BLINN NAMES RICHARD POWELL TO BOARD

  

Blinn College has named Brenham resident Richard Powell to its Board of Trustees.

A retired attorney who has lived in Brenham since 1990, Powell was appointed to fill the Precinct 1 seat vacated in July when Norwood Lange resigned after 24 years of service. Powell’s appointment runs until the next general election in May 2015.

“We are excited to welcome Richard Powell to our board,” said Board President Douglas Borchardt. “His leadership and experience will be a valuable resource to Blinn College and help us continue to provide affordable academic excellence for our students.”

Powell earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law. After earning his license, he went to work at Briscoe & Shaffer in Houston, where he became a partner and the firm was renamed Briscoe, Shaffer & Powell. Powell practiced law until 1990, when he moved to Brenham.

“We fell in love with this community,” Powell said. “No one can live up to a person like Norwood Lange, but I will do my best to be prepared.”

He and his wife Barbara have been married 40 years and have four children. They are members of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

Prior to Powell’s appointment, the board read a resolution in recognition of Lange’s 24 years of service to the Board of Trustees. During his tenure, Lange helped to oversee a period of incredible growth at Blinn, as enrollment leapt from 6,930 students in 1990 to 18,413 last fall. The College also opened new campuses in Bryan, Schulenburg and Sealy.  Story and photo provided by Blinn College.

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Richard Powell with his wife Barbra is sworn in by County Judge John Brieden at the Blinn Board meeting Tuesday.
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  1. I am sure that Mr. Powell is a great fellow, as well as all the other trustees who were appointed to the Blinn Board. But I wonder how these substitute people are selected? Does Mr. Powell love Blinn? Have any of his children attended Blinn? Do they ever consider individuals who are retired faculty? You know, those people who have dedicated 30 or 40 years of life to an institution that means something emotional to them?
    Blinn College has become a business, and that is a shame. Seems like more and more of the new administrators are coming from outside the college. Some of the best presidents Blinn had were people who had lived their life in Brenham. When was the last administrator hired from the pool of faculty from Brenham with strong ties to Blinn? People who took great care of Blinn because it had always been part of their lives. People who speak up when a wrong decision is being made because they have to keep Blinn at its best because Blinn will teach their children and grandchildren.
    You cannot have academic excellence and be a business at the same time. Is the student the customer or is the customer the people who hire Blinn students or the people who admit Blinn students? What do the good people of Washington County want? Academic excellence started at Blinn Brenham because that is what the people of Washington demanded, and they demand the same thing from BISD. What is Blinn Brenham doing to maintain that standard?
    Seems like the Trustees are only focusing on Blinn Bryan.

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