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Election of Officers & Trustees
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In early July the Nomination Committee sent out notices inviting interested members to apply for Flag Officer or Board of Trustee positions. The number of applicants that applied this year for the Flag Officer & Board of Director positions were just enough to fill all open positions.
This year we have five Board of Director seats to fill. Three of those seats are 3-year terms, one seat is a 2-year term, and one seat is a 1-year term. Two of our applicants have agreed to take the seats of the 2-year and 1-year term. Therefore, since all Flag Officer positions & Board seats are running unopposed, there is no need to hold an election of Officers in 2020. The Secretary will cast the only vote at the Annual Meeting making these Flag Officer & Board positions official. Please find below the details of the new Flag Officers & Board positions with bios & resumes for each candidate.
Flag Officers - 1-Year Terms (all running unopposed)
- Commodore - Brian Maguire
- Vice Commodore - Joe Jarrett
- Rear Commodore - Russ McConnell
- Immediate Past Commodore - Mary Jarvis
- Secretary - Donna Cassidy
- Treasurer - Rich Fazio
Board of Trustees - Three 3-year terms, one 2-year term, and one 1-year term(all running unopposed)
- 3-year term - Michael Bradley
- 3-year term - Kathy Ganster
- 3-year term - Tim Davis
- 2-year term - JB Flora
- 1-year term - Bill Murphy
Election Judges - N/A
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Brian Maguire - Commodore
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Brian J Maguire was a Senior Financial Industry Executive with extensive experience in marketing, deposit and loan product management and development, management of non-insured investment products, strategic planning, merger and acquisition analysis, delivery channel management, branch and electronic delivery channel management, advertising and promotions, financial analysis, budgeting and public relations. I had a broad range of responsibilities during my career and managed professionals level staff members
ranging in size from 6 to 135 employees, depending on the division responsibilities at the time.
I worked in the financial services industry for more than forty-four years, and held senior level positions at some of the area's premier financial institutions.
EDUCATION
MBA, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
B.S., La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND BOARDS
Bank Marketing Association (Former Member)
East Bradford Township, Chester County, PA, Parks and Recreation (Former Board Member)
YMCA Northeast Philadelphia (Former Board Member)
Montgomery County, PA, Cultural Center (Former Board Member)
PERSONAL
Married to Kathleen (Kathy) Maguire for forty-seven years and we reside is Sea Isle City, NJ and Marco Island, FL.
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Joe Jarrett - Vice Commodore
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Joseph Jarrett is currently the Managing Partner for Stat Medical Imaging @ RiverWinds, a state of the art multi modality radiology facility located in West Deptford NJ.
Joseph was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1964. Graduated Gloucester Catholic High School and later Liberty University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. Joseph attended the Camden Police Academy, and served for 13 years the last 5 as an Administrative Sergeant. Joseph received two Masters Degrees from Wilmington University the first a Master of Arts in Education Counseling and the second a Master of Arts in Education Administration. Joseph then pursued a PhD. in Leadership from Touro University where he achieved ABD. Joseph has served as a coach, mentor, teacher and Professional Education Counselor.
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Russ McConnell- Rear Commodore
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My name is Russ McConnell and a member of YCSIC since 2002. Currently serving on the Board and presently Chair of the Sailing Committee.
Professional Background; Successful 40+ year career in Hospitality, Real Estate and Healthcare Industries. Held various sales & executive management positions in large-scale businesses and environments. In 1998 founded Omni Diagnostics, a healthcare management company providing diagnostic imaging services to a large network of Cardiology practices and hospitals throughout PA and NJ. Served as President & CEO for 17 years before selling the company in 2015. Now retired, spending summers in Sea Isle with lovely wife Mary (of 33 years) and close friends at YCSIC.
It has been a tremendous honor serving on the board with such talented, dedicated and hard working people. My objective is to continue the fine work done thus far to the benefit and enjoyment of the membership. Additionally, to continue serving in current role on the Sailing Committee in meeting the needs of the sailing families, community and YCSIC members. Thank you.
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Mary Jarvis - Immediate Past Commodore
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Mary Jarvis is a local girl born in Philadelphia attended Cardinal Dougherty High School and St Joe's college and today is the owner of Pinnacle Travel in Sea Isle City. When her children became school age Mary became an employee of the Burlington County Superior Court. In the beginning of her career, she was a court clerk and rose to the title of Early Settlement Program coordination of Superior Courts of Burlington County. She retired after 25 wonderful years of working with many Superior Court Judges, their staff and a team of 64 attorneys.
