Meet Our Team
L-R: Jimmy Foster, Gloria Loring, Lori Semeniuk, Mary Lindsey, Ernie Levister, Chris Levister, Larry Zamora, Ruth Ruiz, Hugh Bialecki, Wayne Austin, Linda Martin, and Keith Martin
Dr. Hugh Bialecki | President
Dr. Hugh Bialecki co-founded the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation in 2006. He has recently retired from his practice of preventive, cosmetic, restorative and implant dentistry in Lake Arrowhead since 1989. He is a member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, Academy of General Dentistry, Tri-County Dental Society, International Academy of Sports Dentistry, and an alumnus of the Pride Institute. Dr. Bialecki currently lives in Santa Cruz with his wife Lori Semeniuk. They have three sons, Drake, Gavin and Nick.
Larry Zamora | Vice President
Mary Lindsey | Secretary
Mary Lindsey is life-long mountain resident and serves the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation as Secretary and media coordinator. Her decades of public service began in the early 1990’s when she was elected as President of the Arrowhead Arts Association after working for many years as the Administrative Secretary for the Arrowhead Arts Association under both Cindy Altmeyer and Patty Doyle. Having been married to the late sculpture and ceramic artist, Gerry vom Steeg for over 15 years, she served on numerous committees and boards supporting and promoting local artists at events and galleries throughout the Inland Empire. She produced the very popular Mountain Cinema Club (foreign film club) with the late Helen Richardson, for over 20 years. Throughout the 2000’s, as a member of the Rim Festival Chorus, she produced several years of exceptional choral concerts that presented guest artists from the Inland Empire and local artists from the Presbyterian Handbell Choir, Lake Arrowhead School of Dance, and Mt. Calvery Lutheran Church while under Directors Philip Lindsey, Dr. Loren Filbeck, and Dr. Joe Modica. She spent several years as a volunteer gardener on the committee Mountain Beautiful restoring Triangle Park in Crestline and being a part of their annual daffodil planting while a Board Member of the Crestline Community Alliance. In 1996, she partnered with software analyst Philip Lindsey creating Lindsey & Lindsey, specializing in java programing, warehouse inventory software, and internet publishing establishing a second career as a webmaster. After retiring from a 40-year career in nursing having worked at Mountains Community Hospital, St. Bernadine’s Hospital and various home health care providers, Mary remains active in internet publishing and software support with several non-profit organizations.
Wayne Austin | Treasurer
Wayne Austin received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and brings a strong background in management, finance, customer service, employee relations and business growth to his role as Treasurer of the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation Board. He is well known in the Lake Arrowhead community and is currently the Administration Supervisor at Lake Arrowhead Lake Association, he has also been the General Manager of the Arrowhead Lake Association. Wayne’s careers include being General Manager of the Lake Arrowhead Resort for seven years, General Manager of the Arrowhead Country Club (San Bernardino), and President and CEO of the San Bernardino Convention and Visitors Bureau. He has served as the Chairman of the San Bernardino Police Officers Foundation and is a past member of Lake Arrowhead Rotary and served on the Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce Board for many years.
Wayne’s love of Jazz began at South Torrance High School, where he sang in the elite stage choir as a sophomore, winning best male vocalist his senior year. The choir’s main focus was jazz, winning several awards including a trip to the Hollywood Bowl for the Battle of the Bands. Howard Rumsey’s Concerts by the Sea was a favorite hangout back in the late ’70s with that West Coast Jazz. He is a big fan of Jazziz Magazine and highly recommends it to all jazz lovers.
Lori Semeniuk, Director
Lori Semeniuk has been involved in Lake Arrowhead for more than 25 years, raising three sons in the public schools here and assisting her husband in his dental business. An Environmental Activist on Board of Directors of Save Our Forest Association, a group founded to protest the US Forest Services divesting itself of three properties in area: The Eagle Ridge property that was sold three times, Strawberry Peak was retained, and property in Valley of Enchantment by Forest Service.
Lori was very active in the Arrowhead Arts Auxiliary for many years, having first worked as a volunteer coordinator of The Blue Jay Jazz Festival. She began working more than 22 years ago at Mountain Thrift Shoppe in Blue Jay, including working to benefit the Arrowhead Arts Association for the past dozen years, and worked for the San Bernardino Land Trust for more than 12 years.
With a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art Lithography and Printmaking from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in Medical Illustration from UC San Francisco, Lori has been a member of the Board of the Rim Education Foundation since 2010. “I strongly believe in art education being available to students in our public schools,” she says.
She is just as dedicated to the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation’s mission. “I have always appreciated live music in many forms and have been astonished by the range of musical styles that have been performed at Blue Jay Festival events,” she says. “Chris Botti and band were here in 1998. Cultural happenings are crucial for our mountain residents and guests.”
