Beth Bashaw Cameron, President
Beth has been employed by St. Michael Lutheran School for the past 16 years, first as a four-year olds preschool teacher and currently as the Director of their Extended Care Program. Beth has been very involved with the Adonis organization over the years, serving in various roles. Her youngest brother, Ian is autistic.
Glenda Anderson, Vice President
Glenda is the executive director of Keep Charlotte (County) Beautiful, as well as a freelance writer and event planner. For 15 years, she worked at The News-Press as a writer and later, as editor of its Newspaper in Education section. She is actively involved in many organizations that better children’s lives.
Kathy Meyer, Secretary
Kathy Meyer is full-time Executive Assistant of Neighborhood America, as well as partner with her daughter as a rep for whole-food supplement Juice Plus and is an on-going student and advocate of natural health and nutrition. Kathy is mother and guardian of Jessica, an adult with autism, who she moved to southwest Florida from her New York group home in April 2004.
Diane J. Schwab, Treasurer
Mother of two boys, one with autism. Autism activist! Exercise Enthusiast!
Directors:
Maureen Bashaw
Maureen is a freelance writer.
She worked at News-Press as a feature writer and drama critic. Her 31-year-old son, Ian, is autistic. She is the widow of Richard Bashaw who along with Maureen was one of the founders of the Adonis Autism Center in 1985.
L.D. Bochette
L.D. is the past director of East First National Bank in Fort Myers,
as well as Landmark First National Bank and C&S National Bank of
Lee County. He now manages personal investments. He is actively involved
with the Southwest Florida Boy Scouts Council, Fort Myers Community
Concert Association, Edison-Ford Winter Estates Advisory Board, Southwest
Florida Beautification Advisory Board, Southwest Florida Historical
Society and Fort Myers City of Palms Day Committee.
Patricia Hopkins
Patricia is the owner operator of Community Pathway LLC, an organization serving people with a variety of disabilities. She has worked in the field of developmental disabilities for more than 25 years. Patricia was instrumental in the opening of the Adonis home, she is a true advocate for persons of disabilities and their families.
Deborah Randell
I am the proud daughter of Colonel and Patricia Randell, who moved to Lee County in 1969 for the purpose of providing my brother Ricky, a farm-like environment where he as an adult with autism, could live the most productive, self-sufficient life possible and be accepted as the wonderfully, kind, clever person he is. Today, my goal in joining the Adonis Autism Center of S.W. Florida would be to assist the board in their efforts "to enhance the quality of life for people with autism in Southwest Florida by providing programs that encourage progressive lifestyles, participation in the life of the community and decision-making skills through training and education".
Pumfey Edythe Steffens
Holds a BS in Marketing; her career included executive marketing positions in computer/software companies including SEI Corporation and Commodore Computers, she was also a partner in Marketing Formats, a marketing consulting/advertising firm, Partner in Crossroads Publishing which developed educational magazines, and owner of ELS Communications which published the Graduate Studies Directory magazine, she was included in the 1980's Who's Who of American Women. In the last ten years she has actively worked in the field of learning disorders and autism, started the BR Scholarship Program at the Autism Research Institute for doctors and medical professionals to attend their Biomedical training conferences, and introduced the Low Oxalate Diet Therapies Study into the autism community, which promotes a diet and other protocols for healing and behavioral changes in autistic children. She privately consults with mothers in helping them develop strategies for helping their children with autism.
