Biographies
Dick Saulsbury, Co-Chairman, Advisory Council
Dick Saulsbury became
a board member after his second construction trip to Honduras, and has since made
his third trip. His primary board responsibility is public relations. He has
documented many construction team activities in video and has produced an interesting
Operation Showbox video which he is willing to share with interested groups.
Dick is a retired elementary school teacher who taught in Portland and the North
Clackamas School District for 30 years. He is married to Dianne. They have two
children, and love travel and gardening. He volunteers with Medical
Teams International as a construction team member working in Mexico.
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Bill Inman, Co-Chairman, Advisory Council
Bill is a nearly retired Board Certified Diagnostic
Hospital Radiologist. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon Medical
School and finished his Radiology training under Dr. Charles T. Dotter at OHSU
in 1969. He was later appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Diagnostic
Radiology. He interned in the USAF and was stationed at McChord AFB as a fighter
squadron flight surgeon and later assistant Staff Surgeon qt the 25th Air
Division at McChord. He was Director of the Department of Radiology at Newberg
Community Hospital from 1971 to 1996. He was President of the Medical Staff
twice and took his turn as chair of each of the working committees at one time
or another. He was instrumental in the first major remodel of the hospital at
its present location and oversaw its growth from a one room department doing
only radiographs and barium studies to the present seven-plus room department
doing nearly all of the major radiological modalities including MRI, CT, Nuclear
Medicine, Mammography, Ultrasound and various Interventional special procedures.
He is currently working very part-time at Kaiser and FCI in Sheridan, Oregon. He
has been intimately involved with Operation Shoebox since 1993. During the
months following Hurricane Mitch he coordinated the collection, processing,
storage shipment and distribution of approximately 500,000 lbs. of Honduran
donations with a total value of US $4,000,000. These donations included more
than 32,000 shoebox gifts in addition to clothing, food, medicines and drinking
water. He served as president of Operation Shoebox from October 1996 through
April 1999. He has been a private instructor pilot for over fifty years and also
continues to enjoy spending his spare time playing golf.
He is married with four grown children and three grandchildren. His wife of 44
years, Carol has recently retired from the Board of Operation Shoebox. She had
been Shoebox Coordinator for the past five years. Carol remains active in
the Shoebox activities at Calvin Presbyterian Church in Tigard.
His involvement with Operation Shoebox began in 1993 as the Mammographer in a
Breast Cancer Team that was sent to Honduras. He discovered many needs there,
some of which he could address by working through a position on the Board of
Directors of Operation Shoebox. He has worked extensively with the Medical
School Hospital and the Emma Romero Centro de Cancer in Honduras, providing and
coordinating many teaching conferences involving mammography technicians,
bio-medical specialists, Radiologists and Oncologists. He coordinated the
collection and donation of thirty or more mammography and x-ray machines, as
well as many tons of medical, dental and school equipment. He has traveled to
Honduras at least once per year since 1994.
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Don Herr, Past Chairman, Advisory Council
Don has enjoyed two
construction team trips to Honduras and one needs assessment trip to prepare for
the March 2001 construction team visit.
Presently Don is the founder and President of the McCaskey H. S. Class of ’53 Scholarship Fund.
A member of Calvin Presbyterian Church, he serves on the Youth
Committee, chairs the Global Mission Committee, and is on the church Session. He sings in the Men’s chorus and Chancel Choir. He also enjoys working with at-risk students at Tigard High School.
Retiring after 34 years of teaching school, Don then worked at his own
construction business for five years. He
graduated from West Chester University, in West Chester, PA, and completed a Master of Arts in
Teaching at Lewis and Clark College.
Married, with two sons and three grandchildren, Don and Marty enjoy traveling,
art galleries, symphony, theatre, sports, and spending time with family.
“I believe that sharing love and care in our world is of the greatest
importance; serving in Operation Shoebox has
certainly provided an opportunity to make a positive difference.
I look forward to our future together, in continuing to make the world a
better place, with our focus on Honduras."
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Gary Fantz, Advisory Council Member-at-large, Co-Chair of
Construction Committe and Storage, Logistics Committee
Gary is a retired Portland police detective. He became involved with
Operation Shoebox as a carpenter with the construction team after Hurricane
Mitch. He has been a participant in two construction teams and two survey
teams. He chairs the Volunteer Committee and heads up the effort to
prepare donated items for shipment to Honduras.
He is married and has two daughters and three granddaughters. He lives
in Tigard.
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Marthanne Dedrick, Chairman Southern Oregon Committee
Marthanne's
involvement with Operation Shoebox began in the fall of 1998 when Hurricane
Mitch hit Honduras. Marthanne and her committee of volunteers coordinated
the largest humanitarian effort ever conducted in Southern Oregon and northern California.
Collectively, over 200 tons of goods were collected
for the hurricane stricken victims of Hurricane Mitch.
