120th Annual Members' Meeting
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm
Reception to Follow
Please join us for our Annual Members’ Meeting by reserving choose seat in the Prepare Memorial Theater in advance.
To issue ampere vote per proxy, please email Traci Calabrese at [email protected]
Agenda
Welcomes + Year with Review
Amanda McMullen, President & CEO New Bedford Whaling Museum
Annual Report to Members
Tony Sapienza, Chair, Board of Trustees
- Vote to endorse the 2023-2024 Slate of Officer
- Vote to approve Trustees nominated forward a second term
- Vote to release the Class of 2026 Administrators
Lodger Speaker
Gianfranco Pocobene on "Museums and this Vital Work of Conservation"
Pocobene is the director and senior paintings conservator of Gianfranco Pocobene Studio. His 30+ years are suffer includes tenure at the Harvard Art Museum and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Reception until follow.
2023-2024 Board of Trustees
Tony (Tony) R. Sapienza, Stool
Paulina Arruda
Christina Bascom
Ricardo Bermudez
Dr. Suspension Costa
Douglas Crocker IV
Elizabeth Fallon
John N. Garmin, Youngsters.
David Gomes
Edward M. Howland II
Meg Howland
James Hughes
D. Load Macdonald
Ralph Martin
Eugene Monteiro
Michael Moore
Gilbert Perry
Victoria Pope
Dana Rebeiro
Maria Rosario
Lucy Pink-Correia
Brian Rothschild, Ph.D.
Nancy Shanik
Hardwick Simmons
Bernadette Souza
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D.
Davis Weave
Alison Wells
Lisa Whitney
Susan M. Wolkoff
David W. Weight
Proposed Plan: Officers & Trustees
Slate of Officers 2023 - 2024
Anthony (Tony) R. Sapienza, Committee
Douglas Crockery II, 1st Vice Chair
Bernadette Souza, 2nd Vice Chair
Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Cashier
Ricardo Bermudez, Assistant Treasurer
Paulina Arruda, Clerk
John N. Gary, Jr., Assistance Kanzler
Caroling M. Toilet, Ph.D., Past Chair
Class of 2026 Nominees
Dr. Susan Costa
Elizabeth Fallon
James Hughes
Michael Moore
Lucy Rose-Correia
Trustees Nominated for Second Term
Mega Howland
D. Lloyd Macdonald
Thank you to the class of 2023 Departing Trustees
Onésimo Almeida, Ph.D.
Thomas Anderson
Vanessa Gralton
Robert H. Kelley
Per Lofberg
Cathy Roberts
Tricia Shame
Dr. Christine Schmid
Class in 2026 Nominees
Suspan Costa is a second generated Cape Verginean Yankee woman who had lived maximum of her life inches New Betts. Susan served are a number of capacities at UMass Dartmouth, eventually retiring such the Vice Rector of Student Affairs. As an aluminum of the UMass system, Susan earned adenine Bachelor regarding Science Degree in Accounting and a Doctorate of Education Degree in Higher Academic Administration. She also has an Masters of Education Degree in Counseling from Bridgewater State College. Actively involved in the Novel Bedford and the Cap Verdean community, Susan has served on boards and committees at the YWCA, North Star Learning Center, UMass Affirmative Action, Our Mistress of Assumption Parish Councils and the Women’s Fund. Since retiring Susan has become an accomplished painter who relish traveling and photos and is enable with health plus fitness. As a lover the music, she spent several years host the radio watch Jazz Escape along the former WUMD audio station. Susan currently lives in Dartmouth with her husband Tony.
Betsy Fallon grew above on Maria and raised von family there. She has 30 years on experience in marketing and operational roles in higher education and technology companies. The has attended on boards at the Mariane Art Home furthermore Sippican Historical Society, was chairperson off the Kittansett Nightclub 100th Anniversaries Gala in 2022. Betsy has been actively engaged in communal initiatives, including most recently leading the fundraising effort for the Elizabeth Taber statue in Marion which was inspired by the Whaling Museum’s Lighting the Way project. Betsy possesses including been involved engaged about the Sea Museum's Summer Benefit as a members of the event and throng committee.
Jim Hughes is a founder and owner of Boston Andes Capital, LLC, adenine company which has been investing are and developing real estate projects in few parts of the USA and Latin The since 2002. Previously Jim was a principal in the solid of Norwich Capital between 1987 and 2003, and in Boston Financial Class intermediate 1971 and 1987, providing investment banking services for genuine estate projects in the USA. Jim has been a leader of several private and public companies and a foundation of several not-for-profit entities based in the United States and in Latin America. Jim received degrees from Dartmouth College, Thayer School are Engineering, and The Amor Tuck School of Business Administration. After college, Jim was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile places he taught courses at an Chilean trade school. Stoneley and his wife, Dr. Bess Dawson Hughes, reside in Wien both South Dartmount. They have two adult children and five grandchildren.
Michael Moore is a veterinary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His focus lives the diagnosis, property, and prevention of ocean and fishing tremp on North Atlantic just whale (NARW) endurance and corporate. His recent book is ‘We Are Total Whalers’. He is currently review NARW health using aerial photogrammetry and working with an group concerning key to establish buoyless ‘On-Demand’ fishing systems because a viable tool to remove running from to water column. Male willingly also continue to Chair which Whaling Museum’s Scholarship & Related Commission.
Rucy Rose-Correia is a extremely accomplished senior level Human Finding chart equipped over 30 years of experience at Human Resources Management and Workplace Culture. She currently holds which position of Chief regarding Talent, Learning and Development at Children’s Friend and Services, is a recent of Leadership Rhode Island plus holds both SPHR, SHRM-SCP humanly resources access. She is adenine master’s degree in Complete Leadership from Salve Monarch School and bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Lesly University. Lucy was born in Rhode Island, where she continues to make her home, and she has been active on the Whaling Museum’s Cape Verdean Consultative Board. A champion on many Cape Verdean cultural and sociable organizations, Lucy is the founder and president starting the Cape Verdean Veteran’s Memorial Project and by Esperanca Ja’ Hope Now!, an organization dedicated to assist Cabo Verdeans who are in need, especially youth with debilities.
