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Audubon Vermont Board of Directors 2003
Katharine Archer is
chair of the Audubon Vermont board. She is a marketing
communications consultant, specializing in public relations.
Current clients include ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake
Champlain, the new lake aquarium and science center on
the Burlington waterfront, and the Trapp Family Lodge in
Stowe. Prior to joining the Audubon Vermont board, Kathy
served for six years as president of the board of the Green
Mountain Audubon chapter. She is also a trustee of The
Nature Conservancy of Vermont and a member of the
Shelburne
Tracking Team.
Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund is Executive Director of the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC) in Brattleboro, Vermont, a nonprofit organization, which serves residents of all ages through its natural science school and camp programs, reptile and amphibian conservation initiatives, watershed stewardship work, and adult environmental education and remediation projects. Hollis is former chair of the board of directors of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. Prior to joining BEEC, Hollis worked as a consultant to nonprofit organizations, state agencies, and municipalities throughout Vermont for 18 years, providing land use planning, land conservation, community development, fundraising, and organizational development assistance. Hollis lives in Newfane with her husband and son, who attends college, and has served on the Newfane Planning Commission and Conservation Commission. Hollis is an avid mountain biker, hiker, swimmer, and runner, and always seems to have a do-it-yourself home renovation project or two underway.
Steve Costello, a former journalist, is director of public affairs at Central Vermont Public Service. Steve also manages CVPS's osprey program, which includes construction and installation of osprey platforms, and public education. Steve is an avid kayaker, decoy collector and wildlife viewer. He is a native of Burlington, now living in Rutland Town. He is a former board member of Leadership Champlain and the Paramount Theatre, and currently a member of the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce's Legislative Committee.
Susan R. Drennan lives in Middlebury. Now semi-retired she was the Vice President for Science Information at the National Audubon Society and Editor-in-Chief of American Birds. A 1988 recipient of the Bushnell Distinguished Birder Award, Dr.Drennan continues to lead Audubon Odyssey trips around the world. Her primary interests include bird migration and distribution as well as bird behavior and energetics. She is the author of numerous books, papers, and articles, including Where
to Find Birds in New York State: The Top 500 Sites, The Birder's Field Notebook,
and The North American Birder's Library Lifelist.
Marvin Elliott has a small business, making and selling unique birdhouses, bird feeders and other related wood products. He was previously a career banker with Key Bank and Marble Bank for over 30 years. Marv is presently the co-president of Rutland County Audubon Society with Roy Pilcher. He and his wife Sue are avid birders and transfer that interest to preserving their environment. They have worked to monitor the birds of the West Rutland Marsh (an IBA) and helped implement the change of Lake Bomoseen, Hubbardton to a class 1 wetland. He believes we can have both a strong economy and a clean environment. Marv's other personal interests include photography, fly fishing, hiking and other outdoor activities.
Wally Elton, a chapter
member of the Audubon Vermont board, has been actively involved
with Audubon for about 25 years, first with
Otter Creek Audubon in Middlebury
and currently with Ascutney Mountain Audubon in Windsor County,
where he is vice president and a past president. He also
served as president of the
Vermont Audubon Council, a predecessor to Audubon Vermont.
Wally coordinates Audubon's statewide email Action
Alert Network. Living in Springfield, Wally works
at the Student Conservation Association (SCA), a national
organization that places high school and college students
and other adults as volunteers/interns
in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public and
private conservation lands throughout the country with headquarters
in Charlestown, NH. He was
co-founder of the Vermont Alliance of Conservation Voters
and the Springfield Recycling Committee. Personal interests
include hiking, cross-country skiing,
photography, birds, and conservation in general.
Charlotte Hanna has
been an educator for nearly 20 years. She is currently teaching
business subjects to students at Johnson State college and
in Israel through interactive
TV at Champlain College. She also teaches the Vermont Institute
of Natural Science's ELF program to kindergardeners.
She is chair of the Calais School Board where she
lives with her husband, Scott,
son John, horses and birdfeeders.
Margy Holden lives
in South Hero. She is a career development professional who helps organizations
and individuals to improve communication in the workplace and define and
achieve organizational and individual goals. She currently is on the board
of the Flynn Theater and is a past board member of the Visiting Nurses Association.
Shirley Johnson lives
in Williston and is a past president of the Green Mountain
Audubon Society and secretary of the Audubon Vermont Board.
A graduate from the University
of Iowa College of Nursing, she is now retired from a career
in nursing and medical equipment sales. She enjoys traveling
and birding around the
world with her husband Bob who speaks widely on his research
on knee biomechanics and skiing-related injuries. Shirley
is also on the boards of the Whitney
Hill Homestead and Fun for Change.
Warren King lives in Ripton. He is chair of Audubon Vermont's science committee and is president and newsletter editor of Otter Creek Audubon, the Audubon chapter in Addison County. He serves on the boards of the Vermont chapter of The Nature Conservancy and the Moosalamoo Association, and is chair of the Ripton Planning Commission and the Ripton Conservation Commission. He is a keen birdwatcher and enjoys botanizing and canoeing.
Suzanna Liepmann is a long-time member of Audubon in Vermont, having been a member of both Otter Creek Audubon Society and Ascutney Mountain Audubon Society. She is a former director of the Vermont Audubon Council and currently serves as Treasurer of the Audubon Vermont Board of Directors. Suzanna is a Certified Public Accountant with Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, specializing in the taxation of exempt organizations. She resides in South Strafford, Vermont where she is active in several community organizations and enjoys introducing her children to the natural world.
Tim Traver lives
in Taftsville, Vermont with his wife and three children.
He has worked in the land conservation field for 20 years,
directing educational organizations,
land trusts, and wildlife refuges throughout New England.
In 1982 he founded the Aquidneck Island Land Trust while
serving as director of the Norman
Bird Sanctuary. He has consulted for non-profit organizations
in Europe and Great Britain. Currently he is a fundraising
consultant specializing in
foundations research and grant writing, and a free lance
writer, publishing pieces on science, fishing, travel, and
music. He has fished and traveled
extensively. He is chair of the Vermont River Conservancy
and serves on the board of the Universalist-Unitarian Church
in Woodstock, Vermont.
Michael R. Walsh lives in Weathersfield and is a mechanical engineer at the US Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. He is an Ascutney Mountain Audubon Society board member and their newsletter editor. He was recently awarded (along with his wife Marianne) the US Army's second-highest civilian award for work conducted at Eagle River Flats, Alaska, on a remediation program that is saving thousands of ducks, swans, and Bald Eagles every year. Micheal is an avid birder with a life list of over 500 birds. He also enjoys skiing and furniture-making.
Seward Weber moved to Vermont to serve as the executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, a position he held until 1984. During that time he spent one year on a fellowship at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 1985, Seward became the director of the Mohonk Preserve in New Paltz, New York and worked there until his retirement in 1993. He has since been actively involved in volunteer work including service on the boards of the Vermont Audubon Council, the Vermont Land Trust and the Vermont Alliance of Conservation Voters. Prior to moving to Vermont, Seward held several administrative positions in higher education. Seward received a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina. He and his wife, Susan, manage their woodland property in Calais and have recently protected it with a conservation easement. They have two grown children.
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