About Us: People

Volunteers are the heart and soul of LMV; indeed, we are an all-volunteer organization, save for our executive director. The organization consists of both an umbrella structure ("corporate") and chapters, which means that a number of members play dual roles as volunteers on LMV trips, and as key personnel in the administration of the organization.

At the corporate level, an eight-member board of directors, all LMV members, oversees and guides the organization's work. Four of those directors are the four chapter presidents, and four are officers; board elections are held annually. LMV's part-time executive director guides the organization on a day-to-day basis in the fulfillment of our strategic goals and objectives and helps ensure the four chapters work smoothly together. Other key posts are also filled by volunteers at the corporate level, including (among others) chief pilot, corporate trip coordinator, and chief medical officer, dentist, and optometrist.

At the chapter level, annually elected boards also guide the group's work, with significant support from other volunteers to edit monthly newsletters, coordinate trips, track membership, collect donated supplies, and so on.

Our membership is fairly diverse in most senses, but shares an intense desire to help others. Read more about us on our volunteer pages or contact us to learn more.

Corporate Board of Directors
Chairman: Tom Palmer. Retired military officer (Major, USAF, retired 1975); retired aerospace engineer (TRW, Inc., retired 1992); semi-retired commercial pilot, seasonal employee at Commander Northwest, LTD, Wenatchee, WA, under contract to U.S. Forest Service as Air Attack (spotter) pilot. Board member, Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society.

Vice Chairman: Art Schmauder. Board member, Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum and Eighth Air Force Foundation. Retired attorney, private practice. Formal legal counsel for Merck & Co, Inc.; Schering-Plough Corp.; Sterling Drug Corp.; Sharp Corp.; BASF Corp.; Church & Dwight Corp.; Coopers & Lybrand; KPMG Peat Marwick; Arthur Andersen; Toyota; Cessna Aircraft Corp.; and Advest Corp.

Treasurer: Ed Weiss, DDS. Private practice. Examiner for the California Board of Dental Examiners.

Secretary: Lee Johnson. Retired military officer, USAF and retired civil servant, McClellan Air Force Base. Vice President, Sacramento Chapter of FaGowee International.

South Bay Chapter President: Don Wolf. President of Wolf Creative Photography; geneologist. Retired president & founder of Wolf Computer & Wolf Electronics. Member of Kiwanis Club of Los Gatos, including former president and lieutenant governor of South Bay. Trustee, Medical Benevolence Foundation. Elder & mission chair of the Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos. Former president of Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce. Man of the Year of Los Gatos. Former president of Santa Clara County Junior Achievement. Former president of the Old Crows. Former chairman of the board of Stanford University Television Network and former executive at Western Microwave, ESL, GTE, Textron, GE and ATT. Volunteer pilot for LMV for over 25 years and over 100 trips, and former LMV corporate board chairman.

Gold Country Chapter President: Judi Foy. M.S. in rehabilitation counseling; worked with nonprofits in San Francisco for 20 years prior to retirement. In 2006 flew to Honduras to do volunteer work in a Mother Teresa orphanage. Currently manages the Visitor's Center at the Grass Valley/Nevada County Chamber of Commerce.

Central America Chapter President & LMV Founder: Milt Camp. Board member, Sonora Sunrise Rotary Foundation; advisor to Rotary International, Water Health and Hunger Task Force. Retired global product support engineer for Applied Materials Santa Clara, California. Current consultant to Sonora Regional Medical Center Diagnostic Imaging.

High Sierra Chapter President: Elizabeth Collins. Pilot and Attorney. Proficiency Training Program Chair, Reno High Sierra Chapter of the Ninety-Nines.

Program Leaders
Chief Physician and Oasis Program Coordinator: David Morgan, MD, has been with LMV since its founding in 1975. As Oasis program coordinator, Dr. Morgan oversees LMV's participation in a large health fair in the Coachella Valley of southern California twice a year in partnership with other organizations. Dr. Morgan advises LMV on our medications donations program, as well as our medical volunteer recruiting and medical clinic planning and operation. He has participated in more than 77 LMV missions both as an LMV volunteer pilot and as a physician. Outside LMV, Dr. Morgan operates a private family practice in Los Gatos, California. He is a member of the Santa Clara County Medical Association, California Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. In 2002 the Santa Clara County Medical Association awarded him the Community Service award for the thousands of patients cared for gratis with LMV. The California Medical Association gave their Endorsement for "Pride of the Profession Aware" to the American Medical Association in 2002 for his free medical care with LMV.

Chief Optometrist: Dick Koleszar, OD, joined LMV in the mid-1980s. Dr. Koleszar coordinates LMV's used eyeglasses program, collecting the eyeglasses and grading, tagging, and making them presentable for donation to patients as part of our clinics. As with other chief medical volunteers at LMV, Dr. Koleszar guides the organization's volunteer efforts in optometry as we plan for clinics and recruit new volunteers. He has participated in 13 LMV clinics. Dr. Koleszar has a private practice in optometry in Hollister and Pacific Grove, California.

Chief Dentist: Jack Chamberlain, DDS, has been participating in LMV Mexico clinics since 1982. Dr. Chamberlain advises LMV on dental volunteer recruiting and provides guidance on our overall dentistry clinic efforts. He has participated in dozens of clinics for LMV since joining, and over the years has played a key role in developing and running LMV's Oasis program in concert with Dr. Morgan. Dr. Chamberlain has a private dentistry practice in Los Gatos, California.

Chief Pilot: Rob Lober joined LMV in 1999 and has flown more than 30 missions for us since that time. As Chief Pilot, Mr. Lober coordinates LMV's volunteer pilot efforts, including recruiting, pilot checkout procedure, pilot policy and pilot trip coordination (our pilots often serve as the trip coordinators for the missions they fly to Mexico). Mr. Lober is a 2700 hour private pilot with single engine land, single engine sea, multi-engine land, instrument and glider ratings. Outside LMV Mr. Lober is a real estate developer with projects in Nevada, California, and Colorado. He holds a B.S. in General Engineering and an MBA.

Corporate Trip Coordinator: Judi Foy, Gold Country chapter president, also serves as LMV's corporate trip coordinator. In this role, she tracks LMV's commitments to serve various villages, as well as clinic conditions in those locations. She also helps guide LMV's trip coordination policies and standards across chapters and programs.