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8 To the Point National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Awards CBMM $100,000 Grant The Chesapeake Bay Program and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) recently awarded CBMM a $100,000 matching grant for construction of 12,670 square feet of living shoreline on the Museum’s waterfront. CBMM’s project was one of 34 environmental projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed awarded funding through the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants program, which provides grants to organizations and municipal governments working to improve the condition of their local watershed. NFWF awarded a total of $2.1 million in grants for projects that will protect 3,400 acres of land, restore approximately 15 miles of streams and plant more than 160 acres of marsh and wetland grasses. Staff from the Chesapeake Bay Trust use a seine net to sample the diversity of species before a living shoreline is constructed at the Museum. “Each project receiving a Small Watershed Grant this year is a vital component of the broad partnership of organizations working to restore the Bay and its local waterways,” said Jeffrey Lape, director of the Chesapeake Bay Program. CBMM will use the NFWF funds to construct a new marsh to treat storm water runoff from impervious surfaces before it reaches tidal waters. The new marsh will enhance the shoreline and provide for vegetative shoreline erosion control and marsh edge protection along the Museum’s Miles River shoreline. The project will be designed to eliminate point source storm water discharge and construct a low profile stone containment structure (sill) along 622 linear feet of shoreline in the Miles River Watershed. In addition, approximately 0.3 acres of new marsh will be constructed and protected. Sea grass grating bridging a vegetated swale to allow sunlight to reach the plantings below will replace a portion of the Museum’s existing boardwalk. This living shoreline will become a new outdoor living classroom that will be viewed and interpreted to the Museum’s 80,000 annual visitors including more than 11,000 Maryland and Mid-Atlantic students from public, private and home schools. “Locally driven conservation projects (like the one proposed by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum) not only engage communities in restoring their local streams and watersheds, collectively, they are key to restoring one of the country’s most vital natural resources – the Chesapeake Bay,” noted Mike Slattery, director of NFWF’s Eastern Partnership Office. CBMM Participating in National Economic Impact Study CBMM is one of 16 museums from the across the country chosen to participate in a three-year study of the economic impact of museums on their communities. The North Adams, Mass.-based Center for Creative Community Development (C3D) launched the study, “Museums in the Neighborhood,” in 2006. “Cultural organizations, even relatively small ones, impact their neighborhoods and their communities. They have an economic impact on their community through their annual budget as it circulates through the local economy. But they also impact their community by making it a more attractive place to live, by offering educational programming, and by being a local gathering place,” notes Stephen Sheppard, Ph.D., professor of economics at Williams College and director of the C3D project. The project will provide CBMM and the other museums participating in the study with a suite of tools to evaluate their general impact or the success of programs that target community members. Funding for the research project has come from the Ford Foundation through its “Shifting Sands: Art, Culture, and Neighborhood Change” initiative, with assistance from Partners for Livable Communities, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and Williams College. ALL Offers New Courses & New Interview Series The Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL), which is sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, will offer the first of a new interview series, “Distinguished Residents of the Eastern Shore,” and 14 courses for the fall 2008 semester. The first program of the new series will feature an interview with Senator Birch Bayh is the first in a new interview series for ALL. Senator Birch Bayh (former U.S. Senator-Indiana) by Wilson Wyatt, Jr. It will be held on Monday, No-
vember 10, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the MEBA Engineering School Auditorium. The discussion will trace Senator Bayh’s involvement in the U.S. Senate during the period 1963-1981, when he was instrumental in the passage of Title IX, initiated two Constitutional amendments and participated in landmark civil rights legislation. Other ALL courses cover a wide range of subjects including digital photography, French literature, Renaissance art, gardening, history and literature. Classes will begin September 11 and run through November 25. For a copy of the fall 2008 ALL catalog or further information, call Helen Van Fleet, 410-745-2916, or visit the ALL website at www.cbmm.org/all.html. New Board Officers & Members Members of the CBMM Board of Governors tour the Hooper Strait Lighthouse. Pictured (L-R) are Chairman of the Board Robert Perkins, new board member Robin Gordon, volunteer tour guide Andy Flanagan, new board member Langley Shook, returning board member Candy Backus, and board members Douglas Jurrius and Bruce Bedford. The Museum is pleased to announce new officers and members of its Board of Governors. New officers of the Board are: Chair Robert A. Perkins of St. Michaels; Vice-Chair Alan R. Griffith of Centreville; Secretary D. Ted Lewers of Easton; and Treasurer Joseph E. Peters of Easton. Newly elected to the Board of Governors are: Candace Carlucci Backus of Easton; Stuart A. Clarke of Easton; Robin Gordon of St. Michaels; Tom D. Seip of Easton; Langley R. Shook of Easton; Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr. of Centreville; and Bruce Wiltse of Claiborne. “We are excited to have a great class of new Board members,” says CBMM president Stuart Parnes. “Each of them brings much life experience and expertise to the Museum, and they have already gotten involved in projects and planning, and sitting on committees.” Dr. John Miller: A Class Act John H. Miller, Ph.D., ended his 10-year tenure with CBMM in September. John came to the Museum from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was a major gifts officer. John and his family spent time on a family farm in McDaniel, and at the urging of then CBMM Executive Director John Valliant, he signed on to help build fundraising efforts during the capital “Campaign for Preserving the Heritage of the Bay,” which ran from 1997 through 2001. John Miller Thanks in large part to Miller’s tireless fundraising, the campaign went on to raise more than $18 million, exceeding its goal. In post-campaign fundraising, John helped CBMM set and re-set record goals in its Annual Fund. Beyond the class he has brought to development at the Museum, John has also held classes—many of them for CBMM’s Academy for Lifelong Learning. Drawing on his experience as a former adjunct professor of English while at Carnegie Mellon, John has co-taught literature courses for more than five years for ALL. His classes have been widely subscribed and have become perennial favorites with students. John will continue his affiliation and his collaboration with John Ford in team teaching for ALL, as well as teach literature at American University and other regional academic institutions. He and his wife, Emily, will remain residents of Easton. CBMM Staff News Kathleen (Kate) Rattie has been named vice president of advancement, overseeing CBMM’s fundraising, membership, government relations, marketing and communications efforts. Kate joined the Museum in 2006 as director of development. She brings more than 30 years Kate Rattie experience in fundraising, marketing, and public relations to her new role. Kate is a graduate of American University and completed masters degree work at New York University and Fordham University. Lynne Phillips has joined CBMM as collections manager. She holds masters degrees in history from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and in museum studies from John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco. Lynne worked for the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum and the Walt Disney Family Foundation’s new museum in the Presidio of San Francisco prior to her move to CBMM. Lynne Phillips Kate Livie, an Eastern Shore native, is the Museum’s new youth and adult programs coordinator. Kate holds a bachelors degree from Towson University and a master of fine arts degree in American decorative arts from the Parsons School of Design. She has worked for the National Park Service in The White House Historic Preservation Division, as a historic in- 9
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