Executive Team
Linda Stone, Executive Director
Linda Stone is an environmentalist and entrepreneur with many years of nonprofit experience. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley and the University of New Orleans and completed the Goldman Sachs 10K Small Businesses program learn how to better run her business. Linda’s favorite accomplishment is creation of The Green Project, a New Orleans nonprofit that recycles paint and building materials and provides environmental education for youth. At Texas Water Mission, Linda looks forward to strengthening existing programs and finding ways to expand the organization’s reach.
Bruce Flohr, Board Chairman
Born in Wallace, ID in 1939. Educated there while earning Eagle Scout rank. BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. In 1977 founded RailTex, Inc. Started as a rail car leasing company, then grew into the world’s largest short line railroad company with 32 acquisitions. RaiTex became publicly traded in 1993. Sold company in 2000. Featured as the “Effectual Entrepreneur” by “Inc. Magazine” in 2011. Held the position of District Governor of District 5840 for 2006-2007 in Rotary and now chairs the District 5840 Finance Committee. Married in 1973 to Janet, raised 4 children and now has 12 grandchildren. Enjoys fly fishing and snow skiing.
John Hartman, Treasurer
John Hartman grew up in Tennessee (mostly). He earned a BA in International Relations and Economics at American University in Washington, D.C., served two years in the Peace Corps in a village in Mali, West Africa where he instructed masons in new hand-dug well construction techniques, and later earned his M.Ed. at Boston University. He was an instructor and director of the English as a Second Language program in Boston, MA; Universidad Espíritu Santo in Guayaquil, Ecuador; and Westchester Community College in New York.
Christopher Fullerton, Project Committee Chair
Water Resources advocate and attorney.
Cindy Fuqua, Board Member
Cindy is a retired environmental consultant to the oil and gas, and aircraft industries. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Geology from Stephen F. Austin State University and is registered with the Texas Board of Professional Geo-scientists. She managed a wide variety of multi-media environmental compliance projects and third-party environmental liability issues. Cindy is passionate about the environment, exploring the outdoors and traveling abroad. She has traveled to Nicaragua to participate in reforestation and clean water projects and to provide school supplies to the villages where she worked.
Dianne Powell, Board Member
Dianne has lived in San Antonio for over 30 years and is deeply entrenched in the community. She has participated in more than 40 organizations both locally and nationally, and has served in leadership and board roles in numerous organizations. Dianne Garrett Powell has more than twenty years in strategic planning, marketing, development, sales, and management positions in both non-profit and for-profit businesses.
Rev. Walter "Jay" Buzzini, Board Member
Walter James (Jay) Buzzini, IV is a native San Antonian. He received his BS from Texas A&M University, an MS from Trinity University, and a Master of Arts in Religion (MAR) from Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. Jay worked for twenty-five years in his family's oil production business before attending Seminary and fulfilling a long-discerned call to ordained ministry. Currently, he is serving as Vicar of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pleasanton, TX. Jay has been married to his wife Katherine for twenty-eight years. They have two sons: Walt and Courtlandt. He has served on boards of many different organizations. Among them are Rotary, CASA, Scouting, St David's Episcopal Church, and St. Davids Episcopal School. After drilling and maintaining oil wells and pipelines for so many years, Jay is especially excited to be on the Texas Water Mission Board. He hopes he can be of real service in helping to bring clean water to people in need.
Albert Vale, Board Member
Peter Maddox, Secretary & Governance Chair
Peter Maddox, is a partner in Royer-Maddox-Herron Advisors, specializing in healthcare strategic development. He has more than 37 years of experience in the health care field. He served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Incarnate Word Health System (IWHS). During his tenure there, he acted as project leader for the creation of the co-sponsored health ministry between IWHS and the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston that is now CHRISTUS Health. Peter has extensive experience in governance having served on several boards for private corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. Among others, hes has served on the board of CHRISTUS St Vincent in Santa Fe and Board Chair for Grupo CHRISTUS Muguerza in Monterrey Mexico.
Craig Donegan, Volunteer & Personnel Chair
Craig Donegan is a member, and past president, of the Rotary Club of Seguin (District 5840). He earned his Ph.D. in U.S. history, with a minor in medical history, from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has worked as a college professor, a journalist and, ultimately, owned and operated a commercial insurance agency for more than a decade before entering semi-retirement. He’s been a TWM board member for six years and is chair of the Volunteer & Personnel Committee.
Joshua Levine, Board Member
Creator and operator of platforms in the health, wellness, and lifestyle industries.
James Creagan, Board Member
Ambassador Creagan began his career at the Agency for International Development under President Kennedy and was appointed to the Foreign Service by President Lyndon B. Johnson. During a diplomatic career spanning three decades, he held numerous positions. He was named U.S. Ambassador to Honduras by President Clinton in 1996. In November 2009, he was an International Observer for presidential elections in Honduras. Creagan retired from the Foreign Service in 1999, and became president of John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. In January 2006 Ambassador Creagan joined the University of the Incarnate Word as Ambassador in Residence and professor of International Affairs. In January 2016, Ambassador Creagan was named the Ambassador Eugene Scassa Visiting Professor of International Diplomacy at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. Ambassador Creagan speaks Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Creagan is now Ambassador in Residence and Professor at the Center of the Americas, University of the Incarnate Word.
Jack Robertson, Board Member
Jack was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised mostly in Southwest Colorado. He received his in 1961 and attended the University of Arizona for graduate work in hydrology. He worked for the US Geological Survey 23 years as a research hydrologist and has worked in the private sector as a consulting hydrogeologist/environmental scientist for the past 37 years. Jack is a “cradle” Episcopalian who has been active in the church all his life. In 2005, he was ordained Deacon in the Diocese of Arizona in 2008. Jack became involved with TWM in 2013 and participated water mission trips to Honduras. He has provided hydrogeological expertise in selecting potential well drilling sites and previously served as chair of the TWM Operations Committee.
VALUED VOLUNTEERS
HONDURAS FIELD TEAM
Well Maintenance and Repair
Hector Zuniga Lagos, Director of Operations Ex Oficio
Luis Fernando Zuniga Lagos, Well Maintenance Manager
Leonardo Zuniga Lagos, Well Maintenance
Health & Hygiene Team
Marlene Barahona, Director
Mayra Velasquez, Instructor
Rosita Maldonado, Instructor
Karol Rodriguez, Instructor
Jessy Clarissa Pineda, Children’s Teacher
PT Substitute Teacher with NEISD for over 17 years along with being a Property Manager of 9 rental homes owned by a dear friend. Devoted to volunteering. Passionate about my family, my friends & my , Winston