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Below is some personal information about each of the Board of Trustees members and the Executive Director. It is hoped by sharing this information that pro-life educators will better understand how TSC is governed by volunteers, thus being able to better support the leadership through prayer and other means of involvement.

The Executive Director of Teachers Saving Children^® is Miss Connie Bancroft. A graduate of Malone University with a degree in music education, she has done graduate work at both Walsh College and Kent State University earning master degrees in special education and reading specialization. For 24 years she taught students with learning disabilities in the West Branch School District (Mahoning County, OH). On September 1, 2010, Connie began a new position in the same district. She now serves as the Transition Coordinator working with students ages 14-22 who have an IEP. She assists these students in transitioning from school to work and/or school to college. Connie also serves as the Secretary of the West Branch Local Professional Development Committee.

Having been a member of the National Education Association and the Ohio Education Association(OEA) since 1984, Connie has been very active at both the local, regional, and state levels. She currently serves as chair of the Local Constitution & Bylaws Committee, as chair of the regional Credentials Committee, and as co-vice-chair of the OEA Professional Efficacy Core Function Committee. In addition, she served seven years on the OEA Convention Planning Committee, serving as the chair for one year. She has also served as a delegate to the Northeast Ohio Education Association Representative Assembly, the Ohio Education Association Representative Assembly, and the National Education Association Representative Assembly.

Connie is involved in both church, family, and community activities. She is a member of the Alliance First Friends Church where she is the pianist for 1st service; an Adult Bible Class teacher; Financial Secretary; the March for Life coordinator; and is involved in Conciliation Ministry. Being single, her family activities include spending time with her nephews, Charlie, Daniel, & CJ. Community involvement is in a variety of areas on an as needed basis.

Judy Bruns has been a member of the National Board of Trustees since September 2006. She has also served on the Ohio Chapter Board of Trustees since 2002. Judy is currently a middle school language arts teacher in Coldwater, Ohio. During her teaching career, Judy has been very politically active within her local association. She has been elected as a state delegate for 10 consecutive years and as a national delegate for 9 consecutive years. She has attended and participated in the NEA and state affiliate legislative, budget, and resolutions hearings on a regular basis.

Judy has been involved in the pro-life movement since the 1970s. She was on the steering committee to start Harbor House Maternity Home in Celina, Ohio, which she and her husband Paul continue to support. In addition, on her days off from school, she does sidwalk counseling.

Judy is married to Paul. They have three children and are the grandparents of four wonderful children. In her spare time she goes on short-term mission trips and writes books, two of which have been published. When she retires, Judy hopes to give book talks in schools, do some lobbying, more writing, and go on more short-term mission trips.

Ron Cain has been a member of both the Michigan Chapter and the National Board of Trustees since their inception. He retired from public school teaching in June 1994 after teaching at Whitmer High School in Toledo, Ohio for 27 years along with 4 years of teaching in Pennsylvania. During most of his teaching career, he was a member of his local, state, and national associations. However, because of NEA and OEA's pro-abortion position, Ron became a "Fair Share Fee Payer" during the last ten years of teaching. Currently Ron is teaching a physics laboratory class at Lourdes College, a private Catholic College.

He is married to Elizabeth, who is a teacher in the School of Nursing & Allied Health at Lourdes College. They have three children. Tisha is working as a doctor of naturopathic medicine at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma that specializes with patients having cancer. Paula Feltz works in the Human Resource Department for Dyanic Dies, Inc. in Holland, Ohio. Matthew works on the base at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Ron also works in the evenings as a hall monitor for St. Joseph Catholic Church School, Sylvania, Ohio, where he attends church. He also volunteers for mobile meals and as a Toledo Metropark volunteer checking bluebird boxes. All the Cain family are avid Michigan Wovlerine fans attending football and ice hockey games.

Barbara Johnston is currently an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She earned her BS in Elementary Education, her MS in Curriculum and Instruction, and Licensure in ESL. Her teaching career has also included pre-school, elementary classroom, summer intensive English Japan Program at St. Cloud State University, 5th grade at the American International School Kuwait, English at Kuwait University, and adult ESL night school

She has been an NEA member since 1987 and was an NEA Representative in St. Cloud for 2 years. Now she would like to help develop a Teachers Saving Children^® affiliate in Minnesota and raise awareness of the pro-life issues among her colleagues.

Barbara is a parish council member at Holy Family Catholic church, where she is also active in their ACCL pro-life group and teaches communion preparation religious education Wednesday class. Barbara and her sister, Sally, run "Rest on His Word," a business dedicated to God and family, which produces holy art/prayer pillowcases.

Barbara is a widow with three grown sons who also live in the Minneapolis area.

David Kaiser has been a member of both the Ohio Chapter Board of Trustees and the National Board of Trustees since its inception. He is currently an NEA member and has served as a local delegate to both his regional RA and the OEA RA. David has also been a member of Ohio Right to Life since 1974.

