Joe Moeller, Treasurer
Joe and Kathy moved to Wicomico Church in 1999 from Connecticut. Prior to the move they spent 8 years sailing in the Mediterranean and French canal system. They are avid birders and boaters. Joe worked in the area of computer system design and implementation for major corporations in the NY metro area. The Moellers have been in charge of hospitality for the past several years.

Beg Groenwold, Director
Beg and his wife Lien, settled in Heathsville in 2001 and are enjoying the lifestyle of the Northern Neck. Both Beg and Lien are natives of Holland. They left the old country in 1968 and have since lived in Oregon, England, Switzerland, California and Pennsylvania. Beg holds a doctorate in Weed Science and has worked his whole career in the Agricultural Chemical Industry, where he has held a variety of management positions in Research and Business Development. He is active in the Northumberland Lions, Northern Neck Master Gardeners and he is a docent at the Reedville Fisherman’s Museum.

Joy Bolger, Director
Joy and her husband Robert (“Bud”) moved to the Northern Neck from Northern Virginia in February, 2001, after they both retired from Federal service. She is a published poet and member of the Chesapeake Bay Writers Club. She also volunteers at the St. Mary’s Thrift Shop in Reedville; and she and Bud are both members of the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum, Rappahannock Art League, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, and Hughlett’s Tavern Foundation. Joy has been the Chair of the Publicity Committee of the NNA for the past year. As time and weather permit, they enjoy exploring the Bay and “camping out” on their 28-ft cruiser Bay Belle.

Jim Groff, Director
Jim of Reedville is a recently retired teacher from West Hartford, CT. His professional experiences include an exchange to China under the auspices of Columbia University, being named Connecticut Music Teacher of the Year, and being elected to Phi Beta Mu, the International School Bandmasters’ Honorary Society. This past April Jim was elected to the Society’s Hall of Fame.
Not totally new to the Northern Neck, Jim and his wife Barbara have been vacationing on family property on Totuskey Creek since the mid ‘70s. Their daughter Carolyn taught at Northumberland Elementary School, where they both now volunteer. Their interests include music, reading, birding, gardening, environmental issues, fishing and boating, traveling, and good restaurants.

Not totally new to the Northern Neck, Jim and his wife Barbara have been vacationing on family property on Totuskey Creek since the mid ‘70s. Their daughter Carolyn taught at Northumberland Elementary School, where they both now volunteer. Their interests include music, reading, birding, gardening, environmental issues, fishing and boating, traveling, and good restaurants.

Rae (pronounced Ray) Hinch, Director
Rae and his wife Janet moved to the Northern Neck from Rhode Island in September of 2001 and have been members of the NN Audubon Society almost from the time they arrived. They have just finished building and moving into their new home on the northern side of Dividing Creek. Rae is a retired consulting engineer to the needle trades.

He has been active with Audubon working on the Water Festival last fall and doing trail work at Hickory Hollow this spring. Other volunteer activities include working as a stewardship volunteer at Hughlett Point and Dameron Marsh with the Virginia Department of Conservation one day a week. Both Janet and Rae do volunteer work at Christ Church in Whitestone, where she serves as a greeter and school group docent, and he works maintaining the colonial gardens’ Boxwood. As part of his volunteer time he maintains the plantings at the Northumberland Courthouse in Heathsville. He is also learning the ropes by manning the Agriculture extension services’ “Hot Line,” answering call-in gardening questions at the extension office one morning a week.

B. J. Norris, Director
My birding interest began at a Cape May, New Jersey in the spring of 1979. I went on a birdwalk with a leader who knew every bird anyone saw, and was thrilled and challenged by the prospect of learning about birds. That fall I took the first Birding Identification course Pete Dunne taught in Cape May, and subsequently took a dozen or more courses including "Shorebird Identification" and "Winter Ducks". Somewhere along the way I also learned the advantage of birding alone and figuring out what a bird was by my self; and just about concurrently how important bird sounds (chips and songs) were to the identification process. In my opinion the key to being a good birder is practice, just as it is for so many other skills in life.

I joined the board of Northern Neck Audubon about 1995 and was field trip leader for a couple of years. In 1997-1998 I was president for a year. In 1997 we bought a winter home in Florida and my activities with Northern Neck Audubon virtually ceased as we were in Florida at the same time as most of NNA's activities took place. We sold our Florida home this past winter and will now be living here full time. I look forward to being on the board again and contributing again.