TRACES' Board of Directors

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Featured Volunteers

Dake Dorris, B.A.

David Dacus Dorris earned a Bachelor's of Architecture from Auburn University in Mississippi in 1986. Today he works as a designer and design consultant for IKEA. He lives in Saint Paul with his father, Charles, and sings with the Twin Cities Gay Mens Chorus.

Ceile Hartleib

CeCeile Hartleib graduated from the Atelier LeSueur Art School and works as a professional artist in St. Paul/MN. She was born in Sandusky/OH to German-American parents--her father having been born in Germany. She is active in the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship and arts organizations.

As a girl, Phyllis Thrams rode with her parents past the front gate of Northcentral Iowa's Camp Algona, where some 10,000 German Prisoners of War were held between 1943-46. After the Second World War her family sponsored Heinz Rattay, who'd been a German POW in California during the war; when he returned to find his native East Prussia no longer part of Germany, he emigrated to Iowa, where he worked on the Thrams' farm for several years and later spent the rest of his life. In 1954 Phyllis married Luwarren "Bud" Luick and farmed with him until 2002, when they sold the Thrams family's 105-year-old Ashlawn Farm--where son Michael Luick-Thrams grew up--between Mason City and Clear Lake/Iowa. Now widowed, she is active in the United Methodist Church, including volunteering with church projects in places like Guatemala, and in other community organizations. Phyllis has traveled widely to "catch up" with Michael while he lived in England, New York, [then] Czechoslovakia, Germany and elsewhere. She recently toured the Pacific Northwest and New England, and remains an avid gardener, reader and walker. She also enjoys watching her four great-grandchildren grow up.

Leighton Siegel, M.D.

Leighton Siegel, a retired physician, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School with residencies in General Surgery and Otolaryngology at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore , Maryland . He is a Diplomat, American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and a retired Adjunct Professor, Department of Otolaryngology and Family Practice, University of Minnesota . He is a Past Chief of Staff of Children's Hospital in St. Paul and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
           Dr. Siegel was in academic and private practice, primarily in St. Paul , Minnesota, for over 35 years. His research pursuits have resulted in the publication of numerous scientific medical articles and a number of chapters in Ear Nose and Throat textbooks. His special talents for computer programming have led to the development of audiometric and hospital software which is in use internationally. His is a skilled web designer and photographer.