Connecting people Annual who care with causes 2017 Report that matter Message to the Community Happy birthday, Outer Banks Community Foundation! In 2017 How must we adapt our grant-making to respond to our changing we celebrated the 35th anniversary of our founding — and the community, while continuing to honor our donors’ wishes? $8 million our nonprofit has given to the Outer Banks in grants 2017 was a significant year for the Community Foundation. We and scholarships since 1982. expanded our grants criteria to meet emerging local needs, and we Thanks to the generosity of thousands of donors, our Community gave out more money in grants and scholarships than ever before: Foundation has truly touched the lives of thousands, and made our $750,000. Thanks to our donors, we added 19 new charitable funds Outer Banks an even more wonderful place to live, work, and play. to our foundation, which will be invested for future annual grants and scholarships. We had so much to celebrate this birthday, but for us, our 35th anniversary was also an opportunity to look ahead. After all, On the pages that follow, we recognize and thank all of our 2017 35 years is just the beginning. That’s because of our core promise donors, remember any persons they honored with their giving, and to our community: that each of our endowments are “forever funds,” enumerate all of the nonprofits, students, and causes they supported invested for perpetuity to make grants and scholarships each year last year. for innumerable decades to come. If 2017 was a year for celebration and growth, 2018 will be a year That’s a big promise. In the words of Prince, forever is a mighty long for planning. Planning for the next 5 years, 35 years, and beyond time, a span that no human brain can begin to understand. Yet, that’s even that, to address community needs for countless generations to our aspiration. We have been entrusted to steward our contributors’ come. That’s our promise to the Outer Banks. gifts — our donors’ very legacies — for as far into the civilized Happy birthday to you, to us, the Outer Banks Community Foundation! future as anyone can imagine. May there be many fine returns. And so we’ve been asking ourselves the toughest questions. How Teresa Osborne, President should we manage our funds to tackle today’s needs, while Lorelei Costa, Executive Director investing for the next century? What community needs are currently unaddressed, and what needs may arise in the years to come?

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2018 Board of Directors Staff Bruce Austin Chris Seawell, Vice-President Lorelei Costa, Scott R. Brown, Treasurer Nancy Sugg, Secretary Executive Director Nancy Caviness John Tucker Shirley Hamblet, Program Lynda Hester Clark Twiddy and Operations Manager Greg Honeycutt Jane Webster Leslie Reed, Teresa Osborne, President Ray White Finance Manager

ON THE COVER: A Community Enrichment Grant in 2017 to the Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County brought the Paperhand Puppets Production to the Outer Banks for Kids Fest, to the delight of many children. (Photo by Bonnie Brumbeloe) 13 Skyline Road • Southern Shores, NC 27949 | Tel: 252-261-8839 • Email: [email protected] | www.obcf.org About the Community Foundation

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is a public charity that connects people who care with causes that matter. Founded in 1982, the Community Foundation helps donors meet local charitable needs in Dare County and across the Outer Banks, from Corolla to Ocracoke, by targeting grants and scholarships toward our community’s most pressing needs and promising opportunities.

The Community Foundation manages a collection of undesignated charitable funds, grant-making funds, nonprofit endowments, and scholarship funds, created by different donors at different times for different purposes. Donors may create funds during their lifetime or by bequest, for general charitable purposes or for a particular cause or organization that they specify. The Community Foundation provides tailored services to help individuals, families, A Community Enrichment Grant of $3,000 to the Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Series businesses, and other groups pursue their provided tickets for local students to attend the Gilbert and Sullivan Production of the comic opera, charitable goals easily, effectively, and H.M.S. Pinafore, at First Flight High School. Thank you to our donors for supporting projects like with maximum tax benefit. these for your Outer Banks. These students say it all. (Photo courtesy of Bryan Cultural Series) Through our Community Enrichment Grants Program, the Community Foundation is the sustainable, easy funds for whatever their scholarships to the future leaders of our venture capitalist of our local charitable needs might be. country. sector, supporting the Outer Banks’s most exciting and most urgent charitable projects. Through our Scholarship Program, the The Community Foundation’s perpetual The Community Foundation is a catalyst, Community Foundation has helped 1,500 endowments are a resource for today and helping the nonprofit sector evolve to take local students pursue their dream of tomorrow. With the Outer Banks Community on new challenges and opportunities as a college education. The Community Foundation, people who love the Outer they arise. The Community Foundation also Foundation is the largest and most diverse Banks can give back to the community they manages designated endowments on behalf scholarship provider in our area, awarding love to help meet today’s pressing needs, of nonprofits, providing those groups with both need-based and merit-based while building a source of support for future generations.

Emeritus Directors

* David Stick, Founder Cashar W. Evans, Jr. * Diane Henderson Kenneth L. Mann Jim Perry Jack L. Adams * M. Keith Fearing dorothy Hester * Wallace H. McCown Michael C. Reeves Elizabeth K. Blanchard Helen E. Ford Skipper Hines * Teresa Merritt Lila Schiffman Nonie H. Booth Paul Ford Greg Honeycutt Loretta Michael Norman W. Shearin, Jr. John W. Boyd John Graham John F. Hughes Stockton Midgett * Sterling Webster, III Marcelle Brenner Jack Gray * Frederick Hutchins * Glen Miller Robert E. Wells Ralph Buxton Edward L. Greene * Martin Kellogg, Jr. Bob Muller Stan White C. Howard Cliborne * Andy Griffith Michael W. Kelly Brant Murray W. Ray White * George S. Crocker Charles Hardy Jonathan W. Kenton Bob Oakes Jo Whitehead T. Olin Davis Bobby Harrell * Daniel D. Khoury * Josephine Oden Suzanne S. Woolard Sharon Elliott deloris Harrell Myra Ladd-Bone Edward Olsen dawn E. Enochs James P. Harrell J. Randall Latta Robbie Parker * Deceased ina M. Evans Ernst avery Harrison Scott Leggat Geneva Perry 2 New Funds Funds In 2017 Spotlight Adams Family Fund Challenge made. Challenge accepted. Adams Family Fund for Animals Challenge exceeded! All God’s Creatures Fund Children & Youth Partnership Endowment Fund Seventeen local nonprofits undertook the Community Foundation’s Matching Fund Challenge in 2017 to raise Community Care Clinic Endowment Fund $2,500 each for permanent endowment funds. Dare County Boat Builders Access Fund Dare County Boat Builders Endowment Fund And all seventeen groups met or exceeded the challenge, raising needed funds to sustain their organizations in Diane and Nelson Henderson Endowment Fund perpetuity. Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation Endowment Fund The Community Foundation matched the dollars raised, Hatteras Village Endowment Fund $2,500 per group, and also offered marketing grants to Jeannette U. McOwen Memorial Scholarship Fund help the organizations publicize their funds to supporters. Lillian W. Riddick Scholarship Fund for Nurses The goal: to help diverse local nonprofits establish and Lipchak Sands Family Fund build perpetual sources of support for their organizations’ NC Lions Visually Impaired Persons Fishing future. An endowment can be so helpful to a nonprofit, Tournament Endowment Fund because it is invested to provide the organization with Ocracoke Community Radio Endowment Fund sustainable, easy revenue each and every year. Ocracoke Fire Protection Association Fund Ten organizations used the Matching Fund Challenge to Outer Banks Hotline Endowment Fund establish new endowments (included in the list at left), while Outer Banks Sporting Events Endowment Fund seven others used the Matching Grant to increase their Sawyer Scholarship Endowment Fund existing endowments. Five additional organizations received Marketing Mini-Grants to publicize their existing funds. In establishing endowments, these nonprofits are investing in their future and creating ideal vehicles for donors who wish to give them sustaining support. Anyone can contribute to any of the endowments created through the Matching Fund Challenge, or to any of the 40 other nonprofit and church endowments managed by the Community Foundation. Donors are encouraged to give online at www.obcf.org/donate, or by calling 252-261-8839.

