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Mission Statement:
Our mission is to gather the hearty support of all of its constituencies and
provide Garfield High School with sustainable funding and resources
that will assure and advance student achievement and school programs.
Vision Statement:
We envision Garfield High School,
an outstanding learning environment historically rich in cultural diversity and academic excellence,
achieving the best results for every single student.
Bylaws:
April 19, 2004, GHSF Bylaws [50Kb, Word]
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| | | [Click on a name below to view biographical details] | | | Jonathan Bridge '68, Co-CEO/General Counsel, Ben Bridge Jewelers | | Director
Jonathan is a 1968 Garfield graduate and is Co-CEO and General Counsel for Ben Bridge Jeweler. He has been very active in his community, serving on the boards of over twenty different organization, including the University of Washington Law School Foundation, Seattle Rotary Number 4, Center for Career Alternatives, Alliance for Education, KUOW, Seattle Police Foundation, and United Way of King County. |
| | Mary Lou [Brandon] Flynn '70, , | | Vice-President[tbd] |
| | John Franklin '65, Director, City of Seattle, Fleets and Facilities | | Director
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| | Pamela Green, Community Liason, City of Seattle | | Director
Pamela's son is a 2001 Garfield graduate. She is the past president of the Garfield PTSA (1999-2001) and has been actively involved in PTSA for the past 12 years. She lives in the Central District and attended public school in Portland. Oregon, and is a graduate of the University of Washington. Pamela spends all of her volunteer time on issues surrounding kids. She strongly believes in public education and knows that all kids can learn and succeed 'in the system' if given equal opportunity and support. Pamela is a program manager for the City's Department of Neighborhoods and works in Southeast Seattle. |
| | Lynn Greiner, Attorney, | | SecretaryLynn's son will graduate from Garfield in 2003. She completed the 9 month Certificate Program in Fundraising Management at the UW. Lynn is a lawyer, now managing her own practice, and is also director of the Unemployment Law Project. She chaired or co-chaired the auction at Orca Elementary School for four years, and worked on a capital campaign there. |
| | Alexes Harris '93, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Washington | | Director
Alexes is a 1993 Garfield graduate, as are many of her family members: twin brother Daeman Harris '93, father Herbert Harris '48, uncle Robert Harris '44, and niece Alexandria Harris '02. Alexes earned her BA degree in Sociology from the University of Washington in 1997 and went on to earn her MA and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Alexes currently holds a research associate position in the department of Sociology at the University of Washington. Her primary research focuses on the juvenile justice system (specifically the prosecution of minors as adults), race and ethnic theory, and qualitative research methodologies. Starting in the fall of 2004, Alexes will begin her teaching career as an Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Washington. Alexes is a past board member of the Seattle Young People’s Project, and a current volunteer-activist with LELO, a 30-year old racial justice and worker’s rights organization in Seattle. Alexes is committed to helping to foster a creative, inclusive, and challenging academic environment at Garfield for all students. Alexes currently resides in South Seattle with her husband. |
| | Ted Howard '85, Principal, Garfield High School | | Director
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| | Lyn [Johns] Keenan '67, Senior Planner, Reid Middleton | | PresidentLyn is a 1967 Garfield graduate, her oldest son graduated in 2001, and her daughter graduated in 2002. Her youngest son is still in Middle School. Lyn has been active in PTSA activities in the elementary and middle schools and with the Post 84 Outdoor Program at Garfield. Lyn believes strongly in public education, education for all students, and maintaining schools' ties to their communities. Lyn recieved a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of Washington in 1970, and has worked as an Urban Planner ever since. |
| | Sanford Petersky '43, Member, Garfield Golden Grads | | Director
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| | Michael Silver '67, President, Silver Financial Services | | TreasurerMichael graduated from Garfield in 1967 and obtained his BA in Business from the University of Washington in 1971. In 1975 he became a stock broker with Dean Witter in Seattle, and has been in the securities business ever since. He currently runs Silver Financial Services. Michael is pleased to lend support to The Garfield Foundation, as he sees it both as a means of providing much needed benefits to current and future GHS students, as well as a lightening rod for bringing together Garfield alumni and supporters for the betterment of our school and community. |
| | Ben Slivka '78, Trustee, Wissner-Slivka Foundation | | Director
Ben is a 1978 Garfield graduate. He earned a BS degree in Applied Mathematics and BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Northwestern University, where he has served as a trustee since 1998. Ben is also a director of TeachFirst.com and GroundSpring.org and an advisory board member of UIEvolution.com. Ben and his wife Lisa created the Wissner-Slivka Foundation in 1997 to focus their giving on education. During his 14 years at Microsoft Ben worked on OS/2, MS-DOS, Windows, and Java, and his most visible effort was starting the Internet Explorer team and leading it through the release IE 3.0. Ben and Lisa live in Clyde Hill, and their three children attend Bellevue public schools. |
| | Carol [Oseran] Starin '63, , | | Director
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| | Larry Taylor '68, President, Larry Taylor Auctioneer, Inc. | | Director
A native of Seattle, Larry Taylor is a 1968 graduate of Garfield High School. He pursued a career in the hotel industry by attending the Hotel/Motel School at Washington State University in Pullman then transferred to Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he graduated in 1972 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Business Administration.
