APH Region & Chapter Chairs

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Arizona Region (United States)

Asia Region (Asia)

China, Japan, South Korea

Jay Surh Asia Region Chair	Jay Surh is the founding chair of the Association of Personal Historians (APH) new Asia Region serving Korea, China and Japan. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Jay attended college in the USA and graduated from University of Michigan with MBA. Since then, as a seasoned international business man, Jay traveled to numerous countries including UK, Germany, Japan, Canada, and lived in the USA. Through these travelling, he acquired strong interests in studying the differences; in culture, language, and people. He also found that there are commonalities among these differences; one�s own share of histories of lives with all necessary ingredients in macro as well as micro. Now being a sort of semi-retired entrepreneur defying natural aging with ever young spirits, he looking for a new opportunity that would capitalize the commonalities he found. Jay discovered the industry of �Personal Historian�, a relatively new name to him, perhaps also to his fellow Koreans and to other Asians as well. He recognized this industry has lot to share especially since Asia countries include many of the oldest cultures, with strong beliefs in families and relations, mainly dictated by Confucius for thousands of years. Jay and others determined that it should be essential to join an already active body with experience and know-how such as APH. �To promote this relatively foreign concept, we would love to act as APH's regional chapter for us to learn, teach, share, and supply its experiences and technology for neighboring countries, translated and adapted into their own languages. » Read more about Jay » Email Jay Surh

California Region (United States)

Julie Blade Northern California Chapter Chair	Julie Blade is a relative newcomer to APH and to the Regional Coordinator�s role. She began her company Lifetime Chronicles � Capturing Life�s Special Memories in the fall of 2010 and was fortunate to be immediately awarded a project. Her first book was recently published and has been well received. Julie�s professional hats have included social worker, Head Start and elementary school teacher, trainer and team manager with Bank of America and Citibank, and 20+ years as an independent instructional designer working with large corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area. She believes her past ultimately led her to becoming a personal historian, which she believes is the most important and most gratifying work she has ever done. In addition to interviewing clients and ghostwriting their autobiographies, Julie facilitates small groups who write their own life stories through the Guided Autobiography process. Julie has three grown children and four grand children. Her interests, in addition to writing and family, are singing, gardening, and hiking. » Read more about Julie » Email Julie Blade
Rachael Rifkin Southern California Chapter Chair	Rachael Rifkin works in print and has been a member of APH since 2009. She started out as a journalist and began calling herself a memoirist in late 2008 because she didn't yet know the term personal historian. She loves people's stories and is very happy to have found work that she is passionate about. Rachael is a lifelong Southern Californian, minus brief stays in Northern California, New York, and the Netherlands. She's quite partial to reading, knitting, juggling, playing with her dogs, and laughing with her husband. Much to her great disappointment, and despite fervent practice, she cannot whistle. She's also short. Furthermore, she's not especially good at writing short biographical sketches about herself, and would rather not discuss how long this took her to write. » Read more about Rachael » Email Rachael Rifkin » Southern California Chapter website

Eastern Canada Region (Canada)

Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec

Eloise Lewis Eastern Canada Region Chair	One day, in 2007, Eloise Lewis was trying to think of a new career path. After more than 25 years in public relations and communications, she wanted to find something that would allow her to use her writing and interpersonal skills, as well as preserve the independence she had grown accustomed to in running her own business (and maybe continue to sneak in a few tennis games). Meanwhile, when she realized that her mother, who was in her nineties, was the last one standing of her generation, Eloise decided to record her mom�s life and make it into a book. Then she had what she thought was a brilliant, unique idea which was to do this for other people as well. Thus was her new business, LifeTales, born. Brilliant, maybe - but unique, no. She soon discovered the Association of Personal Historians, composed of like-minded souls who shared the same passion for preserving life stories. Since joining APH, she has completed several books for clients in the Toronto area and is excited to be witnessing the growth of the field of personal history in Canada and around the world. » Read more about Eloise » Email Eloise Lewis

Great Lakes Region (United States)

Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio

Carolyn Parrott Indiana & Kentucky Chapter Chair	Carolyn Parrott founded Kept Memory in 2011, but the idea for the business was born several years earlier when she wrote stories from her life and put them in hardbound books as gifts to two of her granddaughters. Soon thereafter friends and family began to request her help to create family history, tribute, and special occasion books. She has completed several personal history projects for members of the Greatest Generation. Before becoming a personal historian, Carolyn worked in the career management field where she honed her skills of interviewing, writing, facilitating, and project management. These skills, her love of helping people tell their stories, and her lifelong hobbies of photography and creating things of artistic beauty combine in personal history to make work feel like play. In addition to her chosen work, she gets great joy from being known among her grandchildren as the go-to person for amazing costumes, creative party decorations, and homemade biscuits. Carolyn is excited about taking on the role of Indiana Chapter Coordinator. According to Carolyn, the Great Lakes Regional Coordinators welcomed her right away when she joined APH, and that made an immediate difference with opportunities for colleagues and ongoing learning. » Read more about Carolyn » Email Carolyn Parrott
Deb Moore Michigan Chapter Chair	Deb Moore, a lifelong Grand Rapidian, started her business The Stories of Your Life in 2003 to help individuals, families, and businesses preserve their history in book form. As a personal historian, Deb has helped dozens of local residents preserve their life stories, written two church histories, a centennial history of a school district, and a company history for a local business. Deb was a member of the S.O.U.L. of Philanthropy team, a group of local personal historians who recorded the stories and reflections of top Grand Rapids philanthropists for the 2008 documentary film, �The Gift of All--a Community of Givers.� Deb has made presentations on memoir writing at local libraries, retirement homes, senior centers and Calvin College�s Youth Writing Festival. She served as APH's Regions Director from 2009-2010. The field of personal history combines Deb's love of local and family history, genealogy, reading, writing, conversation, photographs, and scrapbooking. » Read more about Deb » Email Deb Moore
Carolyn Parrott Ohio Chapter Chair	Carolyn Parrott founded Kept Memory in 2011, but the idea for the business was born several years earlier when she wrote stories from her life and put them in hardbound books as gifts to two of her granddaughters. Soon thereafter friends and family began to request her help to create family history, tribute, and special occasion books. She has completed several personal history projects for members of the Greatest Generation. Before becoming a personal historian, Carolyn worked in the career management field where she honed her skills of interviewing, writing, facilitating, and project management. These skills, her love of helping people tell their stories, and her lifelong hobbies of photography and creating things of artistic beauty combine in personal history to make work feel like play. In addition to her chosen work, she gets great joy from being known among her grandchildren as the go-to person for amazing costumes, creative party decorations, and homemade biscuits. Carolyn is excited about taking on the role of Indiana Chapter Coordinator. According to Carolyn, the Great Lakes Regional Coordinators welcomed her right away when she joined APH, and that made an immediate difference with opportunities for colleagues and ongoing learning. » Read more about Carolyn » Email Carolyn Parrott

Hawaii Region (United States)

International Region (International)

Austria, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Other, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Latin America Region (Latin America)

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

Alex Forman Latin America Region Chair	I�ve lived in many different countries and speak a few different languages. I�ve chosen to live in Brazil. Of all cities: in Rio. Of all places: in Urca. Here I created the Urca Institute, where everything we do ends in stories. We understand how people of all walks of life have the deep need to share and preserve their life stories. In addition to co-creating personal histories for book publication with individual clients, the URCA Institute projects itself into a sustainable future by creating memory centers and institutional histories, films, books, photo-books and exhibitions, audio walks, courses, and study groups. A year ago, we started a series of writing workshops and developed our methodology for the "mutual interview," where we train listening facilitators to interview neighbors, young and old, workers, residents, and students, able-bodied and disabled, sighted and non-sighted. Facilitators can then co-create intimate texts and treatments based on these conversational narratives. We also produce audio and film recordings, where individual voices contribute to community building. Our goal is to bring APH to Brazil and Latin America and to rally and train more journalists, ghostwriters, authors and memoirists into an archive of personal histories worldwide. » Read more about Alex » Email Alex Forman

Lower Southeast Region (United States)

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands

Mid-Atlantic Region (United States)