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Unaudited assets as of December 31, 2017 2017 Cash & cash equivalents $209,978 Investments, net $17,127,151 Financial Property & equipment, net $303,059 Highlights Other assets $294 TOTAL ASSETS $17,640,482

3 2017 Donor-Advised Grants: $78,228 Total

Bingham Family Fund $400 Southern Shores Volunteer Just for Today & Tomorrow Outer Banks Giving Beach Food Pantry Fire Department Endowment Fund, in Memory For Good Giving Circle $4,850 Lower Currituck Food Pantry St. Andrews by the Sea - of Dorman N. Doutt & Disaster Relief Fund Ruthie’s Kitchen Florence B. Satterwhite $2,100 Mustang Outreach Program Birindelli Family Fund $250 Town of Southern Shores Beach Food Pantry OBX GO FAR Dare Education Foundation Mano al Hermano Outer Banks SPCA Food for Thought Elliott-Sawyer Mansons United Methodist Church Surfing for Autism Family Fund $3,000 NC Lions VIP Fishing Tournament Burwell A. Evans Joyce Meyer Ministries Peregrine & Kaye Charitable Fund $2,100 North Carolina Coastal Federation Kelly Family Fund $21,365 White Fund $800 Blue Star Mothers of America Samaritan’s Purse Albemarle Development Community Care Clinic of Dare (Outer Banks Chapter) Corporation - Alzheimer’s Walk GEM Adult Day Services Dare County Arts Council Enochs Family Fund $9,000 Community Care Clinic of Dare Interfaith Community Outreach Mount Olivet United Methodist Dare County Arts Council East Carolina University Church Emergency Relief Fund Roanoke Island Food Pantry Preston Family Fund $9,500 Educational Foundation Community Care Clinic of Dare Roanoke Island Volunteer Dare County Arts Council Food Bank of the Albemarle Fire Department Endowment Fund GEM Adult Day Services Food for Thought Hatteras Island Rescue Squad Roanoke Island Historical North Banks Rotary Club Cathi Ostrander Association Interfaith Community Outreach Family Fund $478 Foundation Shriners Hospital for Children Dare County Arts Council Francis W. & Virginia H. North Carolina Aquarium Society Special Olympics North Carolina OBX Room in the Inn Meekins Family Fund $500 North Carolina Coastal Federation Catherine Carrington Clawson North Carolina Coastal Land Trust Simpson-Sharp- Dorothy Scott Townsend Scholarship Fund OBX Pride Oakes Fund $1,600 Fletcher Memorial Fund $9,000 Lacy J. McNeill First Flight Beach Food Pantry Albemarle Development Friends of Manteo Rotary Fund Corporation - Meals on Wheels High School Fund $5,500 Outer Banks Relief Foundation William & JoAnn Beach Food Pantry Manteo High School Outer Banks Sporting Events Small Family Fund $275 Food for Thought Roanoke Island Historical Friends of Elizabeth II Hester Family Legacy Fund $510 Holy Redeemer by the Sea Association Anonymous Grants from Catholic Church Dare County Center St. Baldrick’s Foundation Monday Night Alive Donor-Advised Funds $4,000 Interfaith Community Outreach Vidant Health Mano al Hermano Kill Devil Hills Fire June & John Kemble Nags Head Church Department Auxiliary Memorial Cancer Fund $3,000 Kitty Hawk Volunteer Fire Dept. Interfaith Community Outreach

A 2017 grant to the Nature Conservancy will provide more parking for visitors at the Nags Head Woods Nature Preserve. (Photo by Daniel Pullen)

4 Legacy Spotlight Kip Tabb contributed to this story. When Josephine Oden joined the board of the Outer Banks Born in 1890 in Wanchese, Inez herself was bit of a Community Foundation, she probably did not imagine the trailblazer, although she may not have thought of herself in impact she would have one day — both with the legacy she that way. “She went to UNC around 1915 and studied for would bestow, and with the generosity she would inspire from two years,” her grandson Jeff Oden said. This was a time others. when women did not have the right to vote. It was October 26, 1983, at the Armada Inn in Nags Head, “Even though at that time she did not receive her degree, when “Miss Jo” was elected to serve on the new foundation she took a test given by the county back then and was board. With that, she became not deemed capable of teaching,” only the first director from Hatteras said Jeff. “She ultimately ended up Island, but the first female board teaching in Frisco, which is where my member — and the only female for grandfather met her.” the first several years. For more than 40 years, Inez taught Devoted to education, Miss Jo had school on Hatteras Island, mostly attended Greensboro College and primary grades. And she was a UNC Chapel Hill. After earning her formidable woman, according to degree in journalism, she had briefly Jeff. worked for The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City before coming home “She was pretty intimidating,” he to marry her childhood sweetheart, said. “She was no nonsense. That’s Carlos Oden of Hatteras. She and what I remember most about her.” Carlos had built the Sea Gull Motel If she was intimidating, she was also in 1955, and managed it for many driven. In 1966, at age 76, Inez years. re-enrolled at UNC to complete her Within months of joining the board, degree. Sadly, she did not quite Miss Jo was making a difference. realize that dream. Her initial assignment was to serve “Unfortunately cancer intervened, as the first chairperson of the and she passed at the age of 79,” A scholarship created in honor and memory foundation’s first grants committee. Jeff said. In that role she stewarded grants for of Josephine A. Oden will give its first, many important causes — providing renewable scholarship to a deserving Doubtless inspired by her example, lighting equipment for the new Hatteras Island student in 2019. the family began awarding auditorium at Cape Hatteras School, scholarships in Inez’s name as early reference books for the Dare as 1976. A few years later, Miss Jo County Library, smoke detectors and her sisters decided to make their scholarship permanent, for the elderly across the county, and grants to Hotline, by creating a perpetual endowment for that purpose with the Chicamacomico, and the local Girl Scouts, among others. Community Foundation. Later in her tenure, Miss Jo chaired the membership committee The Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship was particularly and served as the board’s vice president. In 1986 she made established to help girls pursue a higher education. “That’s the motion to hire the organization’s first administrator, where she saw the need,” Jeff said. It is a merit-based award transitioning the Community Foundation from an all-volunteer that looks for students from Hatteras Village with high grades, group to the professionally-staffed organization it is today. extra-curricular involvement, and leadership ability. But her greatest contribution was probably in 1983, when she Thus, the Community Foundation’s scholarship program was and her family — sisters Sybil Skakle and Ramona Hunter, launched. The first recipient was Mary Printz, who received and sister-in-law Ruby Moser — launched the Community $250 in Inez’s name to attend East Carolina University. That Foundation’s first scholarship program, with a perpetual gift inspired countless others, and today, 35 years later, the endowment named for their family matriarch, Inez Daniels Austin.

