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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences, Inc. announces the results of its 2006 election for Board of Commissioners.
Alexandria, VA – December 11, 2006 – Mr. Jim Goins, Chairman of the National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences, Inc. (NACCAS) announced that he received the 2006 Board of Commissioners election results from the certified public accounting firm of MillerMusmar, located in Reston, Virginia.
Over one thousand NACCAS-accredited institutions throughout the United States were eligible to participate in this year’s election. The following are the election results for 2006:
Mr. Darrell Camp was elected School Owner Commissioner representing Zone 1
Mr. Bill Church was elected School Owner Commissioner representing Zone 5
Mr. Joseph Bertoglio was elected Public Interest Commissioner At-Large
Ms. Dorothy Soressi was elected Academic Commissioner At-Large
Ms. Lisha Barnes was elected Academic Commissioner At-Large
Each Commissioner will begin serving his/her term January 1, 2007.
Mr. Darrell Camp is a school owner from Mount Vernon, Washington. He has been in the cosmetology industry since 1978. He and his wife Mary, have developed a strong family-based operation for their two schools and more than two hundred students. His extensive career includes: President of the Washington State Cosmetology School Owners Association, Director of the Washington State Commission for Vocational Education, member of the Political Action Council for Cosmetology which defeated Sunset Deregulation, Chairman of the NCA Schools America Committee, and member of the Washington State Governors Council on Small Business.
Mr. Bill Church is a current Commissioner for NACCAS and ran for re-election this year. He has 26 years of experience in the private school business and is the current President/Owner of Euclid Beauty College. He is the past owner of Riggs Le Mar Beauty College and ETI Technical College. In addition to his work as a Commissioner, Mr. Church has served as president of the American Association of Cosmetology Schools and has been a member of the Association since 1994. He has served as a Director of Education, Admissions Representative, Director and Vice President of a multiple school chain. He brings vast experience to the Commission.
Mr. Joseph P. Bertoglio has been a NACCAS Commissioner since 2001 and ran for re-election this year. In addition to his years of work with NACCAS, Mr. Bertoglio has a vast amount of educational experience. After graduating from Arizona State University with a Masters Degree in Public School Administration, he went on to become an elementary school teacher and then later a school principal in Arizona. Among his many accomplishments are his having been a Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of Education and having received a U.S. Department of Education Award for Superior Service.
Ms. Dorothy McKinley–Soressi has been active in Cosmetology Education for over twenty-five years. Currently Dorothy is Vice-President of Education for the Empire schools. Her personal mission during her career has been to improve the quality of cosmetology education. Ms. Soressi has served on many educational committees which focus on Cosmetology Education. In 1996 she was appointed to the New York State Appearance Advisory Committee for the State of New York and was an integral part in the transition to developing the standards and core curriculum for specialty licenses in Nail Specialty, Natural Hair Styling and Esthetics. Ms. Soressi continues to serve as Chairperson for that advisory committee. In 2006, she was appointed as an NACCAS Academic Commissioner-at-Large. As a Commissioner, Ms. Soressi has worked on the Standards and Policies Committee, Educational Quality and Compliance Committee, Ad-Hoc Committee on the Accreditation Process, and is Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Peer Institutions.
Ms. Lisha Barnes is a licensed cosmetologist, instructor, and barber, and is committed to improving the quality of cosmetology education. She received a Bachelors of Science in Communications from Eastern New Mexico University in 1990. Ms. Barnes completed her cosmetology training at Olympian University of Cosmetology, where she also served as Field Administrator for two campuses for over ten years, having undergone several NACCAS re-accreditation visits with quality results. Ms. Barnes currently serves on the NACCAS Advisory Committee on the Standards and Criteria and has participated as an on-site evaluator and program reviewer for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
The NACCAS Board of Commissioners and staff would like to congratulate Commissioners Camp, Church, Bertoglio, Soressi and Barnes on their election to the NACCAS Board of Commissioners.
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