St. Michaels, MD, November 3, 2014 – The Miles River Yacht Club Foundation has elected five new members to its Board of Directors, to guide the non-profit foundation in raising funds and providing grants to non-profits that provide children with maritime-oriented competitive sports or educational activities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It has also given $10,195 in its Fall grants cycle, bringing its grant-making total in three years to $148,694.
Joining the MRYC Foundation Board are Stephen Clineburg, Maggie Jarboe, Frederick “Rick” Morgan, Rene’ Stevenson and Susan Wiswell.
Steve Clineburg served most recently as Senior Vice President and Regional General Counsel for Boston Properties, Inc., a commercial real estate developer. He is Past President of Habitat for Humanity Choptank and serves on its Board of Directors. Maggie Jarboe was a National Account Manager for Alcoa and Alcan in the U.S. and Europe, and is currently a Senior Account Manager for What’s Up Media. She is the President of the P.A.L. organization in Sherwood and previously Vice President of the Chesapeake Women’s Network.
New MRYC Foundation Board members (L to r) are Rick Morgan, Rene’ Stevenson, Maggie Jarboe and Steve Clineburg. Missing is Susan Wiswell.
Rick Morgan has had a 45 year career as a Financial Consultant with Harris Upham and Company, Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley, where he serves as Senior Vice President. He was a Marine Infantry Platoon Officer in Vietnam, being awarded two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars for valor. He has been President of the Rotary Club of St. Michaels, and Vestry member and Stewardship Chair of Christ Church, St. Michaels.
Rene’ Stevenson joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in 2009, and serves as Vice President of Constituent Services including Development, Membership, Guest Services and the Member Marina. She previously spent 20 years in banking and nine years in Business Development at the Nemours DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington. She serves on the St. Michaels Community Center Advisory Board.
Susan Wiswell is the Principal of Susan Y. Wiswell CPA in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and is a Certified Public Accountant, serving as the MRYC Foundation’s Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair.
The MRYC Foundation gives grants twice yearly. In its Fall grant-making cycle, it has given grants or equipment to six organizations, bringing its giving total to $148,694 in grants to 23 non-profit organizations. Fall grants support five scholarship for students from Kent Island High School to participate in their interscholastic Kent Island Sailing Team, four scholarships for children in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Sailing Program, an Optimist Sailing Dingy for the MRYC Junior Sail Program, equipment for the Aquatic Therapy Program at The Benedictine School for Exceptional children, two paddle boards for the Girls Scouts of the Chesapeake and three scholarships for Freedom Rowers for youth rowers whose families cannot afford the program.
Other grant recipients have included St. Michaels Community Center, Annapolis Community Boating, Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Sultana Education Foundation, Dorchester County YMCA/Horn Point Laboratory, Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB), YMCA of the Chesapeake, MRYC Marlins Swim Team, Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, Easton High School Navy JROTC, Del-Mar-Va Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Critchlow Atkins Children’s Center, Pickering Creek Audubon Center, St. Mary’s College of Maryland sailing team, Miles River Sail and Power Squadron and Gunston School rowing team.
The Foundation’s signature program – “SOS – Sink or Swim” – this past summer turned 275 Talbot County non-swimmer children into avid swimmers. The Foundation seeks over five years to teach all youngsters under 15 in Talbot County how to swim.
by Philip J. Webster
