Fiscal Year 2007 Annual Report

Aquidneck Land Trust
Our Mission:
“Preserving the Island’s open spaces and natural character for the lasting benefit of our community”.
Our Values:
Founded around 1990 by a dedicated group of Aquidneck Island residents, ALT focused its inaugural efforts on
building community awareness of the imperative to conserve and protect open space on this island. Maintaining robust
land acquisition activities is the most powerful, tangible and long-term way for ALT to fight environmental threats.
Land conservation directly helps conserve water resources, island habitat and biodiversity, local agricultural resources,
outdoor recreational and educational opportunities and scenic vistas while also helping mitigate global warming.
The Aquidneck Land Trust is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization located on Aquidneck Island in the State of Rhode Island.
A Letter from the Board Chair
One.
Have you heard the one about the Land Trust? It goes like this–
How many people does it take to save open space on Aquidneck Island?
One.
One Peter Merritt.
One Louis Escobar.
One Portsmouth Town Council. One Newport City Council. One Middletown
Town Council.
One Ted Clement, David Thalmann, Carolyn du Pont, Andy Arkway,
Diana Britton, Jessica Pohl, Courtney Ferreira.
One Nunes Family, One van Beuren Family, One Thurston Family.
One Michele Foster, Kathy Irving, Steve Haire, Bob Victor, Peter Damon
One of you.
Land Conservation occurs one unique parcel at a time.
One generous land donor, plus one generous supporter, plus one unique parcel… is adding up – and helping us to
save the character and spirit of our island… in perpetuity. Together we are safe-guarding our islands’ drinking supplies,
natural habitats for indigenous species, spectacular vistas and the space for our childrens’ children to run free and play.
So - the answer is one. It takes one of you to save open space on Aquidneck Island. One… Every one. Everyone who will
join our ranks, contribute to our program, defend and perpetuate our mission. Every one. Every one on Aquidneck Island.
In this report we celebrate the many accomplishments of 2007. But we must also remember that for every acre we
saved, one was lost forever to development.
I sometimes come across Island residents who tell me the Land Trust doesn’t need their support. They think our coffers
are full and our successes guaranteed. Alas, that couldn’t be further from the reality of our situation. We will never raise
enough money to save all of the priority properties on this island – not even close. Our success will come from solid
strategy – diligent work– amazing generosity – good will – public understanding and support - and a healthy heaping of
good luck. But it’s one acre, one parcel, one donor, one landowner at a time.
There are approximately 20,000 households on Aquidneck Island. I believe every one of the households should care
about the mission of the Aquidneck Land Trust. If you are a resident then the work of the Land Trust has an affect on
your quality of life, or your future property value or even your backyard. If you live here, you should be a member!
Currently the membership of the Land Trust is about 900 households. That’s 4%. We need to do better. We need more
Sheila Reillys. More John McCollochs. More Alison Vareikas and Steve MacGillivrays. More of you.
Invite your friends, neighbors, and relatives to join the Aquidneck Land Trust this year. We need every ONE!
Thank you for your support!
Stuart MacNaught
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A Letter from the Executive Director
Dear ALT Supporter:
Thanks to your support, ALT was especially successful in Fiscal Year 2007 at
conserving and creating outdoor public recreation areas and opportunities.
Those efforts will benefit the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual
well-being of countless people by providing free natural areas for people to
explore. These projects have also created and protected living classrooms where
people can go to experience and bond with nature which will promote better
stewardship of the Earth as love is the foundation for good stewardship.
Consider some of the outdoor public recreation successes of ALT in Fiscal
Year 2007. ALT partnered with the City of Newport and the Newport Housing
Authority to permanently conserve the 5.47 +/- acre Sunset Hill parcel in
the north end of Newport. This property, which will be managed as park land, abuts ALT’s previously conserved
Miantonomi Park. ALT has now conserved over 35 contiguous and green acres in the densely developed north end
of Newport, a healthy green heart and foundation for that area. By working with the Town of Middletown, ALT put
a permanent Conservation Easement on 20.95 +/- acres that include Paradise Valley Park and abutting land. Placing
permanent Conservation Easements on municipal parks is important because locally and nationally, many municipal
parks that lacked adequate protections have been lost to development. ALT also conserved the 4.53 +/- acre Sweet Flag
property with Middletown and Sweet Flag Partners. This previously private owned property will be turned into a public
park. ALT made great strides with its Sakonnet Greenway Trail as well. The 1.5 mile segment of the trail beginning at
the Town of Portsmouth’s Glen Farm was built and is now open. Middletown also granted an important Trail Easement
to ALT on its Wyatt Road recreational complex, thus allowing the Sakonnet Greenway Trail to connect these two
municipal public recreation areas. When completed, the Sakonnet Greenway Trail will be over seven miles long making
it the longest public trail on Aquidneck Island. ALT presented four free tours to important open space properties as part
of its Land Matters Walk & Talk series. We also had a number of other outdoor public recreation successes in Fiscal
Year 2007 such as the conservation agreement struck with Newport regarding the Gooseneck Cove area and Morton Park.
These successes are especially important considering the message in Richard Louv’s recent book, Last Child in the
Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. That book details the many ways in which modern children are
disconnected from the natural world and contends that experiences in nature are essential for both the good of children
and the future of the planet. In a recent interview, Richard Louv was quoted as saying, “Studies show that people who
care deeply about the future of the environment almost always enjoyed transcendent experiences in nature when they
were children. If nature experiences for children continue to fade, where will future stewards of the earth come from?”
That statement resonates with me because by the time I was in high school I had decided that I wanted to go into the
environmental field based on early experiences I had camping with my family in Vermont, outdoor experiences that I
had at my high school which was surrounded by woods, etc.
In a November letter to the editor about ALT’s Sakonnet Greenway Trail, published in The Newport Daily News, Mrs.
Deb Gedney wrote, “In the age of energy-draining electronics such as computers, cell phones and televisions which
keep us indoors and under-exercised, I want to applaud the Aquidneck Land Trust for the countless energy-giving
sunrises, sunsets and wildlife sightings that my dog and I have enjoyed walking around Newport National Golf Club and
now behind the Glen soccer fields in Portsmouth. A happy Thanksgiving and a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to this group for
making so many moments this year priceless for my family and my dog.” Thank you to Mrs. Gedney and all of ALT’s
supporters who helped us complete these important outdoor public recreation projects that will pay dividends to the
community for years and years to come.
Edward Sortwell Clement, Jr.
Executive Director
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The John J. Slocum Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4
The Pierce-Anthony Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.50
Middletown Soccer Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.98
Sweet Berry Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.57
Perry Farm (Including Newport Vineyards) . . . . 82.07
Tibbetts Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.25
Oakland Forest, Meadow and Trail . . . . . . . . . . 30.10
Hodges/ Pennfield School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.88
3S / Portsmouth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.28
Peters Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00
Farmlands, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.17
Newport National Golf Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299.42
Nunes Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.00
Braman / Olaynack Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.60
Almy Pond Conservation Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.66
The Whitehouse Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.12
Newport Country Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00
Cousens Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.97
Bally Machree Farm, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.16
Greenscape, LLC / Braman’s Meadow . . . . . . . 10.55
Webster Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.22
Sweet Berry Farm, Inc. / Borges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.38
Almy-Thurston Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.34
Crystal Spring Water Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.66
Alvarnas / Lacerda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.48
Greenscape, LLC / North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.21
Norman Bird Sanctuary / Third Beach . . . . . . . . 23.87
Joe and Kristal Dockery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.57
Commonwealth Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.00
Kempanaar Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.80
Clubhouse Partners, LP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.18
Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.62
Sullivan / 3S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.90
State of RI / Town Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.55
City of Newport / Miantonomi Park . . . . . . . . . . 29.78
Silvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.30
Escobar’s Highland Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.98
Elshant Preserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.45
Vaucluse East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.79
Water Reservoir Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404.21
Brown Preserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.76
Sunset Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.47
Sweet Flag Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53
Paradise Valley Park/Diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.95
City of Newport / Gooseneck Cove . . . . . . . . . . 58.00
City of Newport / Morton Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.10
Town of Middletown / Albro Woods . . . . . . . . . . . 8.65
Town of Middletown / Demery Memorial Park . . . 6.24
Total Conserved Acres = 1,971.67
Map Produced by the Aquidneck Land Trust 1/23/2008
Data Provided by Mapping and Planning Services and RIGIS
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Land Preservation Partners
Founded in 1990, ALT’s first conservation easement was placed on the historic Slocum estate on Bellevue Avenue. Since
that time ALT has conserved almost 2,000 acres. We gratefully thank the very special individuals, families, businesses,
neighborhood associations, municipalities, and government agencies who have partnered with us to preserve and steward
their land in perpetuity. Their vision of the future, and appreciation of the past, leaves a legacy for us all to enjoy.
