EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

CAROLYN HAUGEN, PRESIDENT brings to the SJCT board a thirty-plus year experience as a professional educator at both the elementary and college levels. She is passionate in her commitment to support a quality performing arts program for children and for the community.brings to the SJCT board a thirty-plus year experience as a professional educator at both the elementary and college levels. She is passionate in her commitment to support a quality performing arts program for children and for the community.

PAM NICHOLS, PAST PRESIDENT, comes to the SJCT board with an extensive background in business and as a non-profit consultant, speaker and volunteer. Prior to moving to San Juan Island with her husband, Charlie Bodenstab, Pam was vice president of human resources for ADC Telecommunications, a $2b global company. She had previously been with Dayton-Hudson Corporation. Throughout her career, she has held numerous volunteer positions, including president of the Management Assistance Program, vice chair of the Minneapolis Youth Trust, and chair of the personnel committee for the Minneapolis United Way. She received the University of Minnesota Regents' Outstanding Achievement Award in l997. She has a BSB degree.

JANICE PETERSON, SECRETARY and PRESIDENT-ELECT, moved to San Juan Island from Santa Barbara, California, where she was a college professor in the field of Communication. She likes to paint, write and practice her skills with digital photography. Janice loves the Theatre and looks forward to a rewarding term on the SJCT Board of Trustees.

BOB STAVERS, TREASURER and his wife, Judy Chovan, sought the serenity and community of San Juan Island in 2000, after Bob's retirement after 32 years as a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, an international accounting and consulting firm. At PwC, Bob was an executive in their technology practice serving a wide variety of high technology clients and venture capitalists. He is now pursing his long-standing interests in nature and landscape photography and William Shakespeare. His photographic work is on display at www.galleriehare.com

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

MARY SLIGER, MEMBERSHIP, has been a resident of San Juan Island for over 25 years and has been an active member of our community. She was co-owner of a business on the island until her retirement.. She has raised two daughters, Ashley and Libbey, here and has been involved with the schools, including serving as past-president of the Purple and Gold Club. She has also helped with 4-H and Girl Scouts, and is a former United Way board member. She has been a member of CATS since it began and remembers well the first years of the Festival of Trees in the theatre lobby. Mary is married to artist Larry Sliger. 2005 will find Mary helping to plan both of her daughters' weddings.

INFINITE CLOUD MCCAULEY, EDUCATION, Originally from Austin, Texas, Cloud then moved with her family to Bangkok, Thailand, where she began a life-long interest in the theater. Cloud completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and moved to the islands in 2000. She has since been active in starting the San Juan Community Theatre's Children's Theatre venue and serving on the San Juan County Parks Board. She is married to David McCauley, and is a full-time mother to four wonderful children.

FRED W. BOWEN is the President of Bowen Associates providing consulting services for technical, educational, and business organizations seeking Federal government contracts. He also is the President of ExecuServe, Inc., a Georgia corporation that manages office leasing in the Atlanta area. He retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Prior to moving to San Juan Island, he was Chairman of the Fayette County Planning Commission. Fred and his wife, Carolyn, live in Mineral Heights.

BILL LEMBECK, Bill and his wife Terry moved to San Juan Island after a long career in managing marketing and promotion with Dow Chemical, S.C. Johnson and Gillette. As a marketing consultant he created cause marketing programs for the nation's leading consumer product's companies on behalf of Children's Miracle Network, American Red Cross, Arthritis Foundation, Easter Seals and Save The Children. His passion for acting was nurtured in various community theatres in Maryland, Michigan, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Bill has appeared in five of our shows. He is a graduate of Bucknell University with a degree in business administration.