Ms Dedrick brings a unique blend to the board of directors. She has
extensive volunteer experience in fund raising projects in Southern Oregon for
the last 20 years. She has just completed six years with the Junior League
of Jackson County. For the last 12 years she has done on air fund raising
for Southern Oregon Public Television, plus many other projects.
She is a Senior Sales Director with Mary Kay Cosmetics. She is married
to Dennis and they have one "terrific" grandson.
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Dr. Lance Rosenau, DMD, Co-chair Dental Committee
Lance has been a board member since Jan. 1999. He got inspired
after serving in a dental clinic in downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras with an
Operation Shoebox work team. His dental office in Lake Oswego was a
drop-off site for approximately 15,000 shoeboxes after the Hurricane Mitch
disaster in October of '98. Lance was chairman of the shoebox
collections in '99 and is currently dental teams co-director with Dr. Chris
Martin. In June of 2,000, Lance and Chris treated 300 school children
who had never seen a dentist. They also had the joy of giving out 800
shoeboxes to the children of the elementary school were they worked. His
continued dedication is fueled by the overwhelming need of the children in
Honduras for basic dental care.
Lance graduated from OSU. B.S. '70 and OHSU, D.M.D. '74 and
is currently practicing cosmetic and restorative dentistry at Kruse Way Dental
in Lake Oswego. Oregon. He has been married to his college sweetheart
for 28 years and they have three grown children, Sara, 23, Inga 21, and
Michael, 19. Lance and Sue are active members of 2nd Street Community
Church in Newberg, Oregon. Lance is a member of Kruse Way Rotary, and he
enjoys golfing, fishing, and doing things with his family.
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Rod Pelson, Co-chair of Construction Committee
Rod is a retired Pediatric Audiologist and an Associate Professor Emeritus, Department
of Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences University. He has over thirty years in health
care, twenty-four of which were at the Child Development & Rehabilitation Center within
OHSU. During his tenure at OHSU, he served in many capacities, including department
chair and program director for the communication, cranio-facial, neurodevelopment and
child development clinical programs. He is a graduate of the University of Washington,
earning his doctorate in 1972.
Rod’s involvement in Operation Shoebox began in March 2001 when he made his first trip
to Honduras with a construction team.
He is married and has two married children, a daughter who is an emergency room nurse
in Reno, Nevada and a son who will soon finish his optometry program at Pacific University.
His wife, Mary Jane, teaches speech and directs the forensics speech program at Tigard
High School. She is planning on retiring in June 2002 after twenty-eight years in the
classroom. They plan to travel and spend more time with family following Mary Jane’s
retirement from teaching.
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Anne Goldsmith C.M.A., Chairman of Shoebox and Supplies Committee
Anne has been involved with Operation Shoebox since Hurricane Mitch. After seeing the
devastation, she felt she could not turn her back on the Hondurans, especially the kids.
She has personally made over 350 shoeboxes for the children of Honduras. She enjoys
working with Latin American people and appreciates their culture. She was elected to
the Operation Shoebox board of directors in the spring of 2001.
In her spare time Anne goes to
churches, synagogues, small businesses, Boy Scout and Girl Scout groups, and lectures
about Operation Shoebox. She is always looking for new groups to make presentations to.
Anne has also done volunteer work as a Timbeline Lodge ski host, with the Portland
Art Museum, Junior League, and Goodwill Industries. She is on the membership and
entertainment committees for The University Club. She also served on the University of
Arizona Alumni board of directors, Portland Chapter. Anne has done volunteer work at
local migrant labor camps. Through St. Pius X Catholic church, she was on the "La Casita"
project, working on housing issues for migrant camps such as Campo Azul in Washington
County.
Anne is a graduate of Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, and the University of
Arizona. She is also a C.M.A., Certified Medical Assistant, recent graduate of
Concorde Career Institute in Portland.
Her hobbies are white water rafting, gardening, needlepoint, calligraphy,
medicine, swimming, water polo, tennis, skiing, hiking, horseback riding, and
speaking foreign languages. She is fluent in Spanish and enjoys travelling to Mexico.
She was an exchange student in Costa Rica for 3 months. She has one daughter,
a 90 lb yellow lab, and a mini French Water Spaniel. She hopes someday her
daughter will fill her shoes and make presentations about Operation Shoebox.
They work together year round filling and decorating shoeboxes.
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Mailing address: Operation Shoebox
c/o Medical Teams International
P.O. Box 10
Portland, Oregon 97207-0010
503-624-1000 or 1-800-959-4325
E-mail: Contact Us
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How You Can Help
- Create a shoebox (using our guidelines, Oregon area only).
- Make a tax-deductible money donation.
- Make a tax-deductible equipment donation.
- Join a mission to Honduras.
- Volunteer in Oregon or Washington.
- Organize a shoebox drive in your neighborhood
or at your school or church, Oregon area only.
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Operation Shoebox is an Oregon-based, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization
that serves and empowers the poor, primarily in Honduras. It is a project
of Medical Teams International
International, Inc.
We are staffed completely by volunteers.
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