Sunday, September 19, 2010

8:30 am – 1:00 pm

At the Clearwater office:

724 Wolcott Avenue (NYS Route 9D), Beacon, NY

(former University Settlement Camp)

SPECIAL ISSUE : Annual Meeting 2010

Activating the Next Generation of Cause Musicians

Join your fellow Clearwater members at this year’s Annual Membership Meeting for inspiring speakers and music!

Our theme this year is Activating the Next Generation of Cause Musicians and our Keynote Speaker is David Amram, composer, musician, conductor, writer, and friend of Clearwater who will present a musical conversation with help from Linda Richards and the Power of Song students.

This is our first annual meeting in Beacon since moving here and we hope you stay the afternoon to enjoy the city. The sloop Clearwater will be docked at the waterfront with deck tours from 11-2:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are planning to attend by calling (845) 265-8080 x7101 or e-mail: office@clearwater.org. This event is free and open to the public. Letting us know if you will be attending assists us in our preparation, planning and provisions. If you would like to volunteer to help with the planning or on the day of the meeting, let us know when you RSVP.

RSVP by September 10

RSVP by phone or e-mail to Heidi Thorn at (845) 265-8080 x7101 or office@clearwater.org. If you will be traveling by Metro-North Railroad, please reserve a spot when you RSVP so we can plan for shuttle transportation to and from the Beacon train station.

Directions

By train: Take Metro-North Railroad to the Beacon station.

By car: West Bank: Take the NYS Thruway to Exit 17-Newburgh. Follow signs to I- 84 E toward Beacon, take the Rt-9D exit, Exit 11, toward Beacon/Wappinger Falls. Turn right onto Rt. 9D and continue to the site.

Right Bank: Take NYS Route 9 to NYS Route 9D and continue to site.

Annual Membership Meeting 2010

Agenda

AGENDA:

8:30 am

Breakfast

9:00 am

Opening Song

Walkabout Clearwater Chorus

Welcome & Volunteer Recognition

Allan Shope, President

Clearwater Board of Directors

9:15 am

Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders

Jeff Rumpf, Executive Director

New York Assemblyman Frank K. Skartados

Frances F. Dunwell, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

9:35 am

Musical Transition

Walkabout Clearwater Chorus

9:45 am

Keynote Speakers

A Musical Conversation

Activating the Next Generation

David Amram, composer, musician, conductor, and writer

with Linda Richards, and students of the Power of Song program

10:30 am

Meet the Candidates – Ballot box closes at 11:15 am.

11:30 am – 12:45 pm

Outgoing Board of Directors Meeting

Sloop Club Charters

12:45 pm

Closing Songs

Walkabout Clearwater Chorus

Meet the Candidates

Current board members up for re-election:

Scott Berwick

Scott is currently Treasurer of Clearwater’s Board of Directors. He has volunteered on the sloop and with the Revival since 2001. Scott is a folk singer, guitar and banjo player and a songwriter (including a song for and about the Clearwater). He also sings and composes his own songs of the Hudson River. He is the Chief Engineer at Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl and treasurer of Hunter Mountain Racing Foundation, Inc., a small 501©3 sports education

foundation.

“While the magic of the sloop initially brought me to Clearwater, my 6 years on the Clearwater board (plus two years as Interim Treasurer) have fostered an even greater appreciation for our extraordinary community. The boat, the river, the music, the education programs, and the enthusiasm of the crew, the staff, and the volunteers make for a winning environmental combination. I remain committed to our mission of environmental advocacy, environmental education, social justice, and the preservation of the boat. It would be

an honor to continue to serve the Clearwater community as a Board Member.”

Eric Marshall

Eric currently performs research on solar cells at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. He was previously the founding Director of TryScience.org, a multilingual, global Web site which inspires millions of kids, and their parents and teachers, to try Science through engagement with over 600 of the best science education institutions worldwide. He actively supports Clearwater’s volunteerbased sloop clubs and is the former President of Riverlovers. He is currently Vice-President of Clearwater’s Board of Directors and previously served as President.

