ASYC Board of Directors
 

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President
CATHERINE J. HOLLINGSWORTH
  
(Founder, Charter member, and Past President, Alaskan resident for 18 years.)
Catherine writes Two Sticks, a weekly column on knitting and crocheting, for The Anchorage Daily News. Former partner in Architects at Work, interior designer, artist, award-winning poet and writer, Catherine teaches knitting and designs award-winning knitwear patterns. Catherine holds an Associate in Interior Design and a Certificate in Architectural Drafting from Anchorage Community College, Anchorage, Alaska. She achieved honors while studying Environmental and Interior Architecture with such notables as architect Frank Gehry and Richard Saul Wurman at Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. Her passions include alternative fuel sources, which led her to own the first passive solar house in Alaska and to work as an engineering assistant at Los Alamos Labs in New Mexico on the hydrogen fuel cell project. Contributions to the Alaskan needlearts communities include:  co-creator of the Yarn Expos, co-creator of The Alaska State Yarn Council and the "Website Studio Spaces," past President Board Member of Knitters of the North Guild.

SKIP HENDERSON  
(Charter Member and  Vice President - Allocation)

 
Vice President - Marketing


 Vice President - Fundraising

 

jANICE CHULICK
Treasurer,


Recording Secretary
 

Corresponding Secretary

 

ASYC FOUNDERS

CATHERINE J. HOLLINGSWORTH  
(Founder, Charter member, and Past President, Alaskan resident for 18 years.)
Catherine writes Two Sticks, a weekly column on knitting and crocheting, for The Anchorage Daily News. Former partner in Architects at Work, interior designer, artist, award-winning poet and writer, Catherine teaches knitting and designs award-winning knitwear patterns. Catherine holds an Associate in Interior Design and a Certificate in Architectural Drafting from Anchorage Community College, Anchorage, Alaska. She achieved honors while studying Environmental and Interior Architecture with such notables as architect Frank Gehry and Richard Saul Wurman at Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. Her passions include alternative fuel sources, which led her to own the first passive solar house in Alaska and to work as an engineering assistant at Los Alamos Labs in New Mexico on the hydrogen fuel cell project. Contributions to the Alaskan needlearts communities include:  co-creator of the Yarn Expos, co-creator of The Alaska State Yarn Council and the "Website Studio Spaces," past President Board Member of Knitters of the North Guild.

KATHLEEN MEGGITT
(Founder, Charter member, and past Secretary, Alaskan resident for 50 years.)
Kathleen is a passionate knitter who has taken her skills to the next step and now teaches knitting at her guild, Knitters of the North, and through her own Valley School of Creative Knitting.  She is currently at work on her  Level III Master Knitter certification through The Knitting Guild of America.  Upon completion, Kathleen will be one of just a few Master Knitters in Alaska.  Her other passions include needlework of all types, keeping current on the latest in knitting and needlework trends, and sharing that knowledge with fellow knitters.  Kathleen is a charter member of Knitters of the North, a member of Ididachain Crochet Guild, Valley Fiber Arts Guild, and The Knitting Guild of America.

 

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