5 Community Foundation manages 50 scholarships, including the focus. The Josephine A. Oden Scholarship will be a renewable Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship, and has awarded $2 million award to help a student through all four years of college, to 1,500 students in total. giving preference for males or females from any part of Hatteras Island with financial need. Miss Jo and her family never stopped giving. Long after her service on the Community Foundation board, Miss Jo And so the legacy of giving continues, and not just with the continued to volunteer widely, with her church, with Meals on family. When Carissa Rausch was awarded the Inez Daniels Wheels, with Hotline, and with the Graveyard of the Atlantic Austin Scholarship in 2016, the $2,600 award meant the Museum, where she volunteered well into her 90s. She and graduating senior knew she could pursue her lifelong dreams. her sisters continued to contribute to their fund for years, and when Miss Jo passed away in 2017, at age 96, a “That scholarship meant I was one step closer to becoming surprise bequest in her will grew the scholarship by 30%. a nurse,” she said. “As a kid I knew I wanted a career that would help others. “My mom has been very generous to the community. What is important It’s where she grew up,” Jeff explained. “I’m proud of the about nursing to fact that she has done that over time. One thing my mom me is that when I said was: ‘Be generous.’” graduate I’ll have the opportunity to She certainly instilled that lesson of generosity, and inspired help people, and others to do the same. This year her family is continuing use my skills to to honor Miss Jo with a new scholarship in her name. The better their lives.” Josephine A. Oden Scholarship Fund will give its first award in 2019. Like the Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship, it will be a Miss Jo would permanent endowment, but it will have a slightly different be proud.

David Stick Legacy Society The David Stick Legacy Society recognizes those individuals and families who have named the Outer Banks Community Foundation in a will, trust, insurance policy, Inez Daniels Austin, Josephine Oden’s retirement account, or other type of deferred or planned gift. These generous mother, taught school on Hatteras Island folk are truly leaving a legacy for all future generations on the Outer Banks. for more than 40 years. The Community Foundation gratefully recognizes the following Legacy Society members.

Anonymous (4) Maureen Rose Ducker * Anna Louise Hummers * Josephine Oden JoAnn Small Jack L. Adams * A.W. Fletcher Jo Ann Hummers * Kenneth W. Oden William Small Nancey H. Atkinson Helen E. Ford Judith S. Ihle Edward J. Olsen Marisa M. M. Smith Louise Baraw Paul L. Ford * Fred I. Jones Teresa Osborne * Diane Baum St. Clair Alyson Belvin Astrid Franz Ann Kaplan Janet Owen * David Stick Barbara A. Bingham * Jewell Graves * Martin Kellogg Monica Parker Lynn Thomason James B. Birindelli Edward L. Greene Michael W. Kelly Robert Parker Tom Thomason Nancy B. Birindelli Doreen Hamblet Willo Jean Kelly Gloria Perry John Marshall Toll Marcy Brenner Charles Hardy Beth Kenton * Helen Petty William M. Vaughan * Catharine L. Bryan Bobby Harrell Jon Kenton Bonnie Pfennighaus Elizabeth Jane Webster * Donald W. Bryan Deloris Harrell Ray Koch Frances K. Reeves * Sterling F. Webster, III * R. Stewart Couch * Diane D. Henderson Richard M. Lacerre Michael C. Reeves Kaye White Carol Cowell * Nelson H. Henderson Kurt M. Loos * Jean Reichmann Peregrine White Edward Cowell * Charles Edgar Hill Neil E. Loy Tina J. Richardson W. Ray White * Moncie L. Daniels Richard H. Hines, III * Dorothy Luedemann Dr. Burt H. Rubin Jo H. Whitehead Arlene Davis Marilyn Hinson * Ruth Medgyes *Howell Revier Phillip S. Woodruff Jerry Davis Reid Hinson * Louis Midgette Shearouse, Jr. * Pauline Wright * David Doran Eden E. Honeycutt Bob Muller David Shufflebarger * Shirley Doran Gregory A. Honeycutt Brant Murray Patti Shufflebarger * Deceased Like Mr. Stick’s enduring commitment to our community, your planned gift to the Outer Banks Community Foundation will have meaning and impact for countless years to come. If you would like to be recognized as a member of the David Stick Legacy Society, please contact Lorelei Costa at 252-455-1404. 6 2017 Community Enrichment & Special Focus Grants: $191,963 Total

Beach Food Pantry $5,000 Dare County Special Olympics Interfaith Community Outer Banks Commercial Refrigeration North Carolina $5,000 Outreach $5,000 Chamber of Commerce $1,000 Improving the Lives of People Capacity Building Grant Leadership OBX Nonprofit Chicamacomico with Intellectual Disabilities Scholarships Historical Association $25,000 Through the Power of Sports MANE and TAILL Therapeutic New Roofing and Siding for the Horsemanship Outer Banks Hotline $3,000 Chicamacomico Station Don & Catharine Bryan Academy $11,500 Safe House Play Yard Cultural Series $3,000 Changing Lives Through the Outer Banks Children & Youth Partnership Student tickets for Power of the Horse Relief Foundation $6,889 for Dare County $4,000 H.M.S. Pinafore Paperhand Puppets Mano al Hermano $3,172 Technology Upgrades First Colony Foundation $5,000 Community Outreach Initiative Outer Banks SPCA $250 Children at Play $4,015 History Weekend: Tracking the Animal Enrichment Program Imagination Playground Lost Colony - Roanoke Island to Nature Conservancy at Nags Head Woods $26,300 the Northwest Outer Banks Coastal Family Church $5,000 Creating a Welcoming Entrance Sporting Events $5,000 After Prom Party First Flight Society $350 for the Nags Head Woods Website Upgrade Website Upgrade Preserve Corolla Wild Roanoke Island Horse Fund $10,000 Food for Thought $500 Ocracoke Historical Association $5,000 Vehicle Replacement Video Contest - Third Place Community Radio $2,000 Final Phase of Waterside Website Construction Dare County Arts Council GEM Adult Day Services Theatre Audio Project for Historic Dare County Courthouse Office Technology $2,987 The Lost Colony Courtyard Project $50,000 Video Contest - Second Place Video Contest - First Place $2,000 $1,000

