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Earhart@messiah.edu
Professor Terry Earhart teaches the first-year introductory business course and the senior capstone course as well as Business Information System courses. He especially appreciates being able to participate in and observe the process as the business students mature in spirit and knowledge during their four years at Messiah. Professor Earhart was managing a local "software house" when he and his wife Donna became interested in Messiah College through their church college-age Sunday school class. One of the Messiah business students in the class was the daughter of missionaries to Malaysia and was engaged to be married. The Earharts gave the couple their wedding and reception as a wedding gift. Through this and other experiences with Messiah, Professor Earhart felt called to Christian higher education and joined the faculty in 1989.
Professor Earhart was born in Jacksonville, Florida and attended high school in Europe. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in engineering and received his M.B.A. from Harvard University. Before coming to Messiah he held a variety of positions. He served as a Naval Officer, started a Foundation, which has awarded more than three million dollars in scholarships, with his wife founded the Clarke County Humane Society. He has served on the Board of Directors of credit unions, a bank and an insurance company. His experience includes engineering, budgeting, international inventory control, computer operations, software development, payroll, planning, food service, wholesale and retail sales. While at Messiah he has served as faculty advisor to the solar car, chair of the faculty, chair of the Department of Management and Business and on other major committees.
Professor Earhart and his wife Donna have been married 41 years and have three children and seven grandchildren. The Earharts attend Christ Community Church.
Terry Earhart 
