PEOPLE

Board of Directors

Jim Gammon

Jim Gammon

Secretary/Treasurer

Jim Gammon received a BA degree from San Francisco State University in 1972 in Broadcast Communication Arts and a teaching credential and Masters Degree in Special Education from the same institution in 1976. For one year, he worked as a resource teacher in two special education resource rooms for visually impaired children, grades 1 through 8. For three years, he was part of a team that developed science curricula for visually impaired children grades 3 through 6 at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California. He worked for over thirty years as a Disability Specialist at the University of California Berkeley Disabled Students’ Program. This program is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the country. Jim has served on the Board of The Hatlen Center for 20 years. Other interests include: playing the trumpet in five different jazz bands and recording short music parts for TV and movies, adaptive computer equipment, amateur radio, and reading. Jim and his wife have an adult daughter and live in El Cerrito, CA.


Back to People: Students, Faculty, Board

Students

Stories of Triumph

Faculty

Patty Williams
Executive Director
Patti Maffei
Program Director
Ronald Hideshima
Adaptive Technology Instructor
Katie Mazza
Orientation and Mobility Instructor
Erin Foley
Orientation and Mobility Instructor
Carol Wiebe
Orientation and Mobility Instructor
Nancy Phinnessee
Living Skills Instructor
Samir Shaibi
Living Skills Instructor
Myra Marin
Braille Supervisor
Arif Syed
Development Associate
Eileen Drapiza
Office Assistant
Brandon Young
Overnight Supervisor

Board

Tim Ford
Robert Barnett
Jim Gammon
Ara Chackerian
Mike Cole
Dr. Phil Hatlen
James LeDuc
Sandy Szerlip
Andrew Webb