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Meet the Board Members
LL&W Board Members from left:
Front Row:
Rick Widdel, Tom Rowe, Anne Colville
Second Row:
Mark Werning, Curtis Lundy, Ralph W. Henninger
Third Row:
Richard G. Bowers, Jr. & Mel Menke
Not Pictured:
Terry Becker & Bob Karll
Curtis Lundy
In 2008, Curtis Lundy returned to the Board as Chairman after a mandatory one year hiatus, previously serving from 2001 to 2006.
He graduated from Boston College and St. Ambrose. He worked three years in London as a Montessori instructor. Returning from England, he worked for Deloitte for seven years in public accounting, and as Executive Vice President of Deere Harvester Credit Union for twelve years. He recently retired from THE National Bank where he had served for six years as Chief Financial Officer.
Lundy combined his business career with helping to form Partners of Scott County Watersheds and the Xstream Cleanup. He is now dividing his time between QCA projects and ecological restoration work on his 130 acre bluff and stream property in northeast Iowa, and is a member of the Board of Nahant Marsh. Terry Becker, Riverway Foundation President, Bloomington, MN
Mr. Becker graduated from Colorado College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology. He spent a year with the Colorado Department of Wildlife conducting research on raptors, banding young prairie falcons, peregrine falcons and osprey.
Mr. Becker has served 13 years as a Director of the American Waterways Operators, serving two terms on the Executive Committee, Chairman of the Inland Dry Sector of AWO and as well as Chairman of the Mid-continent Region. He has served as a Director and member of the Executive Committee of he National Waterways Conference, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chairman of Marine Transportation Council, and a director and currently Vice Chairman of Marc 2000. He recently was elected as a trustee of the National Waterways Foundation.
Mark Werning, is Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of THE National Bank, Bettendorf, Iowa. He joined the Board of LL&W in January 2007 and serves as Chairman of the Finance Committee. He graduated from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa in 1980 with degrees in Management and Economics, and graduated from the Graduate School of Banking with an Audit major in 1986. Mark serves on Boards or Committees of numerous non-profit organizations. Mark lives in Bettendorf with his wife Deb and three young children. His family loves the outdoors, and enjoys being involved in many environmental and conservation projects. Please help us clean up our rivers and waterways - encourage children to get involved!
Anne Colville is a freelance magazine editor. Her river experience began during a childhood summer vacation, when her family cruised the upper Mississippi by houseboat. An avid outdoorswoman, she has canoed, kayaked, and camped along many Midwestern waterways, including Lake Superior, the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers. Her most ambitious – and most rewarding - environmental project to date has been helping her husband plant 2,000 trees on a farm in Rock Island County, Illinois. Anne received her education from Iowa State University. She resides in Bettendorf, Iowa and also volunteers on the boards of Quad City Arts and the Bettendorf Community Schools Foundation.
Mel Menke is currently a VP of Cargill Marine & Terminal Inc, a Cargill company. He joined LL&W in the summer of 2008. Mel graduated from Purdue University with a Masters in Agricultural Economics. He has been with Cargill for 21 years. During this time he has been in the grain business working at various locations across the United States from the Mid-West to California. He has held various positions in merchandising, transportation, elevator management and IT management duties. Mel was introduced to LL&W during his time spent in New Orleans helping with recovery efforts and clean-up post hurricane Katrina in 2005-06.
Richard G. Bowers Jr.
Rick is a graduate of Princeton University, with an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. While at Stanford, he was also selected for the Public Management Program, a special additional study program for non-profit management and policy.
Since 1975, he has been the President of The Bowers Group, a group of small businesses specializing in life insurance and corporate benefit plans, investment management, and estate and charitable gift planning.
He has served as President of the Quad City Life Underwriters Association, the Quad City Estate Planning Council, and the New York Life Insurance Company Charitable Giving Advisory Board over the past two decades. He currently serves as Treasurer of the Quad City Planned Giving Council Board.
Since 1995, much of his time has been devoted to community service. Currently he is on the following boards:
Local Organizations
- Figge Art Museum (Executive Committee)
- Museum of Art Foundation (President)
- Quad City Arts (Literary Chair)
- John Deere Classic
- Friendly House
- Living Lands & Waters
- See Life Clearly Foundation (Treasurer)
- Life At Night Foundation
National Organizations
- The Evergreen Foundation (Director)
- National Foundation on Counseling (Trustee)
In addition, he serves on various committees of other non-profits.
Thomas Rowe of Rapids City, Il is currently the CEO and Owner of Servalite Products Inc. East Moline, Illinois.
After Graduating from Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, purchasing a wholesale miniature bulb box company, Tom and his wife Jennifer took this small company from 1 product, 1 employee to its current 140+ employees. Servalite today sells over 40,000 fastener and hard to find items to retail hardware, lumber, home center, industrial and other related businesses.
During Tom’s 30 Years in business he has been active with special needs children through work programs. His active enthusiasm to improve the environment grew due to his experience of outdoor activities, such as fishing, biking, kayaking, hiking, and in his travels. A desire to pass on to his grandchildren and all other children a legacy of a healthy, clean, sustainable environment, so that they too, will enjoy this beautiful land and all it has to offer. The active involvement and continued results of the hardworking crew of Living Lands & Waters and its dynamic founder and leader, Chad Pregracke, drew Tom to serve on the board.
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