I think I'll probably need more yoga. I think the best reactions came from Charlie Cameron, my colleague in Washington County, and Pauline Anderson - outright prolonged laughter. Jane Ediger and Doug Swanson on behalf of my dinner group gave me these two shirts. Now I'm going to share some of my personal history, but first I want to put it in context. Most of the time, when you get a new County Chair, you have a campaign first.
Campaigns usually take months.
I'm going to condense that whole process into about twenty minutes. It is quite a cast of characters. Doug Sherman is my college friend and my reason for moving to Oregon. At 24, we fulfilled our dream of starting our own school at Cleveland High School. From Doug I felt the magic of a very close working relationship and learned that you can do what you want to do and make a difference in the lives of kids and families.