BARBARA PIZZALA recruits engineers and scientists for a
local high tech company and is one of those rare people who loves
her job, runs every other morning even if there is snow and ice,
somehow managing to get out of a warm bed to do so. She teaches
leadership and team building as part of her job and has lead a
weekly women's support group outside of work. [TOP]
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Tom Hammer |
TOM HAMMER is a school counselor in an elementary school in Chester, PA and was a high school physics and math teacher and middle school counselor. He has led men's groups and a support group for people with AIDS and has training in community organizing.
Tom spent his honeymoon (first marriage) at Woodstock, which was his only claim to fame according to many of his students. His most infamous physics demonstration was probably lying on a bed of nails (very little blood was involved.) He loves to travel, go out to dinner, watch and discuss movies, and talk about current events. He reluctantly exercises regularly. Favorite places to travel have been Italy, Colorado, and the Grand Canyon, where he barely survived two trips down the rapids in a wooden boat. Tom spent a year living in community in Maine and apprenticed as a carpenter. The house he helped restore continues, somehow, to stand to this day. He has a dog, a rescue from the SPCA, which loves all people and other dogs, strangers or friends. Tom's latest project is, belatedly to learn Spanish.
Barbara and Tom have over nineteen years of training and experience in peer counseling. They have three children, 25, 26, and 30 [TOP]
Although HOWARD PORTER's exploits include hiking the rim
of a volcano, appearing in a Civil War movie (a rather spiffy
looking honor guard to Gregory Peck who gave the Gettysburg
Address), accepting a dare from his son to pet a nurse shark in the
Caribbean and generating a round of gunfire from the Sandinista army
for pointing a camera in the wrong direction, lately Howard Porter
seems a bit more mild mannered. For a day job Howard directs the
Alliance for Better Housing, a community development corporation in
the more northerly lattitudes of Kennett Square. As a do-gooder
developer, Howard brings some land development and real estate
finance skills to the group having learned well some things not to
do. When he's not sipping overpriced coffee at a local coffee shop
hoping someone will join him to talk cohousing, Howard likes to ride
bikes, play accoustic guitar, downhill ski, promote the Turtledove
folk club events, and point and shoot his camera at more cooperative
subjects. Howard claims to be "outgoing and upbeat-at least on a
good day". He also considers himself a cornbread chef, a claim that
the cohousing members will have to confirm or deny. [TOP]
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Deborah Dehghan |
DEBORAH DEHGHAN is currently in career transition, having accepted a separation package from a world-wide financial institution headquartered in Wilmington, DE, where she was a lead facilitator and program manager the last five years. For approximately 20 yrs. prior to that she was adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware, both in the continuing education and computer information sciences departments, as well as principal in a local consulting business. She is active in her church, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Mill Creek, in Hockessin, DE, as a lay minister and member of the Social Concerns Committee. She has two daughters, ages 29 and 27, of whom she is in awe. Within the past year her mother came from NC to live with her. Debbie likes to read and cook and interact with all types of people. She enjoys music of all types, although she is not a musician; she is advocating member discounts for those who can't hold a tune in a bucket! [TOP]
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Jody Hill |
JODY HILL works as a bilingual nurse in a unique free clinic in West Chester, totally supported by private funds, where she works long, very fulfilling hours. She learned Spanish while she lived in Bolivia for a year. Her life is very full--one of her favorite activities is to travel with a friend to a new part of the world. She keeps fit by swimming, and she has recently taken up running. One of her favorite activities is leading a Girl Scout troop made up of Hispanic girls from Kennett Square. She was one of our early Equity Members. She is currently Treasurer of Concord Village, but she has no plans at the moment for becoming the CFO of a major corporation. [TOP]
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