Mae
Suramek is Berea College’s new director of Alumni Relations.
Suramek, a human relations professional and 1995 Berea graduate,
began her new duties January 26. 
She replaces Mark Boes, interim alumni relations director for five
months, who has assumed the position of assistant to the President
and Major Gifts Officer at the College.
Before joining Berea, Suramek was employed as a human relations
specialist with the North Carolina Human Relations Commission
for four years, beginning in 1999. Prior to that, she served
as job developer with the Refugee Resettlement program of Lutheran
Family Service in Raleigh, N.C. In Kentucky, Suramek served
for two years as a Civil Rights Investigator with the Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Human Rights Commission in Lexington and as a
counselor and as caseworker for the Lexington YWCA Spouse Abuse
Center. She also previously served as employment specialist
with AmeriCorps in Prestonsburg.
Mark Boes, Assistant to the President and Major Gifts Officer
In addition to a B.A. in psychology from Berea, Suramek holds
an M.A. in community counseling from Eastern Kentucky University
and has completed coursework in Women’s Studies at the
University of Kentucky. Suramek and her husband, Ronnie Nolan,
also a 1995 Berea graduate, reside in Berea.
Boes is a native Berean and 1976 Berea alumnus who joined
Berea in May 2003 as a Berea Fund officer. He holds a masters
degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is
the former pastor of Cecilia Baptist Church in Cecilia, Ky.,
where he served for nine years.
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