plaza Building, LLC, Citizens Travel Agency, and Spring Hill Music Group, Inc.

	DAVID A. HAIST Born: July 20, 1951 Wabash, Indiana Resides: Spencerville, Indiana
David Haist is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Do It Best Corp., a $3 billion member-owned hardware and building materials cooperative, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Do It Best Corp. has more than 4,100 members located in all 50 states and in nearly 50 other countries. Before joining Do It Best Corp. in 1997, Dave was the Managing Partner of the Fort Wayne office of Barnes & Thornburg, Indiana’s largest law firm with offices in Indiana and Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Dave had been part of Barnes & Thornburg for 20 years; his practice concentrated on mergers and acquisitions, tax, and estate and succession planning. Dave graduated from Manchester College in 1973 (with distinction) with a major in both Economics and Accounting. After Manchester College, he was associated with Crowe, Chizek and Ernst and Young, both large professional accounting and consulting firms. He graduated from Indiana University School of Law, magna cum laude, concentrating on tax and corporate law. Since graduating from law school, Dave has been involved as an officer and trustee of a number of civic, charitable and professional organizations, including the boards of Manchester College, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Parkview Health and Parkview Hospital, the Honeywell Foundation, the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo and Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance. Dave has served as the Chair of the Board of Manchester College and the President of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Currently Dave serves as the Chair of the Parkview Hospital. He also has the privilege of serving as a Director of Rea Magnet Wire and the Ford Meter Box Company. Dave and his wife Sandy live near Fort Wayne. Dave’s hobbies include all types of water sports, sailing, golf and travel.

	E. HENRY “NED” LAMKIN, JR., M.D. Born: February 23, 1935 Owensboro, Kentucky Resides: Indianapolis, Indiana
Dr. Henry Lamkin, better known as Ned, practiced Internal Medicine in Indianapolis for 35 years, with a specialty in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes. Currently he serves as president of the Indiana Employers Quality Health Alliance, bringing employers, employees, hospitals, physicians and health plans together to address the issues of continual improvement in the quality and efficiency of health care in Central Indiana in a cost-constrained environment. A past vice president and president of the medical staff of Methodist Hospital, as well as medical director of two managed-care companies and one TPA (third party administrator), he has a broad range of health care experience. Over the course of his career, he also served as president and senior editor for a medical publishing company; founder and president of a statewide preferred provider network of physicians; coordinator of a multi-hospital, multispecialty Independent Practice Association; chairman of a medical investment firm; president and CEO of a medical management company; board member of two managed-care organizations and a Home Health Care company; and assistant clinical professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Ned also served 16 years as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, including four years as House Majority Leader and 10 years as chairman of the Marion County Delegation. He authored or sponsored more than 100 state bills that became law, including ones in health care (The Indiana Peer Review and Malpractice Reform Acts), transportation (Reorganization of the Indiana Department of Transportation, Right-Turn-on-Red), and governmental reform (The Neighborhood Assistance Act and Unigov). A Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Ned has served on numerous civic, professional, and for-profit and not-for-profit boards and committees, chairing ICareConnect, a not-for-profit, community health information network manager, from its inception in 2000 until 2003 and now serves on the board and executive committee of its successor corporation, the Indiana Health Information Exchange. He is currently on the board of the Heartland Film Festival, serving as a member of its executive committee since 2001 and as its chairman in 2003 and 2004. During this term, he took the organization through a strategic planning process that culminated in a $4 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., taking it from a regional film festival to a national movement. As a DePauw University alumnus, he serves his alma mater as a member of the executive committee of the Washington C. DePauw Society and the advisory board for the DePauw University Honor Scholar Program. He formerly chaired the Healthy Indy Partnership, founded by Marion County hospitals to support the efforts of a broad range of community institutions and organizations to make Indianapolis the healthiest community in the country. He graduated with honors from Broad Ripple High School, DePauw University (Phi Beta Kappa), and the IU School of Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha) and served two years active duty as a US Army surgeon. Ned has received awards for contributions to his profession and community from such diverse groups as the Marion County Medical Association, Indiana Academy of Family Practice, Indiana Optometric Association, IU School of Medicine, and Indiana Consortium of Civil Rights Agencies. He is a Sagamore of the Wabash and a Kentucky Colonel and listed in Who’s Who in America. Ned and his wife Martha, former president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education, have two adult children and three grandchildren. Recreation includes golf, tennis, gardening---and stretching his vocal cords musically when given the opportunity.

