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The following are declared candidates for the Board of the North Buckhead Civic Association to serve a two year term. Candidates must be NBCA members and must reside within NBCA's boundaries.
Gordon Certain (I) - North Ivy Road - has lived in Atlanta since 1960 and in North Buckhead since 1975. He is married to former NBCA Secretary and current Newsletter Assistant Editor Sue Certain and has a Paideia School 12th-grader, Jessica. He received a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech and worked for Lockheed for 31 years, retiring in 1998 as manager of business systems.
Gordon has been active in NBCA's board since he retired. He maintains the association's web site and e-mail list. He served as Treasurer before becoming NBCA President in 2000.
Robert H. Cook (I) - Land O' Lakes Drive - has lived in North Buckhead for the last six years. He graduated with an engineering degree from Mississippi State University and worked as a technology consultant for 10 years prior to moving to Atlanta. Robert has worked on sidewalk and greenspace projects. He also actively manages the financial responsibilities of the association.
Dieter Franz - North Stratford Road - has lived on North Stratford since June of 1986 and has been a NBCA member ever since. He came to Atlanta in 1965 to attend Georgia Tech and graduated with BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering in 1967. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) and practices environmental engineering with Brown and Caldwell, a national consulting engineering company. The majority of his work is comprised of drinking water, wastewater and water resources projects for governmental clients. Through his professional work, he is a member of the Natural Resources Committees of the Association of County Commissioners (ACCG) and the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA). Further, he is a board member of the Georgia Water and Pollution Control Association, a 5,000 member statewide association of Water Professionals.
Earlier in his career, he served for six years on the Atlanta Urban Design Commission as an appointee of Mayor Maynard Jackson, served on the ARC Transportation Task Force in the 1970 and early 1980's (two years as Chair), served on both City and Chamber of Commerce Task Forces to achieve balanced growth in Metro Atlanta, and in 1989 served as an Andrew Young appointee on a task force to recommend improvements to the City's Public Works Department.
Currently he serves on the Board of the Cochran Mill Nature Center in furtherance of environmental education and is a member of the Chattahoochee Basin Committee of the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District.
His wife Chris is active in the North Buckhead Garden Club and volunteers for Clark Howard's Consumer Action Center. Chris also was very active with parent activities when their son Gerard attended Sarah Smith Elementary School.
Waldtraut "Walda" Lavroff (I) - Carmain Dr - has lived on Carmain Drive since 1968 and has been a member of NBCA since the 1970's. She is retired from Georgia State University where she was an administrator and teacher. She holds degrees (MBA, PhD) in Business Management and in Higher
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