The Board

Janis Henderson - Chairman of the Board
Janis has her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Art. Before marrying Greg Hunsucker in 2005, she lived in four different states (AZ, NY, MD & NC) and one foreign country (Wales). When she is not taking care of her baby, Samantha, or teaching art at Hill Arts Magnet, she is doing website design.

John Hartman - Secretary
John is a native of Charleston, WV, and graduated from Davidson College with a religion degree. He farms and cuts timber, and is a GED instructor at Forsyth Tech. He lives in Danbury with his wife Kay Richie and son Emmanuel.

Sherry Stewart - Treasurer
Sherry lives in Walnut Cove, NC. She has two sons in college. Drew is at Appalachian State University and Lee is at Randolph-Macon College. Both Sherry and her husband are both CPAs. They work together at Henderson, Stewart & Company, CPAs in Winston-Salem. They are active members of Friendship Baptist Church, where she teaches children’s Sunday School and volunteers in the church library. Sherry is a lifelong avid reader.

Betty Smith
Betty graduated from Appalachian State Teachers College, now Appalachian State University, and was a school librarian for several years in Forsyth County Schools; she now is the Branch Librarian at Walnut Cove Public Library. She has two children, ten grandchildren, three great-grandchildren.

Charlotte Offerdahl
Charlotte Offerdahl claims to be the luckiest woman alive. She is a partner with a law firm in Charlotte but gets to do almost all of her work from her home in Stokes County. In addition to practicing law, Charlotte enjoys fibers arts and reading, and she and her husband Grady Burgin garden, hike and kayak together.

Sarah Werner
Mrs. Werner is a first-generation American born in Brooklyn, NY. She attended SUNY at Buffalo and taught English, Math, & Science at South Stokes High School for many years. Mrs. Werner received her Master's in Library Information Services from UNCG in 2003. Currently she is the librarian at Reagan High School.

New Board Members:
Melissa Johnson, Alex Rutledge and Rosalind Covington.
Bios coming soon