Annual Report 2024

The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association 2024 Annual Report

the mission of the mount vernon ladies’ association is to preserve, restore, and manage the estate of george washington to the highest standards and to educate visitors and people throughout the world about the life and legacies of george washington, so that his example of character and leadership will continue to inform and inspire future generations.

2024 Annual Report

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2024 ANNUAL REPORT

Contents

Letter from the Regent | 4 Letter from the President | 5 Strengthening Our Foundations | 6 Preserving the Mansion | 8 and Historic Area Teaching America’s Story | 18 Securing Our Future | 30 Mansion Preservation Year in Numbers | 44 Financial Highlights | 45 Fine and Decorative Arts | 46 Collection Acquisitions Library Collection Highlights | 51 Thank You to Our Supporters | 54 The Mount Vernon | 64 Ladies’ Association

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Historic preservation is not a static enterprise. It requires creative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit … appreciation of historic intent … and a willingness to adapt thoughtfully to modern circumstances.

—ANNE “DEDE” NEAL PETRI, REGENT 2024 Annual Report

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Letter from the Regent

S

ince 1853, the Mount Vernon

Washington objects and return them to

Ladies’ Association (MVLA)

the estate. As preservation pioneers, we

has been breaking new ground

made the groundbreaking decision to

when it comes to historic preservation.

protect not only the house but also all

The creation of the MVLA marked the

of the outbuildings so that Americans

beginning of the national preservation

could have a full and inclusive picture

movement in America—and we have

of our origins. And in the 1950s, we

been going strong ever since.

launched another landmark campaign—

For more than 165 years, we have

to protect and conserve the viewshed

worked tirelessly to save George and

so that millions of visitors could be

Martha Washington’s iconic estate

inspired by the vista that inspired

and to educate the world about the

George Washington.

character and leadership of our first and greatest president.

Now, as we prepare for America’s 250th anniversary, we find ourselves,

We know from experience. Historic

once again, leading the way when

preservation is not a static enterprise.

it comes to historic preservation.

It requires creative thinking and an

Through the collaboration of experts in

entrepreneurial spirit. It demands

multiple fields (including architectural

an appreciation of historic intent and

historians, archaeologists, carpenters,

adherence to authenticity. It requires

curators, and conservators), we have

a willingness to adapt thoughtfully to

embarked on the largest preservation

modern circumstances.

project—$40 million—undertaken since

Stewards of American memory

the Ladies took over the site in 1858. We

must build community, develop strong

are strengthening the framing of the

advocacy, raise substantial resources,

Mansion’s structure, whose integrity

and balance interests. They must advance

has been impacted by piecemeal

civic education and share the full story to

changes over the centuries. We’re

help us understand ourselves.

managing moisture and upgrading the

These are no small tasks, and it has

climate control system in a “bunker”

been the honor of the Mount Vernon

outside the historic house. We’re

Ladies’ Association to pursue these goals

removing intrusive wires that have

vigorously in order to protect Washington’s

limited our ability to interpret the full

beloved home on the Potomac.

structure. We’re working to safeguard

In the earliest days, we determined

the Mansion’s original building fabric

to restore the Mansion, which had

and ensure its structural integrity for

started to deteriorate rapidly a mere

generations to come.

50 years after Washington’s death. We set out on a campaign to locate original

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Next year, we’ll open up a restored Washington bedchamber, reflecting

recent curatorial discoveries, and reintroduce the Old Chamber on the first floor. We’ll also open the cellar to interpretation, letting our visitors see where bottled cherries and other fruits stayed “fresh” for nearly 250 years—as you’ll read elsewhere in this report. We’ll learn more about the abode of enslaved butler Frank Lee and his wife Lucy, who resided below Washington’s study.

The Board is proud to partner with Mount Vernon’s staff and volunteers to preserve Mount Vernon and educate the world about Washington’s indispensable role in America’s founding. We thank you for your invaluable support and hope you will enjoy seeing what your generosity makes possible.

