Yesterday I retired from my ten-year tenure as the CEO of the Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society. It was a fabulous run!
Today, I begin as the part-time President of the new People, Parks & Community Foundation. The potential is vast!
Grateful for the privilege to serve both organizations, I now step forward with new aspirations to connect people and places, and neighborhoods and nature, in difference-making impacts. Bring it on!
Perhaps in anticipation of my impending retirement and “wrapping up” my career at the end of this month, my staff beat me to my office this April Fool’s morning!
More than 40 individual items had been covered with wrapping paper – including my computer monitors, keyboard, mouse, telephone, water bottle, stapler, tissue box, an entire bookcase, the clock on the wall – even a single pen and a random flashdrive among them!
What I will probably miss most on retirement is the hearty camaraderie we enjoy in working hard together. Not only are my coworkers highly skilled, generously collaborative, and terribly efficient, they’ve got a great sense of humor, and I love ‘em!
