Board of Trustees 2007-2008

Harry Smith, President
Mr. Smith is currently Chief Operating Officer of Flanders-Precisionaire Corporation. His previous position was Vice-President of the same company since the year 2000. Harry also owns and manages National Whse Leasing Corporation that specializes in ownership and leasing of commercial property with locations currently in seven states. Harry is also an Oakwood parent. Mr. Smith is married to former Oakwood Board Member and past PSA president, Tammy Smith.

Kirk Dominick, Vice President
Mr. Dominick is a graduate of East Carolina University with a BS Criminal Justice degree. Mr. Dominick has 20 years of service with the Boys and Girls Club beginning as the Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Pitt County, relocating to Boys & Girls Clubs of America's National Headquarters in Atlanta, GA and later to the Office of Government Relations in Washington, DC. In 2002, Kirk and his family returned to his native Greenville. Mr. Dominick now serves as President of Diversified Nonprofit Services Associates, LLC - a full service consulting firm specializing in capital campaigns, organizational development, and strategy development for non-profit organizations He is married to Barbara Darden Dominick and they are proud Oakwood parents.

Jett Ferebee, Treasurer
Mr. Ferebee is originally from Rocky Mount, NC. He is married to Lynn Ferebee and they have four children. Two of their children attend Oakwood and the other two will soon join their siblings. He received his BS and MBA with a concentration in Finance and Real Estate from the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill. Mr. Ferebee is self-employed in real estate development, investment and management. Mr. Ferebee graduated from Rocky Mount Academy, of which his father was a founder.

Sandra Triebenbacher, Secretary
Sandy Triebenbacher received her B.S. and M.S. from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Sandy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Relations at East Carolina University. Dr. Triebenbacher and her husband Pete, employed by MKCS, Inc., have lived in Greenville since 1992. They have one child at Oakwood.

John Paul Corey

Andy Culpepper

Alicia Speight Hawk
Alicia Speight Hawk is originally from Greenville. She received her BS in Civil Engineering and MCE in Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is a registered Professional Engineer, previously working in Atlanta and Raleigh as an environmental engineering consultant before returning to Greenville in 2004. Mrs. Hawk is currently the General Manager of Speight Properties, a real estate asset management firm specializing in commercial and residential development, sales, and property management. Mrs. Hawk is one of the original founders and currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Select Bank & Trust Company Board of Directors in Greenville. She also serves on the NCSU Veterinary Medical Foundation, Inc.’s Board of Directors. Alicia is married to Matthew Hawk, a local commercial real estate appraiser with Rasberry Shackelford & Associates of Kinston, and they have two children who both attend Oakwood.

Helen Harmon
Helen E. Harmon, M.D. obtained a B.S. in Zoology from UNC-CH and graduated from UNC-CH School of Medicine. She is a rheumatologist at Carolina Arthritis Center, a practice she opened in 2001 with her sister Betty Harmon, M.D. She completed her internal medicine residency at Pitt County Memorial Hospital with ECU. Practicing general internal medicine in Raleigh for one year, she then practiced as a traveling physician. Upon completing her rheumatology fellowship at UNC-CH, she moved to Greenville and practiced at Physician’s East for 9 years prior to opening her own sub-specialty practice in 2001. Dr. Harmon was president of the parent’s association at Greenville Montessori School and remains on their board at present. Helen has held leadership positions in the N.C Rheumatology Association. Her husband, Glen Ballard, has a B.A in Zoology and Psychology from UNC-CH, a master’s degree in Physiology from NCSU, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UNC-CH. They have one son in the Upper School of Oakwood.

Baxter J. Myers
B.J. Myers is a Raleigh native who has been a resident of Greenville for the past 21 years. He is a graduate of North Carolina Wesleyan College and East Carolina University's MBA program and is a North Carolina CPA. Mr. Myers is recently retired from Alliance One International after having served as the European Financial Director in that company's Camberley, England office. He was married to the late Karen Allen of Kinston and has two sons, one of whom is on the staff of East Carolina University working on its Americor Program.

Sterling Ruffin

Sangita Tewari
Sangita Tewari has been a resident of Greenville since 2001. She graduated with Honors from San Jose State University with a degree in Business Administration (Accounting). She worked for Price Waterhouse in both California and Connecticut for over 10 years. Mrs. Tewari is a California licensed CPA and is currently at home with her two sons, who are both attending The Oakwood School. Her husband is an Anesthesiologist and is currently Chief of Staff at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Chris Thomas
Dr. Chris Thomas earned a BS Degree in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his M.D. from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. His postgraduate training included General Surgery, and Diagnostic Radiology. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at NC Baptist Hospital. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiology and Vascular/ Interventional Radiology. Dr. Thomas is a radiologist in Greenville with Eastern Radiologists, Inc. He and his wife Lisa are both natives of Winston-Salem, NC and have lived in Greenville since 1998. Their oldest child is currently a student at Oakwood.

Eileen Van Houten
Eileen Van Houten has a BA in Education from Loyola College and a JD degree from The University of Maryland. She taught school in Baltimore for several years, and then she practiced corporate law in Baltimore and Chicago. Mrs. Van Houten handles business matters for her husband, Peter's ophthalmic practice and start-up medical device company. They have one child in the Upper School of The Oakwood School. They have lived in Greenville since 1988.

Cheryl McFadden, ex officio member, Interim Head of School

Hope Mewborne, ex officio member, PSA President