Citizens Who Care

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jim Hutchinson, President
Mary Ann Smith, Vice President
Maria Acuna-Feldman, Treasurer
Chris Hatfield, Secretary
Judy Anderson
Suzanne Hall
Michael Lewis
Jane Millett
Peter Shack
Walt Sykes
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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

Mary Ann Smith joined the CWC Board in April 2005. She was once a volunteer for CWC back in 1991 when CWC started to place volunteers in the convalescent hospitals in Woodland. She was assigned to a post-polio patient who was confined to bed and had no family or friends to visit him. They found a good bond in those two year visits, as he was interested in telling his life story of growing up in Woodland, and she was an avid listener of his memoirs.

Mary Ann is currently employed as a Student Affairs Officer in the Office of the University Registrar at U.C. Davis. She has worked there for over twenty five years, and looks forward to her early retirement so she can do more volunteer work with CWC.

Her personal life is full doing fun things with her husband such as playing golf, traveling, playing with their two dogs, and spending time with family and friends. Her favorite hobbies are reading, painting with acrylics and oils, digital photography, journaling, genealogy and collecting miniatures for her miniature doll house that she has built. Again, she looks forward to having more time during her retirement to indulge in her husband, hobbies and friends.

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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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Board Member

Suzanne Hall has not given the web site manager her biographical information yet.

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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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Board Member

Jane Millett has not given the web site manager her biographical information yet.

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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 Member

Walt Sykes is our newest member of CWC's Board of Directors. 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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