Members of the Board

Ted Andrews is a 4th-generation Seattleite, married to Gretchen Hund and father to 2 college-age girls.  A long-time resident of the nearby Highlands neighborhood, he serves on that community’s Board and as its Treasurer.  A graduate of Whitman College and with an MBA from University of Puget Sound, he has been President of HerbCo International, a local organic herb farm, since 1992.

President/CEO of Washington Transit Advertising for 25 years (retired).  Past President and current Ambassador Board member of Big Brothers & Big Sisters of King County.  Role Model of the Year for Big Sisters of King County. Corporate Volunteer of the Year for Boys&Girls Clubs.  Countless charities have benefited from Jann’s devotion to philanthropic efforts.  Seattle native and University of Washington graduate.

Retired from Shoreline Community College after 28 years as faculty and Program Director of the Medical Laboratory Technology Program. Linda grew up in the north end of Seattle and became interested in gardening from her mother, who gardened with Ed Dunn. She has two lovely daughters and is honored to serve on the Board of Directors.

Broadview resident since 1963. Married, 2 daughters, 3 grandchildren. Graduate, Eastern Washington University, cum laude. Coordinator of the Broadview Historical Society. Past President and Board Member of the Broadview Cimmunity Council. Past President of the North Seattle Community College Senate. Past Vice President of the Seattle Community Coouncil Federation. Longtime active volunteer involved on many citywide and local organizations,issues and activities including education, environment,history, gardens, City of Seattle and neighborhood planning, libraries, parks and promoting community connections.

Beth holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree and Preservation Planning certificate from the University of Washington and is an independent preservation planning consultant and landscape designer/gardener. She has served on the Dunn Garden Conservation Committee since 2004. Beth is also a board member of Docomomo WEWA—a preservation advocacy group focusing on mid-century modernism, and is an active volunteer with Historic Seattle Preservation Development Authority.

Pat and his wife Susan have operated a government relations business with offices in Olympia and Seattle for the past 11 years.  Before that Pat worked for state and local government and practiced law.  Pat and Susan are fortunate to live in the Dunn Gardens in the home Pat’s parents built.  They have two daughters.  Sara Kirschenman is an Assistant Attorney General in Olympia.  Her husband, Eric, is an investigator with the Attorney General’s office.  Their younger daughter, Kat, is a freshman at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. 

Dr. Robert A. Findlay FAIA is professor emeritus of architecture at Iowa State University. Member of the National Peace Corps Association board and of the Olympia Design Review board. Member of the Washington State Facilities Access committee and active with the Thurston County Master Gardeners. Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. He is E.B. Dunn Garden Trust vp for conservation.

Michael G. Glenn, M.D., is an otolaryngologist – head and neck surgeon.  He is Chief of the Department of Surgery at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA where he also remains active as a head and neck cancer surgeon, with particular clinical interests in micro-vascular reconstructive surgery and thyroid cancer.  He is a member of the medical center’s board of directors and its management committee.  He holds an appointment as clinical Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Washington, the institution where he spent the first decade of his career following his training at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and at Stanford University Hospital’s otolaryngology residency program. The Garden is Mike’s first community board outside his vast professional involvements.

Gayle recently retired after a career as a Mortgage Banker.  She now enjoys taking classes and continues to expand her artistic horizons working with a variety of medium. Gayle is a volunteer with King County Master Gardeners and a member of the Seattle Garden Club. She has recently joined the board of Coyote Central, an organization that provides middle school kids out of school academic and art enrichment opportunities. It also provides scholarships for outreach to youth to build positive self identities.  She has been on the board since 2001, and is still as excited and in awe of our beautiful gardens.

Retired from Seattle Public Schools after 31 years of elementary teaching. Supervisor at the U.W. College of Education for 7 years. Interests include photography, travel and volunteer ESL tutoring.

President Paradigm Communications Group, which monthly publishes the award-winning inflight magazines for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Honored last Fall as one of Seattle's 20 Women of Influence for her volunteer work on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association, The Seattle Children's Theatre, The Seattle Advertising Association, Shorecrest High School and Washington Women's Foundation.

President of Marckworth Associates, a marketing and identity development firm that creates resonant, memorable brands to attract attention, engage interest & drive sales. In addition to the Dunn Gardens, she serves on the boards of the Association for Creative Business Writing, Northern Lights Northwest (VP) and Immediate Past President and Emeritus Trustee for Billings Middle School Board. She also serves on Advisory Boards for Next Stage Dance Theatre and Cascade Symphony Orchestra. Peg and her husband, Steve Felton, have a 21 year old daughter who attends the University of Washington.

Charlanne Dunn-McGinnis has been involved with the Dunn Gardens all her life since she is a member of the Dunn Family. Char attended Cornish School of Fine Arts, studying voice, dance and drama. Char began her career in non-profit organizations at the age of four, when she worked with her mother on the Mayor’s Seattle Hospitality Committee.  She has volunteered with the Denver Women's Shelter and as a Guardian Ad Litem in a Pilot Program with King County Juvenile Court. Char has also served on the Board of Maryhill Museum for 9 years, on the Maryhill Development Committee, and Nominations Committee as Member at Large. She is President of The Arthur G. Dunn Guild for Maryhill Museum.

Alex is currently Executive Vice President of Operations at Lynden Inc. He served as president of Lynden Transport, Inc.  between 2004 and 2008. He was also president of Alaska Marine Lines, Inc. from 1991 to 2004. He is a current Board member of Washington Employers Association. He was born in Seattle but raised and educated in the Northeast.

Peter provides program leadership for a variety of Seattle area companies as a Senior Associate with Point B Solutions Group.  A transplant from Minnesota via Japan, Peter has been a proud resident of Broadview since 2000. He can be seen in and around the gardens with his wife, Megumi, and three young children. Peter attended the University of Notre Dame and has a graduate degree in theology from Regent College in Vancouver, BC.

Retired Public Administrator. Served on numerous civic and education boards. Current passions include grandchildren, travel, figure skating, gardening, watercolor painting and the Dunn Gardens.

Served as board president Seattle International Trade Center; Served on the board for World Trade Club, Seattle Chapter; Vice President, Cameras West, Inc.; President and founder Venture International. Currently serving 4th year for Windermere Standards of Practice. Currently Real Estate Sales, (since 2000) Windermere Real Estate NW/Inc. Married, mother of twin girls, Windsurf, ski and garden!

Chris has more than 50 years of involvement in making our world a little greener and environmentally safer, through citizen activism, as a park commissioner and city councilman, as a member of the State Pollution Control Hearings Board, Shorelines Hearings Board, Growth Management Hearings Board, and Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, and as Governor Spellman's natural resource policy director. For eight years, she served as director of Environmental and Natural Resource Services with Gordon Thomas Honeywell, serving governmental, tribal and business clients through mediation of complex disputes. Since retirement, she serves the same goals through service on nonprofit boards, including the Seattle Parks Foundation, HistoryLink (an online encyclopedia of local and state history), and the Dunn Gardens.

President of McDonald Employment Services, Inc. for 30 years---Past President and current Board member for Seattle Executives Association.  Past President and current Board member for International Executives Association.  Member of Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce.  Born & educated in Southern California

Jenny Wyatt draws on both sides of her brain to work as a writer and landscape designer. In addition to numerous articles for business, literary, and parenting publications, she is the co-author of two books on parenting teens. Currently underway is a third book, to be published spring ’09.  She holds multiple degrees in English (B.A.; M.A.; and Ph.D.) as well as degrees in horticulture and landscape design. Jenny and her husband, Scott, have two daughters and two sons. She has served on the board of The Bush School and Hugo House. At Dunn Gardens, she heads up the docent program.