From left to right standing; Deborah, Jim, Glenn, and Mary.

Helen (Mom) The matriarch of the Smith/Scurlock family. She helped propel and organize our first ever trip to Yugoslavia, as it was named in 1987. Our first few trips to Medjugorjia, and the neighboring towns, (i.e. Mostar) were not relief missions but were more like pilgrimages. After the war broke out and Yugoslavia became divided, our family became quite concerned about the families over there. In particular, we wanted to find out about the situations of the families that we had met and lived with on our visits. Mom had certainly instilled a set of values in all of us children that when we heard about and then saw the situation over there, we cared and we wanted to do something to help.

Deborah She is a real organizer. She keeps detailed inventories and shipping lists of everything that goes to Bosnia on her computer. She also handles our shoestring budget which is a very frustrating job. Deborah's son Justin Spencer accompanied a shipment to Bosnia and enjoyed playing soccer with some of the other teenagers over there. None of us know the language in Bosnia and Justin's soccer ball certainly knew no language barriers. Deborah works for IBM in San Francisco.
E-mail Deborah at Deborah@onefamily.org

Mary & Jim Our sister Mary is a registered nurse (RN) and has some contacts for getting medical supplies donated to One Family. Mary also sees that everything gets delivered to the right places over in Bosnia, so she has personally accompanied each shipment over there. Mary's husband Jim Franke has two jobs and yet he spends an enormous amount of time for One Family picking up donations, sorting, transporting, and so much more. Jim seems to make the impossible happen - if you want to get a wheel chair or a cello over to Bosnia, just ask Jim. Mary is not really a travel agent, however she is ours. She has also organized pilgrimages for other people to visit Bosnia.
E-mail Mary at MaryF@onefamily.org or Jim at JimF@onefamily.org

Brent & Sandy Brent is the backbone of One Family. He got the ball rolling as we met in the home of he and his wife, Sandy. Brent arranged for our 1-800 number, takes all of the incoming phone calls, deals them out to us brothers and sisters (by area code), and tracks them all in his data base. Brent and Sandy handled the ABC-TV news coverage that gave us wide exposure and resulted in a barrage of phone calls and donations that all of us family members responded to. Kevin & Maria Smith, their son and his wife, recently moved to Texas. They did a tremendous amount of work for One Family driving all over Northern California, sometimes in rental trucks, picking up donations and delivering them to our warehouse (which was also temporarily donated) for sorting, bagging and shipping. Brent and Sandy are both retirees of IBM Corp.
E-mail Brent at Brent@onefamily.org

Chuck After our mom, these descriptions have ranged from the youngest to the oldest and as you might have guessed, I wrote this page so I'm going to exercise my option of not saying much about myself. Like my brothers and sisters I have visited schools, called hospitals, responded to myriad phone calls, hauled, sorted, bagged, prayed, hoped, etc. I retired from IBM last fall and took a position at Lockheed Martin Corp. My sons Chuck and Francis journeyed to Bosnia with us in 1989 where we were very impressed by the wonderful people over there. Debbi Peters, my daughter is the brains and inspiration behind this WEB page. This site actually initiated her own business which you can contact through WebbedFoot Pro-Duck-Tions.

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