Upon graduation from Western he was hired by the Westin Hotels Company and relocated to Los Angeles California. His progression through the management ranks of Westin Hotels took him from Los Angeles, California to Kansas City, Missouri to Atlanta, Georgia to Detroit Michigan. Westin transferred him to Chicago, Illinois where in 1979 he joined La Quinta Motor Inns as a Regional General Manager of the Western United States. During his tenure with La Quinta he relocated to San Antonio, Texas then to Denver, Colorado then to Phoenix, Arizona where in 1981 he joined the Sheraton Corporation. The Sheraton Corporation relocated him to Washington DC, then to Chicago, Illinois, then to Seattle, Washington where in 1985 he took the reins as Manager of the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers.
Since returning home to Seattle and determined to remain here, he has worked in several positions; he was on the opening team for the Washington State Convention and Trade Center as General Manager of the food service operation. In October of 1990 he was appointed the Director of Operations of the Seattle Center and October of 1995 he was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of the City of Seattle’s Human Services Department. He left that position in January 2000 to concentrate on his auctioneering business full time.
In 1993 he started his auction business under the name of Larry Taylor Auctioneer, Inc. and has quickly become one of Seattle most successful charity auctioneers conducting over 60 auctions per year nationwide.
In 1985 Governor Booth Gardener appointed him as a trustee to his alma mater Western Washington University where he served until 1992. In 1987 he was appointed by the Washington State Legislature as a member of the Washington State Efficiency and Accountability Commission, where he served until the Commission concluded it activities in 1994. In March 2000 he was appointed by Governor Gary Locke to a six-year term on the five member Washington State Lottery Commission. In April 2000 he was elected to a two-year term as President of the 60,000 member Western Washington University Alumni Association and currently serves as the immediate Past-President.
He is a member of the Zeta Pi Lambda (Seattle) chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and was honored as the Alpha Man of the Year for 1994. In 1996 he was nominated for the prestigious Jefferson Award for community service. In 1997 he was selected as “Father of the Year” by the East Madison YWCA. Also in 1997 he was awarded a Fannie Mae Fellowship to attend the Senior Executives Program for State and Local Government, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
He currently serves on the boards of the Seattle King County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Executive Board of the Center for Career Alternatives and the Vision Community and Constitution Review Ministries of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle and the Garfield High School Foundation.
