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A Publication of the Tampa Bay History Center
Cotanchobee
WHERE THE BIG WATER MEETS THE LAND SPRING 2021
Tampa Bay Stories
PRESERVING THE HISTORY AND STORIES OF OUR COMMUNITY
Table of Contents Tampa Riverwalk | 801 Water Street
President’s Letter 3 EXECUTIVE
C.J. Roberts The Frank E. Duckwall President & CEO
Education Update 4 Nicole Conner Chief of Staff
ADVANCEMENT & MEMBERSHIP
Touchton Map Library 5 Lisa-Perry Richardson Director of Advancement
Florida 100 Years Ago - Rodney Kite-Powell Andrea Nalls Director of Experience & Operations
New Tusks to Tails Exhibit 6-7 CURATORIAL & COLLECTIONS
Rodney Kite-Powell Director, Touchton Map Library
Tampa Bay Stories Brad Massey, Ph.D. Saunders Foundation Curator of Public History
Tampa Bay Stories - Dr. Brad Massey 8 Fred Hearns Curator of Black History
Malerie Dorman Curator of Collections
Collection Spotlight - Heather Culligan 9 Heather Culligan Registrar
Teen Council - Oral History Project 10 EDUCATION AND
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
History Center Welcomes Nancy Dalence Director of Education
Brian Buttafuoco Curator of Education
Fred Hearns 11 Amanda Hoffman Programs Manager
Hillsborough County Grant 11 FACILITIES
Claus Daniel Director of Facilities
Donors 12 Ross Lamoreaux Facilities Technician/Historical Interpreter
Roland Thiboutot Facilities Technician
Gala 12 Andrew Reymont Security
Mark Mischan Evening Building Attendant
Members 13-18
FINANCE
Board of Trustees 19 Maria Steijlen Chief Financial Officer
Jose Fabian Accounting Associate
Summer Camps 20
MARKETING
Manny Leto Director of Marketing & Communications
Teresa Silva Graphic Designer
VISITOR SERVICES
Let’s Stay Connected. Colleen Fernandez Visitor Services Manager
Susan Rimensnyder Visitor Services Assistant Manager
Barrie Slonim Museum Store Associate
Letty Best, Mike Fowler, Jim Goeb, Ivy Johnson,
Get event and exhibit announcements, Simona Perego, Marilynn Simpson and Sophie Wright
Visitor Services Associates
up-to-date information about the
History Center and our daily “On This Day” history EDUCATION PARTNERS
University of South Florida, School District of Hillsborough
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in part by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, the City of
Tampa, the State of Florida Office of Cultural and Historical Programs and the
Tampa Bay History Center USF Program Partnership.
President’s Letter
On March 13, 2020, amid rising While we look forward to welcoming the community back into the
COVID cases, we made the difficult building for in-person programming, field trips and board meetings,
decision to temporarily close the Tampa the COVID crisis will forever change the way we make information
Bay History Center to the public; we available. Look for post-COVID presentations to be a “hybrid”
remained so for nearly three months. model, with in-person and virtual opportunities to participate. One
During that closure, we worked of the History Center’s core values is access to our offerings, and
diligently to develop safety protocols, the past year has led to our “upping our game” in that respect. We
implementing best practices by expect to continue these offerings and expand upon them as we
C.J. Roberts
following recommendations from the continue forward.
The Frank E. Duckwall
President & CEO government and museum industry.
The museum we reopened on June This past year has not been easy, but we are grateful to still be
1st looked very different from the one we closed, but we wanted able to continue our work with our community. Thanks to two
to ensure that visitors felt the same connection to the Tampa Bay Paycheck Protection Program loans and the ongoing generosity
community during their visit as they would have pre-pandemic, a of our members and supporters, we have continued to offer
goal I feel we achieved. Despite the Plexiglas shields, masked staff quality programs for the community. Thanks to support from
and guests, endless hand-sanitizing stations, and floor graphics Raymond James and other donors, our Museum at Home program
reminding our visitors to “stand six feet apart,” I believe we were has allowed us to produce nearly 50 videos on local history.
able to reopen without diminishing the museum experience. Meanwhile, funding from both Hillsborough County and the City of
Tampa’s COVID relief programs – which are providing funding for
Our closure, however, has resulted in us pushing farther beyond personal protective equipment, permanent enhancements to the
the walls of the museum than we had previously ventured. During facility to ensure a safe environment for our guests and other tools
the three months that we could not welcome visitors, our staff that are enabling us to continue our mission – the History Center
quickly shifted focus to ensure that our mission – discovering, is well-positioned to weather this crisis for the foreseeable future.
preserving and learning from our region’s past to inform our
common future – continued beyond the physical doors of the As we approach the one-year anniversary of the unprecedented
History Center. Staff began utilizing virtual platforms to deliver closing of the Center, we recognize that the crisis isn’t over,
great content, to accelerate our virtual learning initiatives, and but better days appear to be in sight. I’m grateful to our staff,
to continue the Center’s daily operations. Our education staff volunteers, board members and partners, particularly the City
worked with local schools to provide virtual learning opportunities; of Tampa and Hillsborough County, for helping us get through
the curatorial staff presented items from our collection; and our a difficult time while continuing to fulfill our mission and move
board of trustees and committees met remotely. Today, as a result forward as an institution.
of these efforts, there is a rich archive of TBHC content available
through social media, YouTube and the History Center’s website.
COTANCHOBEE • SPRING 2021 3
Education Team
MEETS COVID CHALLENGE
COVID has created a particularly she stresses, “because the kids hadn’t been back to school by
challenging environment for museums summer 2020. Camp was their first experience in a classroom
everywhere, including the History setting in several months, but it was a positive one.” As for Girl
Center. One example can be seen Scout activities, Amanda is back doing on-site workshops. As she
through the lens of our Education discovered, “The pros for this are safety and fewer distractions;
& Public Programs Department, the con is that the limited capacity changes classroom dynamics.”
which, over the years, developed a
wide array of communications and But negative events sometimes produce positive outcomes. As
by Sara Baker programming options, many of which Nancy has observed, “Almost a year into the pandemic, we are
History Center docent
encompassed public involvement and savvier about how we deliver online programs, lectures, meetings
social engagement. So on March 13, and even holiday parties. Educators still need curriculum resources,
2020, when COVID began hitting the U.S. economy and TBHC bored adults need stimulating edu-tainment, and students need
closed its doors, it left staff to wonder how the pandemic would answers to their homework questions. As the dust has settled, we
affect the museum and their livelihoods. are thrilled to note that the public has remained involved in TBHC,
but in a safer, more internet-focused fashion.”
“In the pre-COVID world, we communicated in person within the
galleries and at programs and events,” reflects Education Director
Nancy Dalence. “Then all that stopped in a heartbeat, and we could
only connect with people via the internet, our website or through
virtual programming. We had a lot of adjusting to do!”