Matching Fund Challenge and Marketing Mini-Grants: $64,500 In 2017, the following organizations were awarded $2,500 Matching Grants and/or $1,000 Marketing Mini-Grants for their endowment funds held by Outer Banks Community Foundation. Beach Food Pantry Dare Education Foundation Hatteras Village Civic Ocracoke Youth Center Chicamacomico Historical Elizabethan Gardens Association Outer Banks Hotline Association First Flight Society Interfaith Community Outreach Outer Banks Relief Children & Youth Partnership Food for Thought NC Lions VIP Fishing Foundation for Dare County Friends of the Outer Banks Tournament Outer Banks SPCA Community Care Clinic of Dare History Center Ocracoke Community Radio Outer Banks Sporting Events Dare County Arts Council Hatteras Island Cancer Ocracoke Fire Protection Dare County Boat Builders Foundation Association Foundation

The following funds contributed to the Community Enrichment and Special Focus Grants:

Annual Advice 5K Turkey Trot Fund Children & Youth Fund Milton A. Jewell Grant Fund Ruth Pitt Performing Arts Fund Aviation Education Fund of Community Fund Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Schiffman Fund for Animals America D. Victor & Catherine D. Midgett Daniels Memorial Fund Shirley & David Doran Aycock Brown Memorial Fund Meekins Memorial Fund Ocracoke Fund Memorial Fund Banxblock Beach Fund David Aycock Loy Memorial Fund Pauline Wright Endowment for Thomas & Annie Baum Benevolent Fund Directors Fund Dare County Individuals with Memorial Fund Charles H. & Dorothy S. Environment Fund Special Needs Luedemann Arts Fund Little, Owens, & BB&T Fund Pauline Wright Endowment for Educational and Developmental Martin Kellogg Memorial Fund 7 Needs in Currituck Grant Spotlight

A grant of $10,000 in 2017 will allow the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to purchase new 4x4 vehicles and continue to care for the 100 The Beach Food Pantry now has more breathtaking yet vulnerable wild horses that freely roam the Currituck refrigeration space for perishable food beaches. The beach-ready vehicles will allow staff and volunteers to donations. A grant of $5,000 in 2017 from manage the herd, educate the public, and transport injured or ill horses to the Community Foundation allowed the their rehabilitation farm for veterinary care. These magnificent horses are Beach Food Pantry to purchase a new three- descendants of wild Spanish mustangs that arrived on the Outer Banks door refrigerator and offer their clients nearly 500 years ago. (Photo courtesy of Corolla Wild Horse Fund) more nourishing and delicious fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy, and eggs. Prior grants from the Community Foundation allowed the Food Pantry to purchase its building, its emergency generator, and essential office equipment. (Photo by Theresa Armendarez)

Has the Lost Colony been found? Well… maybe. We now have evidence that about a dozen colonists may have landed at “Site X” in Bertie County, where archaeologists with the First Colony Foundation have found 16th-century nails, shards of pottery, and other compelling clues. This information and much more was presented at the first OBX History Weekend, an international symposium that was held in October 2017 and was sponsored in part by the Outer Banks Community Foundation. Site X has now been preserved and will become a North Carolina State Natural Area. (Photo by David Doody)

8 2017 Distributions and Grants from Organization Endowments and Other Designated Funds: $310,483 Total

2-1-1 Fund $417 Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Daniels $2,532 Community Fund $32,223 Memorial Fund for Gideons International Dare Community Crime Line Fund $1,411 Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Daniels $2,532 Memorial Fund for Mount Olivet Methodist Church Dare County Arts Council Endowment Fund $1,157 Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Green Daniels $2,026 Dare County Library Fund $1,641 Memorial Fund for Bethany Methodist Church Disaster Relief Fund $64,730 Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Green Daniels $2,000 Elizabethan Gardens Endowment Fund $2,641 Memorial Fund for Manteo Baptist Church Endowment Fund for the Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Series $48,606 Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Green Daniels $2,026 F.C. Minton Fund $374 Memorial Fund for Mount Olivet Methodist Church Flat Top Preservation Fund $2,463 Monument to a Century of Flight Fund $28,098 Frank Stick Memorial Fund $12,500 Outer Banks Family YMCA Fund $306 Frank Tate Memorial Fund for the Manteo High School Band $870 Outer Banks Realtors Disaster Relief Fund $1,209 Fred Murray Memorial Fund $1,712 Pauline Wright Endowment for the Currituck Animal Shelter $2,374 Helen Britt Van Cleef Petty Fund $21,259 Pauline Wright Endowment for the Currituck Public Libraries $2,350 Jewell-Doran Operating Endowment $53,994 Pauline Wright Endowment for the Dare County Arts Council $4,641 Jim Wood Endowment for Children’s Arts $316 St. Andrews By-The-Sea Episcopal Church Whedbee Fund $10,692 Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Daniels $2,532 Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Outer Banks Fund $850 Memorial Fund for Bethany Methodist Church

Sarah Skinner is living her dream at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Sarah was the 2017 recipient of the Milton A. Jewell Scholarship, our most prestigious, merit-based award, and one of our most generous, at $6,000 per year. In addition to writing poetry throughout campus, Sarah has joined the staff of the Cornell Maria Mendoza, a 2017 graduate from Manteo Daily Sun, which is the High School, received two coveted Community Foundation oldest independent Scholarships: the Frank M. Cahoon Memorial Scholarship college newspaper (presented by Deputy Mark McKay, in photograph), and the in the nation. Jerry and Arlene Davis Scholarship, which is renewable for up to four years for students who demonstrate a positive work ethic and history. Maria is currently studying criminal justice at North Carolina Central University. (Photo by Tom Gartman, Shooters at the Beach)

