Hershey Foods Corp.

James E. Nevels is Secretary of the Society. He is founder and chairman of The Swarthmore Group with nearly thirty years experience in the securities and investment industry. Mr. Nevels was appointed by President Bush to the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and Chairman from 2005-2007. Currently, Mr. Nevels is the non-executive Chairman of the Board of The Hershey Company, a member of the Board of the Hershey Trust Company, the Milton Hershey School, the Tasty Baking Company, the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Gettysburg Foundation. From 2001 until 2007 he served as Chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, charged with overseeing the turnaround of the Philadelphia School System. Mr. Nevels is a graduate of Bucknell University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

William Christ is a retired Senior Executive Vice President and COO/CFO of Hershey Foods and served four years in the United States Air Force, earning the rank of Captain. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an M.A. in Business from the Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he attended both the International Management Development Institute and the International Management Institute in Switzerland. He was also honored with the Alumni Fellow of The Pennsylvania State University in 1991.

Don Mock has over 18 years experience as a training designer, trainer and consultant. He spent over eight years in the training department of a Fortune 200 company doing a variety of training throughout the organization. Since 1980, Don has been working with people to help them utilize more of their potential. Don specializes in management/supervisory and leadership training as well as "Low Ropes" an outdoor adventure based team building training and has worked with a wide variety of organizations such as Amp, Inc., Air Products, Hershey Foods, Bell Atlantic, Cellular One, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Colgate Palmolive (Mexico) and Land O'Lakes. From large companies and governmental agencies to small business, Don s work has taken him throughout the United States and overseas. Don s strengths lie in his experience and enthusiasm as well in his ability to relate his experience to a wide variety of audiences to make learning fun. A practitioner of adult experiential learning techniques, Don encourages participants to discover fundamentals of learning for themselves and to apply this knowledge in the workplace, causing long-lasting, bottom line results. Don is an adjunct instructor for Penn State s Master In Training and Development Program and is actively involved in the American Society for Training and Development s (ASTD) "Train the Trainer Workshops". He is also a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT) for the Chauncey Group in Princeton, NJ and delivers the customized "Service Excellence" program to Bell Atlantic for ThinkIT. Don completed his undergraduate work at Wilkes University and earned his masters degree from Marywood College. Don has been certified by a variety of training vendors including DDI, The Forum Corporation, Blanchard Training and Development and Learning International.