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Ms. Fleming is the current Secretary of the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Preservation Action in Washington, DC as one of three current representatives from the State of Florida. She is a member of QM2, executive roundtables and, as a museum professional, works as a Museum Assessment Program Reviewer (MAP) for the American Association of Museums. In 2005, Ms. Fleming and the Board of Trustees at SAL&M created Salt Run Sales, Inc. a for-profit corporation that exists to help other museums and lighthouses nationwide create revenue and support their mission and purpose through museum store sales. Fleming also serves on the Board of Directors of the Local Visitor and Conventions Bureau and is on the honorary board of Jupiter Inlet's Loxahatchee River Historical Society, which manages the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse. She is an active supporter of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and of the Florida Association of Museums.
Fleming is a native of Asheville, NC. She attended Wake Forest University and has a BA in Studio Art. Post-graduation she studied professional advertising and is about to embark on a Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership. Ms. Fleming is married to Andy Fleming a Florida native, whom she met at Wake Forest University. They have three children including a beautiful teenage daughter and twin boys who are remarkably rambunctious and growing like weeds. Her family is also the proud owners of two rescued dogs, two formerly homeless cats and three small fish.

District 1	Joyce M. Hager District 1 Commisioner
District 2	Ray Stewart District 2 Commissioner Ray Stewart for a few months was lightkeeper at Key West Lighthouse while stationed at the Key West Coast Guard Station. Having been raised around the waters of New England, fell in love with all things nautical. Retired after owning a marine distributorship in south Florida. As a past president and board member of The Institute Of Maya Studies, he has been photographing archaeological sites and lecturing on Pre-Columbian cultures for the past 30 years. Visiting and photographing lighthouses around the country is a great incentive to study our history and travel. This has given him an opportunity to develop a slide program on the history of lighthouses that has been given to school children for the past five years, along with several adult organizations (Rotary Clubs, U.S. Power Squadrons, Archaeology Associations, etc.).
District 3	Richard "RIP" Puls CPO USN RET. District 3 Commissioner Rip is a veteran of 26 years in the Navy. Following his Navy career he was with the Veterans Hospital, retiring after 22 years. He says he has always loved lighthouses, Rip was active in the restoration of the Anclote Key Lighthouse. He is a collector of Harbor Lights miniature lighthouses.
District 4	Terry Kemp District 4 Commissioner Terry is Secretary of the St. George Lighthouse Association and was a founding member of SGLA in December of 2004. She has contributed to the reconstruction of the Cape St. George Light by cleaning bricks, writing grants, helping to organize fund raising events, conducting membership drives, updating the website, and handling correspondence and record-keeping for the organization. Born in Massachusetts, Terry has long had an appreciation for lighthouses and all things related to our maritime history. But it was the mystique of the Cape St. George Light in its pristine location on Little St. George Island and its ultimate tragic collapse that ignited in her a spirit of advocacy for these imperiled treasures. She and her husband Jim have been full-time residents of St. George Island since retiring in 2001 from careers in the communications industry in Atlanta. She has a BA degree from Mount Holyoke College and a MA from Georgia State University.
	Hib Casselberry Commissioner Emeritus Hibbard “Hib” Casselberry came to Winter Park, FL in 1926. His parents bought acreage and started an agricultural business in what is now the City of Casselberry in Seminole County. In the 1930's the family spent some of the weekends in the Daytona Beach area. He became familiar with the waters around Ponce Inlet with a family friends’ yacht. That is where his love of lighthouses started. Just before Thanksgiving vacation in 1942, President Roosevelt said German subs were sinking our ships and asked any men that knew any part of our Atlantic Coast to enlist in the US Coast Guard. Hib enlisted that week and was sent to Boot Camp at St. Augustine’s former Ponce de Leon Resort Hotel. His first few assignments were Jacksonville and Mayport, the latter on a wood-hulled yacht with a 30 mm machine gun on the forward deck, roll-off ash cans on the stern, and sonar anti-submarine system. Later after attending Destroyer Escort school at Norfolk, VA Naval Station, Hib was assigned to the USS Peterson, DE-152 commissioning crew at Orange, TX and served convoy duty in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic.. After World War II, he earned a BS Degree in Building Construction, married a fellow graduate and moved back to Central Florida. Hib moved his family of 7 to Ft. Lauderdale in 1965 and continued in the architectural field for 40 years, retiring in 1993. About 1970 Hib became an “Associate Member” (passive) of the Ponce de Leon Lighthouse Preservation Assoc. He is a charter member of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation (6 years on the Florida Maritime Heritage Program Steering Committee) and charter member of three lighthouse groups – FLA (V.P. Membership 4 years), Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society (4 years as President), and Florida Keys Reef Lights Foundation (Board Member). Hib helped Tom Taylor and others to promote or develop the Amelia Island, Mayport, Carrabelle, Cape Canaveral, and other lighthouse associations. Hib has written a number of maritime articles for publications and has received numerous awards for his lighthouse preservation work including a Life-Time Achievement Award from FLA in 2002 and the FLA President’s Award in 2006 for a decade of service to this organization.
Amelia Island Lighthouse	Harold Belcher Helen Sites - Jay Sintes Amelia Island Lighthouse & Museum, Inc. Harold (Hal) Belcher 109 South 18th St. Fernandina, FL 32034 E-mail: hal@net-magic.net
St. Johns River (Mayport)	Charlie Knox Laurie Wilson Mayport Lighthouse Association, Inc. 4610 Ocean Street Mayport Village, FL 32233 Charley is originally from Gettysburg, PA and retired from the US Navy. Charley and his wife Lottie developed an interest in lighthouses while visiting the St. Augustine Lighthouse. That interest grew as they visited many different lighthouses in Florida. They heard of the Florida Lighthouse Association while exploring the internet and joined. Their interest has only increased while getting involved in trying to preserve the St. John's River Lighthouse. Charley is currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the Mayport Lighthouse Association. They also are members of the American Lighthouse Foundation, United States Lighthouse Society, St Augustine Lighthouse Association and Tampa Bay Harbor Lights Collectors Club.
