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Drake’s Rospond to lead
College of Pharmacy
Liberal arts rigor helped
prepare new trustees
Raylene Rospond, deputy provost of
Drake University in Iowa, will join
Manchester University June 30 as vice
president and dean of the College of
Pharmacy. Rospond succeeds Dave
McFadden ’82, who becomes University
president when Jo Young ’69 Switzer
retires July 1.
“Raylene Rospond is a good fit for
Manchester’s Mission and strategic plan,” said Switzer. “She is
highly respected both in pharmacy education and in regional
accreditation.”
Manchester’s newest trustees built their
professional success on the rock-solid
foundation of a liberal arts education.
John W. Gilmore
At Drake, Rospond led strategic plans that gained re-accreditation
of the pharmacy program, new laboratories and enhanced physical
facilities. During her leadership, Drake doubled the endowment and
scholarships and transformed the curriculum for the College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
“This opportunity allows me to aid the Manchester pharmacy
faculty who are building a distinctive pharmacy program while
working strategically and collaboratively across the University to
develop programs and initiatives that will contribute to the ongoing vitality of those serving northeast Indiana,” said Rospond.
The four-year, professional Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
program is in the process of enrolling its third class on its state-ofthe-art campus in north Fort Wayne.
Rospond earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy at Creighton
University and her Pharm.D. at the University of Texas. She served
as associate professor, associate dean and chair of pharmacy
practice at Drake before becoming a professor and dean of the
College of Pharmacy and Health Services in 2003. She became
deputy provost in June 2013.
For more about the Manchester University College of
Pharmacy, visit pharmacy.manchester.edu.
Richard P. Teets Jr.
John W. Gilmore ’74, senior vice president
and COO for Princeton Theological
Seminary in New Jersey, and Richard
P. Teets Jr., co-founder, executive vice
president for steelmaking, president
and COO of Steel Operations for Steel
Dynamics Inc., joined the Board of
Trustees on Jan. 1, 2014.
“Serving on Manchester’s board is an
opportunity for me to give back to
the institution that provided me with
a wonderful education,” says Gilmore,
an accounting and mathematics major.
“The focused training in accounting was
formative in shaping my career path,” he
added. “But just as important to me was
receiving an excellent, broad-based liberal
arts education.”
Gilmore has been COO at Princeton Theological Seminary since
1999. Prior to that he held a similar post at Columbia Theological
Seminary in Decatur, Ga., practiced law in Atlanta, and was a CPA
with Crowe, Chizek & Co., and Arthur Andersen LLP. Gilmore
earned a master’s degree in divinity at Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary and a law degree at the University of Illinois.
Teets, a longtime Manchester friend who has served on the MU
President’s Leadership Council, studied mechanical engineering at
Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.
“My engineering studies at Lafayette prepared me for steelmaking,”
says Teets, who is responsible for six steel plants and six finishing
facilities