Circle Pines Center Founded
Circle Pines Center was founded in 1938. Our history is currently being gathered and written by board member, Christyl Burnett.
a rich legacy dating back to 1882
Welcome to Circle Pines Center
The mission of circle pines is to promote peace, social justice, environmental stewardship and cooperation. The center aims to demonstrate cooperative alternatives for economic and social issues and to teach cooperation as a way of life.
Agencies that Have Given Us Grants
We love these organizations! Thank you!
MACC
Lowell Arts
Staff
Meet the people that call Circle Pines Center their home.
Eddie DeGraw
Executive Director
Chris Schleuder
Director of Operations
Gerardo Reyes
Kitchen Manager
Danielle Hoskins
Buttermilk Festival Director
Noah Silver-Mathews
Gary McClelland
Deb Rauens
Administrative Assistant
Circle Pines Center Board of Directors
President: Romy Fitschen
Vice President: Aidan Albano-Bachtell
2nd Vice President: Josh Olson
Treasurer: Aaron Carlson
Secretary: Deb Olson
Benny Brewer
Gary McClelland
Meia Friedheim
Nelson Brown
Meryl Greer Domina
Isabella Friedheim Perez
Steve Walsh
Alternative: Heather Turner
Create Memories That Will Last a Lifetime
History
Circle Pines Center has a rich legacy dating back to 1882.
1938
1940
Stewart Farm Purchased
After 60 years of use the co-op had outgrown the folk school building, and in 1940 the Stewart Farm was purchased. A Quaker work camp helped to ready the site that first summer and the next year people were able to gather at their own cooperatively-governed Center. The mission today is what it was then – to show the “superior advantages of cooperation as a way of life.”