Past Board Members

Lynne Winner, Secretary

Lynne Winner believes in the power of nature to teach and restore us.  Taking action for the environment provides a way for us to give back.  Working with SCOPE is a way to educate ourselves and ensure that our actions promote a balance between humans and nature.  We need to make sure that experience is there not only for us but those that will follow.   

There are many ways to promote our environmental health… Through recycling and reusing household goods, providing a tree that gives shade for humans and a refuge for birds, by fighting for laws that promote open space.  When we join together for the cause of nature, our impact on the environment has a positive impact on our own wellbeing.  As a High School teacher for adults, Lynne Winner believes it is never too late for positive change to happen in our lives and in our environment. 

Sally White

Sally was born in San Diego, and moved to Valencia in 1968, before it was the City of Santa Clarita. Her family enjoyed bicycling, hiking, camping, and the outdoor activities, which were the qualities that drew their family here, as they were so readily accessible. She graduated from Pepperdine University in 1975 with a BS in Administration.

Since retiring from a career in contract administration in energy programs, which included the area of solar, wind and nuclear, she has stepped up her activism, particularly in the areas of the environment, politics, and social justice, and continues to support a number of local and national organizations. Besides SCOPE, of particular interest are Citizen’s Climate Lobby, and the Social and Environmental Justice Team of the Santa Clarita Unitarian Congregation.

Her interests are eclectic; she is an appreciator of the arts, including Music, Art, Dance, Opera and the Theater. Other interests includemoving towards peaceful settlement of issues between people, religious groups, and the countries of the world, reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons world-wide, and working on all effective ways to achieve a peaceful, more equitable world for all.

She believes that SCOPE is a quintessential organization that has cared about this valley for over 30 years, always with a stalwart desire to maintain a livable, healthy, harmonious, and beautiful place to live for each and every resident.  We are privileged to live in this beautiful valley, however that requires vigilance on the part of each of us to maintain air quality, water quality, freeway travel that is not a nightmare. She is passionate about fairness for all, and believes that all forms of government must work for everyone, not just those at the top of the power and wealth struggle.

Dave Lutness, Secretary

David Lutness, an East Coast transplant, received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Gettysburg College in 1968 and a Degree in microcomputers from Delaware Technical College in 1997. He has taken graduate courses in Physical Oceanography and has Certificates from Microsoft and Cisco in network administration. He has been a truck driver, a business manager for a health care provider, a network administrator and a warehouse manager. He has pumped gas at an airport and been a custom wood worker. He has hitchhiked up and down both coasts and, with his cat, camped across the country, with the record time from Cincinnati to Los Angeles of three months and 4 days.

With his wife Carole, he moved to California in 1998 and Santa Clarita in 2000, to participate in the life of his only granddaughter, Isabella.  He has been a longtime member of the Sierra club and a supporter of environmental causes and local social issues.  He helped to establish the local winter homeless shelter.   In 2004 he ran for the board of Castaic Lake Water Agency.  He was elected 2nd Vice President of SCOPE in 2005. David now is an independent computer consultant, the Computer Doctor, doing repair and setup on computers and networks.