John Q. Masteller Appointed Vice President for Development
The Board of Governors recently appointed John Quincy Masteller
to be Vice President for Development, General Counsel and
Secretary to the Board of Governors. Previously "Quincy"
served as Director of Development and Assistant General Counsel.
"He is a tremendous asset to the College," said
President Tom Dillon, "and I have complete confidence
that Quincy will successfully lead the College's development
effort."
In January, Masteller was unanimously elected to the Board
of Governors. "I am very impressed by Mr. Masteller's
abilities; he is a great addition to the Board," said
Dr. William W. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Governors.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1975,
Masteller served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator
John Culver of Iowa first in Washington and later in Des Moines
by running the Senator's Iowa operation. In 1977, he
joined his father in founding a hotel and restaurant management
company which serviced numerous properties in Iowa, while
also obtaining an MBA from Drake University working nights.
He attended St. Louis University School of Law where he was
Note and Comment Editor of the Law Review, graduating in 1982.
He clerked for Judge Carl Gaertner, Missouri Court of Appeals,
for a year and then joined the law department of Emerson Electric
Company, a fortune 500 company in St. Louis. As Senior Attorney
at Emerson, he managed product liability litigation across
the country and handled numerous corporate mergers and acquisitions
for the company. While at Emerson, he met his future bride,
Katie Blewett (class of '82), on a business trip to
Los Angeles.
In 1990 he left Emerson for California and joined the Ventura
County law firm of Lowthorp, Richards, McMillan in Oxnard,
becoming a partner in 1994. He specialized in business/corporate
law and estate planning. He also has performed pro-life legal
work assisting in the defense of the sidewalk counselor defendants
in the Santa Barbara Planned Parenthood cases.
He was a founder and long-time Director of Saint Augustine
Academy, a private Catholic middle and high school in Ventura,
a Director of the Oxnard Rotary Club, and has been active
in his parish's Knights of Columbus. He and Katie live
in Santa Paula and are the proud parents of two boys and two
girls.
"I'm deeply honored that Tom Dillon and the
Board of Governors have reposited their trust in me to help
lead the Comprehensive Campaign to complete the campus and
fully endow the College," said Masteller. "I've
been here long enough to live the truth of St. Augustine's
maxim, 'work as if everything depends on you; pray as
if everything depends on God.' With a lot of hard work,
and a lot of prayer, we'll succeed in our Campaign."
-- Qtrly Newsletter, Spring 2002
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