TACSC National Office Positions

Mr. Gene Detre, Executive Director - Email: gene.detre@tacsc.org

Miss Marilyn Thickett, Founder & Consultant - Email: mthickett@tacsc.org

Support Staff
 Mrs. Rosie Pate, Bookkeeper


Questions or comments about www.tacsc.org - Email: gene.detre@tacsc.org

About our Executive Director - Gene Detre

  • Heavily involved with TACSC at all levels since 1983 as a delegate, staff member, conference director, former Board of Directors President

  • Annually created and presented workshops focused on Jr. High School Leaders for 29 years

  • Over 10 years experience in retail buying offices of Williams-Sonoma and Cost Plus World MarketDeveloped, produced and sold houseware products nationally for  5 years

  • Trained QVC presenters on product presentation techniques

  • Designed and implemented training programs for national retail and food chains

  • Created, managed and executed delivery programs for retail furniture stores

  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, UC Riverside 1994

  • Master's of Education scheduled to be completed in 2011

  • Married to Terri Detre with two children

  • California Native
About our Founder and TACSC Consultant - Marilyn Thickett

  • Founder of The Association of Catholic Student Councils which is now in its twenty seventh year of serving Catholic Elementary Schools across the country.

  • Involved in student leadership education for the past thirty eight years.

  • Author of "Student Government and the Elementary School" - a manual for establishing a student council.

  • Contributor to "Today's Catholic Teacher" Magazine Speaker at previous NCEA Conventions and Regional Educational Conferences.

  • Workshop Leader for hundreds of students annually, teaching them how to organize student elections and their own election campaigns.

  • Editor and contributor to TACSC's quarterly publication "The Leadership Times."

  • Former student council moderator. Former co-principal of one of the largest Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

  • Taught middle and junior high school students for nine years...in urban, suburban and rural areas.

  • Native of San Francisco and a graduate of California State University in San Francisco.

  • Holds a California Life Teaching Credential and Administrative Credential.