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Brenda
Todd Larsen of Kiawah Island, S.C. and Tryon, N.C., was elected to the
Berea College Board of Trustees at the College’s recent Board Meeting.
Larsen was appointed to a six-year term and will serve through 2010.
Larsen brings to Berea’s Board experience in health education
and a wide range of volunteer service. From 1987 – 1998, Larsen
held positions at the University of California at Los Angeles in cancer
information programs, including serving as Chair of the Policies and
Procedures Committee for the Cancer Information Service, a program
of the National Cancer Institute. The Duke University graduate also
has work experience with the Traveler’s Insurance Company as
a research assistant and as assistant to the director of development
for the Chamber of Commerce in Durham, N.C.
Larsen has been active in community and church organizations in all
of the communities where she has lived. In Los Angeles, she volunteered
with a psychosocial counseling program with Cancer Care; was treasurer
of a fundraising guild for Los Angeles’ Children’s Hospital,
and was a member of a symphony league. Currently, Larsen serves on
the Board of Directors for Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy
and is active in Johns Island Presbyterian Church.
The Mt. Vernon, Ohio native has a long association with Berea College
as well as roots in Madison County. Her mother, Elizabeth Dove Jessee,
attended Berea Academy and completed a business course at the College,
then worked for former Berea Dean Edward Matheny and his wife, Edith,
in their Berea weaving business. Other members in Larsen’s family
also attended the Academy and Berea College. Larsen’s father,
Walker Thurman Todd, whose family goes back several generations in
Madison County, was a member of the first graduating class of Berea
High School in 1929.
Larsen and her husband, Charles Larsen III, have three grown children.
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