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FEARRINGTON HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION
 

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
NOVEMBER 13, 2005

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ELECTION
FOR TERMS BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2006

AMENDMENTS TO BYLAWS

This page contains a sample ballot for the election of officers and directors, biographies of the candidates, and a sample ballot for the amendment of the FHA Bylaws.

(Click on the link below to go directly to the ballot/biography)

SAMPLE BALLOT FOR ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES

Drew Bratton
Jim Ackerman
William S. Stempfle
Lowell Kennedy
Carol-Ann Greenslade
Gillian T. Cell
Doris Bernlohr
Joseph Devan
Anne Kirkhoff

SAMPLE BALLOT FOR AMENDMENT OF THE BY LAWS

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2006 FHA BOARD ELECTION

Following are the biographies of Fearrington residents who are candidates for the 2006 FHA Board. The election will take place at the FHA Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 13. Voting will take place from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., with the meeting beginning at 3 and ending no later than 5. We would like to thank the Nominating Committee, which worked diligently throughout the year to develop this slate of candidates.

Drew Bratton- 18 Caswell – President 2006

Drew and his wife Mary moved to Fearrington seven years ago from Toledo, Ohio.
He holds a degree in business administration; he completed additional graduate work in marketing and finance. Drew spent 38 years with a large multi-national packaging company, Owens-Brockway. Professional experiences were in the Glass Container and the Plastic Products Divisions in the U.S. and in 25 different countries. His business specialty was marketing, with emphasis on strategic business planning, profit and loss, training, and new product introductions. Recently, he has run a multi-million dollar export business from his office in Fearrington.

Since coming to Fearrington, Drew has been on the Long-Range Planning Committee and vice president of the FHA this past year. He has been active in several reading mentoring programs at Pittsboro Elementary and Silk Hope Elementary Schools. He is an avid cyclist and participates weekly with the Fearrington Cyclists. He enjoys classical music performances, classes at DILR and Elderhosteling.
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Lowell D. Kennedy – 188 Weatherbend – Director Gathering Place 2006-2007

He was born in Cambridge, Mass. and lived in Belmont, Mass. until graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1951 with a degree in Marine Engineering.

Lowell was a commercial division project engineer for Honeywell in Boston, Portland, Maine and Rochester, N.Y. until 1966. He was an active seagoing engineer and port engineer for the government and various companies from 1966 until retiring as a chief engineer from a subsidiary of General Dynamics in 1996.

He and his wife were residents of New Hampshire from 1966 to 2003 when they moved to Fearrington and renovated their present house. Lowell is active in the Fearrington Golf and the Swim and Croquet clubs.
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Carol-Ann Greenslade – 149 Tinderwood - Director Grounds and Facilities 2006-2007

Carol-Ann Greenslade replaced Ron Boyington as director of Grounds & Facilities in July of this year.  Carol-Ann and husband, Forrest, moved to Chapel Hill in 1991 from Raritan Township, N.J., where they had spent the previous 23 years.  She had been a Realtor there for the last 16 of those years, and just prior to that had held local elected office as a Raritan Township committeeperson. During that 3-year term, she oversaw the road department, the landfill and co-chaired the police committee.

Carol-Ann is still a real estate broker, now with House to Home Realty Services.  She brings knowledge of past and present experience that will be invaluable assets to this important FHA position.  “I’m looking forward to living up to my predecessors, especially John Custer, who I look to as a role model,” says Carol-Ann, “who has graciously agreed to remain on the G&F committee to assist me with his expertise and experience."

The Greenslades have lived in Fearrington at #149 for just over 5 years.  Carol-Ann is a member and past president of the Fearrington Garden Club and a member of the Chapel Hill Board of Realtors and the Chatham County Arts Council.  
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William S. Stempfle – 251 Fox Ridge - Director At Large 2006-2007

Bill was born and raised in Bath, N.Y., where he served as chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals for15 years.

