Harry V. Webster, Jr., President
HLT member since 1991
In 1991 a local Perryman/Forest Greens citizens organized and joined forces with the HLT to protect itself from negative impacts from development of environmentally sensitive land. From this grassroots preservation effort Harry learned that individual people working together can make a positive difference in health of their own neighborhood. With the help of HLT, the citizens of Forest Greens & Perryman preserved a critical natural area which today is home to wildlife, natural plants and exists as The Forest Greens Lake Preserve for everyone. Harry continues to serve as a member of the Forest Greens & Perryman Community Association and as President since 1996.
In 2002, Harry became interested in advancing the Land Trust movement in Harford County and joined the board of directors of the Harford Land Trust. He has participated in the annual convention of the National Land Trust Alliance for five consecutive years and has attended classes for The Center for Whole Communities, the Maryland Association of Land Trusts, and The Trust for Public Land. He has participated in many land preservation projects resulting in new agricultural easements, land acquisition projects, and has helped add land to the Harford County Park system. He has served as President of HLT since 2006.
Harry is a principal in a local independent insurance agency, Lassen, Marine & Webster, Inc. since 1983. Harry lives in Aberdeen with Eileen his wife and his three daughters Emily, Jennifer & Nan.
Dennis L. Kirkwood, Vice President
Elected October 2002Dr.
Dennis Kirkwood is a native Harford County resident, being the seventh
generation to live on and farm Newark Farms, located north of Madonna in
Northwest Harford County. He has degrees from McDaniel College,
Northern Illinois University, and the University of Maryland and is
retired from a 34 year career with Harford County Public Schools as a
science teacher and Supervisor of Science. He played a major role in
developing the programs at the Harford Glen Environmental Education
Center and the Science and Mathematics Academy at Aberdeen High School.
He has served as an adjunct instructor at several local colleges and
universities, teaching a variety of graduate classes and supervising
student teachers. Dr. Kirkwood is very interested in local flora and
fauna, especially birdlife, currently serving as the president of the
Harford County Bird Club. He and his wife, Jean Kirkwood, lead eco-tours
internationally and within the U.S., and teach a birding class through
Harford Community College. They are the proud parents of two grown
daughters, Heather and Kristin. Dennis also serves his community as an
ordained elder at Bethel Presbyterian Church in Madonna and is a member
of the Harford County Farm Bureau, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and
the American Birding Association. He formerly served on the Harford
County Agricultural Preservation Review Board.
Glenn R. Dudderar, Secretary
Elected October 2002
Retired specialist in fisheries & wildlife in Virginia and Michigan,
where he wrote a monthly column "Nature From Your Backdoor; author of
many bulletins, pamphlets, articles, teaching guides, and columns. His
wife and he retired to Perryman four years ago and he continues as a
forestry consultant.
E. Louis Wienecke, III, Treasurer
Elected October 2003Lou Wienecke is a Financial Advisor and Certified Financial Planner whose practice is located at the Bel Air office of Smith Barney. He has lived in Harford County for over 30 years and currently resides in Havre De Grace with his wife, Linda. He retired in February 2005 as Chief Financial Officer of SYSCOM, Inc., in Baltimore, a $25 million IBM business partner, software reseller, and systems integrator focusing on business process management (workflow), and enterprise content (document) management primarily serving the banking, insurance, investment management, mortgage banking, stock brokerage, and mutual fund industries. Prior to joining SYSCOM, Inc. in 1998, he had been a Group Manager for Northrup Grumman Electronic Systems Sector/Westinghouse Defense, 1976-98. Since 1980 he has been a Director of Madison Square Bank. A graduate of the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering, Lou Wienecke also earned the MBA degree at Loyola College in Baltimore.
 Gary A. Davis
Gary was raised on a dairy farm in Middletown, DE graduating from Middletown HS. Gary served in the US Air Force and was honorably discharged. Gary has an AA degree in Accounting from Delaware Community College and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration form Wilmington College in New Castle, DE. After college Gary worked for Ryder Systems in Miami, Fl as a tax accountant and then in lease sales for Ryder Truck Rental. After Ryder Gary worked in various marketing and sales positions that took him to Houston, TX and California. In Oct of 2007 Gary started as the District Manager of the Harford Soil Conservation District and stayed in that position after retiring in April of 2009.
Gary has an intimate knowledge of agriculture in Harford County and land development. While serving as the District Manager he helped form the Envirothon program with the all the county’s high schools. He also served on the Ag Economic Advisory Committee and served as Secretary of the MD Association of Soil Conservation Districts.
