Warren G. Bennis
Fulton’s Board of Trustees is responsible for advancing the school’s mission through visionary leadership, strategic planning, and donor outreach. The Board also creates policies, selects and oversees the Head of School, and approves the school’s annual budget.
Fulton’s 2011-12
Board of Trustees
Mary
Watts Crutchfield, M.D., Board President
Robert Hunt, Ph.D., Board Vice President
Suzanne S. Nash, Board Treasurer and
Secretary
Matthew R. Burgy, Head of School, Ex-officio
Board Member
M. Shannon Dalton
Bart Davenport
John Duca, Ph.D.
Georgie
Fulton Green
Melissa A. Hicks
Harry K. Myers
Roger Perry
Tom Perryman
Molly Fulton Seeligson
Andrea T. Vanderpool, Ph.D., PLLC |
Mary
Watts Crutchfield, M.D., Board President
Dr. Crutchfield has been involved with The Fulton School since
her twin sons entered first grade there in 2004. She has served
as president of the Parent & Teachers Association, chair
of the gala and chair of the Community Clean Up. She joined
the Board of Trustees in 2005 and has served as its President
since 2009. She is a board certified psychiatrist who received
her medical training at the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center in Dallas. She continued in her psychiatric
residency at Parkland Hospital and University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center. She served as chief resident during her senior
year of residency at Parkland Hospital. Since her graduation
from residency in 1988, Dr. Crutchfield has been in private
practice in the Dallas area.
Robert
Hunt, Ph.D., Board Vice President
Dr. Hunt is director of global theological education at the
Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya in 1994,
a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University
in 1982, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas
in 1977. He has written widely, with major research interest
in the theology of religions, world Christianity and Christian
identity in a pluralist world.
Suzanne
S. Nash, Board Treasurer and Secretary
Mrs. Nash is a co-founder of The Fulton School and for its
first 15 years served as its Board President. She graduated
from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Arts in English
and currently serves as secretary/treasurer of the KPM Institute,
which supports the KPM teaching approach and governs a non
profit school in India. She owned and operated a videotape
production company in Houston from 1972 to 1980. In 1984 she
founded and continues to lead Champions Management, a real
estate and property management company involved in the sale,
leasing and management of commercial real estate in the Dallas
area.
Matthew
R. Burgy, Head of School, M.Ed.
Mr. Burgy joined Fulton’s faculty in 2007 as an upper
school mathematics teacher and head of upper school. He was appointed as Head of School in July 2009. He has
also served as director of varsity athletics and head football,
basketball and track coach. He is a 1998 graduate of Stephen
F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he earned
a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in production
and operations management. Mr. Burgy recently earned a Masters of Education from American Military University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D.
M.
Shannon Dalton
Mrs. Dalton has been a Fulton parent and active volunteer
since her daughter entered the school in 2007. She chaired
the school’s Annual Fund drive in 2009, 2010 and 2011
and has served on the Development Committee and the board
of the Parent & Teachers Association. She received a Bachelor
of Business Administration in Finance from Texas Christian
University in 1989 and is currently an engagement analyst
at CompuCom, Inc., where she manages sales proposal development
projects.
Bart
Davenport
Mr. Davenport, whose two sons attend Fulton, chaired Fulton’s
Annual Fund Drive, served as PAT and Board Treasurer and has
been active in the school since 2003. He is president of First
Century Development, a Dallas-based residential and commercial
real estate development company, an advisor to Hoyl Oil &
Mineral and a member of the board of directors of Davenport
Diamonds. Mr. Davenport studied at Southern Methodist University
and is a graduate of the Gemological Institute of America
in Santa Monica, California.
John
Duca, Ph.D.
Dr. Duca is a vice president and senior policy advisor at
the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he supervises and
conducts research in financial-side macroeconomics. He is
also an adjunct professor of economics at Southern Methodist
University and has been an academic visitor at Oxford University.
Mr. Duca graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts and from
Princeton with a Ph.D. in economics.
Georgie
Fulton Green
Mrs. Green is a co-founder of The Shelton School and vice
president of Windswept Place LLC. She has a long and distinguished
career in education, dating back to her high school days,
when she tutored grade school children. After graduating from
the University of Texas in 1957, she taught math, physics
and English composition in several schools, both private and
public. She was a pioneer instructor in the Orton-Gillingham
teaching method, training teachers as well as volunteer tutors.
