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Board of Directors
President
Vacant
Vice President
Joan
Joan
has
been involved with CCRTL since about 1990, serving most of those
years on the board. She has four adult children and
two grandchildren and also
volunteers at
the St
Vincent de Paul food bank. When pro-life political issues arise,
Joan readily contributes her time to those causes. She says she
doesn't watch much television except for World News and PBS.
Her philosophy of
life: "God created us each with a purpose that brings Him glory.
When we have
accomplished what He put us here to do, we are called home."
As for top
priorities for pro-life groups today, Joan believes that making the uninformed
public aware of the life issues threatening society today is
high on the list. Of special concern to her are:
1. Euthanasia: especially what goes on in nursing homes around
the country;
2. Adult stems
cells: that they are more compatible in treating disease than embryonic stem
cells;
3. Partial Birth Abortion:
it is NEVER
a necessary option as newborns will die within hours of birth
due to severe malformations incompatible with life.
Secretary
Gerry Parmantier, RN
 Gerry has
been active with CCRTL since the early 1970's, serving as
president from 1975-1985, and on the speaker's bureau for those
same years. He grew up
in Berkeley/Walnut Creek, California and moved to Vancouver in
1963. Gerry was a US Army medical corpsman 1967-1970, and taught vocational nursing in the
Evergreen School District from 1977 to 1986. He currently is a
full time registered nurse with Providence Home
Health in Portland, Oregon.
Married 40 years,
Gerry has four children
and seven grandchildren. A life long Roman Catholic, he is
a member of both Holy Redeemer
Parish in Vancouver and Holy Rosary Parish in Portland.
Gerry loves
visiting family, especially his grandchildren.
Gerry's special interest in CCRTL's
work is writing and speaking, and would like to see
the Speaker's Bureau resurrected. He also has a special
interest in seeing the 40 Days for Life movement
promoted. Gerry thinks one of the top priorities for pro
life groups today is developing "more active members leading to more
pro-life activities; more pro-life activities leading to more
active members."
Treasurer
Dorothy Gill
Born and raised in
Vancouver, Dorothy earned her BS in Biology in St. Louis in
1982 and worked for a bit in a neurology lab at the
University of Chicago where she discovered that advocating
the harvesting of aborted babies for research was already
being advocated. She became involved with CCRTL after moving
back to the area in 1984, serving as a board member since
1986. She is a past president of CCRTL and worked on the
local campaign against I-120 in 1991 that codified
unrestricted abortion in state law. Dorothy says she's a
pro-life "single issue voter and political volunteer."
Married since 1982, she
has four sons. She currently home schools the three
youngest, and is in charge of communications for her parish
home school group and is the full time care giver for an
elderly parent.
Dorothy believes that one
of the top priorities for pro life groups today is the need
to address the absence of moral basis in society. She
believes the
Life
Principles course is the educational foundation we need
to teach to youth and adults. She says that "arguing life
issues with anecdotes is not productive ... it is
relativist. We need a bottom line, an understanding of why
the right to life is inalienable.”
Position 5
Tina Bock
 Tina has been active
with CCRTL since 2008. Having grown up
in Vancouver, she currently lives downtown with her husband Greg,
and their two children. She has been a stay at home mom since early
in her first pregnancy in 2006. Her family enjoys playing coed softball, board games, family
outings, cooking shows and renovating their home.
They attend Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Portland as
well as Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Vancouver.
Since
becoming a mom, her pro-life stance has been taken to a whole new
level. Pro-life issues have become her passion and what
she feels God has called her to do. She hold that "the issue of abortion is an axis for most of our political
topics: it effects health care, taxes, economy, immigration,
foreign policy and many more. It is important that people stay
informed and understand that you can call it a 'one-issue' vote,
but that one issue is going to have an effect on everyone - not
just women making a 'private decision.'"
In October
2008, she became involved with the No on I-1000 (No Assisted
Suicide) campaign and felt that God had definitely led her in the
right direction - to protect life. When the campaign was
defeated in November of that year, she knew she had to be more proactive.
That is when she
started attending CCRTL meetings (December 2008) and became a
board member in February 2009.
Currently she is
working on compiling a list of pro-life doctors and dentists in the
Vancouver area to have posted on the CCRTL website. She says that "this referral
information is key to patients wanting quality health care and a
doctor committed to preserving life even in the most vulnerable
forms." She prides herself on keeping as up to date as
possible on what is going on politically with the matters of
abortion and euthanasia. Whatever the senate and congress are working
on, she wants to have a way for pro-life groups to give a swift
response before it is "sprung" on us.
Tina believes that today, the
most important topic for all pro-life groups is the campaign to
fight FOCA (Freedom of Choice Act). In addition, educating women on their actual choices (such as alternatives
to abortion) is hugely important. She says that "abortion groups only want women to see one
option - the one that gives them money. They do not want women
understanding that their baby is an actual human being who
deserves a life. There are various options a woman has with
regard to an untimely pregnancy. We should use these resources
to their fullest."
Emeritus Board
Members
Jennifer Dixon
Rian Girard
Sandy Blanton
Dave Johnson
Steve Mosier
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