• Board Member Announcements •

Chair: Tracey Tardiff, parent

    Tracey Tardiff is the Family and Community Coordinator for the Children’s Council; Watauga County’s Smart Start Partnership and Resource and Referral Agency. Seventeen years ago, when Tracey and her husband, Scotty, came to Watauga County to visit a friend for a long week-end, they fell in love with the area and all the friendly people. They immediately knew this was where they wanted to spend their lives and raise their family. Tracey has a BA in Psychology from UNC-W and a BS from ASU in Early Childhood Development Birth-Kindergarten.
Two Rivers Community School’s educational mission embraces everything that Tracey holds dear for Reilly, their son, who is in the third grade.

Vice-Chair: Lynnwood Brown, parent

    Lynnwood Brown spent his summers growing up in Blowing Rock but recently returned to the High Country after 25 years living in Northern New Mexico doing community and regional planning and economic development. Lynnwood brings to the board a wide range of experience in planning, organizational development, and fund-raising for community-based organizations, both non-profit and for-profit. He is currently developing collaborative, knowledge-management web-sites for corporate clients and is serving as web-master for Two Rivers. He is thrilled to be apart of a community creating a progressive public-education option for Watauga county and is inspired by what Two Rivers Community School staff and parents have already accomplished in its short history.

Secretary: Jon Towers, Community Member

Treasurer: Ginny Morgan Jorgenson, parent

    Ginny Jorgenson has lived in the Boone area for ten years and is thrilled about the opportunities that Two Rivers Community School is bringing to the mountains. She believes that it is important to give children a positive learning experience that is hands-on and applicable to their lives and environment. Ginny is currently an Accounting major at Appalachian State University and will serve as Treasurer for TRCS. She is the wife of Ryan Jorgenson, step-mother of Cassidy (upcoming seventh-grader at TRCS), and mother of four-year-old Hazel Autumn.

June Gilch: Director of TRCS

Director

Don Treinen: Community Member

    Don Treinen resides in Blowing Rock and is a partner in the business consulting firm, Dynamic Destiny Partnerships.  He is the former CEO of two firms providing a wide range of training and education to employees of 3 major telecommunications companies. He supports TRCS by working on funding, foundation-building and public relations.

Vicki Meléndez Krueger: TRCS Kindergarten Teacher, Web site liaison

    Vicki Meléndez Krueger (pronounced Creeger) (founding teacher). Vicki teaches Kindergarten at Two Rivers Community School. She acquired her B.A. in Elementary Education from Columbia College in South Carolina and hope to pursue a Masters at Appalachian State University in Technology. She has co-taught 1st and 2nd grade in a multi-age 1st - 5th grade classroom, in the 2 years through kindergarten multi-age classroom at Harmony School in Columbia, South Carolina and at Pierce Terrace School at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. She taught Spanish to all students ages two through fifth grade. She also served as a dedicated aide to special needs students in kindergarten through fourth grade. She and her husband Steve reside in West Jefferson with our dogs Wolfgang, Sam and Oliver. They have four grown daughters.

Kay Philipp: Community Member

    Kay Philipp has been fortunate (minus the ice storms) to live here in Watauga County for the past thirty-odd years. She keeps herself busy with a family, a variety of jobs and ever-evolving hobbies. The common thread weaving itself through her career moves is that of working with children and their families. As a member of the Board of Directors of Two Rivers Community School she is especially interested in the further development of parent and community volunteer work/play at the school. She currently works at The Children's Playhouse where she's had the pleasure of meeting lots of parents of TRCS's students. Their enthusiasm about and commitment to the EL process was a determining factor in her agreeing to join the Board.