Board of Directors and
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Lisa Robinson |
Collections Committee Chairperson |
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Lisa and her family have lived in Boulder Creek since 1990. After spending many years working in engineering management positions at high-technology companies such Apple Computers, MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Amdahl Corporation, Intergraph Corporation, and concluding her career as the Vice-president of Product Operations for startup Sonics, Inc, she retired in 2000 to explore a wide variety of new interests, broadly associated with Historic Preservation. She holds a BSc(hons) in Physics with Astrophysics from Leicester University, and certificates in Interior Restoration and Preservation, Interior Design and Computer Aided Drafting and Design. She is a member of the California Preservation Foundation (CPF) and the Society of California Archivists. Lisa has served as the Community Leader for Boulder Creek 4-H, the President of Santa Cruz County 4-H, as a Project Leader for 4-H teaching projects including Astronomy, Computing, Earth Preservation and Leadership, as an Entrepreneurial Coach for the Girls Middle School in Mountain View and on the Board of the West Valley College Interior Design Club. She currently works part-time as the Collections Manager at the Los Altos History Museum and is the Volunteer Collections Manager at the San Lorenzo Valley Museum. Her other interests include miniature model building, genealogy, local archaeology and all forms of digital media development. She is a member of the National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts (NAME) and the International Guild of Miniature Artisans (IGMA). |
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Jay Baker |
Finance Committee Chairperson | ||
Jay has lived in Boulder Creek for over 40 years. He and his wife owned and operated the Boulder Creek Tru-Value Hardware Store from 1965 to 1975 and continue to own the building. Jay has been a Boulder Creek Fire Department volunteer for over 20 years and is currently 1 of 3 Fire Department Directors. Jay is also a current Board Director of the Boulder Creek Business Assoc. Jay and his wife have 3 children who attended Boulder Creek Elementary and San Lorenzo Valley schools. Jay spearheaded the project to build an annex to the newly purchased SLV Museum and oversaw all phases of construction, from architect drawings, through foundation and framing, to windows, carpeting, and exterior painting. His ability to get the San Lorenzo Valley community involved lowered the cost over 50%. The annex is used for storage of museum collections not on display, office administration duties, and meetings. Jay and his wife, Mabel, donated the outside wall of their hardware building for a historical mural scene with the Boulder Creek train depot on one side and the SLV flume on the other side. They started off the project with a large monetary donation of their own and the community donated the balance to cover the remaining cost. | |||
| Bob was born and raised in Boulder Creek, Ca. His grandparents were Louis and Michelina Gho, who owned the Go-Inn from 1933-1975. His parents are Robert E. and Eleanor Presswood, owners of the Redwood Keg from 1973 - 1996. Bob took over ownership of the Redwood Keg in 1996.
Bob graduated from San Lorenzo Valley High School in 1975 and began serving in the U. S. Navy from 1975-1979. He served on the U.S.S. Oklahoma City (C6-S) and with the Antarctic Development Squadron Six, which was the air wing of operation Deep Freeze. He held the title of Mess Management Specialist Second Class when he left the Navy. While serving in Christchurch, New Zealand, Bob met Jane, who became his wife. They have been married for 24 years and have a daughter attending Cabrillo College. Bob is the Vice-President of the USS Oklahoma City Association, Director and Historian of the San Lorenzo Valley Alumni Association, Director of the Boulder Creek Fire Department, a life member of the Old Antarctic Explorers Association, and a member of the following organizations; US Navy Cruiser Sailors Association, the Navy League,the Monterey Bay Aquarium, KQED, and MENSA. |
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Karin Ann Park |
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Karin is a native of California. She moved to Boulder Creek in 1977 when she and her uncle purchased Joe’s Bar. She is now the sole owner. She quickly became active in the community starting an adopt-a-family program at Joe’s Bar. They, together with Valley Churches United Missions , adopt four to seven families at holiday time. Valley Churches selects the special needs families for the program. Joe’s Bar hosts many fundraisers including the Annual Pig Roast, the St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef Feed, and the Annual Christmas Party. All proceeds from the sale of shirts and hats are also donated. Karin also supports the Boulder Creek Fire Department tending bar for two of their fundraisers; the Red Hot, Red Hat Golf Tournament and the Firemen’s Ball. Karin is an outdoor enthusiast, she loves her garden, camping, biking, swimming and snow skiing. She also enjoys traveling and, most recently, spent time in South America visiting Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. She has three daughters who graduated from San Lorenzo Valley High School. She loves spending time with them, their husbands and her 12 grandchildren. At the museum her favorite projects are the 4th of July Parade, Summer Community Barbeque, the Spaghetti Feed and the Children's Christmas Trim-a-Tree Day. |
