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Board member since June 2010 Margaret’s parents are Dennis and Mary Murphy whose petrified wood collection is displayed in the Murphy Petrified Wood Gallery. She has been around rocks and minerals all her life where she learned to appreciate their origin and beauty. Even though petrified wood as well as fossils, gems and minerals, were always around she still is amazed by the perfect skin on a palm or the fiery color of an Arizona. It is a wonderful gift from her parents to their children and grandchildren.

Board Member since 2014 Judith McGee is frequently recognized as one of the nation’s top wealth managers by leading industry publications. Among them, Barron’s magazine has named McGee to its list of Top 1,000 Wealth Advisors in the U.S. every year since 2009 and has ranked her as one of Oregon’s top ten. In 2013, Judith was once again named on Barron’s Top 1002 national list of women advisors. In 1979, Judith became one of the first women in the western United States to receive the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™1 certification. In November 1989, Judith joined Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC (“RJFS”). McGee has been on RJFS Chairman’s Council as a top ranked advisor since 1992 and was honored as their top woman advisor3 in 2012. She is Co-Branch Manager of McGee Wealth Management, Inc., and independent firm, one of RJFS’ premier branches. Throughout her career, Judith’s passion has been to share her years of experience and financial insight with her clients, with whom she builds strong, lasting relationships based on mutual trust As an ardent consumer finance advocate, her approach has always been consumer oriented and global in focus, specializing in investment management, retirement and estate planning, succession planning, and strategic philanthropy. Judith is a respected national speaker and writer, and is a member of Great Women Speakers, Portland, Oregon, “where great women speak their minds.” Her topics include personal economics, leadership, and “The Great Wake-Up Call: Shifting Economic Paradigms for Each Generation.” Judith has been a regular columnist and a guest columnist for the Portland Business Journal. She has authored several consumer resource books printed by Simon and Schuster and Random House, includ-ing J.K. Lasser Personal Investment Planner and the Random House Personal Investment Management Guide. Judith is a financial columnist for Boom Magazine and a frequent guest on ABC Affiliate KATU’s AM Northwest. She contributed to Chuck Whitlock’s CRIMELINE Law Enforcement Training Program sponsored by Experian, Financial Exploitation of Seniors and Investment Fraud. The project became an extended learning program, which won the Platinum Award for Excellence in online learning at Bellevue University in New York in 2007. In her commitment to the McGee philosophy of giving back to the community, Judith was a founding member of the Board of Directors of Town Center Bank, which was purchased by Columbia Bank of Tacoma, Washington in 2007. She has served on their Oregon Advisory Board. She has also served on the executive committee of the Board of Directors for Metropolitan Family Service and is a Past President of the Board of Directors of William Temple House. In 2009, The Oregon Community Foundation selected her to serve on their Professional Board of Advisors. Judith is a board member of Rice Museum, Multnomah County Library Association, on the Social Entrepreneur Curriculum Committee and President’s Advancement Council for Warner Pacific College. Judith received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (LHD) from Warner Pacific College in 1993 for her life achievements, published works and service.

Board Member since Spring 2013 Member, Geological Society of America Member, Directors Guild of America Bruce is a life-long mineral collector. Growing up in Connecticut, he scoured the local pegmatites and garnet-rich metamorphic rocks for crystals. He did his undergraduate work in geology at Earlham College then earned his Masters degree from the University of Montana, where he mapped volcanic rocks in the mountains of the northern Rockies. After college Bruce worked for years in minerals exploration in the Western USA and Mexico, as well as mapping coal reserves in the Illinois Basin. His final 3 years of exploration were in helicopter-supported remote camps in the Alaska Range. In 1986 he was accepted into an apprentice program at the Directors Guild of America, in Los Angeles. After graduation from the program he worked for many years in Film & TV production. He is currently the Producer of the NBC series “Grimm”, filming here in Portland, and maintains an avid interest in rocks, minerals, and all things geologic. In 2010, his collection was exhibited at the world-renowned Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. Bruce is proud to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Rice Mineral Museum.  

Board member since 2011Gene, an Intel Senior Fellow (retired) received his Doctor’s degree in Materials Science from MIT in 1963; he chose this field as his profession directly as a result of starting to collect natural crystals as early as 1948! His undergraduate work at Purdue as well as his Master’s degree and ScD at MIT were on analyzing and characterizing the properties of single and polycrystalline materials. After receiving his degree Gene went to work for Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963, and then for Intel in 1973, where he became Intel’s second Fellow in 1984; he retired from Intel in 2009. Gene is well known in the mineral field for his contributions to many mineral museums (Harvard, Rice NW Museum, A.E. Seaman Museum, University of Arizona, Gemological Institute of America, Tellus Science Museum) as well as for his many fascinating mineral displays (often with Bill Larson) at Tucson and Munich shows. He served as Chairman of the Board for the University of Arizona Mineral Museum, and President of the Board of Rice NW Museum, as well as on various university boards in his technical profession. He currently resides with his wife Rosalind, a ceramic artist, in Lake Oswego. His son Andrew lives in Los Angeles, and is planning to open a mineral museum (with many donations from Gene’s collection) at the renovated Clifton’s Cafeteria and Natural History Museum of L.A. County in downtown Los Angeles. Gene is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has an honorary doctorate from Purdue University.

Board Member since 2018 Gail Copus Spann, along with her husband Jim, is an avid collector of fine minerals and gemstones. Her mission is to educate people, especially young people and women, about the importance of minerals and to encourage them to begin collecting fascinating examples of “Nature’s” art. She is a regular visitor at major gem and mineral shows around the United States and Europe. The Spanns also have more than 12,000 pieces in their personal collection that are on display in their home, as well as on loan to several museums. Gail also serves as an associate photographer and Chair of the board of Directors of the Mineralogical Record Magazine.  Gail and Jim are on the Mineral Hall committee for the Peabody Museum at Yale University in New Haven.  Gail also serves on the board of Dallas’s Perot Museum of Nature and Science and is a Docent there.  The Spann’s also serve on the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy board, which oversees Mindat.org.  Gail is also newly elected onto the Society of Mineral Museum Professionals board. Gail resides in Rockwall, Texas with their various rescue animals including 8 pot belly pigs, 3 goats, 3 parrots, 4 dogs and 2 cats. She is also a League of American Bicyclists Cycling instructor and past Chair of that organization.

Board Member since 2016 Paula Stewart, a native of Massachusetts, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Education from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), post graduate work in Art Therapy at Pratt Institute in New York and a Master of Arts degree from the George Washington University in the District of Columbia, with a Therapeutic Recreation major and a concentration in Gerontology.  Prior to managing both the Sherwood Senior Center in Sherwood and the Juanita Pohl Center in Tualatin for the Meals on Wheels People, Paula was the Director of Adult Services for the Mittleman Jewish Community Center in Southwest Portland and had also worked for the Urban League of Portland to establish their first Senior Center in Northeast Portland.  She is currently employed by the City of Hillsboro as the Manager of the award winning Hillsboro Community Senior Center. Throughout her career with older adults, she has consistently demonstrated great leadership along with innovative partnership. She has a talent for addressing difficult situations while strongly advocating for equitable outcomes. Since relocating to Oregon many years ago, Paula channeled her creative energies into her work as a Fiber Artist with specific interest in liturgical handweaving. She has received well deserved recognition locally and internationally for her exhibited work and has been a published author as well as a commissioned artist. You can often see how her creativity transcends into her everyday career and personal life. She is excited to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Rice Museum.