Museum@ ome
Curator of Education Brian Buttafuoco recalls how unsettling
everything was at the beginning, particularly because he wasn’t
able to connect personally with docents and volunteers, folks
integral to the museum’s mission. “For me,” he points out, “the shift
5 virtual field trips reaching
in responsibilities was drastic. When tours and field trips became 250+ students
few and far between, I moved over to working a lot at Chinsegut
Hill. Our new environment also created a great learning curve as
12 virtual teacher workshops
we entered the Zoom world and adapted what we learned to virtual
workshops and field trips. Through trial and error, we quickly flexed 40+ Florida
our education muscles and became creative in new formats.”
history videos
For Programs Manager Amanda Hoffman, whose responsibilities
often involve children’s programs, she explains that she had to 50,000 combined
alter many summer camp procedures to keep kids, counselors, social media audience
teachers and staff safe. “This was tough to do in a COVID world,”
4 TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER
A Look at Florida
100 YEARS AGO
To say that Florida has changed over the past 100 years is a bit like saying the sun is hot. It is both obvious
and a little understated. Seeing that growth, though, is still very instructive, and one of the best ways to
visualize how much Florida has changed since 1921 is to look at a map of the state from that time.
The map featured on this page was printed in 1921 by the L.L. Poates Engraving Company. Anyone with
a passing familiarity of modern Florida will realize that this map, especially South Florida, looks drastically
different. The concentration of counties and infrastructure (here represented by railroad tracks shown in red)
is concentrated in north and central Florida. Though not shown on this map, the state’s fledgling automobile
Rodney Kite-Powell road system was similarly concentrated.
Director of the
Touchton Map Library The 1920 federal census, which counted a statewide population of 968,470, reflects a similar distribution
of people. It also demonstrates how small the state’s population was at the time. Of the existing 54 counties
(there are 67 today), only one (Duval) had more than 100,000 residents. More telling is that there was only
one other county that counted more than 50,000 residents, and that was Hillsborough County with 88,257.
Only six cities had a population in excess of 10,000
people, with another 11 cities counting 5,000 people
or more. The six largest cities, in order starting with
the most populous, were Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami,
Pensacola, Key West and St. Petersburg. Five of the
other 11 cities with a population exceeding 5,000 were
located in north Florida (Gainesville, St. Augustine,
Tallahassee, Fernandina and Palatka) and five were
in central Florida (Orlando, West Tampa, Lakeland,
Daytona Beach and Sanford). With the exception of Key L.L. Poates
West, which has always been an outlier, the only two cities Engraving Co. - 1921
in South Florida with a population greater than 5,000 people Tampa Bay History Center
were Miami and West Palm Beach, and their combined population Collection L2019.067.079
was only 38,230, which was only slightly larger than Pensacola.
Going back to the map, you can see that there are only nine counties in southern Florida
(south of a line from the southern end of Tampa Bay east to around Vero Beach). Those
nine counties (Manatee, DeSoto, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Lee, Broward,
Monroe and Dade) accounted for only 149,796 of Florida’s citizenry in 1920, or just a little
over 15% of the total population.
Those numbers are drastically different today. The southern portion of the state holds a near-
majority of its citizens and wields enormous political power. The I-4 corridor, which runs from
Daytona Beach through Orlando and into the Tampa Bay area, is almost as important politically if not
culturally. With the exception of Jacksonville and Duval County (which are nearly one and the same),
the state’s population centers reside in central and south Florida.
How did this happen? The trend actually began shortly after this map was printed. The 1920s land
boom kicked off an era of tremendous growth and prosperity for the state, with the vast majority of that growth
occurring in the Tampa Bay area and southeast Florida. Miami was the biggest winner during this time, and it
was the city that faired best when the real estate bubble burst in the late 1920s.
The other major era of growth happened during and immediately after World War II. Again, that growth had the
greatest effect in southeast Florida, the Tampa Bay area and, to a lesser degree, southwest Florida. It also began to take
hold in inland central Florida, particularly in the Orlando area.
Today, those nine South Florida counties from the early 1920s have been divided into 18 counties, and they contain
nearly half of the state’s population of 22.2 million people. By looking at the historic maps, which are available online through the
Touchton Map Library at the Tampa Bay History Center, we can gain a better understanding
of our growth and the patterns that brought us to where we are today.
THEY LIVED.
THEY RULED.
THEY DIED.
NOW THEY’RE BACK!
The History Center is going to take
you back–way back–to a Florida with
grazing mammoths, 200-pound
big-toothed beavers and fierce-
looking, sharp-toothed whales. But
don’t be afraid. They will all be tucked ON EXHIBIT NOW THROUGH JAN. 16, 2022
behind thick plastic walls.
Dr. Brad Massey Our newest temporary exhibit, “Tusks submerged. The orcas and other toothed whales that prowl today’s
Curator of Public History to Tails: A Fossil History of Florida,” seas for their next meal are zygorhiza’s distant relatives.
features fossils of animals that swam
over and walked on Florida, most long before the first humans made After encountering zygorhiza’s toothy head, gallery visitors will find
Florida home. The exhibit spans 55 million years, from when Florida themselves face to tooth with the skull of a giant beaver that lived
was entirely underwater to the most frigid point of the last Ice Age, in Florida during the last Ice Age. Beavers grew to over 200 pounds
when Florida was twice as wide as it is today. and six feet long during the chilly days of the Pleistocene Epoch. The
Pleistocene, which ended a mere 11,000 years ago, was characterized
“Tusks to Tails” has fossils from both terrestrial and aquatic animals by cold global temperatures and glacier formation. North America
on display. Upon entering the gallery, visitors first come face to was so cold at times during the Pleistocene that even present-day
face with zygorhiza, a 20-foot toothed whale that stalked oceanic Kentucky was covered by glaciers. But here in Florida, castoroides
Florida during the Eocene Epoch. The Eocene began 55 million years dilophidus (the enormous rodent’s scientific name) found a glacier-
ago, and during this multimillion year epoch, Florida was entirely free land whose climate was amenable to its aquatic ways.
Pleistocene Florida, however, was not just a good era for dam
builders. During this time, far larger creatures also lived in Florida.
Mammoths and mastodons roamed Florida during the Pleistocene.
How big were they?
Well, I will not spoil it (you will learn all about that when you visit),
but I will tell you that we have fossilized mammoth jaws and a big
LEFT: Oreodont skull and mandible • Name: Mesoreodon floridensis
Epoch: Oligocene • Area Found: North Florida
TOP RIGHT: Giant beaver skull • Name: Castoroides dilophidus
Epoch: Pleistocene • Area Found: Florida
RIGHT: Zygorhiza skull and jaws • Name: Zygorhiza kochii
Epoch: Eocene • Area Found: Gulf of Mexico’s northern coast
Special thanks to exhibit contributors: Florida Museum of
Natural History, University of South Florida’s Digital Heritage and
Humanities Collections and Eric S. Kendrew
We also have fossils from ancient baleen (filter-feeder) whales
on display. Early baleen whales, the forerunners to the giant blue
whales of today, evolved and took shape tens of millions of years ago.
Concentrated plankton blooms in Earth’s ancient oceans sparked
evolutionary changes that led to the development of baleen, in lieu
of sharp teeth. This baleen allowed whales to gorge themselves on
thick pockets of plankton, a behavior whale watchers observe with
today’s large filter-feeder whales.