ANTHONY "TONY" VIVENZIO enjoys a life immersed in two lively, related fields: law and theater. Tony comes to his local practice equipped with rich and varied credentials. As an adjunct to his general law practice, Tony is an arbitrator certified by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

The performing arts have claimed him from grade school puppet shows, through teenage rock bands, and onto the dramatic stage. In Seattle, he has appeared in The Caine Mutiny at the Intiman Theatre. At the San Juan Community Theater, he has appeared in Twelve Angry Men and Buried Hearts (Playwrights Festival), and played the lead in Dracula. Tony and his wife, Megan, make their home at Cape San Juan on San Juan Island, and get away on their sailboat when time and weather permit.

MERRITT OLSEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, assumed his duties June 1, 2000. He was Managing/Artistic Director of Black Hills Community Theatre in Rapid City, South Dakota from 1992 to 2000 and Associate Producing Director of the Old Creamery Theatre of Iowa, a professional theatre that he helped found in 1971.

Merritt has been a professional actor and stage director since 1969. His acting credits include regional theatre, Off-Off Broadway, national tours, television, film, and numerous radio and television commercials. He has taught acting at colleges and universities, and at the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica, California.

Mr. Olsen is a graduate of Grinnell College and received an MFA in Theatre from the University of Iowa. Merritt's wife, Janet, is Director Bands for Friday Harbor Middle School and High School.

GENE BORNHOLT, retired from a 38 year career in research engineering. He managed the operation of Boeing's Propulsion Test Laboratories and the renovation of those labs.

He has always had an interest in the theater and classical music, thanks to his early education, but always from the audience side. He was so impressed by our local theater and the talent that three years ago, he decided to get involved in the backstage side and has now been assistant stage manger on three musicals with a bit part in one and the stage manager of the 2004 Playwright Festival.

He currently chairs the facility committee and is on the future improvements committee.

LYNDA GUERNSEY, has lived on San Juan Island for the last 13 years and has been an employee of the San Juan County Community Development and Planning department for all that time.

She is the mother of three children and has a grandchild living on the island.

She has been actively involved in the Theatre since 1992 and been involved either on stage or behind the scenes in 21 productions. For the last ten years she has volunteered as a re-enactor for the National Park Service living history presentations. She has done it all including props, set building, painting, costuming, backstage hand, stage manager, actor and assistant director.

She has worked from the front of house to usher and volunteer coordinator for ushers and hosts. Lynda has helped with these many facets of the Theatre while having a smile and a twinkle in her eye. She brings to the Board the perspective of an active Back of the House volunteer.

GEORGE JOHNSON, moved to San Juan Island in 1987 after a career in Silicon Valley startups, including Apple Computer. With wife Milene Henley, he has owned local businesses including The Computer Place and The Animal Inn. He performs regularly in local musical groups, was a Hospital District Commissioner, a Freeholder, and is now San Juan County's IT manager. He holds BS, MS, and MBA degrees from Stanford University.

FARHAD GHATAN, After having purchased what he thought would be a summer home on the island in 1991, Farhad Ghatan soon discovered Elizabeth Burton and the San Juan Singers. The theatre had called his name. He has since performed in numerous musicals, operas, ensembles and as a soloist on the piano and harpsichord.

JANET LUDWIG, CATS REPRESENTATIVE, is a graduate of Colorado Women's College and Washington State University. She pursued a career in international sales at World Headquarters of ESCO Corp. in Portland, OR. Her husband, Rondo, was one of her customers. After spending several summers boating in the Islands, they made Friday Harbor their home almost 8 years ago. She enjoys an active membership in DAR and CATS, having co-chaired Festival of Tree for the last three years and continuing as co-president of CATS. Janet also enjoys expressing her singing and dancing talents on the stage.

MICHAEL SOLTMAN, Superintendent of San Juan Island Public Schools, moved to San Juan Island four years ago to become the leader of the Island's public schools. Michael has enjoyed a 25 year career in public education and has lived and played in the northwest his entire life. His brief acting career began two years ago during the run of "Island Shorts," and he looks forward to further acting pursuits in the future. Michael's interest in serving on the theater board of directors is to strengthen and enhance the partnership between the theater and the schools.