Talbot County Arts Council Elects New Officers and Members
The board of directors of the Talbot County Arts Council has elected its Executive Committee for Fiscal Year 2016 beginning July 1. The officers for the coming year are Stephanie Handy of Easton as president, Marie R. U’Ren of Easton as vice president, Robert J. Forloney of St. Michaels as secretary, and Peggy J. Ford of Easton as treasurer. The election took place at the board’s annual meeting and strategic planning retreat on Saturday, May 16.
The Nominating and Bylaws Committee also proposed candidates for election or reelection to the Arts Council’s board of directors. Board member Stephanie Handy of Easton was reelected for a second three-year term. Two new members were elected to initial three-year terms to replace retiring board members Alice Jane Lippson and Wilson Wyatt, Jr., both of St. Michaels.
Yolanda Escobedo of Easton began her working career for the Social Security Administration at age 19 in Corsicana, Texas, and after 34 years of federal service retired in 2013 from the executive position of Deputy Associate Commissioner for the Office of Training at SSA headquarters Woodlawn, Maryland. She took a break from her SSA career for 10 years in the 1980’s to manage and run her own gallery and picture framing business in Fort Worth, Texas. While she was working for SSA, she was a founding partner and operations officer for the Easton Studio & School LLC, established in 2009 and dissolved in 2013 after a successful five-year venture. In 2013, she and her husband purchased a building at 717 Goldsborough Street in Easton, where she is currently the gallery director for 717 Gallery LLC as well as business manager for her husband, the nationally recognized artist Louis Escobedo.
Richard D. Welch, Jr. of Easton holds a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a masters degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois. He spent 20 years as a Field Artillery officer in the U.S. Army, with assignments to troop units in Germany and Vietnam, instructor tours at West Point and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and analytical and management jobs in the Washington DC area. His Washington service centered on the Army’s early attempts to automate support for command and control functions. After Army retirement, he continued this work as an analyst and project manager with SRA International in Northern Virginia. Dick and family moved to Easton full-time in 2003, after 10 years of weekends and vacations here. He spent nine years on the Pickering Creek Board of Trustees, is active in Christ Church, St. Peters Parish, and he meets regularly with Poetry at Noon, a poetry reading and discussion group.
Additional information on the Talbot County Arts Council is available by phone at 410-310-9812 or by visiting website www.talbotarts.org.
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