Mamie is a founding Board member of the Foundation. Her environmental activism began in 1993 when residents of the Hillside Neighborhood organized as Friends of McAleer Creek to preserve an important wetland in that community (now a portion of the Cole Nature Preserve). She served six years on the Lake Forest Park Parks and Recreation Commission and has a long history of volunteerism including PTA at all levels, President of the UW Faculty Auxiliary, UW Faculty Housing Service, and community and youth oriented activities. She has completed programs leading to Wetland, Land and Water, and Native Plant Stewardship. Mamie and Chuck have three grown children and six grandchildren, and have lived in their home since 1961. Their home has been in LFP since 1994.
Carol Dahl
As a founding member of the Stewardship Foundation, Carol achieved her goal of helping to preserve the environmental integrity of Lake Forest Park. She currently serves on the Arts Council of Shoreline/Lake Forest Park. Previous Board experience includes the Third Place Commons, Seattle Tilth Association and as Chair of the City’s Parks and Recreation Commission. Following retirement from U.S. WEST Communications, Carol worked as the coordinator/trainer for the City of Seattle’s Backyard Composting Program. Volunteer experience includes the Lake Forest Park Rotary, The Nature Conservancy, Seattle Chamber Music Society and Brookside Elementary School. Affiliations with the Puget Sound Grantwriters Association & Northwest Development Officers Association help her stay up-to-date in the non-profit field. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from City University. Carol & Vern have lived in Lake Forest Park since 1975.
Libby Fiene
Libby has lived in Lake Forest Park for 30 years. A graduate of Smith
College, she currently works at Shoreline Community College. Her 10 years in
Aspen CO and Jackson WY gave her a strong interest in preserving the
environment. For the past seven years she has been converting her family’s
secluded yard on Lyon Creek to native plants, and has it registered as a
Backyard Wildlife Habitat with both the National Wildlife Federation and the WA
Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. One of her goals on the Board has been the
certification of Lake Forest Park as a Community Wildlife Habitat. This was
fulfilled in April 2007. Her husband, Don, is a member of the Lake Forest Park
City Council. They have 2 grown daughters.
Natasha Grossman
Natasha grew up in the lower Horizon View area of Lake Forest Park and moved back to this city to be closer to her parents. She manages the "Walk-a-Mile" program at the UW School of Social Work, that matches policy makers with their low-income constituents. She and her husband have two young sons and a keen interest in art.
Doug Hennick
Doug’ first career was that of an oceanographer in the NOAA Corps.
Following retirement from NOAA he became a stream ecologist for King County, and
then a fish and wildlife biologist for the State of Washington. He still works
for the Department of Fish and Wildlife as the Watershed Steward for the
Stillaguamish and Snohomish River basins. His graduate school work was in
freshwater ecology, so he feels like a salmon that started in freshwater, then
went to sea, and finally has returned to where he belongs, in the freshwater
environment again. He has lived in Lake Forest Park since 1999.
Doug Mitchell
Doug Mitchell was one of the founders of the Stewardship Foundation and served as its President for its first four years. He's lived in Lake Forest Park since 1994. Doug is employed by an out-of-state company as a Software Engineer, and also enjoys playing jazz guitar and spending time with his son, Raymond.
Rick Purn comes to the Stewardship Foundation as an activist and educator. While living in the Portland, Oregon vicinity, he became actively involved in leading students to outdoor camp for one week each year. Ecological studies involved investigations in soil, water, plants and animals. After moving to Sunriver, Oregon, Rick continued his involvement with outdoor education. Students extensively studied plant and animals of the high desert as they worked in cooperation with the Sunriver Nature Center and High Desert Museum in Central Oregon. Rick also helped the Museum get started by teaching a class called “Patterns in Nature” based on the Fibonacci number pattern. Since moving to Lake Forest Park, Rick has involved his 3rd grade students in various environmental learning projects, including helping to save the Lyon Creek property before it became a park.
Jean is a practicing Family Physician who has lived in Lake Forest Park since 1994. She was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After receiving her undergraduate degree from MIT, she lived and traveled in Scotland, New Zealand and California before attending Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Jean completed her residency training at the University of Washington. In her spare time Jean enjoys theater, the outdoors (restoring wetlands, of course) and is thrilled to have made her home in the beautiful Northwest.
Yuichi Shoda, Ph.D.
Yuichi is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. He was born and raised in Japan. After studying physics and geophysics at Hokkaido University, he studied psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Stanford University, and Columbia University, where he received his degree in 1990. Yuichi has been at the University of Washington since 1996 and has lived in Lake Forest Park since 1997. He serves on grant review panels at the National Institute of Health, and is on the editorial boards of two scientific journals. He confesses to not knowing which stream the rain falling on his roof went into until joining the LFPSF. He feels this is a good start for knowing and respecting how our lives and our long-term future depend on, and affect, the rest of the world.
Advisory Board Member Roster
The
Foundation also has an Advisory Board, which consists of distinguished members
of the community who have specific areas of expertise related to the mission and
strategies of the Foundation. They are: