Wooster announces five new Board of Trustees members
The College of Wooster welcomed five new members to its Board of Trustees for the 2024-25 school year. S. Qaisar “Q” Imam ’91, Donald Kohn ’64, Karen (McCleary) Lockwood ’72, and Kenneth “Ken” E. Shafer ’75 join as standard trustees. Charles “Chuck” Nusbaum ’02 joins as the Alumni Board president elect and an alumni trustee.
Imam is co-founder of Menasa BD, a global talent firm specializing in IT consulting services. Previously, he served Fortune 500 clients as a senior manager of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM. He is active in his community in Texas and serves on nonprofit boards promoting adult literacy, affordable housing, youth mentoring, veterans’ support and emergency supplies for child protective services clients. As a business economics major, Imam was a member of Beta Kappa Phi and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon. Recipient of the prestigious William A. Galpin Award for General Excellence at Commencement, the former resident assistant also served as chair of Campus Council and president of the Jenny Investment Club and Student Alumni Association. He served on the Wooster Alumni Board from 2004-07.
Kohn, a 40-year veteran of the Federal Reserve System, retired as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2010. Currently, he is the Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics and a senior fellow in the economics studies program at the Brookings Institution. An expert on monetary policy, financial regulation, and macroeconomics, Kohn has spoken and written extensively on these issues. He earned the Distinguished Alumni Award at Wooster in 1998 and the Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws, from the College in 2006. He has previously served as a trustee and emeritus trustee of the College. An economics major, Kohn was a varsity soccer player, and a member of Beta Kappa Phi, Jenny Investment Club and symphonic orchestra. After graduating from Wooster, he earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan.
Lockwood, a sociology major, resident advisor, and chorus member at the College, was elected to the Wooster Campus Council in 1971-72 and awarded the Galpin Award for General Excellence at Commencement. She earned a Juris Doctorate at American University in 1978 and practiced trial law and complex litigation in Washington, D.C., for 31 years. She served as president of the Women’s Bar association and elected delegate for Washington, D.C., to the American Bar Association. She retired from practice in 2009 and founded The Lockwood Group to help advance sustainable diversity in the legal profession. In 2012, she moved to Boulder, Colorado, to lead the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as executive director, retiring in 2017. She continues volunteer teaching and focuses on women in the law. She is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and several federal appeals court bars. Previously, she was on the Wooster Alumni Board and an alumni trustee from 2011-2017
An alumni trustee and president elect of the Alumni Board, Nusbaum is manager of service management platforms at Moog Inc., which designs and manufactures advanced motion control products for aerospace, defense, industrial, and medical applications. A computer science and Spanish double major, he was a member of the marching band, gospel choir, Wooster Volunteer Network, and Newman Catholic campus ministry. He received an MBA in 2007 from Baldwin Wallace University and was presented Wooster’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2017.
Shafer, who did his post-graduate training in St. Louis, is a retired cardiologist who began practices in West Plains, Missouri, and at the Wooster Cleveland Clinic, where his focus was on prevention of disease. He is an accomplished keyboard player, having served several churches as organist and a local volunteer chorus as accompanist, and having given numerous recitals as a collaborative pianist. He serves on the advisory board for Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra. A strong proponent of landscaping using native plants, he volunteers regularly at Wooster area parks and is on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Wooster Memorial Park. Shafer is a third-generation Wooster alumnus who majored in chemistry and took full advantage of the College’s music performance opportunities. He served as alumni trustee from 2009-15.
Posted in News on August 29, 2024.
