Three new members were recently elected to the Board of Governors for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum — Nancy Appleby, June Langston DeHart, and Craig Fuller.

Nancy Appleby retired as Special Counsel to America Online in 2002, having worked previously as the Vice President & Deputy General Counsel for Systems Center, Inc., and as Associate General Counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton. She is a former president and member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association; served for two terms and as secretary on the board of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md.; and is a current member and past president of the Board of Directors of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C.

Appleby volunteered in the independent school arena, serving as Chair of the Parent Association of The Langley School in McLean, Va., and secretary and member of the Board of Directors of The Parents Council of Washington. She also served as board member and secretary of St. Andrews Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., and on the Parents Advisory Council of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Appleby received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Furman University in Greenville, S.C., and a JD with honors from The George Washington University Law School. She is married to CG Appleby, an Emereti member of CBMM’s Board, and they have one daughter, Christine.

June Langston DeHart is a partner in the national law firm of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, LLP’s Washington, D.C., office. DeHart previously served as Managing Partner of the firm’s D.C. office and as Co-Chair of its Federal Government Practice Group.  She also served on the firm’s Management, Finance, Intake, Women’s Initiative, and Associate Review committees. DeHart represents a variety of corporate, non-profit, city and local, and foreign clients on a variety of policy issues, with particular expertise in transportation and infrastructure, appropriations, and energy and related tax.

Before joining Manatt, DeHart was Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Nuclear Proliferation and Government Processes for the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and was Legislative/Legal Counsel to U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, specializing in energy, judiciary, international trade, and other issues.

DeHart serves on several non-profit boards. She is Vice Chair of the Board of the International Foundation of Electoral Systems (IFES), where she also serves on the Budget Committee, and is Vice President and on the Audit and Personnel committees of the Board of the OAS Trust for the Americas. Her past board service includes The Advocacy Group (past president); the International Women’s Forum, DC Chapter (past president); the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America; the Center for International Private Enterprise; and the Association of Women in International Trade (past president). In 2017, she was selected for and participated in the Harvard Business School’s Women on Boards, an executive leadership program.

DeHart graduated in 1981 from Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., with distinction; and in 1974 from Millsaps College, B.S., Political Science, with honors. She and her husband, Dan (a member of CBMM’s Shipyard Committee), live in Alexandria, Va., and Oxford, Md.

Craig Fuller arrived in Washington, D.C., from California with the Reagan Administration in 1981. He served eight years in the White House, first as Assistant to President Reagan for Cabinet Affairs before becoming Chief of Staff to Vice President George H.W. Bush during the second term of the administration. He co-chaired the President Bush Transition and then entered the private sector in Washington, leading public affairs consulting firms and associations, and serving as an officer of a major consumer packaged goods company.

Most recently, he served as the president and CEO of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Completing the five years he agreed to serve, he remains in the Washington, D.C., area as the leader of The Fuller Company, a strategic consulting group he organized when he initially left government in 1989.

He has been active in aviation policy matters as the past chairman of the RTCA and a former member of the NextGen Advisory Council. He currently serves as the Co-Chairman of Redbird Flight Simulation in Austin, Texas; as a member of the PASSUR Advisory Board in Stamford, Conn.; and as a member of the MITRE Aviation Advisory Council in McLean, Va.

Fuller has sailed actively in California and out of Annapolis, where he owned a 38ft Beneteau; was involved with America’s Cup racing, with One Australia and America One; is an active power boater, currently owning a 2017 Ranger Tug; and is a member of the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club.

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and exploring the history, environment, and culture of the entire Chesapeake Bay region, and making this resource available to all.

Every aspect of fulfilling this mission is driven by CBMM’s values of relevancy, authenticity, and stewardship, along with a commitment to providing engaging guest experiences and transformative educational programming, all while serving as a vital community partner. For more information, visit cbmm.org or call 410-745-2916.

