Bobbi Burton

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David Dennison

David is a homeschooling father, and discovered Village Home in 2005. Since that time, David has become increasingly interested in Village Home’s management and operations, and became the IT Coordinator in 2006, then joined the board in 2007. David’s background is in computers, and he has a wide range of experience including training, consulting, systems management, web design, and software engineering. David has also served on several non-profit boards.

Gretchen Ermer

Gretchen Ermer has more than 10 years teaching experience, and she has also been a travel agent, carpool guru, daycare manager, tutor, tour guide, sales person, and editor. She has experience teaching children with learning disabilities and gifted children in private and public settings. She has a bachelor's degree from Texas A & M. Notes from Gretchen, "I think a teacher’s job is to inspire a lifelong love of learning in all her students. I strive to show students that learning is a joyous experience and give them the tools to explore for themselves."

Barbara Hammond

Barbara Hammond is a transplant from Canada where she worked as a Recreation Therapist with children and adults in a neighborhood non-profit. Her focus was with seniors, many with Alzheimer’s. She designed and implemented adult recreational, inter-generational and pet therapy programs and after-school sports programs for children. Finding a new passion with computers, she worked in retail management, corporate sales, training and human resources with Egghead Software. She traveled nationwide, opening stores and training new employees. Barbara and her husband have home educated their three children since birth.

Jim Miner

Jim Miner is the proud father of two daughters, husband of a La Leche League Leader and the co-founder of the La Leche League National Helpline. He and his wife have been parent participation preschool community members, and have now chosen homeschooling. In his professional life, Jim has been a business banker, an insurance broker, and is now a practicing attorney. As a member of the Multnomah Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, Jim is a committee member for the YOUthFILM PROJECT. He has served on the Board of Directors of OPTIC, and chaired the Tracy Environmental Oversight Committee. Jim is dedicated to the idea that children should be free to grow and learn according to their natural inclinations, with adult guidance and supervision.

Ute Mitchell

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Rosalyn Newhouse

Rosalyn Newhouse has served for over five years on the Village Home Parent Executive Board. Rosalyn has many years experience in business management, logistics, volunteer work, volunteer management and administration, computer technologies and graphic design, financial planning and consultation, education at grade levels K through adult, training of trainers, curriculum development, and human resources. She homeschooled her son, who is now working professionally in computer services, and is currently homeschooling her middle-school daughter. In addition to her current work in computer services, publications, and web design, Rosalyn is a Certified Nutritional Therapist and a graduate of the Melton School for Adult Jewish Education. Her degree is in Business Administration, and she has started, owned, and operated a number of companies over the years. Rosalyn is a professional member of USA Gymnastics and serves as a rhythmic gymnastics judge for Region II and meet director for her daughter's rhythmic gymnastics team.Rosalyn is committed to fostering a homeschool community that serves the needs and desires of the community at large, and embraces the many diverse philosophies and needs of each member family. Rosalyn can be reached at rosalyn.newhouse@villagehome.org.

Roxanne Nichols

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Bob Smythe

Bob Smythe studied psychology at PSU, and has done sales, custodial, insurance, and electrical work. He currently homeschools his three children, facilitates the Living Literature book club, and teaches LEGO Robotics and First Tech Challenge at Village's Beaverton location. About Village Home, Bob says, “I would love someday to see Village grow to where we could support our own building with a full range of facilities and 3-4 locations across Oregon. This has been such a successful education model, and I would love to offer it to more families. The world would be such a different place if the social/education model we have here could be the norm.”

Connor Willemsen

Connor Willemsen has been a student at Village Home for four years and is currently serving his third one-year term as the senior student representative on the Board of Village Home. He is fifteen years old, practices traditional Japanese Karate, loves skiing, enjoys political debate, produces and stars in shows on public access television, and is a supporter of President Barack Obama. He interned with the campaign during the primaries and traveled to Florida during the final weeks of the election to work on the campaign. Connor is a passionate audiophile who enjoys classic and soft rock and classical music as well as tweaking and upgrading his system. In 2009 he was selected as one of three senior Karate students in Oregon to travel to the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for intensive competition preparation. He lives in Salem with his parents Jeff and Mary and their seven year old lab-golden retriever Lacey.