PARENTS' ASSOCIATION

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PARENTS' ASSOCIATION ROLE AT EB

The EB Parents' Association (PA) was created in 1978.  The purpose of the PA is to support EB and EB’s mission as may be requested by the EB Administration and the EB Board of Trustees; to support EB’s strategic and operation goals; and to represent the parents’ voice by facilitating communication between parents, faculty, and administration.  

To help build community and positive school spirit, the PA organizes and supports events and services

for the school community including: 

  • World Celebration Picnic
  • Evening Presentations
  • The Buddy Program for New Families
  • Room Representatives
  • Teacher Recognition Luncheon
  • Fundraising events such as the auction, raffle, marche
  • Clothing sales to promote school spirit and visibility

All parents are automatically members of the Parents' Association (there are no dues) and elect  the

officers annually.  Parents can participate by attending the regularly scheduled Open PA Meetings and by volunteering to assist in school events.

The PA officers can be reached via email at paofficers@eb.org.

PA Events and Meetings

All PA events and meetings for 2007–2008 have concluded.

EB clothing

The PA will be selling EB clothing the first Wednesday of every month in front of the school in the morning and after school. They will also sell clothing at all major EB events.

PA Members' Biographies

 

Tamara Daney, Anglophone Co-President

Tamara Daney is serving her second term as co-President of the Parents Association. She is an attorney in private practice serving corporate clients as well as providing legal counsel to agencies and families pursuing surrogate birth arrangements.  She has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings Law School.  She has lived and worked in Italy and  Japan.
Tamara is married to Ariel Cao, who is French, and they have one daughter, Alessandra, who is attending her sixth year at EB and is currently in the Fourth Grade.

 

Francis Combes, Francophone Vice-President

Francis is the father of Sébastien who is in MK and Chloë who is in 4th grade. Francis has been an Interior Designer for the more than 10 years and is a graduate of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Francis has been published in the San Francisco Magazine as well as the San Francisco Chronicle and he participated in the acclaimed Elle Décor’s Dine by Design.
 

Julie Gilmore, Secretary/Treasurer

Julie is the mother of Rylie, a third grader. She has a BFA in Theater, and worked on stage and in film. More recently she has been an administrator for architecture and engineering firms, as well as a non-profit research laboratory and a firm specializing in online marketing strategy. Julie's family is multi-cultural and this is their sixth year at EB. During that time, she has been Anglophone Vice President, Room Parent, Marche volunteer, and a Parent Representative at EB's Information Night.
 

Jacqueline Van Lang, Anglophone Vice-President

Jacqueline Van Lang is the mother of Kalin (MK), Alix (G1) and Maxim (G3). During these five years with EB, Jacqueline has been an Annual Fund agent, Marche volunteer, and Auction committee leader. She was born in Vietnam and was enrolled in a French school there. Upon arriving in the U.S. in 1975, she quickly forget her French and learned English. She came to California from NYC where she obtained her BS at NYU and worked for 10 years in Finance and Marketing. She has an MBA from Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management.
 

Christine Chapon, Francophone Co-President

Christine Chapon is the mother of Jules Korman, a sixth grader who has been at the school since MK. Her family is bilingual, since Jules' dad was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She got her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Pasteur Institute/University of Paris VII, France. She was a researcher for twenty years (at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, and at the University of Colorado in Boulder). When her family moved to California, she decided to stay at home and raise Jules and spend plenty of time volunteering at EB. Christine has been a room parent for 6 years and the volunteer coordinator at the school and for the Marché for several years. In addition, she is the Project Manager and volunteer coordinator for Students Run Oakland, a non-profit that trains at-risk high school students from Oakland Public schools to run a marathon.
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