Allan Shope

Allan has been an architect for the past 30 years and is the current President of the Clearwater Board of Directors. He has been a Trustee of the Dutchess Land Conservancy for 10 years and is also a Trustee of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. He owns Listening Rock Farm in Amenia, NY that includes a large working forest that has produced many of the white oak replacement pieces for the sloop Clearwater. As a

Clearwater Board member, Allan has focused on trying to create an appropriate balance between the environmental passion that is the essence of Clearwater and long-term fiscal health for Clearwater, which will offer the stability we need to be effective.

Susan Hito-Shapiro

Susan is a Rockland County attorney, specializing in environmental, NRC, real estate and entertainment law. She is a green building developer and LEED accredited professional. Goshen Green Farms is a biodynamic, organic farm that she and her husband started 2 years ago. Susan currently sits on the Clearwater’s Board of Directors.

New Candidates:

William Cox

William Cox is currently the Director of Projects at the Solar Energy Consortium. He manages the planning of alternative energy projects including photovoltaic, solar thermal, geo thermal, LED lighting and wind. William is a retired IBM engineering manager. He has over thirty years of manufacturing, engineering, product development, and maintenance/facilities experience with IBM supporting teams worldwide. In his last assignment, he was the Americas manager for Environmental affairs and compliance engineering.

William’s past volunteer activities include Director of People’s Place, the food pantry in Kingston, NY, team leader for the Mid Hudson Valley Make A Wish children’s holiday event, and Church Council president. He is currently the chair of the church property committee. William and his wife Chris reside in Union Vale, NY with their 3 sons ages 10 thru 16. He enjoys hiking and flying his airplane.

Francis Cruz

A life long Yonkers resident, Francis grew up on the banks of our fair estuary. During high school she worked as a Junior Docent and served on the Junior Docent Advisory Board of the Hudson River Museum. On the advisory board, she represented the museum at regional and national symposiums and developed educational materials for the permanent exhibit, Riverama. Today, Francis continues to serve the museum’s Junior Docents as a Weekend Manager.

Francis first boarded the sloop Clearwater in 2001 as part of the original class of Young Women at the Helm. She returned later that summer as an Urban Outreach Intern. She apprenticed in July 2002 and was featured in the January/February 2003 issue of Navigator. Most recently, Francis crewed in Spring 2009 as an Education Intern.

Francis earned her Bachelor’s in journalism at SUNY New Paltz where she loved to hike the Shawangunks Mountains and interned at Chronogram Magazine. Currently, Francis teaches teens with autism at a Bronx high school for students with special needs and is pursuing her Master’s degree in Teaching at Pace University.

David Fenner, MD

David graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh with a Biology degree and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC where he completed his pediatric training followed by two years of working for the Public Health Service in the South Bronx. Twenty-five years ago David came to Poughkeepsie to join a small pediatric practice and is now one of the managing partners of the Children’s Medical Group with eight offices throughout the mid-Hudson valley.

While his concentration was pre-med, much of his focus was on environmental studies. As a pediatrician in the Hudson Valley over the past 25 years he witnessed the gradual change that has occurred with our children. For many years his professional focus has been on nutrition, exercise and establishing healthy lifestyles for kids. David’s personal interests are hiking, canoeing, sailing, biking and other outdoor activities. Over the past few

years, as he has volunteered on Clearwater, he has begun to blend these interests, pushing kids to get outside and connect with nature. David has come to see the important parallels between respect for our own health and the respect for the health of our environment.

Ron Flax-Davidson

Ron currently serves as Vice President – Business Development for CH Energy Group, Inc. (NYS: CHG). In this position, he manages a team responsible for a portfolio of investments in renewable energy companies, including wind, landfill gas, biomass, and ethanol. Ron is also the founder and President of the International Investment Group, Inc. He has also served as the Managing Director of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Senior Vice President of Drexel Burnham Lambert Caribe International and Vice President of the Chase Manhattan Bank, leading the arrangement of financing for projects throughout Latin America. Ron has worked in nearly every country in LatinAmerica, Russia, Spain, and India and lived in Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico. He has served as Executive Director of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) and led a law suit to the United States Supreme Court (CoPIRG v. Train) requiring the EPA to regulate the nuclear power industry that led to the break-up of the Atomic Energy Commission and establishment

of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ron has degrees from Harvard University, Stetson Law School, and New College of Sarasota, Florida and resides in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Frank Landsberger, Ph.D.

