Mrs. Betty Cutts
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President and Founder |
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Betty is a housewife and community volunteer with a Master’s Degree
in Elementary Education. She has taught as a volunteer teacher in a nursing
home, many vacation Bible schools, enrichment classes at Rowan County Middle
School, an English as a second language (ESL) program that her church, and
two summer English camps in China. She has also served as a volunteer court
appointed special advocate (CASA), hospital Pink Lady, and with Meals on
Wheels. Presently she is chairperson of the Yangshuo Committee of Morehead
Sister Cities and recently spearheaded the Morehead Wheelchairs for Peace
drive that donated 93 wheelchairs from the people of Morehead, KY to
handicapped people in Yangshuo, Guangxi, China, Morehead’s sister city. She
and her husband David have two sons who are engineers with national
companies. Betty has enjoys traveling and has gone to Haiti, Honduras,
India, and Taiwan on short-term mission trips with her church. |
Phyllis Nickel
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Vice President |
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Phyllis is semi-retired working two days a week at
Southern Ohio Medical Center in the Monitored Care Unit
in Portsmouth, Ohio. She loves bedside patient care as
it gives her the opportunity to anoint and pray for
patients who desire that. She is an Oncology Certified
Nurse and gives chemotherapy on the unit. She has been
married for 45 years (in November 2008) to Arthur. They
have two sons, two grandsons, and two granddaughters. |
Mr. David Cutts
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Treasurer |
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David is a retired physics teacher at Morehead State University. His
passion is tennis, which he plays nearly daily. He acquired his PhD from
the University of Tennessee where he met his future wife Betty, who was then
studying for a degree in Home Economics. He grew up in Tabernacle, New
Jersey where his family had a blueberry and cranberry farm. David likes any
kind of puzzles especially word puzzles. He is an avid reader of science
fiction. He enjoys traveling also and has been to Europe, China, and the
Middle East. |
Michael Howard
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Board Member |
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Michael has recently joined the Blessing Hands Board of Directors. He is an Instructor of Mathematics
at Morehead State University and a pastor at Hillsboro United Methodist Church in Hillsboro, Kentucky. Michael
received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Programming from Morehead State University and is currently pursuing an
MBA in Economics and Corporate Finance. He is also pursuing an MA in Theology from Asbury Theological Seminary in
Wilmore, Kentucky. In his spare time, Michael enjoys songwriting and playing the guitar, hiking, mountain
climbing, traveling, teaching Bible study courses, and reading philosophy. Michael is married to Seung-yeon and resides in
Morehead, Kentucky. |
Eric Zhang
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Board Member |
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Eric Zhang came to the US from the Yunnan Province of China in 1990 as a Chinese native speaker to assist the
Chinese Language and Culture Program at Whitman College in Washington State. He then
completed his Master's degree in Control Systems
Engineering at West Virginia Institute
of Technology. During his studies, he worked as an adjunct instructor for the Department of Mathematics. There he
met his wife, Destiny, who was born in China but grew up in Chile. The
couple have three children; Christina, Sophia and
Nathaniel and reside in Lexington, Kentucky. Professionally,
Eric has worked as a control systems engineer and senior engineer.
During the 2007-2008 school year, he taught a Chinese Language and
Culture Class to middle school students at Sayre School. Currently,
he teaches Chinese at the Lexington Chinese School and gives private tutoring lessons.
He serves on the board of the Lexington Chinese Association. |
Yuqui You
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Board Member |
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Dr. Yuqiu You is from Chengdu in Sichuan Province where her father was a high school physics teacher.
She is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Technology at Morehead State
University. Her PhD degree is from Indiana State University, and her Master’s is from Morehead State University.
She got her Bachelor’s Degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.
Dr. You has two girls under seven years old and teaches Chinese to primary children in her spare time.
She is married to Pan who works in the Distance Learning IT Department of Morehead State University.
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