Howard elected to Campbell Board of Trustees

     Retired educator Ester Holder Howard, of Lillington, N.C., has been named to the Campbell University Board of Trustees.
Howard’s career as an educator spans over 40 years and includes serving as a classroom teacher from 1946-1966, and as supervisor of Elementary Education for Harnett County from 1966-1989.
     A Campbell alumna, Howard graduated in 1944 and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts from Meredith College and a master’s degree in supervision and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Howard continued her post graduate studies at North Carolina State University, Duke University and East Carolina University.
     Certified in administration, supervision, elementary education and reading by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Howard is a life member of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators, the North Carolina Association of Educators and the Harnett County Friends of the Library organization. She has also served as president of the Harnett County Loyalty Campaign, a fund-raising initiative conducted annually by Campbell University, and as a member of Campbell’s Presidential Board of Advisors.
     Active in community life, Howard has served as president of numerous organizations, including the Buies Creek Woman’s Club, the Buies Creek Garden Club, the Lillington Business and Professional Woman’s Club and the Friendly Homemakers Club. In 1992, she was elected Homemaker of the Year and was named a Distinguished Alumna of Campbell University in 1994. Howard received the Presidential Medallion for her contributions to Christian higher education in 2000. She currently serves as president of the Cape Fear Friends of the Fine Arts. She has established three scholarships at Campbell, one in memory of her late husband, Paul H. Johnson; one in honor of her present husband, Richard W. Howard; and one Campbell Divinity School scholarship.


 

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