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| Wendell Covalt: Third Vice President |
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| Wendell Covalt grew up in Indiana and received a Civil Engineering degree from Purdue University and a MBA in Finance from Indiana University. He spent most of his career as a sales executive and part owner of a computer software company that went public in 1994. His last position was the Director of Sales for Asia before retiring in 2005. Wendell is married and has three grown children and lives in Redondo Beach, CA. He has many interests including yoga, physical fitness, gardening, environmental groups, visiting national parks and international travel. |
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Dr. Lynn E. Gill, President
Ann Carley, First Vice President
Leonard Farrell, Second Vice President
Wendell Covalt, Third Vice President
Jack Crump, Secretary
Lola Ungar, Treasurer
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| Ken Pickar |
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| Ken Pickar is a Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Caltech. He teaches Entrepreneurship, the Engineering Design of Products for the developing World and the Management of Technology. He is on the Executive Committee of the Tech Coast Angels (LA network) and an active investor in new companies. He is a board member of one private and two public companies.
He has a PhD degree in Physics and worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, GE Corporate R&D and AlliedSignal Corporation where he was Senior Vice President.
Ken and his wife Sandy have three children and four grandchildren. They are enthusiastic gardeners.
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| Laurel Woodley |
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| Laurel Woodley is a retired biology professor from Los Angeles Harbor College who has been involved in Southern California horticulture since the mid 1960’s. A fourth generation Californian who was introduced to plants in her youth by her parents who operated H.F. Woodley Nursery (specializing in fern propagation), Laurel attended UCLA majoring in Zoology with a minor in Botany. In subsequent years she was fortunate to have traveled to distant lands while taking Natural History classes led by Mildred Mathias. She has been interested in southern California flora with a special fondness for desert adapted plants. This led to her teaching classes for UCLA Extension in Dry Climate Gardening Using Cacti and Succulents, Horticultural Uses of Southern California Native Plants and co-leading Natural History classes to Death Valley, Anza Borrego State Park, Baja California; the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains and ultimately Madagascar. Macro photography has allowed Laurel to capture on film, and more recently digitally, the beauty of flowers with a special emphasis on the traits which make the plant families unique.
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Debra Bushweit-Galliani
Robin Hill
Gudrun Kimmel
Irwin Lagusker
Timothy Piper
Thomas Shigekuni
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BOARD OF COUNCILORS
Juan Forteza
Dr. John M. Lacey |
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HONORARY TRUSTEES
Yoshinao Fukui
Mariana Hofer |
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