New Board Members For City Club Of Central Oregon

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Bend, Ore. -The City Club of Central Oregon announced the appointment of five new board members following the Annual Meeting to elect directors and officers on October 16, 2014.

Joining the Board are Pamela Andrews, Peter Grube, James Lussier, Gwenn Wysling and Charles Abasa-Nyarko (ex-officio). “We are very pleased to welcome our new board members,” said Joey Drucker, Executive Director. “Their proven leadership record along with their passion for the Central Oregon community will definitely serve our organization well.”

Pamela Hulse Andrews is the CEO (founder and owner) of Cascade Publications Inc., based in Bend, Oregon and established in 1994, which publishes both the print and online versions of Cascade Business News (Central Oregon’s bi-weekly business newspaper), Cascade Arts & Entertainment (Oregon’s only arts and culture magazine) and several annual publications including Pacific Crest Directory, Wedding Guide, Central Oregon Builders Guide and Sunriver Magazine.

Pamela’s diverse business background gives her a broad perspective on the arts and business community and the economy of Oregon. She has championed the cause of growing the arts in the high desert region and played a leadership role in connecting the dots between arts and economic vitality as well as furthering cultural tourism.
She writes an assortment of monthly and weekly columns on local arts, politics, business and the economy, taxes, creativity and developing entrepreneurship.

Pamela serves on many local and statewide boards and commissions including the Sara Fisher Project, BendFilm Advisory Board, Oregon Small Business Development Commission, Bend Chamber Governmental Affairs Council and the Children’s Trust Fund of Oregon.

In 2000 she received Oregon’s small business of the year award and the governor’s arts award in 2002. Cascade Arts & Entertainment received the Central Oregon Arts Association’s business of the year award in 1998. She was honored by United Way as volunteer of the year in 2003 and in 2004 she received the March of Dimes White Rose Award for service to her community, the Redmond Chamber award for leadership in 2002 and in 2007 the Austin Family Business award.

Pamela, an avid golfer and music aficionado, resides in Bend with two famously spoiled canines and has three grown sons, all living and thriving in Oregon, and eight grandchildren.

Peter Grube is a native Oregonian, born and raised in Portland. He double majored at Lewis & Clark College with a highlight of his undergraduate education being a one year study abroad program in Munich, Germany. After meeting at Lewis & Clark and spending their first year of marriage in New Zealand, he and his wife chose to make Bend their home in 1999.

Peter started his professional career in Bend working in the tourism and then high-performance aircraft industries. He transferred his skills and experience to the high-performance custom home design and building field, ultimately joining Dream Home Building and Design as a partner in 2013. Peter is the proud Dad of two active children who keep him busy. And when not focused on client’s projects, he is involved with the City Club of Central Oregon, the Georgetown University $5 Million Energy Prize project and his church community. You may also cross paths with him on a local trail, running and mountain biking, or up in the mountains once the snow flies sniffing out the best powder skiing stashes in Central Oregon. Through both is personal and professional life, Peter is committed to the success and well-being of his community now and into the future.

James Lussier is founder and principle consultant with The Lussier Center/TLC, which focuses on personal and organizational performance through development of optimum governance and leadership approaches that create a preferred future for organizations.

Jim has focused his professional life to high performance organizations for over 40 years. He served at the executive level and as a CEO in healthcare organizations, including St. Charles Health System where he was CEO for 15 years.

Jim has provided counsel and training to hospitals and health systems in The Netherlands, Africa, Japan, Canada and the United States and has worked with the University of Pittsburgh and has served as the Research & Develop Chair for the Facility Guidelines Institute, where he is currently a Board member.

He also serves as a consultant with Transformation Systems International/The Performance Center.
Jim is an advocate for the transformation of healthcare and speaks nationally on organizational and personal leadership. He is a frequent guest lecturer for the American Hospital Association, Oregon State University and other organizations and professional societies. He currently serves on the Boards for Sparling Corporation, Volunteers of Medicine Clinic of the Cascades, and the Facilities Guidelines Institute.

He has also served as President of the State Board of Higher Education and the Oregon Health Policy Commission, appointed to those roles by Governor John Kitzhaber.

Jim is active in Rotary International and is the 2013-14 Rotary District Governor for District 5110, covering the southern two-thirds of Oregon and the northern part of California with 72 Rotary Clubs overseeing service projects locally, regionally and worldwide.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Gwenn Wysling has resided on the West Coast from Washington to California except when she and her husband Carlos relocated to live in Brazil (2003- 2006) until they discovered Bend in early 2007.

Gwenn served as a member of board of directors for a year-and-a-half before becoming the Executive Director at the Bethlehem Inn in 2010. Governed by her passion of helping others, she always plays an active role in the community. She is the Co-Chair of the Homeless Leadership

Coalition (HLC), served multiple years on the Leadership Team for Project and is an active member of the Rotary Club of Bend. She has been a member of City Club since 2010 and serves on the membership committee since 2013. She values City Club’s vision, its members, leadership in the community and is honored to serve on the board.

Charles Abasa-Nyarko is the Vice President for Instruction, COCC. He joins the City Club’s board as an ex officio member as a graduate of the 2014 Leadership Bend class.

About City Club of Central Oregon

City Club of Central Oregon is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic affairs organization that promotes active citizenship to build a stronger community.

The mission of the City Club of Central Oregon is “to build a conscious and civic minded community through dialog, education and research that results in responsible civic engagement.”

Your attendance and involvement in City Club forums gives you a seat at the table of important community dialogue and the potential to create positive change in Central Oregon.

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