BOB KROLL - PRESIDENT

Bob has been a veterinary neurologist for nearly 30 years. He was a member of the Neurology faculty at Oregon Health and Sciences University from 1994 to 1998 and led the Neurology and Neurosurgery service at a large veterinary referral hospital until 2016. Although now semi-retired from clinical practice, Bob still works as a relief neurologist and teaches. He is actively involved in volunteer opportunities related to emergency response. Bob and his wife Nancy have been part-time residents of Cannon Beach since 2006 and moved full time to Cannon Beach in 2019. Bob has been a passionate photographer for nearly 30 years. Bob joined the CBAA Board in 2019 and looks forward to both contributing to the organization and learning more about local and regional art and artists.

MARCIA ZEGAR - VICE PRESIDENT

Marcia is a Speech/Language Pathologist and specialist in  communication intervention for children with hearing loss, serving  Salem-Keizer Public Schools for over 30 years.  Throughout  her career, music and the arts were incorporated in her practice,  providing a multi-modality platform complementing the ‘music’ of  language and creative communication process. The dream of living  permanently in Cannon Beach came to fruition in the spring of 2017 as  Marcia and her husband moved from the Willamette Valley to this  inspiring community.  Marcia is honored to serve as a CBAA board member  supporting their mission of the arts and artists in the community.

LILA WICKHAM, TREASURER

 Lila retired after 40 years in public health, most recently as the Environmental Health Director for Multnomah County. Her dream to live on the Oregon Coast was manifested in May 2014. She remains committed to her passions by volunteering for the national Public Health Accreditation Board as a reviewer and as Co-Coordinator of the Cannon Beach Medical Reserve Corps. In 2015 she joined the Cannon Beach Arts Association as a board member to support arts and artists in the community.

FRANKIE WHITE, SECRETARY

Frankie is an artist and taught Studio Art at the high school level for 35 years. She taught Art Education and Creative Leadership courses as an Adjunct Professor at Gonzaga University. She and her husband moved to Cannon Beach five years ago and split their time between Cannon Beach and Spokane, Washington. Some of her hobbies include walking ancient pilgrimage routes in Europe, tai chi and growing bonsai.

NANCY KROLL

Nancy is an RN who retired in 2011 after 34 years of nursing. The majority of her 24 years in the operating room were spent at St. Vincent Hospital where she was in charge of Neurosurgery. She spent the last 10 years of her career as a Hospice nurse for Providence Health System. She and Bob purchased their home in Cannon Beach in 2006 and have split their time between Cannon Beach and West Linn for 13 years. She enjoys volunteering with MRC, Red Cross, and the North Coast Land Conservancy. She is very happy to move to Cannon Beach in 2019.

Loni SANDERS

Loni Sanders lives in Portland, but spends a lot of time on the Oregon Coast. She loves to paint landscapes and travel scenes when away from home. She was an art major in college, but for many years had little time for her art practice, further developing her desire to enrich her life with creativity and art making. Loni enjoys the process of experimenting with materials and often creatives from a process over product oriented perspective. She has recently started doing more teaching and workshops including helping out at the Cannon Beach Arts Camp in 2023.

She has shown her work in the Portland and Seattle area for about 25 years. She has participated in the Lake Oswego Festival of Arts for nearly 30 years and has been actively involved in the Tigard Art Walk for 5 years.

In addition to her art practice she enjoys surfing in Cannon Beach and traveling the world with her daughter.

Margie Norton

Margie is an artist with a degree in Fine Art and retired in 2021 from a career that began in advertising production and morphed into commercial printing sales. For all her career, the common motivating thread was working with art directors and designers. Moving to Cannon Beach full time with her husband in 2020 was the catalyst to return to painting and to become involved with CBAA. She is looking forward to serving the art community as a board member. Margie’s other interests revolve around knitting, her grandchildren, making new friends and exploring and appreciating this gorgeous place.

Tom Grogg

Tom is a native Californian, now an Oregon transplant. He studied Graphic Design at Cal-State University, Long Beach. After a two-year Vietnam interruption, Tom returned to Newport Beach, CA where he started a graphic design business in 1969 specializing in print. As a graphic designer, his art endeavors included illustration, logo design, advertising graphics, book design, and production. He, and his wife Georgia owned a successful art gallery in Newport Beach for 8 years. He now paints in oil, watercolor, and sumi-e. His works have been shown at OSA, CBAA, and Art Lofts Astoria.

Terri Neal

Terri Neal has lived throughout the US and finally settled in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She always had a keen interest in animals and the natural world and received a biology degree at Hiram College in Ohio and her master’s at Arizona State University. Having loved to draw and create from an early age, Terri has explored many art mediums including pencils, fibers, ceramics, and metals. Pencils were her first love, and she combines them with watercolor and ink to create a realistic interpretation of her subjects. Her quest is to find the soul and whimsy in each of her animal subjects. She currently uses her work to promote art and conservation. She is thankful for this wonderful opportunity to support artists and art in the PNW coastal communities.