by Julie Martin | Dec 19, 2022 | Members Corner
I grew up in Richmond, Va., but have lived all over including Georgia, Belgium, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Oregon and Black Mountain, N.C. I was baptized at All Saints Episcopal Church when I was 13, was confirmed a year later and...
by Julie Martin | Dec 11, 2022 | Members Corner
Although I grew up in Wilmington, I’ve lived away more years than I’ve lived here. After New Hanover High School and East Carolina University, I moved to New York, landing on the Upper West Side for the next 30 years. I wanted to work in the music industry...
by Julie Martin | Dec 4, 2022 | Members Corner
Bill and Elaine met while working for a U.S. Congressman who was running for the U.S. Senate in 1972. They had three children by 1984 and seven grandchildren by 2019. They moved to Wilmington in 1992 for Bill to become vice chancellor of development at UNCW. A few...
by Julie Martin | Nov 22, 2022 | Members Corner
Susan and Chip Carter moved to the Wilmington area (Leland) in June of 2014. They had previously lived in Charlotte and Raleigh. When Chip retired from a 42-year commercial property and casualty insurance brokerage career they moved from Raleigh, first to the small...
by Julie Martin | Nov 17, 2022 | Members Corner
Southerners Mike and Mary Flinn moved to Wilmington from Greensboro in August of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic! Mike works remotely for Gulf Atlantic Packaging, loves to fish and golf. Mary is a retired speech pathologist and the author of ten novels set in...
by Julie Martin | Nov 10, 2022 | Members Corner
We met at the Washington Monument in May 1974, and we were married at the Washington National Cathedral the following year, a second marriage for both that has now lasted 47 years,and counting. We discovered early on that we both had a terminal case of wanderlust, and...
by Julie Martin | Nov 3, 2022 | Members Corner
I was born in Richmond, Vir., and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, so I identify as a Buckeye but not, by extension, an Ohio State fan. (Most of my extended family are LSU or University of Michigan grads, so enough said!) I have a BA and MA in art history and worked at the...
by Julie Martin | Oct 28, 2022 | Members Corner
Bob is a native of Wilmington and a cradle Episcopalian having grown up in St. John’s. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the Graduate School of Banking at LSU. I call Rocky Mount home and was a lifelong member of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ...
by Julie Martin | Oct 21, 2022 | Members Corner
I have been a Wilmingtonian since I was 7 years old. My mother, my 2 brothers, my sister and I moved here from Fuquay, so this was the big city for us. I was baptized shortly after arrival at St. James and was confirmed years later at St. Paul’s where I have...
by Julie Martin | Oct 14, 2022 | Members Corner
I was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on Sept. 9, 1931, the son of Alfred Edwards and Mabel Watson. I was the third of four kids. I graduated High School in 1950. Right after school I enlisted in the Navy for four years. I went home from boot camp and Electrician’s...
