OFFICERS:

• Frances West, Esq., President

  Director, Wilmington Better Business Bureau; President, Del. Safety Council; Past Director, Delaware Consumer Advocacy Board; Civic leader; attorney; Past Pres., CCOBH; Past President of MANY area civic and service organizations.

• Martha Schiek, Vice President

  BA, Archeology & Anthropology, U of CO. Lifelong, 3rd Generation Claymonter; Claymont historian and large personal Darley Art Collection. President, Claymont Historical Society

• Gail Stanislow, Treasurer

  Librarian at The Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (and more)

• Theresa Fennick, Secretary

  President, Brandywine New Century Club; active, General Federation of Women's Clubs

• Ray Hester, Executive Director & Editor of the Darley Web Site:

  Retired DuPont Co. manager; CO-Owner, Darley Manor Inn; Civic leader. Background: Financial, Quality, and Planning Management at DuPont. BS, High Point University, '66

• Carol Digel, Research & Historican

  BA English & Sociology. Researcher for Dickens Fellowship

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BOARD of DIRECTORS:

• Geraldine Chillas

  President, Friends of the Robinson House, Claymont; active Quester, & at Winterthur Library; studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburg, Pa.

  Thomas E. Doherty

  Manager, Baldwin's Antique Book Barn; active in The Delaware Bibliophiles organization

• Janet Eckman

  President, Friends of the Claymont Library, Past President, Claymont Woman's Club

• Judith Hester

  Co-Owner and General Manager, Darley Manor Inn; Board Member, Friends of the Stone School; Research & Historian, The Claymont Historical Society; retired Cosmotology Instructor; active in several area organizations.

• Edward Hinton

  Antiquarian, retired rocket engineer, Indian Field Community

• George Losse'

  Business owner; President of the Claymont Terrace Civic Assoc. and the Claymont Community Coalition

• Jim Parks

  Journalist, Freelance writer and Editor, Delaforum.Com (News)( http://delaforum.com )

• Julie Shenk

  Civic leader, Brandywine Hundred; Past President, Brandywine School Board

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ADVISORY BOARD:

• Hon. Myrna Bair, Ph. D.

  Educator U of D; Past Minority Whip, Del. State Senate, now retired and teaching at the University of Delaware

• Richard Darley

  Retired businessman and Rehobeth Beach, DE, City Councilman (a relative of Felix Darley)

• Nancy Finlay, Ph.D.

  Curator, Connecticut Historical Society (& at NY Public Library, previously). Curator for the New York Public Library's April - June Darley Exhibit.

• Sonja Marin

  Winterthur Tour Staff; a leader in "Friends of Quaker Hill," Wilmington

• Steve Neff

  Lifelong, 3rd Generation Claymont resident, historian, and businessman

• Nancy Sawin, Ph.D.

  Artist, historian, academian (Past Headmistress, Sanford School), long-time civic leader

• Karol Schmiegel

  Director, The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE (..and much more)

• Hon. Wayne Smith

  Vice Pres. in a construction company; Majority Leader, Delaware State House of Representatives

• Frederic Taraba

  Author; Assistant Director, "Illustration House," New York City

• Xavier Teixido

  Civic leader and Owner & President, "Harry's Savoy" Restaurant, Wilmington

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