Maryland has one of the highest rates of “domestic human trafficking in the nation,” according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and the Eastern Shore is not immune. To provide education on this important issue across the Mid Shore, For All Seasons is sponsoring regional presentations, “Open Your Eyes: Human Trafficking Awareness and Education,” in the month of January, National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.  The presentations are free and open to professionals working with the issue of human trafficking, such as social workers, healthcare workers, and law enforcement.

Katharine Petzold, Anti-Human Trafficking Program Coordinator for For All Seasons, and Cara Rose, Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations, will present information about human trafficking – both sex and labor trafficking, its prevalence in our community, and ways to recognize its red flags.

Presentations will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and breakfast will be served beforehand at 9:15 a.m. The presentations include the Kent County Public Library, Chestertown Branch, on Thursday, January 9; the Queen Anne’s County Free Library, Centreville Branch, on Monday, January 13; the Caroline County Public Library, Denton Branch, on Tuesday, January 14; and the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge Branch, on Tuesday, January 21.

In Talbot County, For All Seasons will be a contributing partner to Mid-Shore Behavioral Health’s 6^th Annual Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) meeting. Speakers at this meeting include Katharine Petzold, Cara Rose, Corporal Chris Heid of the Maryland State Police Child Recovery Unit; Patrick Wynn, Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Julie Crain, Founder and CEO of Harriet’s House. This event will be held at Temple B’nai Israel in Easton on Tuesday, January 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A light breakfast and lunch will be served. Registration is limited, with CEUs provided to the first 40 individuals to sign up.

Katharine Petzold, states, “These presentations, designed to shine a light on the often hidden and often misunderstood crime of human trafficking, will educate professionals on the reality of trafficking in our community. Through understanding and awareness, we can identify and better serve those who are at risk or may be involved in a trafficking situation. Come join us as a first step to creating a community free of trafficking.”

Limited seating will be available at each of the workshops. The cost is FREE to attend, and $25 if you sign up to receive three NASW CEUs at the Kent, Queen Anne’s, Caroline, and Dorchester presentations. To register for any of the workshops, visit forallseasonsinc.org to register or call 410-822-1018, extension 219.

Shoppers and visitors in downtown Chestertown over the Thanksgiving holiday may have been humming along to music as they shopped, dined, strolled around town and perused the Farmers’ Market.

Thanks to generous support from Chesapeake Bank and Trust, the Downtown Chestertown Association has installed two outdoor speakers that are capable of playing seasonally appropriate music year round as well as making announcements. This project has been a topic of discussion for years at DCA meetings, and we are thrilled that it has finally come to fruition. Special thanks goes to WCTR’s Brian Moore and Leslie Sea for technical support and musical arrangements, The Historical Society of Kent County for use of their building, and Bob Ramsey of the Finishing Touch for installing the system.

It is our hope to add additional speakers in the coming year to expand the reach down both Cross and High Streets to encompass the whole downtown. If you are interested in assisting with expansion, please email downtownchestertown@gmail.com.

On Sunday December 8th at 4:30 P.M., Temple B’nai Israel in Easton and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture of Washington College present a panel conversation and community forum on inter-religious solidarity.

Held in honor of long-time community leader Fred Israel, this forum on inter-religious brotherhood and will bring together faith leaders from a variety of traditions as we seek to forge a positive future of mutual understanding and active engagement to advance the good of our region, our country, and the world.

The event will take place at Temple B’nai Israel, located at 7199 Tristan Dr, in Easton. A light reception will also be held.  The following will serve as panelists:

Peter Hyman, Rabbi of Temple Binai Israel
Joseph Prud’homme, the Burton Family Chair in Religion, Politics and Culture, director of the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and professor in Political Science and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies, at Washington College in Chestertown.
Dr. William T Wallace Sr., pastor of Union United Methodist Church in St. Michaels
Fr. James Nash, priest of the Wilmington Diocese and pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Easton
Dr. Benjamin Sax, the Residential Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Towson.
Hallah Attallah, Visiting Muslim Scholar in the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Towson.

The event is free and open to the public. Are all welcome.