A warm welcome to the newest members who joined in October - Lois Cross, Adina Gillett, Lani Carroll, Laureen Anderson, Janet Gruber, Kim Muggoch, Melinda Young, Kristin Sands, Marilyn Quadrel, Danita Bergseng, Jessica Mortimer and Carolyn Olson.
Karen Holl
Karen Holl and husband Steve lived in Southern California for many years and often rented a home in Sunriver for spring break with their kids and grandkids. In June 2021, their vacation idyll became their permanent home when they bought a house in the Three Rivers area. After a year of fixing up her house and yard, Karen is ready to get
involved in her new community. Her career as a life insurance underwriter involved gathering and synthesizing many details into a cohesive picture in order to assess risk as well as to rule out fraud or money laundering. Little wonder that although she reads across many genres, she is currently enjoying crime mysteries. Theater is another of
Karen’s lifelong interests, and she is an enthusiastic fan of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She also loves to travel and has been kayaking in Costa Rica and Mexico as well as on Cascade Lakes. This fall, Karen and Steve are headed to Australia to visit their son. When she returns, she looks forward to participating in a book club and the SRWC’s
fundraising and philanthropy efforts.
Terri Campbell
After 20 years of vacationing in Sunriver and renting out their home here while raising a family in Bellevue, Wash., Terri and Van Campbell arrived in Sunriver to stay this May.
She operates her accounting business from her home, but she makes time every day for two hours of enjoying the bike paths with her bichon dog. Originally from Washington, DC, Terri has traveled extensively in the US and Italy. When not hosting visitors,
visiting her sons in the Seattle area, or planning a trip to Paris, she loves to cook and read.
After a 2023 remodeling project is complete, she looks forward to hosting for Dinner Club. Ask her about her SRWC book club, of which she is already an enthusiastic member!
Denise LaBuda
Denise LaBuda learned about the SRWC when she was representing her employer, the
Council on Aging of Central Oregon, which had received a grant from the Philanthropy Committee at an SRWC awards event.
Although she recently retired, she retains an interest in the issues of transportation, housing, and food as they pertain to seniors in our area. In particular, she serves on two transportation committees for the City of Bend. Her volunteer interests include maintaining the ski trails at Meissner Sno-Park, supporting the Central Oregon Symphony, and booth-sitting at the Sunriver Art Fair.
Denise is often hiking and kayaking in summer, snowshoeing in
winter and walking along the river with her dog at any time of year. A four-year Bend resident, she is an enthusiastic lifelong learner who appreciates the many lectures and classes available through COCC and the Bend Community Center.
Mary Elizabeth Horan
When the eldest of their three sons was two years old, Mary Elizabeth and Bob Horan began vacationing in Sunriver. Twenty-nine years later, they are in Sunriver every other month and divide the remaining months between Pacific Palisades, Calif., and the three locales in the Pacific Northwest where her sons live: Bend, Portland and Friday Harbor in the San Juans.
As she makes the transition from her career as a psychologist to retirement, Mary looks forward to indulging her love of biking, swimming and being on the river. When indoors, she is just as avid about gluten-free baking, reading, doing puzzles and playing bridge and mah-jongg. Her volunteer interests include service on a committee working on homelessness issues in California and helping at Art Meets Wine and
the Art Fair in Sunriver. She’d also like to take up knitting and quilting again. Another theme in the busy “quilt” of her life is supporting her husband in his challenges with Parkinson’s, so she is interested in developing contacts in the caregiver community in Central Oregon.
Liz Bounds
Liz Bounds is usually in motion. When in Bend/Sunriver, she’s often kayaking, on her SUP, biking, backpacking, riding a motorcycle or skiing either downhill or cross-country. When not in this area, she is frequently in her RV alternating between Bellevue, Wash., where she and her husband Dan Johnson have lived for many years, and Eugene, where they are helping their daughter build a house. They also travel extensively in their RV to conferences, where they promote the activities of the Parker Bounds Johnson Foundation, a 501c3 organization they founded to both raise awareness about the benefits of wilderness behavioral therapy for at-risk teens and raise funds to enable more
at-risk teens to participate. To date their scholarships, have enabled nearly 90 at-risk teens to attend outdoor adventure programs run by therapy and coaching professionals. Liz is working full-time to support the foundation’s summer 2023 launch of a Bend-area wilderness program but is ready after owning a vacation home here for 25
years to put down roots in our community. She is attracted to the active lifestyle and philanthropy mission of the SRWC and looks forward to meeting everyone.
