Meet new MTNA Board members Brumley and Leiner |
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Bryan Brumley has lived on the lower slopes of Mount Tabor since 2005, and has run a business within the MTNA boundaries since 2009. He and his wife Katherine Calvert live at 44th Avenue and Division; Katherine is a mental health therapist working at Cesar Chavez Blvd (39th) and Holgate. Bryan’s main focus for the neighborhood association is sustainability, an interest that dates to the 1970s, when as a student he helped develop the ecology program at Hampshire College, in western Massachusetts. In the intervening decades, he pursued a career in journalism, covering revolutions in Iran, Russia and Poland, and working also in Japan and Britain. He spent many years with The Associated Press, directing its coverage of the Soviet collapse, and most recently running the AP bureau in Oregon. As AP bureau chief in Portland, he created a statewide editors’ association and also served as president of the non-profit Open Oregon, a coalition of journalists, academics and public officials promoting open records and meetings. Bryan’s father was a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, covering the Cuban revolution 1959-60, and spending a great deal more time writing about business and finance from Boston and New York. He ended his career as a senior official at the U.S. Treasury. Bryan moved to Portland in 2001, and changed careers, joining the Edward Jones financial services firm in 2008. Bryan notes that Jones shares his dedication to community development and high ethical standards. Bryan was involved in the Woodstock business and neighborhood associations, but after moving into an office at 55th and East Burnside, he shifted to the north. His goals in the MTNA are
to develop links with neighboring business and
neighborhood associations based on mutual
interest in building a sustainable economy.
Initially, that will involve
developing a Civic Ecology project in the Tabor
to River Watershed in conjunction with Southeast
Uplift and SERA Architects. Other
communities taking part include Bend, Damascus,
Hillsboro and the Powellhurst-Gilbert
neighborhood of Outer Southeast Portland. This
project should provide wonderful opportunities
to involve broader involvement from the
community.
Tom Leiner, our other
new board member, got his start as a community activist
helping develop and care for the neighborhood entryway at
50th and Hawthorne.
Asked to introduce himself of our membership, he wrote: I'm a member of SNOB: Society of Native Oregon Born. First generation American from a family that escaped Nazi Germany in the early years of the war. I have lived on four other continents only to return to Portland each time to re-discover the treasure we have here. I have lived within the Mt. Tabor Neighborhood now for the past seven years. I became active 4 years ago when I volunteered to help keep up the entryway, started attending the MTNA meetings and found that they are a wealth of information for not only our neighborhood, but Portland as a whole. I have found that public service is one of the most rewarding activities I've ever done and equally so knowing our efforts within MTNA are close to home. It certainly drives home the saying "Think globally and act locally". After 25 years as a Human Resource Manager I am currently self-employed building small, custom designed yard and garden structures and enclosures for various items, recycle bins, hand tools etc. My website is www.tomstooltemple.com (Photo shows Brian, left, and Tom)
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