{"id":19658,"date":"2021-10-11T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19658"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:04:51","slug":"dee-howard-foundations-newest-slate-of-officers-to-support-growth-and-expansion-of-innovative-educational-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/texas\/dee-howard-foundations-newest-slate-of-officers-to-support-growth-and-expansion-of-innovative-educational-mission\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Dee Howard Foundation\u2019s Newest Slate of Officers to Support Growth and Expansion of Innovative Educational Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bianca Rhodes, President and CEO of Knight Aerospace, has been elected by the DHF Board of Directors to succeed Wayne Fagan as Board Chair and President of The Dee Howard Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bianca Rhodes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDecember 31, 2021 will be my last day as Board Chair and\nPresident of The Dee Howard Foundation,\u201d said Wayne Fagan, founder and outgoing\nBoard Chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDee\u2019s family and I are grateful to have had the opportunity\nover the last several years to work with our board, advisory council members,\nand community partners to carry on Dee\u2019s legacy of excellence and innovative\nleadership,\u201d he added.  \u201cWe are\nespecially grateful to and proud of our incoming slate of officers. They are an\nexceptional group of proven community leaders committed to our mission and all\nof them are in a great position to leverage their skills and talents for the\nbenefit of the foundation and the communities we serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne Fagan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know that Bianca will be an outstanding Chair. She brings\nwith her a long list of accomplishments, community service, a strong financial\nbackground, and a deep commitment to the mission of the foundation. It has been\nmy great honor to have had the opportunity to collaborate with so many of you,\nthank you all for your service to our community,\u201d said Wayne Fagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Bianca Rhodes, the other incoming officers of\nthe foundation are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Vice Chair: Tyler Schroeder, Manager, State and\nLocal Government Operations at Boeing,<\/li>
  • Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs:\nJoAnn Browning, Ph.D., P.E., Dean of The College of Engineering and Integrated\nDesign at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), <\/li>
  • Vice President: Timothy W. Strawther. Lead\nExecutive, San Antonio, Texas, Lockheed Martin Corp., <\/li>
  • Treasurer: JT Norris, Ph.D., CPA – Director, MS\nin Accounting Program. University of the Incarnate Word (UIW); and<\/li>
  • Secretary Dan Gonzales, Vice President, Business\nDevelopment, Military, and Energy Sector, StandardAero.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Launched in 2013, the Foundation has partnered with seven\narea school districts, a public charter school, and Pre-K 4 SA to date. In the\nprocess it has engaged over 4,500 students through an array of aerospace and\naviation-based programs, such as the development and integration of\naeronautical STEM curriculum and project-based learning, field trips to NASA\nand local civilian and military venues, virtual and in-person presentations by\nlocal, state and national aerospace experts and leading aeronautical STEM\neducators, and the development of an aircraft build program at Southwest High\nSchool.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In July of 2021 the foundation hired its first staff member\nand Executive Director Christina Martinez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cI\u2019m very excited to have the opportunity to learn and grow\nfrom the leadership of Bianca and the rest of the board officers. We have a slate\nof very talented professionals and that is exactly what we need to take the\norganization to the next level.\u201d said Martinez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Mission of The Dee Howard Foundation (DHF) is to honor\nSan Antonio\u2019s aviation and aerospace history and to nurture our innovators of\nthe future. We seek to inspire, challenge and empower innovators in these\nfields while helping to train a skilled workforce for the San Antonio, Texas\nregion while being open to expanding our programming beyond this region in the\nfuture. Our educational focus is primarily on Pre-K thru 12 underserved\nstudents and first-generation college students through the DHF Pre-K thru 12\nAeronautical STEM Pathway Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bianca Rhodes, President and CEO of Knight Aerospace, has been elected by the DHF Board of Directors to succeed Wayne Fagan as Board Chair and President of The Dee Howard Foundation. \u201cDecember 31, 2021 will be my last day as Board Chair and President of The Dee Howard Foundation,\u201d said Wayne Fagan, founder and outgoing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19662,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions\/19662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}