Leslie Coleman:  

After Samohi I finished college with 3 majors and taught elementary school until I married and had two children. We lived four years in Ohio where my husband retired from the AF and we moved to Oregon where we have llived for 34 years. Salem was a great place to raise kids and be involved at many levels. I have been a civic volunteer for years serving on various boards and foundations. l was a costume designer for nearly 30 years and very active in the theatre including saving an historic theatre and chairing the repertory theatre group. Co-founded a group to save historic gardens and we just raised a quarter millon dollars to restore the 1882 greenhouse (2nd oldest on the West Coast). Currently on boards for Salem CIty Club, Salem Art Association, Willamette Heritage Center, Children's Theatre Foundation,, Help Autism Now Society. We have been drivers for Meals on Wheels for 15 years. When I retired from costuming I took up quilting which is a passion. Our quilt guild has 325 members. I belong to two "quilt bees" and mostly center on making "comfort quiltls" which are donated to 14 different service organizations. I have helped stage the last four bi-annual q...Expand for more