Frank has vast experience as an academic, venture capitalist, start-up entrepreneur, and senior manager. Currently, he is President of York Ventures, LLC which provides strategic consulting services to venture capital firms, early stage companies and pension funds. He has a thorough knowledge of the technology and venture capital sectors in the US, the Netherlands, UK, Germany, and Russia. He is a member of the Dutch Financial Club

in New York and was Governor-at-Large and a member of the Executive Committee and Nominating Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is Chairman of cool(E)motion, a foundation located in the Hague, the Netherlands, sponsoring work to promote discussion of global warming. Frank initiated a now annual program to bring Inuit children from the Children’s Home of Uummannaq in Greenland to sail on the Clearwater.

Frank has a Ph.D. from Brown University and a BA from Cornell University, both in Physics. He has served on the faculty of The Rockefeller University and Chairman of Biophysics, M.I.T. and University of Cambridge. He was born in the Netherlands and has been a member of a number of expeditions to the high Arctic. In 2003, he, as co-leader of the Euro-American Expedition, was the co-discoverer of the most northerly identified landmass in the world.

David Lebson

David is a sixth grade science teacher at The School at Columbia University. David taught 4th grade through 8th grade at Manhattan Country School for ten years. In addition, he was

a head teacher in the science department at the Oakwood School in California, focusing on 7th and 8th grades. In both capacities, David topped his teaching duties with leadership roles including advisor, trip program leader, faculty council member, and lower school science consultant. He also served on the steering committee for the CAIS Accreditation Process at Oakwood School in 2004. David has managed to bring his passions for environmental education and activism to his summer activities. He worked on a sea turtle protection project in Greece and studied marine ecosystems and volcanoes in Hawaii. David’s love for sailing is evident in his work as a regular volunteer on the Clearwater and the tallship Hawaiian Chieftain which sails out of Grey’s Harbor, Washington. David is a long time supporter of Clearwater and is looking forward to using his passion and energy to benefit the organization in new ways on the Board.

Roger Meyer

Roger is a communications strategist specializing in awareness campaigns. In 1996 he founded Level M, brand solutions agency. His ability to translate complex communication problems into award-winning messages and identity has earned him engagements with NYC, NYCDEP, NPS, American Express and many nonprofits. Roger’s campaigns are groundbreaking initiatives designed to mobilize diverse groups and forge new relationships. He directed the national brand strategy for Governors Island which was recognized by the White House and won PRWeek’s Nonprofit Campaign of the Year. He created the Waterfront Action Agenda for MWA which was adopted by Mayor Bloomberg’s Office.

As a waterfront activist, Roger founded New York Outrigger. He served as president, directing beach-cleanups, youth-programs and helping Riverkeeper, Environmental Defense, NYCDEP, and parks. He is a member of “Mechanisms for Action” Task Force for the HFCQ Commission. Roger was raised in the Valley with Clearwater in his life. He has paddled on the Hudson River for 25 years. His mother Verne Bell received the 2008

Orange County Human Rights Award. His father Guy W. Meyer was a Unitarian Minister and friend of Pete’s.

Alma Rodriguez

Alma is a Regional Director at Workforce Development Institute, covering the Hudson Valley. In her work with unions and working families, she partners with labor, educators, business and community leaders, economic development professionals, environmentalists, environmental justice and wage justice advocates. She also serves as an Advisory Board member of the Youth Construction Initiative Project. Alma was a former Principal at Kopp, Rodriguez & Associates, specializing in program development and grant writing; a former Associate Director of Membership and Public Education at Natural Resources Defense Council and a Fellow at Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative, Pew Charitable Trust.