APPOINTMENT

APPOINTMENT

Ohio PERI trustees

Youngstown resident Eva Burris has been appointed to the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees.

Burris, appointed by Treasurer Richard Cordray, has been named investment designee.

Cordray said Burris’ background and career accomplishments give her a sense of responsibility for pension benefits and health care coverage.

Burris is a retired court administrator of the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas Juvenile Division. She also served as regional director for Youngstown Region of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and earned her master of business administration from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

She will be filling the remainder of the term for Warren Tyler, who resigned in December 2007. The appointment, effective immediately, runs through Dec. 2.

PH.D

Doctorate in curriculum

Mary Maloney Toepfer of Howland graduated last week with her doctor of philosophy degree in curriculum and instruction with an English education concentration from Kent State University.

Toepfer graduated from Howland High School in 1989 and received her bachelor’s degree in English from Hiram College in 1993 and her master’s degree in English from Youngstown State University in 1996.

In 1993, she began her career in education as an English teacher at Ursuline High School in Youngstown. Also during this time, her evenings were spent preparing adults enrolled in the Adult Basic Literacy Education program to take the General Educational Development test as well as supervising numerous extracurricular activities for Ursuline students and taking courses in her master’s program.

Later, in 1998, Toepfer joined the Mount Lebanon High School English department in Pittsburgh, where she remained for three years before leaving to enroll full time in KSU’s doctoral program.

Toepfer teaches English composition courses in the Weekend College program and various courses to student teachers in the Education Department, all at Hiram College. In addition, she taught a two-week intensive course there to teachers of various grade levels called Drama and Writing across the Curriculum in which they learned how to incorporate process drama and process writing strategies into their lesson planning.

The daughter of Edward and Catherine Maloney of Warren, Toepfer lives in Howland with her husband, David, an assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and their daughter, Katherine.

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