Summer 2009
Donor Profile: Life Changes Bring Mary Bromage to POST
- She began her professional career as a software engineer and moved on to become a full-time mom when the second of her three sons was on the way. Last year, when her youngest left for college, Mary Bromage became a POST volunteer. Bromage is quietly proud of all these life-stages.
- Mary and her husband, Bruce, formerly with Hewlett Packard, moved to Saratoga in 1993 when he joined the company. He is now an executive vice president at Symmetricom. Though the family hiked and camped at scores of national parks here and abroad, they never made it to Little Basin, the redwood retreat Hewlett Packard built for employees near Boulder Creek.
- “That’s what brought me to POST,” explains Mary. “When I read that POST and Sempervirens had purchased Little Basin, that it would continue to be parkland, I knew we still had a chance. I had to be part of the effort to preserve beautiful places.”
- Bromage joined POST as an office volunteer, organizing photographs. In the next nine months she scanned and catalogued more than 1,000 images, a major contribution to the electronic archive of POST’s work. That assignment led to her joining the Skyline Society Committee, a group of volunteers who help interest other donors in supporting POST.
- “It was time for me to come back out into the world,” says Bromage. “People at POST are wonderful. They are doing good work for society, and that’s what I’m drawn to.” Whenever time allows, the Bromages still hike in local parks. At last they made it to Little Basin.
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