Biographies and Resourcesfor Class VIII Seminar 1; Donaldson Brown Conference Center;

Cecil County

The following list of speakers’ biographies is in the order of the agenda.

Ken Korando
Solomons Island Winery
515 Garner Land
Lusby, MD 20657

410-394-1933
Cell:443-975-3250 / Ken Korando is a resident of Calvert County, where he with his family own and operate wineries and vineyards in both Maryland and New Zealand under the name of Solomons Island Winery. Ken was raised on his family’s farm in Illinois. Ken is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in electrical engineering; He worked as an engineer and then in international corporate finance before returning to agriculture. Ken is a graduate of LEAD Maryland Class IV 2005-2006 and completed the LEAD class study tour to China. Ken then became a board member of the foundation, most recently serving as part of the New Class Selection Committee and as Treasurer. Ken was elected to serve as President of the LEAD Maryland Foundation in February of 2011.
Secretary Earl “Buddy” Hance,
Maryland Department of Agriculture
50 Harry S. Truman Parkway
Annapolis, MD 21401
410-841-5880

( to reach Gloria Chambers) / Governor Martin O'Malley appointed fourth generation Southern Maryland farmer, Earl F. Hance as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Agriculture in May 2009. He served as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from February 2007 until May 2009. Prior to these appointments, Buddy Hance served as President of the Maryland Farm Bureau, Chairman of the Maryland State Tobacco Authority, and as Chairman of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Commission among other farm and community activities.
Hance also was active in numerous local, state, and national farm and civic organizations. At the national level, he represented the Northeastern states on the American Farm Bureau Federation and was a member of the Nationwide Insurance Company Board Council. In Maryland, he served as a member of the Rural Maryland Council, the Prince Frederick Volunteer Fire Department, the Patuxent River Commission, the Southern Maryland Tourism Council, the Maryland State Tobacco Authority, the Calvert Farmland Trust, the Board of the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and the Board of the Calvert County Farm Bureau.
A former tobacco farmer, Secretary Hance and his family farm 400 acres of corn and soybeans and operate several commercial greenhouses. Buddy and his wife Robin live in Port Republic, Calvert County and have three children and one grandchild
Debbie Stanley
LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 169
Queenstown, MD 21658 / Debbie Stanley is a Faculty Extension Assistant for the University of Maryland Extension assigned to work with the LEAD Maryland Foundation. As the Program Director for LEAD Maryland Foundation, Ms. Stanley plans and coordinates multi-day seminars throughout the state of Maryland and in Washington DC to train adult emerging leaders in agriculture, natural resources and rural communities. She works collaboratively with board members, alumni and colleagues to continually improve the curriculum for the two year fellowship.
Debbie Stanley has an Associate Degree in Forest Technology and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture Education both from the Pennsylvania State University. She worked for the Bureau of Forestry in PA, as a Specialized Forest Fire Fighter, worked as the Property Manger with Natural Lands Trust and worked with state, national and county parks departments as a Park Ranger, and Environmental Educator. Ms. Stanley taught agriculture education, environmental education and general science in New Jersey and Maryland public schools prior to coming to the University of Maryland Extension and LEAD Maryland Foundation. Debbie has one daughter and one granddaughter.
Susan Harrison
LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc,
P.O. Box 169
Queenstown, MD 21658 / Susan Harrison was hired by the University of Maryland Extension in the fall of 1998 and was appointed to serve as the founding executive director of the LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc. (LEAD). Harrison works to secure program funding and direct many other organizational activities within the nonprofit. Harrison works cooperatively with LEAD’s board, volunteers, fellows, and partnering organizations.
Prior to coming to Maryland, Harrison spent nine years employed in member relations, legislative, and educational work within Farm Bureau —employed first by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, then as the Executive Director at Vermont Farm Bureau. Susan’s family farms in Wisconsin. Susan, together with her husband and their two children, lives in Talbot County, MD
Charles Day III
101 West Locust Lane
Kennett Square, PA 19348
H 484-899-8042
/ Charles Day’s interests are in long range rural planning with emphasis on the agriculture, natural resources, tourism and historic preservation elements of such planning to include the associated infrastructure requirements. He currently resides in Chester County, PA with his wife, Janet.
Charles’ prior vocation was Career Regular Army Officer, U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. All assignments were as a Nuclear Medical Sciences Officer (civilian equivalent is health physicist in occupational, environmental and public health). Included adjunct teaching positions with Baylor University and Creighton University. Final assignment was as Director, Radiation and Entomological Sciences Directorate, and Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
Charles remains very active with the following affiliations:
Life Member, National Wildlife Federation
Life Member, Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity
Life Associate Member, Sigma Xi, Science Research Society
Member, Director and Secretary, Harford County Agricultural Marketing Cooperative, Inc.
Member, Harford County’s Economic Development Agricultural Advisory Board
Member and Director, Deer Creek Watershed Association, Inc.
Member, Harford Land Trust, and Lands Committee
Member, The Nature Conservancy
Maryland Woodland Stewards, University of Maryland Extension (forestry and wildlife)
Member, The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County (PA)
Bruce Yerkes
MidAtlantic Farm Credit
P.O. Box 648
Bel Air, MD 21014
443-206-0842

