{"id":602,"date":"2018-05-18T23:42:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:01:13","slug":"current-officers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/current-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TCSRA Elected Officers, 2026\u20132027<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Left to right, top row:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em> Gail Feagins, Pat Slosson, and Ron Crawford<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
Second row: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em>Tom Phimister, <\/span><\/span><\/strong>ZiNita Carrell, and Patty Gee<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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GAIL FEAGINS, CO-PRESIDENT: <\/strong>Gail Feagins has been co-chair of TCSRA\u2019s Member & Health Services Committee for 12 years and has written many excellent articles regarding health and consumer issues for Bits & Pieces. Last year, she was our vice president. She also has served on WSSRA\u2019s state Health Committee, and she has finished a three-year term as the SW-4 district representative on the WSSRA Executive Board. Born in Canada, Gail grew up in Yakima and graduated from Central Washington University. She taught in the North Thurston School District for 31 years, mainly at Chinook Middle School. Over the years she taught French, language arts, social studies, and calligraphy. Through a grant from the University of Washington, Gail spent six weeks in Egypt, along with 17 other social studies teachers from the Pacific NW. Since retirement in 1998, Gail has volunteered at the Tax Center at Fort Lewis, the Washington State Attorney General\u2019s Office, and the Thurston County Food Bank. She has made several trips with Global Volunteers, tutoring English on a short-term basis, throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. She also made a humanitarian trip to Tanzania with the Safi School project. Because of her commitment to volunteering, Gail was the 2025 recipient of WSSRA\u2019s Stan McNaughton Award that looks outwardly as it recognizes a member whose volunteer participation in the community has helped improve the image of school retirees. Besides traveling, Gail enjoys reading and walking.<\/span><\/p>\n

PAT SLOSSON, CO-PRESIDENT:\u00a0 <\/strong>Pat served three terms as TCSRA president, one year as our vice president\/president-elect, and three years as our secretary. She was\u00a0editor of Bits & Pieces <\/em>for four years and\u00a0has also been co-editor of the directory for several years. She is on the hospitality\/luncheon committee and provided printed programs for our luncheon meetings for many years. She has also been chair of the membership committee. As an \u201cArmy Brat,\u201d Pat attended seven schools before graduating from high school in Dallas, Texas.\u00a0 She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a BA in Education and later earned an MA from Lesley University.\u00a0 After working for Phoenix newspapers, she returned to Washington and taught for North Thurston Public Schools for 30 years. Pat taught English as well as acting as Dean of Students for 12 years. Pat enjoys reading, traveling with her husband, and spending time with her children and grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n

RON CRAWFORD, VICE PRESIDENT: <\/strong>This isn’t Ron\u2019s first term as vice president. In fact, that was his first TCSRA volunteer position, which he held from 2010\u20132012, after joining this organization in 2007.\u00a0 Since then, he has served as TCSRA president, immediate past president, chair of the retirement planning committee, and as a nominating committee member. Ron has also been the WSSRA president-elect, president, and immediate past president. For the past two years, he has been active with the WSSRA unit rejuvenation team, which travels the state to help units become more vibrant again. \u00a0Ron taught vocational agriculture at Toledo High School for eight years\u00a0<\/strong>and served as high school principal for two. He moved to the state department of education (OSPI), working as a program supervisor in Agricultural Education for 27 years. During that time, Ron was State FFA Executive Secretary and State FFA Advisor and served as a State Fair Commissioner with the department of Agriculture. He\u2019s also done some consultative work with schools on school reform. Upon retirement from OSPI in 2000, he became licensed as a Registered Representative with Shelgren Financial Group, Inc. and Lincoln Investment Planning, Inc. Ron retired in November 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secretary:<\/strong> Unfilled<\/strong>\u00a0Position<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TOM PHIMISTER, FISCAL TREASURER: <\/strong>A new WSSRA\/TCSRA member, Tom is exceptionally qualified for this position. He spent 34 years as a vocational business instructor in the North Beach, Oakville, and Onalaska school districts.\u00a0After retiring nine years ago, he spent time as a part-time financial clerk for a local Tumwater church.\u00a0Tom grew up in Camas, Washington, earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from Central Washington University, his master\u2019s from City University, and his administrative credentials from City University. \u00a0He is currently council president of Gull Harbor Lutheran Church in Olympia. Tom and his wife live in Tumwater and have one son who teaches at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Olympia.<\/span><\/p>\n

ZINITA CARRELL, MEMBERSHIP TREASURER:<\/strong> ZiNita, now in her fourteenth year as membership treasurer,\u00a0 is in charge of email notifications for luncheon reservations and legislative announcements. She was the education committee co-chair and wrote articles for Bits & Pieces<\/em> for many years before retiring from that position.\u00a0 ZiNita was born in Yakima, WA, and lived in Wapato for most of her childhood. Her father, Lorence Heikell, was principal of Wapato Intermediate School, and her mother taught in various elementary schools around the lower Yakima Valley. ZiNita graduated from East Valley High School in Moxee and later received her BA and MA from Central Washington University. She taught Title 1 and Chapter 1 reading and math for nearly all of her career in Eastern and Western Washington and retired from Tacoma Public Schools. In retirement ZiNita enjoys reading novels, watching movies, traveling, and playing board games with her grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n

PATTY GEE, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT:\u00a0 <\/b>Patty has served as our secretary, president-elect, and president. After 20 years with North Thurston Public Schools, Patty went on sabbatical to earn her master\u2019s degree at Central Washington University (CWU). Meanwhile, her husband was called to Tokyo, Japan, as a Christian missionary. Patty followed and was able to do research comparing Japan\u2019s early childhood programs to ours for her master\u2019s degree thesis. After three years in Japan as ministers of a Christian Mission Church, they returned, and Patty finished her Master\u2019s in School Administration at CWU and then worked in several districts\u2014Toppenish, Shelton, Steilacoom, and Griffin\u2014as a speech language pathologist. At this point, she retired and realized a life goal by opening her \u201cOpen Door Autism Clinic\u201d in Olympia. She directly provided the therapy for autism communication and social skills, and her husband, Jerome, was the Executive Director. As a volunteer, Patty has been President\/Executive Director of the Autism Society of Washington, secretary for the North Thurston Education Association, secretary for several church boards and councils, and secretary\/board member of the Regional Women of the Lutheran Church of America.<\/span><\/p>\n

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