McDaniel College elects Charles A. Boehlke, Jr., to Board of Trustees

McDaniel College has named Charles A. Boehlke, Jr., to its board of trustees.

Boehlke is a 1978 alumnus of McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College and has often served as a guest lecturer in business classes at the college. He earned his MBA from the University of Miami in 1980 and was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society in 1979.

A retired executive vice president and chief financial officer of MSC Industrial Direct, a publicly traded distributor of industrial supplies headquartered in Melville, N.Y., he also served on the company’s board of directors until his retirement in 2011. Boehlke previously spent 17 years at Black & Decker in various positions, including chief financial officer for Black & Decker Mexico.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among “40 Colleges that Change Lives” and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel’s degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.