He his married to his wife of 32 years Theresa, and has two sons Ethan 26, and Jesse 18 and a cat Smoky 4. In his spare time he enjoys power boating, motorcycling, camping and RVing. |
| | Katherine Triandafilou, Representative, Garfield PTSA | | Director
Child graduating from Garfield in 2008. |
| | Dianne Ashley '67, , | | Diane is a 1967 Garfield graduate, and her son graduated from Garfield in 1986. |
| | Tom Bailey, Founder, EdAdvocates | | [tbd] |
| | Peter Byers, Professor, UW | | Peter has four children who have attended Garfield! Michael ('87) is a writer and David ('91) is a lawyer. Ben will return to Garfield this fall as a senior and hopes to help the swimming team to a second state title in three years. Julia is finishing her freshman year at Garfield where she is a member of the symphony orchestra and having a fine time. Peter did his undergraduate work at Reed College and studied medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Peter is a medical and human geneticist at the University of Washington, where he directs the Medical Genetics Clinic, supervises training of new geneticists, and runs a diagnostic laboratory and a research laboratory that are trying to understand how mutations result in clinical problems. Ms. Massie sends several of her students in genetics to Peter each year to help prepare their projects. |
| | Linda [Lawson] Elman '65, Director of Research and Evaluation, Central Kitsap School District | | Linda is a 1965 Garfield graduate, following in the footsteps of her brother Herschel, 1959, sister Fran, 1960, father Louis A. Lawson, 1930, and mother Esther Woron, 1934. Linda attended Stanford for two years, then married Don Elman and moved to New York City, where she earned her bachelor's degree in History from Barnard College and her Master's in Education from Teachers College. She taught social studies for three years in suburban New York, then stopped working to mother her young children. In 1983 her family moved to Tacoma and Linda worked for 12 years in the Research and Evaluation Department for the Tacoma School District. Both of her kids graduated with IB diplomas from Foss High School. Linda earned her Ph.D. in Educational Evaluation and Measurement in 1990, and in 1995 she became the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Central Kitsap School District. In 2001, having been empty nesters for a number of years, Don and Linda moved to a condominium in Belltown, so that Linda now has to spend her commute on the ferry, watching sunrise over Mt. Rainier, or sunsets over the Olympics. :-) |
| | Stephani [Bechard] Enriquez '94, , | | Stephani is a 1994 Garfield graduate. She has a Geography degree from Western Washington University and is very interested in cartography (map-making) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems), a multi-layer mapping and database system. She worked for two years at Qwest Communications as a Real Estate Data manager, tracking business and residential development in the Seattle Area. Since late last year she has been taking a small 'break' from working. She is interested in helping this Garfield Foundation get off the ground so that perhaps there can be more ways for Alumni to get together more often than every ten years. |
| | Ron Flynn, , | | [tbd] |
| | Lorna Follis, Consultant, EdAdvocates | | Lorna has spent 25 years as a volunteer and advocate for the Seattle Public Schools. Her two children graduated from Rainier Beach High School 1989 and 1992. She worked as Community Coordinator at Franklin High School during Tom Bailey's tenure as principal, from 1998 to 2000, where she was instrumental in the creation of the Franklin Foundation for Excellence. Lorna believes that identified, focused, and organized community support is necessary and critical to the success of public schools. From May to September, Lorna spends her time on the Long Beach Peninsula in Long Beach, WA running her family business: Andersen's On the Ocean RV Park & Campground. |
| | Jody Fueyo, Executive Recruiter, Starbucks | | Jody's daughter will graduate from Garfrield in 2005. A resident of the Seattle area for the past decade, she has been a recruiting consultant for a number of local employers, including Microsoft and Amazon.com. Before joining Starbucks as a full-time partner last year, she developed and headed the Human Resource function for the Experience Music Project. Jody is currently on the board of the Northwest Girlchoir and is a previous board member for the Pratt Fine Arts Center. Jody and her daughter moved to Washington from Southern California. |
| | Craig Loveland, , | | Craig will have a junior and a freshman at Garfield in 2002-2003. He graduated from the University of Washington with Bachelor's degrees in Math and Psychology and an MBA. He retired a few years ago from a career in computer systems management in order to pursue some personal interests and to spend more time with his family. Craig is a strong proponent of public schools, and has worked within the schools and with the Seattle School Board to accomplish positive change. He also co-chaired the Annual Fund campaign at Washington Middle School for the last three years and expects to be an active fund raiser for Garfield in the years ahead. |