First Flight High School Class of 2017 recipients stand with Scott Brown, board member and scholarship co-chair. (Photo by Aaron Zeigler) 9 Madeline Nance $1,000 2017 Scholarships Caitlyn Elizabeth Silvio $1,000 Courtney Lynn Silvio $1,000 $153,838 Total Samantha Styron $1,000 José Valle $1,000 Catherine Carrington Clawson Scholarship Jamie Williams $300 Osborne Scholarship Emma Alter $1,000 John T. Daniels, Lois Pearce Smith, Sara Cook $1,600 Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann and J. Bryan Smith Scholarship Outer Banks Association of Realtors Art Scholarship Suzanne Mullins $1,000 Scholarship Samuel Gage Clawson $1,900 Kellogg Cuthrell Manteo Rotary Christian Eberhard $1,000 Natasha Fink $1,900 Scholarship Dylan Owens $1,000 Lindsay Jones $1,900 Jasmine Roller $1,000 Caroline Pharr $1,000 Anastasia Ratti $1,900 Kiwanis Leo Sheetz Memorial Scholarship Luke Potter $1,000 Haley Rea $1,900 Caroline Pharr $1,000 Gabrielle Sadler $1,000 José Valle $1,900 Samantha Surprenant $1,000 Thomas Scott $1,000 Summer Warrington $1,900 Lacy J. McNeill First Flight Rotary Scholarship Caitlyn Setree $1,000 College of The Albemarle Samantha Surprenant $1,200 Samantha Surprenant $1,000 Foundation Scholarship Linda Porter’s Shear Genius Scholarship Mackenzie Ulmer-Meekins $1,000 Athena Capacite $600 Katherine Spore $1,000 Jenna Zottoli $1,000 Anna Katarzyna Flis $600 Lucian Griffin Scholarship Peggy O’Brien Scholarship Courtney M. Burgess Memorial Scholarship Lauren Cutler $1,200 Tyler Martin Normand $1,250 Carla Hardy $1,500 Mabel O. Cooper Scholarship R. Stewart Couch Hatteras Lia Raves $1,000 Audrey Bunn $1,500 Island Scholarship Curtis Creech Memorial Scholarship Sara Cook $1,500 Ethan Gray $8,250 Bridget Altland $1,700 Lia Raves $1,500 Ralph & Ida Lee Saunders Scholarship Dare County Association of Fire Officers Paige Twyne $1,500 Kyle Dixon $1,000 Scholarship in Memory of Manteo Rotary Club Percy W. and Robert E. Rollason, Jr. Memorial Douglas A. Remaley Elizabeth G. Meekins Scholarship Scholarship Maddie Gray $1,000 Caitlyn Setree $2,500 Samantha Surprenant $1,200 Ian Kenny $1,000 Milton A. Jewell Academic Scholarship Sawyer Scholarship Macy Quidley $1,000 Taylor Cecil $6,000 Christian Eberhard $5,000 Dare County Outer Banks Jaycees Scholarship Ian Kenny $6,000 Scott Day Family Scholarship This fund is a contributor to the OBX Scholars Matthew McKenna $2,000 Colby Ian O’Neal $1,000 program. Sydney Pearce $2,000 Dare Math/Science Scholarship Sgt. Earl Murray Memorial Scholarship Sarah Skinner $6,000 Maria Mendoza $350 Victoria Moore $1,200 Matthew Thibodeau $6,000 Dorothy Scott Townsend Fletcher Tom O’Brien Scholarship Memorial Scholarship Molly Weybright $2,000 Alexander Burleson $1,200 Milton A. Jewell Internship Amber Renee Holenchick $1,000 Wallace H. McCown Scholarship Duck Woods Ladies Tennis Association Charles Shotton $2,328 Samantha Surprenant $2,450 Scholarship Milton A. Jewell Trade & Technical Wayne Fulcher Art Scholarship Scholarships Brittany Beickert $2,000 Sierra Hostetter $1,000 ECB Land of Beginnings Living Legend Deborah Bickers $70 Scholarship Vanessa Brantley $150 Akelsandar Marjanovic $350 Emanuel Hantig $70 First Flight Society Scholarship Jennifer Ann Jennings $75 Csaba Siska $500 Sophie Mantelli $238 Founders Scholarship Heather Morway $75 Emma Alter $2,000 Ksenia Osipova $220 Frank M. Cahoon Memorial Scholarship Anastasiia Ovcharuk $70 Maria Mendoza $1,600 Clifton Owens $220 George W. Neighbors Memorial Scholarship Melanie W. Rhodes $145 Kenneth Mitchum $1,250 Audrey Schwester $195 Glenn & Pat Eure Scholarship Paul Skinner $70 for Arts Education Lizeth A. Elizondo Vargas $238 Katherine Spore $1,100 Jeffrey W. Weisgerber $150 Greg & Eden Honeycutt Scholarship North Banks Rotary Scholarship Karla Perez $2,000 Sarah Mandis $1,000 Aron Stowe $1,000 Kenneth Mitchum $1,000 Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship Lia Raves $1,000 Caitlyn Setree $2,650 Haley Rea $1,000 Jerry & Arlene Davis Scholarship Samantha Surprenant $1,000 Jodi Awtrey $5,000 OBX Scholars Award Gabrielle Sadler $1,200 Madeline Bailey $5,000 Karla Perez, a 2017 graduate of Maria Mendoza $5,000 Ocracoke Island Realty and Joe Riddick Trade and Technical Village Realty Scholarship Ocracoke School, received the Greg Scholarship Madeline Bailey $1,000 and Eden Honeycutt Scholarship. Mikal Harris $175 Maclean Frazier $1,000 (Photo courtesy of Ocracoke School) Colton Nixon $300 Amanda Gaskins $1,000 10 2017 Gifts to Named Funds

