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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (RIDGELY, MD—February 4, 2008)

ADKINS ARBORETUM ANNOUNCES NEW TRUSTEES APPOINTMENTS

The Adkins Arboretum Board of Trustees welcomed five new Board members at its January meeting. Four of the new members represent Queen Anne’s County: Alicia Siegrist of Queenstown and Greg Williams, Kelly Phipps and Larry Blount of Centreville. Lynn Jarrell, a resident of Denton in Caroline County, also joined the Board. Jarrell is a special education teacher at The Benedictine School. She is an officer in the national teachers’ sorority Alpha Delta Kappa’s local chapter and was a founding board member of CASA of Caroline.

Siegrist is a geology professor at Anne Arundel Community College and became acquainted with the Arboretum through Legacy Institute for the Environment, a partnership program for volunteers with Pickering Creek Environmental Center and Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center. Blount has more than 35 years of leadership and management experience, primarily in the Federal government and military. He spent the majority of that time with the U.S. Public Health Service, responsible for health policy and management. With more than 25 years in the banking industry, Williams is a commercial lender with the Denton office of PNC Bank. His civic activities include serving as an officer of the Rotary Club of Denton; before moving to Queen Anne’s County, he was a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Annapolis. Phipps is the assistant manager of The Narrows, a family-owned restaurant. Her volunteer work includes second vice president of the Queen Anne’s County Garden Club, Corsica River Yacht Club, Altar Guild of St. Paul’s Church in Centreville, the Queen Anne’s County Mental Health Committee and the Queen Anne’s County Master Gardeners.

Adkins Arboretum is a 400-acre native garden and preserve at the headwaters of the Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline County. Open year round, the Arboretum offers educational programs for all ages about nature and gardening. Through its Campaign to Build a Green Legacy, the Arboretum will build a new LEED-certified Arboretum Center and entranceway to broaden educational offerings and research initiatives promoting best practices in conservation and land stewardship. For additional information about Arboretum programs, visit www.adkinsarboretum.org or call 410-634-2847, ext. 0.

Cutline: Adkins Arboretum welcomed five new Board Trustees at its January meeting. Pictured left to right are Trustees Wayne Bell,

Margaret Worrall, Kelly Hardesty Phipps, Kathy Carmean, Lynn Jarrell,

Joe Weems, Alicia Siegrist, Greg Williams, and Peter Stifel (not pictured is new Board Trustee Larry Blount). Click here for a full-size photo.

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