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Advisory
Board Susan Penhale
A graduate of Clover Park Technical College and Pacific Lutheran University,
Susan has been a volunteer with Puget Creek Restoration Society since 2006.
She is active on the Fundraising/Grant-writing Committee and in various organization activities.
Her priorities as the Board President are to continue fostering a sense of stewardship in the
community and expanding public awareness of Puget Creek Restoration Society's mission and goals.
President Steve Beckstead
Steve Beckstead is was born in Tacoma and has lived here most of his life. He is the owner of Beckstead Janitorial Service, and has a BA from Brigham Young University.
Advisory
Board Member Sherry
Graham
Sherry was a chiropractor for
25 years and is now in the Environmental Science and
Technology Progam at Clover Park Technical College.
She has been an avid hiker and cross-country skier
for 21 years, as well as a scuba diver and plans to
be part of the PCRS dive team. She has also been a
birder for eight years will help out on the bird
surveys.
Vice President
Phil Schneider
Phil Schneider is the newest member of the PCRS Board. He’s been a part-time faculty member at Mount Rainier Lutheran High School (in East Tacoma) since 2003 (as his “third” career) and retired this past July. While he’s been teaching science, math and religion during this time, his primary focus has been to finish the wetland mitigation project at the school site along Swan Creek; he developed an environmental science class focused on wetlands study where his students completed the required planting, maintenance and documentation of the project work in 2010. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry from Valparaiso University with the intention of being a wildlife biologist and, while it’s taken him several decades, he feels that he’s been serving in that capacity through his teaching and related community activities.
Phil has graduate degrees in Public Service from Western Kentucky University and in Education (with an Environmental Science focus) from Pacific Lutheran University. He also completed post-graduate work in Organizational Development and Human Resource Management with Columbia University and currently holds a national certification as an Occupational Health and Safety Technologist. Additionally, he’s retired from active service in the US Army and from Weyerhaeuser (his “first” and “second” careers respectively).
He’s currently active in a variety of other community-based organizations to include the Business and Marketing Advisory Committee (with the Federal Way School District), the Clover Park Technical College Environmental Science Advisory Committee, the Citizen Corps of Pierce County (with the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management), the Pierce County Stream Team, the Foothills Trail Coalition, Immanuel Lutheran Church in Puyallup and serves on the Concordia Lutheran School Board of Directors here in Tacoma. He’s also a member of the Cascade Animal Protection Society, the Environmental Education Association of Washington, the Evergreen Safety Council, the South Sound Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society and the Tahoma Audubon Society.
Phil lives between Orting and South Prairie (above the valley on Crocker Hill) with his wife, Joy, and five cats (three inside and two outside)…they enjoy outdoor activities and service projects.
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Scott was born and raised in Washington
state. He places a very high value on the environment and health of
streams, gulches, green areas, near shore, and wetlands in the
Commencement Bay/ Pierce County area. He has a Bachelors Degree in
Wildlife Ecology from The Evergreen State College, a Masters Degree
in Environment and Community from Antioch University Seattle,
a Masters Degree in Project Management from City University Tacoma, and is currently working on a Ph.D.
in Education (Training and Performance Improvement) from Capella University.
Scott has been coordinating restoration projects and studying the
eelgrass/nearshore area of the Puget Creek watershed for the
last 12 years.
Advisory
Board Member Edward S. Winskill
Edward Winskill has a J.D.
from Willamette
University and specializes in the areas of personal
injury, insurance defense, and general commercial
litigation. He was named Washington Defense Trial
Lawyers’ Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2003.
Advisory
Board Member Mike Corsini
Mike was born and raised in Los Angeles,
California. He moved to the Tacoma area with his wife and daughter
in 1995. Mike became interested and concerned about the environment
in 1999
 when he teamed up with Scott Hansen. As Executive Director
of the Tacoma Neighborhood Networks Center, Mike collaborated with
Scott on a state grant-funded project that facilitated individuals
with disabilities becoming involved in urban stream riparian
restoration at Puget Creek. Involvement in this project introduced
Mike to the importance of the environment in the quality of life for
any community, as well as revealed to him the abuse that the
environment has suffered through unbridled development. Mike now
understands the need and importance for all members of the
community—including individuals with disabilities—to participate in
protecting natural habitat from further abuse/degradation and in
restoring habitat to its natural state. With two master degrees,
i.e., in the areas of education and public action, Mike is committed
to using his learning and experience in helping to restore and
preserve the environment. As a person of faith, Mike believes the
environment is a trust to humankind over which they are obligated to
exercise responsible stewardship.
Secretary Mike Webb
 Michael
Webb (“Mike”) has over 30 years experience in
marine chemistry, environmental analysis, site
assessment, and soil and water remediation technology
that has roots in his passion ocean recreational
pursuits (surfing, sailing, diving).
Growing up on the Pacific Coast, Mike developed a
life plan to study and protect the oceans.
Professionally that plan led him to analytical
chemistry and a career in environmental consulting and
environmental laboratory management.
On a personal level though Mike has continuously
directed his volunteer and public service activities
toward stewardship for beaches and the ocean. Over the
last decade while living in Tacoma, WA, he has provided
technical assistance as a volunteer to Citizens for a
Healthy Bay, Surfrider Foundation, South Sound Chapter (SSC),
and citizen action initiatives at the Tacoma pierce
Count Health Department.
Mike has an MS in Chemistry obtained in an
interdisciplinary oceanography-geochemistry program at
the University of Hawaii.
He has recently joined the Board of Puget Creek
Restoration Society (PCRS) and assists with water
testing programs at both SSC and PCRS, hoping to
integrate them into a citizen-scientist sampling program
along Ruston Way that will incorporate monitoring both
the upland stream and stormwater of the watershed as
well as the recreational water quality in the near-shore
marine environment affected by the watershed.
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