OUR BOARD
President, Marc Warshawsky
Marc grew up in the NYC area and met his lovely wife Rebecca in Cambridge, MA where they were married 38 years ago. With 4 kids and 7 grandkids, some in Highlands Ranch and some in Dallas life is busy. Marc spent over 25 years in the computer industry as an engineer and a manager, working first in Massachusetts and later in Texas. After the crash in 2008, Marc launched a new career in Real Estate in Austin which he successfully migrated to Summit County. With a 2nd home in Summit County for many years, our dream was to figure out how to relocate and be in the mountains full time. That dream became reality in 2019. We love Summit County and everything it has to offer and plan to be here for a very long time. Once we arrived, we immediately discovered SOS. We love the progressive informality of it all. Rebecca jumped in virtually immediately with both feet - because that’s what she does - and started volunteering at SOS. Marc is excited to embark on this new role as President of SOS.
Vice President, Bruce Schroffel
Bruce Schroffel worked in health care administration for more than 40 years, developing strategies, visioning, leading, and managing large, complex academic health care organizations. Raised in Berkeley, California he started his health care career in New York at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He served as the first administrator for a new community-based center in the South Bronx and then moved into the position of senior associate director for hospital operations. Schroffel was then recruited to the medical center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF Medical Center), initially as the director of operations, where he assisted in the transition of two hospitals to a managed-care environment. In 1997, during the merger of UCSF and Stanford he was named senior vice president/Director for UCSF Medical Center and Mount Zion Hospital. In 2001, he was tapped to lead Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island in New York.
In January, 2006 Schroffel became the president and CEO of University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) and dramatically extended UCH’s reach and breadth, raising financial performance to among the top five percent in the United States. Schroffel championed ambitious physical expansions, including a new 12-story inpatient tower. Under Schroffel’s leadership, UCH received the unique distinction two years in a row, being named the number one hospital in quality and efficiency among U.S. academic medical centers by the University HealthSystem Consortium. In 2012 Schroffel was the architect of a major merger growing UCH from a 5000 person, $900 million organization to UCHealth, a five hospital, $2.5 billion, 16,000 person enterprise. In January, 2012 Schroffel was named President and Chairman of the Board.
In 2010, he was named The Denver Post’s Business Person of the Year. In 2014 he received the University Medal from the University of Colorado.
In January, 2014 he retired from his full-time position with UCHealth. He has done consulting work in China, Israel and in the United States, and worked with Witt-Kieffer doing executive recruitment. He has been the CEO of two start-ups, FibonacciMD and Eleven P15. Today, he is largely committed to executive coaching for physicians and senior leaders in health care management, hiking and becoming a better skier.
Bruce lives with his wife, Lorrie, in Frisco. They have two sons who are married each with one child, one living in Golden and the other in London. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and two graduate degrees from Columbia University.
Treasurer, Richard Lepie
Richard Lepie is a wanderer by Nature. He lived in 5 states before the age of 5. Grammar school years were spent in Boston, Massachusetts. Not being allowed to escape to Europe for University, he compromised and attended McGill University in Montreal. He was seduced by Betsy Ross and spent the next four years in Philadelphia at Jefferson Medical College. Next it was off to Jewish Hospital of St Louis for a residency in Internal Medicine. The wind then blew across the Atlantic to Queens Hospital in London. The wind kept blowing east for a two year stint in Africa working for missionaries in Ethiopia and Malawi. He finally returned to the USA as Chief Medical Resident at Kern General in Bakersfield, California. . A change of mind led to a new start as a resident in Ophthalmology in Buffalo, NY. Arlyne appeared. He married. There were children and he is still in Buffalo. He has had a home in Summit County for over twenty years and has been a member of the Congregation for almost that long. The lore of the Mountain is calling to make Silverthorne more permanent. Not only does he still practice Ophthalmology, but he runs a Travel Agency, guides tours, manages an Office Complex, is Treasurer for his Buffalo Congregation, teaches skiing to youth at Keystone and dabbles in real estate.
Secretary, Donna Shear
Director of Membership,
Amy Somers
Dreams of skiing the mountains of Colorado brought Amy and her husband, Andy, to Summit County after raising twins, Sasha and Noah (25) in Sherman Oaks, CA. Originally from Harrisburg, PA, Amy is a former TV and Film Casting Director and Talent Agent having worked at Disney, Universal and NBC. While living in LA, Amy was an enthusiastic member of grass roots congregation, NASHUVA, led by Rabbi Naomi Levy. In 2012, she experienced a transformative adventure to Israel- a kind of Birthright trip for Moms, sponsored by Jewish Women’s Initiative. Skiing, tennis, pickleball, theater, film. Mah Jongg, canasta, and Happy Hours are her passions. Amy is grateful for the warm welcome to the SOS community. She’s looking forward to learning more about the area and organizing fulfilling social action projects for the congregation. Amy came to ski but can’t wait to see and feel all the wonders of Summers in Summit.
Director of Events, Ruth Kaplan
Ruth is originally from the Washington, D.C. suburbs. She and her husband Larry moved to Colorado in 1980. She taught special education and later 4th grade in public schools for about 30 years. They raised their two children living in Evergreen for 23 years. Their daughter and her husband recently moved to Frisco where she will be the librarian for the Summit Middle School. Their son lives in Centennial with his wife and 15 month old precious daughter. Ruth and Larry moved into their vacation home in Frisco two years ago after finding themselves spending more time year round in Summit County than in Evergreen and the front range. Recently they made the move to Breckenridge. After making Summit County their permanent home, they joined SOS, and now feel like they have been members forever! They both love the warmth of the community, the services, and enjoy all of the social and service opportunities as well. They hope to meet and or see all of you at the annual meeting or in the near future.
Director of Social Action,
Nancy Held
Rabbi Liaison, Jeff Fine
Jeff and Lisa settled here full time about three years ago after splitting their time between here and Central Ohio for decades. They now own a home in Mesa Cortina, Silverthorne, CO. They have two grown children; Mara has her Doctor of Nursing and practices back in Westerville, OH, and Jenna is a special education counselor in Phoenix, AZ. They are both still in business, working from home. They love it here with all the Summer (hiking & biking) and Winter (skiing) plus the healthy culture that Summit County has to offer.
Immediate Past President,
Margaret Gilbert
Margaret and her husband always knew that when they retired, Colorado would be their destination. They have been skiing out at Aspen/Snowmass for over 30 years, but that just became too far when their daughter Lindsay got married, moved to Highlands Ranch and began a family. Finding Summit County and SOS was beshert for them. Everything just fell into place and SOS was a huge piece of that. They felt everyone was very welcoming and made so many friends right off the bat. For Margaret, it was great to have found women with similar interests in hiking, skiing, cooking, knitting and who knew, Mah Jong! And the outdoors in general. She was happy to volunteer for whatever was needed at SOS. She had been very active at their congregation of 30 years in New York, having served on many committees, including being on the executive board for about 10 years. So she was happy to have a new Jewish home that seemed to need her as well. Margaret is honored to have served as our President.
Administrative Assistant,
Angela Reider
Angela and her family moved to Summit County in 2002 and joined SOS shortly thereafter. She has been our Administrative Assistant since 2005 and has enjoyed watching the congregation evolve. She and her husband Richard have three daughters: one in Brooklyn, two in Colorado; five grandchildren. Angela worked for Summit County Libraries for many years and has a background in the Arts and Research. Interests include cooking, gardening, art, hiking, traveling, non-fiction books, and animals. She and her husband currently reside in Evergreen along with their two furry kids.