Angie SummarWhite Lodging recently announced the promotion of Angie Summar to the position of general manager of the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Valparaiso, Indiana. A native of Northwest Indiana, Summar began her career with White Lodging shortly after graduating from Griffith High School. She started as an hourly associate in the Hammond, Indiana cluster of properties, which includes the Courtyard by Marriott, the Fairfield Inn & Suites and the Residence Inn. In 2004, White Lodging promoted Summar to operations manager at the Courtyard by Marriott in Merrillville, Indiana. Three years later, she moved back to the Hammond cluster of hotels in the role of sales manager. After a brief period with another hotel ownership company, Summar returned to White Lodging as the sales manager for the Valparaiso hotel cluster in January 2010.