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Friends of Almy Pond
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Alvarnas
Edythe Anthony
Muriel Anthony
Armory Revival Company
Manuel J. Borges
Mrs. Jean I. Braman
Carolann Brown
James F. Carlin
James Chadwick
Clubhouse Partners, LP
Denys and Margery Cousens
Crystal Spring Water Company, The Scott Family
Joe and Kristal Dockery
Jan and Michelle Eckhart, Sweet Berry Farm
The Elshant Family
Louis Escobar
Farmlands, LLC
Greenscape, LLC
Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton
Diana Harrison
Mr. and Mrs. F. James Hodges, Jr.
Joe Lacerda, Jr.
Town of Middletown
Middletown Main, LLC
Katherine M. Murphy
The Nature Conservancy
City of Newport
Attendees of the Land Matters Walk and Talk return from their tour
of Swan Farm on Wapping Road in Portsmouth.
Newport Country Club
Newport National Golf Club/Realty Financial Partners
John and Paul Nunes, Newport Vineyards & Winery
Norman Bird Sanctuary
Larry and Mary Nunes, Anna Flaherty and Edna North
Peter Olaynack
Bill and Barbara O’Reilly, Bally Machree Farm, LLC
The Pennfield School
The Perry Family Partnership
Manuel Peters, George Peters, and Marie Ney
Middletown Open Space and Fields Committee
Town of Portsmouth
Portsmouth Open Space Committee
RI Agricultural Land Preservation Commission
RI Department of Environmental Management
RI Water Resources Board
Carol Rodrigues and Nancy Cleasby
The Silvia Family
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Slocum
F.M. Sullivan
Sweet Flag Partners
George Thurston
David R. Tibbetts
The van Beuren Family
US Dept. of Agriculture’s Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS)
Katherine and Michael Waters
Mr. and Mrs. James Webster
Charles R. Whitehouse
Supporters at the Sakonnet Greenway Trail
Phase 1-A Grand Opening.
ALT 18th Annual Report Aquidneck Land Trust Milestones 2006-2007
Aquidneck Land Trust Milestones
Fiscal Year 2006-2007
October 2006
• Partnered with the City of Newport to conserve the 5.47 +/- acre Sunset Hill parcel next to Miantonomi
Memorial Park.
• Received a $100,000 grant award from the Gewirz family for the Swan Farm conservation effort.
• Staff members attended the national Land Trust Alliance Rally in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Presented a free Land Matters Walk & Talk tour for the public at the ALT conserved
Newport Vineyards.
November 2006
• Received $300,000 from the Prince Charitable Trusts after successfully meeting a visionary challenge from
the foundation.
• Presented a free Conservation Speaker Series event for the public with Peter Forbes at
Newport City Hall.
December 2006
• Conserved 27.07 +/- acres of the former Perry Farm in Middletown with
Newport Vineyards/Sulky Rhode.
• Collaborated with Sweet Flag Partners and the Town of Middletown to successfully conserve the 4.53 +/- acre
Sweet Flag parcel next to Bailey’s Brook in Middletown.
• Partnered with the Town of Middletown to conserve a 20.95 +/- acre area including
Paradise Valley Park and the Diocese parcel.
• Received $300,000 from the Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust after successfully meeting a visionary
challenge from the foundation.
• Received $300,000 from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation after successfully meeting a visionary challenge
from the foundation.
• Completed fall monitoring of select ALT conserved properties.
February 2007
• Hosted ALT’s 17th Annual Meeting at the Atlantic Beach Club in Middletown.
• Presented a free Conservation Speaker Series event for the public with Darby Bradley at the Atlantic Beach
Club in Middletown.
• Hired Carolyn du Pont as ALT’s new Development Director.
March 2007
• Received a wetland permit from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management allowing for the
construction of Phase 1A of the Sakonnet Greenway Trail.
• Executive Director, Ted Clement, presented two workshops at the Annual Rhode Island Land & Water
Conservation Summit: Conservation Easement Basics; and Securing Permanent Protection for Government
Owned Conservation Lands with Conservation Easements.
April 2007
• Executive Director, Ted Clement, selected to present a workshop at the 2007 national
Land Trust Alliance Rally: Conversion of Municipal Conservation Lands - The Development Threat.
• Launched a new membership card providing ALT members with discounts at local farms.
May 2007
• Presented a free Conservation Speaker Series event for the public with Bill McKibben at the
Newport Public Library.
• Presented a free Land Matters Walk & Talk tour for the public at Swan Farm in Portsmouth.
• Successfully concluded ALT’s largest Annual Appeal to date.
• Hosted our annual landowner appreciation party at Newport Vineyards.
• Held a Swan Farm cultivation event at the home of Carolann Brown.
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June 2007
• Worked for and secured the right from the Portsmouth Town Council to put a $4 million Open Space and
Recreational Development Bond referendum before Portsmouth voters on November 6, 2007.
• Received a $250,000 grant award from the Town of Portsmouth for the Swan Farm conservation effort.
• Completed construction RFP process and hired the DaPonte company to construct Phase 1A of the Sakonnet
Greenway Trail.
July 2007
• Hired Jessica Pohl as ALT’s new Development Assistant.
• Hosted our 5th annual golf tournament at Newport National Golf Club.
• Presented a free Land Matters Walk & Talk tour for the public at ALT conserved Miantonomi Memorial Park and
Sunset Hill in Newport.
• Created placemats from artwork done by 4th graders at Elmhurst Elementary School and distributed them to
more than a dozen restaurants and other establishments to generate awareness of our
Swan Farm conservation effort.
• Assisted the Kirby family to hold the first ever Aquidneck Island Paddle to benefit ALT
and Lucy’s Hearth.
• ALT’s Merritt Neighborhood Fund awarded 9 grants to local conservation projects totaling $9,050 bringing the
total grant awards since 2000 to $24,376 to 31 recipients on Aquidneck Island.
August 2007
• Finalized the donation of a Trail Easement for the Sakonnet Greenway Trail from the
Town of Middletown.
• Fiesta Verde summer gala was for the first time held at an ALT conserved property – Sweet Berry Farm – and was
the most successful in ALT history.
• Received a $100,000 grant award from Patricia and Philip Bilden for the Swan Farm conservation effort.
• Received a $100,000 grant award from Cornnelius Bond and Ann Blackwell for the Swan Farm
conservation effort.
• Board Chair, Stuart MacNaught, received and attended a fellowship at the Center for Whole Communities in Vermont.
September 2007
• Partnered with the City of Newport and signed an innovative agreement whereby ALT to provide $50,000 to help
Newport and other partners restore the Gooseneck Cove salt marsh in return for ALT receiving Conservation
Easements on the 58 +/- acre Gooseneck Cove area and the 12.1 +/- acre Morton Park in Newport.
• Presented a free Land Matters Walk & Talk tour for the public at the ALT conserved Town Pond
in Portsmouth.
• Presented a free Conservation Speaker Series event for the public with musician Erica Wheeler at Escobar’s
Highland Farm in Portsmouth.
• ALT Board of Trustees adopted a three-year Strategic Plan.
• Completed our annual summer monitoring of all ALT conserved properties.
• Hosted annual ALT Board of Advisors meeting at Escobar’s Highland Farm.
• Held a Swan Farm cultivation event at the home of John and Brookie McColloch.
Paradise Valley Park in Middletown.
Fiesta Verde 2007 overlooking Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown.
