Dr. Eloise Kailin, PPF Co-Founder and Half-Century Leader Protect the Peninsula’s Future, the North Olympic Peninsula’s longest-standing environmental group, was co-founded in 1973 by Dr. Eloise Kailin when residents fought to stop a nuclear power plant and oil port on Miller Peninsula’s Discovery Bay — and won.
Dr. Kailin was a well-known and respected allergist/immunologist, Before moving to WA State, she practiced in WA D.C. She co- researched the impacts of air pollution on human anatomy and was elected to Chair D.C.’s first commission on air pollution. Dr. Kailin understood links between environmental toxins and their impacts on human health, including the toxic D.C. air impacts on her family.
She moved to Clallam County in 1971 and immediately involved herself in protecting the area’s environment and public health. Over her 50 years of PPF leadership, she gained a number of recognitions – 1987 Clallam County Citizen of the Year, Washington Environmental Council Environmental Hero, People for Puget Sound’s Senator Warren G. Magnuson Puget Marine Protection Award, WA State Department of Natural Resources recognition for enactment of Sequim’s Tertiary Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Port Townsend Marine Research Center-Eleanor Stopps Award, and City of Sequim’s recognition for effecting the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s sewage pipeline from Blyn to Sequim’s wastewater treatment plant.
Dr. Kailin died in 2019 at the age of 100. PPF continues with the strong and committed leadership of current board members. Congressman Derek Kilmer Honored Dr. Eloise Kailin in a 2019 Congressional Record. PDN News article