Robin is a lifetime resident of Bay View and became the owner of the Thistle Dew cottage in 1974. She has been a camper and leader in the Boys & Girls Club, a member of both Morning Council and Campus Club, a member of the Finance Committee and served as an Assessor for the Bay View Board of Assessors. She graduated from Carroll University with a degree in Psychology/Sociology in 1977. She and her husband, Jon started Eye & Vision Clinics in 1981 and she served as its CFO/Clinic Manager for 35 years. She has a daughter, Rachel and a son, Spencer who are both lease holding members. She is a member of the First United Methodist Church in Green Bay, WI. Although she lives in Green Bay in the winter, she calls Bay View HOME!

Walt Byers started coming to Bay View in 1980 and has been a leaseholding member since 1990. He retired in 2016 after a 40 plus year career in bank management and commercial lending. He and his wife, Nancy, now live in Petoskey when not at the Bay View cottage. He served on the Bay View Development Committee, past Chair of the Woods Advisory Committee, member and past President of the Bay View Racquet Club, Parade Master of the Bay View Fourth of July parade, and co-Chair of the Little Traverse Crop Walk that is held on the Bay View Campus each year. In the Petoskey community, he is a member of the Petoskey Rotary Club and a board member of the Crooked Tree Arts Center. They have 2 adult children, a son-in-law, and 2 grandchildren.

Eric first came to Bay View in 1957, six months before he was born. His father taught history and philosophy at Bay View. Eric and his wife, Tobi, bought their cottage in 1999. Eric served on the Development Committee for three years and was the founding chair of the Legislative Committee. He is a lawyer and formerly a CPA. He holds a JD, magna cum laude, from WMU Thomas M. Cooley Law School and an MBA in Finance with high honors and a BBA in Accountancy, summa cum laude, from Western Michigan University. He is Treasurer of and Vestry Member at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo where he met Tobi in 1975. He served for 12 years on the Kalamazoo Public School Board and helped to turn around the 13,000-student urban district. During his tenure, KPS secured funding in perpetuity for The Kalamazoo Promise® that pays the college tuition of every KPS graduate.

Dianne Oniu Boyd first came to Bay View in 1969 and became a leaseholding member in 1991. She is a Registered Nurse with a BSN from Oakland University and is currently working as the Assistant for Worship and Liturgy and Parish Nurse at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, TX, which is also her home church. Over the past 25 years Dianne has served on the Theater Arts Committee, Worship Committee, and the Bay View 2000 special committee, as well as being the President of Morning Council. Dianne and her husband Timothy reside in Allen, TX and have 2 adult daughters.

Carol Neithercut’s parents bought the family cottage in Bay View the year she was born and she has been spending her summers here ever since. Neithercut became a leaseholding member in 1973 and a cottage owner in 1996 when she took over her grandparent’s cottage. All three of her brothers own cottages, as well as two cousins.

Neithercut, 61, has been involved with the Long Range Planning Committee for six years, and chair of the committee for four years. She also served one term as a member of the Theatre Arts Committee. She resides in Chicago, Illinois.

Prior to starting her own company, “Neithercut Strategic Marketing,” Neithercut worked in marketing and strategy for RR Donnelley, the world’s largest commercial printer, in Chicago. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, a Masters degree in Counseling from Wheaton Graduate School, and an MBA in Marketing from Michigan State University. She began her marketing career at The NPD Group, one of the world’s largest marketing research firms, where she worked for 16 years.

Neithercut currently is in her ninth year as a Director of the Board of the Metropolitan Condominium Association. For seven years, Neithercut was an advisor and executive mentor with Women Unlimited, which provides leadership and business acumen development guidance to women leaders. She is also in her eighth year as an Account Director with Taproot Foundation, which provides pro bono consulting to needy, not-for-profit organizations. Neithercut attends the First United Methodist Church of Chicago at the Chicago Temple.

Fred Weber, first came to Bay View as a child with his mother, Barbara Weber, in the summer of 1955. His great-grandmother, Marguerite Lewis Rutter, bought a cottage on Knapp Avenue in 1935, but sold it in 1956. He bought his own cottage on Knapp in 2000. When he is not in Bay View, he lives in the San Diego area, where he is a member of San Rafael Catholic Church.

Weber has been regularly attending Board meetings since 2001, and his involvement in Bay View has been varied. He served one term on the Education Committee; gave a Scarrow Friday Forum talk on chemical weapons destruction; and taught a week-long class on Understanding Military Power. He chaired an ad hoc committee that studied and recommended Automated External Defibrillators. He served on the By-Laws Committee from 2012-2014. He served as an usher at Religion & Life lectures during 2014, providing Rev. Daniel Moser with attendance and contribution data not previously recorded; and helps sort books for the Library Book Sale every year. He volunteered his time for the Bay View Listening Project in 2014 as a facilitator, planning committee member, and on the Final Report writing team.

