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WALLACE E. WESTBROOK
Founder of America's Christmas Village

EDUCATION:
Business - University of Texas, El Paso
Ministry - Sunset International Bible Institute

Served as the local minister in central Texas in 1974. Worked with youth and their development during his early days as a college coordinator and director in Ministry.

Mr. Westbrook has a keen insight into "people". He is the Visionary behind America's Christmas Village, Inc., and has a special awareness of public attitude. Construction, Negotiations, Real Estate Values are what he has been involved with for the past 20 years. He consistently was ahead of his competitors when it came to predicting future trends and needs. Being "out in front" is common for him. Projecting attitudes and lifestyles is a specialty that only a few have, and "he has it".

He was in the construction industry for over 20 years and served as President of his own construction company. He was involved in many upper end projects and his client base read like a "Who's Who". His wisdom guided his company from being "stereotyped" and kept him in the public eye. Being creative was one of his greatest strengths, and one of his greatest achievements was revitalizing a stagnant community within The Woodlands, whereby he took a scheduled development in a totally opposite direction from which it was headed and turned it into one of the most widely known communities within the 27,000 acres. Many awards were given to him for creating distinctive designs, such as his "historic homes" replicas.

He has served on the Board of Directors for Northland Christian School for 15 years.

He has consulted with Developers of various Master Planned Communities and has been instrumental in policy making decisions.

POLLARD D. GALIPP

EDUCATION:
B.F.A. Theatre & Literature - Sam Houston State University

SPECIALTY SKILLS:
Real Estate Specialist, Public Speaking; Technical Design, production, and presentation of multi-media; Software operations and consultant.

After surviving a deadly bout of Cancer throughout his youth, he has spent his healthy days actively involved in an eclectic array of pursuits. He has worked as a Professional Actor and Technician throughout the United States, associated with top Theatre and Opera companies in Houston, Saint Louis, and North Carolina. He has a multitude of experience in the Technical Audio Visual field, related to design and production of multi-media productions. He has done work for such companies as Intel, Compaq, and The Smithsonian Institute. Over the last four years, Mr. Galipp has been heavily involved with Commercial Real Estate in the Woodlands and Greater Houston area. During this latest venture, he has negotiated over 4 million square feet of leasing and sales for industrial, office and retail clients.

LOWELL W. LUTZ

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - Grand Canyon University
Masters Certification in Telecommunications & Information Resources Management - Syracuse University

SPECIALTY SKILLS:
He has worked as IT/E-Commerce Manager, Information and Internet Technology Developer and Manager, Web Project Manager, Software Engineer, Computer Programmer, Administrator and Leader, Web Projects Development & Technical Programming Manager for the Supercomputing Research Center at Rice University, Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University, GE Aerospace, Honeywell, etc.

Served as Children's Minister and/or Music Minister for several churches in California and Arizona.

Served on the Executive Board for Orangewood Church of the Nazarene - Phoenix, Arizona
Served on the Executive Board for Bellaire Church of the Nazarene -  Bellaire, Texas

Finance and Building Fund Committee
Property and Building Committee
New Facilities Feasibility Committee
Policy and Administration Committee
Public Relations Committee
Finance and Budget

DR. JOHN SUDBURY

EDUCATION
University of Texas B.S. 1944 M.S. 1947 PhD 1949 Major - Physical Chemistry Minor - Physics and Math Served in U S Navy 1944 - 1945

WORK HISTORY
1949 - 1969  Employee - Continental Oil Company in series of professional positions in research - Ponca City, Oklahoma.
1969 - 1970  General Manager, C/A Nuclear Fuels (Joint venture of Conoco/ Aero Jet General) San Ramon, California.
1970 - 1972  Assistant to Senior Vice President of Conoco, New York City.
1972 - 1983  Consolidation Coal Company - Division of Conoco. Vice President of Coal Development Division, a 200 man Research division in Library, Pennsylvania, plus responsibility to the Dept. of Energy for 1. Rapid City SD, Coal Gasification Plant, 2. Kentucky Coal Liquification Plant, 3. Scottish Coal Gasification Plant owned by British Gas Corporation.
1983 - 1997  President of Eastern European Mission, a religious foundation, for printing Bibles for Eastern Europe. This is a Mission for the Bammel Church of Christ in Houston, Texas.

PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
1939 - 1941 Boy Scouts of America - earned Eagle Scout Badge with 50 badges.
1949 - 1969 High ranked in Badminton.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
16 patents, 50 Technical papers, and 2 books while working for Conoco and Consol.Boards:
1968 - 2003 Board of Trustees - Oklahoma Christian University
1983 - 2001 Advisory Board for Eastern European Mission Special awards:
FrankNewman Spellar award in 1966 for outstanding contributions in the field of Corrosion.
Invited speaker For World Corrosion Congress, Moscow, 1966.
Listed in American Men of Science.
Marquis Who's Who In America 1981 Who's Who In Science Who's Who In Professionals Who's Who In Religion
2003 Awarded Honorary PhD in Divinity from Oklahoma Christian University.

OTHER SCHOOLS ATTENDED
Oak Ridge School of Nuclear Studies Northwestern University Institute For Management Societies:
Sigma Xi New York Academy of Science Professional Engineer

DONNA K. VINING, FASID, RID, CAPS, NCIDQ #6536

EDUCATION:
Business and Interior Design - North Texas State University, Denton, Texas

Donna began her career in the business world where she was Administrative Assistant to the Senior Vice President of TD Industries, and then moved on to Motherhood and the interior design field. She served as President of the PTA in Carrollton, Texas, at McCoy Elementary. Through her involvement in the local schools, she became a speaker with Texas War on Drugs. Her children used to tell people that “Mom is out doing drugs” when they called and she was at a speaking engagement to promote Texas War on Drugs. Donna also served on the Board of the Carrollton Children’s Advocacy for several years.

Donna moved to Houston in the early 80’s and again became involved with the PTO and served as the first President of the Lakewood Elementary PTO. At the same time she was chair of the fundraising campaign for her local church, Lakewood Methodist and starting up her interior design business once again.

Donna’s company, Vining Design Associates, Inc. has been an active full service interior design company in Houston since 1987. She has won numerous awards both regionally and nationally and been published in both regional and national publications. She specializes in residential construction with an emphasis on Universal Design and Green Design. Her philosophy is that any designer today should include universal and green design as everyday parts of doing business. Donna was recently awarded the title of CAPS, Certified Aging In Place Specialist by the National Association of Home Builders.
 

Donna has served in numerous positions on the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter Board of ASID including President. She has served on the national ASID Board as well as numerous committees, trainer and strategic planning counselor. She was awarded the society’s most prestigious award, Fellowship, in 2000. Donna has also served on the Texas Association for Interior Design board in many positions including a two year stint as President and rather than let her go, they made her the Executive Director.

Donna began serving the National Council for Interior Design Qualification in the 90’s and served as President in 2003. She is currently serving NCIDQ as chair of Nominations and Chair of Policies and Procedures. Donna along with her partner, Tom Schwenk, started their own interior design education business, Seminars by Design in 2000. She travels the country speaking on the business and health, safety, welfare aspects of interior design.

Most recently Donna has been involved in the founding of GECF, GastroEsophageal Cancer Foundation, Inc., an advocacy group to spread the word and the cure for this type of cancer which has the second highest rate of morbidity following pancreatic cancer.

Donna and her husband, Jim, are very proud of their best accomplishments in life; their five boys, four wonderful daughters (in-law) and three beautiful granddaughters, one grandson, and one grandson on the way.

We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. – Ephesians 2:10

HARVEY D. DAVIS, SR.

BUSINESS
Life long career with the Kroger Company

MINISTRY
Song leader, minister, elder

He has served as the song leader and as an elder at the Impact Church of Christ for the last half a dozen years. In his retirement, he is 'anything' but retired. He gives countless hours to the service of others.

Mr. Davis has an incredible ability to 'win people'... because he 'loves' people. His sincerity and love for others is so evident. There are three things about Harvey Davis that are 'ever so evident'... he loves people, he loves to sing, and he loves the Lord. These are his priorities... but they are not in that order.

He has been married to High School 'sweetheart' all his life and they have four beautiful grandchildren. He is a 'balance' that is needed as day-to-day decisions are made. His ability to 'think things through is better than average.'

ACV is proud and pleased to have such a 'kind' man, a responsible man, a humble man, serve on its Board of Directors.