BOARD for 2023 – 2024:

PRESIDENT: Terri Daniels

My husband Robert and I, along with two dogs and a cat, moved back to the Pacific Northwest at the end of 2013 to be closer to our children, grandchildren and family members.

After I retired from 27 years as a Registered Nurse we settled north of Ocean Park, WA, which is on the Long Beach Peninsula. I first visited Unitarian Universalist services with my mother who lived outside of Chicago and later with our daughter in Portland at First Unitarian Church. I found the Seven Principles of Unitarianism, now Eight Principles, provide a pathway through life. The congregations are welcoming. They embraced diversity of race, gender, ethnic origin, Humanism, Earth Centered Paganism, spiritual awareness of Indigenous Peoples, environmental respect, and social justice. In this time of global pandemic and social upheaval, I find there is a transnational quality in these attributes.

VICE-PRESIDENT:  Naomi Fisher

I was raised agnostic in a family that was historically Episcopalian.  I was introduced to Unitarian Universalism in college in my late teens, and have never looked back.  In UUism, I have found a spiritual community of seekers who embrace wisdom from all traditions and paths of experience, and turn that wisdom toward good works.  I am a librarian by trade and fill my spare time with gardening, puzzles, bicycling and lifelong learning.  My credo: “Service is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali

SECRETARY: Laura Gordon

(Bio coming soon)

TREASURER: Dave Ambrose

I grew up in northeast Pennsylvania, third generation of immigrants from eastern Europe. After engineering college, I moved to the west coast to work in the aerospace industry. The call of adventure took me into the Peace Corps to the Philippines where I spent ten years working in the agriculture industry. Returning to the USA, I moved to Astoria in the late 1980s. I spend my time playing music, painting, volunteering for various organizations, and reviving old sports cars.

AT LARGE MEMBERS:

Frank Erickson

I grew up in a Lutheran family in Florissant, Missouri in the 1960’s, falling out of thrall with organized religions shortly after finishing the catechism, becoming eventually atheist. I am now a retired radiologist who near the end of a 30 year career became committed to reforming the U.S. health care model to counter the destructive effects of our for-profit insurance industry. I went from being too busy to get involved to joining the Mad As Hell Doctors in 2011, gathering testimonials throughout Oregon, giving testimony in Salem and in Washington, D.C. in favor of single payer health care bills and spoke to numerous groups to promote the Health Care for All Oregon agenda. In the wake of the 2016 election of an astoundingly unfit person as president, my wife Laura and I sought local fellowship to support and defend our shared philosophy which I was pleased to see manifest in the UU Seven Principles. I recall a profound sense of being among like minds on our first PUUF Sunday service at the Pacific Arts Center in Astoria in the fall of 2017. I have found some comfort in these troubling times by continuing to have a place to hear and share our hopes and fears, joys and sorrows. I hope to be able to continue to contribute some useful work toward maintaining and growing the Fellowship through serving on the Board. I have been serving as our Zoom-meeting proctor since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and webmaster for our PUUF website and Facebook page.

Becky Thormahlen

(Bio coming soon)

Tina Martineau

(Bio coming soon)