AVCA Board of Directors and Committees

AVCA Board of Directors

Art Boudreault, President (Term: 2007-2009) artb@netwiz.net
	A resident of Almaden Valley since 1981, Art moved to San Jose from Massachusetts in 1978. He has an Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering from Merrimack College (1963) and a BS in Business from the University of Phoenix (1981). He developed a love of engineering while teaching how to repair nuclear-tipped missiles in the U.S. Army (1955 - 1958). He worked as an Engineer at Raytheon Co. and Teradyne, Inc. He moved to marketing with Genrad and Schlumberger. In 1989, he formed a consulting company focusing on improving productivity for Nissan's automotive plant in Tennessee and some of its suppliers in the U.S. While working in Massachusetts, he used rail to travel to work in Boston. In 1965, he headed an organization which successfully stopped the Massachusetts state legislature from abandoning passenger train service. He served as president of the San Jose chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. He has been appointed to the Certification Appeals Board by the Santa Clara County supervisors, which was set up as the result of Proposition 36. He is currently a director and treasurer of the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association and serves as a docent at the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum. He was appointed as chair of the AVCA Transportation Committee in January, 2005. Art was elected AVCA President in Spring 2007.
Ron Blake, Vice President (Term: 2007-2009) ronblake@sbcglobal.net
	An Almaden resident since 1971 and member of the AVCA since 1995, Ron has a BSEE degree from San Jose State University and is a Professional Engineer. He currently chairs the County Airport Land Use Commission and is a member of the Mineta San Jose International Airport Noise Advisory Committee. He has also served as commissioner and vice-chair of the City Airport Commission. He has a keen interest in local politics, having previously chaired a Political Action Committee (PAC), and is legislative action chair for the Santa Clara County Airmen's Association. He was elected AVCA Vice President in Spring 2007.
Gari Soulé, Treasurer (Term: 2007-2009) garysoule@iLoanExperts.com
	Gari and his wife Nancy have been San Jose residents since 1968 and Almaden residents since 1985. Gari earned his BS degree in Business from San Jose State in 1970. He has been a mortgage loan officer for the past 20+ years. Because of his work with Reverse Mortgages, Gari also earned his Certified Senior Advisor designation. For the past several years he has been a director of the Almaden, Blossom, Central Valley Realtors Marketing Association and has been co-chair of the Rosegarden Willow Glen Realtors Marketing Association. Gary is also a member of the Santa Clara Association of Realtors and the Women's Council of Realtors where he was Finance and Budget director. He served as Committee Chair and other positions for Boy Scout troop 290 while his son earned the rank of Eagle. Gari and Nancy have two grown children, Eric and Tanya, both products of Bret Harte and Leland.
Ray Strong, Secretary (Term: 2008-2010) hrstrong@hotmail.com
	Ray is a Computer Scientist employed by the IBM Almaden Research Center. He was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle. He and his wife Gloria have lived in San Jose since 1976 and in the Almaden Valley since 1979. Their daughter Alissa was born in 1980. She is now attending Law School at Santa Clara University. Ray has a long term interest in politics. He has been a member of the Libertarian Party since the year of its founding in 1972. He is past Chair of the Libertarian Party of Santa Clara County. He has found the AVCA to be a great source of knowledge about how local politics works and believes it is performing a vital service for the community. He has served two years as AVCA Secretary and two years as AVCA Vice President. He was elected Director in 2007 and is now serving the remainder of his term as Secretary.
Kitty Monahan, Director (Term: 2008-2010) NAQCPAKIT@aol.com
	Kitty, a retired educator, has been a director of AVCA for fifteen years. She is a past member of the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Commission and president of the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association. Kitty serves on numerous other boards including the New Almaden Community Club, Santa Clara County Trail Task Force, Preservation Action Council, Friends of Santa Teresa County Park, California Conservation Corp., Bay Area Ridge Trail, and the Citizens Advisory Board of the Santa Clara County Open Space District.
Pat McMahon, Director (Term: 2008-2010) PMcMahon@prodigy.net
	Pat and his wife, Margie, have lived in Shadow Brook, where they raised three sons and one daughter, since 1970. After completing his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and his M.B.A. at Stanford, he worked at IBM in San Jose, Palo Alto, and Havant, England, as a Quality Engineer, Systems Engineer, and Quality Manager. Pat subsequently held quality professional positions at Acuson and Sun Microsystems, and is currently a Business Performance Improvement Consultant. He is a ten-year Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Examiner, a Senior Examiner for the California Governor's Golden State Quality Award, and a member of the Board of Judges for the International Asia Pacific Quality Award. Pat was on the Board of Directors of the Council for Continuous Improvement for ten years, serving as Chairman in 2002. He is a past Director for the Silicon Valley chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), is an ISPI Certified Performance Technologist, and is a recipient of the ISPI Outstanding Human Performance Intervention Award. He has written extensively on quality and business performance topics, and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences. Pat is a member of the San Jose Leadership Council and, as a regular light rail user, has a particular interest in transportation issues.
Steve Levine, Director (Term: 2008-2010) Steve Levin@msn.com
	Steve has been a resident of Almaden Valley since 1981. His children have attended Almaden Country School, Castillero, Leland, Los Alamitos, and Pioneer schools. He is an experienced software development, business development, marketing, sales, and technical writing person. He holds positions on the follow commissions and committees: • AVCA Transportation Committee – Chairman • Santa Clara County Roads Commission – County District 1 representative • Commuter Network Committee – member • Comprehensive County Expressway Planning Study Policy Advisory Board – Roads Comm. Rep. Previous positions: • AVCA/AVHA – Vice President of Transportation • Horizon 2000 (San Jose planning study) – member • Route 85 Task Force (advocacy group to build Route 85) – President • Santa Clara County Transportation Commission – San Jose representative • Operations Committee (bus and light rail) – Vice Chairman • Transportation 2020 (County planning study) – member • Woodside of Almaden Homeowners’ Association – President
Teddy Morse (Term: 2008-2010) theodoramorse@yahoo.com
	A native Californian, Teddy and her family moved to the Almaden Valley from Southern California in 1978. She attended San Jose State University taking public relations and journalism courses. Retired from Santa Clara Valley Water District, Teddy spent the majority of her 25-year career as the district’s public information officer. In this capacity, she served as a liaison between the community and the water district. Other community service includes coaching Almaden Valley youth soccer, team mom for Almaden Valley Little League, manager of Almaden and Blossom Valley youth softball, and six years on the San Jose Traffic Appeals Commission. Currently Teddy volunteers at the information desks for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau’s airport location. Teddy and husband Tom have two grown daughters and one grandson.

