Mack, Stodden and Lohmar elected to SCC Board of Trustees

Published: 05/02/2016

The St. Charles Community College Board of Trustees swore in its elected members of 2016 – Rose Mack, Mary Schnare Stodden and Shirley Lohmar – at its April 18 Board meeting.

Mack is a councilwoman for Ward 2 in the city of O’Fallon. She was initially appointed to the Board in July 2009. This will be her second elected six-year term with the St. Charles Community College Board of Trustees. She served as Board president from 2014-16 and Board secretary from 2010-14.

Rose Mack, SCC Board of Trustees member, and William Pundmann, SCC Board of Trustees vice president, shake hands after Mack was sworn into her second six-year term on the St. Charles Community College Board.

Stodden, a long-serving high school librarian, worked at Duchesne High School from 1978-1988 and St. Charles High School from 1988-2014. She is currently retired. This will be her first six-year term on the college’s Board. 

Rose Mack (left) congratulates Mary Schnare Stodden, SCC Board of Trustees members, after Stodden was sworn into her first elected six-year term on the St. Charles Community College Board.

Lohmar, a retired elementary school principal and St. Charles County resident since 1972, was first appointed to the Board in June 2015. She was elected to fill the remaining four years of the Board seat of her late husband, Judge William Lohmar.

Rose Mack (left) congratulates Shirley Lohmar, SCC Board of members, after swearing in Lohmar to her first elected term on the St. Charles Community College Board.

At the meeting, the SCC Board of Trustees, whose officers reorganize every two years following the trustee election, announced the 2016-18 slate of officers. Jean Ehlmann, a retired history and government teacher at St. Charles High School, was elected president. She has served as a Board member since 1994 – serving as Board vice president twice and president twice. William R. Pundmann, president and CEO for Pundmann and Co., was elected vice president. He has served as a Board member since 2006 – having previously held both president and vice president office once.  Pam Cilek, a retired professor from SCC, was elected secretary. She has served on the Board since 2014 – acting as Board vice president from July 2015-April 2016. Lohmar was elected as treasurer. 

The SCC Board of Trustees is charged with the duty of fostering and maintaining the overall welfare of the college as well as approving the annual budget and expenditures of funds. The six members of the St. Charles Community College Board of Trustees are elected citizens who serve six-year terms without pay.

St. Charles Community College is a public, comprehensive two-year community college with associate degrees and certificate programs in the arts, business, sciences and career-technical fields. SCC provides workforce training and community-based personal and professional development as well as cultural, recreational and entertainment opportunities. For more information, visit stchas.edu.