Mary Ellen Valliant | Chestertown, MD

Valliant & Associates, LLC is pleased to introduce local community member and business executive, Doug Groves. Doug has been an active business leader in the Maryland/Washington D.C. area for over thirty-five years. His business experience has included serving as President of The Joy Companies and as Chief Executive Officer of Carapace LLC. Doug has also been a member of several boards and organizations including the DuPont Surfaces Distributor Council, National Kitchen and Bath Association, and the International Association of Surfacing Fabricators.

Doug currently serves as a Chair of Vistage International, the world’s leading chief executive officer organization. Vistage is the only CEO peer group offering the unique combination of a high impact advisory board, one-to-one coaching, expert resource speaker workshops, and extensive online resources. Members of the organization gain access to new ideas and advice, accountability, peer feedback and input, and ongoing learning and personal growth.

To learn more about Doug and his involvement with Vistage International, please visit his LinkedIn page by clicking here LinkedIn


From left to right: Jim Ross, Eleanor Altman, Bruce Valliant, Patricia Bowell, & Gerald Walsh

Bruce and Mary Ellen are proud to be members of Adkins Arboretum. The Arboretum is a 400-acre native garden and preserve on Maryland's Eastern Shore dedicated to promoting the appreciation and conservation of the region's native plants. It offers programs year-round in ecology, horticulture, and natural history for all ages. Mary Ellen serves on the Board of Trustees and Bruce was a member of the Magic in the Meadows Organizing Committee. Bruce helped develop support for personal and corporate sponsorship of the premiere fundraising event. The proceeds support the Arboretum's education programs and mission of conserving and restoring the Chesapeake region's native landscapes. In 2011, Magic surpassed its fundraising goal, receiving record corporate support as well as record participation from over 220 guests.

For more information, visit www.AdkinsArboretum.org

Valliant & Associates, LLC is pleased to have provided support for the American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series, a highly original approach to art and portraiture.
This series paired great works of art with leading figures of contemporary
American culture. Each lecture featured an eminent writer, critic, historian, or artist who unravels the meaning behind a single, powerful image. In the process, he or she explores how works of art reflect American identity or provide a window into our shared history. Most importantly, the series revealed how artworks inspire creative minds in many different fields. The series director is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, who is director of the C.V. Starr Center of the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland.

We look forward to supporting other Starr Center events this year.

Our Featured Artists Judy Reveal is a fiction writer and has taught creative writing classes at Chesapeake College and local community arts organizations and has presented fiction workshops at community colleges outside of Maryland as well. She is a freelance copyeditor and provides a manuscript review service for beginning and intermediate writers and she is listed on Preditors & Editors website as a recommended manuscript editor. She has published short story fiction in numerous local and national magazines and currently has three books to her credit: Washington Visions, published by Potomac Publishing: Around Greensboro is a pictorial about Greensboro Maryland and its surrounding area, published by Arcadia Publishing; and Cheating Death, the first in a series of mystery novels set on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, published by WriteBooks, Inc of Cambridge, Maryland. The second in her mystery series, The Music Room is available as an eBook on the internet and will be available as a trade paperback in the spring of 2009. Judy has served the Maryland Writers’ Association as President and Secretary; she is Vice President of the Eastern Shore Writers’ Association; is an active board member for Bay to Ocean Writers Conference. She lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore where she actively participates in local writers’ conferences presenting fiction workshops and reviewing manuscripts. Judy retired from her role as Executive Director for the Kent County (MD) Chamber of commerce and remain as an active member; she serves as a commissioner for the Planning & Zoning Division of the Town of Greensboro, MD; is Vice President of the Greensboro Business & Civic Association; serves on the Executive Board of Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc, and volunteers with the Caroline County (MD) Friends of the Library. See more about Judy Reveal at www.justcreativewriting.com.

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