Founders of Rim Country


Carol S. McEvoy
Chair/Executive Director

Lawrence R. McEvoy
Vice Chair/Sec-Treas

Marya Grathwohl
Director

Pat Feldsien
Director

Clarann Weinert
Director

Mary Fitzpatrick
Director

Meet the Volunteer Staff

Carol is presently Chairperson of the Board and Executive Director of Rim Country Land Institute. She is committed to using place-based education to connect humans to the natural world in a non-anthropocentric way which will lead to a richer experience of life for all. Carol McEvoy is experienced in the fields of science, research, education, and systemic approaches to problem solving on personal and community levels. As a trained biochemist, she worked in the field of cancer research and also taught college level courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mount Mary College and St. Catherine's College in St. Paul, MN.

Before moving to Montana, Carol served as a teaching consultant for MCCL, Inc. (a 17,000 member non-profit). Among other things, she was responsible for literature research, designing and providing educational materials, training public speakers, lobbying, workshop design, and TV and radio appearances. She was also their state-wide organizational consultant and served on the Executive Committee of MCCL for two years.
In 1975, Carol served for 6 months with North End Health Consumers Coalition in North Minneapolis, a broad based community organization, using an Alinsky model.

When Carol and her family moved to Montana in 1975, she studied with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, started the Hospice of Helena, and promoted Hospice care throughout the State of Montana. She was awarded the Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service in 1980, for those efforts.
As a free lance teacher, Carol designed and presented numerous workshops for the Catholic Diocese of Helena, the State of Montana, Montana schools and a variety of civic groups, covering a range of subjects. (Death & Dying, Sexuality, Relationships, Youth issues and Care of the Earth, among others).

She continued to teach when she entered into private practice in 1989 as licensed Marriage and Family therapist. She continues a small practice to the present time.
Carol lives with her husband, Larry, in the Elkhorn Mountains, south of Helena, MT. They have four adult children and eight grandchildren. Their commitment to the future of all children and the whole earth community motivated them to develop the Rim Country Land Institute.