David began his teaching career in 1972 at Fort Recovery Local Schools (Mercer County OH) where he taught middle school and high school math for 24 years. He finished his career as the elementary and middle school guidance counselor in the same district. He is now enjoying retirement.

David and his wife, Ethel (a registered nurse) have four children. Carla is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and works in the northern Cincinnati area as a speech pathologist. Paul graduated from the University of Dayton and works as a claims-adjuster for State Farm Insurance. He is married to Tammy who is a neo-natal nurse in Dayton. They have a daughter, Morgan. Maureen is a 2002 graduate of the University of Dayton with a degree in Special Education. She teaches at St Henry Local Schools and is married to Matt Kramer, also an education major. Anne began her college career in 2001 at Urbana University. Her major is sports medicine and she plays on the volleyball team.

Robin Ross currently serves as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania State Affiliate and their representative to the National Board of Trustees. Robin retired from teaching in 2000 after teaching for 22 years at Northeastern School District in Manchester PA. She graduated from Messiah College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. While teaching, Robin was a member of the NEA, PSEA, and her local association. She was active in her local association through various capacities, including local president and secretary. She is currently a member of NEA and PSEA Retired.

Robin is very actively involved in her local church. She is involved in the women's ministry, WILLOWS, and chairs the Mentoring committee. She also teaches home Bible studies and sings in the Joyful Hearts, the senior choir. Robin served on the Faith Mission Committee and has served as a short term missionary with SEND to the Ukraine. She has made three trips to the Ukraine where she has taught women Bible studies, worked with the children, and taught conversational English.

Robin is married to G. William Ross. They have one daughter, Sarah, who is married to Keith Lindsay. They have four grandchildren, Jessica, Rachel, Joshau (who is recently adopted) and Rebekah Joy.

Juanita Sattler is retired after 31 years of teaching, the last 25 in the Anthony Wayne Local School District in Lucas County, OH. She received her B.A. degree and reading specialist from Mary Manse College in Toledo, Ohio and her master's degree from the University of Detroit.

During her teaching career Juanita was very active within the local and state association, having served in various positions including president of the local association. She tried very hard to "improve from the inside". Hanging on the wall over her desk was a saying from Abbey Press: "Education - in spite of all the ideas and all the technology and atoms in the world, it all comes down to shaping one individual at a time." Since retirement, it seems it all comes down to saving one baby at a time in her job as a volunteer with Heartbeat.

Juanita is also very involved with other activities within her church and community. She is active in Hly Trinity Catholic Church, having served in a variety of capacities including being an Eucharistic minister. Since 1985 she has also been a member of an interdenominational prayer group which she considers one of the great life supports. She is also active with Koininia, an interfaith renewal, retreat, and reconnect group. Since college she has been a member of Kappa Gamma Pi, a National Honor Society Faith and Service Organization. She belongs to national and local Right-To-Life as well as supporting the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, midwest region.

Her husband, Vern, is retired and currently is a safety and support net for all activities. They have six grown children and twenty-four grandchildren, all of whom are active in local churches and a variety of community organizations. Her family also supports a variety of educational options - 2 of her children home shcool, 2 are involved in private education, and 1 has children in public schools. Her family is a smorgasbord of life and love, all supporting one another.

As of the 2005-2006 school year, John Saxe will have been teaching children for sixteen years. He has taught Kindergarten, first, third, fifth-eighth language arts/social studies, and currently is teaching talented/gifted middle school children in the Newark City Schools (Licking County Ohio). John graduated from Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota with a Bachelor's degree in Education and Bible. He has recently completed the necessary coursework for permanent gifted endorsement in the State of Ohio. He is in the process of finishing his master's degree at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. John is also a member of the OEA/NEA and looks forward to his next NEA Representative Assembly.

John, who is single, is very active in a variety of ministries. He has traveled overseas as a short term missionary to Kenya; he has spoken/taught at a variety of conferences, camps, and churches; and continues to minister in worship/singing, ultilizing his "limited" keyboard skills. His denominational affiliation is with the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Gary Winney has been a member of both the Ohio Chapter Board of Trustees and the National Board of Trustees since their inception. Presently Gary is the head of the Ohio Life Issues Caucus, through which delegates have been working to bring an end to the OEA's position on abortion. In the past, Gary has been active in the Wickliffe Teachers Association; he is also a member of the Association of American Educators, a professional education organization that provides much of the professional enrichment that educators have been looking for these past years. Gary is a member of the Council of 56, at Ohio Roundtable.

Gary's wife, Colleen, is Assistant Director of Career Services, at Malone College (Canton, Ohio), where she has been employed for a number of years. They presently minister at Parkside Church, in Bainbridge. Their immediate family lives nearby while the rest is generally scattered around the country.

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