Most of the fossils showcased in the exhibit are from our collection,
but the Florida Museum of Natural History generously loaned items
to the History Center for the show, and the University of South
Florida’s Digital Heritage and Humanities department created 3-D
maps for us to display. These maps illustrate how Florida’s coastline
has ebbed and flowed over the past 55 million years.
ole’ mastodon leg bone on display. Both items speak to just how
immense these vegetarians were. “Tusks to Tails” is the Tampa Bay History Center’s first natural history
exhibit. To this point, our primary focus has been human history, so
Yet beavers, mammoths and mastodons were not the first land we are proud to give our guests a new window to a distant past. Be
animals to traverse Florida. During the earlier Oligocene Epoch, warned, however, that this window will not last forever, so come on
which began about 34 million years ago, high points of Florida down and take a look at the remains of creatures that lived in Florida
began to emerge from the sea. This allowed the first land animals, long before ranch homes and golf courses dotted the landscape.
according to existing fossil records, to migrate to Florida. One of the And in the process, witness how
first land animals to come here were dog-like oreodonts, and we Florida’s coastline has radically
have an oreodont skull on display. Oreodonts weighed around 50 changed over the last
pounds, which is about the size of my hound dog, Daisy. Fun fact: 55 million years.
I incorporated a picture of Daisy into the the exhibit, so tell the
young ones in your party to keep their eyes peeled.
Tampa Bay Stories
Super Bowl LV COVID-19 signs and Personal Protection Pack artifacts donated to the History Center by the Tampa Bay Sports Authority.
Motivated by the area’s mass public In all, our efforts were a success. We collected over 30 signs,
protests, COVID-19 outbreak and photos, first-hand accounts and other items we believe are important
the presidential election, a group additions to the History Center’s collection. They remind us that the
of dedicated History Center staff History Center is far more than just what visitors see when they visit
members hit the pavement, and their our galleries. The multitude of items we preserve in collections storage
keyboards, in 2020. are just as important to us as the items we have on display.
Together, we collected signs at protests, Even though many of the Tampa Bay Stories items we collected will
Dr. Brad Massey asked companies for COVID-related likely not be seen by visitors, they are looking-glasses that will allow
Curator of Public History materials, and recorded residents’ historians, museum curators and community members to tell the
stories, all to build the History Center’s various stories of our community’s collective identity and past, circa
collection and aid future museum professionals and historians in their 2020. With this in mind, we are dedicated to these items’ collection
quest to tell the story of the most revolutionary year in recent memory. and preservation.
All told, these efforts became known as the History Center’s Tampa
Bay Stories initiative. Now that 2020 is over (praise be) members of the Tampa Bay Stories
committee are charting a new path. We are currently re-engineering
Tampa Bay Stories began in mid-2020 with a meeting of employees the initiative away from 2020 and into a new year. What will we
in the History Center’s collections, education, marketing and collect in the coming years? What will be the themes from 2021 and
communications departments as well as our chief of staff. At this beyond? We do not yet know, but Tampa Bay Stories will continue to
meeting, we collectively decided that, with all the history going on be a proactive collections initiative, one that actively seeks out historic
around us, it was imperative that we take a proactive collections treasures and directly engages community members where they live,
approach. Instead of sitting and waiting for people to donate items to work, rally and relax.
us, we, but especially Programs Manager Amanda Hoffman, took to
the streets and collected signs, protest pamphlets and other items we
thought should be saved for posterity.
We also reached out to local businesses, like Publix, and collected
COVID masks and signage.
During these collections missions, our marketing team created
an online portal for area residents to submit their 2020 stories.
This allowed us to widen our net and communicate with those we
did not encounter in person. Soon, photos, emails and other items
were submitted to the portal. These items added a new and exciting
dimension to our Tampa Bay Stories initiative.
Amanda Hoffman holds a History Center sign asking the
public to share their story at a protest march in June, 2020.
Top: Dr. Carlos Dalence conducting his daily review of Florida’s COVID numbers. BOTTOM: Acrylic painting designed and painted by 13-year-old
Mallory. RIGHT: History Center staff review various artifacts collected through the Tampa Bay Stories project.
Our Tampa Bay Stories initiative review of Florida’s COVID numbers, including the number of
has been a rousing success! With tests conducted, newly reported positive cases, hospitalizations
the assistance of several TBHC and deaths during the initial shutdown of the Tampa Bay area.
departments, the online portal received A photograph of a sign outside of the Blind Tiger coffee shop in
submissions from various community Seminole Heights depicts how businesses communicated with
members and even our own staff. In patrons regarding mask mandates, and the reliance on technology
addition to this digital collecting, staff to facilitate transactions with patrons who did not have a face
collected physical objects. To give you covering. And the submission of a journal written by Michaela
Heather Culligan a sense of what we have collected, Cosgriff, a member of the History Center’s Teen Council, provided
Registrar below I have profiled six items we insight into how a junior in high school navigated a global pandemic.
aquired in 2020.
During a year that proved to be challenging in many ways for
An excellent example of both initiatives working together is one of the the Tampa Bay community, Tampa Bay Stories ensured that the
first submissions to Tampa Bay Stories. Staff members Rodney Kite- History Center remained engaged and informed. With the help of
Powell, Amanda Hoffman, Nicole Conner and Brad Massey attended our staff and community members, we documented history in real
a Black Lives Matter protest held at Curtis Hixon Park on June 4, 2020, time, building our collection along the way.
the first of several to take place in the city. They encountered
Julia, a six-year-old Black girl, who made her own sign to take
to the protest. She wrote “Respect Black Lives” with purple
markers on a large white poster and kindly agreed to donate
it as she was leaving with her dad. It became the first Black
Lives Matter sign in the collection.
In addition to Black Lives Matter signs, Tampa Bay Stories
also received submissions of photographs of artwork
created in response to the protest movement. Kari
Marsland-Pettit submitted a photograph of a painting by
Mallory, a 13-year-old girl. It depicts the faces of seven
Black lives lost and their own words said during their
Rodney Kite-Powell holds a protest sign created
interactions with police. by Julia, a six-year-old Black girl, who donated
the sign to the History Center after a protest.
Tampa Bay Stories also served as a forum for people to
share their experiences during the pandemic. We received COVID-19 sign outside the Blind Tiger coffee
a photograph of Dr. Carlos Dalence conducting his daily shop in Seminole Heights.
Whether we’re documenting protests, collecting the stories of local civil rights leaders, or talking with our community about
the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are committed to helping you tell your story. We want to hear from you. Go to
tampabayhistorycenter.org/tampa-bay-stories to share and submit your story.
TEEN COUNCIL
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
Since its founding four years ago,
the Tampa Bay History Center
Teen Council has tackled a variety
of different ventures for diverse
audiences, from assisting with
strategic planning to hosting events
for high school students.
Amanda Hoffman During the summer of 2020, the
Programs Manager Teen Council met virtually to discuss
its plans for the 2020-2021 school
year. Knowing on-site public programming was off the table for
the fall, the group came up with an idea that completely changed
the Council’s focus–oral history. Oral history is a way of collecting
personal and unique stories and perspectives about a certain
topic or event through recorded interviews.
