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Who is Annelie?
Her involvement with
Toastmasters International goes
back over
27 years. She served in various leadership offices in the club,
area, division and district
levels. She belongs to numerous
Toastmasters Clubs and served as
Dean of the Toastmasters
Leadership Center in District
18. She also served as the
Education Chair for the Region
VII Conference hosted by
District 18 in 2003. She serves
the Toastmasters community as
seminar leader, leadership and
communications trainer, and
motivational speaker.
Retired in 1999 after serving 28
years as a congressional staffer
and Executive Assistant to the
General Counsel and to the
Chairman of the Committee on the
Judiciary, U.S. House of
Representatives.
Past
President of the Frederick
County Commission for Women.
Chair, Frederick County Women’s
Fair Committee for 2002 and
2003.
Graduate, of the annual
2003-2004 Leadership Frederick
Program sponsored by the
Frederick County Chamber of
Commerce.
Participated in numerous fundraising activities and the
administration of the National
Fund of the US Botanic Garden, a
non-profit foundation, tasked by
Congress to raise funds to build
the National Garden next to the
Conservatory of the US Botanic
Garden.
Editor of The Commemorator,
a quarterly publication for and
about Korean War veterans.
Served as the Executive
Assistant and interim Executive
Director for U.S. Korea 2000
Foundation, a non-profit
Foundation, co-chaired by
Generals Davis (MOH),
Westmoreland, Smith and Admiral
Holloway. .
Serves as the Secretary of the
Korean War Veterans Memorial
Foundation and as the Assistant
Editor of the Airborne
Quarterly, a digest of
Airborne history published by
the American Airborne
Association.
Alumna of the University of
Maryland where she obtained her
BA and MS degrees.
Served four years as the
National Rakkasan Reserve
Representative on behalf of the
ladies of the Rakkasans, the 187th
Airborne Regimental Combat Team
and is the Secretary for the
Mason-Dixon Chapter of the
Rakkasans.
Resides in a restored 1854
Maryland Manor house in
Frederick County, MD. Shares it
with two Great Danes, two cats,
some geese and other
critters--------oh, and yes,
with her husband , who rules the
roost as if still leading a
brigade of Army Airborne
Infantry! Hoooah – it’s an Army
thing! |
