Two Accept Roles on GRMC Foundation Board

Grinnell Regional Medical Center’s Foundation Board has added two new members. Sig Barber and Leila Maring were nominated to the board, which makes decisions about the hospital endowment and fund-raising efforts.

Barber, former GRMC Board of Trustee Chair, has lived in Grinnell since 1977, when he joined Grinnell College as a professor of German. Maring is a retired home care/public health nurse, who has been involved with GRMC as an employee and later as a board member. Both will serve a three-year term on the 24-member board.


“The GRMC foundation board represents the communities we serve and provides valuable guidance and leadership for GRMC’s fundraising efforts and management of the foundation’s endowment,” says Mindy Uitermarkt, director of development. “Board members also play an important role as liaisons within the community on behalf of GRMC.”

GRMC’s foundation board executive committee serves two-year terms. The 2010 officers are Todd Reding, chair; George Drake, chair elect; Ed Hatcher, past chair; and Julie Gosselink, secretary/treasurer.

Other foundation board members are: Dan Agnew; Orville Bloethe; Warren Bower, MD; Pete Brownell; Jenny Erickson; Jack Gustafson; Joanie Heimsoth; Clark Jensen, OD; Mark Kennett, Sally Lang; Dianne Latimer; Todd C. Linden; Nancy Walters Smith; Sally Smith; Pat Supple; Dave Vander Linden; and Victor Wilson, MD.

The medical center is currently engaged in a handful of fund-raising activities for which the foundation board provides guidance, including the annual fund drive and planned giving activities.