Trustees and Staff
Our Trustees And Staff
Norman Bell - President
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.
Phyllis Rambo - Vice 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.
Dave Wangsness - Treasurer
David Wangsness has been a resident of Oxford since 2010, following a 40+ year career in finance. David is on his second tour as Treasurer at the OCC and actively participates in other non-profit organizations in Oxford. He has been married to his wife, Sara, for over 50 years and enjoys golfing, painting, and spending time with the families of his two daughters and four grandchildren.
Connie Greenhawk - Secretary
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.
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.
Val Cavalheri - Board Member
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.
Gordon Fronk - Board Member
Gordon Fronk has been practicing law, specializing in business organization and transactions, estate planning and real estate acquisitions, development, and sales/exchanges for 53 years. His various community involvement includes being a past Oxford Commissioner, Vestry member and Sr. Warden of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Governor and President of Talbot Country Club, past President and current member of the Board of Talbot Mentors, a current member of Board of Oxford Museum, and past President and current member of the OCC Board. When not working, Gordon golfs, skis, and races his J-80 sailboat.
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.
Karl Krieger - Board Member
Karl Krieger grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. He worked in the electrical and industrial market as a small business operator running three related but separate joint ventures with different European partners. In the mid-90s, Karl sold the companies and moved to Oxford full-time into a home designed by his oldest child, an architect. He still has ties to Pennsylvania, where his children live.
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.
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.
Earl Segal - Board Member
Earl Segal has held various leadership positions, including chair of Goodwill of Greater Washington and officer positions on the boards of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Maryland Association for Non-Profit Organizations, Trinity Washington University, and the College of Liberal Arts of The Pennsylvania State University. A retired corporate real estate lawyer, Earl moved to Oxford a little under 20 years ago, where he and his wife now enjoy golf, sailing, and of course, pickleball.
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.
Brian Wells - Board Member
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.
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.
Emeritus
Bunny Bond Philip G. Conner George B. Passano (1931-2022)