Warm best wishes,

Anne “Dede” Neal Petri Regent

Letter from the President

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reservation is not only our

of the estate’s most remarkably intact

responsibility—it is our

outbuildings—thanks to generous

privilege. At Mount Vernon,

support from Edwards Virginia

caring for George Washington’s home

Smokehouse.

means ensuring that the lessons of

Much of this vital preservation

his life remain visible, tangible,

work is made possible by Strengthening

and enduring.

Our Foundations: The Campaign for

Nowhere is this commitment

Mount Vernon, which surpassed $210

more evident than in the Mansion

million in support this year. More

Revitalization Project, the most

than 52,000 individuals made a gift to

ambitious preservation effort

Mount Vernon in 2024—including a

undertaken here in more than 165 years.

number of extraordinary donors who

In 2024, we made tremendous progress

committed $1 million or more. Their

on this complex, multiyear endeavor to

generosity is supporting our efforts to

stabilize and safeguard the Mansion—

revitalize the Mansion, grow Mount

its framing, masonry, and foundations.

Vernon’s endowment, expand educator

In the following pages, we offer a closer

outreach, and create a refreshed,

look at this extraordinary project.

immersive exhibit that tells the story of

Sometimes, the past quite

Washington’s life and legacy in new and

literally surfaces. During this year’s

engaging ways. Construction on this

preservation work, we discovered

new exhibit began this year, and the

an astounding 35 glass bottles in the

fully reimagined experience will

Mansion’s cellar—many still sealed

reopen in 2026.

and containing preserved cherries

Meanwhile, Mount Vernon

and berries. This thrilling discovery

welcomed more than 800,000 visitors

offers a rare and tangible connection

this year, including nearly 290,000

to the daily lives of those who lived

students. Our Education and Guest

and worked here in the 18th century,

Services team expanded specialty tours,

including Doll, the enslaved cook

themed weekends, and interpretive

who oversaw the estate’s kitchen and

programs across the estate. The

food preparation. The discovery made

Learning Department delivered

headlines around the world.

over 22,000 hours of professional

This year also saw the refurnishing

development to teachers and offered

of the Old Chamber, believed to be

virtual and in-person instruction to

George and Martha Washington’s

thousands of students nationwide.

first shared bedchamber in the years

So much of our work is grounded

following their marriage. This marks

in the expertise of our curators and

the completion of a multiyear effort to

the George Washington Presidential

bring the major guestrooms at Mount

Library staff. Their scholarship

Vernon up to date with recent research.

continues to guide preservation

Our restoration work continued on

decisions, spark new research, and

the Washingtons’ smokehouse—one

enrich our visitor experience. In

recognition of this leadership, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association was honored this year with the Spirit of Virginia Award for its long-standing commitment to historic preservation.

Behind the scenes, our teams across departments kept the estate running smoothly while planning for the future.

With 2026—the 250th anniversary of American independence—on the horizon, Mount Vernon is preparing to share Washington’s story with an even wider audience.

We could not do this without you.

Whether you give, volunteer, visit, or share our mission, your support sustains this place and ensures that George Washington’s legacy continues to educate and inspire.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Douglas Bradburn, Ph.D. President and CEO

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STRENGTHENING OUR FOUNDATIONS

The Campaign for Mount Vernon

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024 was the second-best

Fundraising was bolstered by a $12

fundraising year in Mount

million commitment from Washington

multimillion-dollar commitment to the

Vernon’s history, thanks to the

Cabinet chair David Rubenstein. He

campaign. The immersive President’s

more than 52,100 unique donors from

joined Washington Cabinet members

House in the exhibit will be named

across the country who contributed

John and Adrienne Mars, Rob and

after Roger Ferguson and Annette

more than $48.5 million to advance

Jean Estes, and Margot B. Perot, who

Nazareth. An anonymous donor

Mount Vernon’s mission of historic

also made transformational campaign

funded the Washington in American

preservation and education.

commitments in 2024. Gifts such as

Culture gallery. Additional naming

these enabled major progress to be

opportunities are available.

