Officers of Palo Alto Lodge #1471

Palo Alto Lodge is fortunate to have a Corps of Officers and Trustees who work toward making the Lodge a great place for members and their families to visit. These Officers put in countless hours of volunteer time to head up various committees and activites.

2010 Elks Officer Biography's

Donna Keiffer
Exhalted Ruler

Donna Keiffer is a six year member of this lodge, now serving as the Exhalted Ruler, She has served as an officer the last four years.

A graduate of Missouri university with a BS in Biology; additional training for board certification as a Histologist and a Medical technologist. A member of American Society of Clinical Pathologists and The National society of Histologists.

Donna was on the staff at the the university for ten years in Anatomical pathology. She has worked for several research and pharmaceutical companies as well as hospitals. She has been in the medical profession for 43 years and is still working as a histologist at the VA hospital in Palo Alto. She took some time out over the past years to get her MA in the art field in order to teach. She has been a member of the Los Altos Art club for many years and still very active in it.

Paul Eisenman

 
Esteemed Leading Knight

Andrea (Alex) Johnson

 
Esteemed Loyal Knight

Will Smith

Esteemed Lecturnig Knight

Joe Sparaco

Lodge Esquire 

Roger Newkirk
Chaplin

Roger Newkirk graduated from the University of Colorado with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Business Management.  He also participated in the Naval ROTC program and received a commission as a Naval Officer upon graduation.  Roger spent four years in the Navy flying off of aircraft carriers in the Caribbean and Mediterranean as a Naval Flight Officer.  Upon completing his tour of service he began working for Lockheed in Sunnyvale where he spent 29 years as a research engineer conducting ground tests on submarine missiles and satellites.  During his spare time he flew as a tactical coordinator in submarine patrol aircraft as well as obtaining his MBA from San Jose State University.  His past interests were golf, scuba diving and racquetball.  His current interests are bridge, home repairs and the Elks.

Roger first became an Elk in the early 1990s but dropped out in the late 1990s due to other commitments.  He rejoined in 2008 and immediately became active leading to being appointed as the lodge Chaplin in 2009.

Bob Fleck (PER)
Lodge Secretary 

Bob Fleck has been a member of the Palo Alto Elks since 1985. He has been involved in numerous athletic facilities and Lodge projects; chaired the Finance Committee, served on the House Committee, past Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees and as a Lodge Officer prior to his election as Exalter Ruler.

Bob has a BS degree from San Jose State University, along with more than 25 years of management experience of both publicly-held companies and startups. He served as CEO of a publicly-held Company, President of three other companies and on the Board of Directors of five companies. He has experience addressing issues involving turnaround situations, strategic and business planning and as lead negotiator in the sale of a Bank to Citicorp. He formed Financial Advisory Services, a personal and business consulting firm that specialized in risk reward modeling and the analysis of investments. He also formed a communications company specializing in providing management reports and employee compensation and benefit statements. Prior to that, he spent 13 years with a NYSE company as a Brokerage Consultant. His current involvement includes a high-tech start-up company dealing with large screen, high resolution displays.  

Betty Bell
Lodge Inner Guard

Willy Stahl
Lodge Tiler

Willy has been a member here at Palo Alto BPOE #1471 since 1970 and has been the Tiller since the Lodge reopened in 2001. He also serves as the acting Inner Guard while we search for an Inner Guard. He has consistently served on the advisory board and is a regular cook/helper at the Dirt Crew BBQ's. For the past he and his wife Ingrid have prepared the authentic German food for the annual Oktoberfest.

Willy has been married to Ingrid for 48 years and have 2 grown children. Before he retired he spent 40 years as a Tool and Die maker. Later in his career, he got involved as an Experimental Machinist in the Development of Blood Analyzing machines for the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Willy shares a common goal with our hardworking Leadership to fulfill our dream to build a new lodge and increase our membership.

Don Brookman

Treasurer

Doug Hornbeck
Lodge Organist