Carpenter Selected To Serve On The Ozarka College Foundation

The Ozarka College Foundation has selected Molly Carpenter of Cherokee Village to serve on the foundation board of directors. Board members serve a five-year term and work collectively to support the mission of Ozarka College to provide life-changing experiences to individuals through education. The Ozarka College Foundation Board encourages participation and volunteerism in a variety of ways. In addition, foundation members serve in a public relations capacity to represent Ozarka College in their individual communities.Carpenter is the Director of Marketing and Public Relations and is a fourth generation community banker at FNBC Bank. Prior to joining FNBC Bank in 2014, she worked at Ozarka College  in the Public Relations Office  and as director of the Ash Flat campus.Carpenter is an active member of numerous community and professional organizations.  She is a member  of the Quad Cities Rotary Club, where she serves as President and in 2014 was recognized as Rotarian of the Year, the Rotary Club District 6150 Leadership Academy Board of  Directors, is a Leadership Academy Class III graduate, and has been named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International Foundation.  She has also been active in the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR), and Arkansas Community Colleges (ACC).  Carpenter, a native of Ash Flat and Highland High School alum, holds a bachelor of science in journalism from Arkansas State University, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University's award-winning publication  The Herald. She will complete her Master of Business Administration in Leadership and Ethics from John Brown University in June 2015, and will be a member of the University of Colorado in Boulder's Graduate School of Banking Class of 2017.The Ozarka College Foundation, organized in October of 1991, is a not-for-profit tax-exempt charitable foundation with all endeavors focusing on expanded educational opportunities for and service to the College's students and community.For more information about the Ozarka College Foundation, please contact Suellen Davidson, Ozarka College Director of Advancement, at 870-368-2059 or email: sdavidson@ozarka.edu