Dr. William “Bill” Becker has served his community as Temple Rodef Sholom Men’s Club President as well as serving on the board of the UJCVP.  After being the club’s president, Bill rose quickly through the Seaboard Region’s ranks and was its president from 2011 to 2013.  He was immediately promoted to be an FJMC International Vice President and served as the co-chair of the 2015 FJMC International Convention.  He was the Chair of the 2017 FJMC international convention in Washington, DC.

 

Bill currently is the Director of the American Culture & Tourism Management (ACTM) program at Virginia Wesleyan University. The ACTM program brings Chinese college students to Busch Gardens – Williamsburg for an internship experience and classes. Bill was a professor at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA for nineteen years before he and his family moved to Virginia. His areas of interest are summer camps and theme park management. He’s spent more than twenty summers as a counselor and administrator at Blue Star Camps in Hendersonville, North Carolina, in addition to working at camps in Georgia, Colorado and California. Becker has written many articles on camp administration for Camping Magazine and is the recipient of two “Golden Quill” writing awards from the American Camp Association. He has worked with the Walt Disney World College Program since 1985 and was an original member of the program’s National Advisory Board. He has been awarded the coveted “Mickey” award twice from Walt Disney World for service to the Disney Company. Bill lives in Yorktown with his wife, Sherri, and their three rescue dogs, Chewie, Rudy, and Gizmo.