Meet Your Directors:
Steve (Skookumtumtum) and Karen Heaps have extensive experience in organizing running events. Each
has served as President of the Bloomsday Road Runners Club (BRRC). Karen also served as BRRC
Treasurer and was the BRRC/Moving Comfort Volunteer of the Year in 1987. Both helped to organize many
of the club's races. Karen served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lilac Bloomsday Assoc-
iation (LBA) in Spokane, Washington, from 1984 to 1990. She was the Race Coordinator for the LBA's
Lilac Bloomsday Run from 1992 through 2004. She was an invited speaker at the national Road Race
Management Race Directors meetings in Washington, D.C., and was twice the runner-up for the national
award of Race Director of theYear. She has completed 5 marathons and has crewed for Steve in all but
two of his ultras.
Steve has been a Bloomsday volunteer for over 25 years and was the Volunteer of the Year in 2003. He
has completed two 100 mile ultramarathons and 60 other ultramarathons from 31 to 62 miles in length. In
2001 he was given the official Blackfeet Indian name of "Eagle Bear" in a First Nation's Ceremony when he
became the first person to be awarded the Chief Ten Bears Trophy for finishing the Le Grizz 50 Mile Ultra-
marathon 20 times. On October 11, 2008 he will complete his 27th consecutive Le Grizz, which runs from
Spotted Bear to Hungry Horse, Montana.
Joseph Heslin Foundation:
The Joseph Heslin Foundation is a non-profit foundation which raises money for scholarships in the memory
of Joseph Heslin, a long-time teacher and coach. Joe was a dedicated Biology Teacher and Baseball
Coach at Shadle Park High School in Spokane, Washington, from the day it opened in 1957 until his
retirement a quarter century later. He had a powerful influence on thousands of young people during his
career. After Joe's untimely death at the age 58, Steve and Karen established a scholarship in his name
in 1987. Steve collected pledges for the Joseph Heslin Foundation when he completed the Leadville Trail
100 Mile Ultramarathon in 1990 and when he ran in the Vermont 100 Mile Ultramarathon in 2004. This
scholarship is given annually to a Shadle Park High School senior who is planning to major in biology
and/or education in college. The Joseph Heslin Foundation is a non-profit organization classified as a
public charity. Contributions to the foundation are deductible from FederalIncome Tax under section 501
(c) (3).
Meet Uncle Joe
Joseph Heslin Foundation Scholarship Recipients:
1989 $100 John Sciasia UW Biology
1990 $200 Kimberly Conrad EWU Biology
1991 $200 Brent Osborn E. Oregon S.C. Biology
1992 ----- None given ------ -------
1993 $350 Stacie Conley EWU Education
1994 $400 David Ward WSU Education
1995 $400 Jeremy Scarpelli Willamette U Biology
1996 $400 Mai Pham SFCC Education
1997 $400 Christine Dibler SFCC Education
1998 $400 Katie Gilliam PLU Education
1999 $500 Lynette Palmer UW Biology
2000 ----- None given ------ -------
2001 $600 Stefanie Pupo Gonzaga U Education
2002 $600 Amy Christel Gonzaga U Education
2003 $600 Richelle Dewey SFCC Education
2004 $600 Stephanie Hart EWU Nursing
2005 $800 Lindsey Kelly UW Pre-med
2006 $1000 Jennifer Cantrell WWU Marine Biology
2007 $1000 Peter Miller WSU Biology
