HENRY WENDT TO HEAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOARD

For Immediate Release

Contact: Gloria Duncan 707/579-4073

Santa Rosa, CA — June 7, 2002 - Henry Wendt, Owner with his wife Holly of Quivira Vineyards and retired founder and chairman of Global Health Care Partners, a unit of CSFB Private Equity, was elected to a second term as chairman of the board of Community Foundation Sonoma County. Retired at the end of 2001 after a four-decade career as an executive in the pharmaceutical, health care products and service industry, Wendt continues to serve on numerous corporate boards, is a director of The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and trustee emeritus of the American Enterprise Institute.

Chairman-elect is Herb Dwight, formerly chairman of Vicinity Corporation and former chairman and CEO of Optical Coating Laboratories. Other officers are Dan Condron, former public affairs manager for Agilent Technologies, secretary; and Zainer Rinehart Clark CPA Reuben Weinzveg, Sebastopol, treasurer.

Three new members were welcomed to the board after being elected to three-year terms. They are: Barbara Graves, a 30-year resident of Sonoma County who is director of the County Health Department's Division of Prevention and Planning and a member of the board of directors of the Palm Drive Healthcare District; Christopher Dobson, Dobson Asset Management, who has served as a member of the Community Foundation's Investment Advisory Committee; and Francisco Vázquez, Ph. D., Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and Community Action, Hutchins School for Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University and faculty advisor of the Latino Student Congress. His book, Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics and Society is to be published this summer by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Continuing members of the Board are Jeannette Anglin, Director of Alternative Education for Santa Rosa City Schools; Mary T. Colhoun, Kenwood, proprietor of Landmark Vineyards; Judith Jordan, Healdsburg, CEO of J Wine Company; Ernest Shelton, Sebastopol, co-founder and former owner of Food for Thought; Paula Thomas, CPA, president of Thomas, Porch & Gullickson; and artist Neva Turer.

Jean Schulz, a founding member of the Community Foundation and former board chairman, was elected to a special one-year term. She is President of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center that is scheduled to open this summer.

Honored at the Annual Celebration, held at Chop's, the DeMeo Teen Club, were retiring board members Jeanne Martin Buckley, retired Superior Court Commissioner of the Sonoma County Juvenile Court and president of the governing board of the DeMeo Teen Club, Inc.; attorney Brad DeMeo, partner in the firm of DeMeo & DeMeo who serves as vice-president of the DeMeo Teen Club, Inc.; Dan Benedetti, owner and president of Clover-Stornetta Farms; and Debbie Meekins, president and CEO of Sonoma National Bank.

Newly appointed to the Friends Advisory Council, an informal group comprised of former board members and community leaders who advise the Community Foundation on various matters are Marlene Barney, Dan Benedetti, Demaris Brinton, Jeanne Martin Buckley, Brad DeMeo, Paul Elliott, Mari Featherstone, J. Barrie Graham, Rhoann Ponseti, and Will Rosenzweig.

Community Foundation Sonoma County was established in 1983 to create an ongoing source of funds for local charitable organizations. Since that time, it has distributed more than $36 million in grants and scholarships, including more than $16.6 million in 2001. It is a vehicle for community philanthropy that enables individuals of modest means and significant wealth to contribute to a permanent endowment for the people of Sonoma County. Kay M. Marquet is president and CEO.

For more information, visit the Community Foundations’ website at www.sonomacf.org

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