ALT 18th Annual Report Philanthropic Support 2006 – 2007
The Board of Trustees is deeply grateful to the hundreds of individuals, families, businesses, organizations, foundations,
government entities, and landowners who generously support our work each year. The Aquidneck Land Trust strives to offer
creative, flexible, respectful and convenient methods to enlist lasting philanthropic support. Membership dues, targeted appeals
and campaigns, special events, planned gifts and bequests, in-kind goods and services, and donations of land and conservation
easements all enable those who treasure Aquidneck Island to participate in the work of ALT. Our heartfelt thanks to all those
who contributed to the Aquidneck Land Trust during this fiscal year, which concluded on September 30, 2007.
Three foundations have once again
provided extraordinary leadership and
support. Their solid commitment enables
the Aquidneck Land Trust to be an
increasingly strategic and vital leader in
land preservation on Aquidneck Island.
The Aletta Morris McBean
Charitable Trust
Prince Charitable Trusts
The van Beuren Charitable Foundation
$50,000+
Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust
Loebs Family Foundation
The Hope Goddard Iselin Foundation
Town of Middletown
Prince Charitable Trust
van Beuren Charitable Foundation
Patricia and Philip Bilden
Cornnelius Bond and Ann Blackwell
Bernard and Sarah Gewirz
$25,000 – $49,999
Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund
City of Newport
Jonathan and Rita Gewirz
$5,000 – $24,999
Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, LLP
Foster Associates
The Hilton Group at Citigroup
Jane M. Timken Foundation
LandVest, Inc.
Newport Harbor Corporation
Realty Financial Partners
Sweet Water Trust
The Townscape Institute
William Vareika Fine Arts
The William P. Wharton Trust
Hugh Auchincloss
A. Leslie and Carol Ballard
Denae Bayer and Steve Ovren
Lyn and Peggy Comfort
Glenn and Kim Darden
Stephen and Julie DeLeo
Ronald and Lillian Dick
Lawrence and Betty Fagan
Michael and Cleo Gewirz
Steven and Katrina Gewirz
Kathleen Glassie
George and Nannette Herrick
Samuel and Anne Howell
Holly Janney and Daniel Keirns
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Roger Kass and Andrea van Beuren
Kathryn and Howard Kilguss
James and Susan Klau
Elizabeth Meyer and Michael McCaffrey
Paul and Nicole O’Reilly
Jay and Suzie Schochet
Aaron Schwarz
Jeffrey and Cathy Siegal
Virginia Treherne-Thomas
William and Sharon Wood Prince
$2,500 – $4,999
The Betty Bryne de Zahara
Charitable Trust
Dick Family Foundation
Gustave J.S. White Real Estate
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Residential Properties
Helen Buchanan
David and Mary Bush-Brown
William and Gail Crimmins
Anne and Peter Damon
Regis and Laura de Ramel
Joseph and Kristal Dockery
David and Beth Drubner
David and Kimberly Dunn
John Egan
Lawrence and Betty Fagan
Brian and Julie Fisher
Robert and Jane Grace
Edward and Wendy Harvey
Pierre and Kathy Irving
Daniel Kinder
Richard Loebs
Robert and Heidi Manice
John and Brookie McColloch
Richard Palmer
James and Virginia Purviance
Sheila Reilly and Peter Cosel
Denise Roberts
Brady Schofield and Sarah Bullock
J. Laurence and Betty Lou Sheerin
Stephen and Mary Joan Seiter
John and Hope van Beuren
Michael and Roberta Warren
$1,000 – $2,499
America House Communications
Breyer Family Fund
Citigroup Matching Gifts Program
Gilbane Building Co.
Gower and Company Real Estate
Hamilton Family Foundation
John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc.
Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Ltd.
Katherine Field & Associates, Inc.
Arthur C. & Martha O. Milot
Charitable Trust
Newport Collaborative Architects
Newport Daily News
NewportFed
Northeast Engineers & Consultants
Sasco Foundation
Silgan Holdings, Inc.
United General Title Insurance Company
Richard and Nancy Adams
Andrew Arkway
Theodora Aspegren and Robert Bailey
Victoria Avery
Joana Battaglia
Henry and Andrea Breyer
A.J. and Angela Brosco
Carolann Doherty Brown
Richard and Fanchon Burnham
Michael Corcoran
Grenville and Sandra Craig
John and Katherine Damon
Murray and Judith Danforth
Elizabeth de Ramel
William and Allison Dessel
David and Michelle Donatelli
Maureen and John Donnell
John and Jackie Drexel
David and Christy Elwell
Timothy Ely
Michael and Patricia Fernandez
Thomas and Kim Fleming
David Ford
Beatriz Ford
D. Gordon Gibson and
Catherine Norton
James and Cynthia Gibson
Thomas and Kate Gilbane
Robert H.I. Goddard
Mark and Leslie Godridge
Gary and Elizabeth Goldberg
Peter and Diana Gonzalez
N. Peter and Alta Hamilton
S. Matthews V. and Anne Hamilton
Helen Harris
Mary Hulitar
Stefani Hulitar
Robert and Alison Kiely
James Lewis and Pauline Trahan-Lewis
Bartlett Dunbar and Lisa Lewis
Colin and Shirley MacGillivray
Daniel Meyers
James and Jane Moore
David and Gail Nelson
Andrew and Lynn Nicoletta
Nancy O’Brien
J. Timothy and Dorothy O’Reilly
James Orr
Claiborne and Nuala Pell
George and Sue Petrovas
Steven and Brooke Richter
David Roosa
Bayard and Pamela Russell
Albert Schofield and Sandy Henry
Jonathan Shattuck
Richard and Gay Sheffield
Eulah Sheffield
Albert Sherman
Derek and Ellen Smith
Rockwell and Patricia Stensrud
Ineko Stephan
Robert Swift
Gladys Szapary
Charles and Kerry Townsend
Barbara van Beuren and
Stephen Glascock
William and Alison Vareika
Kenneth and Paula Washburn
Livingston Webb
William and Nancy Parker Wilson
Richard Saul Wurman and Gloria Nagy
$500 – $999
Bardorf & Bardorf
Paul and Mary Boghossian
Memorial Fund
Chapman Enstone Estate Agents
LOSAM FUND
Mason & Associates, Inc.
Moore, Virgadamo & Lynch, LTD
Morris Transparent Box Co.
Narragansett Engineering
Newport Garden Club
Newport Gas Light Company
Newport Insurance Agency Inc.
Roger King Fine Arts
Charles Allott
Richard and Mary Frances Bauchspies
Paul and Hedy Bennett
Alan Bishop and Emily Zurlnick
Paul and Susan Bohan
Hebert and Elizabeth Bolles
Daniel Brenton
John and Elizabeth Brooks
Gary and Catherine Brophy
Nicholas and Diane Brown
William and Mary Buell
Michael and Lisa Cecchi
Philanthropic Support 2006 – 2007
Gerald and Linda Cerce
Duncan and Barbara Chapman
Marion Charles
Anne Corbin
Beverley Corbin
William and Karen Corcoran
Carole Corriveau
Trudy Coxe and James Gaffney
Stuart and Monica Craig
William and Genevieve Croll
Henry and Andrea Crump
Brittain Cudlip
Guillaume and Molly de Ramel
George and Terry DeVine
Stephen and Harriet DiCicco
Christine Dolen
Emlen Liz Drayton
Carolyn du Pont
William and Jacalyn Egan
Kristin Emory and Jamie Schapiro
Richard and Ann Ernst
Louis and Jane Escobar
Thomas and Ellen Ewens
Jeffrey and Lorraine Farrar
John and Donna Flynn
Lynn and Frank Freeland
Joseph and Elizabeth Gallagher
Annelisa Alden Gee
Peter and Melinda Gerard
J. Giacalong
James and Patricia Giblin
Cyrus Gibson and Barbara Shamblin
Louis and Sophia Girard
Stanley and Ellen Goldberg
John and Sherri Grace
Richard and Margot Grosvenor
Connie Harding
Esmond Harmsworth and James
Richardson
Diana Harrison
G. Mason Hawes and Laura Hart
Darryl Hazel and Sheila McEntee
Mark and Katherine Hellendrung
David Holley
Chris and Lisa Housel
Joshua Janson
Roger and Sandra King
Matthew and Michelle Kirby
Samuel Lambert and Marie Sheffield
Robert and Lisa Lasky
Anthony Leach and Jane Corcoran
Robert and Jean Lehane
David E.P. and Linda Lindh
Kenneth and Elaine Lindh
R. Schuyler Lippincott
Katherine Macchiarola
Stephen and Elizabeth MacGillivray
Ronald and Kati Machtley
Eugene and Maureen McCabe
Juliette McLennan
John and Bobbi Mercier
Leland and Lynne Merrill
David and Annegret Miller
Mark Muetterties Jacqueline Colbert
Arthur and Ellen Murphy
Kimberly Palmer
Thomas and Agatha Perkins
Florence Perry
Brooke Pinkerton and Ches Johnson
Frank and Betsy Ray
Paul and Amy Rice
Charles and Julia Richardson
Lloyd Rives
Thomas Rodgers
Laura Love Rose Bill Hall
Heidi Rosecrans
Richard Sardella
Peter and Sally Schott
John and Valorie Sheehan
Albert and Jocelyn Sherman
Fran and Dennis Slutsky
Julie Shelton Smith
Charles and Victoria Stengel
Stephen and Gayle Strom
Earle and Lisa Stubbs
Keith Tavares
Victor and Virginia Trautwein
Samuel Treherne-Thomas
Robert and Barbara Victor
Portsmouth Veterinary Clinic
Sea Whale Motel, Inc.
