Published: March 14, 2008 08:57 pm         

Snuffer elected president of group

Richard V. “Rick” Snuffer II has been elected as president of the state School Board Association.

One of four officers elected Feb. 23 at the organization’s 2008 annual business meeting, Snuffer’s term begins July 1.

Other officers elected include Rick Olcott, Wood County Board of Education, president-elect; Mike Mitchem, McDowell County Board of Education, vice president; Howard V. Corcoran Jr., president of the Ohio County Board of Education, financial officer; and Sally Cann, a member of the Harrison County Board of Education, the organization’s immediate past president.

Snuffer has served as a member of Raleigh County board since 2003.

Born, reared and educated in Raleigh County, he is a 1973 graduate of Trap Hill High School.

In 1977 Snuffer graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University with a B.S. degree in animal science and in 1978 acted as teaching assistant for the Department of Animal Science while working on his master’s in vocational agriculture.

In summer of 1978, Snuffer was hired as the first teacher of vocational agriculture in Fayette County, where he developed the new program and taught for two years.

For the last 27 years, he has been employed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an information technology specialist.

Snuffer is an active member of Breckenridge Baptist Church and has been active in youth soccer within Raleigh County.

He is also well known for his farming enterprise, Snuffer and Sons Angus Farms, which he operates with his father and brother.