Mr. Richard (Dick) Bloom is a retired senior manager from IBM and active community volunteer in Meals on Wheels, the Total Life Center Adult Day Care Program, NC Symphony, Cary Community Choir and the Cary Senior Center. Dick has also been a 35-year volunteer board member and chairman of the Coastal Federal Credit Union. His Senior Leadership project has included development of a simple system of resistance training for older adults to maintain physical fitness and to do outreach to older adults as an underserved population needing banking services available from the state’s credit unions.
Mrs. Barbara Bryan has plunged into senior concerns in Mecklenburg and surrounding counties through communications work with an elder law firm in the Lake Norman area. She was instrumental in getting North Mecklenburg Senior Services started, worked to establish LKN Sr (Lake Norman Senior Resources) a group of individuals and organization representatives foreseeing and shaping the future of seniors in the region and promoted CARS (Cultural Arts Reaching Seniors) to be launched this summer in Cornelius. Her project answered the major request in the Lake Norman area of surveyed seniors for a coordinated calendar of events in one place at www.LKNSenior.com .
Ms. Margaret M. (Peggy) Conway is a clinical social worker who remains in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. While she continues a small private practice, she also is a Health Specialist for AARP and has been very active in AARP’s “Step Up to Better Health” Program. She has also been active with S.W.O.O.P. "Strong Women Offering Outrageous Projects" as a community leader helping restore properties for the Elderly in N.C. Her professional and volunteer interests include the hidden issues of substance abuse, particularly alcohol abuse, in the older adult population. Her Senior Leadership emphasis has focused on model initiatives in the assessment and treatment of alcohol related problems.
Ms. Elizabeth Hansen retired as manager of the industrial training department of the Square D Company in 1998 where she was responsible for the design and production of training courses for Square D customers, distributors and sales representatives. Since her retirement she has been an active volunteer in the Wake County Democratic Party and as an AARP Advocacy Council member and as an AARP Volunteer Trainer. Her interests in the Senior Leadership Program have been to assess various law enforcement initiatives across the state that educate and protect older people from fraud and abuse.