The original intent of the project was to interview local, essential
workers about their day-to-day life during the COVID-19 “Conducting interviews over the internet has really given us the
pandemic. However, with the growing Tampa Bay Stories initiative opportunity to adapt to our circumstances,” says Teen Council
at TBHC covering that same topic, the oral history project took a member Amelia Huckert, pictured here while conducting an oral
slight turn. Instead of focusing on 2020, the group decided to take history project interview via Zoom.
an in-depth look at recent history to learn more about the events
that helped shape today’s Tampa. By interviewing local political These practice sessions have given the teenagers the opportunity
and community leaders, the Council hopes to collect stories that to improve their question writing and communication skills.
give Tampa’s history a personal touch.
The Teen Council members who are not doing the interviewing work
The Teen Council made use of the fall semester by learning behind the scenes with transcribing and indexing the interviews.
the ins and outs of oral histories. The group spent a significant By having each of these interviews transcribed, it will allow for
amount of time listening to examples of oral histories, researching researchers to use the content more efficiently in the future.
techniques, and receiving training from an outside consultant
about best practices in general and in the virtual environment. With the knowledge and skills gained in the last year, the final
From question writing to the technology behind it, it has been a interviews will be recorded with both audio and video utilizing
huge learning experience for everyone involved. Zoom. The official oral history interviews will take place in the
coming weeks as the spring semester comes to an end. Once
To help practice, TBHC docents have been recruited to be again, the Teen Council has proven themselves to be a unique and
interviewed by the Council via Zoom. adaptable group at the History Center.
10 TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTERHistory Center
CLEARS AIR WITH
COUNTY GRANT
In addition to “quarantine,” the
COVID-19 pandemic has elevated
words like “pathogen,” and
“antimicrobial” into our everyday lexicon.
At the History Center, we’ve added
another: “bipolar ionization.”
History Center The History Center upgraded its
HVAC system this past summer,
adding hospital-grade ionization
technology and U.V. filters that
WELCOMES FRED HEARNS Times file photo, Octavio Jones, Dec. 2017
dramatically improve air quality, thanks
to grant funding awarded through the
County’s Rapid Response Recovery
When Fred Hearns steps into his new role as Curator of Black History, he’ll start a Assistance Program.
new chapter in a career more than 40 years in the making. Bipolar ionization releases charged
atoms that attach to and deactivate
The Bronx native and adopted Tampa son grew up in East Tampa and graduated from
harmful airborne substances like
the original Middleton High School. After college at USF, he worked as a journalist
bacteria, mold, allergens and viruses.
for the Florida Sentinel-Bulletin and Tampa Tribune before being hired by the City of
Tampa in 1975 when Bill Poe was in charge. He retired as director of the Department Air supplied throughout the entire facility
of Community Affairs under Pam Iorio in 2007, a 32-year run. is now treated utilizing this system,
which has proven effective against the
It didn’t take long before he had a new title: Tour Guide. Hearns led more than 300 spread of COVID, SARS, Norovirus
tours through Tampa’s historic neighborhoods over more than a decade in business. and several influenza strains.
As a history consultant for the City of Tampa and several private developers, “We have been exploring this for a while
he weighed in on major infrastructure projects, including the Encore Housing now, but the pandemic and available
Development and Perry Harvey Park. As a community volunteer, he worked to re- funding from the County made it a
establish his alma mater, Middleton High School, and he led the charge to build priority,” said Claus Daniel, the History
the 78th Street Community Library and a new Robert W. Saunders Public Library. Center’s Director of Facilities. “Aside from
hospitals, we’re likely among the first
Hearns has a long tenure with the History Center. In 2004, then-mayor Pam Iorio facilities to implement this technology. It
appointed him to represent the City on the History Center’s Board of Trustees. definitely puts us ahead of the curve.”
It was a pivotal time, as plans were underway for a new History Center to be
constructed along a proposed 2.6-mile Riverwalk. The grant also provided funds for the
installation of U.V. air filters, large-area
“I was thrilled that I got to have some input into how the history of Black people in sanitation foggers, sanitation stations
Tampa should be reflected and honored,” says Hearns. “Along with several other for guests, sneeze guards and other
trustees, I got to sign my name on a beam as the new facility was topped out. So protective equipment. The History
I’m literally a part of this story.” Center also received funding for
technology upgrades to help History
Hearns has remained a mainstay of History Center programming, serving as Center employees work from home and
a presenter for OLLI courses and Florida Conversations. In 2017, he worked to to purchase equipment to produce and
develop the History Center’s Central Avenue Black History Walking Tour, which he distribute online educational programs.
led for three years.
Over the summer, Hillsborough County
Hearns holds two master’s degrees, one in Africana Studies from USF and another received more than $250 million from
in Organizational Management and Leadership from Springfield College. He has the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
two books, “Getting it Done: Rebuilding Black America Brick By Brick” and “It’s Economic Security (CARES) Act. A
Your Move!” about the Rev. Abraham Brown, to his name. For now, he’s put his portion of those funds were allocated
Ph.D. coursework at USF on hold, as he begins a new chapter with a new title: for operational safety upgrades at
Curator of Black History at the Tampa Bay History Center. County-owned facilities. While Tampa
Bay History Center, Inc. is a private
nonprofit, the building in which the
museum is housed is owned by
Hillsborough County.We are grateful to the following donors,
who made gifts between
July 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021
Burton Family Foundation Beach Community Bank Mr. and Mrs. David E. Ward, Jr. Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Burton Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig, LLP Wealth Advisors of Tampa Bay Mr. and Mrs. S. David Anton
Culbreath Family Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. William G. Carson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus J. Williams IV Ms. Sara Baker
State of Florida, Dept. of State, Dimmitt Chevrolet Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Williams Ms. Holly Bird and Mr. Robert J. Carr
Division of Cultural Affairs Mr. Ronald Floto Mr. Russell S. Bogue, Jr.
