Welcome Our Two Newest Members
DR. EDWARD INCH
Ed is sponsored by Scott Maxwell and PP Dan Cole
He was born and raised on Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest state of Washington. He attended Western Washington University in Bellingham earning his Bachelor Degree and where his debate team won the national championship at the Pi Kappa Delta tournament. Ed also attended the University of Oregon where he earned his Master of Science Degree with a focus on protest rhetoric. Following Oregon, Ed achieved his doctorate at the University of Washington, his dissertation focusing on Cold War rhetoric with the conclusion that the Cold WAR would not end “in our lifetimes”. Well and as Ed states… later that same year…it ended. So much for dissertations!
Ed worked his way through college in the Alaskan fishery industry for ten years, mostly on the land side, buying, sorting and processing salmon and herring. He did however enjoy a stint on the fishing boat Time Bandit (as seen on the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch) in the glamorous capacity of disposing of a quarter of a million pounds of rotten salmon when its refrigeration system malfunctioned.
Ed went on to teach and coach the debate team at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma in a 23 year stint which included world travel, earning his mediation certificate in 2003 and volunteering to teach dispute resolution at dialog centers in the former Yugoslavia, while also becoming the Dean of the School of Arts and Communication at Pacific Lutheran. He has continued to work with dialog, dispute resolution and programs for young politicians in the Balkans ever since.
In 2006 he was awarded a fellowship by the American Council of Education to study higher education in leadership for one year, anywhere in the United States. He chose Sac State to work with President Alexander Gonzalez.
He then went on to become provost at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio before returning this past August to the position of Dean of the College of Art and Letters at Sac State.
Ed has been married thirty years to his wife, Pam. They enjoy a son Vincent who lives in Seattle.
In his spare time Ed enjoys sailing his Catalina 22 and restoring old cars including a Triumph TR7, a Jaguar XJ6, a VW bug, and still in boxes, a Triumph TR4A.
DAVID TEEL
David Teel is sponsored by Hal Shipley and yours truly.
David is one of six children, the only boy, and the oldest, so hand me downs were not a problem although that might have been interesting with five sisters.
He was influenced early by his father, a Rotarian and now affiliated with the Carmel Rotary Club, as one of its Past Presidents.
At the age of 15 and 16 David sailed the South Pacific on a 65 foot ketch with his family and narrowly escaped Marquesian fathers with marriage proposals for their daughters.
He graduated from St Mary’s College with honors and a Bachelors Degree in Business Management.
David has experienced a long standing and distinguished career in law enforcement including assignments in the arenas of undercover narcotics, impact weapons & weaponless defense instruction. He was also selected for the SWAT team as a breach and entry specialist and was trained as a sniper. As a Detective he was a Certified Voice Stress Analyst and Crime Scene Investigator.
After being injured in the line of duty, David retired from police work and discovered a talent for creating functional steel artwork and formed Teel Steel. He is currently the Business Development Manager for Securitas Security Services, the largest of its kind in the world with over 250,000 employees worldwide.
David has been married to his best friend Dena for the past 17 years and has a son Joshua who works for Halliburton in Pennsylvania.
In his spare time he has volunteered on several Boards, most recently as the President of the Gold River Community Association. David enjoys hunting, fishing, wine tasting, plays the guitar and enjoys singing and songwriting.