A&F Newsletter
Winter 2007
Massey to lead Cowley’s Endowment and
Alumni Association
Taking
over for Terri Morrow, who will retire effective Jan.1, 2008, Shannon
Massey was recently named Cowley College’s Director of Endowment
and Alumni.
Massey grew up in Marion, Kan. and graduated from Marion High School.
She then attended two years at Hutchinson Community College before
eventually earning a Business Administration degree from Wichita
State University.
After graduating from WSU, she spent eight years working as a Benefit
Analyst at Koch Industries in Wichita. She and her family moved
to Ark City in 1998 when her husband, Lane, took a job working
for the City Manager.
Massey began working at Cowley as an administrative assistant to
the Vice President of Student Affairs in Jan. 2000. She went on
to work in Cowley’s Peaks Program for about six months before
being hired as Cowley’s Workforce Development Director out
at Strother Field. She spent three years in that position before
starting work in Cowley’s Alumni and Development department.
She was serving as the Coordinator of Alumni and Development prior
to being named the Director of Endowment and Alumni.
Massey is looking forward to leading the college’s Endowment
Association.
“I’m excited, it was an opportunity that I could not pass up,” Massey
said. “I’m a little nervous about filling Terri’s shoes because
she has done wonderful things for the college, but I’m excited that they
have the faith in me to do it.”
The college’s Endowment Association has seen tremendous growth
over the past two decades. Massey hopes to continue that trend.
“I would love to continue the growth of the Endowment Association and
to find some new ways of keeping alumni active in the college” Massey
said.
Massey and her husband, Lane, have two sons, Colton 8, and Caden
2.