Jack F. Wolfe, Jr. Elected Secretary-Treasurer of NRECA

Jack F. Wolfe Jr., president and chief executive officer of Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative, Inc., Lexington, S.C., was elected to a two-year term as secretary-treasurer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) during the organization's 63rd Annual Meeting here, February 27-March 2. His term becomes effective at the meeting's closing general session on March 2.

Wolfe has represented South Carolina's electric cooperatives on the NRECA Board of Directors since 1999. He currently chairs the board's Insurance and Financial Services Committee. He has served as president and CEO of Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative since 1975. Prior to that, he was manager of office services. During his 33-year tenure, Mid-Carolina has grown from a plant investment of $11 million to $146 million in 2004, and annual revenues have increased 2,648 percent. In 2005, Mid-Carolina will return $3.2 million in Capital Credits, one of the largest returns in the cooperative's history.

NRECA is the national service organization that represents the nation's more than 900 private, not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric cooperatives, which provide electric service to more than 37 million people in 47 states. The association provides its members with representation before the U.S. Congress, Executive Branch agencies, and in legal and regulatory proceedings affecting electric service, the environment, telecommunications and rural issues; and programs in communication, education, consulting, employee benefits, financial services, research and technology applications.

During his career, Wolfe has served on the boards of The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, the statewide association in Cayce, and Central Electric Power Cooperative, a wholesale power supplier in Columbia, chairing numerous committees for both organizations. As an avid proponent of economic development, Wolfe is past chairman of the Regional Economic Development Commission. He is an active member of Riverland Hills Baptist Church and frequently chairs major committees.

A native South Carolinian, Wolfe attended Clemson University as an industrial management major. He and his wife Cheryl reside in Columbia and have two children and four grandchildren.

Serving the 2005-2006 term with Wolfe are NRECA President Michael (Mike) F. Treadwell, CEO of Rural Electric Cooperative, Lindsay, Okla., and Vice President Ronald (Ron) R. Bergh, Alaska business leader and member of the Board of Directors of Golden Valley Electric Association, Fairbanks, Alaska.

More than 12,000 representatives from cooperative electric utilities across the nation are attending the four-day NRECA Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center, during which they will set NRECA's legislative and organizational agenda for 2005. In addition to considering and acting upon policy resolutions, delegates receive reports from NRECA officials, hear addresses by key public figures and business experts, and attend panel sessions on major issues affecting electric cooperatives and their consumer-owners.

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