Rick Panowicz and Brian Charneski named new Chair and Vice Chair of
Saint Martin’s Board of Trustees
November 19, 2009
Lacey, Washington — Saint Martin’s University
recently announced that A. Richard Panowicz is the new chairman and
Brian Charneski is the new vice chairman of the University’s Board of
Trustees. Panowicz succeeds Ken Parsons who served as chair for two
years.
Panowicz holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and
finance from the University of Washington. He was president of TAB
Northwest for 20 years. He also served as a commissioned officer in the
U.S. Army Medical Service Corp. He is a past president of the Hands on
Children’s Museum, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, and
Providence St. Peter’s Community Board (for two terms). He is a member
of the Olympia Rotary and the Round Table of Thurston County. He is also
on the board of The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound and heads
their marketing committee. He has been a member of Saint Martin’s Board
of Trustees since 2004. His father was on Saint Martin’s Board of
Trustees for 12 years.
“I believe that Saint Martin’s is a community
devoted to creating an educational environment where faith, reason, and
service come together to shape people who can change the world,” shared
Panowicz.
Charneski holds a bachelor’s degree in economics
from Seattle University. He serves as the president of L&E Bottling
Company in Olympia and chairman of Pepsi Northwest Beverages, LLC, a
regional beverage manufacturing cooperative headquartered in Tumwater.
He is also director and past chairman of both the Pepsi-Cola Bottlers
Association and the Washington Beverage Association. He is a director of
Heritage Financial Corporation. He has served on the boards of the
Washington Center for the Performing Arts and The Community Foundation
of the South Puget Sound. Charneski has been a member of Saint Martin’s
Board of Trustees since 2004 and succeeds Rick Panowicz as Vice
Chairman.
“We are fortunate to have community leaders such as
Rick Panowicz, Brian Charneski, and Ken Parsons step forward and help
support Saint Martin’s,” said University president Roy Heynderickx.
“Rick’s and Brian’s appointments will continue the tradition of great
leadership on our Board of Trustees.”
Saint Martin’s University is an independent
four-year, Catholic, coeducational university located on a 380-acre
wooded campus in Lacey, Washington. Established in 1895 by the Catholic
Order of Saint Benedict, the University is one of 18 Benedictine
colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and the only
one west of the Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University prepares
students for successful lives through its 21 majors and six graduate
programs spanning the liberal arts, business, education and engineering.
Saint Martin’s welcomes 1,250 students from many ethnic and religious
backgrounds to its main campus, and 650 more to its five extension
campuses located at Fort Lewis Army Post, McChord Air Force Base,
Olympic College, Centralia College, and Tacoma Community College.
For additional information:
Genevieve Canceko Chan
Director of Communications & Marketing
360-438-4332
gchan@stmartin.edu
www.stmartin.edu