Truman Bell
truman.t.bell@exxonmobil.com
ExxonMobil Corporation - Global Community Relations |
Truman Bell grew up in a small west Texas town as the youngest of eleven children. From the humblest of beginnings, he worked hard, and was the first of his family to graduate from high school. With a small scholarship, more hard work, and good teachers, he received his B.S. degree in mathematics, in 1971, from Tarleton State University. Upon graduation, Bell received his first opportunity as a college administrator. He later became the director of career planning and placement at Texas Tech University.
In 1988, through his dedicated development of a minority recruiting strategy and acting as recruiting coordinator for ExxonMobil, Bell made a significant impact on the hiring of women engineers. The strategy included the strong participation of women and minorities in summer internship programs, the development and expansion of minority scholarships, diverse participation on recruiting teams, diversity training, and focused-contribution programs. Hiring results reflected the success of that strategy. Women were employed as a percentage of Exxon Corporation's total U.S. employment of professionals and of officials and managers. These numbers rose steadily during Bell's tenure - and have continued since.
In 1996, Bell developed a mentor-training program for summer interns, which featured training for both the summer interns and their mentors. The program continues today, and has evolved into a larger program for all new employees of ExxonMobil Corporation.
In 1997, after watching the percent of women engineering graduates remain below 20 percent for several years, Bell championed a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation for $600,000, which would, provide more opportunities for young women to enter the engineering profession. In a three-year grant-funded period, this program has supported over 100 sections, with such diverse and exciting results as: mentoring programs that match section members with 7th and 8th grade girls in local schools; the design of hands-on "Kits for Kids" covering the various disciplines of engineering; and an Engineering Road Show presented by a university theater arts group.
Currently serving as program officer at the ExxonMobil Foundation, Bell continues to develop and support specialized diversity-related initiatives, in addition to contribution-programs for matching gifts, volunteer involvement, and higher education.
*Biography as posted on The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) website: http://www.swe.org.
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Crawford Bunkley
crawford.b.bunkley@exxonmobil.com
ExxonMobil Corporation (Retired) |
Crawford B. Bunkley III, a retired Senior Public Affairs Representative for ExxonMobil, grew up in
Dallas, TX. He is a 1971 graduate of the St. Mark's School of Texas and received
his B.A. in American History from Brown University in Providence, RI in 1975. He
received a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. He also
received his Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society
of America (PRSA) in 1998
Crawford joined the Public Affairs Department of Exxon Company, U.S.A. in Houston in 1978
focusing on Houston-area contributions and community relations. In 1982 he
transferred to the company's Western Production office in Los Angles and,
subsequently, Thousand Oaks, CA where he assumed government relations
responsibilities for the company's business in Washington State, Oregon, and
Nevada. He returned to Houston in 1984 and held a series of Public Affairs
assignments in Community Relations, Government Relations and Media, where he
worked on issues relating to the company's Marketing operations nationwide.
These assignments also included an opportunity to help develop for and present
to a national education audience information regarding the company's response to
the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska
In 2000, following the merger of Exxon and Mobil, Crawford assumed responsibility
for managing ExxonMobil's philanthropic contributions to Africa and Europe,
which included traveling to such countries as the United Kingdom, Nigeria and
Equatorial Guinea.
From 2003 - 2005, he served as a Loaned Executive to the National Action Council for
Minorities in Engineering (NACME) providing media relations and fund development
assistance to the nonprofit.
From 2005 - 2009, Crawford was been assigned to assist with the management
and implementation of the ExxonMobil's various science, technology, engineering
and technology (STEM) initiatives, including the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers
Academy, the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camps, and, most recently, the Bernard Harris Dream Tour, sponsored by ExxonMobil. In Houston, he also managed the company's business-school partnerships with more than twenty of the areas' 50-plus school districts. He also managed employee-based volunteer education programs in Houston and nationwide, including the ExxonMobil Science Ambassador Program and the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day program, which each year mobilizes more than 300 ExxonMobil employee-volunteers nationwide who reach more than 3,000 middle school students.
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Phil & Amy Mickelson
amy@sendmyteacher.com
www.philmickelson.com |
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Dr. Joe Sciulli
jsciulli@nsta.org
National Science Teachers Association-Professional Development Department |
Joe joined NSTA in May 2006 as Program Director of the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers
Academy, NSTA’s Building a Presence for Science, and NSTA New Science Teacher
Academy. He brings to the Academy extensive elementary classroom experience
having taught second, fourth, and fifth grades. Recently, he was an assistant
professor at Rhode Island College where he taught science methods in the
elementary education department. His academic training includes a B.S. in
behavioral sciences from Point Park University, an M.Ed. in elementary education
from Duquesne University, an M.S.I.S. in information systems from University of
Pittsburgh, and an Ed.D. in instructional leadership from Duquesne University.
Joe’s dissertation focused on the teaching of science through inquiry.
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Christine Willig
info@mathsolutions.com
Math Solutions, Inc. |
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