SHS Board of Directors Bios

Doris Bailey, President

Years on Board: 3
Term Expires: 10/2010
747-5794
dorie@gci.net
Past/Present Business & Community Affiliations
Past Assembly Member for the City & Borough of Sitka (6 years), Past Chairman of the Sitka Planning Commission (9 years), 3 years as Deputy Sitka Mayor, member Alaska Native Sisterhood since 1977 w/1 year as President. Past Treasurer of the Presbyterian Church (12 years), Past Executive Director Alaska Arts Southeast and the Sitka Fine Arts Camp Board, Member of the City and Borough of Sitka Employment Relations Board

Jerry Dzugan, Vice-President

Years on Board: 3
Term Expires: 10/2011
738-0724
director@amsea.org
Past/Present Business & Community Affiliations
Current Executive Director of Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) President of Sitka Island Institute Board, Board Member of U.S. Marine Safety Association, Chair of USCG Fishing Industry Vessel Advisory Council, Board Member of Sitka Maritime Historical Society, Member of Alaska Health Project Board, commercial fishermen (8 yrs). Owner/operator Alaska Wyldewind Charters (7 yrs) conducting sailing
and wildlife trips.

Jere Christner, Secretary

Years on Board: 7
Term Expires: 10/2011
747-6930
toss@ak.net
Past/Present Business & Community Affiliations
Member of board for ALPS Fed Credit Union, Sitka Rotary Club member

Ernestine Massey, Treasurer

Years on Board: 13
Term Expires: 10/2011
747-3319 (h)
eb109@ptialaska.net
Past/Present Business & Community Affiliations
Past President of the Alaska State Board of Education (5 years), member Alaska Visitors Association, member Alaska State Chamber of Commerce, past Owner/Operator of Potlatch House, a 30 unit motel, restaurant and lounge, past Executive Director of the Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce, and past Board President of the Chamber of Commerce, currently owns/manages 13 rental properties in Sitka, past member of the Sitka School Board, past Board Member for Mount Edgecumbe High School, founding member of New Archangel Dancers and 25 year board member, winner of many statewide/national awards related to furthering tourism and recognition of Sitka.

Sabra Jenkins

Years on Board: 8
Term Expires: 10/2010
747-5071 (h)
sitkaempress@yahoo.com
Past/Present Business & Community Affiliations
Daughter of Bob Ellis who started Ellis Air Lines which merged with Alaska Airlines, President of Ocean Wave Quilters, Past President of Rainy Day Dollmakers,
Retired owner of Sabra's Income -New Creations a sewing alteration business, Sitka Tours Guide

Chris Todd

Years on Board: 1
Term Expires: 10/2011
503-703-8756
fscat8@gmail.com

John Stein

Years on Board: 2
Term Expires: 10/2010
747-7811
john.c.stein@gmail.com

Past/Present Business/Community Affiliations:

Executive director of the Sitka Sound Science Center, John Stein retired in 2008 from a career in local government and non-profits. With an Associate Degree in Industrial Engineering in 1967 he began as an engineering aide on the 737 aircraft at Boeing's Plant 2 in Seattle. He worked as a meter reader and then general manager of the water system serving neighboring Bellevue. He returned to Sitka in 1973 as engineering aide for Alaska Lumber and Pulp Co. and later worked with Rocky Gutierrez as tax assessor for Sitka. He returned to school in 1984 at U.O., Eugene for his BS in Public Management then worked as planner for the City of Wasilla, Matanuska-Susutna Borough and as Mayor of Wasilla. Leaving the mayor's job to Sara Palin in 1996, John took on Kids are People, Inc. a youth services non-profit before coming to Sitka in 2005 as Municipal Administrator. John was married to Sandee Snow and Karen Marie (d) and has four children, Reber, Morgan, Peter, Jackson and three grandchildren. His interests aside from history are boating, politics and photography.

Jim Case

Years on Board: 5
Term Expires: 10/2010
623-7014
jcase@gci.net

Past/Present Business/Community Affiliations:
Previous Sitka Historical Society Board Member 2002-2005. Currently working for US Forest Service, Sitka Ranger District with special use permits and wilderness management. Past interest in history includes work in Alaska’s Arctic communities of Barrow, Kotzebue and Denali Park as a guide and naturalist; several years in private industry interpreting Alaska’s history aboard both large and small cruise ships; and several years experience as a USFS interpreter on Alaska’s ferries throughout Southeastern Alaska, in the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of Natural History and in Guatemala with International Forestry. I have always been intensely interested in the histories of Alaska’s Native people, European exploration, industrial development, Russian American period, post-purchase Alaska, the era of the Great Depression and the history of Alaska’s fishing, mining and timber industries.

Patricia Roberts Alexander

Years on Board: 1
Term Expires: 10/2010
747-6088
rdalexander@hotmail.com

Past/Present Business & Community Affiliations
Daughter of Mr. Lester Roberts, former hospital administrator of the SEARHC Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital when it was a Public Health Service hospital in the 1950’s who was originally from Klawock (Kuiu Island) and Mrs. Harriet H. Roberts, community activist extraordinaire, daughter of John G. Fawcett of Hoonah, who was the orchestra leader of the Hoonah Community Band and played every instrument in the band.

Patricia is of the Raven Moiety, T’akdeintaan clan of Hoonah Alaska, born in Juneau and raised in Sitka on Charcoal and Alice Island.

Community affiliations include the following:
Employment: S. E. Alaska Regional Health Consortium – Manager of Environmental Services for Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital. Implementing Operating System 1 (OS1) new system of cleaning for health, not just appearance in the new Short Term Housing (June/09). Past Administrative Services Director, Sitka campus – 4.5 years. Past Clinic Administrator for the Juneau Health Center now known as the Ethel Lund Health Center – 1.5 years.

Boards , Commissions and Affiliations:
Alaska Native Indian Child Welfare Association Board of Directors member – 3 years
Alaska Native Sisterhood, Camp #4, past president and camp council, member since 1998, Juneau ANS Camp 2 member in 1980’s
Alaska Pacific Bank – Advisory Board Member 5 years
Commission on Health Needs and Community Services, past chair and member - 4+ years
Huna Totem shareholder
Shee Atika Inc. shareholder
Sitka American Legion Auxiliary member
Sitka Community Hospital – board member – 1 year, Auxiliary member to present
Sitka Emblem Club member
Sitka Prevention and Treatment Services now known as Sitka Counseling and Prevention Services – past board member and finance committee member
Sitka Tlingit and Haida Community Council member – delegate to the General Assembly of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
Sitka Tribe of Alaska – member, STA Cultural Committee Member, past STA Health and Social Services Director – 5 years
Sitka Women’s Club member
Soroptimist Club of Sitka – past member
Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center member – 8 years

Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Board of Directors, Juneau representative – 1986, member of Accreditation Governing Body