He also served as member of the local land trust and various groups that promoted “quality of life” issues, including Hospice and Literacy Volunteer.

Since arriving in Fearrington he has served as Phase 1V Block Captain, member of his covenant committee and a volunteer for Fearrington Cares.

Bill is a graduate of Lehigh University.
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Gillian T. Cell – 24 West Madison – Director Community Affairs 2006-2007

Gillian moved to Fearrington in 2003 after retiring from the College of William and Mary as provost and professor of history, positions held previously at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. North Carolina has been home to Gillian since 1962 when she moved to the United States from Great Britain after completing a Ph.D. in English history at the University of Liverpool.

She knew Fearrington from its earliest days when she was on the faculty at UNC and living in Chapel Hill. She taught history and was associate dean of the Graduate School, Affirmative Action Officer, chair of the Department of History and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Gillian is on the advisory boards of the UNC Program for the Humanities and Human Values and the UNC Honors Program. At Fearrington she has been active in the Women’s Club and Democratic Club, serving on the program committee for both.
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Jim Ackerman – 8 East Madison – Vice-President 2006

Jim moved from Wilmington, N.C. to East Camden Park in February. In Wilmington, he served on the board of the Turnberry Homeowners Association.

Prior to moving to North Carolina, Jim spent his professional career in the Philadelphia area. For many years he was professor and chairman of the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine and was also the director of the Division of Dentistry at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. For 25 years, he maintained a private practice in Bryn Mawr.

In Ardmore, Pa., Jim served as president of his condominium association and participated in leadership roles in a number of dental organizations. Jim is semi-retired. He is an adjunct clinical professor of orthodontics at the UNC School of Dentistry and practices part-time in North Raleigh and Fuquay Varina.
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Joseph Devan – 1313 Langdon Place - Nominating Committee 2006-2007

Joe Devan, from Linwood, New Jersey, spent his career with Mobil Oil Corp., where he held many management and staff positions in the Human Resources Department in the International Marketing and Refining Division.

He and his wife Maureen moved to Fearrington 16 years ago and live in the Bush Creek town homes area.
Upon moving to Fearrington, Joe joined Quintiles Inc. in Research Triangle Park as vice president-human resources. He served as the first president of Bush Creek Townhouses Association.
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Anne Kirkhoff – 585 Woodbury - Nominating Committee 2006-2007

Anne came to Fearrington via Cleveland, Ohio, where she lived for 40 years with husband, Jim.

Anne graduated from Western College in Oxford, Ohio and worked as an associate editor of in-house publications before marriage took her to Boston and then to Cleveland.

Anne was responsible for scheduling TV commercials and public service announcements within the framework of regular programming.

She served in several volunteer capacities, including president of the PTA and national president of the Western College Alumni Association. She later worked as office manager of a large Cleveland church.
At Fearrington she has served on the boards of Arts and Crafts and the Women’s Club and as president of Village Voices.
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Doris Bernlohr – 500 Beechmast – Nominating Committee 2006-2007

Doris was born and raised in Rogers City, Mich. After obtaining a B.S. degree in education and a masters in education/reading from Wayne State University, she spent over 30 years as a teacher in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Prior to coming to Fearrington in 1998, her volunteer activities included serving on the YWCA Board of Directors as vice president of programs and on the board of Someplace Safe, where she worked with domestic violence victims and their children.

Doris has been an active member of the American Association of University Women for many years.

She has been president of the Chapel Hill Branch of AAUW and as AAUW North Carolina state liaison for the Legal Advocacy Fund. She has tutored at Silk Hope School and in 2005 chaired the CROP Walk for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, where she serves on the Social Ministry Committee. Previous FHA activities included membership on the transportation committee.
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Still searching for Secretary. Two-year term.
Contact Nominating Committee, Ken Richardson (542-2313).
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Sample Ballot for Amendment of Bylaws (To see the current wording of the Bylaws click here.)

*To see the current wording of Article II click here.

**To see the current wording of Article VII click here.
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