LSM E-News - June 2018

CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2018!

 Congratulations to the LSM Class of 2018! The class and their guests enjoyed a luncheon followed by project presentations and the graduation ceremony on Friday, May 4, at the College of Southern Maryland's Prince Frederick campus. Shown here, L to R: G. Shelby Butler, Philip Campbell, David Weigel, Elizabeth Mildenstein, Roger Cordell, Gadsden Rule, Angela Booker, Maria Thorpe, Lisa Oliver, Kimberly Rider, Randolph Sotomayor, Tisha Tyler, Marcia Keeth, Christa Hood, Christopher Weller, Corey Combs, Lydia Williams, Charles Roach, Joan Thorp, Christopher Breedlove, John Hungerford, Christine Mulcahey, Thomas Clark, Robert Elrod, Renee Brown, Lynette Starke, Steven Hall, Alison Banholzer, Kate Shirey, Jacquelyn Meiser (Not Pictured - Chelsea Brown). 

 

 

One of the class projects was to help identify transportation solutions for the St. Mary's County 4-H Program. St. Mary's County 4-H Youth Development Educator Christine Allred and 4-H member Clare Greenwell were thrilled to accept a donation from the project team for St. Mary's County 4-H. Project team members, L to R: Christa Hood, Charles Roach, Joan Thorp, Tom Clark, and Steve Hall.

 

 

 

GOLF TOURNAMENT BENEFITS LSM

LSM's 6th Annual Golf Tournament was Friday, June 8 with a shotgun start at 1 pm at the beautiful Breton Bay golf course in Leonardtown, Md. This tournament raised over $5,000 for LSM. The winners:

 

1st Place: Sabre team (photo at left)

2nd Place: SMECO team (photo at right)

3rd Place: Precise team

 

 

The longest drives were by Robin East and Renee Norris. The closest to the pins were Sabre and Ricky Long. Thanks to Steve Daczkowski LSM'11 and April Tsirigotis LSM'11 for co-chairing the tournament and to these sponsors who made it a success: Chick-fil-A, College of Southern Maryland, Community Bank of the Chesapeake, John Felicitas LSM'13 of BeAThEdge, Imagine One, MIL Corp, Precise Systems, Printing Press, QBH, Winegardner Automotive Group, Zenetex.

TLA STARTS JUNE 25

Teen Leadership Academy (TLA) runs June 25-28, 2018. This year's highlights will be healthcare and veterans leadership. TLA is sponsored by HTii and University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center. Teens entering grades 10, 11 and 12 comprise the cohort. The director of the program is Mr. Drew Willard, a social studies teacher at Leonardtown Middle School.

               

SEEKING PROJECT PROPOSALS FROM NONPROFITS

Leadership Southern Maryland's programs committee is accepting proposals from nonprofit organizations within Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties to provide projects to be completed by the LSM Class of 2019. This partnership, Leadership Southern Maryland Connections, will aid the participants' learning by increasing their knowledge of regional issues, lend the nonprofit extra expertise and manpower to complete a needed project, and allow for team building within a small group.

The deadline for submitting proposals is July 31, 2018. Proposals will be reviewed and selections will be made in August 2018. A maximum of eight projects will be selected to form the Leadership Southern Maryland Connections Project List for 2019. The project time frame must run from October 2018 through April 2019.  To view the Request for Proposal (RFP) or see succuessful past projects, click HERE. For more information, please contact Denise Foster, Executive Director, Leadership Southern Maryland, 301-862-SOMD, via email at denise@leadershipsomd.org or visit www.leadershipsomd.org

COMMITTEE CHAIRS NAMED

LSM programming is dependent upon the talents and resources of its alumni and sponsors. Board members chair and serve on committees that help shape and carry out board objectives throughout the year. For the board year that began in June 2018, the following committee chairs were approved:

Crystal Hunt LSM'17: Communications and outreach

Harmuth Csanadi-Schwartz LSM'14: Finance

Mary Beth Cook LSM'14: Programs

Christa Kuhl LSM'14: Alumni

John Felicitas LSM'13: TLA

Ed Rule LSM'18: Development

Barry Friedman LSM'09 Recruitment

LSMAA MEMBER NEWS

 

 

Angela Walters Small LSM'16 is the new media relations coordinator/assistant public information officer for College of Southern Maryland at the La Plata campus. 

 

 

 

 The LSM Board of Directors, led by President Patrick Murphy LMd'06, honored Helen Mattingly Wernecke for her nearly four years of service as LSM's executive director. The event, held on May 18 at the Front Porch Restaurant in Leonardtown, Wernecke has become a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway in Solomons.

 

 

 

 If you are a member of LSM's Alumni Association and have news to share, please email the LSM staff at info@leadershipsomd.org to be included in the LSM eNewsletter.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

 

Teen Leadership Academy 2018
@ Prince Frederick Campus of CSM

Featuring an in-depth look at healthcare and veterans leadership. 

June 25-28, 2018

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LSM 10th Anniversary Celebration

Middleton Hall, Waldorf MD

Sunday, October 28, 2018

 



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