2-1-1 Fund Dare Community Crime Line Fund Endowment Fund for the Don & Glenn & Pat Eure Endowment Fund Kevin and Becky O’Connor Barbara Mulford Catharine Bryan Cultural Series for Arts Education Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Julie Daniels Adams Family Fund Dare County Arts Council Glenn and Pat Eure Jack L. Adams Endowment Fund Series Dare County Arts Council Donald W. Bryan Estate Greg & Eden Honeycutt Adams Family Fund for Animals Barbara Mulford Scholarship Fund Jack L. Adams Dawn Enochs Enochs Family Fund First Flight Society Fund Greg and Eden Honeycutt All God’s Creatures Fund Outer Banks Community Foundation First Flight Society Harriett Mardre Woolard Anonymous Dare County Association of Fire First Flight Society Scholarship Memorial Fund Annual Advice 5K Officers Scholarship Fund in First Flight Society Elizabeth Woolard Turkey Trot Fund John H. Woolard, Sr. Memory of Douglas A. Remaley Flat Top Preservation Fund Advice 5K Turkey Trot K.I.C.Z. Maintenance & Remodeling John and Sue Woolard Mirek Dabrowski Dawn E. Enochs Barbara Mulford Stephen and Sally Gudas Hatteras Fund Cathy Moseley Moore Butch and Teresa Osborne Sweater Box Confections Dare County Boat Builders Elizabeth Lankes Access Fund Jean Lankes Sharon and Jose Simon Beach Food Pantry Dare County Boat Builders Food For Thought Fund Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation Endowment Fund Foundation Endowment Fund Mary Ames Food for Thought Dare County Boat Builders Barbara Mulford Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation Balanced Meridian PLLC Outer Banks Community Foundation Beach Food Pantry Endowment Fund Outer Banks Community Foundation Nancy L. Darr Dare County Boat Builders Foundation Ford Family Fund Hatteras Village Endowment Fund Barbara Mulford Outer Banks Community Foundation Paul and Helen Ford Hatteras Village Civic Association Outer Banks Community Foundation David Aycock Loy Lee Robinson General Store Founders Scholarship Fund Outer Banks Community Foundation Bingham Family Fund Memorial Fund Duck Woods Ladies Golf Barbara Bingham Laura Askew Association Hester Family Legacy Fund Nancy A. Aycock Radcliff C. Hester Birindelli Family Fund Terry and Stephanie Beasley Frank Stick Memorial Fund Ben and Nancy Birindelli Friends of the Outer Banks Inez Daniels Austin Tommy and Leah Butler Scholarship Fund Burwell A. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Brad Creef History Center Outer Banks Community Foundation Josephine A. Oden Estate Charitable Fund Greg and Lisa Loy Sybil Austin Skakle Dawn E. Enochs Jeff Loy The University of North Carolina Ray and Pam Evans Gloria Fay Perry and Neil E. Loy Press Interfaith Community Outreach Bill and Martha Pitts Barbara Mulford Fred Murray Memorial Fund Endowment Fund Rachel N. Powell Interfaith Community Outreach Catherine Carrington Clawson Mark Brinkley Sineath Properties LLC Bobby and Deloris Harrell Barbara Mulford Scholarship Fund Russell and Rosabelle Twiford Outer Banks Community Foundation Boyce and Mary Harwell Leon and Stephanie Holleman Charitable Trust Fund Diane and Nelson Henderson Lynne Hutchins Jeannette U. McOwen Memorial David Clawson Endowment Fund Katie Miller Scholarship Fund Francis W. & Virginia H. Meekins Henderson Charitable Remainder Bobbie, Claire, and Charlie Murray Billy and Monica McOwen Family Fund Unitrust Brant Murray Molly McOwen New Age Media Ventures, LLC Hanft McDevitt Giving Fund Disaster Relief Fund Jerry & Arlene Davis Fund Margaret May Pat and Jimmy Taylor Jerry and Arlene Davis Janet D. Anderson Bob and Helaire Webster Pam & Bob Harwell Charitable Katherine Burke Jerry & Arlene Davis Fund at Schwab Charitable Duck Donuts Frisco Native American Museum Scholarship Fund Virginia H. Meekins Revocable GE Foundation and Natural History Center Fund Jerry & Arlene Davis Fund Family Trust GlaxoSmithKline Carl and Joyce Bornfriend Jewell-Doran Operating Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann John and Ann Gordon Giving for Good Giving Circle Charles and Valerie Kurth Endowment Art Scholarship Fund The Baldwin Family Henderson Charitable Therese and Bill Krokonko Manteo Rotary Club Sarah and Rodney Benson Elizabeth G. Matthew Remainder Unitrust Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann Berryman Family Josephine A. Oden Estate OBX Giving Circle Tom and Vickie Byers Family Arts Fund Paulann Pierson Joe Riddick Trade and Technical Therese and Bill Krokonko Jennifer Allen, Debo Cox, John and Annette Ratzenberger and Family Scholarship Fund Chicamacomico Historical Angela and Ben Shankland Keith and Emily Dobie Steven Michael Riddick Association Endowment Fund Marie and Henry Sprenger Bill and Janell Downing John H. Whitehead Chicamacomico Historical Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Peebles and Avery Harrison Family Memorial Fund Association Corbett Tuck and Leigh Whannell Markus Heyder Awful Arthurs Outer Banks Community Foundation Dorothy Scott Townsend Fletcher William S. Jones, Jr. Jo H. Whitehead Children & Youth Partnership Memorial Scholarship Fund Debbie and Robert Lawson Barbara Mulford John T. Daniels, Lois Pearce Smith, Endowment Fund Dorothy Scott Townsend Fletcher and J. Bryan Smith Scholarship Children & Youth Partnership Memorial Fund Jason and Rebecca Olszewski Family Fund for Dare County Duck Woods Ladies Tennis Donna P. Gregory Outer Banks Community Foundation Janet M. Owen Association Scholarship Fund Adam and Heather Sakers Family Doris E. Griffin Community Care Clinic Duck Woods Ladies Tennis Nancy and Taylor Sugg Family Jack Leary Endowment Fund Association Jason and Jessica Summerton George V. Ramsey Community Care Clinic of Dare Elizabethan Gardens Family Cherrill Robertson Barbara Mulford Endowment Fund Trio Janet R. Sawyer Outer Banks Community Foundation Elizabethan Gardens Linda Vlahos Jeanette Vitasek Curtis Creech Memorial Barbara Helms Krissi Williams Family Scholarship Fund Margaret Guess June & John Kemble Memorial Milton A. Jewell Scholarship Fund Shannon Moore Robert E. Rollason, Jr. Cancer Fund Lynn and Larry Blackburn Butch and Teresa Osborne Memorial Scholarship Fund Mac and Ann McDanel Twiddy & Company Realtors Evelyn Osborne Sherry Rollason Just for Today & Tomorrow Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Joyce W. Pickrel Bill Sport Endowment Fund, in Memory of Daniels Memorial Fund for Bethany Elizabeth Swanner Sawyer Scholarship Dorman N. Doutt & Florence B. Methodist Church Outer Banks Association of Realtors Endowment Fund Satterwhite Moncie L. Daniels Trust Scholarship Fund Sharon Elliott and Rodney Sawyer Ron and Tiney Curtis Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Outer Banks Association of Realtors Schiffman Fund for Animals Rhett and Gwen White Daniels Memorial Fund for Gideons Outer Banks Hotline Harry and Lila Schiffman Kathleen Holton Power Fund International Endowment Fund Scott Day Family Scholarship Fund Lucy P. Power Moncie L. Daniels Trust Dawn E. Enochs AFP Specialties, Inc. Kelly Family Fund Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Barbara Mulford Bill and Ann Cowper Albemarle Distributing Company Daniels Memorial Fund for Mount Outer Banks Community Foundation Kristin Day Outer Banks Hotline Brindley Beach, Inc. Olivet Methodist Church Sgt. Earl Murray Memorial Jerry and Arlene Davis Moncie L. Daniels Trust Outer Banks Realtors Scholarship Fund Dowdy & Osborne, LLP Moncie L. Daniels & Belva Midgett Disaster Relief Fund K.I.C.Z. Maintenance & Remodeling Greg White Plumbing Company Daniels Memorial Fund for Town of Outer Banks Association of Realtors Melinda Gregory Simpson-Sharp-Oakes Fund Manteo Outer Banks SPCA Fund Jeannette Sharp Oakes Walter B. Harlow Moncie L. Daniels Trust Mark H. Strausbaugh Henry’s Restaurant Spencer Family Fund Hilton Garden Inn Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Outer Banks Sporting Events Spencer Realty Services Alden and Patty Hoggard Green Daniels Memorial Fund for Endowment Fund Island Xpertees of the Outer Banks Bethany Methodist Church Outer Banks Community Foundation Warren Cameron Judge III Mike and Willo Kelly Moncie L. Daniels Trust Outer Banks Sporting Events Endowment Fund for the Outer Performance Foods Banks Relief Foundation Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Peregrine & Kaye White Fund Scott and Allison Brown (Clifford N. Yerby, Jr.) Green Daniels Memorial Fund for Pierrette McIntire Steven Michael Riddick The Clorox Company First Assembly of God Charles and Jane Strauss Ed and Carol Cowell Sam Rust Seafood Moncie L. Daniels Trust Peregrine and Kaye White Sunny Day Zachary and Monyette Dockery Sysco Hampton Roads Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Preston Family Fund First Flight Society Towne Bank of Currituck Green Daniels Memorial Fund for Evelyn Preston J.J. Frost Village Realty & Management Manteo Baptist Church Rear Admiral Noel Preston Alice M. Keeney and Weatherly Insurance Agency Moncie L. Daniels Trust and Mrs. Sue Preston Arthur H. Keeney, III Robert and Linda Woodard Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Ralph & Ida Lee Saunders Robert and Carolyn Morisseau Outer Banks Community Foundation Lacy J. McNeill First Flight Green Daniels Memorial Fund for Scholarship Fund Mount Olivet Methodist Church Donna P. Gregory Outer Banks Relief Foundation Rotary Fund Monica Rollins Richard Calhoun Moncie L. Daniels Trust Doris E. Griffin Jack Leary Ron and Mary Jane Slesinski First Flight Rotary Club Moncie L. Daniels Jr. and Muriel Fletcher and Linda Willey Kelly Family Fund Green Daniels Memorial Fund for Penny Leary-Smith George V. Ramsey William & JoAnn Liberty Christian Fellowship Wanchese Assembly of God Moncie L. Daniels Trust Cherrill Robertson Small Family Fund Endowment Fund Janet R. Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. William Small Anonymous Monument to a Jeanette Vitasek Liberty Christian Fellowship Century of Flight Fund Lillian W. Riddick Scholarship Fund Evelyn Hagenbrock for Nurses NC Lions Visually Impaired Persons Steven Michael Riddick Fishing Tournament Endowment Fund Linda Porter’s Shear Genius NC Lions VIP Fishing Tournament Scholarship Fund Outer Banks Community Foundation Shear Genius North Banks Rotary Lipchak Sands Family Fund Scholarship Fund Apple Inc. North Banks Rotary Club Foundation Benjamin Lipchak and OBX Scholars Fund Jessica Sands Bruce and Amanda Austin Love in Action Fund Denine Phillips Anonymous Tsunami Golf Tournament Lucian Griffin Scholarship Fund Ocracoke Community Radio Ed and Karen Bernier Endowment Fund Robert L. and Kelly G. Griffin Greg and Eden Honeycutt Sarah Anne Griffin Outer Banks Community Foundation Jack Guard Ocracoke Fire Protection Association Mabel O. Cooper Scholarship Fund Fund Fred and Susan Smith Anonymous Philip Howard Manteo Rotary Club Richard R. Jacoby Legacy Fund Scholarship Fund Ocracoke Fire Protection Association Manteo Rotary Club Outer Banks Community Foundation Next time you visit the Elizabeth Gardens, we hope you admire the Great Billy and Monica McOwen Gates, whose recent restoration was partially funded by a $10,000 Robert Perry Ocracoke Fund Bets Crean grant from the Community Foundation. Although the first location of Martin Smith Endowment Fund Ocracoke Island Realty and Village these handsome, wrought-iron gates is still a mystery, the design and Carl and Cathie Knauer construction indicate that they were first forged by hand in the 1700s Peggy and Tom Saporito Realty Scholarship Fund Don and Judi Stephens Village Realty & Management or 1800s in Europe or the United Kingdom. Eventually donated to the Gardens by the American ambassador to France, today the Great Gates Milton A. Jewell Internship Fund Osborne Scholarship Fund Milton A. Jewell Scholarship Fund Anonymous invite new guests into the Elizabethan Gardens for the next century. East Coast Auto & Marine Supply, Inc. 12 We gratefully recognize the following members who contributed in 2017 Members 2017. These unrestricted gifts were all added to our Community Fund.

