WHO WE ARE:
SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE BOARD
Byrd Lewis Mashburn
President Daughter of George & Clifton Lewis grew up in Spring House. B.S. MIS, USF, 13 years Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Div of Marketing – retired. Full time volunteer for Spring House Institute, one adult child. |
Pat Pepper Posner
Vise President Brown University, Juris Doctor, Pace University, lawyer for Florida Department of Environmental Protection for 20 years, retired and enjoying life with her husband Roger Campbell, four adult children. |
Mary Byrd Sims Secretary Granddaughter of George and Clifton Lewis, 5th Grade Faculty, Maclay School, B.A. Sewanee ‘91, Ramsay Sims - husband, two children. 
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Scott Copeland
Treasurer – Trailmaster Scott lives in the woods west of Tallahassee. After 3 decades of learning how and sharing ways to use computers; working for school boards, universities and the state on all kinds of computer systems; and retiring as a Senior Data Analyst, he now explores the Florida Panhandle and applies those office skills to researching and learning about the natural world. Hard physical labor as a woodsy volunteer pleases him, observing a new plant, bug, or animal thrills him. Did he tell ya the recent story of 4 river otters passing thru his yard? |
Kevin Schweizer
Board Member – Lead Architect Bachelor: Design, UF Masters: Architecture, California Polytechnic State University Has his own firm, KEVIN SCHWEIZER ARCHITECT located in New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater Florida. Melissa Schweizer - wife, four adult children. |
Mary Jo Spector
Board Member – Architect BS: Architecture, Penn State Bachelor of Architecture FAMU Masters: Planning, FSU Working: FSU Office of VP for Research. Alan - husband, two adult children. |
Seth Keys Coffin
Architect Bachelor: Architecture, FAMU Working: Elliott Mashall Innes, P.A. Ann Coffin- wife, one child. |
Frost Burke
Board Member Bachelor: Communications, FSU, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Marketing and Development, 30 years, Retired, Charlene Rose Burke - wife, two adult children. Frost is currently retired (graduated) from the State of Florida and is in the process of developing Frost Phase II. |
Timothy D. W. Kerns
Board Member Retired – State of Florida (Director, Florida Capitol Police) US Army Reserve (Colonel), 1998. Commissioner and Past Chairman, Florida Commission of Veterans Affairs, 1982-1996. Education: Florida State University, BA History w/minor in English) 1965. Special Interest: 43+ years interest in the life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
Karen Berkley
Board Member Emeritus Professor, Neuroscience/Psychology, Florida State University; Brown University, BA (Biology); University of Washington-Seattle, Ph.D. (Physiology & Biophysics and Psychology). Widowed, two adult daughters. Active in: Florida Trail Association, Florida Native Plant Society, North American Butterfly Association, Audubon, and involved in invasive plant education/removal efforts with City of Tallahassee |
Olivia Posner
Board Member Granddaughter of George and Clifton Lewis Bachelor: Geology, Hampshire College Masters: Social Work, East North Carolina State |
Carolyn Henne
Board Member Chair FSU Department of Art |