Lloyd Flem, Executive Director
Lloyd H. Flem was born in Grand Forks, ND and reared in southwest Washington. He received degrees in Geography from the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley with emphasis on transportation and land use planning. Flem has taught at public schools, The Evergreen State College, Centralia College and the University of Wisconsin. He has been Executive Director/Government & Corporate Affairs Director of our organization since 1985 and presently resides in Olympia.
You may e-mail Lloyd at LloydFlem@allaboardwashington.org
Loren Herringstad, President
You may e-mail Loren at lorenh@allaboardwashington.org
Jim Hamre, Vice President
Jim Hamre is a vice president of All Aboard Washington and has been its newsletter editor since 1988. He has been active in passenger rail/balanced transportation advocacy since the early 1980s. Jim is also a director of the National Association of Railroad Passengers. He is employed by the Washington State Department of Transportation and has worked in the transportation field his entire career, including for the Milwaukee Road while attending Washington State University in the 1970s.
You may e-mail Jim at jimh@allaboardwashington.org
Rocky Shay, Secretary
Rocky Shay is the current Secretary of All Aboard Washington. Rocky has been a member of the All Aboard Washington (formerly known as the Washington Association of Rail Passengers) since 1972. He is a native of Tacoma and has worked in broadcasting in Seattle since 1968. Trains, both passenger and freight, have been a lifelong interest. He and his wife Jamie live in Federal Way. They have a daughter and a two-year-old grandson.
You may e-mail Rocky at harmons@allaboardwashington.org
William “Bill” Myers, Treasurer
Bill has been a member since 2007 and is a new board member. He was born in Seattle and split his growing up years between here, New Jersey, and Florida. He received a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida. He is retired from Boeing after 32 years. He worked nine of those years in European Boeing Field Service at the airlines in Rome, Amsterdam, Moscow, and London. This gave him an appreciation for their excellent and well integrated national rail systems which he used extensively. While there he saw their governments spending billions on improving existing and new high speed rail lines. He is a strong advocate of passenger rail service locally and nationally.
You may e-mail bill may e-mail at williamm@allaboardwashington.org
Officers and Staff
Lloyd Flem, Executive Director
Lloyd H. Flem was born in Grand Forks, ND and reared in southwest Washington. He received degrees in Geography from the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley with emphasis on transportation and land use planning. Flem has taught at public schools, The Evergreen State College, Centralia College and the University of Wisconsin. He has been Executive Director/Government & Corporate Affairs Director of our organization since 1985 and presently resides in Olympia.
You may e-mail Lloyd at LloydFlem@allaboardwashington.org
Loren Herringstad, President
You may e-mail Loren at lorenh@allaboardwashington.org
Jim Hamre, Vice President
Jim Hamre is a vice president of All Aboard Washington and has been its newsletter editor since 1988. He has been active in passenger rail/balanced transportation advocacy since the early 1980s. Jim is also a director of the National Association of Railroad Passengers. He is employed by the Washington State Department of Transportation and has worked in the transportation field his entire career, including for the Milwaukee Road while attending Washington State University in the 1970s.
You may e-mail Jim at jimh@allaboardwashington.org
Rocky Shay, Secretary
Rocky Shay is the current Secretary of All Aboard Washington. Rocky has been a member of the All Aboard Washington (formerly known as the Washington Association of Rail Passengers) since 1972. He is a native of Tacoma and has worked in broadcasting in Seattle since 1968. Trains, both passenger and freight, have been a lifelong interest. He and his wife Jamie live in Federal Way. They have a daughter and a two-year-old grandson.
You may e-mail Rocky at harmons@allaboardwashington.org
William “Bill” Myers, Treasurer
Bill has been a member since 2007 and is a new board member. He was born in Seattle and split his growing up years between here, New Jersey, and Florida. He received a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida. He is retired from Boeing after 32 years. He worked nine of those years in European Boeing Field Service at the airlines in Rome, Amsterdam, Moscow, and London. This gave him an appreciation for their excellent and well integrated national rail systems which he used extensively. While there he saw their governments spending billions on improving existing and new high speed rail lines. He is a strong advocate of passenger rail service locally and nationally.
You may e-mail bill may e-mail at williamm@allaboardwashington.org