Each year the nominating committee identifi es potential candidates for the Board of Trustees. After surveying a wide variety of members, the committee debates, narrows its list and fi nally approves four new candidates. The new trustees approved at the Annual Meeting have begun their three-year terms.
Meet the New Trustees
STORIES BY JENNIFER BROWN PHOTOS BY MICHOLE JENSEN
Carl Burnham III
More than a decade ago, all of the details fell right into place for Carl Burnham and his family to join the club.
“My old friend Charlie Faust called me up to see if I was inter- ested, and I talked with several long-time members,” Burnham explains. “Then, primarily because of the kids’ programs and the fact I worked downtown and we lived close by, we decided to apply for the lottery.” Burnham and his wife, Lisa, and children, Kate, Madeline and Chase, have been active in club programs since joining the club in
1998. They all enjoy using the Exercise and Conditioning Room, and the children have taken swimming and tennis lessons, and attended dances and Family Fridays. Both daughters have been on the Teen Committee, and both are former recipients of the Al Tauscher Award. Burnham has dedicated his time to the Ski, Athletic, nomi- nating, Budget and Finance, and ad hoc community committees, as well as the budget subcommittee.
“My kids participated on the MAC ski teams for years,” Burnham explains. “That’s how I got involved with the committee system.” His greatest accomplishment came while on the Ski Committee, as he helped to further the effort to get the ski program to once again become a well-run, sustaining sport at the club. Kate and Madeline were also involved in the club’s dance program; while Burnham was a member of the Athletic Committee he served as a liaison to the Dance/Group Exercise Committee. Burnham acknowledges that one of his hoped-for accomplish- ments as a trustee is “maybe crazy or impossible to think possible,” he says: to solve the parking issue. “However, we can work on the E&C Room crowding and safety/usability issues,” he continues. “Use of the room has increased substantially over the last few years as more members discover the benefi ts of exercise at all ages.” Burnham has high praise for his fellow members, and fi nds it
diffi cult to name a mentor. “Honestly, I’ve had too many to focus on just one person,” he explains. “Everyone involved has been extremely helpful.”
Jim Cleary Jim Cleary fi rst became acquainted with the club when he was in grade school and he was asked to swim for the club as an athletic member. This was in the early ‘50s when the club had a 25-meter pool. During the summer, the swimmers would head to Jantzen Beach, where there was a 50-meter pool and “half as many turns,” Cleary points out.
Even at that young age, Cleary knew he had a future as a MAC Carl Burnham 32 | The Wınged M | MARCH 2011
member. As an athletic member, he was allowed to enter the club through the front door but then he was diverted straight to the pool. “I thought to myself, ‘Someday, I’m going to go through the front door and have full access to the entire club,’” he says. Cleary signed up for the Marines during his sophomore year at University of Portland. Upon graduation in 1960, he was commis- sioned and remained on active duty for four years. He then began a career in the insurance industry while remaining in the Reserves. When Cleary returned to Portland in the early ’70s, he placed his name on a waiting list to become a MAC member. Within
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