Strengthening Our Foundations: The Campaign for Mount Vernon

made on the groundbreaking project to

topped $210 million. The campaign

preserve the Mansion.

in recognition of the company’s

To add engaging educational opportunities while the Mansion

is funding important priorities,

Construction also began on the

and exhibit construction projects

such as revitalizing the Mansion,

George Washington exhibit, which will

are underway, the Patriots Path

creating a refreshed exhibit on George

boast a redesigned footprint, improved

Revolutionary War encampment,

Washington’s biography, growing the

navigation, and a more impactful

funded by Tom Hand’s support through

Annual Fund, and increasing Mount

visitor experience. The space’s new

Americana Corner, will debut in time

Vernon’s endowment.

Great Hall will be named for Boeing

for school field trips in spring 2025.

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Efforts also continue to cultivate

commemorating Lafayette’s historic

home and educate about his inspirational

and maintain Mount Vernon’s beautiful

tour of the United States, launching

examples of character and leadership, as

landscape of Washington’s design.

new scholarly resources highlighting

well as the importance of our country’s

Connoisseur Society chair Lucy S.

French participation in the American

“great experiment in democracy.”

Rhame’s endowment gift will name a

Revolution, and celebrating continued

horticultural leadership position.

Franco-American amity.

On the 200th anniversary of the

As the 250th anniversary of our

The Campaign for Mount Vernon will continue through 2026, when the beloved home and final resting place

Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to Mount

nation’s independence approaches,

of our first president will attract a

Vernon to pay his respects at the

Mount Vernon’s message about why

renewed focus. Opportunities remain to

Tomb of George Washington, the

George Washington matters resonates

become involved. Thank you to the tens

Life Guard Society hosted a “Fete to

more than ever. MVLA Board members

of thousands of donors from across the

Lafayette” black-tie gala that raised

and staff traveled across the country

country who have supported and will

more than $1 million to support the

throughout the year, connecting with

continue to support the campaign at

revitalization of the Mansion. This

supporters in their communities and

all levels.

event put the cherry on top of a day of

imparting details about the work

educational programming devoted to

underway to preserve Washington’s

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preserving the m a nsion a nd histor ic a rea The Mansion Revitalization Project Cellar Discovery The Smokehouse The Old Chamber

PRESERVING THE MANSION AND HISTORIC AREA

The Mansion Revitalization Project

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fter a thorough design process and pre-construction activities in 2023, the Mansion Revitalization Project embarked upon its construction phase in 2024, beginning with the north section of the Mansion and closure of

the New Room.

The Collections Management team oversaw the complete de-installation of the New Room. Objects were assessed, and a select few were conserved while off-view.

A protective box was built around the original mantel, gifted to George Washington

by Samuel Vaughan, and the original New Room floorboards were removed, documented, and conserved.

While much of the public’s focus was still on the cache of 18th-century bottles discovered in the cellar, preparations were being made to engage external shoring to support the weight of the Mansion and allow repairs to the sills (the bottom stabilizing members of the structure).

The work was orchestrated by contract masons replacing eroded stones along the cellar passage wall and repairing foundation walls while carpenters removed the majority of the floor joists, the undergird support, and the summer beams (the principal load-bearing members). Two new steel summer beams were then installed to support the floor joists in the New Room. Once the infrastructure was repaired, sills were replaced, floor joists were installed, and the original flooring was returned to its place in the New Room.

By October, the Phase 1 north-end repairs to the Mansion were completed, the New Room was reopened to the public, and the work progressed to the Mansion’s south end to begin Phase 2 of this multiyear project.

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ACBA Recognizes Mount Vernon’s Preservation Excellence The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association

received the 2024 Honors Award from the American College of Building Arts (ACBA) in Charleston, South Carolina, recognizing its leadership in historic preservation. ACBA uniquely offers a liberal arts degree with hands-on training in traditional building trades. Mount Vernon has hosted ACBA interns and now employs graduates. Director of Preservation Thomas Reinhart joined Dr. Bradburn and Vice Regents at the ceremony and toured the College.

MVLA recognized for its legacy of stewardship At a Mount Vernon ceremony, Governor

Glenn Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin presented the Spirit of Virginia Award to the MVLA. The Governor praised the MVLA’s preservation efforts and educational impact. The First Lady highlighted the group’s significance during Women’s History Month. Twentythird Regent Margaret Nichols accepted the award, which honors outstanding contributions in education, culture, the arts, philanthropy, and business.

