HUNDREDS OF REASONS
TO VOTE FOR JOAN C. BROWNING
WEST VIRGINIA HOUSE OF DELEGATES
GREENBRIER COUNTY, 28TH DISTRICT
Democratic Party primary 2008

West Virginia Institute of Technology called Joan C. Browning in 1969 to serve as marketing director and business development consultant to handicraft cooperative businesses in southern West Virginia. She stayed and makes her home in the Irish Corner Magisterial District where she uses her lifetime of experiences to keep getting result for the good of ALL of Greenbrier County.

Examples of Getting Results for ALL of Greenbrier County and West Virginia

Getting Results for EDUCATION

Greenbrier County Schools

• Chair, Greenbrier County Board of Education 1999 Citizens Facility Study Committee that developed a Ten-Year Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan
• Member, Children First Committee, promoted successful Western Greenbrier Junior High School bond issue
• Helped promote successful Ronceverte Elementary School bond issue
• Member, "Save Our Schools" effort to reject indebtedness for suburbanization of Lewisburg Elementary School
• Donated the tall Knight to Eastern Greenbrier Junior High School
• Member, Eastern Greenbrier Junior High School Caring Community
• Treasurer, Greenbrier Junior High School Band; originated "Noble Legg" award for county junior high school band and majorette competition
• Greenbrier East High School Spartan Band State Fair parking, flagged parking lot traffic for 12 years
• Worked at Ronceverte PTA Halloween fundraisers
• Donor to school library and uniform fund drives
• Member, Greenbrier County Retired School Employees

Higher Education

• Development Director, Greenbrier Community College Foundation, 1993-2005--prepared all publicity and promotional materials; public speaking throughout the Greenbrier Valley and in Charleston; designed and maintained accounting system; wrote grant proposals and reports; monitored construction and funding of Greenbrier Hall renovation. Two greatest accomplishments were (1) completing and paying for the $6 million dollar modernized Greenbrier Hall and campus for the community college-- about 1,000 students each year benefit from having a local community college. And (2) raising almost a million dollars in scholarships for Greenbrier Community College students. More than a hundred students have already received Greenbrier Community College Foundation Scholarships and now at least 36 awards of $36,000 will be made each year in perpetuity. Donated funds to endow the Joan C. Browning Community Service Scholarship
• Recruited the West Virginia University School of Business and Economics "Executive Master's in Business Administration" distance learning program to Lewisburg and to the Greenbrier Community College. About 60 Greenbrier Valley citizens have completed the WVU EMBA degree in Lewisburg.
• Consultant, Marshall University, public relations and student recruiting. Organized master's degree courses in "History of the Virginia Resort Springs" in White Sulphur Springs and "Historiography - History Methods" in Lewisburg
• Concord College, consultant to the President on the new entrepreneurial studies program
• Concord College, Adjunct instructor in Advertising Design & Writing
• West Virginia State College (now University), helped organize Southeastern WV Alumni chapter, represented WVSU at State Fair of West Virginia and Lewisburg's Taste of Our Towns (T.O.O.T.)
• Adjunct instructor, Greenbrier Community College, Contemporary Ethics
• Faculty member, National History Day/Annenberg Corporation for Public Broadcasting seminar for teachers, "Teaching the Civil Rights Movement"
• Faculty member, Jackson State University Fannie Lou Hamer Institute on Citizenship and Democracy
• Guest lecturer at more than 65 colleges and universities, including West Virginia University, Fairmont State College, Concord University, Bluefield State College, Potomac State College, West Virginia State University, Glenville State College in Summersville, Greenbrier Community College and West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Member, West Virginia State University Alumni
• Member, Greenbrier Valley West Virginia University Alumni

Getting Results for LIBRARIES

• Trustee, two terms, Greenbrier County Public Library (Lewisburg city library), appointed by Mayor Phil Gainer, reappointed by Mayor Butch Matheny. Presented library's needs to Greenbrier County Commission, Lion's Club, Lewisburg Rotary Club, West Virginia Legislature, and many other organizations.
• Greenbrier County Library Association, member and volunteer publicity coordinator
• Greenbrier County Coordinator for Internal Revenue Services Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA). Started the IRS/VITA at all Greenbrier County public libraries and at Greenbrier Community College
• Started the library "Readers Corner" column still published weekly in the West Virginia Daily News and Valley Ranger
• A founding member of the Greenbrier Literacy Council and an organizer of the State Fair of West Virginia "Readers Are Winners" Blue Ribbon campaign
• West Virginia Library Association, secretary of Trustee Division.
• Trustee instructor, West Virginia Library Commission -- one of two trustees chosen statewide to prepare a video for training new public library trustees.
• Promoted naming of Horton Park on Courtney Drive in Lewisburg for Greenbrier County Public Library President Jack Horton

Getting Results for CHILDREN

• President, Ronceverte-Fairlea Little League Baseball, added 21 teams of T-Ball, Big League, and Little League and Senior League Softball-the first sanctioned youth softball in Greenbrier Valley-thus expanded the number children playing from about 75 to more than 300.
• 4-H Dairy Goat Club advisor
• Volunteer cashier at State Fair cafeteria for Greenbrier County Youth Camp

Getting Results for FIREFIGHTERS & FIRST RESPONDERS

• Organized "Greenbrier Hometown Heroes Appreciation" in response to September 11, 2001 World Trade Center tragedy. The Greenbrier Hometown Heroes Appreciation Committee said "thank you" in 2001 and 2002 to more than 800 of our neighbors who come to our rescue in emergencies
• Advocate for Greenbrier County Fire and Emergency Responders Association
• Donate funds to Ronceverte Volunteer Fire Department and Greenbrier County Ambulance Service

