Dynamic leadership teams have empowered and supported our work.
Shelley Goldseker and Pam Corckran’s visionary leadership inspired the creation of the Circle. Ann Allston Boyce and Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff nurtured and developed the Circle and Anne Donahue and Lynn Sassin thoughtfully guided our most recent evaluation and enhancements. Together, through the various Circle committees, we accomplish the work of the Circle.
Our current officers, elected for a two-year term in May 2008, are:
- Circle Co-Chairs: Pat Joseph and Beth Lebow »
- Treasurer: Nina Knoche »
- Assistant Treasurer: Betsy Scott »
- Secretary: Betsy Sexton »
- Archivist: Kimberly Warren »
Circle Co-Chairs
Circle co-chairs Beth Lebow and Pat Joseph began their two-year term in June 2008
Pat Joseph is a founding member of the Circle. She has served as a grants reader and team leader and, for two years, chaired the documents sub-committee of the Grants Committee. She co-chaired the Circle’s recent Planning Task Force. Pat has a B.A. from Elmira College and an M.L.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She spent her junior year at the London School of Economics. Before her retirement, she was a dean at Villa Julie College (now Stevenson University) and an academic administrator at U.M.B.C. Currently, Pat is chairman of the Shelter Foundation, which provides housing and services for low-income people in the Baltimore area. She is vice chair of the board of overseers of the Baltimore School for the Arts and a member of the board of trustees and executive committee of the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she is a docent.
Beth Lebow joined the Circle in 2004. After serving as a team leader on the Grants Committee during her first year, she co-chaired that committee the following year. During her two-year term, all the granting procedures, documentation and communications were reviewed and modified to create a more efficient system. Beth earned her Master’s in clinical social work from the University of Maryland and served as a geriatric social worker at Keswick where she developed the adult daycare program. In addition, she was a consultant to Roland Park Place from its inception until her retirement in 2002. Beth has also served on several boards, including the Alzheimer’s Association, both state and local.
Treasurer
Nina Knoche has been a member since 2003 and served as assistant treasurer in 2007-2008. She is project management director at Broadridge Financial Solutions, where she oversees printing of personalized retirement communications and website development for several top ten mutual fund companies. In her evening hours Nina has volunteered as a stage manager and director at local theaters and has directed plays and taught clowning and other drama related activities at her church. Most recently, she directed and performed with the Baltimore Improv Group. Though born in Maryland, Nina spent most of her formative years in Wisconsin. Nina graduated from Bucknell University with a B.A. in Theater and Spanish.
Assistant Treasurer
Betsy Scott joined the Circle in 2007. She came to Baltimore in 1976 to work at Maryland National Bank, serving in the international division’s Asia-Pacific group with responsibility for Ex-Im bank and FCIA financing. Betsy is a director of the Jefferson Scholar Foundation of the University of Virginia, was president of The Mount Vernon Club from 2004 until 2007, and is currently a member of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Women’s Board and an associate member of the Walters Art Museum Women’s Committee. She served on the board of the Maryland SPCA from 1997 until 2006.
Secretary
Betsy Sexton is a founding member of the BWGC. She served on the Grants Committee, co-chaired the Membership Committee from 2004-2006 and was assistant secretary to the Circle in 2007-2008. Betsy is a past board member of St. Paul’s School and of the Eagle’s Nest Foundation, a summer camp and semester school in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is currently 1st vice president of the League of Women Voters of Baltimore County and is an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher in the adult education program at the Community College of Baltimore County.
Archivist
Kimberly Warren joined the BWGC in 2004. She served on the Post Grant Evaluation Committee for three years and enjoyed her first-time stint as a grants reader in 2008. A former attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, she also is a trained mediator. Kimberly serves on the boards of the Ruxton Riderwood Improvement Association and the Ruxton Area Foundation and is a past president of the Baltimore Master Gardeners Association.