Hillsborough County Dr. Liana Fernandez Fox and Col. and Mrs. Rolfe Arnhym Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Cimino
Lowry Murphey Family Foundation Mr. Robert Fox Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Barnes Ms. Ellen F. Crystal
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Lykes Mr. and Mrs. Drew A. Graham Drs. James and JoEllen Carlson Judge and Mrs. Paul W. Danahy
Mr. and Mrs. W. Tommy Morgan III Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Harvill Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Clarke, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Terry Dennis
Raymond James Hill Ward Henderson Mrs. Charles M. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. DeNovi
The Saunders Foundation Mr. Fraser Himes Mr. and Mrs. Alberto de Alejo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas DeWolfe
TECO Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Johnson Ms. Adelaide Few Ms. Mary Downing
The Bank of Tampa Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Kaney Mr. and Mrs. Sol Fleischman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David C. Entreken
Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Touchton Mr. and Mrs. Charley Knight Mr. and Mrs. William L. Graham Ms. Kristien Fernandez-Everett
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Touchton, Jr. Dr. Naomi Lang-Unnasch Mr. Thomas Hall Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Giddens
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey N. Vinik Mrs. Charles W. Liller Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hardee, Jr. Mrs. Mary Gray
Vinik Family Foundation Ms. June Mansfield Mr. and Mrs. Chris Harrell Mr. David R. Hall III and
Ms. Nell Ward The Honorable and Mrs. Bob Martinez Mr. William Harrell, Jr. Ms. Judy Tampa
Mr. and Ms. Andrew McDonald Mr. and Mrs. James P. Hines Mr. and Mrs. Drew Hudgins
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Annis Mr. John C. Mills, Jr. Mrs. Victor P. Leavengood Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Kirstein
ASAP Capital, Inc. Ms. Janet Nichols and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Linder Mr. and Mrs. Lamar V. Marchese
Bank of Central Florida Mr. Erik MacPeek Mr. and Mrs. Tim Mann Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Marlowe
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Bolt Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Dr. Magdalena McKenney and Mrs. F. Graham McKeel
Caspers Company Dr. and Mrs. Maynard Ramsey III Mr. William McKenney Mr. and Mrs. Sam Militello
McDonald’s Restaurants Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Rauenhorst Mr. and Mrs. James Murray Dr. Dixie Mills
Mr. and Mrs. Brett D. Couch Mr. and Mrs. R. James Robbins, Jr. Mrs. Alton B. Parker National Society of Colonial
The Frank E. Duckwall Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Roberts Dr. Derrie Perez Dames of America
Mrs. Arnold Goodman Dr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Rydell Mr. and Mrs. Saul Rachelson Ms. Vivien A. Oliva
Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Harrod Sabal Trust Company Mr. and Mrs. John Rains Mr. and Mrs. Thompson L. Rankin Jr.
Krusen Family Charitable Foundation Mrs. Bruce A. Samson Ms. Lisa-Perry Richardson Mr. Harley E. Riedel, II
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Raney Mr. T. Terrell Sessums Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rothman Mr. R. James Robbins, Sr.
Mr. Chris Richards and Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Spurlino Mr. and Mrs. Jon Sajeski Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Rydberg
Ms. Gretchen Shires Mr. and Mrs. C. Lawrence Stagg Mr. and Mrs. John F. Spangler Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Sessums
Thomas Financial Group Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steijlen Dr. and Mrs. Frank M. Taylor III Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip Sheesley
Triad Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Paul A. Straske Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Turner III SPYC Ladies Beach Club
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Whiting, Jr. Ms. Patricia C. Sullivan Mrs. Carol R. Turpin at Pass-A-Grille
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Yodzis Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Taggart Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Vore Ms. Kathleen Taylor
Tampa Bay Rays Mr. and Mrs. J. Hulon Williams III Dr. and Mrs. G. Phillips Thomas
Tampa Steel Erecting Company Ms. Kay Annis Wilson Mr. and Mrs. I. Clay Thompson, Jr.
Ms. Maruchi Azorin and
Mr. and Mrs. Tate Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tombrink, Jr.
Dr. Rafael Blanco
Mr. David Townsend Dr. and Mrs. Barry Verkauf
Mr. and Mrs. L. Lowry Baldwin Ms. Patricia Alchediak
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Urette Dr. and Mrs. Raghavendra Vijayanagar
Mr. and Mrs. Alston M. Barrow Ms. Helen Allen
W.S. Badcock Corporation Ms. Debby Vink
Bay Area Building Solutions AmazonSmile Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Wise
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to continue this grand tradition by November.Thank you to our loyal members, who support
the History Center’s mission and programs.
Current Members as of January 31, 2021:
FOUNDER AND Mr. and Mrs. Sergio Quevedo Mrs. John Wolfe Dr. and Mrs. Robert Isbell Dr. and Mrs. Dirk W. R. Suringa
SUSTAINING FOUNDER Mr. Frank J. “Sandy” Rief, III and Mrs. Barbara A. Woods Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Jones Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Susar
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bierley Ms. Diane Egner Drs. Paula and Carl Zielonka Mr. and Mrs. Sreenivas Katragadda Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Swiger
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Bolt Mr. and Mrs. Lester J. Ryals, Jr. Ms. Dana K. Kluft Ms. Janice Thiel
Mrs. Richard J. Brandewie Mrs. Bruce A. Samson SUPPORTER Mr. and Mrs. David T. Knight Dr. and Mrs. G. Phillips Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Todd S. Farha Mr. Mike Schutt Mrs. Marilyn J. Alessi Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kodadek Mr. Robert M. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ferman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Sears Mr. Tim Alles Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Krist Ms. Martha-Sue Thompson
Mr. G. Lowe Morrison Dr. and Mrs. Joel C. Silverfield Mr. Robert Amor Mr. J. A. Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Spurlino Dr. and Mrs. Earl A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Tim Amos Ms. Susan La Motte Lane Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Turnipseed
Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Touchton Mrs. Marion C. “Cookie” Smith Col. and Mrs. Rolfe Arnhym Mrs. Judy P. Lawson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Valerio
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Whiting, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Spangler Dr. John Aspinall and Mr. Judge William Levens Ms. Linda M. Van Stavern
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Touchton III Christopher Bernhard Mr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Levy Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vance
CORPORATE PATRON Ms. Sherri Villanueva Mr. and Mrs. W. DeHart Ayala, Jr. Mrs. Charles W. Liller Mrs. Mattie T. Vega
Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Ms. Rosemary Armstrong and Mr. Peter Baker Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liu Dr. and Mrs. Barry Verkauf
Mr. Morris Weinberg Mr. Walter A. Baldwin, Jr. Mrs. Kelly Verra
Ms. Janet Lorenzo
BENEFACTOR Mr. and Mrs. J. Hulon Williams III Mr. and Mrs. Adam Beebe Ms. Michelle Vigil
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Lykes III
Mr. and Mrs. Alston M. Barrow Mr. William Knight Zewadski Mr. and Mrs. Stewart T. Bertron Mr. and Mrs. William C. Walters
Major Gen. Larry Martin and
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Boushall III Ms. Cara Knight Zingre Ms. Holly Bird and Mr. Robert J. Carr Mrs. Julia Martin Ms. Amanda L. Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Carter Mr. Terry A. Zitek Mr. Russell S. Bogue, Jr. Mr. Everett McCooey III Mr. and Mrs. James W. Warren III
