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Leadership Bios

Sallie Westheimer, President / CEO

Sallie WestheimerIn 1980 Sallie became the President / CEO of 4C, an organization she helped found in 1972. 4C began as a small service agency providing training and planning services for child care centers, and has since grown to a staff of more than 50, covering 23 counties in two states. 4C has a budget of more than $4 million. The wide range of services which 4C provides to parents, child care providers, employers and the community have made Greater Cincinnati a national leader in the quality and availability of child care.

She has served on the Boards of Success By 6®, YWCA (President), Every Child Succeeds, National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), Charter Committee, Sponsors Committee of the Children’s Defense Fund, Leadership Cincinnati Alumni Association, The American Jewish Committee and others.

She has been recognized as a YWCA Career Woman of Achievement, received the Child Advocate Long Distance runner award from the Council of Christian Communions, and the Citizen of the Year Award from the Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children.  Nationally she has been appointed to the Leadership Council for the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

Pamela L. Page,Chair, Board of Trustees

Pamela is recently retired from the vice presidency, world wide quality assurance, the Procter & Gamble Company.

Elaine Ward, Senior Vice President / Chief Operating Officer

Elaine WardElaine oversees all programs in the agency’s 23-county service area, including parent services, professional development services for child care providers, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, family child care retention and recruitment, and employer services.

She serves on the board of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA).

She also serves on the membership council of NACCRRA as the representative from Kentucky and on the Children’s Trust Fund Board for Hamilton County.
She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Education and a master’s in Counseling. Prior to her work at 4C, she was an administrator in higher education.

 

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Board of Trustees

CHAIR: Pamela L. Page, retired vice president, world wide quality assurance, the Procter & Gamble Company

VICE CHAIR: Helen Habbert, president, QRC Associates

SECRETARY: Andrew Kwiatkowski , attorney, Dinsmore & Shohl

TREASURER: Davida Gable, CFO, PowerNet Global

MEMBERS:

  • Claudia Abercrumbie, president, The Abercrumbie Group
  • Mary Bennett-Brown, human resources director, The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
  • Cheryl N. Campbell, vice president, marketing, Horan
  • Myrita Craig, president, Blackbook EMG
  • William S. Creecy III, retired
  • James (Jim) Creeden, Jr., CPA, senior audit manager, BKD, LLP
  • Amelia Crutcher, community volunteer
  • Cynthia Lowe Durkin, counsel, litigation & prevention law, GE - Aviation
  • Marla Hurston Fuller, community relations manager, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Davida Gable, CFO, PowerNet Global
  • Tammy Solomon Gray, Cincinnati Public Schools assistant principal, Pleasant Hill Academy
  • Everett Greene, associate, Graydon Head & Ritchie
  • Cynthia Henderson, community volunteer
  • Arlene Katz, community volunteer
  • Mark Kiner, CPA, Kiner & Associates CPAs, Inc
  • Andy Kwiatkowski, attorney, Dinsmore & Shohl
  • Theresa Nardini Plaspohl, vice president, client and community relations, PNC Bank, Dayton Region
  • Joelle Ragland, community volunteer
  • Patti Towbin, learning specialist/educational diagnostician
  • Chad Williams, Rippe & Kingston Co., PSC