Wyoming Valley School - Board Members

2010 Board Members

	PRESIDENT Robert Graves, Landscape designer, sportsman and Spring Green resident, moved to Taliesin in 1940, where his father Ben Graves managed the farms of Frank Lloyd Wright. Robert received his degree in Landscape Architecture in 1956 from the University of Wisconsin and served as Captain of the UW Rowing team. He participated in the United States Olympic Trials in 1956. Mr. Graves served in the United States Army in Japan and Korea. During the 1950s, he worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on many landscape designs for Wright buildings, including the landscape design for Taliesin, the Johnson Wax Building, Racine, the Greek Orthodox Church, Milwaukee, the Beth Sholom Synagogue, Pennsylvania and several private homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mr. Graves designed a great variety of golf courses in Arizona and Wisconsin, many for American Indian tribes. Mr. Graves created the Uplands Art Council, Uplands Art gallery, Uplands Out-door Theatre and purchased/restored/renamed and created programming for The Gard Theater in Spring Green, which included a summer’s residency of The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and also managed the Spring Green Project, the restaurant, the ski hill & cross county and golf course for 25 years. Mr. Graves served on a number of state boards, including presently the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Board of Advisors. Mr. Graves resides with his wife Derry Graves in his home in Spring Green and in Tubac, AZ. Robert and Derry Graves have 5 children, 11 grandchildren.
	VICE PRESIDENT Bill Wilkie, artist, sculpter, printer and painter of the local Spring Green and River Valley area. He grew up in Madison, WI and visited the University of Wisconsin and the San Francisco Art Institute. For specific information about his work, please visit wilkiestudio.com.
	SECRETARY Caroline Hamblen, native of Frankfurt, Germany, teacher, musician and Taliesin resident received her Masters Degree of Education from the University of Arts in Berlin, Germany. In 1993-94 Mrs. Hamblen worked as an assistant teacher at the Montessori Day School in Phoenix, AZ before moving permanently from Germany to the United States in 1999. She owned and directed a Montessori based private preschool in Spring Green, from 2000 to 2004. Mrs. Hamblen currently directs and coordinates the Taliesin Arts and Culture program, a newly launched educational outreach program of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Spring Green. Caroline and her husband Floyd raise and homeschool their five children at Taliesin.
	TREASURER Mary Lloyd-Jones grew up in Iowa City, IA. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Iowa and studied Public Policy at the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs at the U of Minnesota. She worked at H&R Block for 21 years (in Iowa City, Minneapolis, and Madison, WI) preparing tax returns and teaching income tax preparation. She became an Enrolled Agent in 2000 before leaving Block to start her own Tax Preparation and Bookkeeping business in Spring Green (MaryTheTax.com). She is treasurer for 3 non-profit organizations, Clerk for the Town of Wyoming, and a member of the Town of Wyoming Plan Commission. She has 2 grown children.
	Victor Sidy, AIA LEED AP is an architect, writer, and lecturer. He received his architectural training from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture after receiving the Flinn Foundation Scholarship and Robert C. Byrd Scholarship. He has worked with artists, architects, and planners in Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States and has taught students from elementary school to graduate school in a variety of architecture-related fields. Mr. Sidy hosted a television series on architecture for EMG Satellite Television that aired from 1996 to 1998 and was the youngest member of Architecture Magazine's May 1999 feature "Young Americans." Mr. Sidy currently serves as Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
	Dyrele A. Graves (Derry) received her nursing training from Northwestern University, IL in 1952 and worked in various nursing positions before becoming Director of Nurses at Greenway Nursing Home in Spring Green. Along with her husband, Mrs. Graves created and maintained the Uplands Art Council, Uplands Art Gallery, Uplands Outdoor Theatre and purchased/restored/renamed and created programming for The Gard Theatre in Spring Green, which included a summer’s residency of The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Mrs. Graves became actively involved in area tourism, serving on the State Board of Tourism, creating the annual publication The Spring Green Traveler for the Spring Green Chamber for 10 years. Mrs. Graves resides with her husband Robert Graves in her home in Spring Green and in Tubac, AZ. Robert and Derry Graves have 5 children, 11 grandchildren.
	Gerald C. Opgenorth (Jerry) is a general practice attorney and has been a resident of Wyoming Valley for 33 years. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he received a Bachelor of Science degree and, in 1967, his law degree. After practicing in Madison for 21 years, he changed careers for ten years when he worked in the field of medical malpractice insurance in Cleveland, Ohio. He returned to the Valley and the general practice of law in 1998, including assisting the Public Defender program, active in the Restorative Justice Program and Volunteers in Probation in Iowa County. Mr. Opgenorth resides with his wife, Hannelore, on Hewitt Lane.
	Jean Lloyd-Jones State legislator (House 1979-88, Senate 1989-94), a product of and leader in local liberal Democratic causes virtually from her arrival on the Iowa City scene in 1951. A Washington, D.C., native who was raised in New Mexico and educated at Northwestern (B.S., English, 1951) and UI (M.A., history, 1971), she headed the Iowa City U.N. Association (1965-77), local (1960s) and Iowa president (1971-76) of the League of Women Voters, active in the 1970s women’s ERA movement, and headed (1985-91) the Iowa Peace Institute headquartered in Grinnell. She and her UI English professor husband, Richard, raised four children. (from the Iowa City Press-Citizen) She is currently a Community Leader in Iowa City, Iowa.

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