BOWLING GREEN, O. -- Governor Bob Taft on May 14 appointed Stephanie Magyar Imhoff, a Longaberger Co. executive, and Korine Steinke, a graduate student in higher education administration, to the BGSU Board of Trustees.

Imhoff, who will serve a nine-year term, replaces Valerie Newell of Cincinnati, whose term is expiring.

The new trustee is a 1982 cum laude graduate of BGSU, where she received a bachelor of science degree in business administration. At BGSU she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, served as a member of student government and was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society.

As chief financial officer of Longaberger, Imhoff has been instrumental in establishing the company budget and financial plans, and she oversees the areas of treasury, finance and real estate management. She continues to build bank and corporate relationships, providing the company with alternative investment and financing opportunities. Imhoff has played a key role in the creation and implementation of the corporate strategic plan and is a member of the Longaberger Co. Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Longaberger in 1992, Imhoff, a certified public accountant, worked 10 years at the public accounting firm of Ernst & Young, specializing in auditing and consulting for privately owned emerging businesses.

Imhoff is involved in the community at many levels and has received numerous appointments and awards. She served on the board of trustees of the YWCA of Columbus from 1991-2003 and is past board chair and treasurer, and past chair of the organization's mission/money task force. Imhoff served as treasurer on the board of the Columbus chapter of the United Nations Association.

She currently is a member of the YWCA's endowment board and serves on the finance committee of the Direct Selling Association. She was recognized in Columbus as one of the 1999 Business First "40 Under 40," and, in 1992, was honored as the Central Ohio Girl Scouts Woman of Distinction.

A native of Shadyside, Ohio, Imhoff lives in Granville, Ohio, with her husband, Keith, and twin daughters, Grace and Sarah.

Originally from Belvidere, Ill., Steinke has lived in Ohio since 1996. After receiving her bachelor's degree in English from Monmouth College in Illinois, she earned a master's degree in college student personnel from BGSU in 1998 after completing an internship in CSP at Bluffton College. She then became Bluffton's director of residence life.

While working at Bluffton, Steinke enrolled in the Ph.D. program at BSGU. She resigned from Bluffton last summer to work in the Semester-at-Sea program, and then last fall became a full-time student at BGSU and an academic adviser for the UPASS program. She is now an assistant to the director of the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program, and will continue in that role in the fall.

(Posted May 26, 2004 )