OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Coordinator, Peer Counseling Program, Mid Willamette Valley Senior Services Agency; State of Oregon, Department of Energy and Department of Human Services.

Public Information Coordinator (Vista Volunteer) Mid-Valley Hospice

College faculty (Peace Corps Volunteer) Ghana, 1987-89; Hebei Teachers’ College, China

General Manager, Central Oregon Council on Aging

Teacher/Counselor: university, community college and high school levels

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

University of California at Berkeley, BA in Social Institutions 1945

University of California at Berkeley, MA, Counseling Psychology, 1962

Oregon State University, Corvallis, EdM, Adult Education, 1977

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE:

Appointments:

Commissioner, Governor’s Commission on Senior Services (1998-2004)

Member, OMHAS Mental Health Planning and Management Council (2001-2004)

Member, Older Adult Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee (2004)

Member, Mental Health Alignment Workgroup (2000)

Employment:

State of Oregon, Research Analyst, Department of Energy

Management Analyst, Research Analyst, Jobs Worker, Adult and Family Services

Personnel Technician, City of Los Angeles; Bureau of Occupations, U.C., Berkeley

A lifelong library user, it has been a pleasure for me to help bring the proposed Salem Public Library District ballot measure to voters in Marion County. As a former resident of rural Oregon, I appreciate the difference the expanded district will make for me personally and for other Seniors like me who live outside existing library boundaries. I support more children’s programs, longer library hours, increased Bookmobile outreach, and an active current book acquisition program to keep our library collection up-to-date. A new library branch is needed in East Salem as an early capital undertaking. I look forward to participating in the important and unique opportunity library Board service offers. An expanded Salem Public Library District is the means that will develop resources to enhance our children’s reading ability as well as provide support for the literacy skills Oregon employers require.

(This information furnished by Mariana D. Bornholdt