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PRESERVING THE MANSION AND HISTORIC AREA

Cellar Discovery

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ount Vernon archaeologists excavating the cellar of George Washington’s Mansion made a blockbuster discovery that made headlines around the world. Sealed beneath a brick floor, archaeologists encountered a series of

overlapping storage pits revealing iridescent green circular silhouettes slightly more than an inch in diameter—the mouths of 18th-century glass bottles.

The archaeologists recovered a total of 35 bottles that had been carefully placed upright, side by side, and intentionally buried under an earlier cellar floor between 1758 and the mid-1770s. Twenty-nine of the bottles remained intact and remarkably contained extraordinarily well-preserved cherries and berries, likely gooseberries and currants, that had been harvested at Mount Vernon more than 250 years earlier.

Incredibly, the cherries still bore the characteristic scent of cherry blossoms, and a majority of the bottles contained intact fruit.

Bottles

Olive-green glass bottles were used extensively in the 17th and 18th centuries for many purposes, including holding wine, beer, and water and preserving fruits.

George Washington purchased hundreds of bottles for use at Mount Vernon.

During the 18th century, wine bottles were mass-produced in factories in England, Europe, and the United States. Teams of glass blowers worked together to speed up production, manufacturing between 50,000 and 100,000 bottles annually in a single factory. While each handmade bottle from the cellar is unique, all are typical of bottles made in the 1740s–1760s, with a cylindrical body, sloping shoulders, and a tapering neck.

Mount Vernon collaborated with archaeological conservators at Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation to stabilize the bottles to prevent further deterioration of the glass.

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PRESERVING THE MANSION AND HISTORIC AREA

The Smokehouse

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hile the Mount Vernon

confirmed the survival of most of the

carpenters to draw on their

Preservation team

building framing, including part of its

craftsmanship and creative problem-

typically expects the

sill (the horizontal timbers that sit on

solving to execute repairs that protected

unexpected when starting a restoration,

the foundation, which typically do

as much of the original building fabric

the Smokehouse project yielded some

not survive).

as possible.

exciting discoveries. Dendrochronology

Surviving original timbers,

provided a construction date of more

combined with deteriorating later

than a decade earlier than expected and

replacements, required preservation

Restoration of Mount Vernon’s historic Smokehouse is sponsored by Edwards Virginia Smokehouse.

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PRESERVING THE MANSION AND HISTORIC AREA

The Old Chamber

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he Old Chamber, returning to the name used by the Washingtons, revealed a new look based on a holistic analysis of documentary, visual, material culture, and architectural sources.

This first-floor room almost certainly served as the Washingtons’ own chamber

from the time of their marriage in 1759 until the building of a new chamber in the south wing in 1775. It then became a guest room, furnished comfortably but more modestly than the upstairs guest rooms. Today, the bedchamber features original, period, and reproduction pieces closely based on documented originals.

The original painting, Battle Fought by Cavalry, on loan from Washington and Lee University, returns to its place on the east wall. Recent research has identified the artist as Dutch military painter Jan van Huchtenburg (1647–1733).

The distinctive purple calico drapery on the bed and window brings to life one of the documented bed suites purchased by the Washingtons in 1774 from the Philadelphia upholstery shop of John and Betsy Ross (yes, that Betsy Ross).

Complementing these are bright Saxon green upholstered chair seats with check slipcovers. Purple and green was a popular color combination for interiors in the period, and in this case, the Saxon green chairs represent a set purchased in 1774 from George William and Sally Fairfax’s Belvoir. A handmade set of Venetian blinds (the only ones in the Mansion) highlights an important functional piece that provided an additional layer of privacy.

The Old Chamber’s restoration was supported by the Founders, Washington Committee for Historic Mount Vernon.

