Bruce & Judy
Bruce
I was born in Los Angeles and raised in the town of Montebello, just east of Los Angeles. I graduated from UCLA in 1973 with an engineering degree and moved to San Diego soon thereafter. Judy and I were tiring of all the California sunshine so we moved to Corvallis, Oregon in 1980 after I saw an advertisement for a job at Hewlett Packard. My work at HP was facilities related, doing building design, construction and project management and people management. I worked for HP for 19 years, taking a leave of absence in 1999 and never looked back. I currently do volunteer work for the Corvallis Environmental Center, coordinate the Corvallis Chapter of The Oregon Natural Step Network (an organization promoting sustainability for businesses and organizations) and co-coordinate the work of the Corvallis Chapter of the Northwest Earth Institute. I have enjoyed bicycling all my life racing, touring and even having a bicycle frame building business in the 70's. I love connecting with nature by hiking and backpacking. I also like tinkering with mechanical stuff. I live in cohousing because it is a more sustainable living solution for our planet and because I feel living in community is something that has made my life whole.
Judy
I was born and raised in San Diego, CA in the 1950’s and have fond memories of it being a small town. I went to San Diego State and received my degree in Journalism. During my last year in school, my roommate and I moved into a funky little duplex and I met Bruce, who lived in the other half of the duplex with his roommate. We’ve been married more than 30 years now. We have one daughter, Laura, who lives in Portland, Maine.
I’m the director of the South Corvallis Food Bank and do this work because I strongly believe that we need to work at sharing the earth’s resources (with other species too) so that no one goes hungry.
My family and I traveled for four months in 1999 to have a look at intentional communities and cohousing projects. We returned home with a dream of creating our own cohousing project right here in Corvallis. Soon, we found others who shared our dream and CoHo was born. I’ve been very fortunate to have been part of CoHo from the very beginning and see it grow and evolve. Much like raising a child, there were sleepless nights, hard work, and great joy. Now that the physical community is built and we’ve moved in, we’ve begun the adventure of figuring out how to best make this community thing work for all of us. What fun!