Cricket Goodall
Executive Director
Maryland Horse Breeders Association
Maryland Million Ltd.
Maryland Horse Breeders Association
P.O. Box 427
Timonium, MD 21094
410-252-2100 x111
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  • Born and raised in Maryland
  • Spent formative years showing horses and working with Thoroughbred horses at the race track, on farms and at the auction sales
  • Currently lives on small farm in Baltimore County, with retired Thoroughbreds and assorted animals
  • BA in Communications, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
  • Started at Maryland Horse Breeders Association (MHBA) in 1986, initially working on special programs and events including Maryland Million Day
  • Executive Director of Maryland Horse Breeders Association and Maryland Million Limited since 2003
  • LEAD Class V graduate
  • Baltimore County Farm Bureau Board member
  • Other affiliations: Maryland Horse Council, Maryland Farm Bureau, Maryland Agricultural Resource Council

Luke Horah
Legislative Aid to Delegate Mary Dulany James
JoAnn Dawson
Fairwinds Farm & Stables
41 Tailwinds Lane
North East, MD 21901
302-540-1852
/ JoAnn Dawson of North East, MD has been a full time stable owner since 1983. She currently owns and operates Fairwinds Farm & Stables with husband Ted, offering riding lessons, summer camp, trail rides, horse-drawn carriages, pony rides, tea parties, hayrides, birthday parties, horse shows, fresh produce, and a bed & breakfast. ( Fairwinds Farm has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on Good Morning America. JoAnn works as an animal wrangler for film and TV, and as a Screen Actors Guild member has held principal roles in The Sixth Sense, 12 Monkeys, and Oprah Winfrey’s Beloved. She is the author of the award-winning Lucky Foot Stable series for ages 8-12 and appears at schools and book signings with her pony, Butterscotch. She is a columnist for Cecil Soil Magazine, an appointee to the Maryland Farm Bureau Equine Advisory Committee, a LEAD Maryland fellow, a motivational speaker for high school and college groups, and teaches Equine Science and Acting for Video Production at Cecil College in North East.
Ross Peddicord
Maryland Horse Industry Board
50 Harry S. Truman Parkway
Annapolis, MD 21401
410-841-5798
Cell: 240-344-0000
/ A lifelong horseman, Ross grew up on a dairy farm in Howard County, riding horses and showing Ayrshire dairy cattle. He exhibited an All American heifer calf, was overall fitting and showing champion at the Maryland State Fair and was also a member of Maryland’s 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Team that won the national title in Waterloo, Iowa.
He attended McDonogh School, where he was lieutenant in the school’s mounted cavalry and rode on the McDonogh equestrian team. He then attended Washington College in Chestertown, where he foxhunted extensively with Mr. Hubbard’s Kent County Hounds, and continued to show and ride in point-to-point races.
After graduating from college, Ross was a freelance writer for the Maryland Horse magazine (today the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred), an ad manager for the Horsemen’s Journal, a racehorse trainer, and the assistant PR director at the Maryland Jockey Club tracks.
He also had an 18-year career as an award-winning sports journalist for the Baltimore Sun, covering the Maryland horse industry, and raised Thoroughbreds at his Brush Hill Farm in New Market, Md. He exhibited six Grand Champion Thoroughbreds at the Maryland State Fair and raised and raced numerous winners at the track, including stakes horses King’s Corsair, Wm. Withers, Nor Bay and Arlington Million Steeplechase winner Shy Donald.
In 2004, Ross and two partners founded Maryland Life magazine, where he worked extensively as co-publisher with all 25 tourism agencies (county and state), and serves as the immediate past chairman of the Maryland Tourism Council.
Ross attended classes in the MBA program at Mount St. Mary’s University while serving as the Mount’s Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving and subsequently Director of Marketing for its Continuing Studies programs. While at the Mount, he helped to found the school’s Intercollegiate Horse Show Association riding team and served as its faculty/administrative advisor.
Sally Goswell
Fair Hill Training Center
719 Training Center Dr.
Elkton, MD. 21921
443-309-0970
410-398-2992


