| Bill Baertlein
Treasurer
Position 1, term expires June 30, 2011
Bill is a third generation Tillamook boy. He graduated from Tillamook Catholic High School in 1969 and went on to Oregon State University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. After graduation, he came back to Tillamook and worked for a local CPA firm. After earning his CPA certificate, he opened his own CPA firm in Tillamook. The firm has been in business since 1980.
Bill has served on many community boards including the YMCA as President, Marie Mills, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus as Grand Knight, Church Administrative Council, Pacific Christian School and is currently serving on the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum Board.
Bill has been married to his wife Marilyn for 22 years and they have two children attending Tillamook High School. He enjoys family time, watching the kids play sports, gardening, hunting, fishing and walking Bay Ocean Spit.
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| Jerry Dove
President
Position 2, term expires June 30, 2011
Jerry is a 1957 graduate from Parkrose High School and served six years in the United States Marine Corp Reserves. He was an automotive technician for 32 years and has been a Tillamook County resident since 1976. Three different Oregon governors have appointed him to various boards and commissions. He has served on committees at both state and national levels dealing with economic development and natural resources.
Jerry is president and founder of Tillamook Anglers Association; a nonprofit organization dedicated to the enhancement of fish, and founder of the Whiskey Creek Volunteer Salmon Hatchery. Jerry served two terms as a Tillamook County Commissioner from 1991 to 1998. He has also been a member of Tillamook Kiwanis, past president of Tillamook Chamber of Commerce and has served 10 years on the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He has been a Port of Tillamook Bay commissioner since 1999.
Jerry has been married to his wife Johna for 38 years and has a daughter, Kim, and one grandson, Chad.
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| John Ficher
Secretary
Position 3, term expires June 30, 2013
John Ficher graduated in 1968 from Orland High School in California. While attending college full time, he milked cows. Since then, he has owned or leased four different dairies. During that time he expanded his dairy herd numbers with each move. John relocated to Tillamook in 1997 after learning what an excellent milk market Tillamook had to offer and its impressive products and brands.
At present, John milks a herd of 700 dairy cows. He has served on numerous boards, the including Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Western United Dairymen and the California Milk Advisory Board.
John has been married for 40 years to his high school sweetheart, Gail. They have two children, John and Hassie Bell, and are the grandparents of Grace and John.
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| Jim Young
Vice President
Position 4, term expires June 30, 2013
After traveling widely until the age of 8, Jim settled in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from high school and enlisted in the Navy with plans to see the rest of the world. After serving his enlistment, including two years with the fleet Marines, he returned to Los Angeles.
Jim went to work for The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, where he spent the next 34 years. He had numerous assignments during his career, primarily in outside plant construction and engineering and various management positions. During this period, he attended college at night, earning an Associate Arts degree in business administration.
Upon retirement in 1991, he moved to the Tillamook area, where he pursued the second love of his life, fishing, with a vengeance.
He has been married to his wife, Verna, for 34 years. Their family consists of four sons and three daughters. They have six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Jim is a board member and vice president of Tillamook Anglers. He has been running the Elks Bingo operation for nine years and is also a member of the Eagles Club.
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Georgine Beveridge
Commissioner
Position 5, term expires June 30, 2012
Georgine started attending the port regular meetings in 2002, and has run for elected positions on the port board twice since that time.
Born in California, Georgine’s parents moved the family back to Oregon when she was two. They lived in Canby for two years before moving to Springfield, where she grew up, went to school and married. She graduated from Thurston High School and attended Lane Community College.
In Springfield, Georgine worked a number of jobs including one in a plywood mill. She, her husband, and children moved to Portland where she volunteered in the neighborhood association, the Safety & Action Team and Neighborhood Watch. She also home-schooled her son Lucas, and worked as a baker’s assistant and cake decorator. Georgine’s daughter went to college and she and her husband and son moved to Tillamook in 2000.
In Tillamook, Georgine started out as a baristia at Muddy Waters, where she moved on to her own house cleaning business, and then to managing The Mail Box, an authorized shipping outlet for all the major carriers. She and her husband are active in the Tillamook Pilots Association, and she is a past president of that organization. Georgine is also currently vice president of St. Peter Lutheran Church.
Finally, Georgine is the proud mother of two college graduates and a beautiful grandson, and wants everyone to know she believes them to be her greatest achievement.
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