Board of Directors
Mr. Dan Marcotte: President
Mr. Marcotte is a Financial Advisor for Mass Financial Group. He has been a board member since 2004. He has three children attending Providence Christian Academy and is a member and deacon at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Katie Gordon: Secretary
Mrs. Gordon holds a Master of Arts in education and is the mother of six, three attending Providence Christian Academy and one graduate. She has been on the board since 2000 and is active in helping with curriculum development. She is a member of Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church and participates on various committees there.
Mr. Joe Blanner: Board Member
Mr. Blanner is an attorney with Behr, McCarter and Potter, PC. He has been a board member since 2002. His wife Jessica teaches art at Providence Christian Academy. They have three pre-school age children. He is a member of Spring Hills Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Brandon Booth: Ex-officio Board Member
Mr. Booth is Dean of Dialectic and Rhetoric at Providence Christian Academy. He graduated summa cum laude, with departmental honors, from Hillsdale College with a degree in philosophy and has a master's degree from Concordia Seminary. He and his wife Liv have three pre-school children and attend Hope Lutheran Church (LCMS.)
Mr. Tom Egger: Board Member
Mr. Egger is a professor at Concordia Seminary, teaching Hebrew and Old Testament courses there since 2005. Previously, he served as a Lutheran (LCMS) pastor in northwest Iowa. His undergraduate education was in English literature and German, and he is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation in Biblical Studies. He and his wife, Tori, have six children; the four oldest attend Providence Christian Academy. They are members at Hope Lutheran Church.
Mr. Shane Rosenthal: Board Member
Mr. Rosenthal is Producer for the nationally syndicated radio broadcast The White Horse Inn. He has three children attending Providence Christian Academy. Shane holds an M.A. in Historical Theology from Westminster Seminary in California and has served as an upper school teacher at a classical Christian academy in Pennsylvania where he taught Bible, Greek, Great Books, Logic and Rhetoric. He attends Cornerstone Presbyterian Church.
Miss Laura Ruhrwien: Board Member
Miss Ruhrwien is Director of Information Systems at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. She has been a board member since 2005. She holds an MBA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Laura has two children attending Providence Christian Academy. She is a member of First Evangelical Free Church.
Mr. Randy Taylor: Board Member
Mr. Taylor is an Orbit Analyst for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Randy holds an M.S. in Geology from Indiana University. He has been married to Susan, the Administrative Assistant for Providence Christian Academy, for more than 25 years. Their two school-aged children attend Providence Christian Academy, and one of their children has graduated from the school. Randy is a member of Christ Community Church.
Mr. Todd Wagenmaker: Ex-officio Board Member
Mr. Wagenmaker is Headmaster and Teacher at Providence Christian Academy. He holds an M.Div. from Westminster Seminary in California, a Law Degree from the University of Illinois and a B.A. from Calvin College. His six children attend Providence Christian Academy, and his wife, Julie, teaches first grade at the school. He is a member of the Presbytery of the Midwest Orthodox Presbyterian Church.