The Talbot County Arts Council honored two retiring members of the board of directors for their years of dedicated service to the arts and to the community during a farewell party on June 14. The event was held near Easton at the home of Arts Council executive director Gerry Early and wife Michaela Carberry Early.
Completing the maximum allowable six continuous years of service during 2008-2014 were two Trappe area residents. They are Ann E. Frock, who has been the organization’s treasurer and most recently its vice president, and retired Army Major General Andrew H. Anderson, who during this period was successively chairman of the Mini-Grant Committee and the Nominating and Bylaws Committee.
In addition to his just-completed service, Anderson had two previous periods of board membership–during 1990-1998 while he was the Talbot County Council representative on the Arts Council, and a separate six-year term during 2001-2007 during which he was both vice president and president. In recognition of his extraordinary length of service and unfailing commitment to the mission and purposes of the Arts Council, he was unanimously elected as a president emeritus of the organization.
Arts Council president Stephanie Handy cited the faithful and distinguished service the retiring members have made to the quality of life and economic development in Talbot County. During the past six years the Arts Council has made grants totaling almost $400,000 for arts programs and projects of local nonprofit and government-related organizations and for arts education in the schools. She emphasized how the departing members contributed significantly to the wisdom of those grant-making decisions and the efficient operation of the board of directors.
For further information on the Talbot County Arts Council, visit website www.talbotarts.org or call 410-310-9812.
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