Mary always had the desire to travel and contemplating retirement she decided to attend travel school. In 1995 she earned her certification as a Travel Professional from Travel One Academy. Retiring from Superior Court in 2006 and working evenings and weekends in the travel industry Mary opened Pinnacle Travel in 1999. Today, Pinnacle Travel is proud to be a full service travel agency located in Sea Isle City. Certified for 14 years with the Professional Travel Agents of North America, 20 years as experts as a Cruise Line International agency and proudly holding many certifications in the travel industry they are a team of four agents who are dedicated to personal, professional service to all their clients.
As a past member of the Board of Trustees and presently holding the position of Vice Commodore I am honored to advance as a Flag Officer to the position of Commodore. I have enjoyed serving as your Vice Commodore and being chairperson of the Entertainment Committee. In the future I hope to continue bringing new and exciting events to our club.
It has been a challenging year as Commodore to say the least. Thank you all for supporting me and the club through these difficult times. I'm honored to serve my remaining year on the Board as Immediate Past Commodore.
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Donna Cassidy was born in Providence, Rhode Island and grew up in Rye, New York. She graduated from Villanova University with a BS degree in Nursing. Donna is a former pediatric nurse at Montefiore Hospital in New York. She worked in both the infant and pediatric ICU while at Montefiore. Donna lived in Trumbull Connecticut with her husband Joe for 32 years while she raised her 3, now adult, children. Donna has volunteered for numerous organizations and was a member and chairwoman of the Trumbull Board of Education. She is looking forward to continuing to make the Sea Isle Yacht Club a friendly place for all ages.
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My name is Rich Fazio, and I am honored to be a candidate for the position of Treasurer of the Yacht Club of Sea Isle City. I retired as the CFO, Treasurer and Business Administrator from the Downingtown Area School District in 2019, and now live full time in Sea Isle City. I have a small consulting business which keeps me busy and active, but I enjoy golfing more and you can find me on the links four to five times a week.
I am blessed with an amazing wife, two beautiful daughters and great son in law. I was born and raised in Massachusetts and was fortunate to attend and graduate from Northeastern University in Boston. Upon graduation I was offered a position with DuPont de Nemours and moved to Wilmington Delaware. While working at DuPont, I attained my MBA from Widener University. In 1990 I moved to West Chester Pa. and was lucky enough to meet and marry my wife of now 30 years. I have been fortunate to serve on several boards and commissions throughout my career, and I was recently honored by the Pennsylvania State Legislature for my contributions to School Business Operations. We have always enjoyed dinners and the activities that the YCSIC offers. I have been impressed with both the leadership of the club and the staff that run the daily operations. I look forward to working with the Officers, the Board, and the General Manager to continue the outstanding experience that the YCSIC offers us all.
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Michael Bradley 3-Year Term
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My name is Michael Bradley, and my wife Linda and I built our first home in Sea Isle home in 1997, and have had a home here ever since and we now live at 4482 Venicean Road in Sea isle, 3 doors from the Yacht Club. Our permanent home is in Havertown PA.
We have been members of the club for 20 years and I have served as a Board Member the past two years. Prior to joining the Board in 2018, I served on the Membership Committee and the Entertainment Committee for a number of years. I also help run the Irish Nights and the Comedy nights with Joe Conklin at the Club for the last few years. We used our home in Sea Isle as the office for the Yacht Club while it was being built, so I was involved in a lot of logistics while the new club was being built. I also served on the New Building Committee from start to completion, and am very proud of the results from that very productive committee.
I was requested to chair the acrimonious meeting that occurred prior to the club being torn down which resulted in the positive voting for the new club being built. At the time there was a difficult environment between some board members and the general membership, and I was able to control the room. I did however allow for everyone's feelings to be heard, both positive and negative, and help the building committee win the room for acceptance of building a new club. I say this not to pat myself on the back, there were plenty of others who helped get this new club built. But when we have difficult decisions to be made, we need men and women with leadership skills to work toward a common goal, yet also hear different opinions and come to reasonable decisions backed by good information.
I am the President / CEO of MJ Bradley Co. Inc. a flooring Company in Delaware County.
I currently serve on many boards but a few are:
Archdiocese of Philadelphia Executive Board of Education 5 years - Chair Delaware County Schools 5 years.
Penn State University President's Advisory Board, 29 years, Former President 4 years.
Philadelphia St Patrick's Day Parade - Parade Director 17 years.
These boards, with people from very diverse backgrounds and opinions, have afforded me a wealth of knowledge in dealing with large groups with strong opinions. If I am elected to the Board, I know I can be an asset to the membership of the Yacht Club of Sea Isle City.
The Yacht Club of Sea Isle City is close to my heart after working so hard with the building committee, and seeing it go from ideas to completion. It would be an honor to serve as a Trustee and give back to the Club that my family has grown to love and accept as a second home. Thank you all for your time and commitment to our Club.
