Our Board

President, Bruce Schroffel

Bruce Schroffel grew up in Berkeley, California and has lived in New York where he was in graduate school at Columbia when he met his wife, Lorrie of 43 years, and in Colorado, his final stop, for the last 18 years. Lorrie is a therapist. They have two sons, Jesse who lives with his wife and granddaughter in nearby Golden and the other in London, where they go regularly to get away from the Colorado sun to visit with Jonathan, his wife and grandson. In between college and grad school Bruce helped start a kibbutz in the Southern Golan Heights overlooking the Sea of Galilee. He has served as CEO for academic hospitals/health systems, most recently for UCHealth and has served and chaired many boards including CoBiz Financial a Nasdaq bank, Emily Griffith Foundation, Craig Hospital, Project C.U.R.E., among others. He has traveled all over Africa, Asia and South America evaluating hospitals for Project C.U.R.E. and loves adventures and learning about and engaging with different cultures and people. These days he does executive coaching for physicians. More importantly, recently, at a relatively late age, he took up skiing and is trying to figure out how to ski in powder.

Finding SOS is a great gift, and he has never found a warmer and more welcoming community. He wakes up every morning and looks at Mount Royal in front of his house in Frisco and feels like one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Vice President, Elaine Krantz

Elaine Krantz started her career in human resources in the mid-80’s but quickly returned to graduate school to pursue her dream of engaging in professional work consisting of more satisfying and meaningful human interaction. To that end she has spent the last 30 + years as a community mental health psychotherapist, clinical trainer, international corporate trainer and for the last 12 years. Certified Gottman Therapist and marriage counselor. She grew up in NJ where she learned to cherish her Jewish heritage through involvement with United Synagogue Youth (USY). She moved to Colorado in the early 90’s and raised two daughters in Littleton CO where she served on the board of B’nai Chaim and was the 5th grade Hebrew School teacher for many years. She moved from the front range to Summit County with her long-term beau Rob Kurtz in 2021 and is excited to become an active participant in the vibrant and welcoming Synagogue of the Summit community. Like most other folks here she enjoys skiing, biking and live music, and when not in Blue River, can be found appreciating the art and culture of Santa Fe, NM.

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, Audrey Lang

Audrey Lang grew up in New York City and moved to Summit County in January of 2023 after spending about a year on tour as a stage manager with Jersey Boys and CoComelon Live!. In addition to working as a professional stage manager, she is also an internationally-produced playwright. Several of her plays include Jewish content and two, Birdie and Cait and the Book of Life and Lily Ineffable, have had the honor of being named finalists for the Jewish Plays Project's annual contest. She now lives in Dillon and works in Silverthorne as the Company Manager at Theatre SilCo, while continuing her stage management and playwriting work as a freelance artist. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, crossword puzzles, and day trips to Denver for baseball games at Coors Field (despite being a proud Mets fan) and performances at DCPA. She is grateful to have found the SOS community and excited to be a member of her first board.

Director of Membership, Robert Massey

Robert grew up in Spartanburg, SC where his family actively participated in the small, but dedicated Jewish community of Temple B’nai Israel. As a young Jew living in the Bible Belt Robert learned to make connections across religious lines while always remaining close to his Jewish identity. He decided to become a doctor early in life and never looked back. After graduating from the University of Georgia and then the Medical University of South Carolina he left the south for his anesthesia residency at GWUH in Washington, D.C. During residency he met an ICU RN named Ann, they got married and raised three children together in the D.C. area. For many years they vacationed in Frisco with their children before deciding to move there in retirement seven years ago. They enjoy skiing, biking, golfing, hiking, and seeing live music. Becoming a part of the Synagogue of the Summit community has brought them joy, friendship, and a deeper connection to Judaism.

Director of Events, Mark Harris

Mark Harris grew up in Westchester, New York, attended New York University for Engineering and obtained a graduate degree in Business Administration at Columbia University. His career included the fields of engineering, manufacturing, turnaround management, and finally, life insurance agent and financial planner. He and Marsha, his wife of 54 years, raised their two sons in Rhode Island and eventually spent 33 years residing in Florida. where Marsha practiced as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist, obtaining a doctoral degree in Audiology. They have four teenage grandchildren, two living in Atlanta and two in Florida. After spending many summers in Colorado to escape the Florida heat, Mark and Marsha made the decision to make their home in Breckenridge. She ended her practice in 2016 when Mark retired.

Mark’s history of volunteer work is lengthy. He served on the Board of the Rhode Island Youth Guidance Center, as President of Temple Sinai of Cranston, Rhode Island, and spent 20 years as Treasurer and President of Townsend Place condominiums in Florida. He also volunteered his time at Equine Assisted Therapy (formerly known as Horses for the Handicapped), the Financial Advisory Committee of Boca Raton Regional Hospital, as well as participating on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton. In addition, Mark spent over 10 years as an auditor for the Council for Nonprofit Excellence (an arm of United Way).

Director of Community Service,
Nancy Held

Nancy moved full-time to Breckenridge in 2022 after enjoying many years skiing here with her family. As the saying goes, she came for the winter but stayed for the summers. She was raised in the greater New York City region but after graduate school at the University of Washington, where she met and married Garth, she returned to the East coast where she and Garth raised their children in Connecticut. Professionally, Nancy is a diabetes educator and worked in clinical research at Yale during the early period of the Insulin Pump approvals and subsequent clinical practice as a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator.

She and her husband have 3 children, Adam, an AMGA Mountain Guide in Leavenworth, Washington, Sarah is an immigration rights attorney in Tucson Arizona, and Maia an engineer working as a project manager for Bloomingdales in NYC. Nancy loves hiking and skiing in the mountains and sharing this love with family and friends. She also spends time reading, knitting and baking.

Rabbi Liaison, Donna Shear

Donna was born and raised in Baltimore but while a student at Rutgers College in New Jersey, met her husband of 45 years, Joe Weber. Joe’s career in newspapers and then Business Week led them all around North America including Dallas, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Chicago. In 2009, Donna’s career in scholarly publishing led them to a dual hire at the University of Nebraska where Donna was director of the University of Nebraska Press until her retirement in 2021. She is most proud of the collaboration she brokered with the Jewish Publication Society, assuring its continued ability to publish the finest in Bible and Bible Commentary. Donna and Joe have three children, all married, and eight grandchildren. Because their children live in three different places—currently Denver, Philadelphia, and Stuttgart, Germany—they travel constantly. They’ve been full time in Summit County since 2022 and members of SOS for nearly a decade.

Immediate Past 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 8 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 a 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 she started volunteering at SOS.