New Alvamar board elects corporate officers

Members of Alvamar Inc.’s new board of directors elected new corporate officers Friday, but declined to identify them publicly.

Questions were referred to new board members Rober McKinney and Michael Easterday. McKinney declined to identify the board’s new president and secretary/treasurer, saying that the board had agreed Friday to issue a press release but had not yet put one together.

“We had a great meeting today,” McKinney said.

Beverly Smith Billings had been serving as Alvamar president since the 2003 death of her husband, Alvamar founder Bob Billings. Smith Billings remains on the Alvamar board.

Larry Chance had been Alvamar’s secretary/treasurer, but he was displaced from the board during a special shareholders meeting Thursday night.

Other members elected to the board were C.W. Allerheiligen, Cameron Barnes and Jerry Waugh, who are members of the Alvamar Group of Concerned Investors. Bob Johnson was re-elected.

Alvamar owns two golf courses, a country club and about 150 acres of development property in and at the western edge of Lawrence.