| 2010-2011 CHRS Board of Directors |
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President:
Beth Purcell
Beth
Purcell is serving her second term as President of CHRS. She
also continues to chair the Environment Committee whose leadership she
assumed five years ago. Her work on the Beyond the Boundaries project
has led her to be a co-leader of several recent historic walking tours.
She has also helped plant hundreds of trees throughout our Hill
neighborhood as president of Trees For Capitol Hill, Inc. and has led
Hill neighbors and CHRS Board members in participation in the annual
bird count along the Anacostia riverfront. She has been an Orange Hat
walker for over 10 years in her Hill East neighborhood. Beth researches
and publishes articles on the architecture of eastern Capitol Hill. She
is employed as an attorney for the federal government.
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Vice President: Michelle Pilliod Carroll
Michelle
Pilliod Carroll was elected
to the CHRS Board as an At Large member
one year ago, and has been active in the organization for a number ofl
years. She
chaired the House Tour twice, and one of those years her daughter was
married
on that same Mother’s Day weekend. She does not recommend planning a
wedding
and a house tour at the same time. She has also been the major force in
organizing the showcase “teas” that are a mainstay of our Mother’s Day
House
Tour. This year she hopes to establish the “refreshment break” as the
proper
name since we seldom serve tea anymore. 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 15 years.
She and
her husband, Dennis, have lived on Capitol Hill for twelve years.
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Vice President: Monte Edwards
Monte
Edwards was first elected to this post two years ago. The
previous year he served as an At Large member of the CHRS Board. For
many years he volunteered for the House Tour and has recently broadened
his service to CHRS by testifying on its behalf before the City
Council. His engineering and legal background has provided CHRS with
invaluable expertise in formulating our position on the introduction of
streetcars into the City. He has represented the Stanton Park
Neighborhood Association on the Eastern Market Community Advisory
Committee (EMCAC) since its inception, and has chaired the Capital
Improvements subcommittee since 2000. He has served as EMCAC secretary
since 2004 and, in 2000, he chaired the EMCAC Nominations, Credentials,
and Membership subcommittee. Monte moved to Capitol Hill in 1984 and
rented a house near the burned-out house he had purchased. He served as
general contractor of the renovation, had the house gutted and
restored, and has resided there since 1985.
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Treasurer:
Sharon Weiss
Sharon
Ivy Weiss is completing her first term in this office. She has
also served on the CHRS Budget Committee and the House and Garden Tour.
After working in public accounting for four years, she made a career
switch to non-profit accounting and has remained in that field for 14
years. Sharon’s extensive experience in supervising the financial
functions of federal grants and contracts in the capacity of Chief
Financial Officer for non-profit advocacy organizations, has provided
CHRS with exceptional advice and assistance. She began working as an
independent consultant in 2008 and currently works for several
non-profit agencies in DC.
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| Secretary:
Lisa Wilson
Lisa
Wilson
was first elected to this position one year ago. While providing
exemplary service she also managed to give birth to her first child.
Her other work for CHRS has involved helping to develop the House and
Garden Tour brochure from 2008 through the present. Lisa moved to
Capitol Hill with her husband, Tim McCormack, in 2007 and joined CHRS
the same year. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she moved to
DC in 2002. She is an attorney in the Solicitor's Office at the
Department of Labor which is a convenient walk from her home.
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| At
Large Member:
Catherine Davis
Catherine Davis,
born in the District and raised in Northern Virginia, moved to Capitol
Hill with her husband in July of 2007. She is presently employed at the
US Department of Education as Chief of Staff for the Office of Safe and
Drug-Free Schools and has previously worked as Deputy Chief of Protocol
for the Secretary of Commerce. A graduate of the University of
Virginia, Catherine has lived in Charleston, SC; Atlanta, GA; and
Chicago, IL; and is proud to call Washington, DC home. She participated
in the development of the House and Garden Tour brochure for 2008.
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At
Large Member: Janet Quigley
Janet
Quigley moved
to Capitol Hill in 1995 drawn by its historic character, the old trees,
and the
convenient location to her work for the Navy Department. A ten-story,
glass
building proposed for the Medlink
Hospital
site at Constitution and
Seventh Street, NE,
ignited her interest in historic preservation and land use. Janet led a
large
group of neighbors that advocated for historic integrity and
appropriate scale
in meetings with the DC Historic Preservation Review Board and other
city
agencies. They joined efforts with CHRS, the Stanton Park Neighborhood
Association (SPNA), the ANC, and St.
James
Church and were successful in persuading the city to downzone the
property. She
has also served as an ANC commissioner, a member of the SPNA Land Use
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Large Member: Shauna Holmes
Shauna Holmes has
served in this position for three years. As an integral member of the
Historic Preservation Committee, she manages the CHRS Preservation
Cafés and advises the Board on how to participate more actively in
historic preservation review of federally assisted projects in the
Capitol Hill area. She has also represented CHRS in project
consultation, and is a member of the DC Preservation League and the
National Trust for Historic Preservation. Prior to retiring in 2004,
Shauna managed publications, training, awards, and educational outreach
for over 21 years, for the President’s Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation. She is committed to working with neighbors and community
organizations to protect Capitol Hill’s historic integrity and
distinctive character. She moved to Capitol Hill with her husband in
1997, joined CHRS and has been an active member ever since.
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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: Donna Barbisch
Donna Barbisch has worked on the House and
Garden Tour and opened her home
to the tour
in
2009. Donna’s involvement with the community has grown over the years,
beginning
with her renovation effort of her own home. She is also responsible for
the
neighborhood adoption of the pocket park at North Carolina and E Street, SE.
Donna
retired from the Army with the rank of Major General in 2005. She then
aligned
her business efforts with Global Deterrence Alternatives, LLC, a small
business
enterprise located on Capitol Hill, that assists government and private
entities in building disaster resiliency. She was also instrumental in
developing the District’s public health emergency planning and speaks
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| At-Large
Member: Donna Hanousek
Donna
Hanousek has
been an active member of CHRS for the past 12 years, serving many years
on the Historic Preservation Committee and a stint as the CHRS
representative to the EMCAC. She has held an At Large seat on the CHRS
Board for the past four years and chairs the "Beyond the Boundaries"
committee that has taken on the Herculean work of documenting historic
neighborhoods just outside the current boundaries of the Capitol Hill
Historic District. Previously, she served as a board director for the
Friends of the Old Naval Hospital and currently is a member of the DC
Preservation League's Landmarks Committee. Donna has a Master's degree
in planning and graduate certificate in historic preservation. She is
employed as a Zoning Specialist in the DC Office of Zoning. Her prior
positions include Public Space Committee Coordinator for DDOT, Director
of Brookland Main Street, historic preservation consultant, and
property manager/realtor.
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| Past
President: Dick Wolf
Dick
Wolf has been a CHRS member since moving to Capitol Hill in
1964. He has been on the Board of CHRS since 1969 and has served as
President since 2005. He also served as President from 1977 to 1980.
His particular interests have been the DC Comprehensive Plan and zoning
issues, and he currently chairs the CHRS City Planning Committee. Dick
served as the last Chair of the Capitol Hill Hospital Board and was a
member of the DC Solid Waste Transfer Facility Site Selection Advisory
Panel and the Mayor’s Task Force on Heath Care in 2006. He currently
serves on the planning and zoning committees of the Committee of 100 on
the Federal City. Dick is also a member of the New Community Trust,
which oversees the Townhomes on Capitol Hill mixed-income development.
He is a retired Federal government lawyer.
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