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Ruth Anglickis is new president of Landex Corp.

By Staff | May 4, 2009

Ruth Anglickis

Ruth Anglickis, well-known community activist for children and better schools in Lehigh, has been promoted to president of Landex Resorts International Inc. The announcement came over the weekend from Harry C. Powell Jr., president of the company.

Prior to forming the Landex entities in Lehigh, Powell had been sales director and then president of Lehigh Corp.

Aglickis began working for him in 1962 as his secretary. Landex was started in 1981 as a management company for timeshare resorts, homeowners’ and condominium associations and Anglickis continued as his corporate assistant.

“I am very honored,” Anglickis said over the weekend to be given this promotion,” she said.

Anglickis remembers well working for the old Lehigh Corp. when the company was in its heyday. The corporation formed such groups as Lehigh Community Service and presented land for the construction of churches in addition to other things, all for the betterment of Lehigh.

“Landex and its clients are like a family,” she said.

“We know the owners of the home, condo and time share associations. They trust us as family because we know all the owners on a personal basis.

“Our company is a very personal one, too,” she said. “We answer the phone if we are here. You can talk to a real human being, not an automated attendant.”

Anglickis is known by many in Lehigh for all that has done in promoting the construction of Lehigh schools which have included Lehigh Acres Middle, Sunshine Elementary, Mirror Lakes Elementary, Lehigh Senior High School, Veterans Park Academy and Recreational Center and the ongoing remodeling of Lehigh Elementary School, which was the first to be built here.

“She and her husband, Rick Anglickis, have gone to county meetings and worked hard to get schools in Lehigh and their persistence worked,” said Myra Kessler, a friend.

Not only was it schools she was interested in, but she has fought for the best teachers and the best teaching programs in the schools.

Anglickis was also instrumental in the development of Heron Pond and currently is on the capital campaign committee for the new Hope Hospice House which is to be built in Lehigh off of Beth Stacey Blvd. on land donated by the Community Health Association.

She and her family are members of New Life Assembly of God in Lehigh.

Their daughter, Robyn Rocco is the owner of Eco Systems of Lehigh, an interior design firm. Rick and Ruth Anglickis both became residents of Lehigh not long after the Lehigh Corp. began developing land here.

“I’ve seen a lot of the growth here,” she said. “The time has surely flown by fast.”