Gary serves on the lands committee and the personnel committee.
Henry C. Godfrey
James G Morris
Jim was born in and has lived his entire life in Harford County. He grew up on the family’s dairy farm until his father’s untimely death when he was 8 years old. I graduated from North Harford High School in 1969. He obtained an AA degree at Harford Community and a BS in accounting from the University of Baltimore. He is a CPA (State of Maryland) and has worked in public accounting and private industry for 15 years. Jim has had his own accounting practice since 1994 where he performs tax, accounting, audit and review, and business advisory services.
Jim and his wife Sarah and have been married for 36 years and have 2 daughters and 1 granddaughter. They live on a 32 acre farm where they have a small flock of dorset sheep ( a 4H project gone out of control). He’s a long-time member of Emory United Methodist Church and an active supporter of FCCAU, the organization which cares for the homeless in the county.
 Linn Griffiths
Elected March 2009
Linn Griffiths is a is a Science Model Department Chair for Harford County Public Schools who received Maryland's Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching for 2007.
Ms. Griffiths, before becoming a Science Model Department Chair, spent 9
of her 21 years in teaching at Fallston Middle School and 12 years at
C. Milton Wright High School, where she was the recycling coordinator, Green Team sponsor and the Envirothon coach. She is an adjunct instructor for Plymouth State University in New Hampshire for environmental graduate studies. Linn was named Secondary Conservation Teacher of the Year for the Northeast Region by the National Association of Conservation Districts, and is a Maryland Service Learning Fellow and former Susquehannock Environmental Center Middle School Environmental Teacher of the Year.
Besides her extensive environmental knowledge, Linn brings extraordinary enthusiasm to HLT’s efforts to reach out to the public and connecting people to the land. Linn resides in Darlington with her husband, Peter, a teacher at C. Milton Wright High and a member of HLT’s Lands Committee.
 Benjamin A. Lloyd
Elected March 2008
A ninth-generation Harford Countian, Ben Lloyd grew up in Churchville and now resides in Norrisville near Deer Creek. Currently, he works as the coordinator of intergovernmental relations for Harford County Government. He is a member of the Harford County People’s Counsel Citizens Advisory Board, the Harford Farm Bureau, the Harford Historical Society, North Bay Rugby Club, and Churchville Presbyterian Church. He is also a former member of the Harford County Environmental Advisory Board. Ben is a graduate of C. Milton Wright High School (1998), and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Towson University (2002), and a Master of Public Policy degree from UMBC (2005). Ben brings his extensive knowledge of the county to our Lands Committee and Outreach Committee.
Richard M. Post
Leslie R. Eastman
Elected March 2005Leslie R. Eastman was born in High Point, North Carolina and in 1969 received the B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1974 he received the M.S. degree in Organic Photochemistry from U.N.C. after serving two years as a Chemist in the U. S. Army at Fort Lee, Virginia and Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Moving to Harford County in 1974, Les worked at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground as a Chemist, Physical Scientist, and Computer Programmer until he retired in December 2003. He and his wife, Beth, live on Wilkinson Road in the Havre de Grace area and have a daughter (Nanje). His hobbies are bird watching, photography, travel, and writing Web Pages. He is a member of these organizations: Mensa, Harford Bird Club, American Birding Association, American Bird Conservancy, Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, The National Wildlife Federation, The National Parks Conservation Association, and, since 1997, The Harford Land Trust, whose Web Page he composed and managed starting in 1999. His professional memberships are the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
H. Turney McKnight
Elected 1991 Farmer, attorney, outdoor writer, President, S. T. McKnight Foundation; Agricultural District on 450-acre farm; Board of Directors of Chesapeake Bay Foundation since 1984.
Past Presidents and Directors since 1991 the late Sidney D. Kreider, MD; the late Johnston N. Hegeman; Peter A. Jay; the late Lehman W. Spry, DDS; Dorothy S. Bishop, CPA; Richard S. Bishop, CPA; Judge Brodnax Cameron, Jr.; Peter R. Hegeman; Mary-Dulany James, Esq.; Mildred S. Kreider, RN, PhD.; Albert H. Owens, Jr., MD; Garrett J. Pensell; Joseph P. Pons; Jan P. Stinchcomb, Gregory A. Szoka, Esq.; Leonard D. Wheeler; Charles W. Wienckowski, CPA; Ann C. Helton; Paul Hunter; Edward A. Grassi; David P. Miller
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