Grace College graduate and former GraceConnect intern, Octavia Lehman Yoder, has been named as executive director of the LaGrange County (Ind.) Community Foundation. A story in the Goshen, Ind., News, reports her appointment. A portion of that article appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Octavia served as an intern at GraceConnect in the spring of 2010.

Octavia Yoder to lead LaGrange County Community Foundation

Octavia Yoder

The Board of the LaGrange County Community Foundation has named Octavia Yoder as executive director of the foundation. Yoder becomes the fourth executive director of the community foundation since its creation in 1991.

Yoder will assume the role later this year. She will immediately be promoted to associate director and will continue to work with Interim Executive Director David Bennett. The board will determine the timing of her elevation to executive director at a later date, but the expected transition will occur sometime before the end of 2019, foundation officials stated in a press release.

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