Seascope Systems Inc.
T. J. Brown Landscaping
Jeffrey Earl and Stasia Anthony
Thomas and Ella Auchincloss
John Begg
Brian and Heather Bell
Richard and Dorothy Bohan
Richard and Barbara Bohan
Pamela Bradford
John and Winifred Broughan
Diane Brown
William and Anne Burns
Robert and Louise Carawan
James and Brenda Carlin
Jonna Chewning
Edward and Boonsuay Clement
Andrew and Judy Colman
Robert and Ann Conner
Thomas and Janet Cook
Executive Director Ted Clement with Joan Sousa, Chairperson of the Portsmouth
Open Space Committee, after the passing of a $4 million open space bond.
Thomas and Trina Weschler
Eris White
Sharon Wilson
$250 – $499
Bay View Estates Chestnut Hill
Realty Corp.
Robert A. Carrellas Family Practice
Coach House Condo Association
Cricket & Riley
D. Wilsey Properties Co.
Farmscapes Llc
Glen Ridge Farm
Jeremiah L. Harrington, Inc.
Houlihan, Managhan, & Kyle, LLP
James L. Paradise Cleaning Service, Inc.
JT’s Lumber
Knapp Chiropractic
Newport County Chamber
of Commerce
Newport Tent Company, Inc.
Olympic Physical Therapy And Sports Medicine, Inc.
Phoenix Bulk Carriers US Corp
Susan Cooper
Mary Jane Cox
Richard Crisson
Paul and Roberta Croce
Richard and Jane Curry
Minot Davis and Jane Weidman
Paul and Valerie Debrule
Thomas Derecktor
C. Mathews Dick
Clayton and Catherine Dillon
William and Sara Donaldson
Michael Dougherty
Robert and Margaret Duprey
Martin and Linda Dutra
Paul Clark and Nancy Eddy
Jane Burgess Epstein
Mark and Laura Fernandez
Richard and Rita Finn
Donald and Joan Fletcher
Thomas and Ingrid Flynn
John and Jae French
Robert and Winnie Galkin
June Gibbs
David and Linda Gordon
Jeffrey and Janis Gordon
Leonard Grace
Christopher and Kathleen Greenman
Heather Gregg Earl
Renee Harrington
James Hilton
Frederick Hodges
Brian and Lori Hogan
James and Anne Hogg, USN (Ret.)
Elisabeth Holmes
Joya Hoyt
William Jacklin and Janet Russo-Jacklin
Donald and Jana Jagoe
Mary Jennings
Ana Johnson
Jennifer Jones
Brendan and Pamela Kelley
Michael Kenfield
Mary Kesson
David and Susan Killebrew
Mil Kinsella
Steven and Jane Kirkpatrick
Keith and Laura Kyle
Mary Ann Lamont
Stephen Lawton
William and Marlene Leatherbee
William and Elizabeth Leatherman
Charles and Roxanne Leighton
H. Henry and Tiina Liiv
John Holt and Karin Liiv
Philip and Wendy Lotz
Coles and Marcia Mallory
Dennis and Susan McCoy
Grace Medeiros
Robert Menson and Margo Waite
Deborah and Peter Merritt
Robert Milligan
Mark and Linda Narbey
Paul Norbury
Eric and Cristina Offenberg
Mary Clare O’Grady
Joseph and Lisa Olaynack
Elise O’Shaughnessy
Gregory and Catherine Ostheimer
Sandra Ourusoff
James and Betty Jane Owen
John Primiano
Peter and Judith Rector
David and Leslie Reed
John and Kelly Reey
Sydney Resendez and David Goldberg
Alister and Mary Reynolds
Craig Richardson and
Sarah Beinecke Richardson
Cathy Robertson
John Robitaille
Pieter and Barbara Roos
Carol Ryan
J. Mark Ryan and Linda Ujifusa
Cora Saccucci
Nicholas Scheetz
Howard and Betty Schlesinger
Karl and Deborah Schwiegershausen
Turner Scott and Kathleen Pratt
Edwin and Dorothy Sheffield
Herrick and Barbara Shinn
Robert and Robyn Spagnolo
Thomas Speare and Reinette Fournier
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David and Lynn Tenney
David and Loren Thill
S. Emmet and Veronica Thomas
James Thompson
Ellen Thurmond
Michael Tollefson
Frank Uhlig
Alfred and Frances VanLiew
Marc Verga
Stephen and Laura Warner
George Warren
Tarleton Watkins and Janet Atkins
Elizabeth and Frances J. West
Helen and John Winslow
Frank and Mary Wojciechowski
Eve and William Woodhull
Heather Wotton
Dallas Pell Yates
Frederick and Geraldine Zilian
$100 – $249
Aquidneck Employment Services
B. R. Arnold Construction
Behan Bros., Inc.
Bellevue Shopping Center Associates
Brick Alley Pub & Restaurant
BRM Company
Brownstone, Inc.
Carey, Richmond, & Viking Insurance
CATIC
Chase Farms
Commette Yacht Consultants, Inc.
The Cookie Jar
Cotran Corporation
D.H.R. Inc.
Flanders Consulting
Flynn Financial Group
Fox Hill Realty Trust LLC
F. W. Environmental Services, Inc.
Green Valley Country Club
Grenon’s of Newport
Jean C. Hayes Consulting
IBM Matching Grants Program
Island Sports
Island Tree Service
The John Stevens Shop
MacLean Consulting, Inc.
Marine Rescue Products, Inc.
Media Pro International, LTD.
Michael Hayes Company
John Milnes Co., Inc
Moonlite Limousine Service Inc.
Newport Playhouse
Normandie
Oldport Homes
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
Rhode Island Foundation
Shoreline Electrical Services
Sound Building Corporation
St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church
Sweet Berry Farm
Thomas H. Casey Builders, Inc.
