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PROPOSALS TO BE VOTED ON
PROPOSAL 1:
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS TO ONE-YEAR TERMS
The Company currently has eleven directors.
Because he has reached mandatory
retirement age as outlined in the Company’s
Governance Guidelines, the Board did not
nominate Mr. Marc Langland to stand for
election, and his term will expire with the
upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
The Board of Directors wishes to thank Mr.
Langland for his dedication and service to
the Board over the past 23 years.
The Company’s Certificate of Incorporation
provides that the Board of Directors shall be
composed of no less than nine and no more
than 15 directors. On February 12, 2014 the
Board passed a resolution providing that the
Company shall have ten directors effective
with the Annual Meeting on May 8, 2014.
The Company’s Bylaws provide that directors
shall serve a one-year term. Directors are
elected to hold office until their successors
are elected and qualified, or until resignation
or removal in the manner provided in our
Bylaws. Ten directors are nominees for
election this year and each has consented
to serve a one-year term ending in 2015.
Patricia M. Bedient
Director since 2004
Age – 60
Ms. Bedient chairs the
Board’s Audit Committee.
She is executive vice
president and CFO for The
Weyerhaeuser Company,
one of the world’s largest
integrated forest products
companies. A certified public accountant
(CPA) since 1978, she served as managing
partner of the Seattle office of Arthur
Andersen LLP prior to joining Weyerhaeuser.
Ms. Bedient also worked at Andersen’s
Portland and Boise offices as a partner and
as a CPA during her 27-year career with the
firm. She serves on the boards of Alaska
Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of
Alaska Air Group), the Overlake Hospital
Medical Center Board, the Oregon State
University Board of Trustees and the
University of Washington Foster School of
Business Advisory Board. She has also
served on the boards of a variety of civic
organizations, including the Oregon State
University Foundation Board of Trustees, the
World Forestry Center, City Club of Portland,
St. Mary’s Academy of Portland, and the
Chamber of Commerce in Boise, Idaho. She
is a member of the American Institute of
CPAs and the Washington Society of CPAs.
Ms. Bedient received her bachelor’s degree
in business administration, with
concentrations in finance and accounting,
from Oregon State University in 1975. Ms.
Bedient’s extensive experience in public
accounting and financial expertise specially
qualify her to serve on the Board and to act
as an audit committee financial expert, as
defined by the SEC.
Marion C. Blakey
Director since 2010
Age – 65
Ms. Blakey is chair of the
Board’s Safety Committee.
Ms. Blakey is president
and CEO of Aerospace
Industries Association
(AIA), the nation’s largest
aerospace and defense
trade association. Prior to her current
position, she served as the Administrator of
the Federal Aviation Administration (the FAA)
from 2002 to 2007 and chair of the
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