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Foundation Elects Two New Members To Board
January 2, 2008

Two new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore at the organization’s December board meeting. Brian D. Shockley, an attorney in Ocean City, and Donald K. Taylor, an executive with Perdue Farms, Inc., of Salisbury, were elected to three year terms on the Foundation Board.

Shockley is a partner with the Law Firm of Williams, Moore, Shockley and Harrison in Ocean City. He formerly served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Worcester County. Brian serves on the Board of Directors for Worcester County G.O.L.D. and the Peninsula Regional Medical Center, and serves on the Finance Committee for Atlantic United Methodist Church.

Taylor is currently Chief Technology Officer for Perdue Farms and has worked for the firm for 24 years in various technology positions. He has been very active in lending his support to the local community serving on boards such as the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore, Habitat for Humanity and the Y.M.C.A.

Taylor has also led the Appalachia Service Project sponsored by Asbury United Methodist Church for the past 18 years. Don currently serves the Community Foundation on the Henson Award Committee and the Community Needs Grants Committee.

Foundation Officers elected for 2008 were: Arthur M. Cooley, Chair; Louis H. Taylor, Vice-Chair; Melody S. Nelson, Secretary; and Joseph R. Ollinger, Treasurer. Retiring from the board of directors were Gregory L. Stein, who also served as chairman for two years during his tenure on the board, and Thomas E. Mahn.

The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore is the largest non-governmental source of support for nonprofit organizations in the Maryland lower shore counties of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester. Gifts to the Community Foundation, a public charity, create permanent endowment funds that steadily grow in value over time and produce income for grants to local charitable nonprofit organizations.

In fiscal 2007 the Foundation made a total of 995 grants to the community representing $3.2 million. For more information about the Community Foundation visit the Foundation’s web site at www.cfes.org, or phone 410-742-9911.