Peter and Blair Alexander
George and Sandra Allen
Bernadette Almeida
John Armor
Vincent Arnold
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Eduardo Arrieta and
Barbara Schloff Arrieta
Richard and Christine Bagley
George and Kathleen Baker
Richard Baker and Barbara Lloyd Baker
Mark and Lynda Barnes
Irving Barrett
Bruce and Deb Barton
Peter and Patricia Baylor
Christopher and Jeannie Bean
Robert and Diane Beaver
John and Mary Louise Begg
Susan Behan
Gay Ben Tre
John and Karen Benson
James Beresford Packham
Peter and Gretchen Bloom
Alan and Janice Branco
Leilani Brenner
Richard and Nancy Brickley
David and Carolyn Brodsky
Eric and Daisy Broudy
David and Jean Brown
Ruth Buchanan
Walter Bundy
John Burgess
Thomas and Monique Burgess
William and Virginia Burgin
John and Mary Burney
Timothy and Lorrie Burns
Louis and Sheila Burns
James and Elaine Burress
Charlotte Buttrick
John Byrne
Maureen Cain
Raymond and Sharon Caine
Jerome Callaghan
Edward Capuano
Joseph Carey
Richard Carmichael and
Margaret Jones
Robert Carrellas
Jean Carrillo
Brian and Nancy Carroll
James and Judy Carroll
Joseph and Marie Casale
Richard and Marybeth Casey
John and Kimberly Ceglarski
Joan Ceglarski
Robert and Margot Ceres
Elisabeth Chafee Emory
Kathleen Charbonneau
Dean and Anne Chase
Linda Clukies
Margaretta Clulow
Donald Cochran
Natalie Cocroft
Susan Cohick and Jeffrey Dill
Mary Colaneri
Edward and Julia Coll
William Cooney and Margaret Palmer
Edward and Ruth Corcoran
William and Mary Corcoran
August and Carolyn Cordeiro
Daniel and Celine Corrigan
Michael Cottrell
Paul Crabb
William and Jean Crawford
Michael and Judith Crowley
John Croy and Erica Buchanan
Mike and Beth Cullen
William and Lisa Culton
Marilyn Curtis
Frederick and Barbara Dallinger
Rex Dame
Kathleen Davis
Joseph Day
Karen Deibert
John Del Negro
David and Debra Demming
Peter and Diana DiBari
Lurleen Dillman
Lou and Mary DiRienzo
Richard and Jane Driscoll
Myra Horgan Duvally
Francis and Jane Dwyer
William and Nancy Easman
Hugh and Irene Ebbitt
Michele Eccles
Jonathan and Murry Edwards
John and Shirley Ellis
William and Patricia Emmet
Benjamin and Dianna Emory
Jim Estes and Peter Twombly
Walter Everett
Sadie Faerber
Keith Fagan
Brenda Farrell
O. Mario and Corina Favorito
Louis Fazzano
Doris and Alan Feinberg
Robert and Janice Fiedler
Robert and Linda Fischer
Edwin and Angela Fischer
James and Carol Fitzsimonds
Jeffrey and Charlene Fletcher
Henry and Edith Fletcher
Sandra Flowers
Benjamin and Helen Furriel
Francis and Barbara Furtado
Warren Galkin
John and Laura Galvin
James and Dorothy Ann Garman
James and Deborah Gedney
Thomas and Mary Gilbane
Ray Gilchrest
Lynne Glickman and Mark Kanter
John and Eleanor Gobis
Sidney and Jean Gorham
Robert and Gail Gormally
John and Joanne Gorman
Wallace Gorski
Alicia Grace
Patrick Greeven
George Grove
Michael and Cynthia Grzechowiak
Gary and Janice Gump
J. Thomas and Janice Gunzelman
Matthew Gurl
Harold and Kathleen Hale
William and Judith Hall
Byron and Nancy Hall
Donald and Sylvia Hampton
Paul and Amy Harden
John and Suzanne Hardy
Peter and Harriet Harris
Janice Hart
Philip Harter and Barbara Jones
William and Susie Hatfield
Richard and Janet Hatfield
Michael and Susan Hayes
Kevin and Sally Ann Healy
Wilbur and Sharon Heller
Timothy and Dianne Hetland
Timothy Hetland and
Karen Jones Hetland
Sara Hiebner
R. Marcus Holloway
Frederick and Susan Hood
John Horton
Paul and M. Delores Houston
Jeffrey and Karen Houston
John Eric Hovermale and
Mary Clare O’Grady
John and Donna Hoyt
Peter Hussey and Claire Stieff
Peter Iascone
Duncan and Jean Ingraham
Nigel Ingram
Washington Irving
Gerald and Jo-Anne Isenberg
Richard S. C. Jacobs
George Mumford Jacobs
R. Campbell James
Kathleen Jenkins
Philip Jenks
Richard C. Loebs, Honorary Chair Barbara van Beuren, Executive Director
Ted Clement and Boonsuay Clement at Fiesta Verde.
Philanthropic Support 2006 – 2007
William and Judith Jennings
Mary Johnson and Charles Beltz
Robert and Charlene Karns
George and Nicki Kates
Donald and Caroline Kaull
Steven and Cynthia Kay
William and Irene Keary
Sharron Kenney and Jeffreys Johnson
Patrick Kerins and Terry Morgenthaler
Stuart Kielly
David Kilroy
Jerome and Helen Kirby
Ann Kirby
Eric and Melissa Kirton
David and Ann Marie Koohy
M.S. Krakoff
Sanne Kure-Jensen
James and Ethel Kyle
James Langston
Daniel Lanneville
Edward and Dana Lapekas
Gary and Ramona Lapidas
Micheline and Fernando Larrey
Reynold and Marlene Larsen
Edward and Sharon Lavallee
Gladys and David Lavine
Eric and Aini Lee Leslie
Stephen and Diana Lewinstein
Shannon Lewis
Lorna Lewis
Paul and Mardie Leys
Dunbar and Mary Livingston
Werner and Sally Loell
Bruce Long
Ruth Lowndes
Deborah Luhrs
L.P. and Helga Lustig
Cynthia Macarchuk
David and Mary MacBain
George Mackay
David MacLean and
Rosalind Vaz-MacLean
Curtis and Dana Magee
James and Tracy Mallinson
Betty Maloof
Michele Mancini
Bernard and Denise Mansheim
Willard and Nancy Marcley
Jeffrey Marshall and Katharine Dodge
Paul and Dale Martellino
Peter and Patricia Martin
Bonnie Matheson
Thomas and Marcella McCormack
Susan McCoy
Michael and Florence McDonough
Paul McGreevy
Stephanie McLennan
Earl and Elizabeth McMillen
Frank and Karen McNeilly
William McQueen and
Carla Bosch-McQueen
Richard and Elizabeth McStay
Jack and Barbara Mercier
Russell and Beth Milham
Marc and Nicole Milici
Paul and Deborah Miller
Virginia Miller
Charles and Phoebe Milligan
Charles and Catherine Moore
Richard and Sharon Morgera
Michael and Beverly Muessel
Deborah Mulcare
Cornelius and Christine Murphy
Christopher and Lisa Murray
Douglas and Laura Murray
Edward Murtaugh
Richard and Irene Needham
Michael and Martha Nesbitt
Howard and Mary Newman
Katherine Newman
Natalie Nicholson
Edna Nunes North
Frank and Mary Nunes
Paul and Linda Nunes
Patricia O’Connell and John Wilson
Patricia O’Donnell
Roderick O’Hanley and Richard Grisson
Paul O’Hearn
Bob and Joan O’Leary
Eugene and Eileen O’Reilly
Joanne Occaso
Richard Oppel and Pat Blakeley
Jane Owen
Joanne Packer
Thomas Palmer and
Dominique Alfandre
Jonathan and Bettie Pardee
Stephen and Liz Parker
Andrew Parsons
John and Joan Peabody
Mark and Margaret Peppercorn
Clara Perlingiero
Wayne and Alice Perras
Thomas and Cynthia Perrotti
Caroline Phillips
Michael and Elizabeth Pinto
Garry and Virginia Plunkett
R. Daniel Prentiss
Dennis Quelch
Guy and Lisa Railey
James Raiola
David Ray
Bradford and Cara Read
G. Peter and Shannon Reed
Stanley Reed
Raymond and Krista Reid
