Meet Our Board of Directors...

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Michele Bisson Savoy is the President of the Ukiah Valley Friends of the Library. She resides in Hopland, CA with her husband (Lindsay) and two dogs. She has been a Mendocino County resident for over 15 years. Michele works in the publishing industry as the Western Regional Sales Manager for Qualibre, Inc. She represents book print manufacturing plants in Asia, the US and Europe. Michele joined the board over 2 years ago. She has been responsible for several key projects including the facebook page and the book bags. Michele believes in the library as a key part of the community.

David Poma is the vice president of the Ukiah Valley Friends of the Library. He lives in Ukiah with his Lori. He was born and raised in Ukiah. He has a son and a daughter. He also has three grandchildren and two grand dogs. He works for Alpha Analytical Labs as a driver. He makes all the runs to San Rafael for books for our book sales. He helps sort and deliver books to Goodwill. He has been on the board for about four years. He looks forward to a bright future for the Ukiah Library.

JanLaree De Julius; Treasurer-- Hello to all Friends of the Library and the Ukiah Community!!! I am serving as the Treasurer for the 2014-2015 year. I am a California native born on Coronado Naval Base in San Diego. I grew up in the East Bay and made my home in Marin and Napa counties before moving to Las Vegas in 2002. I have over 30 years working at the Executive Level as an Administrative Assistant & Supervisor, including 9+ years at Fair Isaac, (the place where your FICO score comes from  ). I concurrently worked as Co-owner, Administrator & Bookkeeper of DeJulius Electric from 1984-2002. In Las Vegas, I worked for the State of Nevada at a number of state agencies, including the Department of Business & Industry, University of Nevada Las Vegas and Health & Human Services prior to moving back to Northern California last July. I reside in Hopland with my daughter. I have been working at Savings Bank of Mendocino County in the Commercial Loans Department since August 2013. I look forward to serving on the Board and hope to see the library evolve and grow along with the community’s needs and interests.

Mary-Kate Stoever; Secretary As an upstart who slings one heck of a cappuccino (I used to own a café), I have always loved books. I’m more of a fiction than non-fiction reader. I don’t like e-books, and despite my telling everyone that I’m done with screens, I somehow manage the email, blog and other communications as the Board Secretary at FoL. I have 25 + years experience in grassroots organizing, membership, fund-raising, and non-profit administration. I bring a facility to working with multiple stakeholders with divergent views. I hope to bring Friends of the Library to the next level and increase Membership and donations, as well as engaging our Members to become more involved with FoL. Please-- Tell us what YOU would like from YOUR Library!

I, Nancy Trumble, am retired. During my working years I owned my own business for 10 years. I then worked for the University of California for numerous years. I have spent my life time being a bookkeeper and Budget Manager. I reside in Ukiah, CA with my husband Jim (who also helps with book sales and sorting). We both have been residents of Mendocino County for 60+ years. Being an avid reader I have always had an interest in the library. I attended the Friends of the Library board meetings and after several years became a member of the board for the Friends of the Library. I started volunteering with the Friends in 1984, took a break for several years, returned in 1996 to help with book sorting and have been active since. I have served as the book sale chairperson for the Friends of the Library for 12 years.

Hello! I am Carolina North, a resident of Redwood Valley for twenty-seven years and newly elected to the Board of our Ukiah Valley Friends of the Library. As a fully-credentialed working teacher in Ukiah, grades pre-school through junior college, I am delighted to be more directly involved in planning new outreach activities to meet the changing needs of our library public of all ages. I look forward to hearing your suggestions for the expansion and improvement of all services at our Ukiah Library!

Darline Bergere has served on many boards and is very active in our community. Darline is Past president and Fun Raising Chair of Ukiah Symphony Association. She served on CASA as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children, a past board member MESA (Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement); and past board member of Ukiah Civic Light Opera. Darline was a Citizen Advisor for WIB, Workforce Investment Board. Ambassador Chair and former board member Ukiah Chamber of Commerce. Past president of Habitat for Humanity – she was responsible for bringing Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat to Ukiah to dedicate the houses Habitat for Humanity had built. In addition to all this, Darline owned an Antique Store in Sonoma County and was elected by Sonoma Business Magazine as the best antique store in Sonoma County. And she worked as an insurance broker – wrote with 46 companies – built the business from zero to over a million in 7 years. As a published author, she wrote Images of America – Ukiah Arcadia Publishing – 2010 and Images of America – Ukiah Legendary Locals –To be released this fall.

Annie Gould has served on the Friends of the Library (FOL) Board of Directors for the past 18 years, many of them as President. She is an inveterate reader who can be seen reading a book as she walks to & from the Library. Annie works for Savings Bank of Mendocino County as a Solution Strategist,while finding many volunteer opportunities, some of her own creation. For example, FEED ANNIE’S CHICKENS was active for over 5 years, gathering Kitchen Scraps from local restaurants with a rotating bucket system, then distributing them to local chicken farmers. Annie works hard on the important causes she believes in: the Friends of the Library, Plowshares, Ecstatic Dances, and the NOT WASTING network. She recycles everything & then some. Her hobbies include mending,inventing things to improve life, and writing the occasional WIBGI – Wouldn’t It Be Great If column for the Friends Newsletter. She has Bill, a retired teacher husband who fishes and writes fiction, and grown sons Andy & Peter. She loves her life now & wouldn’t trade these years for anything. “Please accept our constant invitation to any & all FOL members to attend our monthly meetings. Listen to what’s going on, add your comments, help steer this group as you would like it to go. We welcome you! MONTHLY –2nd Wednesday at 6 pm, in the Ukiah Library – see you there.”

Dr. Jeanine Pfeiffer is an ethnoecologist living in the hinterlands of Mendocino County where she hosts the weekly music show "Native Sound" on KZYX&Z public radio. Her research and teaching focus on the links between biological and cultural diversity, and her writing spans the poetic, peer-reviewed, prosaic, and profane. A lecturer at San José State University, she's been a bibliophile since toddler-hood. In addition to serving on the Ukiah Friends of the Library Board, she’s an active part of Ukiah Writer’s Read, serves on the Salmon Restoration Association Board (Ft. Bragg) and was part of Leadership Mendocino Class XXI. While on Board with the Friends, she’s looking forward to increasing library outreach and collaboration with local businesses and community agencies.

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Susan Allen