As editor of the state-adopted Alphabetic Phonics, a multi-sensory
method for teaching children to read, write and spell, she
has lectured and trained teachers throughout the United States.
Mrs. Green has served on the board of Clear Spring School
in Arkansas and as President of both the Board of
Trustees at Southwest Academy in Allen and the Foundation
for Allen Public Schools. In addition to her degree
from The University of Texas in Austin, she holds an MLA from
Southern Methodist University.
Melissa
A. Hicks
Mrs. Hicks re-launched The Fulton School Parents & Teachers
Association and served as its president during the 2010-2011
academic year. She introduced new events, including Family
Fun Nights, Campus Clean Up, and a community Fall Festival.
She also co-chaired the school’s Gala, the school’s
largest fundraiser. She has served on the boards of Habitat
for Humanity Rockwall County and the Padua Academy Parents’
Association in Wilmington, Delaware, and on the Membership
Council of the American Society of Association Executives.
She has also taught religious education at St. Agnes Church
in West Chester, Pennsylvania; and has actively participated
in the March of Dimes Mother’s March and Big Brothers
Big Sisters. She is consistently one of the top individual
fundraisers for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in North
Texas. Mrs. Hicks earned a Bachelor of Science in Business
with highest distinction from the Kelley School of Business
at Indiana University. She is founder and president of Mosaic
Marketing in Rockwall.
Harry
K. Myers
Mr. Myers joined the Board in 1993, when his daughter entered
the first grade at Fulton. He graduated from Oklahoma State
University with an Master of Science and from Southern Methodist
University with a Juris Doctorate. He has more than 30 years
experience as an attorney and CPA and operates a financial
consulting practice, Myers Consulting Group, LLC., in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Roger
Perry
Mr. Perry began teaching at Lakehill Preparatory School upon
graduation from North Texas State University with a Master
of Education degree. He served as assistant football coach
and middle school basketball coach, while pursuing a graduate
degree in school administration. In 1976 he was appointed
Lakehill’s assistant headmaster and head of upper school
and assumed his current position as headmaster in 1983. He
is also a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development and serves on several local boards, including
Dallas Academy and East Dallas YMCA.
Tom
Perryman
Mr. Perryman begins his twenty-fifth year as a teacher and
administrator at Greenhill School in Dallas this year. He
is the assistant head of school, teaches upper school English
and coaches 8th grade football. Mr. Perryman earned a
Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English from Northwestern
University and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from
McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Molly
Fulton Seeligson
Mrs. Seeligson served as Head of School of The Fulton School from
2002 to 2007. She is a founding board member of Clear Spring
School and served as its director from 1974 to 1988. She earned
a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Southern Methodist
University and is certified in five areas of teaching in secondary
education. She sits on the boards of the KPM Institute in
Austin and Arvest Bank in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. At present
she is director of the Eugene McDermott scholars program at
the University of Dallas.
Andrea
T. Vanderpool, Ph.D., PLLC
Dr. Vanderpool joined The Fulton School’s board in July
2011. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Howard
University in Washington, D.C.; a Master of Education from
the University of North Carolina in Greensboro; and her Ph.D.
from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She
maintained a private psychological consulting practice from
1979 to 2006 in the D.C. Metropolitan area and currently has
a clinical practice in Rockwall. She has extensive experience
as both a clinical psychologist and an educator in the fields
of child development and counseling. Dr. Vanderpool has served
as director of the Infant Outreach Project and the Infant
Program at The Treatment and Learning Centers in Rockville,
Maryland; consulting psychologist at The Katherine Thomas
School (also in Rockville) and clinical coordinator, school
and residence programs at the Hillcrest Children’s Center
in Washington, D.C. She has taught at Howard University, the
University of the District of Columbia. She has volunteered
her youth counseling services through numerous community and
educational organizations and currently serves on the Board
of Directors for Helping Hands of Rockwall County.
Steve
Wingard
Mr. Wingard is a managing member of Nexus Advisors LLC., working
primarily with owners and executives of privately held businesses
to coordinate personal, estate and business planning. He graduated
from the United States Military Academy at West Point and
served two terms as treasurer of the West Point Society of
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