St. Augustine	Kathy Fleming Lee Capitano - Rick Cain St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum 81 Lighthouse Avenue St. Augustine, FL 32084 (904) 829-0745 E-mail: kfleming@staugustinelighthouse.com Ms. Fleming is the current Secretary of the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Preservation Action in Washington, DC as one of three current representatives from the State of Florida. She is a member of QM2, executive roundtables and, as a museum professional, works as a Museum Assessment Program Reviewer (MAP) for the American Association of Museums. In 2005, Ms. Fleming and the Board of Trustees at SAL&M created Salt Run Sales, Inc. a for-profit corporation that exists to help other museums and lighthouses nationwide create revenue and support their mission and purpose through museum store sales. Fleming also serves on the Board of Directors of the Local Visitor and Conventions Bureau and is on the honorary board of Jupiter Inlet's Loxahatchee River Historical Society, which manages the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse. She is an active supporter of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and of the Florida Association of Museums. Fleming is a native of Asheville, NC. She attended Wake Forest University and has a BA in Studio Art. Post-graduation she studied professional advertising and is about to embark on a Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership. Ms. Fleming is married to Andy Fleming a Florida native, whom she met at Wake Forest University. They have three children including a beautiful teenage daughter and twin boys who are remarkably rambunctious and growing like weeds. Her family is also the proud owners of two rescued dogs, two formerly homeless cats and three small fish.
Ponce de Leon Inlet	Ed Gunn Mike Bennet - Ellen Henery Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association 4931 South Peninsula Drive Ponce Inlet, FL 32127 (386) 761-1821 E-mail: lighthouse@ponceinlet.org
Cape Canaveral	George Diller Robert Merrilees Contact: United States Air Force Public Affairs Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Cape Canaveral, FL 32920 E-mail: George.H.Diller@nasa.gov George Diller served as Treasurer of the Florida Lighthouse Association for seven years. He has been employed by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center since 1979 as a Public Affairs Officer and is an official NASA spokesman. Mr. Diller is on the board of directors of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Preservation Foundation and the American Meteorological Society, Cape Canaveral Chapter. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida in Tampa holding degrees in Communications and Business Administration. His residence is in Titusville, Florida.
Jupiter Inlet	Jamie Stuve Kathlean Glover - Steve Varhola Loxahatchee River Historical Society 500 Captain Armour's Way Jupiter, FL 33469 (561) 747- 8380 Email - visit@lrhs.org
Hillsboro Inlet	Joyce Hager Linda Peck - Jack Burrie Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society, Inc. (HLPS) P.O. Box 610326 Pompano Beach, FL 33061-0326 E-mail: info@hillsborolighthouse.org
Reef Lights	Jack Burrie Rick Schulze - Eric Martin Florida Keys Reef Lights Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 1517 Key West FL 33041 E-mail: info@reeflights.org
Key West	Norman Aberle Key West Art and Historical Society 281 Front Street Key West, FL. 33040
Garden Key Loggerhead Key	Kelly Clark Dry Tortugas National Park Box 303, 1200 4th St. Key West, FL. Email: kelly_clark@nps.gov http://www.nps.gov/drto
Sanibel Island	Alex Werner Dennis Simon - Adelle Cramer
Boca Grande Gasparilla	Sharon McKenzie Bruce Stirling - Valerie Walch Barrier Island Parks Society P. O. Box 637 Boca Grande, FL 33921 (941) 697-77 E-mail: info@barrierislandparkssociety.org
Egmont Key	Sandie Mallett - President Richard Johnson, Wendy Anastasiou Egmont Key Alliance sandiemallett@verizon.net
Anclote Key	Steve Spencer Kathy Hallett - Linda Seabol Gulf Island GEO Park # 1 Causeway Drive Dunedin, FL 34698 (727) 469-5942
Cedar Keys	David D'Amicol Alice D'Amicol Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys Nat’l Wildlife Refuge 16450 N.W. 31 Place Chiefland, FL 32626 (352) 493-0238 E-mail: Outreach Ranger at lowersuwannee@fws.gov
St. Marks	Robin Will Andy Edel - Gail Fishman ANT Panama City 1700 Thomas Drive Panama City, FL 32408-5804 (850) 234-81
Crooked River	Arlene Oehler Barbara Revell - John Conetta Carrabelle Lighthouse Association P. O. Box 373 Carrabelle, FL 32322 (850) 697-2054
Cape St. George	Dennis Barnell Terry Kemp - Skip Kemp St. George Lighthouse Association 201 Bradford Street St. George Island, Fl 32328 850-927-2972
Cape St. Blas	Charlotte Pierce Eda Ruth Taylor, Betty McNeill
Pensacola	Gordon Levi Dick Callaway - Bill Trushel Pensacola Lighthouse Association Gordon grew up in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York State. Since his retirement from the United States Navy, Gordon and his wife have called Pensacola, Florida home. It was during his formative years in Junior High School that he became interested in the art of photography. He first photographed the Pensacola Lighthouse in 1968. Since then he has photographed lighthouses from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and beyond. His years of interest in history, travel and photography is a source of great personal satisfaction. Gordon represents the Pensacola Lighthouse Association and is also serving as the Archivist for FLA.

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