2025-2026 Executive Board
Messages from our co-presidents
Patty Boggs -- Member since 2014
My President’s Project’s theme for the 2025-2026 year is “Supporting Our Nation’s Heroes and Their Families”, and I will be fundraising for the Tunnels to Towers Foundation. Since 9/11, T2T has been helping America’s heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. My husband and I have been proud supporters of Tunnels to Towers for many years. They have the highest rating a charity can receive by Charity Navigator because 93% of donations are going directly to help our heroes. By supporting Tunnels to Towers you are supporting our nation’s hero’s and their families who gave everything to support our way of life and safety. God Bless Them All!
Mariellen Yarc -- Member since 2007
My President's Project's theme for the 2025-2026 year is "Preserving Endangered Wildlife". I have always had a passion for elephants since I was a young girl in elementary school. I collect elephants, read books on elephants, and have visited with elephants all over the world. I will be fundraising for one of my favorite projects - Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT). SWT operates the most successful orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world. They have successfully raised over 300 orphans (most of whom lost their mother by ivory poachers), attended to over 13,000 veterinary cases and have 30 anti-poaching teams. It all started by Daphne Sheldrick, a young widow in Kenya. Her success was so remarkable the Queen of England honored her by giving her the title of "Dame."