Three join college foundation board

Friday, Nov. 14, 2008

The board provides support to the college and its students through the funding of scholarships, technology and arts, health/wellness and educational opportunities.

Ives retired from the Navy in July after 30 years of service. At his new position at Sabre Systems in Lexington Park, he is responsible for its strategic growth and management in the aviation community.

As commanding officer at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Ives served the function of a mayor for 22,000 employees he called "Pax Pros." Ives graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned in 1978.

In 1990, Ives was recognized as the National Helicopter Association's Pilot of the Year. He is also a 1998 graduate of the Army War College.

Lilly, a 1975 alumnus of CSM, earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration at Georgetown University and holds a graduate certificate in business administration from American University.

As the branch vice president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Lilly supervises, more than 80 agents in the Waldorf office.

His branch is a major relocation office for people moving to the area to work at the military bases of Indian Head, Patuxent River, Bolling Air Force Base and throughout Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Before he came to the Waldorf office, Lilly ran the Lexington Park office in St. Mary's County for eight years.

Lilly is the president of both the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco and Oxon Hill Friendly Lions Club.

He has served as vice president and board member for the Southern Maryland Association of Realtors and he earned the Civista Health Foundation's title of King Rex in 2008.

He has sponsored Habitat for Humanity projects and is involved in events at Mount Carmel.

Sprague, a longtime Southern Maryland resident and a physical therapist assistant employed by La Plata Physical Therapy, recently became a certified massage therapist and, along with two student graduates, owns her own business, The Language of Bodywork in Waldorf.

She received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Maryland in 1961. In 2002 and 2007, she received associate degrees from CSM in physical therapist assistant and therapeutic massage, respectively.

She is currently studying for a reflexology certification.

Sprague is a member of St. Ignatius Church, American Physical Therapist Association and the American Massage Therapy Association.