Chair
Mr. Phil Glaize
President
Glaize Apples, Inc.

Vice Chair
Ms. Dena K. Kent
Vice President

Valley Health

Secretary
Ms. Andrea Boright

Senior Software Developer

SAS Institute in Cary, NC

Treasurer
Ms. Margaret Arthur
Certified Public Account
Rutherford and Johnson, PC

Dr. Karen Huff
Professor of Education
Shenandoah University

Mr. Greg Crawford

Principal Accountant

Yount, Hyde and Barbour

Mr. Gerald Smith

President

Valley Proteins

Ms. Gina Sullivan

Philanthropist/Community Volunteer

Ms. Kathy Dansie

Artist

Ms. Mary Bruce Glaize
Educator/Philanthropist/Community Volunteer

Mr. Mike Wilkerson

President

Wachovia Bank, Winchester Branch

Ms. Mary Margaret Wise
Philanthropist/Community Volunteer

Mr. Kurt Nyberg

CEO

M&H Plastics

Jeff Fowler

Philanthropist/Community Volunteer

Neile Martin

Director of Human Resources

Yount, Hyde & Barbour

Jan Kirby, Director of Education

jkirby@discoverymuseum.net

Jan has served as Director of Education and programs at the Discovery Museum since 1996, developing the educational programming currently offered by the Museum. In this capacity, Jan presents programs to schools and home educators. She presents programs for parents using children’s literature to learn science process skills. Jan is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Hispanic Civilization. Also, she is a certified, experienced Montessori teacher. Jan is bi-lingual and serves as an English for Speakers of Other Languages instructor under the Northern Shenandoah Valley Adult Education program at the Dowell J. Howard Center.

Geb Bennett, Paleontology Collection Manager and Interim Director

gbennett@discoverymuseum.net

Geb has served as Paleontology Collection Manager and Curator of Collections for the Museum since 2001. As an Air Force brat, most of Geb’s childhood years were spent travelling, and he enjoys doing the same for paleontology. Geb graduated from Mary Washington College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology, and completed a Master’s in Paleobiology at George Mason University. Prior to coming back to Virginia, he held positions at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, the Dallas Museum of Natural History, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. While at the Discovery Museum, Geb has pursued a field program in the badlands of eastern Montana in order to study the paleoecology, taphonomy, and population structure of the tiny vertebrate animals of the Hell Creek Formation, and is now collaborating with doctoral student Derek Main on the Arlington Archosaur Site in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Geb has been deeply involved in designing paleontology exhibits for the new Discovery Museum and currently serves as Interim Director.

Mark Lawson, Gallery Manager

mlawson@discoverymuseum.net

Mark has held the position of Gallery Manager at the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum since 2000. Functioning as museum host, he greets visitors, monitors the floor activity and safety, and gets to know the children and their families. He also heads up the preschool programs, after school outreach, birthday parties, and many of the summer camps. Mark is a career professional with over 30 years experience on the front lines of early childhood education, youth programming and family service. He was a Child Development Associate trainer, and has held positions in a wide range of settings and with children ranging in ages from two to 18. These include public and private childcare, Head Start programs, inclusive and special needs programs, before and after school programs, recreational programs, and summer camps. When not at the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, Mark is a practicing artist, musician and writer. He specializes in mural work and has his own digital art business.