2009-2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Anne Madden is the Senior Program Educator and spokeswoman for Washington County's Department of Land Use and Transportation. She has been with the county for 14 years, working on public education issues. She has an extensive background in adult education and media production. Her interest in Oregon's approach to land use brought her here 36 years ago, inspired by legendary environmentalist Governor Tom McCall. She has degrees from Regis College in Massachusetts, Mt. Angel Seminary and Marylhurst College. Anne lives with her police detective husband in Cedar Mill and has three grown daughters, one with Down Syndrome, who make her life very rich. Along with her work for the county, she serves on the board of PHAME Academy, Portland's fine arts academy for the developmentally disabled. She is a member of Portland's City Club, Washington County's Public Affairs Forum and the Women's Transportation Seminar. |
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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. |
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First Vice President - Vincent Degoc
Vincent Degoc was Circuit Court Judge Pro Tem (8 years); District Court Judge Pro Tem (10 years); Circuit Court Reference Judge (17 years); Washington County Arbitrator (20 years); Attorney-at-Law (30 years); College Business Law Instructor; Bankruptcy Court Law Clerk; Laborer (College). He graduated from the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College, JD; University of Notre Dame, BA. He has worked at a Bankruptcy Court Trustee, Metropolitan Human Relations Commission, and VISTA Attorney. |
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Esther McAlpin is a retired teacher. She has lived in the Beaverton, Tigard area for about 45 years. She is currently involved in AAUW (American Association of University Women), Friends of Beaverton Creek and SOLV (Ambassador Program). She participates in various volunteer programs with the City of Beaverton. She has degrees from Mount Hood Community College, Portland State University and George Fox University. Esther lives with her also retired husband Jim and they have one grown son who lives in Montana. |
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Phil Nelson, a retired attorney, is an owner of and artist for Memory Garden Benches which fabricates and sells custom designed powder coated steel benches and sculpture. He and his wife, Lynn, moved to Beaverton in 2003. Phil practiced law in Grants Pass, Oregon, for 35 years, where his community activities included being a co-founder of Rogue Community College, founder of the Grants Pass Community Sculpture Association, and membership on the Regional Advisory Board of Southern Oregon University and the boards of directors of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Southern Oregon Estate Planning Council and the Grants Pass Rotary Club. Phil is a member of the sculpture Selection Committee of the Beaverton Arts Commission and of the Urban/Rural Task Force of the Oregon State Bar. He is a graduate of Stanford University and University of California Hastings College of Law. |
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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. |
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Chris has two business degrees, an A.A. from Merrit College, Oakland California and a B.A. from San Francisco State. He received an Honorable Discharge from the USNR and has worked for a number of Fortune 500 companies. At times, he believes his my real job is to "question everyone and every thing". Besides the WCPAF, he is a member of Videomasters, a video club of Toastmaster International, as well as a few other non-profit organizations. Otherewise he spends his time trying to watch my grass (legal) grow. |
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Director - 2011 - Bill Foster
Bill holds an MBA degree from Ohio State University and a BA from the University of North Carolina. He and his wife, Ernie, have two grown daughters. He is an active member of the Stuhr Computer Users Group. He was the compensation manager for a major bank and two manufacturing companies and served as an outplacement consultant. He earned an "Outstanding" performance rating among the top 11% of all managers. Earlier, he was elected a personnel association president. Selected as the "Outstanding" Jaycee V.P. and earned an Eagle Scout award. |
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David graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering. In 1998, while assigned as the assistant for public works at the Navy’s postgraduate school in Monterey, CA, he coordinated the Navy’s support for the National Ocean Conference convened by President Bill Clinton and chaired by Vice President Al Gore. After graduating from OSU, David was assigned to the home of Navy diving in Panama City, Florida. While there he led the planning and execution of numerous important construction and research projects and earned his qualifications as a Navy diving officer. David led the Navy’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation consultations with numerous Native American tribes, successfully concluding agreements to ensure that remains were returned to their native grounds. In addition to earning his Masters degree from OSU, David attended Willamette University Atkinson Graduate School of Business. David is married to Sandy Webb, an attorney and local business owner. They are active in numerous charities, non-profits and local politics. David and Sandy live in Aloha with their two chocolate Labrador Retrievers. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 TriMet for ten years.
He says it gives him a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction to be able to work with the |
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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. |
Past Boards
2008-2009 Board
2007-2008 Board