About Rick Becker:

Biographical Information

• Native of Union County, New Jersey

• Resident of Mineral Springs since 1988

• BS in Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1976

• Middle/High School mathematics teacher at the Pingry School, Elizabeth, NJ 1976-1981

• Real estate rental property manager, Plainfield, NJ, 1981-1985

• Remodeling Contractor, Woodworker, Plainfield, NJ and Mineral Springs, NC 1985 - 2012

• 1/2-time municipal finance officer: current

Recent Activities in our Community

Rick receiving a plaque on December 8, 2021 from

the late Terrence Gittens, head Parkwood High School football coach,

in appreciation for his years of volunteer photography work 

for the school.

Earlier Community Activities

Representing Mineral Springs in the Literacy Council of Union County's Annual Spelling Bee on April 25, 2013. Parkwood High School English Teacher Julie Johnson participated and brought members of her senior  honors English class and Girls' Varsity soccer team to cheer on "The Mineral Stings" and win the 2013  "Spirit Stick" award for the town. ----- Rick Becker competed with The Mineral Stings in 2014 and 2015, but in 2016 The Mineral Stings went on hiatus due to a conflict with the the November town council meeting, and your town council instead sponsored a Parkwood High School faculty team. ----- BUT THE MINERAL STINGS WERE BACK IN 2017, and BECAME THE CHAMPIONS in the spelling bee at Siler Presbyterian Church in Wesley Chapel on Thursday, November 16, 2017. The Mineral Stings, consisting of  team captain Rick Becker, Councilwoman Peggy Neill, and Diane Countryman defeated nearly a dozen teams and took home the coveted "Beetrice" traveling trophy!

Working with fellow members of the Waxhaw-Mineral Springs Optimist Club during one of the club's Highway 75 cleanup days on April 14, 2012.
Visiting second grade classes at Western Union Elementary School on September 13, 2013.

Recent Work Highlight:

34-stop, three manual pipe organ installed in Yardley, Pennsylvania, begun in August 2006 and finally completed (three years late!) in 2012

Previous project:

Woodwork, structure, and four manual console for a 76-stop pipe organ installed in Plainfield, New Jersey, begun in July 2002 and completed in June 2005