District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia

Karla Haworth Metro Washington, DC Chapter Chair	Karla Haworth has been working as a journalist, writer, editor, and project manager for nearly 20 years. After moving away from full-time writing and reporting in 2002, she discovered what she had loved best about journalism: the deep sense of connection and satisfaction in listening to and recording her subjects' stories. Karla longed to tell those amazing stories full-time, and was delighted to find so many APH members were doing just that! She joined APH in 2011, and has attended the annual conferences in Las Vegas and St. Louis. She launched her business, Periwinkle Muse Personal Histories, in Annandale, VA, in 2012. » Read more about Karla » Email Karla Haworth
Ford Fuller Pittsburgh Chapter Chair	Ford Fuller began his marketing and communications consulting business after two decades in marketing communications with Westinghouse Electric and companies in the computer software, steel mill equipment, and direct mail services industries. Over the years, he's drafted and edited marketing and sales brochures, direct mail pieces, newsletters, advertisements, multimedia presentations, working with graphic designers, ad agencies, and direct mail houses. Following the untimely death of his mother, he began to nurture the idea of using his editing, writing and project management skills to help others preserve the stories of their lives for the benefit of loved ones. He joined APH and decided to put his talents to work as a life story writer. Ford earned a B.A. in political science from Duke University, with an unofficial minor in music appreciation. He devoted many hours to choral singing with the Duke University Chapel Choir and Chorus. He's continued his devotion to choral singing as an enthusiastic tenor now in his 18th year with the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale and, lately, as a budding barbershopper with the North Hills Harmony Line Chorus. » Read more about Ford » Email Ford Fuller
Suzanne Lee Upstate New York Chapter Chair	Suzanne Lee is the owner of Suzanne Lee Personal Histories in Fairport, New York. Suzanne has been a personal historian and APH member since 2012. Suzanne was previously an editor and writer at a software company, and a genealogy buff, researching her own family's history and writing two books about her family on her own before deciding to help other families do the same thing. She has a B.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire. Suzanne works primarily in print, producing books for her clients to share with their families. She also provides editing and proofreading services. » Read more about Suzanne » Email Suzanne Lee
Taylor Whitney Upstate New York Chapter Chair	Taylor Whitney (APH member since 1998) has over 25 years combined experience in film preservation and photographic preservation. She is president and founder of Preserving the Past, LLC, established in 1997 in Los Angeles, CA. Her client base includes business, corporate, fine art, personal and institutional. Services include converting film, video, audio and photographs to digital, organizing digital assets and original elements, re-housing, creating searchable databases, and cold storage. Another well-regarded aspect to Preserving The Past is working with clients to document the stories behind the images. Prior to launching her business, Taylor worked in post-production and film preservation in Hollywood for major motion picture studios for several years before expanding her knowledge base to include photographic preservation by earning her Master of Arts in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson University in Toronto in collaboration with George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Preserving The Past, LLC is headquartered in Rochester with offices in Los Angeles and clients worldwide. » Read more about Taylor » Email Taylor Whitney

Midwest Region (United States)

Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin

Monica Lee Chicago Chapter Chair	Monica Lee, coordinator for the Chicago chapter of the Association of Personal Historians, is a storyteller at heart. A resident of Hampshire, Ill., and a member of APH since 2012, she helps people organize and enjoy a lifetime of photos and tell their stories in meaningful, beautiful ways in her business, Clickago Storywerks. She was at various times a newspaper reporter, a headline writer, an executive with a worldwide scrapbooking company, communications director with a food company dedicated to bringing families around the dinner table and a membership representative for the Association of Personal Photo Organizers, of which she is also a member. She has also written a memoir, �The Percussionist�s Wife: A Memoir of Sex, Crime & Betrayal. » Read more about Monica » Email Monica Lee
Sherry Borzo Des Moines Chapter Chair	Sherry Borzo is a professional interviewer with a honed talent that encourages others to remember and share stories of their life experiences. She has a genuine curiosity and interest in others and believes in the power of sharing stories, however small, to teach, heal and connect people. Sherry founded Storied Gifts in 2007 to help others document their memories so they can be shared and treasured for the future. In addition to her work as a personal historian, Sherry hosts the award-winning podcast "Entrepreneur People Real Stories," and co-hosts with her husband "The Delicious Story." She founded dsmBuzz, a grassroots organization that promotes the value of buying locally owned. Sherry and her mother, Sheryl Van Weelden, co-authored the book Under the Tea Leaves. Sherry's personal history business was profiled in July 2011 in the Des Moines Register. » Read more about Sherry » Email Sherry Borzo
Robbi Ryan Nebraska Chapter Chair	Robbi Ryan, the owner of Relative Connections, is an experienced genealogist, a story-teller, a family/personal historian, and writer with nearly fifteen years experience as a researcher, writer, and volunteer. She retired from "Corporate America" in 2012 where she worked as a PMI-certified Project Manager and Scrum Master, Quality Assurance Manager, and Technical Writer. In her retirement career Robbi writes personal and family histories for clients, blogs about "Researching in Nebraska", and researches both for clients and to enhance her own genealogy. She is also working on several books including a history of Nebraska women in the 20th Century. Robbi also volunteers for the FGS RPAC Committee, two Chapters of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Greater Omaha Genealogy Society, and the Omaha Women's Chamber of Commerce. Robbi is a member of several local and state genealogy and historical societies. Robbi is a member and Board Member of several Professional Societies. » Read more about Robbi » Email Robbi Ryan
Sue Hessel Wisconsin Chapter Chair	Sue Hessel has come back to a slogan from her youth "Think global. Act locally." since she agreed to become APH�s Regions Director as well as the co-cordinator for Wisconsin. APH is an international organization, which means we think globally. At the same time, we each live in a community, state and/or region where we take local actions,� she said. �We make a difference for families, individuals and organizations through the stories we preserve and share." Sue, who is from La Crosse, Wisconsin, calls her personal history business Lessons From Life because she believes that we all have stories, experiences and lessons to share with current and future generations. In writing dozens of history books for individuals, families, businesses, organizations and communities, Sue prides herself in doing research that fills in the history or what she calls the back story behind the events of individual lives. Sue, who also teaches life writing courses, believes the strength of personal history lies in connecting generations and helping young people appreciate the experiences of previous generations. » Read more about Sue » Email Sue Hessel
Patty Tomaszewski Wisconsin Chapter Chair	Patty Tomaszewski is a freelance writer, animal lover, gardener and proud grandmother. Patty has a master's degree in social work from the University of Hawaii, and a healthy obsession with history, genealogy and family histories. Born to a newly widowed mother, she grew up fascinated with exploring her own family's history and the stories that defined their past. She now is committed to preserving the treasured memories of others. Patty lives with her husband, Al, and their two Bernese Mountain Dogs in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. » Read more about Patty » Email Patty Tomaszewski

Northeast Region (United States)

Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont

Marjorie Turner Hollman Northeast Region Chair	Marjorie Turner Hollman is a personal historian, Certified Legacy Planner with legacystories.org, and is the author of Easy Walks in Massachusetts, and More Easy Walks in Massachusetts. She has presented workshops at regional conferences and was a classroom teacher for nine years. She has been a freelance writer for the Bellingham Bulletin and numerous other local, regional and national publications for the past 17 years. She has completed a number of personal history projects, and is the producer of the Bellingham Veterans Oral History project. » Read more about Marjorie » Email Marjorie Turner Hollman Marjorie is also the Massachusetts Chapter Chair
Tracy Messer New Hampshire Chapter Chair	Tracy W. Messer, APR, was destined to become a personal historian. Born and raised in the Washington, DC area, he has spent every summer at the 18th century New Hampshire farmhouse where his family has lived for six generations. He inherited his appreciation for storytelling and historical research listening to exchanges of Yankee wit and wisdom on the front porch and by investigating the treasure-trove of memorabilia from cellar to attic. After graduating from Dickinson College with a double-major in Psychology and Spanish, Tracy earned his master�s degree in Counseling from Colgate University. He spent the next decade serving as company historian for PC Connection, Inc. where he developed his interest in multimedia technology. During the past fifteen years, Tracy has worked as an Accredited Public Relations (APR) professional helping children and adults with disabilities to share their own life stories. Tracy has held leadership positions with a number of state and local historical societies and is producing a documentary about the 1941 forest fire that burned more than 24,000 acres in southwestern New Hampshire. He joined APH in 2013 and volunteered to serve as the New Hampshire chapter coordinator after attending the national conference in Bethesda, MD. Tracy welcomes this new opportunity to introduce APH to individuals, families and organizations throughout the Granite State and beyond. He lives in Peterborough, with his wife and their teenaged son and daughter. » Read more about Tracy » Email Tracy Messer

