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All 501c3 organizations must
have a policymaking board to act
as governing body over decisions
including
. direction of
programs
. allocation of
funds
. administrative
policies
Seven individuals comprise the
Resounding Joy, Inc., Board of Directors.
Each director holds office for
two years, in staggered terms. At
an annual election, the Board votes
for replacements for outgoing directors.
Anyone with passion for Resounding
Joy and an interest in serving on
the board is welcome to apply for
candidacy.
The Resounding Joy Board of Directors
convenes no fewer than four times
per year, at quarterly intervals.
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Barbara Reuer, PhD, NMT, MT–BC
President since September
2005
Dr. Reuer, the founder of Resounding
Joy, Inc., has earned international
recognition of her expertise in
music-centered wellness and music
therapy. She has served as Past
President of the National Association
for Music Therapy and was the year
2000 recipient of the Professional
Practice Award from the American
Music Therapy Association for her
significant contribution to the
practice of music therapy. Her vast
experience includes more than 30
years of clinical experience in
public schools, older-adult facilities,
hospices, medical and psychiatric
hospitals, corrections facilities,
substance abuse and eating disorders
programs, health spas, and teaching
at the community college and university
level.
Dr. Reuer
directs MusicWorx
of California, an international
clinical training program for music
therapy interns. MusicWorx also
provides workshops and seminars—wellness,
community-building, and stress management—for
healthcare professionals, educators,
and corporate clients.
Dr. Reuer
is the author and co-author of several
books and articles, recognized by
numerous prestigious publications
as well as the Lifetime Network
television show, New Attitudes.
Dr. Reuer is a frequent subject
of print media feature articles
and televised interview formats
at local, national, and international
levels.

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Frederick “Rick” Hein
Vice President since September
2005
Frederick Hein is President
and Founder of Miramar Bobcat, Inc.,
a Bobcat Equipment dealer with five
branches in southern California
and Southern Nevada. Rick has nearly
40 years' experience in the construction
equipment business.
Rick grew
up on a beef farm in southern Minnesota
and attended Gustavus Adolphus College
and the University of Minnesota.
After college, he spent five years
working for a couple of equipment
dealers in the Midwest. In 1975,
he moved to San Diego to try his
hand at being in business for himself.
Things have worked out nicely, and
today his companies employ more
than a hundred people.
A lifelong
Lutheran, Rick met his wife Ann
in the Calvary Lutheran choir, where
they remain active today. They have
two grown children, both teachers.
Rick and Ann
are trained and active Joy Givers.
Both also sing in and direct the
Minstrels, an acapella singing group
that supports the ministry of Resounding
Joy. Rick has served on the board
of Redwood Senior Services in Escondido,
California, as Board Chair for several
years. Ann continues on that board
to this day.
Serving the
senior community is very important
to Rick, and involving as many people
in as many volunteer positions as
possible is his vision for Resounding
Joy, Inc.

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Terry A. Bluemer
Secretary
and Parliamentarian since September
2005
Terry is the Senior Vice
President of the Organizational
Accountability Group of Front Porch,
a not-for-profit providing housing
and healthcare to seniors. The Accountability
Group monitors corporate compliance,
ethics service, quality assurance,
and improvement and social accountability
programs for an organization that
serves close to 5,000 people each
day.
During Terry's
26-year span of service at Front
Porch, he has held corporate management
responsibility for pharmacy, homecare,
and skilled nursing operations.
For five years, Terry directed the
human resources department.
Raised and
educated in Michigan, Terry earned
his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University
of Michigan in 1972. Terry is a
current member of both Aging Services
of California and American Association
of Homes and Services for the Aging.
The need for
supportive music and its benefit
to the elderly, those nearing life's
end, and those with disabilities
is evident in Terry's work in the
retirement field. Enjoyment of music
and desire to help meet the needs
of others make Resounding Joy an
especially comfortable fit.

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Paul A. Hacker
Treasurer since January 2008
General Director from April
2006 to December 2007
Paul's lifetime of on-the-job
training, coupled with keen entrepreneurial
instincts, has guided his successful
career of buying and selling manufacturing
businesses. His extensive experience
spans 40 years and includes everything
from inventory control and business
consulting to founding ownership
of a company whose destiny was
to become a global supplier of
products
to the semiconductor industry.
In 1983, Paul
and his wife Jill left the San
Francisco Bay area to re-settle
in San Diego. Their solid 35-year
marriage has produced two children
who have rewarded the Hackers
with three grandchildren, a fourth
due in August 2007. International
travel, especially on motorcycle,
is now the favorite Hacker hobby.
Conversations
with enthusiastic Resounding
Joy Givers motivated Paul to
share his strong business acumen
with the Board of Directors.

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Jane A. Kieschnick
Referral
Coordinator since September 2005
Jane's background is rich
in the role of music as a source
of enjoyment and health. Since high
school, she has served as a pianist,
accompanying orchestras and choirs.
In college, Jane pursued studies
in pipe organ and choral directing.
Jane's exceptional
organizational skills have served
her as office manager for the Lutheran
Schools Association of metropolitan
New York, where she not only developed
critical internet databases, but
also worked as liaison among parents,
local school administrators, and
New York State Department of Education.
Through the years, Jane has served
on the boards of a variety of not-for-profit
organizations.

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Ron Ham
General Director since January
2008
Ron has 31 years experience
in newspapers, where he's directed
coverage of everything from wildfires,
murder trials and city hall scandals
to elections, city council meetings
and presidential visits. Most recently
he was north coast editor of the
San Diego Union-Tribune,
overseeing
the work of a half-dozen reporters
and a satellite newsroom
in Carlsbad.
Ron grew
up in the Los Angeles area and
earned his bachelor’s
degree in communications arts at
Cal Poly Pomona. He met his future
wife, Edie, after moving to Leucadia
in the late 1970s. They raised
two children, Mary Kate and Scott,
who are both in college.
Ron became
interested in Resounding
Joybecause he loves
to sing. A tenor in the choir
at Calvary
Lutheran Church, he helped publicize
fundraising
concerts for the non-profit organization
and joined its Minstrels a cappella
group before joining the board.
These days,
he spends much of his time photographing
nature and water sports.

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Louis Shook
General Director since January
2008
Louis has a background
in advertising, graphic design,
marketing and music. He is the
Creative Services Manager at The
San Diego Union-Tribune,
where
he
directs a team of writers, editors
and graphic artists on a variety
of projects.
He also serves
as treasurer on the The San
Diego Direct Marketing Association
Board of Directors
Lou has
enjoyed surfing for many years
and plays
guitar and sings with his band,
the Flounders, at a number
of North San Diego County venues.

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Richard
"Dick" Binford
Treasurer September 2005
to January
2008

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Ervin
"Skip" Lincoln Hawk,
II
General
Director September 2005
to February 2007

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