Our goal is to serve
As a local support group for the University of Miami, Little Salt Spring Archaeological and Ecological Preserve and work with the LSS site manager to: provide volunteer opportunities where needed in regard to site stewardship, land management, maintenance, research, public outreach, and local fundraising efforts; and, to help bring the vision for an on-site research and education center to fruition for the benefit of the public through continued research, scheduled educational programs and interpretive site visits.
As a local support group for the University of Miami, Little Salt Spring Archaeological and Ecological Preserve and work with the LSS site manager to: provide volunteer opportunities where needed in regard to site stewardship, land management, maintenance, research, public outreach, and local fundraising efforts; and, to help bring the vision for an on-site research and education center to fruition for the benefit of the public through continued research, scheduled educational programs and interpretive site visits.
Board of Directors, Friends of Little Salt Spring, Inc.
Lawry REID
President |
Lawry Reid is a retired college professor who is focused on founding and leading volunteer environmental/scientific stewardship organizations. He is currently president of the Friends of Little Salt Spring, Inc. From 2000-2008 he was the founder and president of the Straits Pond Watershed Association. The objective of the watershed association was to improve the environmental quality and beauty of Straits Pond, a 92 acre tidally restricted salt water pond of critical environmental concern. The association was vital in achieving a $2.6 million highway/tidal restoration project. It is the largest to date estuary restoration project in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts House of Representatives formally congratulated the association on the 13th of October, 2010 for its accomplishment. In June of 2008 the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment presented Reid the Longard Award. The Award is given to an individual from one of the five states and provinces bordering the Gulf of Maine. The Longard Award recognizes individual commitment to volunteer programs dedicated to environmental protection and sustainability of natural resources within the marine, near shore, and watershed environments and the Gulf of Maine.
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Bill GOETZ
Vice President Education Committee Chairman |
Kate CATTRAN
Treasurer
Treasurer
Linda
FERRIER-REID Recording Secretary |
inda J. Ferrier, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Northeastern University, Boston, where she was chair from 2000-2007. Her work focused on the use of computer technology for people with a variety of communication impairments. Over 15 years she developed and directed a program to provide accent modification to faculty and international teaching assistants. She developed two programs for screening and improving the accents of Non Native Speakers of English: Speech Works, the Accent Modification Tool and the Speech Works Pronunciation Screening Test. She is author of two software patents. Prof. Ferrier has worked with Speech Technology and Applied Research on a series of speech analysis projects and is currently chief linguist on the APST project. Her company, ViaSpeech provides computer-assisted intelligibility training to foreign-born professionals in the Sarasota, FL area. She is currently recording secretary of FLSS, the Allamanda Garden Club of North Port and the Ancient Waters Foundation as well as a member of the FLSS Education Committee.
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Nancy MORRISON
Membership Director
Membership Director
Steve KOSKI
Sarasota County Historical Resources Archaeologist |
Steve Koski is an underwater archaeologist specializing in underwater prehistoric sites. He received his BA in Anthropology/Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and completed graduate studies in an MA program at Arizona State University. His research interests include the early prehistory of Florida, coastal adaptations, and Paleoindian and Archaic period settlement and subsistence systems. Mr. Koski worked as an assistant underwater archeologist at WMS (1986 – 1989) and is the former Research Associate at Little Salt Spring for the University of Miami (2004 – 2012), where he has worked with the director of research Associate Professor Dr. John Gifford intermittently since 1992. He continues to serve as Site Manager at Little Salt Spring as the 112-acre property is conveyed to Sarasota County under their Environmentally Sensitive Lands Program. Steve is also President of Warm Mineral Springs Little Salt Spring Archaeological Society.
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Gary SANDERSON
Board Member |
Gary Sanderson is an Electronic Design Engineer specializing in both hardware design and software design. He received BSEE degree from Auburn University. He has designed integrated hardware and software for Professional Broadcast Television Studios and for Personal Computer peripherals. Most recently Gary has worked with OEM customers to insure that their end products would fulfill the OEM's requirements and meet the Microsoft Windows LOGO requirements.
After retiring he moved to the Venice area. He is also a SCUBA diver and therefor became interested in the value of underwater archaeology and has joined FLSS to further this area of interest. |
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George GUY
Board Member at Large |
George was born and raised in the Midwest. At age 17 enlisted in the Marines with 200 men from Indiana for special training in the tank corps. After completion of basic training at Camp Pendleton in California, the Hoosiers were deployed to South Korea and spent 18 months on the 38th Parallel.
After serving 9 years in the Marines, he located in Encinitas, a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California and went to college with the G.I. bill. While there he skated and competed in national events, became a beach bum with Mickey Mouse Club actors, helped make Rose Bowl floats, and began snorkeling and surfing. At this point he came to love the water and spent as much time as he could on Long Beach. He returned to the Midwest because of family medical needs. He starting teaching Scuba lessons at the University of Evansville and eventually opened a Dive Shop. In order for students to accomplish their open water certification, he traveled to Venice, Florida. The first dive upon arriving in Venice was in Little Salt Spring. One of the students had family in the area and knew of the Spring. The excitement of ocean and spring diving convinced him that this would be a lifelong endeavor. Residence in Venice opened opportunities for commercial diving employment. He was hired for underwater work on Z-pilings for the supports for the new Skyway Bridge, artificial reefs on the East Coast including sinking three vessels with explosives. Currently his activities include preservation and education for the future. |
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Mara Kunda
Board Member |
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Ron Kunda
Board Member |
Joan Herron San Lwin
Board Member |
Joan Herron San Lwin is a native of Washington, D.C. where she spent the majority of her career. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, she is proud to have worked in D.C., for about 10 years, without having to deal with the federal government. She was responsible for daily financial operations and monthly, quarterly, yearly reporting for multi-million dollar corporate entities, including Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc.; she willingly left the circus when they would not promote her to a high-wire act. Eventually she did spend over 30 years as a consultant to the federal government; her projects spanned multiple civilian and military agencies, she ended her career with the status of Subject Matter Expert on federal accounting and automated financial systems. After vacationing in North Port since 2000, in 2008, she declared North Port her new home town and is now a proud year-rounder. She is active in many clubs, including the WMS/LSS Archeology Society; Venice Chapter, Florida Council of the Blind; North Port Friends of Wildlife; and the North Port Allamanda Garden Club.
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