President
- Jean Marinos - former Mason City Community School board president, former Mayor of Mason City, owner/manager of American Realty & Management, Inc.
Vice-President
- Robert Kinsey III - River City Society for Historical Preservation director, Stockman House committee, attorney
Secretary
- Ann MacGregor - civic activist and volunteer, retired founding executive director of Hospice of North Iowa
Treasurer
-Roger Peterson – Cost Accountant with Curries
Peggy Bang
- past chair Mason City Historic Preservation Commission, co-chair Stockman House Restoration, co-owner and restorer of the Melson House, MacNider Museum board member and past president, NIACC Visual Arts instructor
Robert Broshar
- River City Society for Historic Preservation director, past national president of American Institute of Architects, retired architect
Martha Huntington
- State of Iowa National Register Review Committee member, architect with Bergland and Cram, Project Architect for Rehabilitation of the Park Inn Hotel
Jay Lala, D.D.S.
- Community volunteer and interested in Prairie School architecture and historic preservation
Robert McCoy
- current River City Society for Historical Preservation director, Stockman House Restoration Committee founding director, former national director of Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, retired orthopedic surgeon.
Gary Schmit
- current Business and Industry Group director, vice president for Henkel Construction Co., Construction Manager for Rehabilitation of the Park Inn Hotel
Melissa Schoneberg
- Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity, North Central Iowa.
Became interested in Frank Lloyd Wright architecture while teaching in Japan
Pat Schultz
- Retired high school teacher, community volunteer and activist
Lee Weber
- current River City Society for Historic Preservation director and president, instructor for North IA Area Community College
NORMAN W. RAY
Before joining The SPECTRUM Group, a corporate consulting firm based in Alexandria, VA, in 2007, Vice Admiral Norman W. Ray (USN, retired) was President of Raytheon International, based in Brussels, Belgium and Roslyn, VA. He was responsible for all Raytheon business planning and development in Europe and held this position for eight years.
Raytheon, headquartered in Waltham, MA has over 80,000 people and is one of the world’s largest defense contractors. The company provides state-of-the-art products and services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. Raytheon has operations throughout the United States and serves customers in more than 80 countries around the world.
Prior to joining Raytheon, Norman Ray was NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Support, and the senior American civilian serving NATO. Prior to assuming this post he retired from the US Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral, having served from 1992-1995 as Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Vice Admiral Ray’s more than thirty-one years of service included a broad range of operational, command, and technical assignments throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He was a naval test pilot and a leader in anti-submarine warfare.
In addition to his operational Navy assignments, where he commanded both a squadron and a major Naval Air Base, Norman Ray spent much of his career involved with technical, procurement planning and programming activities. He served on the Naval Staff, as Director of Naval Air Anti-Submarine Warfare, as the Navy’s long-range planner, as Executive Assistant to the Navy Acquisition Executive and as Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. In his final Pentagon assignment, he was Director, Office of Program Appraisal for the Secretary of the Navy.
As NATO Assistant Secretary General, Mr. Ray was responsible for NATO Armaments Cooperation, NATO C3 Policy and Interoperability.
Mr. Ray is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy class of 1964 and a Naval Test Pilot school graduate.
CHUCK OFFENBURGER
Iowa writer Chuck Offenburger got his start in journalism at the age of 13 in his hometown of Shenandoah, and he’s now been covering the state for 45 years.
After more than two decades as a feature columnist and co-host of RAGBRAI for the Des Moines Register, he is now writing from his farm home near Cooper (pop. 30) in southern Greene County, Iowa, 55 miles west and a little north of Des Moines.
Besides his columns on the Internet site www.Offenburger.com he also is a regular in the monthly Iowa Farm Bureau publication “Family Living.” He also does freelance writing for other publications. A graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, he has been a visiting instructor at colleges and high schools in Iowa, teaching journalism or courses on state history.
Since leaving daily newspaper work, Offenburger has written three books and is completing another. Those include the biography of Bill Krause, the Kum & Go and Liberty Bank co-founder, completed in 2001; the history of Iowa high school girls’ sports, completed published in 2003, and the biography of Bernie Saggau along with the history of the Iowa High School Athletic Association and boys sports, published in the fall of 2005. Offenburger is now working on the biography of one of Iowa’s greatest sports heroes, Gary Thompson, of Ames, who starred in basketball and baseball for little Roland High School in the early 1950s and then was a two-sport All-American at Iowa State. Thompson also served more than 30 years as a commentator on TV coverage of college basketball.
In 1999-2000, Chuck Offenburger served on Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s Strategic Planning Council, a 37-member panel the governor charged with the responsibility of coming up with a vision of what the state should be like by the year 2010 and an action plan of how to get there. He served on the board of directors of a successor group, Iowans for a Better Future, and led statewide discussions on the state’s progress toward the “Iowa 2010” goals and on the future of higher education here.
Chuck and his wife Carla Offenburger are still avid bicyclists, and in fact purchased their farm home in 2004 because it is adjacent to the Raccoon River Valley Trail. They also lead occasional tours of Iowa – some by bicycle but most by bus. The Offenburgers have a step-daughter Janae Learned, who is in real estate sales in Scottsdale, Arizona, and a son Andrew Offenburger, who is in graduate school at Yale University.
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