Maryland Chapter

Anne Arundel County Group

Group Leaders Elected

Using mail ballots printed in the November/December edition of this newsletter, members of the Anne Arundel Sierra Club elected a new member to the group's executive committee and returned several incumbents to office.  The newly-formed body followed up with the election of chair and other group officers for 2012.

The new executive committee member is Thomas Higdon of Annapolis, a long-time member of the Club who had served a term on the committee a few years ago.  He is a law school graduate who has worked for more than a decade for environmental non-profits.  He also co-founded and chairs the board of Grow Annapolis, a group dedicated to fostering community gardens.

Also elected in the balloting was Alexandra Long, who had been appointed to the committee in 2010 to fill a mid-term vacancy.  She is a college student with deep roots in Anne Arundel County and is deeply interested in development issues.  Also elected to new two-year terms were Gene Milgram, Cherie Yelton and David Prosten.

The executive committee was unanimous in re-electing Prosten as Chair, Milgram as Treasurer and incumbent Sue Youngs as Secretary, and chose Thomas Higdon as Vice-Chair.  Other continuing members are Jan Hoffmaster, Outings Chair; Liz Vanden Heuvel, Invasive Species Chair; and Steve Satzberg and Earl Bradley, Co-Conservation Chairs.  Judy Mauriello, who retired from the executive committee, will continue to serve as Education Chair, and activist Rick Kissel will head up the group’s Watershed Committee.

The Anne Arundel group has 1,400 members and is considered one of the state's most active Sierra Club groups.  There are about 14,000 club members in Maryland and more than 750,000 nationally.

The executive committee meets monthly and encourages attendance and participation by all members.  Meeting times and places are listed in the group's bi-monthly Sierra Log newsletter and on the website www.maryland.sierraclub.org/annearundel.