Mr. A.G. Divers Mr. Andrew Bridwell and Mrs. Howell A. McKay Dr. and Mrs. A. Frank Weitzman
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. SPONSOR Mr. Barry Boyce Mr. Patrick H. McNamara Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Williams
Henderson III Dr. and Mrs. David E. Barclay Mr. Mary Britain Mr. and Mrs. Mark McPike Mr. and Mrs. James J. Wise
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis H. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Bean Mr. and Mrs. Wesley A. Brockway Mr. and Mrs. Sam Militello Mr. Robert Wishaw
Mrs. Rosemary Sparkman McAteer Mr. Anthony J. Borrell, Jr. Ms. April Cabral Mr. and Mrs. Richard Miller Ms. Elizabeth Hatton Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McNichols Mr. William E. Carlson, Jr. Drs. James and JoEllen Carlson Mr. Roland E. Miller III Mrs. Betty Wood
McNichols Company Dr. and Mrs. Leopoldo Diaz Mrs. Herbert D. Carrington, Jr. Mr. John C. Mills, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Enrique A. Woodroffe
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Parrino Mr. and Mrs. Lucius M. Dyal, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Pat Cates Dr. Dixie Mills Mr. and Mrs. Gregory C. Yadley
Mr. Scott L. Peeler, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Giddens Mr. and Mrs. Robert Churuti Mr. Mario Mondo Mr. and Mrs. Jean M. Yadley
Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Gilbert Ms. Rose Coman Mr. and Mrs. Jim Murman Mr. and Mrs. John J. Yodzis
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Horace C. Gordon, Jr. Father Charles Connelly Admiral and Mrs. Eric Olson Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Zielinski
L. Rankin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Gormly Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cooley Dr. and Mrs. Brendan C. O’Malley
Mr. Chris Richards and Mr. and Mrs. Drew A. Graham Ms. Katherine Corson The Honorable J. Rogers Padgett
Ms. Gretchen Shires FAMILY
Mr. David R. Hall III and Mr. and Mrs. Duane Crandon Dr. Derrie Perez
Salem Law Group, PA Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Abdnour
Ms. Judy Tampa Mr. and Mrs. William C. Crowder Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Plate Mr. and Mrs. Dan Abrams
Dr. and Mrs. John C. Toole, Jr. Ms. Rosemary H. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. James A. Curry Ms. Jacqueline Preis
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Touchton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Adams
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Howell III Mrs. Gerilyn Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Tarun Rai Mr. and Mrs. Edward Adamski
Mr. Bill Wagner Dr. and Mrs. Galen B. Jones Mr. D. Stone Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Raney Mr. Frank Adelman
Ms. Nell Ward Mr. and Mrs. Clark Jordan-Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Max Dufeny
Mr. David D. Reid Mr. and Mrs. Sunil Adimoolah
Ms. Kay Annis Wilson Dr. Harvey Kennedy, M.D. Drs. Ulrike Wolter and
Ms. Cheryl Reinerio Ms. Jessica Adkins
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wotovich Dr. Stuart Lipman Geoffrey Duyk
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Agey
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Lupo Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eager
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Richmond Mrs. Jennette Aguay
PATRON Dr. and Mrs. Jack Maniscalco Ms. Cheri Ellison
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Roberts Mr. Fernando Aguilar and
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Annis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Marlowe Mr. and Mrs. David C. Entreken
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rosen Mrs. Michelle Harmon
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cecil Mrs. F. Graham McKeel Ms. Veronica Everett
Mrs. Judith O. Rosenkranz Mr. and Mrs. David Aiosa
Dr. and Mrs. R. Flake Chambliss Ms. Mary Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Steven Falkowitz
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rossman Mr. and Mrs. Chris Aisenbrey
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Clark Ms. Vivien A. Oliva Dr. and Mrs. Bernie Farkas
Mr. and Mrs. David L Royer Mr. and Mrs. Manish Ajvalia
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Clarke, Sr. Ms. Helen Parkhill Dr. and Mrs. Jack E. Fernandez
Mr. Tim Ruff Dr. Esra Akin
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Culbreath III Mr. and Mrs. Saul Rachelson Ms. Jennifer Filla
Mr. and Mrs. Emlio Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Michael Akin
Mrs. Charles M. Davis Mr. and Mrs. John Rains Mr. and Mrs. Sol Fleischman, Jr.
Ms. Susan Saulnier and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Alberico
Mr. and Mrs. Preston L. Farrior Mr. and Mrs. R. James Robbins, Jr. Ms. Caroline H. Foss
Mr. John Treanor Mr. Chris Albers
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gonzalez III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Rydberg Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gore
Admiral Riccardo Sette Mr. Eesa Ali and Ms. Emily Egan
Mr. Fraser Himes The Honorable E.J. and Ms. Debbra Gottfried
Ms. Suzzette Sharp and Dr. and Mrs. Michael Allen
The Honorable Pam Iorio and Mrs. Elsa Salcines Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Gould, Sr. Mr. Ralph Hulslander
Mr. Mark Woodard Mr. and Mrs. Christian Alvarez
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. William L. Graham The Honorable Adelaide Sink
Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Kaney Ms. Betty Alvarez
Dr. and Mrs. Chuck Slonim Mrs. Virginia S. Green Mr. and Mrs. Peter Skemp
Ms. Ann Loughridge Kerr Mr. Rick Alvarez
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Soash Mr. and Mrs. R. Joe Guidry Mrs. Peggy Snuggs
Mr. and Mrs. William Lazarus Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Amick
Mrs. Don Stichter Mr. and Mrs. George Hardy IV Mr. Brian C. Springer
Ms. Kimberly Madison Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Straske II Mr. William C. Hein Ms. Susan Spurgeon and
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Miller Dr. Kristen Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. I. Clay Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Roderick Heller Mr. L. Scott Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Newman Mrs. Antoinette Anderson
Ms. Maureen Thurston and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henderson, III Professor and Dr. Ourania
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nolan Mr. Paolo Guida Stephanides Dr. and Mrs. Mac Anderson
Ms. Terry Hoft
Mr. Angel Oliva III Mr. and Mrs. David E. Ward, Jr.p Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Rogelio Anguiano, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Howe
Mr. Solon F. O’Neal, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David M. Williams Mr. and Mrs. David D. Suarez Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Ankarstrand
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Huckel
COTANCHOBEE • SUMMER 2020 13Members continued
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Annis Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Baughman Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Randall Carter Ms. Bonnie Coon
Ms. Kathleen Antares Mr. and Mrs. Phillip A. Baumann Mrs. Sherry Bradley and Ms. Sarah Carter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. S. David Anton Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Baya Mr. Sann Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Ty Carver Dr. Kirsten Cooper and
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Antonetti Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Beard Ms. Susan Braggins and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Casas Mr. Greg Cooper
Mr. Jerry Pasanteo Mr. Jorge Cordova
Ms. Andie Antonik Mr. Chad Bearup and Dr. Gert Caspritz and
Ms. Tammy Knick Mr. and Mrs. Rick Brandt Dr. Marzenna Wiranowska Ms. Gina Corr
Mr. and Mrs. Justin Anzaldua
Ms. Sarah Beckstead and Dr. and Mrs. Mark Braun Ms. Crystal Castleberry Mr. and Mrs. Santiago C. Corrada
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Applebee
