| 2012-2013 CHRS Board
of Directors |
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President:
Janet
Quigley
Janet
has served on the CHRS Board for two years, first
as an At Large member and then as Secretary. Her
primary interests are historic preservation, land
use and affordable home improvement. She
participated in a successful effort of Stanton
Park neighbors to rezone the Medlink hospital
property in order to maintain the historic
integrity and appropriate scale of the site. She
has previously served as an Advisory Neighborhood
(ANC) Commissioner, Stanton Park Neighborhood
Association (SPNA) Land Use Committee member, and
Capitol Hill Coalition for Sensible Development
Chair. She works at the historic Washington Navy
Yard and has lived on Capitol Hill for seventeen
years.
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First Vice President:
Michelle Pilliod Carroll
Michelle
was elected to the CHRS Board as an At Large Member
in 2009 and has been Vice President since 2010.
Michelle has been active in CHRS for a number of
years. She has chaired the House and Garden Tour
twice and was the major force in organizing the past
“teas,” (now the “refreshment breaks”) for the House
Tours. Michelle originated the “Fun Fall Auction”
for CHRS and now, after two successful auctions,
hopes to make it an annual affair. Originally from
New York, she came to DC to study at the Corcoran
School of Art and George Washington University. She
has owned and operated her own business, Pilliod
Meeting Planning, for almost 20 years. She and her
husband Dennis have lived on Capitol Hill since
1996.husband, Dennis, have lived on Capitol Hill for
twelve years. |
Second Vice President:
Monte Edwards
Monte began his
professional career as an engineer and then as an
attorney for Washington Gas. He is now retired. He
has been a member of the Eastern Market Community
Advisory Committee since its inception in 1999 and
served as Vice Chair, Secretary and Chair of its
Capital Improvements Committee. He served as a
member of the Steering Committee and Co-Chair of the
Land Use Committee of Stanton Park Neighborhood
Association. He was a member of the 2001 ANC
Redistricting Task Force for Ward 6. He currently
serves as a trustee of the Committee of 100 on the
Federal City. He has served as a board member
of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society since 2006. |
Secretary:
Doriann Fengler
Dori moved
to Capitol Hill in 2001 from Long Island, New York
after spending three years in Mannheim, Germany.
She and her husband, Joseph and their dog, Missy,
enjoy living on the Hill. She has a strong
background in event planning, corporate
partnerships and community outreach, having worked
for the US Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation
Command for 12 years in this capacity. She has
developed marketing materials, training guides,
ads and promotional materials for Army Soldier and
Family programs worldwide. She has worked on the
House and Garden Tour for the past two years
organizing the docents, and has provided support
and advice on other community outreach events. She
has hosted fundraisers for various community
organizations and elected officials.
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Treasurer:
Sharon Weiss
Sharon Ivy
Weiss is serving her fifth year as
Treasurer of CHRS. After moving to the
Hill in 2007 and becoming a CHRS member,
she expressed a desire to get involved in
an effort to meet neighbors and become an
active part of the community. Sharon has
been working as a financial consultant for
over 20 years and currently works with the
Council on Library and Information
Resources, Gorongosa Restoration Project
in Mozambique, Ethiopian Community
Development Council, and several Native
American Organizations.
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At Large Member: Lisa Dale Jones
Lisa and her husband
Gary have lived on Capitol Hill since January 2010
when they moved to DC from Boston – where they
also lived in a one hundred-year-old home. She has
been co-editor of the CHRS newsletter since
January 2011 and wrote a number of house
descriptions for the House and Garden Tour
brochure this year and last. Lisa has a background
in journalism and for ten years was a radio
producer for The Christian Science Monitor,
winning the prestigious Gabriel Award. She now
owns Speaking with Soul, a business assisting
clients with their speech coaching, editing, and
communications needs. As a speech coach, she has
worked with clients in the US, Africa, and Europe,
and she provides speech and print editing services
to clients in the US and the UK. |
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At Large Member: Vacant
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At-Large Member: Lisa
Wilson
Lisa
moved to Capitol Hill with her husband in 2007 and
joined CHRS the same year. She is an attorney in
the Solicitor’s Office at the Department of Labor,
and walks to work from her home. Originally from
Michigan, she has lived in DC since 2002. Lisa
first joined the CHRS Board as Secretary in 2009
and served in that role for two years. During that
time, she also had her first child who loves the
playgrounds on the Hill. Lisa rejoined the Board
in 2012 as an at large member, and has also been
involved in the House and Garden Tour for the last
few years.
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At-Large
Member: Chuck Burger
Chuck Burger
is a Capitol Hill real estate agent with Coldwell
Banker and has served on a variety of local and
District Committees, including a stint as chair of
the ABC Board. He has served as a House
Captain for the Tour for a number of years. He
currently serves as Vice Chair of EMCAC and is on
the board of CHAMPS and Barracks Row/Main Street.
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At-Large Member: Drury
Tallant
Drury Tallant is a
first-year member of the Board. A New Orleans
native, he moved to Washington in the early 1990's
upon completion of a PhD at Cornell University in
Urban and Regional Planning. He quickly became
involved in neighborhood issues on Capitol Hill and
served for several years as co-chair of the Stanton
Park Neighborhood Association Land Use
Committee. He worked with CHRS on numerous
projects before his election to the Board.
As an Architect in his home state of Louisiana, he
worked on urban planning projects before deciding to
pursue a Masters in Urban Planning at the University
of New Orleans. He has renovated homes in
gentrifying neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, New Orleans,
and Washington, doing most of the work himself.
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At-Large
Member: Maurice Walters
Maurice
is an architect
with his office in Capitol Hill. He has over 25
years of experience in the design of residential,
transit-oriented urban design, mixed-use and
historic preservation projects in the US and abroad.
On numerous occasions he has presented projects for
approval to the DC Historic Preservation Review
Board, the Board of Zoning Adjustment, and the
Zoning Commission as well as many ANCs and local
community groups. He has his undergraduate degree
from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his
Master of Architecture degree from the University of
Maryland at College Park. Maurice and his wife, Mary
Jean Pajak, first lived in Capitol Hill from
1987-1992. In 2001 they returned to the Hill and
undertook an extensive renovation of their home,
which was part of the 2007 CHRS Home and Garden
Tour.
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