On Saturday July 17, 2010 Germanna will launch its day of exciting activities with opening remarks by Executive Director Dr. Frank Turnage and President Marc Wheat. There is much happening at the Germanna Foundation and this is your opportunity to hear directly from the Germanna leadership what is being done and what will be done. What are some of the things you migh find out about in their opening remarks?
What has Executive Director Dr. Fank Turnage been doing in his first year on the job at the Germanna Foundation?
What are some of the highlights of Dr. Turnage’s first year on the job?
What are some of the goals Dr. Turnage has for Germanna?
What are Dr. Turnage’s top predictions for the future of Germanna?
What does Dr. Turnage mean when he says Germanna is a “sleeping beauty come to life”?
What new artifacts are there at Germanna?
What new accouterments are at Germanna? What are accouterments?
Who is coming to visit Germanna?
Where are people coming from to visit Germanna?
Where are the new horizons that the Germanna ship will be sailing to?
How can you take a more active part in the Germanna experience?
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Who is Dr. Frank Turnage?
Frank S. Turnage is President Emeritus of Germanna Community College (GCC) where he served for over twenty years. Currently Dr. Turnage is a visiting professor at Old Dominion University and adjunct professor at GCC. He is a native of North Carolina who married Nancy Wells of Arlington, Virginia in 1962. They have two adult sons and five grandchildren. He holds a baccalaureate degree from Duke University, a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate from the University of Virginia. Since moving to the Fredericksburg area 21 years ago, Dr. Turnage has been active in community, civic, and business affairs. He has served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and also as president and campaign chair of the Rappahannock United Way. His professional experiences at the CEO level include leadership management in academic, financial, and governmental affairs. Formerly he served on the local advisory boards for First Virginia Bank and BB&T, and currently he is a director of Virginia Partners Bank. He has served with distinction on state and regional task forces and accrediting agencies.
Who is Marc Wheat?
Marc is the 4th President of the Germanna Foundation since 1956, descending from Rev. Henry Haeger, Germanna's colonial pastor. He is also a Rector and Fishback descendant, which makes him related to just about any descendant of the 1714 Germanna Colonists.
Marc has spent his entire career in public service, mostly with an eye to strengthening American families and our culture. His first job in Washington was Senior Legislative Assistant to Congressman Dennis Hastert, where he led Congressman Hastert's drive to repeal the Social Security earnings limit (later the 7th pledge in the Contract With America). He is presently an attorney working at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which strives to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. Prior to his work at the SEC, Marc served as Staff Director and Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, & Human Resources. During his tenure there, he lectured at the European Parliament in Brussels; met with advisors to President Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan; and helped manually eradicate a coca field in Colombia. He learned a great deal about the world after joining the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Colin Powell six weeks after 9/11, where he served as Senior Advisor for Senate Affairs.
In the 1990's, Marc was Counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked principally on health care, bioethics, and bioterrorism; while Director of Tax and Budget Policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy, he succeeded in the elimination of $8.1 billion of wasteful spending in May 1992, the largest such rescission since 1982. Marc's Porkbusters Coalition was the subject of Adventures in Porkland, a book by Washington Post reporter Brian Kelly and illustrated by political cartoonist Pat Oliphant. A discussion of his anti-trafficking work in Robert Goff's Finding Karishma: Modern-Day Slavery and the New Abolition Movement, and thanked in Francis Fukuyama's Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Marc received his B.A. (majoring in Spanish) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, and his Juris Doctor in the Corporate and Securities Specialty Track at George Mason University in Virginia. A member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia, Marc and his wife Marie (the former Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Office of the Peace Corps) raise their son and daughter in Arlington, Virginia.