Wanda & Mack Parker Governor in 2011-12
Mack is self employed for 22 years as a retirement planner where he represents Lincoln Financial Group, John Hancock Life and other companies. During the first 10 years of his career he worked in industry for two Fortune 500 Companies, namely, Celanese and Stauffer Chemical Company. These early years involved employment in marketing and sales and he covered areas in the eastern part of the United States and Canada. Mack has also taught courses in business and economics at the college and community college level. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University in Greensboro. He earned a Master of Business Administration Degree in finance from the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut. Mack has been married to Wanda for 35 years. She is a project leader at Duke Clinical Research Institute, part of Duke University Health Systems in Durham. They have two daughters, Alysia (husband Cornelius) and LaTosha; and one granddaughter, Cynthia. Alysia is a Certified Nurse Midwife and LaTosha is an educator, currently teaching U.S. and World History in Antigua, an island in the Eastern Caribbean. LaTosha is a Peace Corps Alumna, as she served two years in South Africa. Mack’s hobbies include scuba diving, snow skiing, golf, tennis and walking. Mack has held leadership positions in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. This includes serving as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the United Methodist Retirement Homes, Inc. Under Mack’s leadership, the Board authorized the building of a $15 million continuing care retirement center to replace an aging facility in Lumberton, North Carolina. He was a delegate to the 2000, 2004 and 2008 General Conference and the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The General Conference is the law making body of the church, and the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference elects the Episcopal leaders. He is the Southeastern Jurisdictional Representative to the General Commission on United Methodist Men. He is a past conference president of the United Methodist Men. It was in 1988 when Mack joined the Rotary Club of Millbrook. In 1996, he transferred to the Rotary Club of North Raleigh. There he has served as secretary and director, and during the 2006-2007 Rotary year, he served as club president. For five years he served as district chairman of the Rotary Against Drugs Speech Competition. Mack and Wanda have served as a host family counselor for a World Peace Scholar student from Sweden, when he was enrolled at Duke University Peace Center. He has served as an Assistant Governor for the five Raleigh area clubs. Mack is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow, a sustaining member, a Benefactor and a Bequest Society Member.