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<br />RCCC trustees <br />reappointed <br /> <br />Area residents Mary Gordon, Ir- <br />vin Newberry and Robert Waddell <br />have been reappointed to the <br />Rowan-Cabarrus Community <br />College board of trustees. <br />. Gov. Mike Easley recently re- <br />appointed GordOll, plant director <br />of Phillip Morris. USA's Cabar- <br />rus cigarette plant. She was ap- <br />pointed to RCCC's board in Au- <br />gust 1998 by former govemorJun <br />Hunt. 0 <br />She joined Philip...Morris in <br />1987 as an' electricaI engineer in <br />Richmond, V... She has worked as <br />manager of business planning in <br />the New York planning depart- <br />ment and as director of the manu- <br />factUring and engineering depart- <br />ment at the Cabarrus plant. She <br />has a bachelor's degree in electri- <br />cal engineering from Georgia In- <br />stitute of'Thchnology, a bachelor's <br />degree from Spelman Collegeimd <br />a master's degree in business ad- <br />o ministration from Vll'ginia Com- <br />monwealth University. <br />. Newberry; an RCCC trustee <br />since 1998, was reappointed by <br />the Cabarrus Board of County <br />Commissioners. He is part owner <br />of the local accounting flrlI1 New- <br />berry; Cathey & Co. He has a <br />bachelor's degree in accounting <br />o from the University of West Flori- <br />SEE PEOPLE 0 I 13K <br /> <br />CHARLOTTEOBSERVER 0 <br />CABARRUS NEIGHBORS <br />l-~l.o-D\ <br /> <br />People <br /> <br /> <br />from 9K <br /> <br />da and is licensed in North Caroli- <br />na and Florida. <br />He is a former president of the <br />Concord Rotary Club and the Ca- <br />barrus Regional Chamber of <br />Commerce. He has been a mem- <br />ber of the Cabarrus County Eco- <br />nomic Development Board, the <br /> <br />Concord Downtown Redevelop- <br />ment Corp. and the Old Court- <br />house Theatre. Newberry is also a <br />member of the board of directors <br />of the RCCC Foundation. <br />. Waddell was reappointed by <br />the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Ed- <br />ucation. He has served on the <br />board since 1985 and is on the <br />board of directors of the RCCC <br />Foundation. He has served on the <br />Rowan County Chamber of Com- <br />1-1,/ 0 <br /> <br />merce board and as director of <br />the Industrial Council Waddell is <br />a former member of ille local <br />United Way board and the <br />YMCA advisory cotulciL <br />Waddell has a business admin- <br />istration degree from the Univer- <br />sity of Pennsylvania's Wharton <br />Evening School and is a retired <br />plant manager of General Electric <br />in Salisbury. - COMPILED BY NANCY <br />RILEY <br />