2017 Sustainers ($1,000 or more) George and Nancy Hettenhouse J. Trahey Maner, D.D.S. Bill and Janell Downing Sarah and Rodney Benson Laura and Robert Hobbs Jennie’s Heating & Cooling Steven and Sarah Downing Ed and Carol Cowell Martha L. Hogbin P. Christopher Kelley Vickie Downs Warren Davis Benny and Teressa Hopkins Whitney Kern Mark J. Edsall Dowdy & Osborne, LLP Janet Jarrett Monty and Mary Ann Kirby Thomas Franchi Tim and Mary Ellen Jones Mike and Tammy Jones Alva and Ron Lamothe Dr. Gene Gallelli Bill and Ellen Kealy Gary and Carole Kimmel Gail Leonard Dorothy George Butch and Teresa Osborne Dana and Ray Koch Mary Keith Lilly Peebles and Avery Harrison Family Robert and Laura Pokelwaldt Joseph T. Lamb III Nancy K. Matthews Margaret and Tom Hartman David and Patricia Shufflebarger Mann Custom Boats John Griffin and Francis McGuire Margaret N. Harvey Caroline Chiles and Willis Slane Paul and Robin Mann John Migliore Don and Connie Heath Trust Company of the South Manteo Furniture & Appliance Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy Kay and Brent Hendricks Jane Webster Maureen McGrath and Tom Murphy Markus Heyder Fletcher and Linda Willey Gail Mee Margaret Neal Alan and Judy Ihrig Ray and Kathy Meekins Billy and Penny Peebles Richard and Mary Ann Jones 2017 Sponsors ($500-$999) Steve and Loretta Michael Dr. Christine and Mr. Lou Petzing William S. Jones, Jr. John Harris and Sandra Allen Elmer and Gail Midgett Bill Pfeifer Fran and Paul Kapinos Tim and Louie Beacham Miss Lizzie’s (Bobbie Perry) Robert L. Pitsch Clinton and Donna Kemp Clubcorp Charities, Inc Joel and Sally Newton Carleen and Dixon Rollins Robert and Cynthia Kennedy Lorelei Costa Outer Banks Fishing Pier Steve and Karen Sawin Kiki Kiousis Thomas B. Daniels Ashmead Pipkin Sharon Elliott and Rodney Sawyer Debbie and Robert Lawson Ina Ernst Poor Richard’s Sandwich Shop Deon and Crissy Simmons Judy Lotas Ray and Pam Evans Quible & Associates Southern Shores Civic Association Leigh Dobson Lubasz Hilton Garden Inn Red Drum Food Mart Christine Stafford George Lurie Ed and Mary Kitchen Tina Richardson Sam and Mary Stokes Maureen McGovern Kurt M. Loos Charles Ries Jon and Dotti Summerton Eleanor T. Meekins Midgett Insurance Agency Chris and Kathy Seawell Jim and Denise Swink David and Tracie Mesich Barbara Mulford Ronnie and Jody Sloan Bernie and Karen Tetreault Joseph W. Milam, Jr. Bob and Carole Muller Sound Feet Shoes Tom and Lynn Thomason Linda Molloy Kathie Nesbitt Allan and Donna Starr Larry and Maxine Thomasson Evelyn Munden Pony Island Motel Monica Thibodeau Lisa and Andrew Toombs Bill and Ginny Nolan Lynn Reams John Toll James and Martha Tucker Tom O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Reeves Tortugas’ Lie Rick and Didi Tupper Colleen Olsen Sam & Omie’s Restaurant Lynn and Janan Usher Clark and Anna Twiddy Jason and Rebecca Bob Schiffer Maylon and Charlotte White Warren A. Walton Olszewski Family Jacqueline Smith Ray and Linda White Seth and Missy Warfield Janet M. Owen Southern Insurance Agency James E. C. Warren Paradise Found Inc. Stack’em High Pancakes 2017 Individuals ($75-$149) Jan M. Watson Mary Parnell & So Forth Anonymous Wave Pizza Café Robert T. Perry Nancy and Taylor Sugg The Anchorage Inn & Marina Dave and Polly Wessel Don & Jean Pratt Twiddy & Company, Realtors Bea and Saint Basnight Bill and Betsy Wetherall J. Patton and Katheryn S. Preston Todd and Karen Warlitner Bob and Ruth Bechtel Tom and Pat Wilson Tom and Sallie Redding Stan and Susie White Stuart and Stacy Bell Bob and Linda Woodard Bobby Regnell Drew and Lisa Wright Allison Breaux Bill Rewey Bromelkamp Company LLC 2017 Contributors (Gifts Under $75) Kent Ridenhour 2017 Patrons ($150-$499) Marcia Sawyer Bryant Mary Ames Adam and Heather Sakers Family Anonymous (2) Regis and Lynda Burek Adam and Cathy Baldwin Family Jack Shea Jeannette Anderson Ralph and Vera Buxton Marc Basnight Jane Smallwood Donald Barker Lee Ann and Charlie Candon Blair R. Beasley Bob Spake Terry and Stephanie Beasley Cape Hatteras Motel Gray and Ali Berryman Family Wendy and Beverly Stowe Ronny and Becky Bennett Linda and Walter Conklin Shelby Boltz Jason and Jessica G.G. and Bonny Bonner Tom and Judy Copeman Bill and Deana Brower Summerton Family Dr. Michael Brone Helen Crouse Dr. and Mrs. Carie Buckley Wardell Townsend, Jr. Tom Bruckman Mr. and Mrs. Terry F. Daniels Martha Butcher Trio Sue Burgess Doug and Angela Daughtridge Tom and Vickie Byers Family Carol M. Trotman Ralph and Donna Buxton Miles W. Davis Allen and Bev Chambers John H. and Barbara S. Tucker Davco Electric, Inc. Ray and Betty Dougan John and Ellen Cioccio David Tweedie Mike and Melissa Davenport Catherine Doyle Courtney Clements Linda Vlahos Diaz Services Jo Fessler Jennifer Allen, Debo Cox, Tim and Susie Walters Victor and Debbie Diaz Barbara Fletcher and Family Barbara Wiggs Robin Dorman Albert and Carolyn Gard Kevin Curtin Barbara and Michael Williams Phyllis Drewyer Julie Gray Joan and Roy Daniels Krissi Williams Family Elizabeth’s Tea Garden Rick and Pam Gray Barbara Davis Ed and Betty Woodhouse Eugenia B. Esham Jim and Betts Groff Keith and Emily Dobie Elizabeth Woolard Oliver and Linda Etheridge Evelyn Hagenbrock Linda Doherty Alex Wright Charles and Becky Evans Keith Hall Stephanie Doshier David C. Wright Barbara A. Figiel Carrie Hardin Aaron J. Zeigler Paul and Helen Ford Charles and Barbara Hardy Martha and Wilson Garrish Michael and Cheryl Heny John and Laurie Graham John and Caroline High Gray’s Family Department Store Leo and Mary Ellen Holland We are so very grateful to our Life Members, Hairoics Salon & Spa Fred and Barbara House Bobby and Deloris Harrell Philip Howard who donated at special giving levels early in Gael Hawkins James Hoyt the Community Foundation history. We are now Pat Herman Dave and Sue Huff providing recognition of these donors on our 13 website at www.obcf.org. 2017 Book of Memory