| | Judith Gille, Owner/Manager, City People's Mercantile Stores | | Judith's son will graduate from Garfield in 2004. She completed the 9 month Certificate Program in Fundraising Management at the UW, and has served on the boards of AIDS Housing of Washington, Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program, Central Co-op (now Madison Market), Northwest Provender Alliance, Cascadian Regional Library. She has written a number of successful grants including the Department of Neighborhoods grant to redevelop the entryway to Washington Middle School in 1999. |
| | Ellen Mohl, Real Estate Agent, Yates, Wood and MacDonald | | Ellen is the parent of one student currently at Garfield and another one on the way. She is also the editor of NOTES FROM GARFIELD, an unofficial somewhat weekly email that links 700 Garfield families, teachers, staff and friends of Garfield with one another to share information about the school. She developed the Room Parent Program which pairs each teacher who wants a room parent with a parent whose job it is to get more assistance on an as needed basis into the classroom. Ellen earned an AOS in Culinary Arts from The Culinary Institute of America in 1974 and is a 1976 graduate of the University of Washington in Psychology. Ellen is a full time commercial real estate agent with Yates, Wood and MacDonald. |
| | Cheryl Parker '70, , | | [tbd] |
| | Henderson Quinn '69, , | | [tbd] |
| | Val Rowe, Grassroots Volunteer, | | Val is the parent of a 1994 Garfield graduate and a Class of 2004 student. She founded the Garfield Sewing Club and lives in the neighborhood. After 29 years at US West, Val focuses her energy as a grassroots volunteer for painting and sewing, and stays in shape bicycling (she is training for her second STP). Val cares deeply about keeping Garfield a first-choice, high-quality school in her neighborhood. She believes that creating a 'living' funding source to enhance the Garfield experience will simplify fundraising activities, build support for the school, and strengthen the Garfield alumni and community. |
| | Laura Maki Seznick '37, Representative, Garfield Golden Grads | | [tbd] |
| | Kay Smith-Blum, Co-owner, Butch Blum | | Kay is the parent of two incoming Garfield freshmen. She attended public schools K-12 in Texas and earned a statistics and marketing degree (BBA = Bachelor of Business Administration) from the University of Texas, Austin. Kay was a Neiman Marcus executive for 12 years prior to marrying Butch Blum, and she has run the premiere high-fashion men's & women's store in the Northwest for almost 3 decades. All her kids are products of Montlake Elementary School, where Kay started the Annual Fund in 1991 -- the first such fund for public schools in Seattle. She has helped structure 16 other similar funds in Seattle Public Schools in the past decade, and strongly believes in public education as long as it is funded properly! |
| | Elisabeth Squires, Community Volunteer, | | Elisabeth's son is a sophomore at Garfield. She is a product of Seattle Public Schools (Queen Anne High School 1973) and has been a community volunteer for the past 18 years. Her experiences range from leading a doorbell campaign and writing grants for the construction of a children's playground on Capitol Hill, to chairing gala fundraising events for the Pacific Science Center and the Seattle Symphony. She most recently served as the 1999-2000 President of PONCHO, an arts fundraising organization producing two auctions per year, and which allocated over $1.9 million to area arts groups in 2000. Elisabeth is a past board member of the Junior League and the Seattle Symphony, is a PONCHO Lifetime Trustee and serves as co-chairman of the PONCHO Arts Education Committee. She is also on the Advisory Board of Treehouse, an organization supporting kids in foster care. Elisabeth is married to Randy Squires of Summit Law Group. They have two younger children, one in a public school and the other in an independent school. |
| | Joan Stewart, , | | Joan has three children who graduated from Garfield. Jenny '85 is a second grade teacher in Mukilteo, Michael '89 is assistant administrator at the Boyer Childrens' Clinic in Seattle, and Ian '92 is a land steward for the Coastal Mountains Land Trust in Maine. Joan graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a BA in Humanities. She and her husband spent two years in Bogota, Colombia with the Peace Corps from 1966-1968. She is an avid supporter of public eduation and has worked as a volunteer in Seattle Schools since 1974. She served as the first Parent/Volunteer Coordinator at Garfield from 1992 until 1995 and helped to establish the MacFund (for student scholarships for science activities)in honor of Craig MacGowan when he retired as head of the Science Dept. at GHS. She now is enjoying being a grandmother of four grandchildren, all in Seattle. |
| | Casey Trupin '91, , | | |
| | Joyce Walker '80, Coach, Garfield Girls Basketball | | Joyce is a 1980 Garfield graduate, a very successful basketball player, and currently coaches the Garfield Girl's Basketball team. |
| | Janet Woodward, Librarian, Garfield High School | | Janet taught history at Garfield from 1990-1994 and has been the librarian since 1998. She is also the parent of two alumni; her twins graduated in 2001. Janet worked with Wireworks, a sub-committee of the PTSA, which achieved its goal to wire the building for an intercom, updated telephone system and data communication in the Spring of 1999. She continues to serve in a leadership capacity for technology support issues in the building. |
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