Barbara was born in Corvallis, Oregon, and has lived in Curry County since 1967. She taught school in Gold Beach until her retirement in 1997. She is president in her church and has served as vice president and treasurer. She is a member of the American Association of University Women and has served as Branch President of the association. She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma International, a professional education organization. Barbara is the current President of the Curry General Hospital Auxiliary.

Emily was born in Crescent City, California. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Humboldt State University, she relocated to Curry Country where she went to work for Edward Jones, an investment advisory firm.  Emily's family has been in Curry County for three generations. She enjoys surfing, hiking, traveling, and spending time with husband and friends.

Leone and her husband, Sam, moved from Montana to Gold Beach in 1963.  Her background includes teaching full time, and many years of substitute teaching, ten years as Director of Administrative Services for American Eye Instruments, Inc. and several years on the board of Central Curry Ambulance Association.  She was a member of the Assisted Living Facility advisory committee for Curry Health District, served three years as Coordinator for Curry Health Foundation, and was once a member of the Curry County Library board and Knoxtown Sanitary District board.  Leone is also on the budget committee for the library.

Nancy recently moved to Gold Beach from Cortez, in the Four Corners area of Colorado.  She received her Bachelor of Arts from Ohio State University with a major in English Literature and a minor in Psychology.  She and her family traveled extensively spending a a year in Tehran, Iran where Nancy's husband was Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, then another year in Saigon, Vietnam where Nancy worked for a Vietnamese news/wire service.  Nancy was employed at Norlin Library on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder.  She received special recognition for cataloging a 10,000 volume collection of rare photography books.  Nancy has been active in communities where she has lived.  In Cortez she served on the Library Board and was a volunteer there.  She cooked for the soup kitchen sponsored by local churches.  She also volunteered at the local thrift shop, sorting clothing for the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.  Nancy enjoys gardening but has found no resemblance to Colorado's flora, so she will be spending time studying the Sunset Gardening book.  After living for years in Florida on the Gulf, she finds it good to be back near the ocean.

Kelley is now and has been working in the health field since graduating from nursing school in 1973.  She brings a wealth of experience having been a board member of Valley Community Hospital Foundation in Dallas, Oregon.  Kelley interest in families is shown by the fact she has taught preparation for childbirth for 30 years and been a member of the Polk County Commission for Children and Families.  Four Foster children, a son and grandson have all benefited from Kelley's leadership. 

Nancy Baum, R.N. was born in Vermont and grew up living all over the United States. She has worked in health care since 1957, has worked in Curry County since 1977, and is currently working part-time with the Curry County Health Department. She served as Co-Chair of the Assisted Living Facility Advisory Committee, is secretary at St. Mathews Episcopal Church, and is co-chair of the Curry County Public Health Advisory board. Nancy has served on the Foundation board since 1995.

Steve was born and raised in Chinook, Montana. He received a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and his master's degree in education from Montana State University. He also has a master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Hawaii. He moved to Curry County in 1970 where he was an educator, involved in his church and a 4-H leader. He retired after 32 years as a teacher, counselor, coach and advisor at Gold Beach High School. Presently he:  works part-time for Cal-Ore Life Flight as an EMT-I and is a member of ORCA, a Region 6 Inter-agency Incident Medical Specialist Team, serving as a line-medic on forest fires, substitute teaches at Gold Beach High and tutors an occasional student in math.  He also teaches Sunday School at Trinity Lutheran in Brookings.  Any remaining time is spent either surfing,  steelhead fishing or scuba diving.

Sybil is a native Oregonian born in McMinnville, schooled in Dallas. She graduated from Oregon College of Education with an Elementary Education major/Social Services minor, and taught school in Glide, Oregon. 

Sybil worked for the state of Oregon Employment Division for 13 years as a claims taker, adjudicator and job developer for prison releases and refugees. Sybil has lived in Gold Beach for over 20 years and been employed with the South Coast Head Start program for most of that time starting as a teacher/home visitor and currently Area Manager for the Gold Beach and Brookings sites.

Sybil is a commissioner for the Curry County Commission for Children and Families, chair of the Early Childhood team, sits on the Oregon Department of Human Services System of Care team and the Public Health Advisory Board. She began her first three-year term as a board member for the Curry Health Foundation in 2008.