The Community Foundation and Honor gratefully acknowledges contributions made in memory or in honor of those listed below. In Honor Of: Jack and Jean Edsall Glenn Hoggard Autry JB Edwards Zach, Grey and Gage Clawson Ronald Foreman Janet and Joe Covington Jennifer Frost Sue Horne Creech Patricia A. Gallelli Steve Culpepper Dr. John C. “Jack” Graham, Jr. Karl, Debbie, and Shawn Daniels Lucian Griffin Thomas, Holly and Lauren Daniels Harry Hagenbrock Karen Delvacchio Col. Julia E. Hamblet Mr. and Mrs. David Scott Esham Mae and Newt Hamblet C.K., Winborne, and Douglas Evans William “Bill” Harris First Responders Everywhere! Ben and Irene Haynes Leonard and Jane Frieden Frederick “Freddie” Hutchins Stephen Cefalu and Leila John Kermit Jensen Giesenschlag Family Warren Cameron Judge III Linda and Jim Harris Paul Keller Brian and Laurel Heisey The Kemble Family Lynne Hutchins Chris Kidder Miles Kelley Konkoski Lois Lowe Lucy and Butch Lafountaine David Aycock Loy Gloria Perry and Neil Loy David Wales Masters Skip and Linda Morgan John A. Masters Nancy Murray Rebecca “Becky” Masters Butch and Teresa Osborne David A. McDowell Sheldon and Alex Peebles Richard F. McGovern Joyce Pickrel Teresa Merritt Helen Woolard and Jess Powell Sgt. Earl Murray Lila and Harry Schiffman Fred Murray Stacey Sheetz Cliff Neal Janice Scarborough Tillett Spc. Bryan Nelson Kaye White David Oaksmith, Jr. Elizabeth Woolard Kay O’Brien John H. Woolard, Jr. Josephine Austin Oden John and Laura Woolard Dorothy Owens Stephanie C.K. Woolard and Matilda McDonald Parker Art is a powerful outlet for memories, dreams, critical thinking, John H. Woolard, Sr. Karen Raack Pentland and aspirations, and several grants over the years — to the Dare Lt. Col. David J. Worley Liz Perry Jerry Cline Pickrel County Arts Council, GEM Adult Day Services, Monarch, and other In Memory Of: Douglas A. Remaley local groups — have brought the “Power of Art” to special groups Hobson C. Bennett, Jr. William M. “Mac” Ritter in need who otherwise have limited access to arts programming James Boxmeyer Ronald J. Rodrigues Rex Bruckman Dixon M. Rollins, Jr. and education. As in this botanical project, which allowed Monarch Lynn Bryant Rose Schiffer participants to decorate pots, learn about plants, and nurture a Rose M. Cartwright Betsey Blades Selig single-pot garden, Power of Art provides opportunities to people Catherine Carrington Clawson Jerry Smallwood Steve Culpepper Martin Smith with disabilities or difficulties with self-expression, and empowers Melvin R. Daniels, Jr. Beverly Symons them to create and communicate through visual, literary, and Bob Davis Cameron Thomas performing arts. (Photo by Barbara Hanft) Scott Day Allen H. “Buddy” Watkins

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is grateful to these individuals and Special businesses for their in-kind (or deeply discounted) goods and services: Barbara Noel Graphic Design Jim Connors, Laughing Gull Outer Banks Hospital Biff Jennings and Tom Gartman, Design Studio Outer Banks Voice Shooters at the Beach Kelly’s Hospitality Ramada Plaza Oceanfront Photography Lori Douglas Photography Nags Head Café Lachine Milepost Southern Bank Thanks Deborah Sawyer Photography Ocean Atlantic Rentals Nancy Sugg Dowdy & Osborne, LLP Outer Banks Computer Repair Three Dog Ink First Colony Inn Outer Banks Forum Twiddy and Company Four Seasons Landscaping for the Lively Arts Village Realty Jane Webster 14 Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit #84 Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948

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