	FRANK H. LEVINSON Born: March 1, 1953 Indianapolis, Indiana Resides: Syracuse, Indiana
Frank Levinson works today as the managing director of Small World Group. SWG engages in a mixture of venture capital, engineering and philanthropy to help start companies or research efforts with a focus on Clean Tech – technology that helps improve the quality of life on earth. Levinson also works philanthropically with the University of Virginia and a number of scientific groups, including the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and SETI Institute, UVA, Butler University and Grace College and Seminary. Generally his focus is enhancing scientific knowledge and educational opportunities. These interactions are more “venture philanthropy” than the classical bricks, mortar and plaques approach to giving. Typically he gets involved in the planning and monitoring of the changes that are sought. Before founding the Small World Group, Frank founded Finisar Corporation in 1988. Finisar designs, develops, manufactures and sells fiber optic components for high-speed data transmission. Finisar’s products occupy key spots all over the world-wide web and internet; the company is one of the largest companies for these products in the world. Prior to founding Finisar, Levinson worked for Raychem and Raynet Corporations in California and Bellcore and Bell Labs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Frank grew up in Indianapolis, attending Lawrence Central High School; he graduated with a BS in Mathematics and Physics from Butler University. He then attended the University of Virginia, where he received an MA and Ph.D. in Astronomy. He is married and has three children.

	PHILIP A. NEWBOLD Born: November 15, 1947 Dayton, Ohio Resides: South Bend, Indiana
Philip A. Newbold has served as President and CEO of Memorial Hospital of South Bend and Memorial Health System for the past 21 years. He led the organization to recognition as one of the “Top 100 Hospitals” and one of the “Top 5% Safest Hospitals” in the United States in 2006. Memorial has also become a consistent Consumer Choice Award recipient. Noted author and business consultant Tom Peters has stated that Memorial is “not your typical community hospital . . . it offers a culture of innovation that can meet the many challenges, even the tough and thorny issues of healthcare delivery and education.” As one of the leading healthcare organizations in the United States, Memorial has been a pioneer in the Healthy Community movement, establishing quality and safety improvement methodologies. Memorial is also one of the first hospitals in the United States to establish an Innovation Policy. Phil’s vision for innovation resulted in the creation of the country’s first HealthWorks! Kid’s Museum. This unique program and facility offers fun and interactive educational activities to help children learn to make healthy choices in life. To date, more than 500,000 children have toured HealthWorks! Thousands more have taken part in school programs presented by staff with a traveling HealthWorks! HUMMER. Phil’s commitment to local community boards and initiatives is equally important. Phil chairs the Community Coalition for School Boards. This group aims to nurture a public school system that emphasizes academic excellence and is accountable, visionary and equipped to prepare students for living and working in the 21st century. He has also served as Vice President of the Stanley Clark School Board. He serves on the IUSB Advisory Board and the Northern Indiana Medical Education Foundation Board, an advisory group for the IU School of Medicine in South Bend. His leadership and vision are also reflected in his service on the Gigot Center at the Notre Dame Advisory Board and his membership in Innovation Park at Notre Dame. He is a member of the state and local Chambers of Commerce and chairs the local Project Future Board, which focuses on economic development. Phil was the recipient of the Community Service Award presented by The Hotchkiss School in 1998. More recently, he received the Exemplar Award from CONNECT (The Coalition for Educational Success). In 2004 Phil was inducted into the South Bend Community Hall of Fame. Phil is a native Buckeye, a graduate of Ohio State University (BA and MS) and Miami University of Ohio (MBA). Prior to coming to Memorial Hospital, Phil was a senior executive at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland and the CEO of Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Phil has many roles: husband, father of three children, active community leader, triathlete and frequent author and speaker on many emerging healthcare trends.