Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation

John was born and raised on the Kitsap Peninsula, and has been a member of the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor for over 10 years. He is Past President of the Board of Directors for Hilltop Artists in Tacoma, WA. A financial advisor, he understands the important role of stewarding individuals and businesses through challenging environments. He eagerly invests his energy and time, including as a Trustee on the Foundation Board, to strengthen the local community he proudly calls home.

A Gig Harbor Rotarian for over 27 years, Scott is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor and the Foundation.  He is currently a Vice President of the Foundation. He has lived in Gig Harbor for over 30 years, where he owns Rosedale Gardens Nursery and Landscape. Scott helped form the Peninsula Metropolitan Park District and served on the board for 12 years. Currently he serves on the Peninsula Light Company Board. He’s been on that board for over 10 years.

Peter serves as Secretary for the Foundation.  As an investor, and owner of the iconic Tides Tavern in Gig Harbor, he has great knowledge on how to successfully run a business. Peter has a great love for his community and has invested in it for many years as a sponsor, donor, and patron.  He gives of his time freely.  In addition to his long time service on the Foundation Board, he also previously served on the Board of the Gig Harbor Downtown Waterfront Alliance for 6 years.

Debbie is the Treasurer of the Foundation. She comes to us with many years of public accounting experience with an emphasis on individual, trust, and estate clients. She worked for a public accounting firm in Tacoma for 20 years and for the past five years has owned her own accounting firm here in Gig Harbor.  She has served as treasurer and/or board member of many local organizations including, Green Trike (Tacoma Children’s Museum), Tacoma Estate Planning Council, South Sound Sports Commission Board, and the Diabetes Association of Pierce County.  Debbie has resided in Gig Harbor since 2000 and is raising her two children here.

Through her many years as a Banker in the Gig Harbor community, Dorothy brings a lot of wisdom to the Foundation Board. Her “local knowledge” has proven invaluable. Dorothy also serves on the auction and community committees for the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor. You can spot her as a volunteer at many of the events sponsored by Rotary and the Downtown Waterfront Alliance. In her spare time, she teaches Commit at the Tom Taylor YMCA.

Chuck is the co-chair of the Foundation Scholarship Committee. He has served on the Foundation Board for multiple terms and is a Past President and Past Treasurer of the Foundation. He has been a Rotarian for 28 years and is a Past President of the Fife Milton Rotary Club. He is retired from a career of over 30 years in banking, primarily in commercial lending and as a credit administrator for community banks and is a CPA inactive. He served as the chairman of the Peninsula School District Citizens Audit Committee for 15 years. He has a passion for serving youth with scholarships.

Robin is the co-chair of the GHRF Governance Committee and President-Elect of the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor. She has worked to strengthen communities and ensure students in K-12 public education have access to equitable educational opportunities since 1998 – first as ED of the Issaquah Schools Foundation and then as the ED of the National School Foundation Association. She recently left her role as VP of Philanthropic Services for the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation to start The Callahan Collaborative, a full-service nonprofit consulting firm which strives to make our communities a more equitable and just place for all by providing tools and resources to help nonprofits and their leaders to thrive. She chairs the Taste of Gig Harbor, is on the Board of Wellspring Family Services and sees evidence every day that together we can do so much more than any one of us can do alone.

Tom joined the Gig Harbor Rotary Club in 2019.  Prior to his retirement he was the Director of Marketing and Sales for Heron’s Key, a non-profit continuing care retirement community located in Gig Harbor.  Tom’s professional background included management roles in the hospitality industry; sales and sales management roles in the high tech world of computer hardware and software, consulting services and Internet services; consulting and sales management roles in the non-profit senior housing industry.  For seven years he served on the Board of Directors of the Companis Corporation, a non-profit volunteer placement service organization in Seattle, WA.  Tom is retired and committed to providing service for the betterment of the Gig Harbor Community.

Pam is a long time Rotarian and past president of the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor.  She serves as the Director at Large, which is the liaison between the Foundation and the Rotary Club Board. She is a certified mediator with the Center for Dialogue and Resolution and past president of their board.  She is retired from 20 years of insurance management, owning her own agency and 15 years of law enforcement.  Serving her community is her passion.

Ron has been a member of the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor for over 33 years. He is a past president of the club and was involved with the original incorporation of the Foundation and served on its first Board of Directors. After practicing law for 35 years, he retired in 1999 and has been involved in local community organizations. He and his family have lived in Gig Harbor since 1978.

Rand served as a member of the Peninsula School District Audit Committee for a
year before being appointed to the Peninsula School Board. He ran for two elections and served two successful terms. He was elected president of the School Board in 2015. He served for 9 years.

Rand holds a BA degree in English and taught English in Nevada and Oregon for 5 years before becoming an investment advisor. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications.

Rand is a retired Senior Vice President for West Coast Trust and Investments. He has served on the KeyBank Advisory Board, West Coast Trust Board and was the board treasure of the Early Learning Coalition Board.

He has lived in Gig Harbor for almost 20 years.  Rand is a supporter of the community and culture of Gig Harbor.  Rand is a member and has supported Rotary over the last few years, helping with a projects on the Key Peninsula, is a founding member of the Gig Harbor Dolly Parton Imagination Library, and has attended many Taste of Gig Harbor functions.

Rand and his family have lived in the Northwest since 1996. He moved to Gig Harbor in 2003 after he visited it one weekend and knew that he wanted to live in this community.

I was born and raised in Bremerton.  My lovely wife Debbie and I have been together for over 47 years, and have three wonderful children, Brianna, Malia, and Brady! We live in downtown Gig Harbor, right above Morso’s Restaurant! I have been a Rotarian for over thirty years between the Silverdale Club and Gig Harbor Club! I’ve been a financial advisor for almost forty years, and was part of the broker advisor council at Royal Bank of Canada for four years, two as president.  I also served on the broker advisor council for American Funds for over ten years.  I have been on the Board of Directors for the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton for almost 20 years, 15 as President of the board, and still serve as a board member, also, the YMCA and Young Life Christian organization. I’m very interested assisting the Foundation, and the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor it supports, to give back to our community.

Tim is a second-generation Rotarian and spent 4 years in the Tacoma Sunrise Rotary club before joining the Gig Harbor Rotary Club in 2018.  A long-time public servant, Tim spent 10 years on active duty in the US Army as a helicopter pilot, continues to serve in the Army Reserves, and worked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as an airport manager for 7 years.  Currently Tim is a member of the Airport Affairs and Strategy Team for Amazon Air.  In additional volunteer roles he is the President of the Tacoma Narrows Airport Advisory Commission and Vice President of the Shore Acres Water Company.  Tim and his wife Avery are raising their two young children in Gig Harbor and enjoy all that this vibrant community has to offer.