Getting Results for AGRICULTURE

• Superintendent, 1980-1987, State Fair of West Virginia Dairy Goat Department
• Greenbrier Farmer's Market in Lewisburg, volunteer publicity coordinator
• Owner of Papilion Farm-prize-winning dairy goats, and also pork, veal, chickens, turkeys, and vegetables

Getting Results for BUSINESS

• Member, Lewisburg Business & Professional Women, Legislative and Pay Equity committees
• West Virginia Humanities Ethics Fellowship, studied Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation for one year & reported on application of academic ethics to business
• Wrote two articles that were published in the West Virginia Business & Professional Ethics Association newsletter
• Self-employed as bookkeeper to local small businesses and as an estate bookkeeper for banks and families
• Currently a professional writer and lecturer

Getting Results for SENIORS

• President, Greenbrier County Committee on Aging Board of Directors-- major accomplishments: Greenbrier County Commission funding, Greenbrier Countyopoly & Greenbrier County WV Trivia fundraising projects
• Teacher, Shepherd's Center of the Greenbrier Valley class, "Homemade History"
• Writer, narrator and executive producer of Shepherd's Center of Greenbrier Valley Community Service Award biographical films on Gwen Clingman, the Rev. Carl W. Renick, Sr., the Honorable Charles W. Mundy, and Liz and Mitch Scott

Getting Results for WEST VIRGINIA STATEWIDE

• Co-chair, West Virginia Advisory Committee for the Institute for Women's Policy Research project, The Status of Women in West Virginia; wrote Recommendations section, presented results to many audiences including the West Virginia governor and legislature
• One of 48 women organizing Coalition for West Virginia Women
• Juror, 5 years, West Virginia Women's Commission "Celebrate Women" awards
• Member, 10 years, West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals' District III Fatality Review Committee on domestic violence
• Chair, Visiting Committee, West Virginia University Center for Women's Studies
• First vice president, West Virginia Press Women Association
• Appointed by Governor Bob Wise and approved by the State Senate to serve as a Commissioner on the West Virginia Human Rights Commission
• Testified before the West Virginia Joint Legislative Committee on Pay Equity in November 2003 and at legislative interims in Lewisburg

Service to CHURCH

• Executive Producer of "Standing on Holy Ground." Lewisburg United Methodist Church's film tribute to the Rev. Dr. Patricia A. Jarvis
• Former member, Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal, Ronceverte. Lay Reader, member of Altar Guild and Vestry, Treasurer; after a year-long discernment process decided not to become a Canon 9 local parish priest
• Bible study with the Rev. Dr. J. Dexter Taylor, Old Stone Presbyterian Church for a decade
• Completed year-long "Disciple I" Bible with the Rev. Dr. Patricia A. Jarvis, Lewisburg United Methodist Church
• Preached Earth Day sermon at Lewisburg United Methodist Church
• Delivered Old Stone Presbyterian Church "Mission Minute"
• Founding member of the Holy Week Breakfast Bunch

Other Examples of GETTING RESULTS

• Business Manager, Northern Greenbrier-Southern Pocahontas Health Clinics (now Williamsburg Health Clinic), organized office procedures, wrote grants and reports, and supervised office and medical records staff
• Appointed by Governor Cecil Underwood to Committee of 100 on Governor's Race Initiative
• Organizing President, Bolling, Inc.
• Organizer, three-day educational event, "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Black Life in Lewisburg"
• Brought Consumer Credit Counseling Service to Ronceverte and Lewisburg, served on Board of Directors, CCCS of Kanawha Valley
• Donate funds and time to Family Refuge Center, Child and Youth Advocacy Center, Carnegie Hall, Greenbrier Valley Theatre and many other local organizations
• Member, Board of Directors, Wellspring of Greenbrier, Inc.
• Reviewer, West Virginia Department of Education 21st Century grant proposals
• 9+ gallon American Red Cross blood donor
• American Association of University Women, Lewisburg Branch-served as President, vice-president for programs, diversity chair, organized AAUW's "Mom's Turn to Learn" at the Greenbrier Valley Mall
• Member, Chapter O, P.E.O.
• Member, Greenbrier County Democratic Women
• Associate Member, Organ Cave Ruritans
• Greenbrier Historical Society, life member; publicity coordinator; editor, 1992 and 1993 Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society; awarded the Telford Fellowship for research on local furniture.
• Member, Williamsburg District Historical Society
• Member and Treasurer, Greenbrier County Building Commission, in second term
• Member, Board of Directors and an organizer of The Greater Greenbrier Valley Community Foundation, Inc., now a member of the Women's Fund Advisory Committee
• Columnist, three years, "Reader's Corner" and "History Lesson" in West Virginia Daily News and Valley Ranger
• Commentary each Saturday in The Mountain Messenger
• Donated land to West Virginia Department of Highways to widen a one-lane road and cure a blind curve
• Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, maintains the "Joan C. Browning papers" to its Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library

Recognition for Getting Results

WEST VIRGINIA HONORS

• West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service, 2007 Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award which recognizes those who have made significant contributions to West Virginia through a lifetime of volunteer efforts
• Business and Professional Women/West Virginia, first statewide "Women Mean Business-Businesswoman of the Year"
• West Virginia Women's Commission "Mountaineer Spirit"
• West Virginia Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission's highest honor, the "Governor's Living the Dream" award
• Inducted by Governor Bob Wise into the first Governor's Civil Rights Day Hall of Fame & appointed by Governor Wise and reappointed by Governor Joe Manchin, to the Governor's Civil Rights Day committee
• West Virginia University, Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award
• Greenbrier County Literacy Coalition award