Ms. Gretchen MacMillan Mr. and Ms. Rafael Bravo Mrs. Betty Castor and Dr. and Mrs. Kent Corral
Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Araya
Mr. and Mrs. William Beckwith Mr. Jorge Brea Mr. Samuel Bell III Dr. Lakeshia Cousin and
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Arcidiacono
Ms. Connie Bell Ms. Sarah Breland Mrs. Marsha Martin and Mr. Cornelius Cousin
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Armstrong
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Benitez Mrs. Maureen Brennan and Mr. Max Castro Mrs. Sherri Covey
Mr. Marvin Aronovitz
Mrs. Stephanie Bennett and Mr. Séamus Brennan Mrs. Amanda Castro and Mr. and Mrs. W. Donald Cox
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Arroyo Mr. Hector Castro
Mr. Guerdon Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Robert Breslin Mrs. Tiffany Cox and Mr. William Cox
Mr. Luis G. Arroyo and Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Caudill
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Benson Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Bricklemyer Mrs. Kiona Crawford
Mrs. Priscilla Falcon
Mr. Edward G. Bergin Mr. and Mrs. William Brinson Ms. Carole Caudill and
Mr. Landis Arroyo Mr. and Mrs. Peter Crews
Mr. Clyde Henderson
Ms. Jitske M. Bergman Mr. Patrick Brislin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Crocco
Mr. and Mrs. Yunus Ates Mr. and Mrs. Tom Caughey
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Bertha Ms. Lisa Brockman Mr. and Mrs. James Crochunis
Mr. William Au and Ms. Alesna Au Mrs. Gladys Chacon and
Mr. William Bertrand and Mr. John Brombosz Mr. and Mrs. Steven Crockett
Mr. Ben Augspurger Mr. Esace Chacon
Ms. Elizabeth Erickson Mr. Shane Broussard Mr. and Mrs. Edward Croissant
Mrs. Levasseur Aurore and Ms. Tonya Chaney and
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Bessette Mr. Charles Brown and Dr. Kristen Ignaszewski and
Mr. Ousset Damien Ms. Stephanie Chaney
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best Ms. Lynette Dinova Mr. John Crow
Mrs. Juana Avila and Mr. Adam Avila Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Chapman
Mr. and Mrs. John Binfield Mr. and Mrs. Steven Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crowder
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Ayscue Mr. and Mrs. Hayward Chapman
Ms. Deborah Birchler and Ms. Nancy L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cruise
Mr. and Mrs. James Azzarelli Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Chapman
Mr. Charles Broich Mrs. Debora Bruckner and Ms. Cindy Crum
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Larry Chappel
Mrs. Mary Lee Bischoff and Mr. Ronald Bruckner
Dr. Barbara A. Bachman Mrs. Lauren Chase and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Culberson
Mr. Denis Bischoff Ms. Whitney Bruner
Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Backman Mr. David Chase Mrs. Rebecca Cullen and
Mr. Jack Bishko and Mrs. Judith Buck Mr. Shawn Cullen
Mr. Jason Baer Dr. Nicole Bishko Dr. Peggy Chatham and
Ms. Heather Buffington Mr. Robert Milano Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Culligan
Mr. Robert Baez and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bishop
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Bunch Mr. and Mrs. Ramond Mr. John F. Curran and
Mrs. Maribel Mediavilla Mrs. Erin Bitz and Mr. Joe Bitz
Mr. Matt Moran and A. Chiaramonte Ms. Patricia Chung
Ms. Lori Baggett Mr. Brent Bizwell Mrs. Megan Burdeshaw Mr. Samuel Cho and Mr. and Mrs. Cole Curran
Mr. Brian Wright and Mr. David Blackmar and Mr. and Mrs. William Burgos Mrs. Yang Keum Kang Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Curtis
Ms. Kaitlyn Bailey Mrs. Sandra Perez
Mr. Ric Burlie Ms. Jean Christie Mr. and Mrs. Rubin Curts
Ms. Sara Baker Mr. Daniel Blackmar and
Ms. Valerie Burri Mr. Joe Ciccarelli and Mr. and Mrs. James Cuthbertson
Mr. and Mrs. Rod Baker Ms. Kara Leesman
Mr. Bill Busch and Ms. Natalie Russell Mrs. Wioletta Dabrowski
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Baker Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Blaha
Ms. Amanda Carreras Ms. Christina Cintino
Ms. Maria Balderas Mr. and Mrs. Brett Blank Mr. and Mrs. Gerard D’Angelo
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Bush Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Baldus Mr. and Mrs. Will Blankenbaker Mr. Jeremy Daniels and
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Busheme Mr. and Mrs. Jared Clark Ms. Amanda Daniels
Mr. and Mrs. Laszlo Balla Rabbi Marc Blatt and
Mr. and Mrs. Brent Butler Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Clark Ms. Leretta Date
Mr. Martin Ballard Mrs. Rachel Blatt
Mr. and Mrs. James Butler Ms. Jennifer Clark and Mr. Lloyd Clark Mrs. Stacy Davenport and
Mrs. Theresa Balsiger and Mr. Gary Blatt
Ms. Katia Caban-Matos Ms. Diane Clausen and Mr. Joe Davenport
Mr. Vincent Balsiger Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Blevins
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Cabasos Mr. Stephen Clausen Mr. and Mrs. David Davis
Mrs. Alyssa Bambard and Dr. Sarah Bloom
Mr. Wilson Cabrera and Ms. Judith Clavey Mr. and Ms. David Davis
Mr. Tom Bambard Jeremy Blunt
Ms. Jamellan Cabrera Mr. Robert Cleveland and Ms. Linda Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Banks Mrs. Melissa Bogardus
Mr. John T. Caffarello Ms. Mamie Wise Mrs. Eugene Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Baptiste Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bond
Mr. Scott Callahan Mr. and Mrs. Cornellius Cline Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dawes
Ms. Paula A. Baracaldo Ms. Mary Jean Bonthron and
Ms. Caroline Callero Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cloar Mr. and Mrs. Brian Day
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Barbas Ms. Anne Feaster
Mr. and Mrs. Rodolfo Cammalleri Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cochran Mr. Sami Dayan and Ms. Ilana Dayan
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Barber Ms. Yvonne Booker
Ms. Pamela Campbell Mrs. Cherish Cockrell and Mr. and Mrs. Alberto de Alejo, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barber Mr. and Mrs. Danny Boone Mr. Joseph Cockrell
Mr. Jeremy Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. Adrian De Florentino
Mr. Ian Barkin Mr. and Mrs. Erik Bordsen Mr. and Mrs. Stan Cohen
Ms. Linda Wactor
Mr. and Mrs. Russ Barlow Mr. and Mrs. Felix Borges Mr. and Mrs. David Deardorff
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Camunas, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Cohen
Mr. Kenneth Barnett Mrs. Sammi Borosh and Mr. and Mrs. Rob deFreese
Betsaida Canales Mr. and Mrs. David B. Cole
Dr. Mildred Barnett-Hoekstra Mr. Nicholas Borosh Mr. and Mrs. André Degagne
Mr. and Mrs. James Cannon Mr. Francis Cole and Ms. Kyle Turoff
and Mr. Terry Hoekstra Mr. and Mrs. Jason Bortz Mr. and Mrs. Michael DeHart
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Canton Mr. Christopher Cole and
Mr. John Baron and Ms. Paula Bosmeny Ms. Nelly Encarnacion Mr. John Delgado and
Mrs. Elizabeth Zeither Mr. and Mrs. Sergio Cappelluti Ms. Jeslynn Puskar
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bothwell Mrs. Katherine Cole and
Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Barr Mr. and Ms. Damian Caraballo Mr. José Delgado
Mr. Selim Boudjock and Mr. Clint Cole
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barrett Ms. Karen Boschker Mr. Ed Cardenas Mr. and Mrs. Damon Delise
Mrs. Anne Coleman and
Mr. Robert Barror and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bowen Mr. and Mrs. Raul Cardona Mr. Scott Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Demartino
Ms. Darlene Barror Mr. Rich Bowers Ms. Kelli Carmack Ms. Dana Collier and Mr. Corey Demuth and
Mr. Edward Barth and Mrs. Carmel Bowers Mr. and Mrs. William Carmer Mr. Orville Collier Ms. Gloria Kim
Ms. Catherine Thornberry Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carmichael Mr. and Mrs. Dean Collins Mr. and Mrs. Robert Denison
Mrs. Catherine Bowman and
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bartos Mr. Kevin Bowman Mr. Enoch Carmichael and Mr. Daniel Concepcion and Mr. and Mrs. Terry Dennis
Mr. and Mrs. Jamil Bates Ms. Dana Bowser Ms. Melissa Reed Mrs. Sarah Brenner Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Denoy, Sr.
