Gail Zemmol, Senior Affiliate

Office Address: 276C Richard M. DeVos Center - Pew Campus
Phone: (616) 331-8866
Email: [email protected]

Teaching Areas:
HTM 180 - Business of Hospitality Management
HTM 240 - Intro to Meeting and Event Planning
HTM 323 - Festival and Special Event Management
HTM 343 - Human Resources Management

Experience:
Affiliate Professor Gail Zemmol began her commercial recreation career working at a number of summer camps through her high school and college years. Once graduated from college, she taught learning disabled and emotionally impaired students in a high school resource room. She then traveled to Ecuador, South America where she volunteered and worked for the U.S. Peace Corps. Gail completed a 12 year career as the Ambassador of Phun at the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan.

Education:
B.A. in Special Education/Elementary Education, Michigan State University
M.A. in Educational Administration, Michigan State University
Ed.S. in Educational Leadership, Grand Valley State University

Scholarship and Service:

• Board Member, Kent County Girls on the Run
• Active Member, "Sandy Corley Memorial Run", a motorcycle cancer run that has donated more than $1 million to the Hackley Cancer Center in Muskegon, Michigan
• Member, Habitat for Humanity trips, including a trip to Ghana, South America
• Former Council Member, Village of Rothbury
• Former Member of the Planning Commission, Village of Rothbury