Board of Trustees 2008-2009

Eileen Van Houten, President
Eileen Van Houten has a BA in Education from Loyola College and a JD degree from The University of Maryland. She taught school in Baltimore for several years, and then she practiced corporate law in Baltimore and Chicago. Mrs. Van Houten handles business matters for her husband, Peter's ophthalmic practice and start-up medical device company. They have one child in the Upper School of The Oakwood School. They have lived in Greenville since 1988.

Alicia Speight Hawk, Vice President
Alicia Speight Hawk is originally from Greenville. She received her BS in Civil Engineering and MCE in Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is a registered Professional Engineer, previously working in Atlanta and Raleigh as an environmental engineering consultant before returning to Greenville in 2004. Mrs. Hawk is currently the General Manager of Speight Properties, a real estate asset management firm specializing in commercial and residential development, sales, and property management. Mrs. Hawk is one of the original founders and currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Select Bank & Trust Company Board of Directors in Greenville. She also serves on the NCSU Veterinary Medical Foundation, Inc.�s Board of Directors. Alicia is married to Matthew Hawk, a local commercial real estate appraiser with Rasberry Shackelford & Associates of Kinston, and they have two children who both attend Oakwood.

Jett Ferebee, Treasurer
Mr. Ferebee is originally from Rocky Mount, NC. He is married to Lynn Ferebee and they have four children. Two of their children attend Oakwood and the other two will soon join their siblings. He received his BS and MBA with a concentration in Finance and Real Estate from the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill. Mr. Ferebee is self-employed in real estate development, investment and management. Mr. Ferebee gained his experience with independent schools as an alumnus of Rocky Mount Academy.

Sandra Triebenbacher, Secretary
Sandy Triebenbacher received her B.S. and M.S. from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Sandy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Relations at East Carolina University. Dr. Triebenbacher and her husband Pete, employed by MKCS, Inc., have lived in Greenville since 1992. They have one child at Oakwood.

John Paul Corey

Andy Culpepper
Andy Culpepper serves on the Finance and Development Committees of Oakwood's Board of Trustees. He is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a BS in Math, and a graduate of the Executive Development Institute at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC. He is a chartered wealth advisor, the owner of Culpepper investment Group, and serves on the boards of The Pitt County Development Commission, Mountain Aircraft Services and Discovery Insurance. Mr. Culpepper is a lifetime eastern North Carolinian and has two grandsons who are Oakwood students - Travis in third grade and Luke in Kindergarten.

Helen Harmon
Helen E. Harmon, M.D. obtained a B.S. in Zoology from UNC-CH, graduated from UNC-CH School of Medicine and completed her rheumatology fellowship at UNC-CH. She is a rheumatologist at Carolina Arthritis Center, a subspecialty practice she opened in 2001. She has held leadership positions in the N.C Rheumatology Association. Her husband, Glen Ballard, has a B.A in Zoology and Psychology from UNC-CH, a master’s degree in Physiology from NCSU, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UNC-CH. They have one son in the first graduating class of the Upper School of Oakwood.

Parmalee Hawk
Parmalee Hawk received her bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and her MS and Ed.D from Auburn University. She recently retired from East Carolina University after serving as the Director of Teacher Education for 21 years. Dr. Hawk is the author of two textbooks and over 70 articles in the education area, and from June of 2007 until January of 2008 she served as Interim Head of School at Oakwood. She is also the grandmother of Oakwood students Alexis and Coley Hawk.

Eric Martin
Dr. Eric M. Martin earned a BS in Chemistry from Wake Forest University, a PhD in Chemistry from North Carolina State University, and then an MD from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. He then completed a Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Vanderbilt University where he was Chief Resident, followed by a Fellowship in Neuroradiology at Wake Forest University. He completed training and moved to Greenville in 2000, joining the radiology group Eastern Radiologists, Inc. Eric, a native of Raleigh, NC, and his wife Donna, a native of eastern NC, have two sons and one daughter at The Oakwood School.

Aurelia Monk
Aurelia Monk graduated with a BA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked in the marketing field for ten years on both the agency and client sides before working on several non-profit boards on a volunteer basis. She is married to William Monk, a former Oakwood Board member. They have been Oakwood parents for eight years and currently have a daughter, Aurelia, in sixth grade at Oakwood.

Bert Warren, Jr.
After obtaining his undergraduate and dental degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bert served a three-year tour in the US Air Force. He then joined his father in private dental practice, returning to his hometown of Farmville. He is President of the Board of Directors for the Davis Trust, a fund that provides medical assistance to residents in the Farmville area. Bert is active in church and community activities, most recently with Boy Scouting. Bert and his wife, Julie, of Lancashire, England, have two boys attending Oakwood. Luke is a ninth grader and Ian is in the eighth grade. This school year they are also hosting Oakwood's first foreign exchange student, Marius Lechtenbohmer of Switzerland.

Rob Peterson, ex officio member, Head of School

Hope Mewborne, ex officio member, PSA President
Hope Mewborne is originally from Kinston, NC. She earned a BS in marketing from The University of North Caroina at Greensboro and a JD from Wake Forest University. In addition to her volunteer time at Oakwood, Hope has served on various boards in Pitt County including The Pitt County Family Violence Association, of which she is a former president. She is married to Jeff Mewborne, a physician with Eastern Radiologists in Greenville. Hope and Jeff have three children, two of whom attend Oakwood, and one who will join her older brothers as soon as she is old enough.