SEVEN JOIN CID BOARD OF MANAGERS;                     
ARMSTRONG IS PRESIDENT

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, January 29, 2007 – Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) has named Tina L. Klocke, Lisa D. McLaughlin, Shannon F. Moenkhaus, John W. Rogers and Scott J. Wilson to its board of managers. CID executive director Robin M. Feder, MS, CFRE announced that each was voted in by the full board at its winter meeting in December. Also at the meeting, longtime board member Theodore M. Armstrong became president and the board thanked Thomas R. Jayne for his term of service in that role. In addition, Chad Lane, the father of a CID student, was named parent representative on the board and Robie Scholefield was named CID alumni representative.

CID president Theodore Armstrong was senior vice president-finance and administration and chief financial officer at Angelica Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri from 1986 to 2004. In his retirement, he is engaged in board and audit committee work with public and private companies. He has been a member of the CID board since 1986 and previously served as president, from 2001 to 2002.

Tina Klocke is Chief Financial Bear at Build-A-Bear Workshop. Lisa McLaughlin is an estate planning attorney with Lewis, Rice and Fingersh, L.C. in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Shannon F. Moenkhaus is senior vice president of St. Louis Advisory Services for the Trust Division of Enterprise Bank & Trust in Clayton, Missouri. John Rogers is a partner at the law firm Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis. Scott Wilson is president of S.M. Wilson Co., a St. Louis construction firm. Chad Lane is executive director for Church of Scientology in Missouri. Robie Scholefield of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is a retired 1964 alumnus of the CID school and president of the CID Alumni Association (CIDAA).

CID board of managers officers for the year 2007 are: Theodore M. Armstrong, president; Robert G. Clark, Thomas R. Jayne, Richard C. Jensen, Ralph W. Kalish, Jr., Joanne P. Knight, Hugh Scott, III, William B. Sheldon, James M. Snowden, Jr., W. Bruce Springer and John D. Weil, vice presidents; Barbara B. Morriss, secretary; Amy R. Tighe and Robin M. Feder, assistant secretaries; C. Baker Cunningham, treasurer, and Timothy J. Koehl, assistant treasurer.            

Founded in 1914, CID prepares children with hearing loss to participate and succeed in mainstream educational settings. CID teachers use the auditory-oral method, helping deaf children learn to speak, listen and read with proficiency without the use of sign language. CID school children have come from 48 U.S. states and 28 countries. CID’s Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center serves children and their families from birth to 3 years old. CID preschool-kindergarten and primary programs serve students ages 3 to 12. CID also offers a peer program integrating hearing children into classes with hearing-impaired preschoolers, a program for hearing preschoolers with language delays, continuing education workshops for professionals, practicum experiences for graduate students and books, evaluations and curricula used to help hearing-impaired children throughout the world.