Brian Houser, President
Brian’s specialties are Disaster Services Technology, Operations Management, Staff Services, and Client Casework, but he also has experience with sheltering and feeding, and has had disaster kitchen training. Brian enjoys frequent extended RV travel and has a goal to visit every U.S. National Park. His other interests are writing, reading, hiking, photography, and technology. |
Jodie Scales, Treasurer and Membership
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Daryl Herrmann, Secretary
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Don and Julie Klein, Past-Co-Presidents
In DOVEs Don has been the DOVEs deployment coordinator and Julie has rejuvenated DOVEs merchandising and together we served as temporary Secretaries for several months. We enjoy meeting new people and visiting this beautiful country. Our previous experience includes leadership in PTA's ( when our 3 children were young). Don worked at Northrop Grumman in software development and retired from there after 32 years. Julie ran her own child care business for 22 and then retired so she wouldn't be burned out for our own grandchildren. We have been married 41 years. Most of our married life we lived in Columbia, Maryland, followed by 10 years in San Antonio, Texas, where we owned a house, occasionally visiting it. In 2014 we decided it was time to go full time. Our 3 children are now all grown and have us driving between Florida, Texas and California. We have 4 beautiful granddaughters and our California daughter is getting married in June, 2015. |
Brian Houser became a Red Cross volunteer in 2013 after leaving his career as a Software Architect to pursue other projects. Since joining the Red Cross, Brian has been very active in his home region, Central PA. He is the Volunteer Partner for the Disaster Program Specialist for York County, PA, a DAT Team Lead, a Disaster Instructor, and a member of his region’s Disaster Workforce Management Team. He participated in over 20 local DAT responses in his first year as a volunteer.
Jodie Scales retired with her husband, Tom, to the TX Gulf Coast in 2012.
They had been working for an oil company in Saudi Arabia and met there 13 yrs ago.
They decided to join the Corpus Christi Red Cross to 'give back to their new
community'. Tom trained in DAT and Jodie helped out in Admin and took Staff
Services courses. They met two couples in their Chapter....the Patons and the
Newmans...who were dedicated to the Red Cross and also had RV's...and were Doves.
They had a new RV and joined too. They took Classes in Quartzsite and became
Doves in Jan 2014. Jodie eventually got her TX Nursing license and also became a
Red Cross Instructor for CPR-AED-First Aid. She has taught CPR at the TX Chapter
and at Doves mtg in Elkhart and Quartzsite with Tom Crittenden. She has also helped
organize and lead Blood Drives with American Red Cross Blood Services in Elkhart,
Tucson, Forest City, IA. She is originally from Salt Lake City, UT and attended
nursing school at Brigham Young University.
Daryl has been a Red Cross volunteer since 2005, an Escapee member since 2007 and a DOVE since 2008.
She is active with the Red Cross locally (MI), regionally and on National deployments.
Since 2008, she has been a Red Cross Disaster instructor, including for the DOVEs.
Don and Julie Klein started in the Red Cross and with DOVEs just before Sandy made landfall in October of 2012.
We have become qualified in many disaster activities, and actually worked on disaster responses in Feeding, Supply,
Transportation, Sheltering, Disaster Assessment, Client Casework, and Disaster Action Teams (DAT).
Between us, we are also qualified in Disaster Services Technology (DST), Safe and Well Linking, and as a Fork Lift driver.