history

Officers

Board of Directors

• Phil Collins, Board President
  • Assistant Superintendent for Student Achievement, Glenview School District #34
  • Collins, Assistant Superintendent in Glenview for the past 5 years, previously held the position of Principal at Westgate School in Arlington Heights. He has resided in Arlington Heights for the last 11 years and has been an active participant in the ABC 25 Foundation, a member of the Arlington Heights Youth Commission, and is an active member of the Rotary Club.
• Kathy Monnich, Board Vice President
  • Director of Operations, Omnibus Advertising and Marketing
  • Monnich, Director of Operations for Omnibus Advertising and Marketing, has been an active member of several community organizations, serving on the local and council level of the Arlington Heights Council of PTAs, including chair of the Scholarship Committee, PTA President, and other numerous committees. She also served on the ABC/25 Foundation for five years.
• Frank Lee, Board Treasurer
  • Partner, Weiss & Company LLP
  • Lee, a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Valuation Analyst, is a partner in the accounting firm Weiss & Company with offices in Glenview, IL. He has been a resident of Arlington Heights for 34 years and has served the community as a board member of Frontier Days, Faith Community Homes, Christmas in April and past chair of the Arlington Heights Housing Commission.
• Lauree Harp, Board Secretary
  • Vice President, Sales and Finance, National Study of School Evaluation - R&D Division of AdvanceED
  • Harp, currently the Vice President for Sales and Finance for NSSE, has been an Arlington Heights resident for the past 28 years. She holds or has held leadership positions in the Village Bank Advisory Council, PTA, Frontier Days and the Community Education Foundation
• Lisa Anastasia
  • Executive Producer, Media Direct
• Carl Anfenson

• Lenore Bragaw
  • Staff Attorney, Lifespan Center
  • Bragaw, a 28 year resident of Arlington Heights, currently sits on the High School District 214 Board of Education. An active Board member of the Women’s Resource Center, she has served the community on a variety of boards, including the United Way of Arlington Heights, PADS, AHYAA, and PTA.
• David Ives
  • Former President and Owner, The Townsend Agency
  • Ives spent over 25 years in the advertising industry as President/Owner of the Townsend Agency, which he sold in late 2007. He has be a resident of Arlington Heights for 28 years and has been involved in numerous community activities, including serving as Honorary Chairman of the Matthew Ives Memorial Track. He is currently “on sabbatical” focusing on creative and volunteer consulting.
• Lynne M. Kuhnlohe
  • SPHR – Lead HR Business Partner, Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
  • Kuhnlohe is currently the Lead HR Business Partner for the state’s second-largest private social services agency. Her 25-year HR background also includes positions in the banking and manufacturing sectors. She has been a resident of Arlington Heights for 30 years.
• Joe Lynn

• Elizabeth S. O’Kelly
  • Of Counsel, Drost Kivlahan McMahon & O’Connor LLC
  • O’Kelly, an Arlington Heights resident for 18 years, is an attorney with Drost Kivlahan McMahon & O’Connor in downtown Arlington Heights, where she concentrates in corporate and health care law. She has been a volunteer or board member with the Dryden PTA, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Cub Scouts, BUZZ and various health care law organizations.
• Robert Y. Paddock
  • Executive Vice President - Vice Chairman, Daily Herald, Reflejos, and beepcentral.com
  • Paddock, Executive Vice President of Daily Herald, has 30 years of experience in a wide variety of charitable, educational, professional, and business associations throughout the suburbs and Chicago. In Arlington Heights, these have included president of Dist. 214 Community Education Foundation, president of the Arlington Heights United Way, and board member of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce. He currently is a trustee of Roosevelt University and is President of the Cook County Suburban Publishers Association and holds an MBA from Northwestern University.
• Larry Richman
  • President of Commercial Banking, LaSalle Bank Corp. (ABN AMRO)
  • Richman, President of Commercial Banking, is responsible for all of LaSalle’s corporate banking as well as the bank’s national specialized industry groups, its international corporate banking groups and its leasing subsidiary, LaSalle National Leasing Corp.
• Kevin Seifert
  • Business Operations Manager, Motorola, Inc.
  • Seifert, a Global Business Operations Manager for Motorola, is an active member of the Arlington Heights community where he’s lived for 26 years. He is active member, and a past officer, of BUZZ, a philanthropic organization of dedicated professionals. He is a member of the Purdue Alumni Association and hold an M.B.A. from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
• Tom Southall
  
  • President, Commercial Construction Businesses, North America, Illinois Toolworks, Inc.
    
• William Young
  • President of Young & Associates, Ltd.
  • Young, President of Young & Associates, Ltd., a marketing management consulting company serving mid-market to global fifty firms, is also an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Strategic Sales Management. He has 20 years of senior sales and marketing experience for two NYSE companies’ divisions, including Gibson Guitars, Conn Band Instruments and Wurlitzer Pianos. He is also currently a member of the DePaul University School of Music Advisory Board.
• Jim Jarvis
  • Executive Director, Ex-Officio
    
  • Jim received both his undergraduate degree in Communications and his Masters in Business/Athletic Administration from Illinois State University. He has 24 years of marketing, public relations and communication experience including serving as the Director of Marketing & Promotions for a division of the Walt Disney Company. Jim served as Communications Director for 6 years with Metropolis before being appointed to the Executive Director position. Artistically, he has appeared in over 20 plays, taught acting and improvisation, directed a variety of productions and appeared in various commercials and films. Jim lives with his wife Tanya, son William Cody and their two big dogs.