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Meet Bernadette Spong
NCCP’s new board chair Bernadette Spong was elected to a two-year term as chair of our Council board at the recent annual meeting in Goldsboro. She has been on the NCCP board since the merger of the two councils in 2008, serving as treasurer, and she served as a board member and chair of the Finance Committee for Pines of Carolina Board before the merger.
Bernadette was a Brownie and Junior Girl Scout in West Palm Beach, Florida, where her favorite activity by far was selling cookies. It may have been in her blood because “my Mom was the cookie chair,” she says. Bernadette attended Girl Scout Camp in Florida at Camp Welaka, where she loved to swim in the big lake. One of the lifeguards there was studying to become a priest, and she thought it was “pretty cool” that he went on to become her parish priest.
 Bernadette and her husband Rick have two children, Taylor and Halley. Her son, Taylor, is a graduate of Elon University, and Halley graduates this year.
Bernadette Spong is a CPA, licensed in North Carolina,and has an MBA from Elon Univer- sity and a B.S. in Accounting from UNC-Greensboro. She graduated with a B.A. in History from Elon College. Bernadette has served asSenior Vice President of Finance/CFO of Rex Healthcare since 2005, and before joining Rex, she served as Director Financial Planning for WakeMed.
In 2007, Bernadette was named a Business Leader Woman Extraordinaire, and in 2008 she received the Celebrate Women Award from Triangle United Way Women’s Leadership Council for Wake County. She serves on the Board of Advisors of the Love School of Business (Elon University) and has served on the boards of The First Tee of the Triangle and Interact of Wake County, among others.
 
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