The Stern Center for Language and Learning has recently appointed three new board members – Tim Corley, Ann DeMarle, and Tim Neiley – to their Board of Directors during the Annual Board of Directors Meeting on October 5. The Stern Center leadership team is excited to welcome this incoming group and is confident that the newest additions to the Board will help further advance board involvement and continue to build a community dedicated to helping children and adults reach their academic, social, and professional goals.
Tim Corley has served as president of Bowl New England, Inc for more than 14 years and has been with the family business for 29 years. Corley was also the Director "at large" for the Bowling Proprietors Association Board from 2001 to 2003. In 2006, he was voted Bowling Proprietor of the year and in 2013 received the President’s Medal in recognition of his leadership, initiative, and contributions to the Bowling Proprietors Association of America. He has significant experience in organizing fundraising events, Bowlathons, and Chamber of Commerce events and also possesses a strong marketing background and excellent team leadership skills.
Ann DeMarle is director of the Emergent Media Center and the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Emergent Media Program at Champlain College. DeMarle holds a MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and before entering academia had a successful career creating computer graphics solutions for AT&T, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Kodak, Lotus, and IBM. She has also been involved with a variety of far-reaching partnerships, including the United Nation's game to end violence against women, the Ford Foundation wealth creation game, the Massachusetts General Hospital's CIMIT Emergency Response simulation, and the IBM virtual worlds project. In 2006, she became the first Roger H Perry Chair after designing and directing the Champlain College’s most popular degrees: the Trio of Game degrees and Multimedia and Graphic Design. In the fall of 2013, she launched a Masters of Science in Emergent Media in Shanghai, China, where students work collaboratively and virtually between the Burlington, Vermont, and the Shanghai, China, campuses.
Tim Neiley, retired CEO and president of LPA Design, is returning for a second time as a Stern Center Board member following his first term spanning from 2003 to 2012. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1972, Neiley served four years as a Quartermaster in the US Coast Guard on ships in the North Atlantic. Throughout his business career, he held sales and marketing management and leadership positions with several international manufacturing companies, including Sears Manufacturing Co, Hon Industries, and Curtis Computer Products. In 1999, his family moved from the Midwest to Vermont, where he joined LPA Design of South Burlington, a company specializing in the design and manufacturing of radio wireless controller devices for the photography industry.