For nearly 40 years, Page Ives Lemel has been the fourth-generation Owner and Executive Director of Keystone Camp for Girls. An Angier B. Duke Scholar, Page received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Duke University where she also served as a Young Trustee on the Board of Trustees.

Page has a long history of serving the youth populations at both the local and state levels. Her interest in early childhood began during her service as a Transylvania County Commissioner. She has served on the leadership teams of the North Carolina Youth Camp Association, the Transylvania County Schools Educational Foundation, and the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners’ Health and Human Services Steering Committee. In 2017, she was a member of the Institute for Emerging Issues Blue Ribbon Commission on Funding Early Childhood Education.

She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Transylvania Early Childhood Initiative (GetSet). The organization’s work led to its selection in 2018 as the first rural county in the United States to be chosen for partnership with Sesame Street in Communities. As a result, GetSet received the National Association of Counties Achievement Award for Best Early Childhood Program in the Nation in 2019. Page also serves on the Board of Directors for VAYA Health LME/MCO and is Chair of the Transylvania County Social Services Board. She and her husband Mark have three adult children.