Oakley Pearson

Oakley was born and raised in Minnesota. He has worked as a canoe guide, Peace Corps Volunteer, small business owner, and recently retired after twenty years as the Director of the Regional Library For The Blind and Visually Impaired. He has lived in Minnesota, Dagua and Cali in Colombia, Chicago, Washington D.C., and for the past thirty-four years has lived in Staunton, Virginia with his lovely wife, Margaret. They have a son and daughter living in Staunton and have been instrumental in raising two granddaughters, both in college, one god-daughter heading for graduate school and one just finishing high school. He has co-led thirteen mission trips to the Copan area  of Honduras where he now has many valued friends. He is very slowly restoring an historic house while enjoying both ornamental and vegetable gardening. He loves books and reading, good food and friends to eat with, and listening to and playing guitar music, especially American folk music, jazz, and blues. A member of the Staunton Rotary Club for twenty years, he currently serves as Chairman of the International Projects Committee.  Oakley is delighted to be the Team Leader of the GSE trip to Argentina D4835.