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Kathy Ganster 3-Year Term
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Kathy Ganster was born and raised in Philadelphia. She attended St. Mary's Academy for high school. She earned a BA from LaSalle University, and an M.Ed from Chestnut Hill College. She worked for the federal government for twelve years. After staying home with her three children for several years, she became an elementary school teacher for eleven years teaching grades 4 through 8. She was then appointed as principal of Presentation of Our Lord School in Cheltenham, PA, and then Our Lady Help of Christians in Abington, PA. After serving as a principal for eight years, she became Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Schools for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. She has also been an adjunct professor at Chestnut Hill College and Holy Family University.
Kathy has worked in many volunteer church, school, service, and civic organizations over the years.
She has been a member of the Yacht Club of Sea Isle City for twelve years and has volunteered on the July 4th Junior Olympics, the Fashion Show, and Family Nights. She has enjoyed many of the social functions offered by the Club and has been an active participant in Quizzo, Mahjongg and Bridge.
She and her husband Joe have been married for 47 years and have been living in Southampton, PA for 41 years. They have been coming to their second home in Sea Isle City for 30 years. They have three adult daughters and eight grandchildren, who all enjoy coming to the Yacht Club.
She is looking forward to serving on the Board and supporting all the wonderful events and activities that make the club such a great place.
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My name is Tim Davis. I am a resident of Naples, Florida and a part-time resident in Sea Isle City. I grew up in South Jersey and attended Gloucester Catholic High School where I met my wonderful wife Mary Jane. After graduating from the University of Delaware with a degree Chemical Engineering, I started my employment with Mobil Oil in Paulsboro, NJ. My wife and I were very lucky to have five great sons who are now all married to our lovely DILs and they have given us five Grandchildren to spoil. While working for Mobil and subsequently Exxon Mobil after a merger of the two companies, we have lived in 5 different states in the US and almost 3 years in Saudi Arabia during an overseas assignment. We grew up loving to go to the Jersey beach and had been lucky enough to be able to get back often during summer vacations when working, and now can enjoy SIC much more since retirement.
I had a number of Engineering and Operations assignments at a number of locations while employed for almost 39 years in ExxonMobil. This included many Management positions that have provided me an experience background that I feel will be useful for a board position at the club. I have also participated in my son's sports programs and have coached numerous baseball and soccer teams while they were growing up. I volunteered to coordinate the baseball umpire group at one of our leagues and certainly learned some patience in dealing with some others that had different opinions than mine. Mary Jane and I have been attending the Yacht Club of Sea Isle City for many years as guests and then as associate members before joining the club 3 years ago. We have always enjoyed the summer activities as well as New Years Eve parties and Fall and Spring Flings. I have always appreciated the work and effort done by the Flag Officers and previous Board Members to make the club such an enjoyable place to go to socialize with friends and family. I would appreciate the opportunity to represent the members of the Yacht Club of Sea Isle City, and will always give the time and effort as a member of the board so that our club continues to be successful and a great place to visit while in SIC.
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I'm J.B.Flora, I was born and raised in Virginia. Graduated from Virginia Tech in 1963. My early years were spent teaching high school In Virginia. I went into sales with Texaco and from there joined Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, located in New Jersey in 1967.
My career with Sandoz spanned management positions in Sales, Sales Training, Human Resources and Marketing. Upon retirement in 1998 I had a consulting firm for several years.
My wife Chick and I moved into Sea Isle full time 1999. We joined the yacht club several years later and have loved our membership ever since.
I served as Board Secretary or Board Member off and on until 2013 when I joined the Flag as Rear Commodore, Vice Commodore, then Commodore in 2015. It has been my pleasure and my honor to serve in each capacity. During that time I have chaired or been a member of numerous committees; Entertainment, House & Grounds, Bar & Restaurant, Personnel, Compliance, Rental, Decorations, Year Book, Information Technology, Interior Design, Advancement, Diamond Anniversary, Finance, Ships Store, By Laws, Nominations, and Youth Activities. I have also spent 10 plus years to present, working with a very special lady, Jamie Mulholland, on the SIC 4th of July Junior Olympics.
Chick and I have been married for 56 years, have three daughters and ten grandchildren, all of whom have been blessed to grow up in our yacht club. We treasure our years of involvement and the friends we have made, and look forward to many more.
"There is no substitute for friendship" Thank you, God Bless
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Bill Murphy - 1-Year Term
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My name is Bill Murphy and I am a retired Law Firm Administrator. I was in the legal field for thirty five years managing firms in various sizes from six to seventy five lawyers. In this position I was responsible for all non-legal aspects of the firm including the financial operation. This involved preparing all financial statements, budgets and working with the Firm's outside accountants. My wife Dot and I retired to Sea Isle City in 2017 after spending ten years in Florida. We have been members of the Club since 2004. The past two years I have served the YCSIC as Treasurer and have chaired the Finance Committee. I would like the opportunity to continue to serve the Club as a Board Member.
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