CASA
Welcomes New Members to the Board of Directors - July, 2007
CASA of the Pikes Peak Region has added four new members
to the Board
of Directors: Wayne Bland, Vice President,
Rocky Mountain Bank & Trust; Stuart Scott, President,
Stuart Scott, Ltd.; and Martin Thrasher, Attorney at Law.
Catherine Coulter Calvin, a CASA board member since 2005,
took over for Nancy Henjum as Board Chair on July 1, 2007.
WAYNE BLAND
Vice President
Rocky Mountain Bank & Trust Wayne grew up in Oklahoma and attended Oklahoma State University.
He holds a B.S. degree in Business and Marketing from OSU’s
College of Agriculture. Wayne moved to Colorado Springs
in January, 1999 and is currently the vice president of
Rocky Mountain Bank & Trust. Wayne is committed to
community service and has shared his time and talent with
many agencies including: Stillwater Board of Realtors,
Stillwater Chamber of Commerce, Stillwater Frontier Rotary
Club, Community Action, Inc., Payne County CASA, Stillwater
Public Library Fundraising Development Committee, Colorado
Springs Downtown Rotary Club, Colorado Mortgage Lenders
Association, and Pikes Peak Community Action Agency.
STUART SCOTT
President
Stuart Scott LTD
Stuart started his life in Honduras and moved to Colorado
in 1956. He attended college at Colorado State University
before serving in the Army as a Captain. Stuart and his
wife, Susie, came to Colorado Springs in 1972. Since then
he has developed real estate, sold commercial properties
and land, served as a receiver for lenders, converted apartment
houses to condominiums, and owned his own advertising agency.
Currently, he is a working broker and serves as President
of Stuart Scott Ltd., a boutique real estate brokerage
firm. Stuart is passionate about residential real estate,
working with families and their housing needs. He has served
on many boards in our community including American Heart
Association and Renaissance Academy.
MARTIN THRASHER
Attorney
J. Martin Thrasher, Attorney At Law
Early in his law career Martin was a prosecutor in the
Colorado Springs Municipal Court. The focus of his career
shifted in the 1980’s to the environmental field
where he helped to develop health and safety programs
for the City of Colorado Springs and Colorado Springs
Utilities.
As a Department Director, he was also a member of the
executive team responsible for developing vision, strategies
and
direction. Having worked for a local government agency,
Martin has extensive experience not only in technical
subject matters in the environmental, health and safety
field,
but also in administrative and personnel matters. He
retired from the City of Colorado Springs in 1999 and
has since
provided general legal counsel for the El Paso County
Health department; presided as an Administrative Hearing
Officer
for the Colorado Springs Utilities for customer disputes;
and, instructed for the U.S. Department of Interior and
for the University of Colorado in hazardous materials
management. Since January 2004, he has been the only
Municipal Judge
for the City of Manitou Springs. Martin has been active
in the community as Chairman, Barr Camp, Inc.; President
of the Friends of Beidleman Enviornmental Center, and
past-President of the Pikes Peak Dystonia Support Group.
He has also sponsored
foreign exchange students.
TAFARI LUMUMBA
Program Associate
El Pomar Foundation
Tafari grew up in Denver and attended Colorado College
where he majored in English. While in college, he interned
at the El Paso County District Attorney’s Office
and also attained a longtime goal of learning Spanish after
studying abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico. Tafari graduated cum
laude from Colorado College and won the Thomas J. Watson
Fellowship in 2005. Through this project, he volunteered
with small Mayan non-governmental organizations in Guatemala.
Currently, his work with El Pomar Foundation has exposed
him to an array of nonprofits through the Empty Stocking
Fund and site visits which are conducted with all grant
recipients. Through this fellowship he has received a greater
understanding of service-based nonprofits and how foundations
fill important needs. Tafari has had previous work experience
with nonprofits at the volunteer, service, and foundation
level. In high school and college he volunteered with the
Clayton Neighborhood Association in Denver as a youth coordinator
and served on the English Department Student Advisory Board
and the President’s Diversity Task Force at Colorado
College. In the fall of 2008, he plans to attend law school
and focus on criminal and juvenile law.
CATHERINE COULTER CALVIN, CHAIR
Consultant & Owner
Total Performance Solutions
Catherine started Total Performance Solutions, a consulting
firm that specializes in human resource development and
organizational development. Prior to establishing her
own business, she worked for global companies for 18
years
in various human resource roles which led her to travel
throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She is the member
of the DS Performance Group and periodically travels
internationally to speak on how to achieve high performance
utilizing a
performance equation she co-developed. She has been involved
with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Colorado Springs Community
Conversations on Race, and the Pikes Peak Human Relations
Coalition. Catherine chaired CASA’s Light of Hope
Committee in 2007 and is currently a volunteer in the
Supervised Exchanged and Parenting Time Program. She
is married with
two step-sons in their 20's and a 3-year-old daughter
adopted from China.
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