Jack and Barbara Renner
Thomas and Corrine Rich
John Richards
Mark and Clotilde Rinfret
Annamarie Ringheim
Richard and Suebelle Robbins
R. Brooke and Barbara Roberts
Janet Robinson
Marie Robinson
Joseph and Ann Rosa
Harald and Barbara Rosengren
Amory and Kathleen Ross
Ernst and Nancy Rothe
Susan Ruf and Michael Walsh
Glenn Russell
Mary Pat Ryan
Sally Sadler
Jennifer Salm
Arthur and Mrs. Sampson
John and Jessie Sargent
Ben Sargent
Christian Schlebach
Lianne Scura
Morrie and Maureen Seiple
F. Stephen Serzan
Edwin Sheffield
Ruth Shor
Leonard and Prudence Silvia
Cynthia Simmons and Bob Hurley
Robert and Cynthia Sinclair
George and Pat Sisson
Michael and Lucille Soares
Timothy and Linda Somes
Christopher and Anne Spaight
Ted and Kathy Spargo
William H. F. Spencer
Stephen and Marjorie Spencer
Denice Spero and Christopher Pargellis
Wendy Stapleton
Andrew Staroscik and
Kerri Staroscik-Warren
Gordon and Barbara Stenning
Everett C. A. and Kristine Stuart
Thomas Sturtevant
Silvia Styles
Vanessa Symmons Redfern
Lawrence and Mary Louise Taft
Richard Talipsky
Anna Templeton-Cotill
Gail Thacher
Lynn Thurston
Robert and Elizabeth Trainor
Linda Ujifusa
Martha Ullman and Daniel Snydacker
Lorraine Vermillion
Benjamin and Susan Walker
John and Susan Wallace
Joseph and Charlene Walsh
Roger and Eileen Warburton
Gail Ward
Paul and Patricia Watters
Thomas and Margaret Waugh
Lawrence and Rachel Webman
Brien and Helen Welch
Christina West
Malcolm and Dorothy Wheeler
William and Lynn White
Jeffrey and Dianne Williams
Eric and Elaine Williams
Christopher and Jennifer Williams
Leon Wood
John and Kimberly Woodhouse
Judith Woodward
Edward Young
Sam Young
$1 – $99
A Shade Above
Coastal Vision
Foot & Ankle Institute of New England
Jessica Hagen Fine Art & Design
JM Painting
Maplewood Farm
Mapping and Planning Services
Pfizer Foundation Matching
Gifts Program
Potter League for Animals
Preservation Society of Newport County
Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation
Silva, Thomas, Martland & Offenberg
St. Spyridon’s Church Choir
Viking Tours of Newport
Anonymous
Jose Aguon
A. Lawrence and Dawn Ahearn
Andre Ajemian
Richard and Pamela Alexander
William and Sharon Alger
Cyril and Sandra Allen
Janet Allen
Jean Alvanas
Robert Amarantes and Dennis Stark
Megan Anderson and Josh Fogg
Martha Anderson
Jean Anderson
Richard and Diane Anderson
Glenna Andrade
Edythe L. P. Anthony
John and Deborah Anthony
George and Allen Louise Antone
Joseph Applegate
Merritt Ashmead Robinson
Steven Aten and Catharine Linville
Colleen Aull
Klaus and Dorothea Baernthaler
Walter and Bevin Baetjer
Michael Barclay de Tolly
M. Joseph and Donna Barone
Paul Barrow
James and Kathryn Barry
Robert Bartlett
Joan Bartram
Bruce and Dorsey Beard
John and Ellen Beck
Anne Becker
George Behan
Michael and Mary Behan
Harold and Janet Belson
Anthony and Karen Benvenuto
Albion Bergstrom and A.J. Feyerabend
Alan and Susan Bernard
Bruce and Jane Berriman
Eleanor Bettle
Elizabeth Bickford
Kenneth Bitting
Jonathan and Nancy Bixby
Sarah Blackett
John and Fran Blaess
Bruce and Corinne Blank
William and Ellen Bliss
Inez Bliven
Dickson and Emily Boenning
Donald and Tiiu Booth
Steven Bordonaro
Barry Botelho
Linda Boudewyns
John and Margaret Brady
William and Nancy Bredbeck
George Brenner
Daniel and Antoinette Bridges
Mario and Constance Briosi
Diana Britton
Thomas and Mary Ellen Bronson
Eileen Brown
Robert and Elaine Bucci
Bonnie Buchanan Matheson
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Philanthropic Support 2006 – 2007
Ilse Buchert Nesbitt
Maggie Bulmer
Kevin Burke
Mary Burke
Neil and Patricia Burlingame
Helen Burnham
Peter and Anita Butler
Linda Butterworth
John and Colleen Byrne
Tristan and Lisa Cafferty
Francesca Campo
Ross Sinclair and Leah Cann
Claire Canning
Christopher and Katherine Carbone
Lester Carpenter
James and Pauline Carreira
Anthony and Mary Lou Carrellas
Maria Carroll
Rosemary Carroll
Edith Casey
Thomas and Linda Casey
Claywell and Ethel Chafton
Archie and Elizabeth Chambers
Beverly Champlin
David Chandler
Todd and Mary Chaplin
Mary Alice Chase and Mary Hall
Erik and Meryl Chaum
Patrick and Ellen Chilabato
Mersina Christopher
Charles and Toni Ciany
Alan Clark
Laura Clark
Jennine Clark Dunlap
Sean Clarkson
Clinton and Kelly Clemens
J. Stephen and Carol Clifford
Athol and Lori Cochrane
Edna Cohane
Martin and Elizabeth Cohen
John and Sue Coletti
Charles Collins
Michael and Marie Collins
William and Anne Collins
Phillip and Rosalie Connell
William and Rachael Connerton
Timothy Coutis and
Donnamaria Bruton-Coutis
Alexander and Mildred Cozzens
Margaret Craig
Will Cronin and
Christina Raimondo Cronin
Gary and Judy Crosby
William and Linda Culhane
Martha Cummings
George Cushman
Raymond and Joan Custy
Joan Cutter
Susan Daly
Christopher and Cari Darminio
Rosemary Davidson
Joan Davis
Robert and Rosemary Day
Betsy de Leiris
Raymond and Adeline De Pyper
John and Constance Dealy
James and Carol DeCosta
H. Davis and Hollie Delaney
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Debra Deleo
Joel and Dorothy Delessio
Mark and Helen DelGiudice
Irene Deloura
Joseph and Anna Demayo
Michael Devine and Laura Goldstein
Christopher and Bethany Di Napoli
Jean DiBona
Lois Dickison
John and Carol Dietz
Carl and Helen Digregorio
Lou and Margaret DiPalma
Jo-Anne Divalentino
James and Lori Dobbin
Marjorie Dodge
John and Caroline Doherty
Paul and Elizabeth Doucette
Joyce Douglas
William Douglas
Edward and Aldona Dowski
John and Alexandra Driscoll
Thomas and Deborah Duffy
Richard and Joanne Dunlap
Peter and Gloria Dunn
Thomas Dutra
Katherine Dyer
Richard and Lois Eberhard
Charles Edenbach
Stanley Ehrlich
Bruce Elleman and Sarah Paine
Mary Stuart Emerson
Manuel Escobar
Donna Essery
Peter and Rosemary Fagan
Stephen and Christine Fagan
Richard and Margaret Falb
Lisa Farley
Ted and Katherine Farnham
Gregory Fater
Brenda Finn and Tara Barlow
Roy Fithebert and Rose Lee
Anna Flaherty
Roger and Jane Fontaine
Francis and Doria Forgue
Kenneth and Mary Louise Forsythe
Bruce and Kathleen Foulke
Steven and Linn Freedman
Benjamin and Traci Galpen
Thomas and Joan Galvin
Charles Gardner and Alice Bridge
Richard Garland
Kenneth and Maureen Garthee
Terrence and Christine Gavan
Ralph and Barbara Gaze
Joseph and Lucille Giarratano
Elizabeth Gibbs
Cora Lee Gibbs
Denise Gibson
John Gilpatric
Pamela Gilpin
Benjamin and Sarah Gilson
Robert and Marjorie Goff
Jason Goldfarb
Po Wah and C. Gong
Thomas and Claudia Gorman
Vernon Gorton, Jr.
