My wife Robyn and I moved to Fairmount in 2016 and live in a Mission style house custom built by the Draper family in 1928.  We are both proud graduates of U of O and really enjoy the sense of community, unique history, and natural spaces associated with the neighborhood.  I have witnessed many neighborhoods transform over the 34 years I have lived in Eugene, and I commit to help carefully facilitate the evolution of Fairmount.  Fairmount has always been a diverse community closely associated with learning, entrepreneurship, and the arts.  I wish to help promote and celebrate this tradition through historic preservation and education, fostering efficient and sustainable transportation, and preserving the overall livability of the place we call home.

Having lived many other places, my husband and I highly value the historic character, trees, parks, and overall livability of Fairmount neighborhood, where we've lived 15 years in a classic 1949 home.  These are things I hope my board service can help preserve for future generations.  I want to help neighbors have a voice in city and community issues that affect us.  I work as a software architect, having built systems for university, medical, real estate, manufacturing, and legal sectors.  I enjoy managing the neighborhood website.  I have volunteered in the past related to high tech, special needs children, and senior services.

I’ve happily been the co-owner of Beppe and Gianni’s Trattoria since 1998 and a resident with my wife Conni since 2002.  We enjoy the mix of the natural environment combined with the historic nature of the Fairmount neighborhood and the energy of the University.  I feel that the neighborhood association is a good conduit between neighbors and the City of Eugene regarding many livability issues.  Over the years I have had opportunities to serve on several boards, committees and commissions such as the City of Eugene Budget Committee and the Planning Commission.  Currently I am Ward 2 and 3 EWEB commissioner.  These experiences and my position on the board will help me serve the neighborhood.  Conni and I always look forward to meeting with neighbors new and old.

My family has lived in the neighborhood since 1988, we raised two children who went to the local schools, TBI, Edison, Roosevelt, South Eugene High School and the U of O.  My passion in the neighborhood is to watch it grow and change as our world changes around us, and my goal is to always make things better.  I am an Architect, co-own GMA Architects with Offices in downtown Eugene and Portland.  I love my work and the neighborhood, the city and the region.  Because of my work and studies, I hope that I can help developers and residents understand the real impacts of building on the environment and the neighborhood.  I also have been on the Arena Monitoring Committee and Neighborhood Arena Liaison Committee since the Matthew Knight Arena was conceived on the Williams Bakery Site.  I walk around the neighborhood and Hendrix Park almost every day.

I have lived at the corner of Orchard and Fairmount for 34 years and feel very fortunate to call this neighborhood my home.  Before retiring from a career in event management two years ago, I had the opportunity to work with the University of Oregon, the City of Eugene and numerous service organizations.  It is my hope to apply my experience to protecting the unique charm of the Fairmount Neighborhood.  I’m particularly interested in monitoring the changes that are occurring or are planned in the areas of traffic flow, density, and sustainability.

I first contracted “Willamette Valley Fever” during a summer studying in Portland over 35 years ago.  This apparently permanent affliction eventually resulted in settling in the Fairmount neighborhood of Eugene these past 28 years.  It has been a blessing to live in a lovely community with a balance of urban and natural resources.  After a career in medicine I joined the board to give back to a neighborhood which has given us so much over so many years. I am an amateur historian fortunate enough to be the current caretaker of a 1926 house and hope to help preserve our neighborhood architecture and ambience even as we need to look forward with new changes.  I personally see understanding our past and preserving portions of our past as requisite to both understanding the present and guiding our plans for the future.  I enjoy working with neighbors old and new as we move forward.  I share other board member comments that the pandemic has only redoubled our commitment to work together for the future.  Thank you for the opportunity and please say hello.

