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Mary Ann Lammers

Mary Ann has the privilege of wearing a few hats for our professional association, and hopes others will step forth and volunteer their time and talents to work with an incredible group of individuals who support business education in Oregon, the Western Region (WBEA), and NBEA.

Mary Ann is serving as OBEA president this year, and is optimistic that we have taken a good look at who we are in OBEA and that the officers will move the organization forward with our new vision and proactive Program of Work. She is serving in her eighth year as Consultant and will continue to bring the news from WBEA, NBEA, and ISBE. Her concern about the training of future business teachers in Oregon has given her the opportunity to serve as the Higher Education and Scholarship Director. She is currently working with business education teacher students at Oregon State University as well as the 11 other institutions in Oregon who are training business teachers.

Serving as the Professional Development Institute Director for WBEA keeps Mary Ann involved at the regional level. Her current NBEA involvements include serving as the WBEA representative on the Strategic Planning Committee, a member of the NBEA Nominating Committee, and the chair-elect of the Policies Commission on Business and Economic Education.

OBEA has been good to Mary Ann and has provided her with the skills and confidence to serve at the regional and national levels as well, culminating with her year as NBEA president in 2004-05. She feels humbled by the organization's vote of confidence and looks forward to the next year with enthusiasm.

Finally, Mary Ann's “real” job is Department Chair (16th year) and Faculty (24th year) in Business Technology at Linn-Benton Community College..

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Doug Veysey

Doug Veysey has taught Business Education classes for 28 years of which 27 have been in Oregon. He will be teaching the following this fall: Accounting, Office Practice, Keyboarding, 8th grade Computer, and Computer I. Doug is also the Career Internship Teacher. Doug was named the OBME (now OBEA) teacher of the year a couple years ago and also received the Distinguished Service Award. Doug says that Oregon Business Education Associiation is a terrific group to belong to because he has made great friendships over the years and the sharing of curriculum is invaluable when you teach at a small school.

Doug has run in 4 marathons so far and plans on running the Portland Marathon on October 5th. His goal is to qualify for the Boston Marathon. If you have any questions for Doug he would love talking to you. You may call him at school at 541-572-1298 or 541-260-3742. Doug teaches at Myrtle Point High School.

Doug earned his Masters of Education in Business Education from Oregon State University and his Bachelor of Arts in Business Education from Eastern Washington University.

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Darlene Marquardt

Darlene's original teaching certification was Music Education (preK - 12) as she acquired her BA in Music Education from Western Oregon University in 1969. She earned a Masters in Education at Oregon State University in 1974. In the mid-80's she became interested in Business and acquired her Masters in Business Administration from National University in 1988. Shortly after that she gained her teaching endorsement in Business Education. She also holds an endorsement in Career and Technical Education, Business Managment Systems.

She has taught school in Lincoln County, Oregon; Vacaville, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada and spent about 5 years being co-administrator of a private school in Newport, Oregon as well as teaching both business and computers. She has taught business and music for Echo S.D. as well as for Morrow County S. D., teaching both music and business for Ione and Heppner schools. From 2003 through 2008 she taught Business full time at Heppner High School.

She began her association with OBEA in 2005 and quickly became involved in the leadership of the organization by taking the PDI class at the Reno WBITE (now WBEA) conference and became a Regional Representative (Correspondant).

Darlene has been creating web pages since she became interested in the web in the mid-90's and took over as OBEA's web coordinator in 2006. Beginning in the 2008-2009 school year Darlene will be teaching Music at all the Morrow County Schools in Irrigon and will also keep her fingers in Business Education by teaching one business class at Irrigon High School and continuing her web work as web coordinator for OBEA as well as being webmaster for a number of other non-profit and for profit organizations. Darlene lives in Athena with her husband. She has two grown children and two grandchildren. Darlene spends her spare time playing piano and reading.

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Oregon Department of Education

• Awards Director

• NBEA/WBEA Representative

• ISBE Representative

• Department of Education: Business & Management Specialist

• FBLA Executive Director

• DECA Program Coordinator