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Elizabeth Moran            Chairman and President

 

Elizabeth, a life-long resident of the Town of North Hempstead, has lived in Port Washington with her husband for the last eight years.  A management consultant by profession, Elizabeth’s passion for the natural environment began during her early years, spending summers with her family in the mountains and on the lakes of upstate NY.  In addition to her involvement with PWGreen, Elizabeth is on the board of the Terrace Association and she an active participant in town projects including the Stannards Brook Park rehabilitation.

 

 

Susan Bagnini               Vice-President and Director
 
I have been a Port Washington resident since1972 and have lived in my present home with my husband, Carl and daughter, Jenna since 1976.  I am a social worker and therapist in this community as is my husband.  Port Washington has been a wonderful community which has made many changes since I first arrived.  It had been less developed with more open spaces as it had been here over fifty years ago.  The water with its surrounding woods were very attractive to me even as a child.  The need to preserve the last vestiges of open space are very important not only for me and my family, but for the future of the environment.
 
Besides my professional work, much of my time has been spent in volunteer efforts in Port Washington.  I am a long-standing member of the Board of the Port Washington Childrens Center as well as the Community Chest, both non-profit agencies in the community.
 

 

Eleanor Rybecky            Director and Treasure

 

Eleanor grew up in Port Washington and after college and marriage chose to remain here to raise her family.  Three of her five sons have done the same.  She has always been active in community affairs.  A past president of the Terrace Association, she is currently secretary of the Friends of the PW Library and treasure of PWGreen.  Now retired, she spent twenty years in the PW school system working with special education students.

 

A lifetime of summers spent in rural northern Vermont instilled her love of the natural environment.  This, combined with her years in education, makes working with PWGreen to promote environmental education and the preservation of open space on the PW peninsula a natural match.

 

 

Dr. Arthur H. Mittelstaedt, Jr., Ed.D    Director

Committees: By-laws  Nominations

Art and his wife Sue have lived in Port for 42 years and Art graduated from Port High. Art has been on numerous Long Island Planning Board Committees, LIA Environmental Committee and numerous Planning and Landscape Architecture Organizations. He has been on the Allocations Committee of United Way, the YMCA of Long Island Corporate Board, the Theodore Roosevelt Council Executive Board, the LI Council of Churches Counseling Board and the Board of the NYS Recreation and Park Society, the Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington and numerous other organizations. He is now on the Board of the Long Island Science Museum, the Board of Managers of the DeWolfe Conference Center and the National BSA Health & Safety Committee. He is retired and a Volunteer Executive Director of the Recreation Safety Institute, Ltd. a non profit safety advocacy group. He is also Chair of the Community Safety Division of the National Safety Council.

 

Emily Jablonsky              Director

Emily has lived in Port Washington since 1960.  She and her family have always been outdoor buffs; hiking the mountains in the New Hampshire Presidential Range and anyplace else they happened to be in their travels.  Her two sons climbed with their parents as soon as they could walk, with some respites on Dad's shoulders in the early years.  The rewards, in addition to the view from the top, were always the game we played trying to find new plant or animal life.

Emily is also heavily involved in Literacy Nassau as a tutor, intake interviewer, tester and a member of their functions committee.  In addition, she is Treasurer of a national church organization.

She would like to see our town stop the overbuilding and paving over of our water table, thereby leaving as much open natural space as possible for future generations to see, enjoy and learn from. 

 

Holly Byrne                         Director

Special Events and Programs Committee

Education Committee

 

With roots in the rural Mid-West and Texas, Holly Byrne developed a passion for the outdoors.  Holly considers environmental classes and class field trips as an invaluable element of her educational development.  A 15-year resident of the Town of North Hempstead, 5 in Port Washington, she has come to call this peninsula home.  As a parent of 3 in the PWUFSD, she would like to see more opportunities for her children to experience unique natural habitats and to develop their own appreciation of what we have in our own backyard, much like she experienced during her childhood.  Holly believes there is significant value in outdoor education and environment based learning and looks forward to advocating for opportunities to utilize the natural “gems” already in our midst for that purpose.

 

 

Linn E. Johnson              Director

Grants Committee

 

Linn and his wife Ute have lived in the Port Washington since 1970, and he is retired after 35 years in Human Resources.

 

Linn’s love of the outdoors started as a child in rural New Jersey where his father owned and operated a plant nursery.  He studied forestry in college and enjoys hiking and a variety of other outdoor activities.  Linn is also on the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum of Long Island and volunteers many hours  helping to maintain the grounds and buildings there.  He is also a member of the Explorers Club and has participated in two expeditions to Easter Island on archeological digs, to the Patagonia region of Argentina for science exploration, and to Wyoming and South Dakota’s Badlands for dinosaur fossil hunting.  Linn views the preservation of Port Washington’s open space as necessary for the continued health of the peninsula.

 

 

Lloyd J. Herman               Director

Rules Committee

 

Lloyd has lived in the Park section of Port Washington since 1992 with his wife and son.  Lloyd is a lawyer by profession.

 

Lloyd’s interest in the environment started well before college where he studied freshwater fish biology.  After a short stint as a field biologist working on a project studying cancer in fish, he attended law school hoping to practice environmental law, but was sidetracked into his present career handling insurance defense work.  Lloyd views PWGreen’s mission as presenting an opportunity to the children and adults in Port Washington to learn more about our remaining open spaces and their importance to the community as a whole.

 

In addition to his involvement with PWGreen, Lloyd has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Port Washington Children’s Center since 1996, including a term as co-president from 2002 to 2005.  He is also an active member of the North Shore Yacht Club from which his family sails and kayaks.

 

 

Paul S. Waters                    Director

Communication Committee

Grants Committee

 

Paul has lived in the Salem section of Port Washington since 1997 with his wife and two daugters.  Paul's profession is in IT Management.

 

Paul’s interest in the environment started by spending his summer’s upstate in his youth.  Paul is interested in saving the remaining open, natural spaces to provide a refuge for plants, animals AND humans.  Paul believes an area with no natural open spaces is unnatural.

 

Port Washington is an ideal place to live being that it is surrounded on three sides by water to provide natures enjoyment on the water.  But we must not let the land be developed from Manhasset Bay to Hempstead Harbor with no open natural space in between to provide natures enjoyment on land.

 


    


 

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