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Staff

Deborah Buckson, Executive Director
Jennifer Cabell Kostik, Assistant Director
Johnnye Baker, Education Curator
Barbara Rutecki, Education Assistant
Paula Long, Education Assistant
Stephanie Brown, Education Assistant
Carla Pyle, Volunteer Coordinator
Jeffrey Pyle, Facilities Manager
Brian Miller, Associate Curator
Rita Ryor, Librarian
Betty Fiske, Contract Conservator

Advisory Committee

John Goodier, Chair
Rosemary Goodier
David Reese
Robert McCoy
Halsey Spruance
S.R. Smith, III
Meredith Martin

Board of Directors

Tony Mottola, President
J. Mathieu Plumb, Treasurer
William Gotwals, Treasurer
H. Donnan Sharp
Hugh Plumb
Derek Vanderwarker
Lea Smith
Chris Buccini

From the Collection

Porringer

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp
1800-1835
Colonial Revival style garden pineapple gate ornament at the entry of the Corbit-Sharp House. The pineapple is historically the symbol of hospitality. It became a highly popular finial design in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.