Cathy Kelly was the Personnel secretary of Stayton Canning Co. Co-op.   Cathy was Administrative Assistant to former Governor Elmo Smith. She worked as Corporate Secretary for Smith’s newspapers for 11 years before moving to Gold Beach in 1975. She then did accounting and payroll work and managed Tamco offices for six years before taking a position in the Oregon State Courts as Judicial Assistant. She recently retired after 14 years with the courts.

Karla was born in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois with a BA degree in elementary education, and education for the deaf and hard of hearing.  She taught at the high school level for three years, working first with children with autism and then in an alternative program for students with behavioral concerns.  In 1979 she moved to Denver and taught middle school children with learning disabilities and other moderate needs for 22 years.  At that time she received an MA in special education-moderate needs.  She moved to Gold Beach in 2001 and likes to hike, kayak, read and participate in a weekly figure drawing group.  She is active in her church and also participates in the community as a reading mentor with a Riley Creek student and as an Aspire member at the high school.

Bill has some 20 years experience in health care, serving in administrative capacities with Sutter Health and Legacy.  He served as administrator and CEO with Guam Memorial Hospital and with Shriners Hospitals for Children.  He also spent time in private enterprise developing and operating surgery centers, ambulatory care centers, provider networks and mobile services.  Bill is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives; he holds an MBA in Management and BA in psychology. He and his wife, Heather, are looking forward to building a new home and to being active in the community.  Bill is also an avid scuba diver and instructor.

Raised on the east coast, Mary Stansell has been living on the south Oregon Coast for over 25 years. She and her husband Les, a custom guitar builder, make their home in Pistol River. Their two daughters Laura and Jennifer were raised in Gold Beach, attended local schools, and graduated from college with honors. Mary and Les were extremely pleased with the education their daughters received in Gold Beach. Their older daughter Laura, along with husband Brandon and sons Dylan and Kyler, purchased a home in the Gold Beach area. 

Mary served as an elected member of the Central Curry School District for many years, and currently serves as a volunteer member of the Budget Committee. She and Les founded the Pistol River Concert Association, a concert series that has been bringing high-quality music to the local community for over twenty years. 
 
Prior to beginning her career as a Realtor with Century 21 Agate Realty in Gold Beach, Mary spent 12 years working for the Forest Service. "I enjoy being able to share my love for this area with visitors and new people moving into the area," stated Mary. 

Mary is currently the President of the Rotary Club of Gold Beach, and is the recipient of the 2007 Gold Beach Citizen of the Year Award.

Before retiring in 1999, Dale was the CEO for several health care service firms in Texas and Pennsylvania. Since 1970, he has worked with hospitals to help them diversify into non-acute care services, including ambulatory care, home health, managed care, physician services as well as assisting Fortune 500 firms with their health insurance and wellness programs. With his wife, Jo Ann, they now breed Hanoverian horses. He was instrumental in helping to build the Shore Pines Assisted Living Community. He also serves on the Boards of Coos Curry Douglas Business Development Corporation, Regional Investment Board, Gold Beach Educational Fund, South Coast Leadership Council of the Oregon Coommunity Foundation as well as a member of the Budget Committee of the Curry Health District and the Rotary Club. He has served on task forces to reorganize the Curry County Public Health and Human Services Departments. He was named Gold Beach Citizen of the Year for 2001.

Jim is a native Oregonian and graduated for Oregon State University. He moved to Gold Beach in 1979 and has been the pharmacist at his own Corner Drug in Gold Beach since 1981 from where he recently retired.  Jim is active in the Gold Beach Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and was Central Curry Ambulance Association president for 15 years. He is a strong supporter of Curry General Hospital and many other Gold Beach interests.

Sharon was born and raised in Sublimity, Oregon, where she went to grade and high school. She married and moved to Curry County in 1953 where she and her husband owned and operated a successful logging company. They are now retired, leaving the business to their sons. Sharon is a Curry Health Foundation co-founder, Past President of Gold Beach Soroptimist International and is active in forestry issues and her church.

Roseann grew up in a large family in Reedsport, Oregon.  She moved to Eugene with her husband, Larry.  There she volunteered in schools in support of her two children, Ryan and Adele.  Roseann did volunteer work for St. Vicent de Paul's social services division and is active in her church.  She and Larry moved to Pistol River in 2004.  Since moving she has worked in sales and design for a local flower shop.  She is founder and co-owner/operator of Southbank Berry Farm and MelRose Creations.  These two enterprises furnish berries to local markets and concrete yard decorations.

James Gardner                   George Tice
Elaine Pommarane             Beverly Dennis
Shirley Van Loo                   Beverly Fleshman