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Marcia Chaiken,
Secretary
Dr. Marcia Chaiken earned a B.A. (with honors), in Zoology,
from Douglass College, Rutgers University; an M.A. in
Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a
Ph.d. in Sociology, from the University of California, Los
Angeles. As Director of Research, at LINC for almost 20
years, Dr. Chaiken had primary responsibility for designing
and overseeing all research projects and dissemination
products. She has developed and carried out research and
produced research-application reports and presentations for
many of the federal research agencies included in the U.S.
Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Public Health,
and the U.S. Congress. Private foundations for whom she has
developed research, reports, and presentations include the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New
York. Given key findings about the role of education in
promoting wholesome development and preventing high-risk
behavior, she is gratified to serve on the Board of
Directors of the Living Legacy Foundation.
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Rich Lamb
Rich has a B.A. in music from California State University
East Bay. He taught music for five years and then went back
to school, retraining to become a software engineer. He
worked for various scientific instrument companies in
Silicon Valley. In 1996, he and two others founded iXRF
Systems, which builds EDXRF analysis equipment. He has
benefited greatly by access to education throughout his life
and is honored to be able to assist others as a member of
the Living Legacy Foundation.
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Phyllis Meyercord
Phyllis got her degree in education from Purdue University.
She and Wade were married soon after graduation. After
teaching for four years, their two sons were born in upstate
New York. The family moved to Connecticut where Phyllis
became a volunteer for various organizations. They migrated
to California in 1977 where she continued her volunteer work
in the public schools, including her term as PTA President.
She later became active at Bellarmine College Preparatory
continuing her life long commitment to improving education.
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Wade Meyercord,
Chairman, Assistant Treasurer
Wade enjoyed a long high-tech career with IBM (as General
Manager of the San Jose operations); Memorex (as President
of the Storage Equipment Group); Read-Rite (as CEO); and
finishing the last 30 years as a consultant to high tech
companies. He served on 5 public company boards, usually on
the finance and compensation committees. He and Phyllis have
had a strong interest in aiding education, particularly for
those less fortunate.
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Judy Stratman,
Education Grants Chair, Fund Development Joint
Chair
Judy is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s Degree in Social
Work. Her adult work has centered around first, her family
and also issues of community need. When encountering issues
of Peace and Justice, she tirelessly accompanied dying
individuals and their families through her work with Hospice
and also advocated on behalf of homeless individuals and
families to address personal and community challenges. That
advocacy led to her founding a not-for-profit organization
aimed at preventing homelessness. Addressing the
educational needs of SRC staff and their family members will
provide her with an opportunity to advance their goals.
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Terry Stratman, Fund
Development Joint Chair
Terry received a BEE in electrical engineering from
Villanova and a law degree from Penn, after which he spent
three years in Washington D.C. working for what is now the
US Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner. While
in D.C. he and Judy met, married and had their first child.
They then moved to the Chicago area where Terry began a
40-year stint in private practice as a patent attorney, from
which he retired in 2009. After raising their family in
Naperville, IL he and Judy spent the last 16 years before
moving to SRC in Long Beach, IN where Terry did volunteer
work for various organizations. He has long considered
education as critical to effective citizenship and success
in life.
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Colin
Whitby-Strevens, Treasurer
A SRC resident since 2018, Colin came to California in 1998
to join a start-up company which was acquired by Apple in
2002, for whom he worked until his retirement just before
moving to SRC. He has worked on international standards for
the last 35 years of his career, taking Board and technical
leadership roles for HDMI, USB, Qi, FireWire, and many other
standards. He gained his PhD from Cambridge University
(England) in 1969 and has worked as an academic as well as
in industry. He is a strong believer that education should
be open to all, regardless of background and financial
circumstances, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the
Living Legacy Foundation.
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