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teaching a merica’s story Engaging the Next Generation Delivering History Rare Documents Added to Mount Vernon’s Special Collections New History Podcasts The Leadership Institute in Action Lafayette Remembered Research Fellows

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Engaging the Next Generation: Family Days Bring Washington’s World to Life

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hile every day is excellent for a family to visit

Youth Programs associates and History Interpretation staff at

Mount Vernon, our Family Days programs

the Family Hub interpreted the essential functions of animals

(started in 2019) have grown to offer experiences

and livestock during the 18th century. Families learned about

that ensure families feel like we have made Mount Vernon

the annual fish run at Mount Vernon and the importance

just for them! Family Days allows intergenerational audiences

of horses in Washington’s life with supporting hands-on

to create meaning and joy together, from the themed map

activities. Members of the Student Advisory Board joined the

they receive upon arrival to the destination family hub

staff to share knowledge about animals and insects that lived

area. Each day weaves together hands-on activities, object

at Mount Vernon, the enslaved people who cared for them, and

exploration, primary sources, biographies, and stories of

the products they produced. The Livestock Department joined

George Washington and the 18th century. Each of our family

the Learning Department to support the day with sheep, oxen,

days highlights a different topic that appeals to tourists and

and horse Look and Learns.

local visitors alike. Being at Mount Vernon on a family day

Over the summer, we hosted two family days—the first

brings more memories, cross-generational conversations, and

marked Juneteenth with stories about freedom for enslaved

emotional and informational connections between the young

people before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. At

person’s life and the past.

the Family Hub, the Youth Programs team covered self-

We hosted Animal Family Day in the spring, just in time

emancipation, agency, resistance, freedom through military

for the lambs to join other animals, including oxen and horses.

service, and Washington’s will. Staff from the Archaeology

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Department provided an inside look at their work on the African American Burial Ground. Additional programming included character interpreter Keith Henley portraying Hercules.

The second summer program celebrated Bastille Day. This day shared with families the major players in the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution.

Visitors made sashes and learned French phrases. Guests

bottle discovery with families. In addition to our own

included Washington Library fellow Matthieu Haroux and

Archaeology staff, we welcomed educators from other historic

Rochambeau interpreter Michael Halbert. The French alliance

sites in Virginia to talk about what they know about their

lens helped families see Washington’s leadership in the

archaeological sites.

Revolutionary War as having a global impact and allowed our

What do you do when you have a family day on the 225th

visitors to gain a stronger appreciation of one of our signature

anniversary of Washington’s death? You focus on the impact

artifacts, the key to the Bastille.

of his legacies on young people today. The activity hub brought

Two more programs wrapped up the year. Our annual

opportunities for families to discover new information about

Archaeology Family Day has started to bring in regular return

Washington’s life and find new ways of thinking about how

visitors who enjoy the self-exploratory dig activity. The year

relevant his life is today.

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Delivering History: How Mount Vernon’s Reservations Team Brings Students to the Estate At Mount Vernon, we often talk about our student visitors,

Vernon brings. The American Bus Association (Nashville, TN),

who comprise well over a quarter of our guests yearly. But we

National Tour Association (Huntsville, AL), and the Student

rarely share the story of how they get to Mount Vernon. Most

Youth Travel Association (New York, NY) connect our staff with

of these hundreds of thousands of students come by way of

new and returning groups.

group tour companies. Schools book once-in-a-lifetime trips to

Mount Vernon is known for its outstanding historical

Washington, D.C., and select an itinerary that best suits their

experiences. Furthermore, our team can also highlight through

groups’ needs. Mount Vernon continues to top that list!

these channels the well-oiled systems Mount Vernon has set

We open reservations on August 1, and groups rush to get

up for large groups. With seamless bus parking, diverse meal

their desired dates and Mansion tour ticket times. The schools

options, and exclusive student tour hours, we offer convenient

and tour companies that book student experiences hear from

logistical solutions that help coordinators effectively manage

our Reservations team through many channels. The staff sends

groups of 300 eighth graders and prioritize site selections.

a group tour newsletter to recipients twice yearly, once before

In 2024, some longtime group partners questioned how the

bookings start and once right as the new year begins. The staff

Mansion and exhibition changes would impact their students’

attends key marketing conferences where they can share the

visits. They asked, “Would our groups still have enough to do

exciting and memorable experiences a group booking at Mount

if we brought them to Mount Vernon?” Our Reservation team

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found a new gear in promotions and outreach to answer that question with a resounding yes! Working with the excellent Marketing and Interpretation teams, the Reservations and Guest Services groups created new videos, handouts, and web

23,350 calls

resources. They kept in touch with updates on Mount Vernon’s significant projects and new offerings. They provided group tour booking staff and group guides, familiarization tours at Mount Vernon, and virtual tours to highlight all the great opportunities for students.

