New Officer & New Board Member

At our Winter membership meeting and holiday party, we reelected, by acclamation, Bette Reed, Outreach Vice President; Edie Koch, Treasurer; and returning Board members Frank Irigon, Mary Anderson, Joan Bethel, Rick Erickson, Vivian Lee, and Gene Lux.

Executive Board member, Frieda Takamura, was elected our new Secretary replacing Jim Weston, who stepped down from the Executive Board. Frieda was a public school teacher, and then union staff member with the Washington Education Association where she served as Human/Civil Rights Program Coordinator. She is also an active volunteer with many groups in the Asian Pacific Islander community and serves on state committees working to improve public education for students of color and also on the Safe Schools Coalition.

Bonny Oborn is newly elected to the Executive Board. Bonny worked as a public employee for 34 years, retiring five years ago from DSHS. She continues to participate in the activities of her WFSE local. Since her introduction to PSARA two years ago, she has attended conferences and street rallies for health care, immigration reform, campaign finance reform, and contract disputes.