Who's News for Aug. 6, 2016

Greencastle native RYAN GRABLE was recently named the director of marketing for Teamviewer, a global leader of remote control and online collaboration software.

A graduate of both Greenastle High School and DePauw University, Grable brings a solid revenue marketing background to TeamViewer's Americas leadership team, including extensive experience in demand generation.

Prior to joining TeamViewer as its new marketing director, Grable worked at Accusoft Corp. and Vista Equity Partners. During his tenure across software and private equity organizations, he developed and implemented a marketing process that revamps company's marketing ecosystem to drive increased brand awareness and qualified leads.

Founded in 2005, TeamViewer is fully focused on the development and distribution of high-end solutions for online communication, collaboration and remote monitoring of IT systems.

ARIEL BREANN HIGGINS of Greencastle has accepted membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

NSCS is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is the nation's only interdisciplinary honors organization for first-year and second-year college students. Membership is by invitation only, based ont grade point average and class standing.

The organization has more than one million lifetime members and 300 chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

For the fourth year in a row, POET team members, family and supporters traveled to Sultan Hamud, Kenya, to support the all-girls boarding school Travellers' Oasis Centre.

Among the 22 people on the trip were NICHOLAS PERKO and DANA SYRUS, both of POET Biorefining-Cloverdale.

The mission trip, organized by the Sioux Falls-based Seeds of Change Foundation, aims to nourish the souls, minds and bodies of some of Kenya's brightest, but most vulnerable girls by providing them with a quality, faith-based education in a safe environment.

The POET team returned in June having helped staff lay the foundation for the school's new kitchen and dining hall. They also visited the homes of several students and worked on arts, crafts and games with the 150 girls at the school.

In years prior, POET team members built greenhouses to provide the girls with an opportunity to grow and sell their own produce, as well as a new dormitory.

BEV JONES-STEELE was installed as the new district deputy grand exulted ruler for the West Central District No. 3,000 of the Indiana Elks Association.

Jones-Steele was named to the post at the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks during the Grand Lodge Convention recently in Houston.

As the national representative for the district lodges, Jones-Steele will be responsible for working with the lodges to fulfill the Elks' longstanding commitment of promoting charity and patriotism in the communities.

Jones-Steele will play a vital role in working with the lodges. Her duties include advising lodges on important internal and business matters, how national policy is implemented by lodges in the district and assisting with the coordination and supervision of Elks activities on many levels.

Jones-Steele is a member of Rockville Elks Lodge No. 2471, where she served as exalted ruler in 2013-14 and is now the ENF chair of her lodge. She has also served the West Central District as president for the fiscal year 2015-16 and is now serving as the district scholarship chair as well as the youth activities chair.

She also serves the Indiana Elks Association as the inter-lodge activities chair.

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks had nearly 800,000 members with more than 1,900 lodges and the order gave more than $282 million in donations last year. Much of it went to veterans programs, scholarships and community services.