Jerry Baker
Jerry is President of the Jerry & Paula Baker Foundation and Chairman of the Board for Camp Tuolumne Trails. The inspiration for the camp came in 2001 when the Bakers started looking for ways to give back. Many years before, the seed of supporting children with special needs was planted when their youngest son was diagnosed with a brain tumor. While all turned out well, the traumatic experience of caring for a seriously ill child gave them a perspective that would affect the rest of their lives.
After Jerry retired as Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Fairchild Semiconductor in 2001, he and Paula felt it was time to move into the world of philanthropy. The Jerry & Paula Baker Foundation was established and work began on finding the appropriate land to build Camp Tuolumne Trails. After three years of construction, they opened the doors to it first campers in June 2008.
Paula Baker
Paula is Secretary of the Jerry & Paula Foundation and is the creative force at camp. She develops and leads the camp’s artistic activities for special-needs campers. She is constantly developing new hands-on arts & craft projects adapted for a wide range of physical and mental abilities.
Raised in Los Altos, early on Paula worked at Digital Equipment and the medical industry, and was active in their sons’ school activities.
William H. Bent
Bill was employed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Marketing Service for 42 years. At the national and field office level, his duties included the supervision of commodity grading programs for quality (i.e.; U.S. Grade A), compliance of marketing orders (almonds), promotion programs (i.e.; the ‘milk mustache’), regulatory implementation of new programs such as the National Organic Program, and the investigation of program non-compliance, which required studying with the FBI and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
During his working career, Bill spent his off time volunteering for organizations such as American Legion, Elks Club and the “Friend of Youth” program for the Optimist Club. Since retiring, he spends much of his time at Tuolumne Trails—even helping out prior to the camp’s opening more than 13 years ago.
Bill was born and raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and is a graduate of Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.
Peter Carlino
Born in San Jose, Calif., Peter has been an entrepreneur and renaissance man since his youth. Pete learned to cook at age 8, then bought a popcorn machine and sold popcorn in his mother’s business when he was 10.
Peter attended Archbishop Mitty High School. In 1970 he joined the Naval Air reserve. In 1976, Peter opened his first delicatessen, and in 1999, Pete and his cousin Sam helped create a cooking show called “Who’s Cookin’?” This aired for 13 years with 250 shows from locations all around the world. In 1982, he started Entrees Unlimited Catering Company and 36 years later he still runs the corporate catering company today with a staff of 59.
Pete has been a strong supporter and a board member of Tuolumne Trails from its inception, and is grateful to be associated with a place that provides so much happiness to others. Besides the camp, Peter enjoys spending time with his family, boating, hot rodding and hunting.
Tony Flores
Tony spent 27 years as a union plumber and 10 years as a plumbing instructor for Local 393 Plumbers & Pipefitters. He has a Lifetime Trade School Teaching Credential from the State of California. He spent seven years in the U.S. Navy servicing submarines.
In his retirement, Tony is an active volunteer in the Groveland community. In addition to countless hours at Tuolumne Trails, he volunteers his time at Yosemite Chamber of Commerce and was responsible for refurbishing and maintaining Groveland’s historic jail and surrounding gardens. Tony also works with local pre-school, elementary and high school students as a mentor, field trip chaperone and classroom assistant.
Currently, Tony spends much of his time as an active volunteer at Camp Tuolumne Trails. He joined the board of directors in 2018.
Philippe Habib
Philippe lives and works in Silicon Valley where he works as a firmware engineer. He has worked at companies ranging from new start-ups, to Apple, IBM and Oracle. In addition to his job in high-tech, Philippe leads a group of parents who have built a lifelong, affordable housing facility for their developmentally disabled adult children. Common Roots Farm, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., https://commonrootsfarm.org/. It also offers an accessible urban garden, where people with or without disabilities tend the plants and animals.
Philippe and his family were first introduced to Tuolumne Trails when they were part of the camp’s first group of campers on opening day in 2008. He is pleased to be able to help bring Tuolumne Trails’ unique experience to other families.
Dori Jones
Dori Jones spent 30 years in high-tech public relations—specifically focused on the semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor equipment and materials, and disk drive industries. Some of the accounts she managed included Applied Materials, Quantum, Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI), International Disk Equipment & Materials Association (IDEMA) and the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC), and the Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC). Dori was account director at The Hoffman Agency, where she managed the North American PR program for Holland-based Philips Semiconductors, coordinating the U.S. campaign with Philips’ internal PR team in The Netherlands.
After retiring in Groveland, Dori opened and operated a tea room and café for nine years. Currently, Dori volunteers on the marketing communications committee for Southside Community Connections, a local activity center for adults.
Dori earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science from San Jose State University.
Chris Noe
Chris spent 35 years in Silicon Valley, serving in multiple roles in engineering, marketing, service and sales at National Semiconductor, LSI Logic, Creedence Systems, Teradyne, Comdisco, Kinetix, Aehr Test Systems and Macquarie Electronics. He also co-founded Test Design, as well as Elite RV Vacations, a luxury Airstream trailer rental business, which was sold in 2016.
Since retiring, Chris has focused on fundraising efforts for Camp Tuolumne Trails and became a member of the board in 2014.
Chris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1979.
Chris resides in Minden, Nevada, where he enjoys cycling, hiking and all things outdoors.