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Ronald C. Wornick
is a true Jewish Hero.
Ronald C. Wornick is a prominent community leader, co-chair of the North Peninsula Jewish Campus major gifts campaign, and was instrumental in forming the idea of a community Jewish Campus in Foster City. Mr. Wornick has served on the national board of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, CLAL, and Jewish Education Services of North America. Locally, he has served on the boards of the Bureau of Jewish Education, Stanford University's Jewish Studies Department, Jewish Vocational Guidance, the Jewish Home, the Jewish Museum of San Francisco, COPIA, California College of the Arts, Koret Israel Economic Development Fund and as an officer and director of the Jewish Community Federation.
Mr. Wornick is the recipient of the prestigious Ner Tamid Award for Jewish community service.
Mr. Wornick served twenty-five years as chairman, president and founder of the Wornick Company, a food processing conglomerate specializing in serving the U.S. Defense Department, the State Department, the U.N., and other international Agencies, and the U.S. Space program. Prior to founding the Wornick Company, Mr. Wornick held a number of management positions at Clorox Company and United Fruit Company. A native of Malden, Massachusetts, Mr. Wornick earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Tufts University and a Masters of Science at MIT.
A gifted wood artist himself, Mr. Wornick and his wife Anita are also world-renowned collectors of wood art.
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