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Marianne Lincoln for Bethel School Board, Position 3

BIOGRAPHY

Born Marianne Scott in Summit, I spent my first 10 years on a 2.5 acre mini farm on Canyon Road. We pastured horses, had a lot of fruit trees, a rickety old barn and a chicken coop converted to a meeting room for dad's aviation Explorer troop. Personally, I liked the big radio the best. There was a creek at the edge of the property, good for learning about amphibians and skunk cabbage.

My grandparents had undeveloped land with a lagoon at the edge of the Nisqually tide flats in Hogum Bay. This was a great classroom to learn about the ecosystem, and soft mud. It was also a great place to learn the history of Puget Sound, close to the Medicine Creek Treaty Tree and the original Fort Nisqually site. While working on the Graham Community plan history elements, I began researching the local history and have since been elected historian for the Descendents of Fort Nisqually Employees Association.

When I was 10, my father, who loved aviation, moved our family to Shady Acres Airport. I started attending Elk Plain Elementary in the 5th grade. Each spring my family helped repair an emergency airfield in White Pass (Tieton) with their flying group.

I played baseball, tennis and was in the band at Bethel Junior High. In high school (there was only one then) I was in band, honor society and several school plays. I was student band director in my senior year. In my senior year, we double-shifted at the high school and the lower grades went on year round school due to overcrowding. I graduated tied for valedictorian with my friend Mary Armstrong.

I am a graduate of the Bethel School District as are my two children. I studied math and science at the University of Puget Sound and finished my BS in chemistry at Cal State Stanislaus. I have worked in water laboratories, as an office administrator and computer contractor and have both taught and attended computer courses at Tacoma Community College and Pierce College. I have also had my own business, started and served on the board of several non-profit organizations.

At the University of Puget Sound and California State College at Stanislaus, I studied math, computer programming, science and music. I received a Bachelor's degree in chemistry and worked in several local water laboratories and later at Nalley's. At Nalley's I started working with data processing to computerize their manufacturing system. I have been working with computers ever since, from consulting and sales, to training adults on office systems and graphic software.

While teaching a microcomputer specialist course at the Washington Correction Center for Women in Purdy, I helped form a non-profit group that built a chapel facility for the religious programs in the prison.

When my children were in elementary school, I started getting involved in PTA and community activities to improve Spanaway. I helped found the Spanaway Community Action Network. We worked on many community disassociation issues and community activities, including launching a small community newspaper and several other community associations around Pierce County. As part of a key leaders group inspired by the Bethel Superintendent, I participated in creating the Core Qualities Project. I also was on the Bethel Citizen's Committee and worked on levy and bond campaigns when the schools needed new buildings in the 1990's.

In 1994, I helped found the Spanaway Community Action Network. Since that time I have spent countless hours working on projects in and around the Bethel District and South Pierce County, (community service) from youth activities and crime prevention to transportation and beautification.  I have many school board meetings over the past 20 years. From 2001-2005, I worked on the LeMay Skate Park fundraising, networking and grant writing with the Altrusa Foundation.

Currently, I am working as an administrative contract employee for an agency at Microsoft in Redmond. I have worked with several departments there for 4 years, along with some contract work for Amazon.com and the Russell Company.

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Marianne’s  Reflections

For more than 40 years, I’ve watched the Bethel School District go through it’s growing pains. I was recently reminiscing with friends on Facebook about the year we girls got to start wearing pants and then finally, jeans, to school. My father-in-law was on the school board that year. That policy change was about what a parent could afford. We need to continue to keep in mind that as public schools, we must make sure that every student can participate and feel welcome, regardless of their economic status. In this tight economy, it will be more important than ever to remember to welcome and embrace everyone.

This past year at Microsoft, I had the pleasure of working with the Partners in Learning and Partnership for Technology Access teams. They are involved in world-wide efforts to bring technology to students in classrooms all over the globe. Our students in Bethel schools are able to link up live with these international students. It’s fascinating where the technology can take us while we’re still here at home.

I’ve visited with graduates of Roy and Kapowsin High Schools. Our school district is rich in Washington State history. From the Hudson’s Bay Company to the Puyallup and Nisqually tribal practices and lore. From salal, camas, railroads and timber to aerospace and automobiles, we have made an amazing journey over the past 200 years. Today’s students are tomorrow’s district parents. I look forward to the chance to work with the Bethel School District to guide us along the journey of the 21^st Century.

-Marianne