New Greater Salisbury Committee Officers Elected

 Jim Hartstein

Walt Moore

Mike Wigley

John Stern

 Jim Hartstein, John Stern, Walt Moore, Mike Wigley, all from Salisbury have been elected to leadership positions with the Greater Salisbury Committee (GSC) at its annual meeting.

John Stern, managing partner of PKS and Company, was elected to a one-year term as GSC treasurer. Jim Hartstein, agency manager of The Insurance Market; Walt Moore, president and CEO of APPI Energy; and Michael Wigley, a principal with Davis, Bowen and Friedel; were all elected to two-year terms on the GSC Executive Committee. The chair of GSC remains John Allen, vice president of Delmarva Power who will be completing his two-year term next year. Other officers completing their two-year terms are Mat Tilghman, former president of Hanna Kremer & Tilghman Insurance and first vice chair and Ron Boltz, president of Alarm Engineering and second vice chair.

The not-for-profit community improvement organization started its 47th year this fall. The organization works to solve the “big-picture” items which make the Lower Eastern Shore a better place to live and work. In an effort to stop the Brain Drain from the area and to build high-paying jobs, GSC helped create the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops and then helped bring Orbital Sciences the $1.9 billion contract to re-supply the International Space Station.

GSC has created and helped create many other organizations to handle specific needs in the area including the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, the Delmarva Water Transport Committee, Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Services, Wor-Wic Community College, Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore and others in addition to saving Salisbury University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore from closing.
The Greater Salisbury Community believes community leadership is important to a quality area and has built leadership in many areas. Since 2002, the Academy for Leadership in Education has graduated nearly 300 educational leaders. A Civic and Governmental Leadership Academy was created to better educate our citizens and political leaders on how to more effectively govern. Earlier, the Organize, Unite, and Revitalize Leadership Program a minority leadership program worked to increase the leadership skills of all community potential leaders.