CHAIR, VICE PRESIDENT & FOUNDING TRUSTEE

Benet Rutenberg resides in Terre Haute, Indiana and is the father of 3 and grandfather of 3. His work has included logistics, sales, sales training, management and food service. He worked in healthcare for 28 years in home oxygen and respiratory care. This involved teaching practical, sales, technical, regulatory and company policy internally as well as advising Doctors, Nurses, Administrators and allied health professionals on how to use the system for improved patient compliance and outcomes.

Benet served over 10 years in Continuity of Care, a multi-disciplinary society established to improve post- hospital care at the local and state levels, in a variety of officer and committee chair positions.

A student of The Urantia Book since 1971, Benet has been actively involved in many Urantia Book-related organizations. He has been a member of Urantia Association International (UAI) since 1996, serving on both the UAI Leadership 2011 Symposium Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee since its inception. He has served 2+ terms as President of the Greater Lake Michigan Urantia Association (GLMUA), is currently acting President, and has been on the GLMUA Conference Committee since 2002, serving as its chair since 2007. He is also a two-term past president of Urantia Association of United States (UAUS).

Benet currently serves as one of three Judicial Commissioners in UAI. He attends conferences and meetings of many local and regional Urantia Book-related organizations and finds great fulfillment in being with all those who are interested in these teachings. He has served as a Trustee of UrantiaUniversity (UU) since its inception in 2009 and looks forward to all UU-related projects finding expression and fulfillment in the coming years.