Parents Ed Moriarty and Eric Sklut, who have served on Elon advisory councils, join the university's board of trustees.
Two business leaders with strong family ties to Elon University have been elected to the Board of Trustees. Ed Moriarty and Eric Sklut join the board after serving on two Elon advisory councils.
The Moriarty family has made gifts in support of Elon’s greatest needs, the School of Health Sciences, Campus Catholic Ministry and the Phoenix Club. The family also made a pledge to name a themed lab (to be named in honor of Ed’s mother, Virginia Hyde Moriarty) on the second floor of the new School of Communications building.
Moriarty has been an active member of the Elon President’s Advisory Council since 2012. He and his wife, Jill, live in Far Hills, N.J., and are the parents of four children, including Elon senior Meaghan Moriarty, an exercise science major, and Elon freshman Cole Moriarty.
Moriarty also serves as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Gill St. Bernard’s School in Gladstone, N.J.
[/caption]Sklut owns Perfection Automotive Inc. (BumperPlugs.com), an automotive parts enterprise that makes custom products for highline and luxury vehicles.
He and his wife, Lori, have been generous supporters of Hillel, Jewish life and Jewish Studies at Elon. They endowed the Lori and Eric Sklut Emerging Scholar in Jewish Studies, which is held by Geoffrey Claussen, assistant professor of religious studies, and they named the Sklut Hillel Center through their lead gifts in the creation of a permanent campus home for Jewish students.
Eric and Lori Sklut served as the inaugural co-chairs of the Jewish Life Advisory Council at Elon and continue to participate actively on the Council. Their son, Mason, a 2014 alumnus of the university, majored in media arts and entertainment with a focus on cinema.
Sklut has served on the boards of United Way of Central Carolinas, the Foundation of Shalom Park (President), and Levine Jewish Community Center (President).
Lori and Eric are founders and directors of the Levine-Sklut Family Foundation, supporting education, healthcare, faith, human service and children’s programming agencies.
The Sklut family is very active philanthropically in the Jewish and general community, supporting the Foundation of Shalom Park, the UNC Center for Jewish Studies, Carolinas Healthcare/Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Children’s Hospital, and also establishing the Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center in Charlotte.