Two former students appointed to board

Two former Old Dominion students are among the three latest appointments by Gov. Jim Gilmore to the university's Board of Visitors.

Joel R. Wagner earned his master's degree in guidance and counseling in 1974, as well as certification in secondary administration in 1977. Beverly B. Graeber studied sociology at Old Dominion in the mid-1950s.

Wagner, of Portsmouth, is principal of Norfolk's Booker T. Washington High School. A former member of the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors, he has taught and held administrative positions in Norfolk Public Schools since 1970. He was principal of Lake Taylor Middle School from 1988 to 1994.

Graeber, of Norfolk, is president of the Norfolk Republican Women's Club and a candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates. Her background includes administrative positions with the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, the New Jersey Medical School in Newark and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Florham Park, N.J.

Patricia M. Woolsey, the third appointee, is from Springfield. She is the president and CEO of The Woolsey Group, a management and communications consulting practice. Woolsey is a former chair of the state's Center for Innovative Technology board of directors.

Also, the Rev. Anthony C. Paige, pastor of First Baptist Church of Lambert's Point, was reappointed to the Old Dominion board.

The new board members succeed Barry M. Kornblau '71 of Richmond, Kenneth A. Samet '80 of Bethesda, Md., and Joan D. Gifford of Norfolk.


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