Suzanne Goulart
John Gower
Walter and Carol Gray
Thurston and Mary Gray
Elizabeth Greenman
Emma Greenman
Sean and Valerie Griffiths
Boris and Christa Grigorov
Matthew Grimes
Robert Gross
Stanley and Helen Grossman
John and Mary Guerrera
Francis and Lisa Gutierrez
Alice Guzewicz
Jane Hale
John and Janet Hall
Joseph and Jane Hall
Phillips and Cindy Hallowell
Donald and Ann Linda Hammer
John and Mary Anne Hand
Anne Hanscom
Kim Hapgood
James and Lenice Harrington
Anthony and Eileen Harris
Catherine Harvey
Vernon Harvey
Stephen and Cindy Haslam
Doris Hasting
Paul and Margaret Haywood
Robert and Angela Healey
Andrew and Leslie Heany
Joseph and Patricia Heller
Blake and Melanie Henderson
Marilyn Hennessey
James and Katherine Henning
Bushnell Pearce Henry
Alice Henry
Edward and Kim
Edward Hilliard
George and Emilie Hinman
Peter Hirschler
William and Joan Hitchcock
Allan and Carol Hodges
Jan and Katherine Hoftun
Teresa Hook
Joan and Charles Hopper
Patrick and Margaret Horgan
Beth Horton
Victor Howard
William and Mary Hughes
Jane and Albert Iandolo
Rebecca Inman
William and Katherine Jacaruso
Mary Jackson
Edward and Alexandra Jackson
Annette Jarvis
Margaret Jefferys
Samuel and Ruth Jernigan
Florence Job
Natalie Johnson
Robert and Denise Johnson
Victoria Johnson
Carlton and Jacqueline Johnson
George F.B. and Terry Johnson
Russell and Karen Johnson
Michael and Heidi Jones
John Joseph
Sandra Kafka
David and Amy Kalif
Christopher and Theresa Kalil
Mark Katzman
Etta Kaufman
Sharon Keeley and Scott Vidinha
John and Susan Kelchner
Barbara Keller
Kevin and Deborah Kelley
Winifred Kelley
Robert and Lourdes Kelly
Paul and Beverly Kelly
Mark Kenney
Joseph and Beverly Keohane
Robert and Susan Kieronski
Gary and Pamela Kilroy
Peter Kimball
Jessica Kirby
Laurie Kirby
Michael Case and Elena Kissel
Andrew and Kelly Kittel
William and Lavonne Kleven
Donald and Dianne Koch
Catherine Koulouvardis
S Kremer
William and Kathryn Labbe
Theresa Lacerda
Richard and Karen Lacey
J. Scott and Patricia Ladd
Peter Lafreniere
Wendy Lambert
Wendy Lamont-Woolbright
Trish Lang and Jeff O’Regan
Paul and Linda Lapointe
Kenneth and Karen Lauricella
Judy Lawson
Marlene Leatherbee
Karen Lechner
Kathryn Leonard
Louis and Susan Letendre
David and Judy Leys
Richard and Mary Longman
Fred Lopiano
Christopher Lord and Gretel Holsten
Robert Loughlin
James and Patricia Lucarelli
Norman and Karen Lucas
Peter and Janice Ludwig
William Lund and Carolyn Barrett
Marshall and Mary Kay Lundberg
R. Chandler and Marilyn Lyell
Henry Lynn
Kristen Lyon
Angus Macaulay
Donald and Jayne MacDougall
John MacGowan
Maria Mack
Ian and Jenny MacKechnie
Gertraude Mackin
Virginia Macomber
Edwin and Dorothy Madden
Donald Magee and Mary Donohue
Shelley Mahood
Marilyn Mainelli
Philip and Allison Maltese
John and Natalie Manning
Paul and Linda Manning
Michael and Martha Marchetti
Ronald Marsh
James Marshall
Terence and Cynthia Martin
Philanthropic Support 2006 – 2007
John and Linda Martin
Francis and June Martin
John and Elaine Mayer
Edward and Janet McCarthy
Kevin and Denise McCarthy
John McDaid
John McDonald
Suzanne McDonald
Paul and Elizabeth McEnroe
Peter McGeogh
Charles and Joann McGeown
Jane McGivney
Mary Beth and Thomas McSparren
Michael and Elizabeth Mello
Mary Lou Mello
Marianne Menas and Gilbert Soares
George and Irene Menas
Ronald and Karen Menezes
Florence Micarelli
Paul and Linda Michaud
Jay Miller
Skyler and Ray Ann Mills
Maureen Mills
Edith Milnes
Jay and Pauline Minkin
Shane Mitchell
Mark and Marillyn Moffett
Ronald Molleur
Thomas and Nancy Moore
Robert and Edith Morin
Stephen and Cheryl Morin
Peter and Elizabeth Morley
Dennis and Sylvia Morral
Peter V.C. and Carlotta Marie Morris
Peter and Martine Moscovita
Harry and Cheryl Mrozowski
Marion Munch
Barry and Beverly Murphy
William and Susan Murphy
Lynee Murray
Richard Myers
Bernard and Doris Nemtzow
Naomi Neville
J. Peter and Suzanne Newbauer
Larry Newsom
Beverly Nolan
Robert and Mafalda Nula
Fred and Ina-Marie Nussbaum
Robert and Patricia Obara
Sean O’Brien and Cheryl Le Vasseur O’Brien
Christopher and Kelly O’Connell
Paul and Deborah Odell
William and Elizabeth Ogden
Michael and Marilyn Oglo
Laurie O’Keefe
Paul and Debra Oliveira
Gerard O’Malley
Cynthia O’Malley
Barry and Jane O’Neill
Paul and Patricia Onofrio
Glen Ormiston
Arthur and Clara O’Sullivan
Judith Owens and Addison Closson
Austin and Rosemary Page
Francis Palmer
John Palmieri
Marc and Sabrina Paradis
William and Edna Parker
Steven and Sandy Parks
William and Janice Parvo
Roger and Ann Paschoal
Jed Pearsall and William Doyle
Michael Peixoto
Ann Pelletier
Emily Perkins
Wayne and Sue Perry
John and Sonya Perry
Jay Peters and Patricia O’Brien Peters
Paul and Suzanne Petronello
Audrey Pfeiffer
Linda Phillips
Joseph and Kelly Pianka
Stanley and Aleksandra Pianka
John and Meghan Picotte
Barbara Pierce
Thomas and Catherine Pietraszek
Omer and Anne Marie Plourde
Barbara Hamilton Porter
Sarah Powel
J. Christopher and Candace Powell
Susan Bowen Powers
Richard and Cynthia Price
Mary Purcell and Juan Diaz-Barrera
A. Russell Pytko
Craig Rachupka
William and Pamela Rakip
Donald and Rohalt Ramsbottom
Inez Reamer
Lisa Reamer
Walter G.D. and Cynthia Reed
Barbara Reed
Edmond and Lisa Rego
Dennis Reid
William and Patricia Reilly
John and Carol Reise
David and Christa Reise
Barbara Reiser
Michael Remillard
Denise Reniere
Tony and Lynne Rey
Jane Rhein
Anthony and Karen Ricci
David Rice
William and Donna Richards
C. William Riesmeyer
Shirley Riess
Douglas Riggs and Mary Mills Riggs
Jeffrey and Janet Ringuest
Sebastian Ripa
Edward and Leonore Rizy
Jane Roach
Penelope Roberts
Mary Jane Rodman
Paul Rodrigues
Arthur and Janet Rogers
William and Marcia Rogers
John and Kathryn Rok
Patrick Rooney
Virginia Ross
Theodore and Gloria Rosser
Kraig Ruth
Laurie Ruttenberg
Timothy and Nancy Ryan
Susan Ryan
George and Cindy Sabato
Robert Sabel
Joanna Salvo
Herbert and Francoise Sandberg
Harold and Joan Sands
John and Margaret Rose Sandstrom
M. Theresa Santos
A.J. Sardella
Albert and Anton Sardella
Andrew Schapiro
John and Jean Schlesinger
Richard and Janet Schlosky
Richard and Gloria Schmidt
Charles and Audrey Schwarz
Kenneth and Tia Scigulinsky
Mark and Sandra Seaman
James and Valerie Seveney
Marjorie Seyster
Brian Shanley and Susan Walsh
David and Vivian Shaull
Eric and Adrienne Shaw
Donnell and Barbara Shea
Malinda Shea
Daniel and Karen Shea
Mary Shepard
Jacqueline Sherman
William and Rosanne Siegler
Francis and Dorothy Silvia
Edward and Kate Sisk
Janet Skinner
Marshall and Lucy Slayton
Jan and Caroline Slee
Michael Slein
Regina Slezak
Raymond and Kathleen Smedberg
Jasper and Anna Smith
Thomas Smith
Christine Smith
Philip and Mary Beth Smith
Jean Smith
Marie Smith
Kathryn Smyth
Marsha Snider
Wilder and Enedina Snodgrass
Ann Souder
William and Elaine Souza
William Souza
William Souza
Patricia Spear
Douglas and Jill Spear
Cathleen Speer
Caesar and M. Rita Spero
Mary Spotts
Peter and Susan Spring
Stuart Springer
Jeffrey Staats
Katherine Stack
Zachary and Elissa Staples
Margaret Stapleton
Peter and Kathy Stark
Katherine Stark
David and Jane Steele
Patricia Stevenson
John and Alloe Stokes
E. MacGregor and Luise Strauss
Arthur and Irine Suddaby
A. Michael Sullivan
Kathleen Sullivan
Dennis and Eileen Sullivan
Joanne Surgeon
Daniel Sweeney
Walter and Helen Swistak
Patricia Sylvester
Paul and Renee Talewsky
William and Jean Tallman
Joseph and Cynthia Tavares
Judy and David Terry
David Thalmann
Marc and Wirt Thayer
Arthur and Alice Thomas
Tim and Lisa Tobin
Julia Rush Toland
Christopher Tompsett
Brian and Patricia Toracinta
Charles and Patricia Toracinta
Ted and Bridget Torrey
Lynne Torrey
Kimberly Trabucchi
Brian Trapp
Carol Lynn Trocki and Brian Buck
John and Judy Tucker
Tom and Han Turner
Mary Jo Valdes and Dave Davis
Rufus and Janette Van Gruisen
Elizabeth Van Liew Perry
Jim and Sally Vanicek
Richard and Barbara Vars
Desiree Ventura
Robert and Jennifer Vergnani
Attila and Elizabeth Voda
Robert and Bonnie Waddicor
George and Phyllis Walker
Alfred Walker
Robert Walling
Donald and Pauline Walsh
George and Sherrill Warch
George and Louise Warren
Robert and Linda Watts
Michael and Susan Weiss
Scott and Lynda West
F. Bruce and Eileen Westgate
James Wharton
Catherine Whipple
Glenn and Elizabeth Whisler
Robert and Julie White
Evamaria Williams
Shawen Wiliams and Andrew MacKeith
John and Frances Wilson
Richard and Priscilla Wimpress
Christopher Withers
Diane Witter
David and Mary Wixted
John and Linnea Wolfe
Ronald and Mary Woods
Rosalie Wotton
Peter and Betty Wright
Henry Wrobel and Donna McCarthy
Elizabeth Wylie
Barbara Pisaro Young
Erica Zap
If your name is listed incorrectly or
has been omitted, please notify the
Land Trust’s Development Office
and accept our sincere apologies.
