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Contributions to OCC
Admissions & Membership Committee 1987 Member 1988 Chair Long Range Planning Committee 1990 Member 1992 Member 1994 Member 1995 Member 2006 Member 2007 Member 2009 Member Nominating Committee 2009 Chair
Board of Directors 2002 Coordinating Director Buildings & Grounds 2003 Secretary 2004 Secretary 2005 Vice President Operations 2006 President 2007 Coordinating Director Elks Ad Hoc Committee Historical Committee 1981 Member House Committee 1982 Member 1983 Member 1984 Member Building & Grounds Committee 1985 Member 1986 Chair
Barbara Stehouwer
➳ A contributing member for the past 70 years, Barbara Stehouwer is one of the Outrigger Canoe Club’s longest members. She joined on her tenth birthday, but before joining, she came to the Club with her parents so her association with the Club goes back even further. As a youth she participated in the usual activities of the Club: surfing, paddling, volleyball and hanging out. Over the years, she and her husband Ken dined and en- tertained here, and together they raised their daughters here at the Outrigger. Barbara’s three decades of Club service began in 1981 when she joined the Historical Committee. That expand- ed to serving on the House Committee, serving on and chairing both the Buildings &Grounds and the Admis- sions andMembership Committees, and then finding her home on the Long Range Planning Committee. After declining several times, when her work sched- ule finally permitted, she agreed to run for the Board of Directors and won her seat in 2002. She served as a Co- ordinating Director, Secretary as well as Vice President of Operations. In 2006, Barbara was elected as President of the Club, becoming only the second woman to service
in that capacity. In her final year on the Board, she was Coordinating Director for the Elks Ad Hoc Committee. “Barbara Stehouwer succeeded me as President in 2006,” says former President Alan Lau. “I became the Chair of the Elks Ad Hoc Committee and reported vir- tually daily to Barbara on the comings and goings of the negotiations, which then turned into arbitration. During the course of those proceedings, Barbara and I became very good friends with great mutual respect for each oth- er’s commitment to ensuring the Club got the best result possible in the Elks’ matter.” “Together, we worked long hours with the Elks Ad Hoc Committee and the attorneys representing the Club,” Lau added. “When the favorable award came out from the Arbitrators, it was a huge relief as well as great satisfaction in what was accomplished. To this day, I tru- ly believe that Barbara did not receive enough credit for the job she did as President during that very important year in our Club’s history.” There is no one more deserving of Life Membership in the Outrigger Canoe Club than Barbara Stehouwer.
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