Volunteers Raising Funds for the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
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Palo Alto Auxiliary for Children Volunteers Raising Funds for the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford |
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| NAME | CONTACT | RESPONSIBILITY | |
| President | Luisa Pliska |
luisapliska@comcast.net | Luisa was co-leader of the team that launched our national award winning cookbook and for 9 years sold and marketed it. 8,500 books have been sold to date. She organized the Culinary Tour and Luncheon of the Culinary Academy and has been on the Board as Publicity Chair and Recording Secretary. She was the academic supervisor in a private mental hospital back East. With her husband Luisa acted in community theater and sat on the board of Hillbarn Theater. She's the mother of 4 and grandmother of 2. |
| 1st Vice President | Susan Kirtley |
askirtley@comcast.net | Susan was the Recording Secretary in 2009 and 2008. She was 1st Vice President in 2007 and Corresponding Secretary in 2006. Susan's other volunteer commitment is with an organization that provides vision screening for young children. |
| 2nd Vice President | Stephanie Beach |
stephaniebeach@mac.com | Stephanie is a Saturday girl, a nearly retired "on call" teacher (with experience at LPCH school), board member for La Comida (Palo Alto's senior nutrition site), longtime YMCA instructor and grandmother of five plus. |
| Treasurer | Sarah Beetem |
sgbeetem@yahoo.com | Sarah was Vice President in 2010. She is a retired teacher who got involved via the American Girl Fashion Show and Tea which she now organizes. Sarah also helps coordinate some of the other PAA activities and events. |
| Recording Secretary | Kathleen Squellati |
kpearl@pacbell.net | Kathy was formerly recording secretary. She volunteers as a Eucharist Minister and as a minister to the sick at her church. Kathy is now retired but she previously held positions as a school, parish and department of education secretary. |
| Correspondence Secretary | Nancy Bronstein |
nstirm@aol.com | Nancy has been active in charitable work throughout her life. She joined PAA in 2005 while residing both in Aptos and San Francisco. She was happy to be mentored by the wonderful Wednesday Girls. Nancy has been an active supporter of many PAA projects, including Tote Bags and Blankets and Pillows and others and has done the floral arrangements for the October Tea for the past few years. |
| Voting Director/ Parliamentarian |
Deborah Potash |
deborahpotash@earthlink.net | Deborah is a past President. She served on the docent council boards of the California Academy of Science and the California Historical Society in SF prior to joining the Auxiliary. She also worked at Sunset Magazine as a Hostess/Docent in Public Relations. She became a "Monday Girl" Server in our Restaurant, and enjoyed doing the Restaurant flower arrangements and decorations during the last two years of its operation. |
| Social Chair | Dallas Manning |
lmanning@stanford.edu | Dallas started with the auxiliary as a restaurant server and surprised a long-lost friend serving her lunch a mere 60 years after their last encounter. Throughout her 50 years of volunteering for schools and non-profits, Dallas has always set aside creative time and makes one-of-a-kind pieced jackets. For many years, she has led a team of volunteers making about 100 gift Tote Bags a year for patients of LPCH. Dallas uses mostly donated fabric and usually assembles kits for the bags and distributes them to members for sewing. |
