January 19, 2006 Outlook & Review (61k )

OSBA’s first e-mail board-appointment vote took place Dec. 28 when board members elected Harry Ainsworth to fill the 3rd Congressional District position and Wally Hazen to fill the at-large position.

The vacant OSBA board positions were created by Annette Mattson’s election as secretary/treasurer and Craig Prewitt’s election as vice president at the OSBA convention in November.

Ainsworth has served on the Multnomah ESD since 1999 and is now serving a second term as vice chair. He has served as director of the Children’s Land Trust, been a member of Landlord/Tenant Coalition for the State of Oregon, and is a volunteer in the Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association.

He earned his law degree at Boston University School of Law and his bachelor’s at Tufts University. A lawyer in private practice, he lives in Portland and has two children, Maudie, 10, and Sadie, 7.

Hazen, who joined the Coos Bay School Board in 1994, is an OSBA Leadership Oregon graduate. He has served on his local school board’s negotiating team and its insurance, property and professional services committee. He served on OSBA’s Finance Project Task Force in 2001. Hazen currently serves on the South Coast ESD Budget Committee, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission Agents Advisory Board, and the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board. He belongs to the merchants association in his area. Hazen, a U.S. Army veteran, lives in the Coos Bay area, where he and his wife, Wendy, own a blueberry farm to which they plan to add raspberries. They have two grown daughters.

Ainsworth and Hazen will be eligible to run for re-election to full terms after serving a year in the appointed positions.

The nominating committee consisted of OSBA Past President Peggy Penland (Medford SD), Sherry Duerst-Higgins (South Lane SD/Lane ESD), Jean Haliski (Multnomah ESD), and OSBA President David Beeson (Silver Falls SD).

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