Citizens Who Care

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jim Hutchinson, President
Peter Shack, Vice President
Maria Acuna-Feldman, Treasurer
Chris Hatfield, Secretary
Judy Anderson
Michael Lewis
Jane Millett
Walt Sykes
Hibbard Williams
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Board President

Jim Hutchinson is a long time member of Citizens Who Care. He served on the board from 1995 'till 2004, and returned to the board in the Fall of 2006. He serves on the Finance Committee, the Winter Concert Committee, and is an In-Home Respite Volunteer. He formats the Newsletter and is the web manager of the CWC web site. Jim is an Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He retired 1993 and enjoys Golf, Bridge and singing. He was active for many years in the Davis Comic Opera Company and now sings with the Davis Chorale and the University Chorus. He is still professionally active in organizing the biennial International Symposium on the Vibration of Continuous Systems, and runs the web site for that organization (www.isvcs.org).

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Board Vice President

Peter Shack is a long time resident of Davis. He was Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the Charitable Trust Section. After 30 years with the Attorney General's Office, he is is now of-counsel with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, and advises nonprofit and charitable organizations. A native New Yorker, Peter graduated from Columbia and Georgetown Law School before serving in the Peace Corps in Guatemala. His avocation is music, and he has performed in every one of CWC's Winter Concerts and regularly appears in Sacramento area musical productions. Peter also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Nonprofits.

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Board Treasurer

Maria Acuna-Feldman, who served a nine-year term (two reappointments) on the Board until 2005, rejoins her colleagues for a new term beginning July 2006. In her spare time from her job as Office Manager at Mercy Housing California, Maria's long and continuing volunteer service to CWC has included in-home and convalescent client visitation, participation in Time Off for Caregivers (TOC), office and grant-writing support, and fundraising. Together with husband Tim, Maria installed new office computer equipment and programs at CWC. Her son, Erik, has recently joined the volunteer group at TOC and will lend his music talents to TOC's Saturday program. Maria will continue as volunteer Finance Officer for CWC.

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Board Secretary

Chris Hatfield recently returned to the Board of Directors. Chris has jokingly been refered to as "Our Cookie Lady in Perpetuity" because she always volunteers to purchase and serve the cookies and punch at the Winter Concert. Her contributions to the organization have been much more than that. She has served as an in-home respite volunteer and has worked tirelessly on all of our fundraising activities. We are very pleased to have her back again.

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Board Member

Judy Anderson is recently retired as an Education Program Consultant for the California Department of Education. Judy was one of the first volunteers in the Citizens Who Care In-home-Respite Program, and has extensive prior experience on other boards. She also volunteers as a docent at Copia and R.H Phillips.

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Michael Lewis is professor emeritus, UC Davis, Department of Food Science and Technology. He is presently academic coordinator for the professional brewing programs offered through UC Davis Extension. He has been honored with the Master Brewers Association of the Americas' Award of Merit, and was elected as a fellow of the Institute and Guild of Brewing in London, as well as a senior member of the International Brewers Guild. He is a consultant to government and industry on brewing and breweries.

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Jane Millett is an officer at the First Northern Bank. She prepares the food for the Winter Concert Reception and the BeerFest.

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Walt Sykes is a retired water resources planner, Walt is renowned in the community as a master set builder for various theatrical groups, including the Davis Comic Opera Company, where he served nine years as a Board member. A civil engineer trained at the University of Maryland and UC Berkeley, Walt is recognized for his energy and creativity.

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Hibbard Williams MD a 29-year resident of Davis, is our newest member of our board. Hibbard came to Davis in 1980 as Dean of the UCDavis medical school, a position he held until 1992, at which time he continued his teaching and research activities as a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. A native of New York, he was educated at Cornell University with postgraduate internal medicine training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After spending his early career at UC San Francisco, he returned briefly to Cornell and then accepted the position of Dean of the Medical School at Davis. It was during his tenure as Dean that the geriatrics program at the medical school was initiated, stimulating his interest and commitment to dealing with the health problems of the elderly. After his retirement he became aware of the activities and projects of Citizens Who Care and their commitment to helping the elderly and disabled and he decided this is the type of organization with which he would like to be associated. HIbbard's wife, Sharon, is a volunteer in the In-Home Respite Program at CWC. They have a large combined family of seven children, 17 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, most of whom live in the area. Hibbard notes "My wife and I are both committed to this wonderful community and we now feel we want to give something back since it has given so much to us".

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