People Type: Board of Trustees

My initial contact with Manomet was through the banding program. I had experience as a bander of migratory songbirds in Maryland before relocating to Woods Hole in 1988. I made a bee-line to join up with Manomet to continue, what for me, was the sheer pleasure of being involved with banding birds. Beyond banding, however, one event that really drew me into the organization was the Neo-Tropical Migratory Bird Symposium which Manomet put together and hosted in the Fall of 1989. I was impressed by the scope of influence that a seemingly small organization could have when it planned and partnered strategically with other organizations and individuals. Manomet’s programs have evolved and changed many times over the decades of my involvement with the organization, but the core remains the same: to work with partners and to apply science to develop and maintain a sustainable world.

Areas of Expertise

I am a retired science teacher. My career involved teaching in informal settings (Audubon centers, the National Zoo, summer classes at the Woods Hole Children’s School of Science, to name a few) as well as formal classroom science teaching in a K-6 public school in Washington DC. In Falmouth, I worked to develop science curricula and Family Science programs.

After retirement I took up volunteering with our local land trust in its efforts to preserve open space, and to get people of all ages outdoors onto conservation land.

Personal Statement

For many years after retirement I travelled extensively to far-flung places, mostly for birding. My “travel bug” is somewhat tempered now, but I still enjoy a good birding outing such as a Christmas Bird Count or a trip to Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge. Another life-long hobby is sailing: big boats or little ones, it doesn’t matter.

I am a landscape architect and principal at Hart Howerton, where I have led multi-disciplinary design teams on a broad range of master planning, conservation-based and new community design projects in all regions of the United States and abroad.

When not working or helping to advance Manomet, I can be found with my family at our home on Monhegan Island, expanding the vegetable garden, or building (yet another) boat.

Why Manomet?

Manomet has a large impact in creating a more sustainable world. It’s impressive to watch Manomet’s staff build relationships across a range of sectors and then provide those partners with the science they need to create change.

Currently, I work at Noble and Greenough School. teaching Biology, AP Environmental Science, and Anatomy and Physiology. I’m also the Squash coach/Director of Squash. Each fall migration, I bring AP Environmental Science students to Manomet.

Opportunities for lifelong learning feed my heart and soul, through birding, lots of gardening, bee keeping, playing squash, travel, enjoying the outdoors, and the gift of time with dear friends and family.

Why Manomet?

At a 1993 shorebirds workshop, a video called “Message from the Birds had a profound impact on me. Filmed partly on Manomet’s original banding deck it featured Brian Harrington’s work with WHSRN and Manomet’s conservation work. Clearly evident was Manomet’s deep commitment to global conservation, led by passionate scientists developing collaborative networks. Before it ended I knew Manomet was where I must be during an upcoming sabbatical, and the following year I became a volunteer bander. I treasure my connection to Manomet and its extraordinary scientists whose work resonates locally and globally.

Retired business leader with experience in strategic planning and marketing. Trustee of Manomet and South Shore Conservatory. Previously Director, Mac-Gray Corporation; CEO, Avedis Zildjian, maker of cymbals and other percussion instruments; VP and Corporate Officer of Sara Lee Corporation and President of its Aris-Isotoner and Fuller Brush divisions; Procter & Gamble Brand Manager. Graduate of Colby College and Columbia University School of Business. Lives in Hingham, MA and sometimes Key West.

I manage the day-to-day operations of our family office. Our focus is on the deployment of capital; some as investment capital in the private equity world and some as philanthropic capital in the conservation, health and development arenas.

I volunteer for a small charitable organization that raises funds for the construction of educational facilities in impoverished rural areas abroad and then brings volunteers to those places to assist with the actual labor. This role has taken me to Ghana, Nicaragua, Nepal, Mexico and Tanzania.

Why Manomet?

In seeking out conservation organizations to support, I look for those that are science-driven, pragmatic, and collaborative. Manomet checks off all three of those boxes. Manomet utilizes these traits to ask tough questions and drive consensus-based solutions and, in influencing the behavior of numerous other organizations, makes an impact greater than one might expect from an entity of its size. As a bonus the staff and my fellow trustees are interesting and fun!