Our Trustees And Staff
Phyllis Rambo - President
Phyllis Rambo retired to Oxford after a career in higher education, first as a Human Resources Director, then as a consultant on higher ed administrative computing system implementations. She has been involved with Habitat for Humanity, the Oxford Garden Club, Master Gardeners, the Oxford Museum, and the Oxford Business Association. Phyllis enjoys the sense of community and the wonderful people she has met here.
Brian Wells - Vice president
Brian Wells has worked in the healthcare information technology industry for 42 years. Currently, he’s serving as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer. He and his wife Julie have lived in Oxford since 2008 and enjoy boating, local history, and volunteering in this wonderful community.
Pam Baker - Treasurer
Pamela K. Baker has been an active Oxford resident for 22 years, volunteering with various groups. She worked 10 years at Cooperative Oxford Lab, 22 years with Oxford Library as Secretary and Treasurer, 21 years with Oxford Volunteer Fire Company Auxiliary, and 14 years with Oxford Day. She has also been involved with the Oxford Business Association and served in various position for the Town of Oxford. Before Oxford, Pamela was Vice-President, R&D Facilities for a major agricultural products company in New Jersey, overseeing engineering, maintenance, and compliance operations.
Val Cavalheri - Secretary
Val Cavalheri is a writer and photographer, born in Brazil, although she’s lived in the States most of her life. As a writer, she has served as editor of several magazines and written for numerous publications, most notably, The Washington Post. Val retired her photography studio when she moved from Northern Virginia to the Eastern Shore a few years ago. Currently, Val is the Arts and Culture Editor for Spy Community Media. She and her husband, Wayne Gaiteri, have two children and one grandchild.
Norman Bell - Board Member
Norman 'Norm' Bell was born in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He spent most of his career in management and leadership positions within the safety, health, and environmental industries. Norm has been an Oxford homeowner since 2006, and he and his wife Paula became full-time residents in 2012.
Paula Bell - Board Member
Paula Bell grew up in New York City and taught school, primarily fifth grade, for over twenty years. After retiring n 2004, she resumed working as a ceramic artist. Paula volunteers and supports several local non-profit organizations, including the Oxford Museum, John Wesley Preservation Society, the Oxford Garden Club, the Oxford Ladies Breakfast, and Temple B'nai Israel.
Connie Greenhawk - Board member
Connie Greenhawk was born and raised in Talbot County and has lived in Oxford for over 30 years. She is the Treasurer and a member of the Oxford Fire Company, and an inactive Emergency Medical Technician. Connie works part-time at the Church of Holy Trinity as Parish Administrator and enjoys volunteering in the community.
Lisa Harrington - Board Member
Lisa Harrington is president of the Lharrington Group LLC, an Oxford-based women-owned consulting firm specializing in global supply chain management for both the private and public sector. Lisa works extensively in the global health and defense supply chains arenas, as well as in logistics/transportation, consumer goods, high tech and other sectors. She holds two research appointments at the University of Maryland - in the schools of Business and Public Policy. Lisa is native of Oxford.
Brud LaMotte - Board Member
Byron 'Brud' LaMotte was born in Wilmington, DE, and came to live in Oxford in 1974. He graduated from Boston University and spent 40 years in the Real Estate industry, including owning LaMotte Properties in Easton, MD, from where he retired in 2015. Brud is a classic car enthusiast who enjoys boating, the Talbot Investment Group, and traveling in his spare time.
Art Murr - Board Member
Art Murr retired from Citigroup after 33 years in computer technology and moved to Oxford in 2018 from Garden City, NY. He has a BS in Computer Technology and an MBA in Banking and Financial Institutions. He enjoys Oxford, as it reminds him of Long Island, where he grew up, and Sag Harbor, NY, where he spent summers. Art enjoys biking, kayaking, snow skiing, travel, theatre, music, museums, cooking, and spending time with his wife Denise and son Matthew.
Stuart Parnes - Board Member
Stuart Parnes graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT, with an Art History degree and spent most of his career as the Director of Exhibitions & Interpretation at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT. He was also the Executive Director of Connecticut Humanities, President of the Chesapeake Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD, and Executive Director of the Connecticut River Museum in Essex, CT. From 2017-2020, Stuart served as President of the Oxford Museum. He and his wife, Sue Ellen Thompson, moved to Oxford in 2006.
Lee Phillips - Board Member
Lee Phillips has been a full-time resident of Oxford since 1998. He retired from the private engineering practice as Chairman of the Board of Walter L. Phillips, Inc. The firm, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, specializes in land planning, feasibility studies, and land surveying.
Walda Roseman - Board Member
Walda Roseman retired from a career in international communications technology policy, regulation, and economic and social development. She served in executive roles in government and non-profit organizations and led a strategic consulting firm that advised aerospace, Internet, government, media, and other organizations. She also devoted her energies to advancing roles of women in ICT and empowering young people to embrace technology and creativity as tools for positive economic change. She has been active in non-profit boards and currently chairs the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.
Molly Sause - Board Member
Molly Sause is the CFO of AFG Wealth in Easton. She grew up in Michigan and moved to Chicago to teach middle school mathematics. In 2010 she moved to Maryland and became an AVID Coordinator to prepare students for college eligibility. After more than twenty years in education, Molly earned her ChFC, and joined her husband’s firm. Molly is also the owner of Bay Cookie Co., a cottage industry bakery. Molly and Brett, one of the Oxford Ferry captains, moved to Oxford a few years ago.
Ellen Schiller - Board Member
Ellen Schiller moved to Oxford in 2016 after earning a Ph.D. focused on teaching learning disabled children to read. She has conducted education policy studies at the National and State levels, and served on various foundation boards. Ellen plays golf, travels frequently for golf outings, enjoys sailing a Marshall Catboat with her husband, Tom, and living on Town Creek.
Connie Vaught - Board Member
Connie Vaught, a native of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, was a nurse in the U.S. Navy, later taught nursing at the collegiate level, and became a nurse practitioner. She and her husband, Dave Poe, have had a home in Oxford since 2012 and have been full-time residents since 2020. Presently, she is Vice President of the Oxford Library and a member of the Fire Company Auxiliary. Although Connie enjoys reading, walking, and traveling the world, her favorite role is that of a devoted grandmother to four grandchildren.
Karen Walbridge - Board Member
Karen Walbridge is originally from Connecticut and moved to Pennsylvania with her husband in 1972, where she worked as a College Advisor for twenty-five years. The Eastern Shore has always been an attraction to Karen, first as a place to keep a boat and then when they bought their home in 2004.
Julie Wells - Board Member
Julie Wells moved to Oxford in 2008 to restore an 1880 Waterman’s cottage, winning the This Old House Best Exterior Makeover Award in 2011. She began volunteering in 2009, joining the Oxford Day committee and the Oxford Fire Co. Auxiliary, serving as secretary for 15 years. After moving to Oxford full-time in 2017, Julie served on the Historic Commission and the Oxford Museum Board, becoming Managing Director and later President, co-authoring "Oxford, Images of America." She and her husband restored two more historic homes in Oxford.
Liza Ledford - Executive Director
After spending her early career in Hollywood serving as a film producer and studio executive, Liza moved to New Jersey in 2002 to raise her young family. She spent eight years producing international events and television packages for the pharmaceutical industry before returning home, to Easton, MD in 2011 to be closer to family. She started her own company, Northstar Consulting Services, LLC under which she supported many area non-profits in their marketing and event promotions. She planted her roots as Executive Director of the Oxford Community Center in 2017.
Keri-Ann Thomas - Assistant Director
Emeritus
Bunny Bond
Philip G. Conner
George B. Passano (1931-2022)