Who We Are

In 1985, seven local volunteers, under the aegis of the Alleghany Chamber of Commerce Community Development Committee, explored the possibilities of encouraging local youth to pursue education beyond the high school level. Armed with five thousand dollars’ seed money provided by First Citizens Bank, the Alleghany County Educational Foundation, Inc. was about to embark on what would prove to the impetus for a remarkable future in our small, rural mountain community.

Officers
Rita Woodruff	President
Una Lee Lindh	First Vice President
Russell Sheets	Second Vice President
Karen Leys	Secretary / Treasurer

Board of Directors	Honorary	Ex-officio
Robert Black	Elizabeth Goodman	Don Adams
Jeff A. Cox, Ed.D.		Bob Irwin
Clarence Crouse		Betty Jo Long
Margaret Crouse		James Moxley
Duane Davis
Dennis Gambill
Evelyn Hash
Francis Huber
Joe Jones
Beth Lyon-Smith, MD
Walt McMillan
Suzanne Mellow-Irwin, Ed.D.
J. Sidney Miller
Susan D. Murphy
Warren Taylor
George White
John Wishon

Post Office Box 33
Sparta, North Carolina 28675

phone: 336.372.8991, 336.372.4755
fax: 336.372.4204