Education

The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools, Inc. announced the 2008-2009 board of directors, officers and new members: Chairman Harlan C. Parrish, president and CEO, Colonial Bank; Vice Chairman Chuck Reynolds, senior vice president, Reliance Bank; Treasurer Kenneth O'Donnell, senior vice president, Bank of America; Secretary Cole Peacock, director of corporate and governmental relations, Chico's Charities; Immediate Past Chair Eva A. Freeman, design consultant. New board members: Dominic DiMaio, market president of Southwest Florida, First Florida Bank/SYNOVUS; John Hayes, president and CEO, GATES; Michele Laboda, D.M.D, Gulf Coast Orthodontics; William Merwin, consultant, Sanibel/Captiva Trust; Bridget Trombley, director of business development, Herman Strackbein Construction, Inc. Re-elected board members: Joseph Catti, president and CEO, FineMark National Bank and Trust; Heidi Colgate-Tamblyn, president, SunTrust Bank Southwest Florida; Tom Giles, president, Avalon Engineering, Inc.; Gregory H. Jones, president, Compass Rose Foundation, Southwest Florida College;

Bruce A. Schultz, president and CEO, Southwest Capital Bank.