President – Jon McWilliams

Jon McWilliams lives in Cedar Hills, has lived in Beaverton for nearly forty years, and has been a Member of the Forum for two years.

He was a teacher in the Beaverton School District for twenty four years and a bus operator with Tri-Met for ten years.

He says it gives him a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction to be able to work with the
Forum Board to bring programs which are of interest to Forum members and others in
the Washington County community.

1st Vice President – Ted Calouri

Ted Calouri has extensive experience with public, private, and non-profit boards of directors. He was a member of the Beaverton School Board and currently serves on the Board of the Beaverton Rotary Club, the Board for the Tolovana Inn Homeowners, and the Claremont Greens Board.

In addition to his volunteer Board service, Ted was a State Legislator for twelve years and is also a veteran businessman.    He owned and operated Beaverton Learning Academy and currently owns and manages a property management business.   He is also a licensed Real Estate Broker.

Ted holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Oregon.   He and has a wife, Sherre, have six children, and fourteen grandchildren.

2nd Vice President - Kathy Andersen

A native Oregonian, Kathy Varro Andersen has devoted the majority of her career to the nonprofit sector. She is especially interested in working toward community-based solutions for issues related to poverty and social injustice.

Kathy is the Resource Development Manager at the Community Housing Fund, a nonprofit organization serving Washington County. The mission of the Fund is to raise funds and thereby create a new source of capital to leverage the financing of housing for people not served by the conventional housing market. The Fund works with local community development organizations to build and rehabilitate housing in Washington County. To learn more about the Fund, please visit www.thecommunityhousingfund.org

Kathy holds a B.A. in anthropology and history from the University of Oregon and an M.P.A. in nonprofit management from Portland State University. She lives in unincorporated Washington County, near Tigard, with her husband Brad.

Secretary – John Leeper

John served as the District 2 Washington County Commissioner from 2000 to 2006 for the County's northeast area.

He is a decorated, retired Army Colonel and a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

He became a "citizen activist" shortly after moving here in 1991.    He became a member of CPO 1 in 1993 and chaired the organization from 1997 to 2000.

John has also served on a wide variety of Washington County and other agencies boards and committees.

Past President – Wayne Potter.

Wayne is a more recent member of the Forum and is the Producer and Host of Keeping Kurrent, a current affairs show aired through the auspices of Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Wayne has produced and hosted Keeping Kurrent since the show’s inception in September 1998. The show has been broadcast for seven seasons.

Treasurer – John Bell

John Bell owns the business Help On Taxes.    He is an Accredited Business Accountant (ABA) and an Oregon Licensed Tax Consultant (LTC).   Among his specialties is tax preparation for Child Care Providers.

John has been an active participant in the Oregon Association of Tax Consultants (OATC).   He is the current Vice President of the National Association of Tax Consultants (NATC).   He is a graduate of Colorado State and has an MST degree from Portland State University.

Director – 2008 – Gary Olson

Gary Olson retired from State government to pursue his interests in computer programming, web design, and developing creative new ways to use the internet.

He has created a variety of web sites, including the one for the forum.

He is currently actively involved in expanding the internet exposure of the forum through streaming audio, streaming video, audio podcasting, and video podcasting.

It is Gary's goal to create the broadest possible audience for forum programming.

Director – 2009 – Ken Weidkamp

Ken Weidkamp is a long-standing member of the Beaverton Elks Club.

Director – 2010 – Chris Leslie

Chris Leslie is a long standing member of the forum.    He is our resident curmudgeon.

Board Member – Tom Ford

Tom Ford is a supervisor with Starplex Corporation Crowd Management Services Security.

He is a former Assistant Boy Scoutmaster for twenty two years, former Soccer coach for fifteen years, and a Republican precinct person since achieving voting age back in 1981.