I am a 5th generation Oregonian having been born in Eugene at the old Sacred Heart Hospital and soon after, my parents bought a home at 1638 Orchard Street and I grew up there in the same neighborhood in which my father also grew up.  In those days the neighborhood had a half dozen youth living on each block and we played at Fairmount Park “swimming” in the pool or jumping on a trampoline.  Orchard street was also our playground as there were very few cars that were not local.  While I pine for those days I recognize that they will never return.  However I hope that I can slow down the ingression of campus housing into our neighborhood.  I also want to reduce the traffic I see traversing our neighborhood south of Franklin Blvd.  I do not believe that city leaders and those in the neighborhood association have heard my voice and the voice of many other residents.  Today I live at 2081 Fairmount, the home that my father grew up in and in which his grandchildren also thrived.  He and I attended Condon Grade School and then Roosevelt Junior High.  These were different buildings but the same name.  Edison is now the grade school that we support.  Dad graduated from University High and I and my 2 children graduated from South Eugene.  Needless to say we are committed to the Fairmount neighborhood and continuing to see it prosper and be the livable neighborhood in which I was raised.  I see many dollars of tax revenue being spent on projects that do not seem to solve the problems for which they are being built.  I am now retired but as a dentist I always looked for the problem prior to trying a treatment to correct something that had not been identified.  I have been a member and president of the Oregon Board of Dentistry and currently serve as a lay member of the Disciplinary Board for the Oregon State Bar.  I enjoy representing an unrepresented segment of our neighborhood. 

I have lived in the neighborhood 15 years with my husband and son in a 1927 cottage built by WF Reed.  I am a "double duck" with an MEd in curriculum and teaching and an MS in Arts Administration from UO.  I am in my fifth year teaching middle school in the 4j school district.  I was an advisor to Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's educator companion to Library of Congress Living Nations Living Worlds project, an American Revolution inquiry design model reviewer for the National Museum of the American Indian, mentor for the Grow Your Own program with UO Sapsik'ʷałá (Ichishkíin / Sahaptin word translating to “teacher”) Program, and contributed to the 2022 Oregon Climate / Sustainability Curriculum Summit.  I've worked for museums and culture centers, most recently 10 years with Lane County History Museum.  I love discussing the history and lore of our neighborhood and periodically post history related items on the Fairmount Neighbors' Facebook page.  Often you will see me walking my dog, Lotte, around the Laurelwood area.  She is hard to miss - she is huge, bright white, loves children, and stops to eats ALL the acorns.  Please say hello if you see us walking around!

I moved here in 1984 to attend UO after graduating from UC Berkeley, and I received an MS degree in Urban and Regional Planning in 1987.  I have lived on Orchard Street with my husband Alan since 1988.  I worked for the City of Springfield for over 23 years as a land use planner, Environmental Services Manager, Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission General Manager, and Public Works Director.  After retiring from the City, I started Stony Creek Consulting, which focuses on supporting local governments across the state in meeting water quality and wastewater/stormwater infrastructure challenges and permit requirements.  I’ve returned to the FN Board after serving on the Board over twenty years ago, and I have provided FN representation on the Fairmount/East Campus Traffic Study, the Walnut Mixed Use Plan, and the Arena Subcommittee and Arena Monitoring Committee.  My neighborhood concerns focus on traffic management and parking, impacts of UO events on the neighborhood, protection of our neighborhood’s historic character and livability, and our neighborhood tree canopy.  I’m also interested in assisting with emergency preparedness.  When I’m not in my garden or walking my dog, I enjoy cooking, hiking (especially in Hendricks Park), and SCUBA diving.

I have lived in Eugene since 1977 with the last 15 years in the Fairmount neighborhood.  I’ve raised four children here who attended South Eugene High School.  Three of my children were diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes during their childhood.  I used my registered nursing experience for 9 years as the school nurse at O'Hara Catholic School, where I served as one of two women on O'Hara's school board, contributing to decisions regarding tuition, standards, and more.  During my almost 50 year nursing career I worked in a variety of capacities.  I helped establish the first pharmaceutical clinical research center in 1982 working at Patterson Internal Medicine.  I managed a team of 5 individuals who entered patients on clinical research trials which were monitored and funded by large national pharmaceutical companies such as Merck, Lilly and Pfizer, etc.  I also worked for 15 years at the University of Oregon Health Center as a lead nurse and then as a certified Diabetes Educator teaching for-credit classes to students with Type 1 Diabetes.  I continued my work as a contract Diabetes Educator in the greater public school system with younger children until retiring in 2018. I love to read and to be creative in my life, gardening and working on sewing projects.  Much of my attention is focused on enjoying our 17 grandchildren and spending time with them. I enjoy working on projects with others and with the grandchildren and making the world a place where people feel heard and valued.  My husband, Lee and I have been happily married for 15 years.