Committees

Lee Dimmitt, Membership Committee LDimmitt@aol.com

Lee is a native of San Jose who graduated from San Jose High School, attended San Jose State College and has lived in Almaden Valley since 1968, where his two daughters grew-up attending our local Almaden schools and now also live in Almaden. He has a granddaughter attending Leland High School. Lee served in the military during the Korean Conflict and Vietnam War as an Electronic Technician, a Navy Carrier Pilot, and a flight instructor, retiring as a Lieutenant Commander after 20 years of service in the Naval Reserves. He also retired from Pan American Airways as Captain after 25 years of flying international routes over many continents, and is currently an active general aviation pilot flying out of San Jose. Lee became active in community affairs as a member of the Woodside of Almaden Homeowners Association starting in 1977 by serving as newsletter editor and later as vice-president for that organization until 2006. Lee has also served as Master of his lodge, Commander of his American Legion Post, and is the recipient of the Golden Gate Award for outstanding achievement in the Toastmasters organization. Lee is also the Vice President of the Magliocco/Huff Owners Association which over several years converted a neighborhood with drive-by shootings and dope dealers into a viable family community with the help of property owners and city officials. He became a member of AVCA in 1997 and served for four years as Vice President of our organization. He then served as AVCA President until Spring 2007. Lee is also the AVCA Communications Manager.

Communications Manager: Lee Dimmitt LDimmitt@aol.com

Parks and Recreation Committee: Kitty Monahan NAQCPAKIT@aol.com

Transportation Committee: Steve Levin Steve_Levin@msn.com

Special Positions

Trent Engler, Public Safety Advisor Trent.Engler@SanJoseca.gov

Trent has lived in Almaden Valley since 1969. He has attended Simonds Elementary, Bret Harte and Castillero Junior High, Leland High, San Jose City College, Mission College, and Cal State Long Beach. Trent has over 24 years of Fire Service experience. He is certified as an Emergency Medical Technician, Hazardous Materials Specialist, Rescue Systems Instructor, Urban Search and Rescue Team, Certified in Fire Prevention, and a Fire Officer, to name just a few specialties. He is currently employed as a Fire Captain with San Jose Fire Department. Trent has been a member of AVCA since 2000.

Linda Stone, Web Site Editor stonels02@yahoo.com

Linda is a California native who attended Bret Harte and Leland in Almaden Valley. She has spent over 15 years in the legal profession managing several firms while studying law. Looking for a career change, Linda began to study journalism and found a job at an East Bay newspaper as a reporter and eventually became manager of a publication that served five cities. Currently Linda is a freelance writer who lives with her husband Jim, a meteorologist, in Almaden.

Bob Boydston, Special Projects rboydnet@sbcglobal.net

An Almaden resident since 1965, Bob has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a graduate Business degree from the University of Chicago. He is a former air force pilot and has been active in a variety of volunteer programs including Amnesty International and the interviewing of student candidates for the University of Chicago. He has served as Treasurer for the University of Chicago Bay Area Alumni Group and the IBM San Jose Retirement Club. Bob is an IBM retiree with experience in market planning, computer modeling, and financial system programming. He currently acts as an investment advisor for clients and with his wife, Adele, has founded a Boydston Family Foundation which gives grants to educational, artistic, and environmental organizations. He was AVCA Treasurer from 1997 until 2001, was responsible for the ARK program until the end of 1998, and was editor of the AVCA Web site from 1997 to 2005. He served two terms as AVCA President, from 2001 to 2005.

Linda Stone, Web Site Editor stonels02@yahoo.com
	Linda is a California native who attended Bret Harte and Leland in Almaden Valley. She has spent over 15 years in the legal profession managing several firms while studying law. Looking for a career change, Linda began to study journalism and found a job at an East Bay newspaper as a reporter and eventually became manager of a publication that served five cities. Currently Linda is a freelance writer who lives with her husband Jim, a meteorologist, in Almaden.
Bob Boydston, Special Projects rboydnet@sbcglobal.net
	An Almaden resident since 1965, Bob has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a graduate Business degree from the University of Chicago. He is a former air force pilot and has been active in a variety of volunteer programs including Amnesty International and the interviewing of student candidates for the University of Chicago. He has served as Treasurer for the University of Chicago Bay Area Alumni Group and the IBM San Jose Retirement Club. Bob is an IBM retiree with experience in market planning, computer modeling, and financial system programming. He currently acts as an investment advisor for clients and with his wife, Adele, has founded a Boydston Family Foundation which gives grants to educational, artistic, and environmental organizations. He was AVCA Treasurer from 1997 until 2001, was responsible for the ARK program until the end of 1998, and was editor of the AVCA Web site from 1997 to 2005. He served two terms as AVCA President, from 2001 to 2005.