Weber had a long U.S. Army and follow-on civilian career in operations research/systems analysis, computerized modeling and simulation, and research and development. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Military Academy, and a Master of Science from the Naval Postgraduate School. He served in an Armored Cavalry Squadron, on the faculty at the Army Intelligence School, and in arms control. He has years of experience in computerized simulations and in model design and development. He has been a team leader for application of advanced technology to training and to arms control. Weber is now retired from Northrop Grumman.

Barbara Dau is a third generation Bay View member who has been privileged to spend nearly every summer of her life in Bay View. She became a leaseholding member in 1992 and lives in the cottage in which she grew up. She has served on Bay View’s Finance, Development and Tree committees and was also a member of an ad hoc Fees and Taxation committee.

Dau has extensive governance experience through her service on the boards of Jessica Lang Dance Company, Pilobolus, the Morgan Library, the Hood Museum of Art, the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts, the Nantucket Yacht Club, the Nantucket IOD Fleet Association, Nashoba Brooks School, St. Anne’s Episcopal School, Esperanza Academy, Dartmouth’s Class of 1978, the Dartmouth Association of the Rocky Mountains and her New York City coop apartment. On the majority of these boards she held executive positions including Chair, Vice Chair and, most often, Treasurer. Her not-for-profit service includes more than 40 years of annual fund and capital/endowment campaign fund raising for some of these organizations as well as for schools which either she or her three children attended. Currently, she is the Chair of the New York Yacht Club’s Fine Arts Committee. Dau graduated from Dartmouth College, received her MBA from University of Chicago and became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). In addition to a brief career in the art world, she worked as a financial analyst in the investment banking and financial services industry for 15 years before leaving to devote more time to her family. Dau now works for her family’s wood laminates manufacturing business as Vice President, Strategy and Michigan Properties and manages her family’s foundation and financial interests. She became a resident of Petoskey, MI in early 2021.

Martha is a fourth generation Bay View member and has been coming to Bay View for 58 years, since 1965. Her family represents six generations of Bay Viewers. She has participated in numerous Bay View activities over the years. Martha was a camper and leader in the Boys and Girls Club and enjoyed taking music lessons from conservatory artists in high school and college. In recent years she has served as the Chair of the Bay View Audit Committee. Community service experiences include Board and Finance Committee Porter Hills – UMRC (United Methodist Retirement Communities) Michigan, Board Chair Gerontology Network of West Michigan, Board member Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, and Board member Institute of Internal Auditors West Michigan. Martha is a CPA with a BBA from Grand Valley State University. She retired in 2022 following a long career as a CPA in the Grand Rapids area serving in both executive management and audit capacities primarily in the financial services industry. She is a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Venice, Florida. Martha and her husband Patrick Ladwig split their time between Bay View and Venice, Florida.

Dan has been coming to Bay View since 1986 and married into the Bay View family in 1988. He has been on the Buildings and Grounds Committee for eight years and the chair for three of those years. He was also a member of the Operations Committee for three years. He and his wife, Marylynn Kidd Mullen, belong to the Campus Club and recently joined the Racquet Club in Bay View.

Dan had a 35-year career with the DNR that spanned a vast area of responsibilities and duties. He started as a Beach Guard while in college, followed by becoming a Park Ranger, Commissioned Officer, Assistant Manager, Unit Supervisor, Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Manager and District Supervisor. His career led to many experiences in areas such as facility management, project management, managing personnel issues, budget management, and working with a wide variety of state agencies. Dan holds a bachelor of science degree from Central Michigan University in Environmental Analysis and Land Use Planning with a minor in Recreation and Park Administration.

Bishop David Alan Bard is the presiding bishop of the Michigan Area. Prior to arriving in Michigan in September 2016, Bishop Bard was serving at First United Methodist Church in Duluth, Minnesota since 2005. He was elected to the episcopacy on July 13, 2016 at the North Central Jurisdictional Conference held in Peoria, IL. He has been in ministry for more than 30 years and served in many roles within both the Minnesota Annual Conference and the General Church.

Bard was a General and Jurisdictional Conference delegate in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. He was an episcopal nominee in both 2004 and 2008.

Within the Minnesota Conference, Bard was chair of the Episcopacy Committee and the Higher Education Ministry Team, and he served on the Board of Ordained Ministry and the Congregational Response Team. He was also the conference parliamentarian. He was a district superintendent from 1998 to 2005 and spent three years on the Commission on Religion and Race.

Within the General Church, Bard serves on the Study on Ministry Commission, the Committee on Faith and Order, and the North Central Jurisdiction Committee on Episcopacy. He has also previously served on the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, the Commission on General Conference, and the Commission on Theological Education.

Bishop Bard received a BA from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1981; his Master of Divinity was earned at United Theological Seminary, Twin Cities 1984; and in 1994 he received a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University with a focus on Christian ethics

Bard has a wife, Julie, and three adult children. In his free time, he enjoys music, reading, baseball, and walking outside