Northwest Region (United States)

Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Washington

Emily Garcia Portland-Oregon Chapter Chair	Emily Garc�a is a visual storyteller with a background in book design, book arts, and writing. She delights in working with individuals and families to preserve their stories, and welcomes collaborations with other personal historians. Her company, Cathemeral Press, specializes in creating exquisitely crafted and visually stunning personal history books. Emily joined APH in 2010 and launched Cathemeral Press later that year. Since then, she has been an active member of the Portland APH chapter, serving as the chapter's liaison to "big APH" and creating a simple chapter web page. She looks forward to continued involvement with and service to Portland's vibrant and enthusiastic community of personal historians. » Read more about Emily » Email Emily Garcia » Portland-Oregon Chapter website
AuraLee Loveland Portland-Oregon Chapter Chair	Aura Lee Loveland, M.S.W., has helped clients publish their life stories for over 20 years. The personal history spark began with her own grandparents, helping three of them create printed legacies that generations continue to enjoy. Working with clients from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest, she promises her clients she will provide �as much or as little� service as needed to help them complete their project. Aura Lee was a featured monthly columnist for the Canby Herald, writing �Stories of a Lifetime,� featuring long-time community members. Recently, she added genealogical research to her services. She is currently a partner with Time Preserved, Inc., a company offering personal and family history services and genealogical research. She also presents community seminars on the worth of personal and family histories. » Read more about AuraLee » Email AuraLee Loveland » Portland-Oregon Chapter website

Oceania Region (Oceania)

Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Polynesia

Gillian Ednie Oceania Region Coordinator	» Read more about Gillian » Email Gillian Ednie

Rocky Mountain Region (United States)

Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming

Cherie Orwig Colorado Chapter Chair	Cherie Orwig initiated Journeys and Memories, her personal history business, in 2008, to record and preserve family histories and develop legacy letters for loved ones. Her passion is long-standing, as she was raised in "small town USA" with family who regularly shared stories. Cherie currently facilitates a class in memoir writing at the University of Denver's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), is an active volunteer with the Colorado chapter of the Veterans History Project, a program of the U.S. National Archives, has completed training from the Center for Digital Storytelling and is working with the University of Colorado's Dignity Therapy initiative, a component of its palliative care program, on documenting patient stories. Cherie's career, first in social work, then in leading healthcare marketing and communications in Ohio and Colorado, has provided her with a toolkit of interpersonal communications and project management skills that are vital to documenting cherished family stories. » Read more about Cherie » Email Cherie Orwig
Paulette Stevens Utah Chapter Chair	Paulette F. Stevens, a native of Salt Lake City, graduated in 1969 from the University of Utah in English and history. She raised seven children, taught at a private boarding school and established the Children�s Museum of Utah. In 2003, after working as a journalist, she became a personal historian and has published over 40 books. Paulette served as the 2008 APH Conference Program Chairman. Since then, she has spearheaded an awareness of personal history in the community through teamwork with other APH members. In March 2012, she established the new Life Story Library Foundation. » Read more about Paulette » Email Paulette Stevens » Utah Chapter website

South Midwest Region (United States)

Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi

Peggy Greenwood St. Louis Area	Peggy Thomson Greenwood has been working in the field of family heritage for more than 25 years, empowered by the belief that every person has a life legacy to record and every descendant has a right and a need for a heritage. Her early career was in the academic world where she taught American History at the high school and college level. Greenwood accepted a position with an international corporation establishing and directing a department of training. What began as an investigation into a family mystery blossomed into a cottage industry she called Vagabond Information Services (VIS), a whimsical reference to our predecessors tendency to be travelers. Under the VIS umbrella, she has assisted more than 200 clients worldwide providing genealogy research and has produced nearly 20 memoirs. Greenwood has published more than 25 articles on diverse topics and received an Editor�s Choice Award in 2005. One particularly knotty genealogical problem led to pioneering research into the plight of orphans in St. Louis, Missouri in the 19th century. The work is referenced in the American Guidebook of Genealogy, by Ancestry.com, the St. Louis Genealogical Society and other reference guides. Peggy holds a bachelor�s degree in history and a master�s degree in sociology. » Read more about Peggy » Email Peggy Greenwood

Southwest Region (United States)

New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

Tom Gilbert New Mexico Chapter Chair	Tom Gilbert is the founder and developer of Your-Life-Your-Story.com. After a 30-year career in radio broadcasting, Tom began to work in the personal history field in 2003. He joined APH that year and discovered there are many interesting and talented people working in the field of personal history. Tom believes his strengths are interviewing and writing, but he also loves to teach others. He completed his certification to teach school in May of 2011 and has utilized life story preservation themes in the classroom and in life story workshops. When he's not running his personal history business, Tom enjoys running (two marathons and a several half-marathons), and following the Boston Red Sox (a lifetime fan!). Tom has been married 27 years and has two children and two grandchildren. He's proud of his illustrious great-grandfather Fred Gilbert, an original member of the Trapshooting Hall of Fame. » Read more about Tom » Email Tom Gilbert
Martha Humphries Texas Chapter Chair	Martha Humphries is a personal historian who helps clients collect and preserve their life stories. Using her writing, editing and interviewing skills gained in more than 30 years as a journalist as well as a natural curiosity for details, she helps clients resurrect memories and details from the past that make family stories come alive. Martha is certified by the Birren Center for Autobiography and Life Review to teach guided autobiography. Guided Autobiography classes help participants write their life story two pages at a time. Through writing and sharing stories with the others, students gain a growing appreciation of their own lives and the lives of others while documenting their own life stories for their families. Martha firmly believes that every one has a story that needs to be shared and preserved for future generations. » Read more about Martha » Email Martha Humphries » Texas Chapter website

United Kingdom Region (UK)

United Kingdom

Mike Oke United Kingdom Region Coordinator	Michael Oke began his company Bound Biographies in 1991 and since then has assisted with over 150 private biographies, while his team of writing partners have completed another 150. Via a series of home meetings, Mike or one of his writing partners reviews the client's writing, teasing out more fascinating information along the way, before editing, proofreading, inserting photos, and printing and binding the finished product. His company also offers ghost-writing services. Mike's business concept has attracted eight writing partners (franchisees) from around Britain, and two in Sweden. Mike is the author of Write Your Life Story and Times of Our Lives, both sponsored by The Daily Telegraph. He lectures extensively, and his work has been featured on BBC television and radio. Mike, who is married and has two children, enjoys cricket and squash and is active in his local Baptist church. He joined APH in 2006 and has attended three conferences. » Read more about Mike » Email Mike Oke

Upper Southeast Region (United States)

North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

Western Canada Region (Canada)

Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory

Pattie Whitehouse West Canada Region Chair	Pattie Whitehouse, coordinator of APH�s West Canada Region and the Victoria, B.C., chapter, fell into personal history in 1992 when she took on a volunteer project helping an elderly gentleman record his memoirs for his family. Since then, Pattie has helped dozens of people save their lives in print so their children�s grandchildren will know their family and personal heritage. Pattie�s background includes an M.A. in psychology, volunteer experience as a counselor, a previous career as manager of a small retail business and a decade pursuing journalism as a sideline. She has served on APH bylaws, membership and strategic planning committees, but the high point of her involvement with the organization so far was her adventure as program chair of �Voices of the Elders,� the association conference held in Victoria in 2010. �It was one of the most exciting experiences of my life,� she says. » Read more about Pattie » Email Pattie Whitehouse Pattie is also the Victoria Chapter Chair