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Carmen Bergmann |
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Carmen and her husband have been living in Ben Lomond over 35 years. She has two grown children, a daughter in Boulder Creek and a son in Utah and now 6 grandchildren in all. A teacher by profession as well as her passion, Carmen got her BA degree and Teaching Credential with a major in Spanish from Holy Names College in Oakland. At that time she met her husband, Rich a technician for Pacific Bell, and was married upon graduating. She first taught in the Laguna Salada School District in Pacifica for a couple of years and then moved to Ben Lomond. Her love for the arts got her into studying the folk arts and then teaching decorative folk art painting classes in the area for ten years plus. Later she went back to teaching in the public school system teaching Spanish at CT English Middle School part time for a couple of years. Then she accepted a position at Boulder Creek Elementary, later teaching at Redwood Elementary where she taught until she retired. She taught every grade level in the elementary grades except for Kindergarten during her fifteen year teaching career. Most of that time, however, was spent teaching fifth grade which was the perfect outlet for applying her expertise and love of the folk arts. Carmen retired in 2001 to have time for playing with her grandchildren, pursuing her arts and crafts interests, gardening, hiking, working out and knitting among others. She volunteers for Valley Churches United, is a tutor for the Literacy Program of Santa Cruz County and is a SLV Museum volunteer for the School Outreach program. |
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Laurie Dennis |
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Laurie is a life-long resident of the San Lorenzo Valley. She grew up in Boulder Creek and now resides in Felton. She is a fourth generation, her great-grandmother lived in Boulder Creek. Laurie, her grandmother, mother and my three daughters all attended school all their years in the San Lorenzo Valley school system. Laurie's grandparents (Paul & Doris Levin) owned and operated Boulder Building Materials in Boulder Creek for many years, during the '50's- '60's. (It's now the vacant building to the left of the building complex where Wayne Williams Ins. is.). Her parents are active in the museum's events and now live in Scotts Valley. Her husband Steve moved here (to Felton) when he was a couple years old and grew up in a residence in Henry Cowell Park. His father (Wayne "Smoky" Dennis) was the head ranger there for many years. He also attended San Lorenzo Valley schools. Laurie retired from banking (County Bank & Trust, who became Pacific Western Bank, who became Comerica Bank) after 28 years. She started there right after high school and worked her way up through the ranks from hand-filing checks to management. Through the years she has managed branches, a centralized wire processing room, and bank security services and emergency planning. She is currently employed part-time by the Felton Fire Protection District as the District Secretary and the Secretary to the Board. Laurie and her husband have three daughters - one grown, married and moved to Fresno. One grown, living in Boulder Creek and working for Liberty Bank in Felton. Their youngest is still at home and is a sophomore at San Lorenzo Valley High School. Laurie has been a member of the Felton Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary for over 30 years. She has served in various capacities and offices there, and coordinated vendors for the annual Santa's Shelves Craft Faire for the past few years. Laurie is a member of the Mountain Parks Foundation's events committee and has helped the past several years with various fund-raising events they've held. She has also worked Bingo events for the San Lorenzo Valley Boosters, which raises funds for the various athletic teams and which enables our students to play sports without having to pay several hundred dollars each to do so, she has volunteered at the Capitola Art & Wine Festival for the past 10+ years, and has volunteered with the SLV Alumni Golf Tournament, auction and dinner. She is s amember of the San Lorenzo Valley Alumni Association. In her "spare" time she loves to walk with her dog, read, cheer at her daughter's High School basketball or softball games, garden, sew or do needlecrafts and go to weekly out-to-lunch-date with her Mom and Dad. |
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Pat Jocius |
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| Pat and husband Don and their four daughters, (adults now) have had their vacation home in Boulder Creek since right before the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake that destroyed many of their neighbor’s homes. This was an appropriate welcome to the San Lorenzo Valley considering her occupation at the time as the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for the City of San Mateo in the Fire Department. She had previously been the Emergency Manager for the Cities of Sunnyvale, Cupertino, and Santa Clara County. After 28 years in local government Emergency Management, she retired and decided to move to their “permanent vacation” home in the redwoods in January of 2008.
Pat and Don joined the Historical Society back in 1989, feeling a desire to connect into the history of the valley, with Don’s hobby of model trains and Pat’s hobby of genealogy. Pat has a BA in Communications and a MA in Instructional Technology which prepared her for many opportunities to teach and train (including many TV shows) the community on a myriad of subjects, especially on her expertise in Emergency Preparedness. Pat was the founder and Board Chair of CARD, Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters in San Mateo County and continues in that vein to volunteer her time helping non-profit agencies prepare to respond and recover from disasters. She is on the Santa Cruz County Emergency Services Council and is the county’s liaison to faith-based organizations needing emergency preparedness information. She is still very involved in School Emergency Preparedness and is a consultant to many School Districts in Santa Cruz County. She provides an abundance of free emergency preparedness information to the community on her website: www.dealingwithdisasters.com. |
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Barbara Kennedy |
Exhibits Committee Chairperson | |
Barbara has been associated with the San Lorenzo Valley Museum since shortly after she moved to Boulder Creek in 1991, and helped with the relocation to the present church building in 1996. For 18 years she was the owner of a shop in the heart of Boulder Creek called "The Country Home" that specialized in American folk art. She closed her store in 2004 to concentrate on historical research. Barbara is a member of the Historic Resource Commission, the Historic Landmark Committee of Santa Cruz County and is a participant in a county wide round table research organization. She has been working on a book that will document the lives of some of the early leaders of Boulder Creek and the homes they built. |
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Ken Macy |
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Ken Macy and his wife, Nancy, have lived in Boulder Creek since 1974 where they raised three children. They both have been active in the local schools and in the Valley Women’s Club. Ken has also volunteered with The Redwood Mountain Fair and the Boulder Creek Art and Wine Festival. Ken retired in 2005, after 33 years working with the Hewlett-Packard Company. His work for HP included computer system software development, system performance testing, analysis and benchmarking. Later he was a manager and director of teams of application software performance engineers engaged in consulting with major partners of HP in optimizing their products on HP hardware. Ken holds an MS in Mathematics from California State University, Hayward and a BA in Mathematics from California State University, Los Angeles. He has taught an evening class in college algebra for business majors. Ken's hobbies include dabbling with amateur radio and he is now working a couple days a week for a ham radio retail operation “over the hill” in Sunnyvale. Ken belongs to two local amateur radio clubs and he is looking forward to increasing his participation in the hobby. He has also found time for more golf (that’s what you do when you retire, right?). Ken is a second generation Californian, born and raised in Pasadena. He met his wife at Pasadena High School and they were married in 1969 at her alma mater Occidental College in Los Angeles. The Macy’s children are “out of the nest” pursuing their careers now. Daughter Carrie manages two Pilates studios in Los Angeles and is also a teacher trainer in Los Angeles for the Power Pilates organization; son Randy is now in Boston thoroughly engaged in a PhD program in physical therapy at Northeastern University; and son Andrew, recently graduated from Sonoma State University, is a musician now living in San Francisco. |
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Linda Spalinger |
Event Planning Committee Chairperson | ||
Linda is the chair of our Event Planning Committee for over a year. She has a strong background in this field having spent 35 years event planning. She was the Redwood Mountain Faire Site Coordinator, for the Valley Women’s Club for over 3 years, was on the Board of the Mountain Parks Foundation for 2 years, the President of the Santa Cruz County Blue Grass Society for 4 years and the Director of their Blue Grass Festival, held each year in Hollister, for 5 years. Linda grew up in Los Altos but spent much of her time here in the valley at the cabin her Grandfather built in Paradise Park. She moved to Santa Cruz County around 1990 and then to Boulder Creek in 1994. She is a buyer for high-tech companies by profession and her interests include bluegrass and Americana music, decorating, camping, and photography. |
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Lynda Phillips |
Event Planning Committee | ||
| Executive Director Lynda Phillips moved to Boulder Creek in June 1990. She has been involved with the Boulder Creek Historical Society since 1996 when she held the office of Secretary. She has been Secretary and Treasurer until January, 2003 when she was hired by the Board of Directors to be part-time Executive Director.
Lynda holds an MBA in Computer Information Systems from Golden Gate University and BS in Business Administration and Management of Information Systems from San Jose State University. She worked for 33 years in the Information Technology field for Lockheed Martin in various IT disciplines. Lynda and her husband operated a retail antique business for 10 years in Boulder Creek and took buying trips both cross-country and abroad. |
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