BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tamara and her husband Jeff fell in love with the Glen Lake area in the 1990’s and bought a cottage on Little Glen in 1996. Tamara and her family have been members of the Glen Lake Association and Glen Lake Yacht Club for almost 30 years, and she is passionate about protecting the health of watershed.

Tamara has over 22 years of experience in the healthcare industry with two Fortune 500 companies, Stryker and Baxter. At Stryker, she held a variety of positions, including Vice President of Healthcare Systems and Vice President of Public Affairs. Prior to Stryker, she held various sales and marketing roles at Baxter. When she is not at Glen Lake, Tamara and her husband live in East Lansing, Michigan. She has served on a variety of non-profit boards in the Lansing area, most recently as president of the Lansing Christian School Board of Trustees. She has also served on the board of Petals & Pinecones, a mentorship organization for young women, and on the Lansing Christian School Foundation Board.

As the great-granddaughter of Bowdwin and Kate DeKorne, one of the founding families in Burdickville, Pat and her family have spent their summers on Big Glen enjoying the sun, water, boats and especially family time. Pat and her brother and sister still own the family cottage in Burdickville – Par 3 – where their families (now 4th generation) still enjoy this “Up North” living.

Pat and her husband, Guy Combs, built a home in 2018 on the Crystal River in GlenArbor – right next to where Pat’s parent’s (Tom and Ginny Thomsma) lived since 1985 – and where her sister lives now. Pat and Guy enjoy the Crystal River and the wildlife (including the kayakers) the River brings to their doorstep.
For the past 50 years Pat has been an award-winning Realtor in Grand Rapids and in addition expanded her real estate outreach by becoming President of the Michigan Realtors in 1995 and then President of the National Association of Realtors in 2007.

Pat graduated from Grand Valley State University. She has been actively involved in many community outreach projects including Baxter Community Center, 4-H, Cascade Community Foundation and serving in the past on the 75th Anniversary committee for the Glen Lake Association. You might see Pat along with other members on Tuesday mornings manning the Glen Lake Association Booth near the Farmer’s Market.

Pat and Guy divide their time between Glen Arbor, Rockford, MI, and Naples, Florida.

Jennifer has been coming to Glen Arbor since the early 80s, when she began attending Camp Kohahna for Girls. In the early 90s, Jennifer introduced her husband Joe to the area, and they eventually found a cottage on Little Glen to call home. Joe’s frequent job transfers relocate their family of five all over the country, so Glen Arbor truly represents home-base for them.

After graduating with a math and economic degree from Kenyon College and an MBA from Rice University, Jennifer worked in corporate finance and corporate banking, most recently as a VP at JP Morgan Securities. She is a former CFA and CPA who retired early in order to spend more time with her kids and facilitate the family’s ongoing cross-country moves. 

Jennifer currently lives in Houston, Texas. She spends much of her time volunteering at her daughter’s school, at the West Houston Assistance Ministries, and as a board trustee of The Branch School. In addition, she has served as a board member and treasurer of the Glen Lake Yacht Club. Jennifer’s favorite “up north” activities include windsurfing, hiking, gardening, and petoskey stone hunting. 

As the daughter of two Michiganders, Kris spent childhood summers enjoying the beautiful rivers and lakes of Michigan. In 2001, she and her husband Ken were introduced to Glen Lake through friends, whom they were lucky enough to visit each summer. At the end of every trip, they talked of having their own place some day and in 2007, they purchased their own slice of Glen Lake heaven. 

A graduate of Northwestern University, Kris has held positions in sales and marketing. While raising three children, she was actively involved in her community serving as a Village Library board trustee, a Kenilworth Union Church board member, and Co-President of New Trier’s Parent Association. Kris also chaired multiple church and school fundraising benefits and currently volunteers for Blessings in a Backpack in Leelanau County. 

Kris and Ken now split their time between Glen Lake and Naples, Florida. Kris joined the GLA board in 2019 and serves as board Secretary and on the Development Committee. She loves all that Glen Lake has to offer—pristine water for swimming, kayaking, and SUP-ing and sitting on the dock watching the sun sink behind the dunes. 

Stan has been to Glen Lake every year since he was born. His family began coming to Glen Lake in 1957, originally vacationing at the old Maple Croft Resort in Burdickville, where they eventually purchased their own place. Stan has served on the GLA board since 2018 as both a director and Treasurer. 

Stan grew up in Ohio and graduated from Albion College and LSU-School of Banking. For 25 years, he worked for two of the nation’s largest banks before ultimately becoming a community banker. Stan successfully led his community bank through three mergers into a $47 billion, 6-state bank now known as SouthState Bank.

Stan and Joy live in Atlanta, Georgia where Stan is active in the community. He has served as Chairman of the Georgia Bankers Association and is involved in the American Bankers Association. In addition, Stan serves on the boards of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America; the Georgia Chamber of Commerce; the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce (Midtown Alliance); and the Buckhead Coalition. Stan is also a member of the Atlanta Rotary Club.

Ron grew up in Kansas City and attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduating in 1970. He married his college sweetheart, Peggy Miller, the week after graduation and she introduced him to Glen Lake for their honeymoon. Her Chicago family had been visiting her aunt and uncle at Glen Lake since 1954. Ron and Peggy continued to come to Glen Lake for vacation until they bought their home on Day Forest Road in 1979.

