Board of Directors

Nancy A. Happ, President and Manager

Nancy is Executive Director and Clinical Supervisor for the Speech, Music and Occupational Therapy Departments. Nancy is the supervising director for “Art in Focus”, a special needs therapeutic art class held at the clinic on Saturday mornings. Art in Focus students enjoy working with new and exciting hands on activities and personal projects with the assistance of several volunteers from the surrounding area. Nancy has worked previously, as an Art Teacher with both regular education students and with special needs children. She received her BA teaching degree from the University of Wisconsin in Art Education (1980), and a BS degree in Occupational Therapy (1988) from Mount Mary College, Milwaukee WI.

Richard T. Happ, Vice President

Rick has worked in the Computer and Information Technology Services for over 25 years. Rick started out in 1980 as a certified Apple developer where he designed, marketed and sold thousands of products for the Apple Computer. As President of Happ Electronics, he developed WISC-R Analysis, a software program aid in determining children IQ and accompanying statistical analysis of the Wechsler IQ test. The National Association of School Psychologists rated WISC-R Analysis as #1 in its field. More recently (2003), Rick founded Pamlico Information Network Enterprise, Inc. (PINE), a 501c3 non profit corporation, for the wireless distribution of high speed Internet in remote areas of Pamlico County. Rick, as President of PINE, applied and received over $240,000 in grant funding for the initial start-up costs of PINE. PINE continues today as a significant provider of Internet service in Pamlico County.

Frances Kaye Monk, Director

Kaye Monk was born and raised in Pamlico County. Kaye is the mother to four children, and adopted parent to two children. She is retired from Weyerhaeuser Company in New Bern, and has served as a foster parent. She is currently licensed by the State of North Carolina as a Therapeutic Foster Parent.

Andrea 'Brianna' Honea, Secretary

Brianna works as the Business Director of Women's Birth & Wellness Center in Chapel Hill, NC. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Master’s Degree of Business Administration from East Carolina University. Brianna also completed the Duke Non-profit Management Certificate Program in 2006. Brianna brings over 4 years experience in non-profit medical management, previously working as the Director of Development at the Clinic for Special Children in New Bern, NC. Her skills include strategic planning, financial management, budget analysis, insurance billing, and fundraising, grant writing, project and program management and operations management. Brianna is a certified yoga instructor offering classes at the YMCA and Evergreens in Chapel Hill and has volunteered with an art therapy program for youth.

Patricia K. Lewis, Director

Patricia has a lengthy history involving working with special needs children. From 1979 to 1996, she worked for the Board of Cooperative Education Services in New York. From 1999 to 2000, she was a teacher’s assistant for a child diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at the Arapahoe Charter School in Arapahoe, NC. And from 2000 to 2004, Patricia worked with preschool aged challenged children at the Craven Cherry Child Development Center in Havelock, NC. She presently assists another Asperger’s child with academic needs on a one on one basis at the Arapahoe Charter School. Patricia has worked as a volunteer for the Art to Heart therapeutic art classes at the Clinic for Special Children and continues to work as a volunteer for the Art in Focus therapeutic art classes at Focus Therapy Services, Inc.

Sylvia Pina, Director

Sylvia graduated from Craven Community College in 1982. Sylvia has worked for Craven Community Hospital as an LPN-2 from 1982 to 2000. She has worked as an LPN-2 at the ARC #2 Group Home in New Bern as a contract employee for the past five years. She volunteers monthly at the Merci Clinic in New Bern, NC as an LPN-2. Sylvia has volunteered for the Art to Heart therapeutic art classes at the Clinic for Special Children and then for the Art in Focus therapeutic art classes at Focus Therapy Services, Inc

Simon Spalding, Director

Simon is a musician, educator, and historian who has lived and worked in New Bern since 1998. A California native, Simon graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978 with his BA in Music. While at Berkeley, he studied Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, and History. Simon has worked as Living History Programs Manager at Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens in New Bern, NC 1998-2003. He continues to work at the palace as well as other North Carolina museums as a presenter, teacher and performer. Simon enjoys performing with local groups and in the pit orchestras of local musicals including Grease, Whiskey Flats and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Simon also directs the teaching studio of Fuller’s Music in New Bern, and serves as a teacher at the Montessori Children’s School in Jacksonville and is the Associate Music Director at Centenary United Methodist Church.