From left Dayle Ferguson, Mars School Board President, and board member Rita Dorsch, present board member Bonnie Weaver, right, with a bouquet of roses and a plaque upon her retirement from the Mars Planet Foundation. Weaver, the president of the foundation board, helped form the educational foundation, then known as the Mars Area Foundation for Educational Excellence, in 1985 with two other Mars residents. School board member William Pettigrew will now serve as the foundation board president.