Association of Alaska School Boards

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Lon Garrison
President
 
Lon Garrison was first elected to the Association of Alaska School Boards in 2008 and has risen   to the position of president-elect.  He is a member of the Sitka School Board where he served in 2007 and again in 2010.  His decision to become a school board member was driven by a desire for him to give back to a community that had given so much to his family and he wanted to help insure that the school district continued to do the great work he saw them do with his own daughters. 

Garrison is a grew up on small cattle ranch 70 miles southeast of Denver, Colorado; and is a product of Douglas County Public Schools (CO) and the 4H program.  He holds a B.S. in Fishery Biology from Colorado State University and began his career in fisheries with the USFS on the Seward Ranger District.  He also spent one winter as a foreign fisheries observer on Japanese and Polish trawlers in the Bering Sea. 

Garrison attended graduate school at the University of Vermont (UVM) and pursued a Masters degree in Fisheries and Wildlife where he studied the winter smelt fishery on Lake Champlain.  It was at UVM that he met his wife Litia who was a graduate student in the zoology department.  In 1988, he was hired by the Northern SE Regional Aquaculture Assoc. (NSRAA) to fill a new fishery biologist position in Haines, Alaska and truly began my Alaska career.  Since then they have lived at several remote salmon hatcheries in Southeast Alaska and home schooled their two daughters before moving to Sitka in 2001. 

Carl F. N. Rose
Executive Director

Carl Rose, executive director of the Association of Alaska School Boards, has devoted most of his adult life to improving public schools and advocating for the youth of Alaska.  Since being elected to the Skagway School Board as a young businessman in 1974, rising to president of the AASB in 1983, and serving in his current position since 1987, Rose has participated in every major education innovation in Alaska. 

Today, AASB is one of the most prominent organizations in Alaska public education, representing 53 local school districts and working with many partner organizations to promote the education, health, welfare and safety of children and youth. Under his leadership, AASB has matured from a small non-profit with limited responsibilities into statewide organization that advocates for Alaska’s children. 

An alumnus of the University of Washington, Rose and his wife Frances are parents of two adult children, Travis and Tyler, who were educated in Alaska schools.