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Charles Wornom elected president of Virginia Living Museum Board of Trustees

July 6, 2010


Charles W. Wornom, president of Abbitt Realty Company, has been elected president of the Virginia Living Museum Board of Trustees for 2010-11.

 

Dawn T. Hunt, DMD, Hunt Smile Design, was elected president-elect; Dean Canavos, co-president/treasurer Canavos Properties, Inc., was re-elected secretary, and William R. Ermatinger, vice president of Human Resources & Administration Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, was elected as treasurer. Conway H. Sheild III, partner in Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly, serves on the executive committee as past president.

 

Elected to new three-year terms on the Board of Trustees were:


  • Kurt Dellos, vice president and chief financial officer, Smithfield Packing Company, Inc.
  • Jerri Fuller Dickseski, sector vice president, communications, Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding
  • Jane Jordan Ishon, director of development, St. Andrew's Episcopal School
  • Chris Levesque, president and general manager, AREVA Newport News
  • Nancy F. Morter, director of marketing and corporate communications, Dilon Technologies.

 

Re-elected to the Board of Trustees were Regina Brayboy, William Grace, Howard McFadden, Donald N. Patten and Brian Skinner.

 

Re-elected as chair of the museum’s Board of Advisors was Mary Sherwood Holt.

 

Jeffrey Luckman was elected to the Board of Advisors. Re-elected were Mari Ann Banks, Jerome F. Clark, William Downey, John F. Garrett III, Ralph Goldstein, Willard Hoskins III, Herbert V. Kelly, Jr., Turner Spencer and James B. Thomas, Jr.

 

As president of Abbitt Realty Company, Wornom is involved in real estate brokerage, land development, real estate investment acquisitions, property insurance and property management. A graduate of Randolph Macon College, he also holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary.  Wornom has participated in a number of civic and community activities and has led the Randolph-Macon College Society of Alumni, the Warwick Rotary Club, the Peninsula Apartment Council, the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority and the Newport News Economic and Industrial Development Authority. He is a charter investor in The Virginia Company Bank. Wornom joined the VLM board in 2002.

 

The Virginia Living Museum is a private non-profit 501(c) 3 museum and education center whose mission is connecting people to nature through educational experiences that promote conservation.

 

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