2025

With an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and a 35-year career measuring the performance of high-speed computers at IBM and Oracle, Ted Blank’s love of amateur science led him to join and then become President of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society. After...

After graduating from high school in 1967, Steve Graham attended UCLA for four years and graduated in 1971 with a BA in HISTORY.  While going to UCLA, he spent three years working at Disneyland as a “Ride Operator” in FRONTIERLAND and ADVENTURELAND. It was there that...

Scott returned to Fountain Hills with his Wife Ashley and two kids in 2012. His first area of focus was within his home church at the time, Christ’s Church, where he served at the preschool, nursery, led a Bible study, and worked with the Pastoral Transition...

Rose Gonsoulin is a native Houstonian who traded living with mosquitos, roaches, and humidity for the scorpions, rattlesnakes, and dust storms in Arizona. She and her husband moved from Atlanta to Fountain Hills in 2002 and now share their home with two cats, Chloe...

Nancy and her husband, Joe, moved to Fountain Hills with their son, Stefan, in 1987. Soon after, she transitioned from a career as a medical lab manager to accounting, earning a BS in accounting from ASU, passing the CPA exam, and obtaining her CPA certification after...

Linda grew up and went to school in Queens, New York. She graduated from New York Technological School in Brooklyn with a degree in nursing. She worked in hospitals for several years and then joined the Peace Corps in 1965 in a medical capacity in Chile for two years....

At the age 40, John Vernon Schlum and wife Dawn sold their Car Dealership in Clawson, Michigan and moved the family of five to Fountain Hills, Arizona. This all happened in December 1977 when Fountain Hills was a very small community, not yet a town.  Driving the...

Born in Maryland, but raised largely in Minnesota, Reverend Cathy Northrup is a graduate of Hamline University in St. Paul, Georgetown University Law School, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and Princeton Theological Seminary where she received her Doctor...

Dr. Cain Jagodzinski, known as Dr. J, has dedicated his career to education, leadership, and community service.  His academic journey began at Northern Arizona University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in biology. He continued his...

Bernie Hoenle and his wife Marcia first fell in love with Fountain Hills as many do…by driving over the hill on Palisade Boulevard and becoming entranced! That was in 2013 and shortly after they moved to the community. Their first family Thanksgiving was on folding...