Bruce Jackson
Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center
720 Training Center Drive
Elkton, Maryland 21921
cell: 610-496-5080
Office: 410-620-2175

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www.fairhilletc.com
Richard Malmgren
Hassler Dressage
1455 Cayots Corner Road
Chesapeake City, Maryland 21915
Ph: 410-885-3824
Cell: 443-309-0807

/ Richard is a native of Sweden, came to the US in 1996 as a working student for one year. Then after starting University in Sweden 1998, he transferred to University of Delaware in 1999 and got his Bachelors degree in Business Administration with a Major in Marketing, graduating in 2003. While studying ,he was working full time at Hilltop Farm, Inc and after graduating earned the job as Sales Manager at Hilltop Farm, Inc. 2007 Richard joined the team at Hassler Dressage, LLC and was part of building up the business at Riveredge, holding a lot of different jobs and positions. Currently he is the Sales and Marketing Manager and the Breeding Manager at Hassler Dressage. Richard has a long background with horses from his native Sweden and all the years at Hilltop Farm. In 2011 he married Jessica Jo Tate an International Grand Prix Dressage rider. They live in Middletown, Delaware.
Eric Kauffman
Agricultural & Extension Education
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
2270 Litton Reaves Hall (0343)
Blacksburg, VA24061
Office 540-231-6258
cell 540-230-5693
/ Eric K. Kaufman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education at Virginia Tech, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership and professional development.
His love for agriculture stems from his upbringing in rural Ohio, and this led to an interest in agricultural education. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University, he moved to Florida where he taught high school Agriscience for several years. While pursing graduate degrees at the University of Florida, Kaufman served as Program Coordinator for Florida’s Wedgworth Leadership Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources. He also developed leadership programming for the Florida Farm Bureau Federation and the National FFA Organization. Kaufman’s research interests include volunteer and community leadership development.
Recent research has included focus groups with stakeholders for Virginia’s agricultural industry to determine the needs for agricultural leadership programming in Virginia.
Bradley Burbaugh, Graduate Assistant
Virginia Tech
Department of Agricultural and Extension Education
2270 Litton-Reaves (0343)
Blacksburg VA 24073
540-231-3824
/ Bradley Burbaugh is a doctoral student and graduate assistant in the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education at Virginia Tech. Before returning to school, Brad was an Agricultural Extension Agent in Jacksonville, Florida where his areas of expertise were direct-marketing regulations, forage management, and poultry production. Prior to his career as an Extension Agent, Brad was a middle school agriculture teacher and FFA Advisor. His research interests include grassroots leadership and Extension program development. Bradley currently serves as a USDA Fellow for sustainable agriculture research and extension.
Margee Wolff
Department, American Farm Bureau Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
600 Maryland Ave SW,
Suite 1000W
Washington DC 20024
Phone: 202-406-3631
E-mail: / As Executive Director of American Farm Bureau's Organization Department, Margaret leads and oversees a variety ofprogramsincluding leadership training, young farmer and women's programs, grassroots policy implementation, policy development and membership.
Margaret began her Farm Bureau career in 1995 with the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. In 1997, she joined AFBF's leadership development team where she gained a reputation for her enthusiastic, interactive presentation style. She has presented training programs for volunteers, leaders and staff in all50 states. She went on to manage the leadership development team, and in 2006, was promoted to manage the program development staff before being named to her current position in 2010.
Margaretholds a bachelor's degreein English from Penn State and amaster of science degreein Organization Development from Loyola University Chicago. She has earned the Certified Association Executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives and is a certified executive coach.
Prior to joining Farm Bureau, Margee worked for the state government in Pennsylvania doing media relations and legislative liaison work.
She, her husband Marty, and their two daughters live near Annapolis, Maryland.