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.
Glenn R. Dudderar, Vice President
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.
Dennis L. Kirkwood, Secretary
Elected October 2002
Dr. 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 will soon retire from a 34 year career with Harford County Public Schools as a science teacher and Supervisor of Science. He has 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. Dr. Kirkwood is very interested in local flora and fauna, especially birdlife, having served as the past 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.
E. Louis Wienecke, III, Treasurer
Elected October 2003
Lou 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.
Linn Griffiths
Elected March 2009
Linn Griffiths is a C. Milton
Wright High School environmental science/biology teacher, who received
Maryland's Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching for
2007.
Ms. Griffiths has spent nine of her 18 years in teaching at C. Milton Wright, where she is 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, also 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. He currently works for Harford County Government in the Division of Agriculture. He is a member of the Harford County People’s Counsel Citizens Advisory Board, the Harford Farm Bureau, the Harford Historical Society, Republicans for Environmental Protection, 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.
Stephanie V. Stone, Ph.D.
Elected October 2005
Stephanie Stone rides and gardens on her farm on Broad Creek in Northern Harford County. As an undergraduate, she studied anthropology at Bryn Mawr College; her graduate training is in health psychology at University of Maryland and National Institutes of Aging. She teaches at Johns Hopkins University and writes for the Chesapeake Bay boating magazines SpinSheet and Proptalk.Stephanie serves on our Lands Committee and Budget Committee.
Leslie R. Eastman
Elected March 2005
Leslie 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