Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration
Election of Officers and Board of Directors
July 1 2009 to July 1 2012

• Sydna Koontz – is an Event and Meeting Planner and has been a Rotarian for 17 years, serving as a Director of her club and has been involved in all club activities. She is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. Recently she and her husband, a Tacoma Physician, were honored by the University of Washington-Tacoma for establishing a Foundation to support nurses training. She is especially talented in fundraising. Sydna will serve until July 1, 2010
   
• Don Doman – Don and his wife Peg are the owners of Ideas and Training and PNW Video Productions in Tacoma, WA. A member of Rotary Club of Tacoma # 8 for 16 years, Don is Past President of his club. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and a Tacoma Rotary # 8 Arthur Wickens Fellow.
   
• William A. Parker – Director, is a retired US Marine Corps Lt. Col., and retired Computer Systems Analyst after Military service. He is a Past President of his Blowing Rock NC Rotary club and also served as Secretary. He is a Paul Harris Fellow. His interest in RfHR comes from his granddaughter who lost her hearing at 7 months. Now in grade school she has two cochlear implants and is doing well.
   
• Jean Irwin - Jean Irwin is a retired Teacher of the Deaf from the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada. She has taught in grades pre-school through 12th grade in 12 schools. Jean was an Ambassadorial Scholar in 1989. She speaks to many Rotary groups about the long term effects of investment in the Rotary Foundation.
  
  The scholarship Jean received allowed her to do research into reading and deafness 20 years ago which earned her a Masters Degree from Nottingham University in England. She shows tapes in her talks of how she has taught her students to speak and how to read, although they've been profoundly/and severely deaf. Her story is but one example of how Rotary can support a teacher to meet the challenges to educate all of our children. The methods she learned 20 years ago are as relevant to meeting the challenges of literacy as they were in 1989. While most deaf students do not go on to college because of their low reading levels, most of Jean's students have done so.
  
  Jean received the Best of Education award by the Reno Gazette Journal, her local newspaper, in 2004. Rotarian of the Year, club level, and Service Above Self, district level. In 2009 she received the "Service Above Self" award from Rotary International.
  
  She has spoken to over 200 conferences for both Rotarians and teachers of the deaf about what she learned as an Ambassadorial Scholar.
  
  Jean is a member of the Rotary Club of Reno Centennial Sunset and is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow.
   

Honorary Board Members

PDG 5020 – 93-94 Gordon Quick
PDG 5020 – 95-96 Ken Bose
PDG 5020 – 97-98 James M. Harris
PDG 5020 – 99-00 Ken Balsley
PDG 5020 – 00-01 Robert Lovely
PDG 5020 – 01-02 Don Lachata
PDG 5020 – 02-03 J. Ross White
PDG 5020 – 03-04 William McCarthy
PDG 5020 – 05-06 Joan Firkins
PDG 5020 – 06-07 Eric Frederickson
DG 5020 – 07-08 Norm Watts
DG 5020 – 08-09 Brian Beagle