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Meet your 2022-23 Charter School Board

Meet Diane Swingley, Chair

• The year you became a School Board Member – April 2005. The first Charter School Board Directors were appointed by the DC SD #15 Board. I was one of them and I am the last remaining charter Charter Board Director serving.
•  ​Why you choose to serve as a School Board Member? As an advocate for local control in educating the children of our citizens and a proponent of school choice by those parents, I joined the Douglas County School District #15 community in being one of the first districts in Oregon to begin the process of chartering the Days Creek campus. The newly formed Days Creek Charter School Board of Directors applied and received a charter contract with the District #15 Board of Directors in May 2005. With that, the focused adventure began in earnest to give our local students the best knowledge and skills to be self-determined in choosing the direction for their lives in the greatest country of free people!
•  Your “official” occupation - Rancher 
• Anything else you would like to share – something fun or unique about you? I am a kind-hearted rebel informed by those who came before me. I am a descendent of many fine folks including Ulrich (Huldrych) Zwingli (Swiss Reformation Leader), Thomas Rogers, (Mayflower 1620), Ephraim Raymond (horseback in 1850 to the Oregon Territory and Days Creek Valley), Carolyn Leverich Raymond (1852 by wagon train) and Durnin Swingley, WWII GI (Normandy and European Theater). All were Christian soldiers. I am doing my best to live up this legacy!

Feel free to contact me at diane.swingley@dayscreek.k12.or.us.

Meet Joanne Gordon, Director
·         The year you became a School Board Member. I became a Charter Board member in August of 2021 at the bequest of Diane Swingley.
·         Why you choose to serve as a School Board Member? A sentence or two works just fine.  I applied for the position because I care about education and students along with community. 
·         Your “official” occupation My official occupation is retired and looking for the most effective way to be a community cheerleader.
·         Anything else you would like to share – something fun or unique about you? Again, a few words or short sentence or two works great.     My adventures in the Milo, Tiller Days Creek Community began during a “Hippie” back to the land migration 42 years ago. Having graduated to position of great grandmother;  I have a broad list of experiences From yoga & ballet dance classes to  working on a fire crew, doing farm work, nursery work and running a business.  


Feel free to contact me at joanne.gordon@dayscreek.k12.or.us.
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Meet David Brown, Director
I was elected to the Charter Board in 2023. I wanted to get involved with the school since......  My profession is ...... 

Feel free to contact me at david.brown@dayscreek.k12.or.us.
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Meet Matt Giles, VP/Vice Chair  
Staff Representative



Feel free to contact me at matt.giles@daycreek.k12.or.us.

Meet Cathy Knapp, Director
 Staff Representative 

Feel free to contact me at cathy.knapp@daycreek.k12.or.us.

Meet Anna Rickards, Director
Staff Representative

Feel free to contact me at anna.rickards@daycreek.k12.or.us.

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