Message from the Vice President
Seth M November 16th, 2005
I am the new vice president of the Maplewood Citizens Association. My wife, Marissa, and I moved to Maplewood in 1998 when we were the parents of an infant child. Now, six and a half years later, we are fully integrated into the neighborhood and its institutions, mostly through our children. Joel is a first grader at Wyngate and Ilana is a pre-schooler at Bethesda Country Day School. I am continually amazed that in a world that keeps getting smaller so much of our lives are contained in this little neighborhood in Bethesda.
As a political professional managing campaigns, serving as a Congressional chief of staff, and lobbying in Annapolis and in Congress, I have a long record of experience and activism. With a family and roots in this neighborhood, I am finding it is increasingly important — and rewarding — to use that activism on a local level. I have been involved in the effort in recent years to keep a preschool in the neighborhood and, as part of a Neighborhood Liaison Committee, I work with a neighboring institution (the French International School) on its construction plans.
For the past few years, I have been an active member of the Maplewood Citizens Association, and I was pleased to be asked to serve as vice president. We are fortunate to live in a wonderful community with a great park and a good community atmosphere. We have to work together as a community to balance the various residential and institutional interests inside, and close to, Maplewood. An active citizens association is a community treasure — a forum to discuss issues, to reach out to neighborhood institutions, and to take actions on behalf of the greater good. I am proud to be a part of this Association and look forward to serving you as vice president.
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