Chairperson of Board and Community-at-Large Representative:
Tom Plocher

• Grew up in White Bear Lake and currently lives in rural Hugo. 
  He has two daughters; Lindsay who is music therapist and graduate student at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Liz who is a resident in Orthopedic Surgery/Trauma at University Hospital, Buffalo, NY.  Son, Ben is a 2004 Wolf Creek graduate. He attended Brown College in TV Production, and went on to UW-River Falls where he will graduate with a Communications/Video Production major in spring, 2010.

• 1976-present: Staff Scientist, Honeywell Labs working in human-computer interaction and cross-cultural design                          
   

• In 1996-97 worked with the Honeywell Automation College to plan
  and implement their first online learning center.
• Extensive experience working with people from diverse cultures, particularly the Far East.
   

● 1973 BA, Psychology, Hamline University

     ● 1975 MS, Psychology, Yale University

• Grapegrowing and winemaking; Asian cooking; fishing; in-line skating; stray cats and dogs (which I have a tendency to pick up and take home with me)

        ●Co-author of Northern Winework: Growing Grapes and Making
        Wine in Cold Climates, 2^nd Edition, Eau Claire Press, 2009