Ginger Moodie-Woodward has served as both a docent and a staff member at Josiah Henson Museum and Park since September 2021. She has a BA in History and French from the University of Wisconsin, and an MA in Linguistics from Indiana University. She is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in Museum Studies at Harvard Extension School. Prior to joining Montgomery Parks, she taught Social Studies and English at the French International School in Bethesda for over 20 years. A fun fact about Ginger is that in 1993 she was awarded a scholarship by the Rotary Club of New Orleans to study Education at the University of Geneva in Switzerland for a year. She is a big Rotary fan!

Stephen Case, a Bethesda resident, is a retired attorney, who, with co-author Mark Jacob, wrote Treacherous Beauty – Peggy Shippen, The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Plot to Betray America, published by Lyons Press in 2012. Case has served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of the American Revolution, as a Trustee of Columbia University and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He was for 30 years a partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Peggy Shippen, the second wife of Benedict Arnold, was a member of a wealthy Philadelphia family who worked with the British and is considered the “highest paid spy” in the American Revolution.

Sean McAlister is the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Chief Learning Officer for the U.S. Foreign Service and manages the training and professional development programs for more than 2,300 federal employees working in 128 U.S. cities and 119 countries. He earned a PhD. in adult education from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and both a master’s and undergraduate degrees from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN.

Sean joined Rotary in 1992 as a member of the Virginia Tech Rotaract Club, and later the Capitol Hill Rotary Club in 2004. Sean has served as the Capitol Hill Rotary Club’s President, and in various District 7620 leadership roles. Sean will be inducting Steve Vaccarezza, our President for 2022-23, along with other officers of the club.

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Program Director Lasse Syversen is today introducing our first program devoted to nothing but three (or perhaps four) minute talks. It is our understanding that anyone can volunteer to talk, and that 20 to 30 minutes will be devoted to talks, with another 10 minutes or so for Q and A. Lasse feels certain that we have many members who will like the idea of being able to get up and talk about whatever might come to their mind.

For fun, here are brief thoughts shared by three members in 2005. Today we look forward to hearing from everyone and finding out what’s new!

Richard Bray’s 3-minute talk last year was about Lyme Disease, and last week he revisited the subject by listing many of the symptoms that all of us should be aware of. Many times, the symptoms mimic other maladies. Some may be flu-like symptoms— chills and fever, loss of weight, lack of energy, sore throat and fatigue.

A portion of Joe Bunker’s talk last week was motivated by recent talks given by Tom Barry (on oysters) and Glenn Blong (on pigs). Joe’s subject? Clams. Joe recalled that in his native New England, he dug for clams with his feet, not knowing whether he would come up with cherrystones, quahogs, sea clams, or a cut foot.

Last week, club president Lasse Syversen (St. Patrick’s Day necktie and all) reflected upon his thirty years of work in Information Technology, plus his forecast for the future. “The next ten years,” Lasse said “will probably see more advances than we saw in the last thirty years.”