Mr. Jeff Batista Mr. and Mrs. Stan Boyer Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Carney Mr. Steven Conforti Mr. Kevin Desquitado
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baty Mr. and Mrs. John H. Boyet Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Carpenter Ms. Anna Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dessert
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baty Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Boyle, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Carrere Ms. Chris Conn Mr. and Mrs. Miller Detrick
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baucom Mr. and Mrs. Luke Boze Mr. and Mrs. Jett Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Jason Conner Mr. and Mrs. Lucas DeVicente
Mr. Robert Bauer and Ms. Adriana Marie Bracho and Mr. and Mrs. R. Haynes Carswell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jason Conrad Mr. Robert Craig DeWallace
Mrs. Barbara Storm-Bauer Mr. John Joseph Luttrell Mr. and Mrs. Al Carter Ms. Jennifer Cook and Mr. Mark DeWar
Mr. Casey Bauer Mr. Ryan Burke
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dewey Ms. Dawneva Faison and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gallucci Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Greacen Mrs. Ivette Hernandez
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas DeWolfe Mr. Timothy Kilpatrick Mrs. Danielle Gamson Mr. Peter Grebe Mr. Roberto Herrera
Mrs. Lillianette Diaz Mr. Isaiah Fany Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gandy Mr. and Mrs. Michael Greco Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Herron
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Diaz Mrs. Cara Farchione and Mr. and Mrs. Juan Angel Ganem Mr. Peter Greeley Ms. Nina Hickey
Mr. Jainon Farchione Mr. Robert B. Hicks
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Diaz Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Garcia-Salas Mrs. Amber Green and
Ms. Jean Fargo and Mr. Chris Green Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hill
Ms. Denise Dickerhoof Ms. Carol Gardiner
Mr. Charles Fargo
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Dickerson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gardner Ms. Janet Greene Ms. Andrea Hill
Mrs. Mary Farrar and Mr. Doug Farrar
Mr. Michael DiDomenico Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gareau Mr. John Gregos Mr. and Mrs. Dean Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Chris M. Farrell
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dillinger Mr. Harrison Bremer and Dr. and Mrs. David Greider Mr. Ron Hines
Ms. Deidre Favero
Mr. and Mrs. John Dingfelder Ms. Mary Garner Mr. and Mrs. Eric Gries Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hofer
Mr. and Mrs. Danilo Felix
Ms. Reneé Dipilato and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Garrett Mr. Bryan Griffith and Ms. Stephanie Hoffman
Ms. Li Feng Ms. Heylen Griffith
Mr. Jay Dipilato Mrs. Katie Garside Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hohn
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ferguson Ms. Beverly Griffiths
Mr. Guy DiVosta Mr. and Mrs. John Gates Mrs. Harold Holder
Mr. Marcus Fernandez and Ms. Holly Grogan and
Mr. and Mrs. O. Fred Dobbins Mr. and Mrs. Tim Gaudet Mr. Owen Hooper
Mrs. Michelle Ruda Mr. Jay Jenkins
Mrs. Judy Dobbins and Ms. Allison Gay and Mr. Brian Hoover
Mr. Colleen Fernandez Ms. Angela F. Guagliardo
Mr. Carl Dobbins Mr. Gabriel Monte
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fields Ms. Tara Howard
Mr. Joseph Dobrowolski and Mr. Michael Gaydarzhi and Mrs. Astrid Guardado
Ms. Stephanie Fifer Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hower
Ms. Santa Sorrentino Ms. Claire Selle Ms. Lisa Guffey
Mr. Dale Fisher Mr. and Mrs. John Hoyt
Mrs. Cassandra Docherty and Mr. and Mrs. Shane Gearhart Mr. and Mrs. Walter Guilarte
Mr. David Docherty Mr. Ian Fisher Mr. and Mrs. David Hubbartt
Ms. Ashley Gehrig Mrs. Andrea Gullickson and
Mr. Raymond Dohle Mr. Brian Fitzgerald and Mr. Paul Gullickson Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Huber
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Geiger
Ms. Catherine Dolan Mrs. Rosa Ocampo Ms. Louise Gulmantovicz Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hudock Jr.
Mr. James Geis and
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dombrova Ms. Doreen A. Fitzpatrick Ms. Casey Brizendine Mrs. Jamie Hadarean and Mrs. Kathleen C. Hudson
Mrs. Barbara Domingues Mr. and Mrs. Gary Fleeger Mr. K. J. Genre Mr. Corneliu Hadarean Ms. Gloria Hughes
Mr. Emilio Dominguez and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fleet Mr. Richard Gerber and Ms. Lisa Hadlock Mr. Joe Hughes
Ms. Lowella Esperanza Dr. Nancy Smith and Ms. Beth Kern Mr. Arthur Haedike Mr. David Hughes and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Donegan Mr. Mark Flickinger Ms. Jennifer Gerken Mr. Dennis F. Haegele Mrs. Jennifer Durbin
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Donnelly Mr. Carlos Mattos and Mr. Chris Germain Mr. Edward Haeussner and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hughes
Mrs. Ivanna Florentino-Mattos Ms. Margo Haeussner Mrs. Leigh Hughes and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Donohue Mr. and Mrs. Phillip German
Ms. Kelly Flynn Mr. and Mrs. David Hahn Mr. David Hughes
Ms. Cindy K. Donovan Mr. and Mrs. Michael E Gerwe
Mr. and Mrs. John Folfas Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hahn Ms. Roberta Hull
Ms. Lula J. Dovi Mr. and Mrs. George Gibson
Ms. Marisa Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Haisley Ms. Ana Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Doviak Ms. Christy Gibson
Ms. Denise Ford Mrs. Mary Ann Hall Mr. Christopher Hurst
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Dowd Colonel and Mrs. Dennis Giddens
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Fortson Mr. and Mrs. Randy W. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Hutchins
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Drapela Ms. Nicole Gigliotti
Ms. Amanda Fossum Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hallmark Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hutchinson
Mr. Ed Duarte and Mr. William Gill and Ms. Ali Gill
Ms. Adrienne Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Colin Foster Ms. Johanne Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hyde
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Gillen, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dufraine Patricia Fowler Mr. Norman Hamilton Ms. Jennifer Hylton
Mr. Steve Gillespie
Mrs. Eileen Dugger and Mr. Clark Fowler and Ms. Karen Hammond-Melms Mrs. Andrea Idudhe and
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Gilliam
Mr. Matt Dugger Mr. Trent Kouvelos Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hammonds Mr. Oruaro Idudhe
Mr. and Mrs. Gino Gillis-Fiorello
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Duncan Mr. Mike Fowler and Mr. Zachary Hancock and Mrs. David Infinger
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