Our tour booking partners continue to provide feedback how a visit to Mount Vernon creates great memories with their students. Because of our location in Virginia, Mount Vernon is often an initial or final stop on groups’ tours and provides a welcome or culminating experience in a young person’s significant life event.

faxes, 29,283 emails, and voicemails

361,665 group admissions

$4,839,952 in admission revenue

$1,239,993 add-on revenue private tour, food, and Mansion tour bookings and cruises

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Ledger entry documenting a 1769 debt settlement between George Washington and John Posey.

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Rare Documents Added to Mount Vernon’s Special Collections acquired many exceptional items for the Special

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and elaborate cuisine. With Washington’s permission, Posey

Collections, including documents that improve our

earned income by selling “slops” or leftover food from the

knowledge about the enslaved community at Mount Vernon

kitchen. On February 22, 1797, while Washington celebrated

and George Washington’s leadership as commander in chief of

his birthday at a ball in Philadelphia, Hercules ran away from

the Continental Army.

Mount Vernon and likely started a new life in New York City.

n 2024, the George Washington Presidential Library

The first item is a ledger entry that sheds light on how

As the president’s chef, Posey was known for his skilled

When Hercules escaped to a new life, he left behind two

Hercules Posey arrived at Mount Vernon. Posey served

daughters. A few years later, a visitor asked one of the girls

as Washington’s enslaved chef at Mount Vernon and the

whether she missed her father, and she said, “No, sir. I’m very

President’s House in New York City and Pennsylvania.

glad for he is free now.”

On September 19, 1769, George Washington documented a

The second item is a letter written by George Washington

transaction with his neighbor John Posey in his financial ledger.

to Theodorick Bland on April 4, 1783. Washington wrote to

Two years earlier, Posey borrowed money from George Mason,

Bland from headquarters in Newburgh, New York, in his

another neighbor. Washington signed the agreement and acted

capacity of commander in chief of the Continental Army.

as a security on the transaction. Posey failed to repay the loan

Bland (1742–1790) was a Virginia physician, planter, and

and forfeited his bond to Washington, which included enslaved

congressman. He had previously served in the army with

people, as well as “sundry stock, goods [and] chattels.” Hercules

Washington as a colonel of the First Continental Dragoons.

Posey was one of the names listed on the ledger as an enslaved person acquired through this transaction.

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In March 1783, the officers of the Continental Army discussed how they might force Congress to pay the years

All of our podcasts can be found at www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com

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New History Podcasts

he Center for Digital History launched two new podcasts in 2024. Inventing the Presidency, an eight-episode narrative podcast, examines George

Washington as both president and precedent. From the very origins of the United States presidency at the Constitutional Convention to Washington’s final warnings in his Farewell Address, the series explores how one man shaped the presidency—and the many times that it could have all fallen apart. The episodes cover the Neutrality Crisis, the Jay Treaty, the Whiskey Rebellion, Native American diplomacy, slavery in the President’s House, Washington’s role in creating the peaceful transfer of power, and what it takes to forge the presidency from scratch.

This series features expert interviews with Tom Plott, Lindsay M. Chervinsky (executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library), Rick Atkinson, Patrick Spero, Ramin Ganeshram, Joseph M. Adelman, Sara Georgini,

Letter expressing Washington’s concern for fulfilling the army’s expectations.

of back wages they were owed. This mutiny, known as the Newburgh Conspiracy, was the most significant threat to the civilian government during the Revolution and risked the ideals at the foundation of the new nation. Washington staged a brilliant intervention, using the full force of his reputation, devotion, and service to disarm the threat. He assured the officers of his support and devotion to securing pay and pensions for the army and then carefully began the process of disbanding the volatile forces.

This letter is remarkable because it is far more detailed and personal than most of Washington’s correspondence.

