Our Board

Ruth Brown is a retired RN who spent 20 years in Nursing Home Administration and is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator.  Ruth spent five years living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras as a teen and graduated from high school there in 1974.  Upon retiring in 2002, Ruth became an active volunteer with CAMO and has been involved from the start with the building of the Domestic Violence Shelter in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras.

Dennis graduated from Hesston College with an associate degree in restaurant and hotel management in 1988 and has been in restaurant management ever since including his own restaurant, Dalton's Das Dutch Kitchen as managing partner. Dennis and his wife, Sherri, have been acquainted with the work of CAMO as donors and volunteers since 1993. They have loaded trucks or helped out as needed whenever possible since meeting Kathy Tschiegg at Salem Mennonite Church. They have three sons.

Jim Kleinfelter is President and is a Senior Consultant of Young & Associates, Inc., a Kent Ohio based and nationally known community bank consulting firm.  As a consultant, he assists financial institutions primarily in the areas of management consulting, strategic planning, and loan review.  He is a former community bank executive and senior lender with over 30 years of experience. Prior to joining Young & Associates, Inc. in 2003, Jim has worked in many areas of bank management and executive management. He spent time with the former Society National Bank of Northwest Ohio, and Bank One Wooster. Most recently, he served over 17 years of service with The Savings Bank and Trust in Orrville, Ohio.  Jim is a graduate of Lakota High School in Kansas, Ohio and of Bowling Green State University and numerous banking schools. He is a banking education instructor and seminar speaker.   He is a long-time member of Orrville Rotary and has been in involved in many community, youth and church activities.  He is married and lives in Orrville with his wife Betty.  They have three college age children, Jessica, Jennifer and Andrew.

Dr. Romero has been practicing Obstetrics and Gynecology for 20 years in North Canton, Ohio. He has a BA from Washington University in St Louis, an MD from the University of Puerto Rico, and did his OB-GYN residency with Michigan State University. He has been doing medical missions to the Dominican Republic and Honduras since 1993. He jumped at the opportunity to join CAMO over 5 years ago and has not looked back since. He has worked with his gynecology counterparts in Honduras in Cervical cancer screening, Labor and Delivery monitoring, Ultrasound, and urinary incontinence surgeries. He lives in Green, Ohio with his wife Barb and five children.

Juan Carlos Elvir is an Industrial Engineer from the University of México. Last year he worked as a COPECO minister at the national level. He has a lot of experience in the management of human development while for 8 years was Mayor of Santa Rosa de Copán Municipality. This was considered the best Municipality in Latinoamerica.  He is a promoter businessman of many large projects for Santa Rosa de Copán and surrounded areas.

Iris Artica de Well is a Licensed Economist who is an active member of The Rotary Ladies of Santa Rosa de Copán. Iris belongs to The Historical Foundation Commission of Santa Rosa de Copán and she is the Judicial  Regional Administrator.  She is the secretary of CAMO Honduras who is an excellent person with a broad humanitarian and moral qualities.

German Antonio Barcenas, MD is a gynecology specialized practitioner who is a former Medical School commissioner of Copán. Actually he is the Director of the Medical Surgical Center in Copán.  He also is a businessman and a excellent person with many moral and humanitarian qualities.

Ezequiel Morales, MD is a general practitioner who is the Director of the Emergengy Room at the Hospital Regional de Occidente. He is an active member of the Lions Club in Santa Rosa de Copán, also he is a business man and an excellent person with a broad humanitarian and moral qualities.

Licensed in International Trade with orientation in Agroindustrial, belongs to the Economic Development Commission of ADELSAR where she serves as Secretary of the Commission, supports the Assembly of Citizens Commission on Women's Solidarity, has worked as Manager Field Consultant, Administrative assistant in the Ahorro Hondureño CIA of insurance S.A., Administrative assistant in Plan Honduras, currently works as Director of the School of Artes y Oficios ETAOO.