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affairs and marketing for Northwood University, interacting extensively
with top management of Fortune 500 companies. Since then, she has
served as the senior development officer for the Wayne State University
School of Business Administration, and as the vice president of
development for Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit.
The daughter of an automobile dealer and a nurse, Ms. Snyder learned
the personal approach from a young age as she "grew up in an
adult world." At 15, she was working as a volunteer for Project
HOPE, and an administrator there taught her fund-raising skills
and how to perform in professional settings.
As president of the auxiliary at St. John Hospital Medical Center
in the early '80s, she led that group to contribute $1 million to
the hospital's capital campaign, and assumed a position on the hospital's
board of trustees.
Active in her community, Ms. Snyder is a sustaining member of the
Economic Club of Detroit, a member of the American Association of
University Women, and numerous other professional associations.
She serves as a member of the University of Michigan Kresge Center
for Communication Disorders Advisory Board, and is active with children's
service and arts organizations.
Ms. Snyder has two grown daughters and a granddaughter, and enjoys
traveling to Europe, South America and throughout the U.S. She also
discovered quite by accident a passion for deep-sea fishing when
she won a ladies' tournament in Florida.
"After several weeks at MSUCOM, I've found that the college
and the profession are at a point in their history when there are
great opportunities for us to showcase what we have become. That
means that this is also a time of great opportunity to give to programs
for perpetuity," she said.
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