Refuge Manager and Advisor to the Friends

Past Board Member
I have been a volunteer at Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge since May of 2004.

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Education Committee Member

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Member and Project volunteer. U.S. Navy active duty, Stationed at Oceana, VA.

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Secretary

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Member. Membership Committee and Educational Committee volunteer.

Committee Leader and Board Member

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Member and Past Chairman of the Board.

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Presently, I am an active member of BGEA, N.C. Center for Non-Profits. I am also a Stephen Minister. My active duty is to Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge as their Coordinator representing the interest of the refuge, and their outreach to surrounding communities thus developing a network of the volunteers who make all things work and work well. My past experience has been extensive as a Board Member of Youth Challenge, and as a volunteer and contributor to Internatonal Cooperating Ministries which has built over 2000 churches worldwide. I continue my education with the N.C. Bar Association (CLE), and the N.C. Center for Non-Profits.

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Chairman of the Board

Member and Volunteer

Education Committee Chair Person

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Membership Committee Chairperson

John Smith is retired after forty years with Norfolk Housing Authority. He primarily worked with construction and cabinet works. He has extensive knowledge of wild game guiding on Knotts Island with over twenty years experience. He is a professional angler fly tier and cast man. He has been a major contribution to the Mackay Island National Refuge with his knowledge of hunting, fishing, scouting and he remains active on Wood Duck Box Building, and is Program Chair person for our Anglers Fly Tying Program.

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Treasurer

Native of Knotts Island started my life as a waterman commercial fishing on my fathers boat at age 5, I have been a duck hunting Guild for 20years in the waters around Knotts Island, carve handmade duck decoys in the style use years ago, and commercail fishing in summer.
Living here I have seen the changes the Island has gone thru must of the Farm lands have been bought up a made in it housing. I see the only way for us to have some hold on to the rich history of the Island is working with the Refuge. The Refuge is a great resource for the Island and Wildlife.

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Vice-Chair

Webmaster

John Winsor (B.Mus., Heidelberg College; M.A., Kent State University) has taught music theory at the Armed Forces School of Music and the Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts. He is clarinetist and composer-in-residence of the Hardwick Chamber Ensemble. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors and Webmaster for the National Association of Composers/USA and Webmaster for the Virginia Music Teachers Association and the MusicLink Foundation. John has won several state, national, and international music composition prizes. He is the author of Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Argument for Mainstream Literary Music (iUniverse Writer’s Showcase), which is listed as an iUniverse Editor’s Choice book and received a Bronze Medal in ForeWord Magazine’s 2003 Book of the Year Awards. John is a computer programmer for Unisys Corporation and the sole proprietor of Benchmark Web Sites.