In 1984 the family moved to Milwaukee and Glen Lake continued to be their summer retreat. Their two children and six grandchildren have grown up spending summers at the lake making memories. During the winter, Ron and Peggy return to their home in Bonita Springs, Florida.

Ron was an entrepreneur starting companies and turning around troubled businesses in six different industries throughout the country until he retired in 2021. His varied business history led him to act as an adjunct professor at his alma mater teaching entrepreneurship.

As someone who has enjoyed the beauty of Glen Lake for so many years, he feels it is important to ensure and protect our valuable asset. He has admired the work of the Glen Lake Association and looks forward to giving back to the most beautiful place on earth.

Pete Haley has been spending his summers at Glen Lake since 1963. He is an avid sailor beginning with dinghies at the Glen Lake Yacht Club, racing Sunfish’s, and later MC Scow’s. Pete and his wife Barb have three grown children who also enjoyed youth activities at the GLYC. In high school and college, they held various summer jobs in and around Glen Arbor.

Pete and Barb’s permanent residence is Dayton, Ohio. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1978, he began with and spent his entire career with Gosiger Inc., a 101-year-old family business. He has served on various community boards including Chaminade-Julienne Catholic High School, Dayton Development Coalition, Downtown Dayton Partnership, Radiant Health, and Ohio’s Hospice.

Mac has been enjoying Michigan lakes all his life and is now blessed to be part of the Glen Lake watershed family. Mac’s wife Colleen spent childhood summers at Glen Lake from Chicago, deciding at her first opportunity not to go back and has lived in northern Michigan since. Mac and Colleen were lucky enough to purchase and renovate John and Harriet Fisher’s homestead in 2016.

Mac is a graduate of Michigan State University and has a diverse career with a focus on environmental protection, working at the State of Michigan in energy efficiency and alternative energy, for Grand Traverse County leading the establishment of county-wide recycling, improved and expanded wastewater treatment and the County Brownfield Authority, and as a private Brownfield consultant helping communities redevelop contaminated property. Mac and Colleen are full-time Glen Lake residents and enjoy visits at their cottage from their three adult children and their families and friends.

Andrew has been visiting Glen Lake since 1955. His family would rent a cottage each year on the south shore of Glen Lake, near Burdickville. In 2005, he purchased a home on Harbor Island located on the east shore. Since then, he and his family have spent summers there. During the rest of the year, Andrew and Janet reside in Naples, Florida.

Andrew founded Miller Capital Advisory, Inc (“MCA”) in 1996 and serves as President and CEO. MCA is an investment manager serving the pension fund community with $8 billion of assets under management as of December 2024. Miller has focused the company’s business on highly dominant regional shopping center, lifestyle center, and mixed-use property investments.

Andrew holds an MBA with concentrations in finance and accounting from the University of Chicago. He also holds a BS in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated with Bronze Tablet / All University Honors and Magna cum Laude.

Andrew serves on the Community School of Naples Board of Trustees and is also a member of the Advisory Council to the Coral Reef Alliance Board Directors.

Dick and his wife, Anne, have been coming with their family to Glen Lake for over 35 years. They enjoyed boating during the summers on Glen Lake with their four (now adult) children, Conor, Elizabeth, Brian and Katherine. Katherine spent two summers working at Cherry Republic during college, and Elizabeth was married in Glen Arbor last year. In 2014, Dick and Anne purchased an empty lot on Northwood Drive and built their home, where they have enjoyed many summer and winter gatherings on Big Glen with their family.

Dick and Anne are members of Glen Lake Yacht Club and are spending more time at Glen Lake since they retired. Dick is also sculling with the Northern Michigan Rowing Club on Glen Lake.

Dick was a lawyer and partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, where he worked for 35 years specializing in civil litigation, including pharmaceutical patent litigation. Dick and Anne also live in Wilmette, IL and are involved in Chicago civic organizations, including the Big Shoulders Fund for inner-city Catholic schools, the Public Interest Law Initiative and Friends of Notre Dame Rowing. Dick is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA 1980) and the University of Illinois College of Law (JD 1983).

Frank first visited Glen Lake in 1982 with his family and has returned every summer since 1984. The family moved to Big Glen full-time in 1990. Frank graduated from Glen Lake High School and spent summers waterskiing and working for GLA doing water quality monitoring, Cladophora algae surveys, and initiating the boat ramp wash station during his summers as an engineering student at Michigan Tech.

After starting his engineering career in Petoskey, with the URS Corporation, Frank returned to Glen Lake in 2003 as a Licensed Professional Engineer at Cherryland Electric Cooperative. He built their family home on Glen Lake and became a full-time resident again in 2006. Frank is now the Chief Operating Officer at Cherryland, President of the Glen Lake Fire and Rescue Association Board, past Deacon at the Glen Lake Church, past President of GTR Habitat for Humanity Board, and the captain of the Glen Lake Christmas Tree Boat. The family enjoys Glen Lake year-round, wake surfing with his wife Tracy and children, Ashley Joy and Frank Thomas, and regular family trips on the Great Lakes and to Marco Island and Houghton areas.