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Board Member Biographies
Barbara Rystad Monty Cunningham Barbara Hockabout ClarkHockabout Barbara Prosser Kerr Writer, lecturer, inventor, consultant. Founder, designer and director of the Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center. (Retired) founding board member of Solar Cookers International (SCI). Retired emergency room social worker. Former registered nurse. RN, Capitol City School of Nursing, Washington, DC, 1947 (Cum Laude). BA, Univ. of Chicago, 1951. MSW, Arizona State Univ., 1971. Discovered that one can cook in a box made of cardboard, aluminum foil and clear plastic. Similar designs are now widely used in developing countries, based on this work. Developed the 7-Panel Backpacker cooker from which evolved the CooKit design, which SCI now distributes in refugee camps and remote areas of the world. Wrote the textbook “The Expanding World of Solar Box Cookers” in 1991. In collaboration with Dr. Paul Funk, designed, developed and patented (1985, now expired) the Thru-The-Wall-Oven (Solar Wall Oven) concept. James L. (Jim) Scott Retired electronic design engineer (BSEE, University of California, Berkeley, 1969, with honors) with a career as an analog designer and project leader in the fields of electronic music and in electronic instrumentation. Also worked extensively as a technical writer and applications engineer. Since retiring he worked two years in Navajo Nation schools as a volunteer in the areas of greenhouse construction and funding for school computer systems. Recent interests have been in renewable energy systems, green building technologies, and solar cooker design.
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