Board of Directors
Annelise Zook | President
Anneliese Zook is a long time choral singer in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington. She has sung with the Palouse Choral Society as well as the Spokane Symphony Chorale and she is an active member of the Palouse Choral Society Chamber Choir. She is excited to step into the role of President for PCS. Anneliese keeps the mail moving in her position at the Garfield post office. She loves to make music with her talented husband as well as play with her 2 dogs and 2 cats. On the daily Anneliese is enthusiastic about getting to know people and enjoying life.
Carole Wells | Vice President
Carole Wells has been singing alto with the chorale for 15 years. She was born in Manitoba, Canada, and is a proud #9 of 11 children. As a young child she was lucky to be included in a musical community. She participated in Melodie Manitobaine, a program dedicated to share the gift of music to rural Manitoba. A few dozen singers from Winnipeg traveled to small towns for a weekend gig and, along with town residents, the group rehearsed French folk songs culminating in a Sunday afternoon concert. At 19, she married and moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Since that time, she has set a northerly course and, as you know, she is now only 3 hours from the Canadian border. As the mother of four children, it took her longer than the average student (12 years) to get her undergraduate degree from Idaho State University. Her law degree, she did in three. Carole practiced law as a public defender and transitioned to work for drug court, a cutting-edge program for felons also afflicted with substance abuse. She supervised a Victims’ Rights clinic at the University of Idaho before accepting the position of Director of Admissions for the College of Law.
She recently retired and keeps her days busy cooking, swimming, remodeling and managing rentals, making and selling books and “connecting”. After singing with the Palouse Choral Society for all these years, Carole is happy to join their board of directors.
Crystal Crossler | Treasurer
Crystal Crossler, is singing with the PCS chorale again after recently “retiring” from spending the last few years as chauffeur, schedule coordinator, home educator, and more for her two sons. She was born and raised in eastern Washington state and met the love of her life at the University of Idaho, ultimately obtaining her BS in Education Studies from the University of Oregon.
Crystal has always loved music, and began taking piano lessons at the age of ten, in addition to singing in school and church musical programs and choir. Crystal also played clarinet and alto saxophone in the school band and was excited to be selected to be the clarinet soloist her senior year for the Bi-County Honor Band. Since then, Crystal has occasionally sang in church choir ensembles and on the church worship team. She shared her love of music with her two children (a classical guitarist and violinist) and encouraged them in their own musical adventures and endeavors.
Crystal lives in Pullman with her husband, Rob, and golden retriever, Quincy.
Royal Toy | Secretary
Becky Weber | Chorale Member Representative
Kerry Darnall | Chorale Member Representative
A Pullman resident for the past 22 years, Kerry works for WSU Press, which publishes scholarly books about the northwest. Kerry rekindled her love of choral singing when she joined PCS in 2018.
Deborah Collins | Children’s Choir Representative
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Dr. Deborah Collins joined the PCS board as the Children’s Choir representative in early 2022 and is excited to be serving the organization in this capacity. She was also hired as the accompanist for the Children’s Choir in fall 2022 and enjoys singing with the Chorale and Chamber Choir as well. Dr. Collins comes from a musical family and has been singing and playing musical instruments since childhood. She studied piano performance at Iowa State University prior to deciding to go into medicine and has accompanied university choirs, church choirs, and voice students, directed a youth choir, and sung with multiple collegiate and community choirs in the past. Dr. Collins also obtained her MD from Duke University School of Medicine and Master of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to starting her current position as a physician at Cougar Health Services at WSU, she was a faculty member in the departments of family medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill and Georgetown University, medical director for a county health department, and physician in private practice in Moscow, Idaho. She lives in Pullman with her husband Brian and their three daughters Sophie, Lucy, and Violet, all of whom also sing with the Palouse Choral Society.
Vacant | Community Representative
If you are interested in learning about serving on our board of directors, please contact Anneliese president@palousechoralsociety2.org