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Aquidneck Land Trust
Financial Summary
For the Twelve Months Ended September 30, 2007
PUBLIC SUPPORT & REVENUE
Public Support:
Grants
172,000
Contributions of Donated Easements
0
Donations and Appeals
171,389
Membership Dues
89,020
Special Events
305,523
Less: Direct benefit cost to participants
(128,676)
Net special event revenue
$ 176,847
Total Public Support
$ 609,256
Revenue:
Investment Income
$ 104,376
Gain on sale of property25,860
Rental and Other Income
863
Total Revenue
$ 131,099
Trustees Mike Warren and Mary Bush-Brown
admire the bench celebrating Trail Easement
Donors at the Sakonnet Greenway Trail
opening ceremonies.
Net Assets released from restrictions:
Satisfaction of program restrictions
$ 421,079
TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT & REVENUE
$ 1,161,434
EXPENSES
Program Services:
Land Acquisition and Stewardship
$ 271,079
Conservation Easements
150,000
Conservation Easements – donated
0
Membership and Education
118,856
Total Program Services
$ 539,935
Support Services:
Management and General Operations
Fundraising
Total Support Services View of the Swan Farm Property from
Wapping Road in Portsmouth.
If you would like a copy of the Aquidneck
Land Trust’s Audited Financial Statements for
the twelve months ended September 30, 2007,
prepared by Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Ltd.
please contact David A. Thalmann, Director of
Finance and Administration at (401) 849-2799 x
17 or email [email protected]. For information
about the ways you can support the Aquidneck
Land Trust please contact Carolyn du Pont,
Development Director at (401) 849-2799 x 13.
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$ 291,319
110,834
$ 402,153
TOTAL EXPENSES TOTAL CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS
CHANGES IN TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS:
Investment Income
Grants
Donations and appeals
Net assets released from restrictions
Total changes in temporarily restricted net assets
$ 942,088
$396,650
300,000
1,539,279
(421,079)
$ 1,814,850
TOTAL CHANGE IN NET ASSETS
$ 2,034,196
NET ASSETS, beginning of the fiscal year
$ 7,308,323
NET ASSETS, end of the fiscal year
$ 9,342,519
$ 219,346
Land Preservation Fund
$3,469,591
Merritt Neighborhood Endowment Fund
75,582
Legal Defense Fund270,504
Stewardship Endowment Fund
1,941,195
General Operating Fund
3,585,647
TOTAL NET ASSETS
$ 9,342,519
Aquidneck Land Trust Boards & Staff
These annotated lists reflect the composition of the Board of Trustees and Board of
Advisors and their place of local residence as of December 31, 2007. The Board of Trustees
thanks retiring Board Members for their outstanding dedication and support.
Board Of Trustees
CHAIR
D. Stuart MacNaught
Newport, Rhode Island
Louis Escobar
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Board Of Advisors
CHAIR
Michele Foster
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Eleanor H. Kinney
Breman, Maine
Jonathan K. Gewirz
Providence, Rhode Island
Randall Arendt, FRTPI
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Mil Kinsella
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Kathleen Glassie
Middletown, Rhode Island
Hugh D. Auchincloss III
Newport, Rhode Island
Sanne Kure-Jensen
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Mark D. Hellendrung
Middletown, Rhode Island
David E. P. Lindh
Newport, Rhode Island
SECRETARY
Katherine S. Damon
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Robert A. Carrellas, M.D.
Middletown, Rhode Island
Nannette Herrick
Newport, Rhode Island
Ann Conner
Newport, Rhode Island
Richard C. Loebs, Jr.
Middletown, Rhode Island
Charles B. Allott, Esq.
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Frederick J. Hodges III
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Steven Cotta
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Deborah L. Merritt
Middletown, Rhode Island
Denae Bayer
Newport, Rhode Island
Katherine E. Irving
Newport, Rhode Island
Trudy Coxe
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Nuala Pell
Newport, Rhode Island
Mary Bush-Brown
Boston, Massachusetts
Holly Janney, Esq.
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Anne S. Damon
Middletown, Rhode Island
Sheila M. Reilly
Middletown, Rhode Island
Lyn Comfort
Newport, Rhode Island
Matthew O. Kirby
Middletown, Rhode Island
Ronald Lee Fleming
Newport, Rhode Island
Denise L. Roberts, CFP
Newport, Rhode Island
William J. Corcoran, Esq.
Newport, Rhode Island
Paul F. O’Reilly
Middletown, Rhode Island
Anne W. Garnett
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Jocelyn C. Sherman
Middletown, Rhode Island
Regis A. de Ramel
Wilmington, Delaware
Michael Warren
Newport, Rhode Island
Stephen A. Haire, Esq.
Middletown, Rhode Island
Keith W. Stokes
Newport, Rhode Island
Stephen A. DeLeo, Esq.
Middletown, Rhode Island
Nancy Parker Wilson
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
George Gardner Herrick
Newport, Rhode Island
Larry Taft
Foster, Rhode Island
Samuel H. Howell
Middletown, Rhode Island
Alison S. Vareika
Newport, Rhode Island
VICE CHAIR
Stephen J. MacGillivray, Esq.
Middletown, Rhode Island
TREASURER
John McColloch
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Ronald F. Dick
Newport, Rhode Island
Robert E. Victor, CPA
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Sandra T. Whitehouse
Providence, Rhode Island
Staff
Edward S. Clement, Jr., Executive Director
David A. Thalmann, Director of Finance
& Administration
Larry Sheerin, Nannette Herrick, Anne Corbin
& David Thalmann at the
5th Annual Golf Tournament.
A paddle boarder enthusiastically completes his
lap at the Aquidneck Island Paddle Fundraiser.
Carolyn du Pont, Development Director
Andrew Arkway, Stewardship Director
Jessica Pohl, Assistant Development Director
Diana Britton, Office Manager
Courtney Ferreira, Development Coordinator
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The Aquidneck Land Trust preserves the Island’s open spaces and natural
character for the lasting benefit of our community.
790 Aquidneck Avenue, Middletown, Rhode Island 02842
401.849.2799
www.aquidnecklandtrust.org
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