Patricia Baldwin, PhD

Pat Baldwin joined the University of North Carolina at Asheville as an Assistant Professor in Mass Communication in August 2007. During the previous decade, she served as Editor-in-Chief of Private Clubs, an award-winning, 21-year-old, bimonthly lifestyle magazine published by Dallas, Texas-based ClubCorp. (Private Clubs consistently is ranked among the top five publications, according to reader median household income, in the Mendelsohn Affluent Survey of more than 100 publications.)

She served as Editor in Chief of Golf for Women magazine in Lake Mary, Fla., from May 1994 - August 1997. She previously had been a business writer and columnist at The Dallas Morning News from 1989-1994 and at The Dallas Times Herald from 1987-1989. She has 10 years experience with business journals in Houston and Austin, where she was a co-owner of Austin Business Journal from 1983-1985. Prior to joining UNCA and since 1987, she had served as an adjunct professor at five universities, teaching a variety of journalism courses. Pat is seeking election for the first time.

Conveying a message through visual images, supported by audio, is one of the strongest forms of communication. Sheryl Liddle has spent the majority of her career as an audio visual producer. Liddle has worked with multi-image productions from the time it began in the industry. She spent time as a college photographer and AV producer before joining an AV production company as a production manager and producer. During that time she was involved with product introduction shows for The Perrier Group, as well as other major multi-image productions. Then for several years Liddle channeled her creativity into producing AV presentations for missionaries.

Throughout her career she has also been involved with directing plays and drama groups within the community and at churches. Her passion has always been that the message is the most important part of a production, no matter which form of communication is being used.

Today, she works within the marketing department of a manufacturing company coordinating special projects, yet keeping her fingers within the areas of AV production and drama.

Liddle holds a BS and MA from Bob Jones University. She is completing her first term on the AWC National Board and is currently the Chair of the Board.

Interested in art from an early age, Wendy Morlan has woven her talents into a communications career, community involvement and personal expression. Morlan earned a BFA in commercial illustration and advertising design from Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Fla., and has worked in the utility industry since 1978. She uses graphic design to help customers and cooperative members better understand the complexities of power production and distribution. As publications supervisor in corporate communications, she currently oversees scheduling and production of materials for print and electronic media.

An AWC member since 1990, Morlan has served her chapter as president, vice president of both membership and programs. She received her chapter's Member of the Year Award twice and worked to build Drury University's student chapter during her board tenure.

Morlan, a Springfield, Mo. resident, has participated in numerous community organizations the past 20 years, with a particular interest in education and local history. She recently completed a seven-year stint as volunteer trainer and coordinator for her company's Partners In Education program with a local high school, serving consecutively on its A+ Program Advisory Board and receiving the school's Outstanding Business Member Award in 2005. She represented her company on the Chamber of Commerce's School-to-Work committees and coordinated Shadow Days and Third Graders Go-to-Work tours. She is currently serving a three-year appointment to Court Appointed Special Advocates' board, as well as serving on boards of citywide and local neighborhood associations.

A graduate of Leadership Springfield Academy, Morlan used coaching skills to advise LS Academy high school students and mentor a young male student on his way to becoming a police officer. She was appointed to a three-year term on the Springfield-Greene County Historic Sites Board. Morlan also served as president and program chair for a local historical society, assisting with the group's involvement in a statewide Civil War re-enactment at Wilson's Creek Battlefield.

Morlan is married to a writer who also enjoys traveling, has two adult sons and one feisty grandson, Quintin. She has served a one-year appointed term on the National Board, and is seeking election for the first time.

Deborah Sullivan is the Manager of Investment Communications for PNC, where she has supported and managed financial research communications functions for 20 years. A pioneer in financial research automation, Bo provides editorial, production, and distribution services for investment research, strategy, economics, and asset allocation publications and electronic communications. At PNC she also managed financial research sales worldwide, taking the product line from a loss leader to an extremely profitable business.

Deborah began her communications career at Harper Row in El-Hi publishing with the Social Studies group, preparing and proofing manuscripts and acting as permissions editor for a number of textbooks in world cultures, U.S. history, and psychology.

After a few years on the production end with UARCO Business Forms, Deborah returned to editorial as U.S. Editor at Wharton Econometric Forecasting, where she managed editorial services for the United States, New York, and regional models.

Bo also writes about sports at www.thesportsdiva.com and serves on the Philadelphia Daily News Sports Consumer Panel. Deborah has a BA in Music (Applied—Voice) from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA in Finance from Temple University. Deborah is seeking election for the first time.