Randolph-Macon College Board of Trustees Chair Sue Schick ’84 and President Robert R. Lindgren are pleased to announce that four members have joined the College’s Board of Trustees and will be officially sworn in during the Board’s fall meeting on October 9.

Dr. Richard M. Hamrick, III ’78 was elected to the Board of Trustees in May 2021. Joining him as ex officio members of the Board are Mark D. Hale ’92; Dr. Robyn Diehl McDougle ’98; and Matthew Pulisic, Jr. ’87. Mark Hale and his wife Terena will serve as the new Co-chairs of the Parents Board, with Mark serving as representative to the Board of Trustees. McDougle will serve as the new President of the Society of Alumni, and Pulisic will serve as the new Chair of the Board of Associates.

Richard M. Hamrick, III ’78, M.D.

A 1978 graduate of Randolph-Macon College’s Chemistry program, Hamrick was a member of the College’s concert choir and the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and was elected to membership into Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. He continued his involvement with RMC post-graduation by serving as a member of the President’s Society, the Society of Alumni (1992-1997), and the Alumni Club Board (1981-1987), as well as a pre-health ambassador. In 2009, the Society of Alumni honored Hamrick with its RMC Distinguished Alumnus Award, recognizing his contribution to society through medicine.

Hamrick earned an M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University and completed his medical internship at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine (since renamed Wake Forest University School of Medicine), a residency at West Virginia University Medical Center, and a fellowship in pulmonary diseases from Georgetown University Medical Center. He went on to practice pulmonary medicine in Richmond for more than 22 years as a member of Pulmonary Associates of Richmond, Inc., later returning to school to receive his M.B.A. from VCU in 1999.

From 2011 to 2019, Hamrick was the Division Chief Medical Officer for HCA Healthcare’s Capital Division, comprising 18 hospitals and associated operational components across Virginia, Indiana, New Hampshire, and Kentucky. Hamrick retired from HCA in 2019 and currently provides healthcare advisory services to health systems and policy bodies as principal of Hamrick & Company. Other current roles include assisting the grant-funded Collaborative Approach to Public Goods Investment team at the Urban Institute, as an operating advisor for Blue Heron Capital, as a board member of Common House, LLC, and as a vestry member at St. Stephens’ Episcopal Church in Richmond.

Hamrick’s former leadership posts include serving as President of the Medical Society of Virginia; Co-Chair of Governor McDonnell’s Insurance Reform Taskforce of the Virginia Health Reform Initiative Advisory Council; Chair of the Practice Management Committee and as a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians, chairing the Finance Committee and the task force that financed and constructed the new global headquarters in Chicago; President of the Richmond Academy of Medicine; Chief of Staff of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital; member of the Board of Trustees of Westminster Canterbury Richmond; Chair of the Board of the Medical Society of Virginia Insurance Agency; and founding board member and Treasurer for nine years of the Virginia Center for Health Innovation.

Mark D. Hale ’92

Hale graduated from RMC in 1992 with a B.A. in Economics and Business. A member of the Football team and Kappa Sigma fraternity during his college years, Hale remained involved in the Randolph-Macon community in a variety of ways as an alumnus, including joining the Presidents Society and the Parents Board, of which he will serve as President from 2021-2023.

Hale’s experience in the financial services industry has spanned more than 28 years. During that time, he has assisted individuals and business owners meet their strategic life insurance, retirement, savings, and investment objectives. He has held sales and management positions in numerous well-respected organizations including Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Prudential, Allstate Insurance Company, and, most recently, the Navigon Financial Group, where today he works as a financial advisor.

Hale’s professional accomplishments have included remaining an in-good-standing member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, the Roanoke Valley Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, the Million Dollar Round Table, and Finseca. Additionally, he was a four-year member of the Allstate Financial National Advisory Board and a committee member of the Allstate Foundation for Domestic Violence Project for the Development of Economic Empowerment. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Hale is also an active community member in the Roanoke Valley, performing outreach work through the KAIROS Prison Ministry in partnership with Thrasher Memorial United Methodist Church. He enjoys spending time with his wife, Terena, and three children: Macon (JMU), Matthew ’23, and Nicholas ’23. Matthew and Nicholas have followed their father’s footsteps by playing football for RMC.

Robyn Diehl McDougle ’98, Ph.D.

McDougle earned her B.A. in Psychology from RMC in 1998. At Randolph-Macon, she was a member of the Delta Zeta sorority, as well as being elected to the Omicron Delta Kappa and Beta Beta Beta honor societies. She has participated in the EDGE Alumni Career Coaching Program, and in 2016, she joined the Board of the Society of Alumni, of which she will serve as President from 2021-2023.

McDougle went on to earn an M.S. in Criminology and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is currently the Associate Dean of Research and Outreach and an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice program at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Her research involves working with state and local agencies, service-based organizations, and law enforcement agencies to evaluate the efficacy of programs for marginalized communities, many of which are offered to residents in communities experiencing the consequences of poverty.

Prior to joining VCU’s faculty, McDougle was an adjunct assistant professor at Randolph-Macon College and the research coordinator with Friends Association for Children in Richmond. She has also worked with local and state correctional agencies in the development of effective prisoner reentry programs, and helped create a nationally recognized jailor academy internship program.

McDougle has been a member of multiple professional organizations⁠—including the Society for the Research on Child Development and the Society for the Research on Adolescents⁠—and has been an active volunteer in the Greater Richmond community. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the Department of Criminal Justice’s Graduate Student Award (2000), VCU’s Humanities Graduate Scholarship Award (1999), RMC’s Outstanding Psychology Major Award (1998), and ODK’s Emerging Leader Award (1997).

Matthew Pulisic, Jr. ’87, P.T., D.P.T., O.C.S.

Pulisic graduated from RMC in 1987 with a degree in Biology. While a student, he played on the Men’s Soccer team and was a member of Theta Chi. Pulisic continued his relationship with Randolph-Macon as an alumnus in many ways, most visibly by providing physical therapy services to RMC athletes for more than 20 years as part of the College’s Sports Medicine staff. He has also joined the Presidents Society and served on the Board of Associates since 2016, on which he will serve as Chair from 2021-2023.

In 1990, Pulisic earned his B.S. in Physical Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Physical Therapy and began his medical career at Tuckahoe Physical Therapy, a private practice in Richmond’s West End. In October 2000, Pulisic opened his own practice, Richmond Physical Therapy, and expanded by opening Ashland Physical Therapy in February 2005. Meanwhile, Pulisic continued his education at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, where he earned both his M.S. in Orthopedic Physical Therapy (2002) and his D.P.T. (2010). 

Pulisic specializes in rehabilitation of orthopedic and sports-related injuries with a special interest in the upper and lower extremity biomechanics, post-operative rehabilitation, and orthotic fabrication. He has been a clinical assistant professor at the VCU School of Physical Therapy. Additionally, he has provided internship opportunities for Randolph-Macon students, many of whom have gone on to become physical therapists themselves.

Recently, Pulisic sold his Richmond practice to one of his staff therapists, followed by the sale of his Ashland practice to Pivot Physical Therapy, where he continues to treat patients. In addition to his volunteer time with Randolph-Macon, Pulisic has made several trips to Haiti, assisting in developing, organizing, and teaching in a Haitian physical therapy clinic. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife, Jennifer, and their four adult children, and is an avid cyclist.