April 2004

North Buckhead Newsletter

Page 7

Candidates: The following are the candidates for election to the NBCA Board of Directors.  Each candidate may be elected if they receive a majority vote from members attending the Annual Meeting.

Rita Christopher

Rita Christopher has lived on Loridan Circle since 1991 with her husband Jerry.

She grew up in Charlotte, NC and graduated from UNC-Greensboro with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She has worked for Reproductive Biology Associates as an invitro fertilization nurse for fifteen years. Before moving to Atlanta in 1988 she worked as a research nurse at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in NYC.

Rita and Jerry are members of NBCA and Rita has helped with the NBCA membership. She is an enthusiastic gardener and wants to give her time to further the goals of the Beautification Committee.

David Dollar, CPA (Incumbent)
David is a twelve-year resident of North Buckhead and a native of the Atlanta area.  He lives on Glengary Drive with his wife Dari, their daughters, Sydney and Danielle, and their son, Jackson.  David is a CPA and Financial Planner, with his own firm Chastain Financial Planning.  He is a graduate of Auburn University, where he earned a degree in Economics. 
David has served on the NBCA board for the past four years and as Vice President for the past two years.  Prior to that, he was on the NBCA zoning committee for several years. 

David's wife Dari is a former NBCA board member, and served as Treasurer of the NBCA for several years.  David's efforts as a board member have centered on the annual Christmas Tree Sale, which he has headed up for the past five years.
In addition to serving on the NBCA Board, David is on the board of the Atlanta Auburn Club, a member of the Georgia Society of CPA's Personal Financial Planning Committee, and a member of Peachtree Presbyterian Church.

Nancy Jones (Incumbent)
Nancy Jones is a graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn.   She is a working artist and full-time art teacher at Sarah Smith Elementary School.  She has lived in her house on Rickenbacker Way for 17 years with her now teenaged son Nash. 

Nancy has been instrumental in protecting greenspace in North Buckhead and has worked with neighbors and developers to establish the Blue Heron Nature Preserve and the city acquisition of the 8.5 acre wetlands at Emma Lane.  Nancy is Chair of NBCA's Greenspace and Environment Committee and is President of Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

3/30 Update:

Two additional candidates to the NBCA Board have been nominated:  Chad Richardson and Robert Sarkissian.  Their bios arrived too late for inclusion in the print version of the newsletter.

Chad Richardson

 Chad has lived on Carmain Drive in the North Buckhead Community for 3 years.  He and his wife Susan renovated a home originally built in the early 1900’s, and rumored to have been part of the old Carmain Dairy.

Chad is a CPA who currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  He graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in Accounting, and moved to Atlanta shortly thereafter.  He lived in Decatur and Avondale Estates for 9 years prior to spending 2 years in St Louis as General Manager of a home improvement/lifestyle magazine. 

Susan, also a CPA, is a Vice President with Morgan Stanley in their Commercial Real Estate division.  In their free time, the pair enjoy travel and home projects including landscaping.

Chad has been a member of the NBCA Zoning Committee for the past 18 months, and is Treasurer of the Henry W Grady Foundation, the fundraising arm of Grady Memorial Hospital. 

4/13 Update:

Robert Sarkissian

Robert has lived in North Buckhead for the last 6 years after relocating from Northern California.  A native of New Jersey, he and his wife, Erica, who grew up in the small southwest Georgia town of Sylvester, reside on Old Ivy Road along with their 2 year old daughter, Annabelle.  Robert is a partner with a consulting organization that assists emerging Electronic Design Automation (CAD) companies in their sales and marketing efforts.  He holds a degree in Physics from Florida Tech.  His wife Erica has worked at Delta Air Lines for the last 15 years as a flight attendant and flight attendant instructor.

Robert has served as the chairperson of NBCA Traffic Committee for the last 4 years and actively participates in initiates that are intended to make our neighborhoods pedestrian / traffic friendly.  He is an advocate for measures that influence and enforce adherence to reasonable speed limits in and around our neighborhood streets.  Prior to arriving in Atlanta, Robert was Vice President of the Antigua Homeowners Association in Foster City CA for 10 years.