For example, he wrote that “the necessity of fulfilling this Expectation of the Army affects me so exceeding forcibly, that I cannot help dwelling upon it, nor is there in my present apprehension a point of greater Consequence, or that requires more serious attention.”

Peter Kastor, Colin Calloway, Bruce Ragsdale, and more. The series has been downloaded more than 30,000 times.

In the fall, the Center launched Leadership & Legacy: Conversations at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. The podcast hosts conversations with people who have held senior leadership positions across many different sectors and historians who have studied effective leaders in the past. The goal of each episode is to have a deep and sustained discussion about leadership—how it operates, its challenges, its various models, and how we can apply that to our lives. Themes include strategic patience, collaboration and consensusbuilding, the importance of learning from history, leading in crisis, and, of course, reflections on George Washington’s example.

Season one featured interviews with then-Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan, General David Petraeus, Congressmen Steve Womack and Pat Ryan, and more. Season two, which launched on Presidents’ Day 2025, is hosted by Executive Director Lindsay M. Chervinsky.

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The Leadership Institute in Action

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he launch of the inaugural We the Vets leadership

of crisis and change from Dr. Peter Cressy, “The Washington

program was a cornerstone achievement of the

Way: Character & Credibility in Leadership” from Dr. Joseph

George Washington Leadership Institute in 2024.

Stoltz, and “Washington’s Approach to Leadership” by Lt.

We the Vets serves the veteran community with a mission to

Gen. (Ret.) Paul T. Mikolashek (former U.S. Army inspector

elevate the country over partisan interests and strengthen

general). The audience also enjoyed a series of interactive

our collective pursuit of a more perfect union. Hosted in

conversations, including “Leading the Washington Way in

commemoration of Flag Day, this initiative champions

a Modern World” with Heather Soubra, and presentations

positive patriotism and constructive civil discourse among

from We the Vets members about opportunities for veteran

citizens and leaders.

community engagement. The group concluded the first

The Leadership Institute crafted a custom two-day

morning with a wreath-laying ceremony.

program for 130 participants, designed to explore how all

Building on its successful debut, the Leadership Institute

of us can better uphold the values upon which our country

and We the Vets are developing an expanded 2025 program to

was founded. The program offered a clear call to action—our

celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army and

communities and nation face immense challenges, and the

the founding of the nation. The 2025 program will include a

veteran and military family community is uniquely positioned

public program for the Mount Vernon community in honor

to lead the effort to strengthen America.

of Flag Day.

The participants learned about Washington’s, Lincoln’s, and Roosevelt’s strategic approaches to leading through times

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Lafayette Remembered: 200th Anniversary Commemoration

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rom August 1824 to September 1825, the Marquis

Digitization effort. With assistance from a generous grant from

de Lafayette traveled throughout the new country,

the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, the Washington Library

welcomed by thousands of admirers at each stop

has partnered with institutions and individuals in France to

along the way. Although the tour brought him to each state

digitize the papers of François-Jean de Beauvoir (Marquis de

in the Union, most of his time was spent in Washington,

Chastellux), Charles-Antoine du Hux (Baron de Vioménil),

D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. On October 17, 1824, Lafayette

and French major generals of General Rochambeau’s staff, who

returned to Mount Vernon to pay his respects at George

fought alongside American forces during the Revolutionary War.

Washington’s tomb.

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s visit, the

Drs. Montgomery and de Rode unveiled the new website sharing the Baron de Vioménil Papers, which features

Library hosted a lunch event as the commencement of daylong

transcriptions and translations of key documents, as well as

festivities. Elizabeth Reese discussed her new book, Marquis

interpretive essays. More than 200 papers detailing Vioménil’s

de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capital

American campaign are now available as full-resolution scans

Region. Elizabeth is the senior manager of Public Programs &

on the custom website. The Chastellux materials will be

Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House.

available on-site for interested researchers.

After Reese’s presentation, Dr. Alexandra Montgomery and Dr. Iris de Rode presented on the Washington Library’s French

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Research Fellows

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ount Vernon continues to foster academic research on George Washington and the founding era. The Research Fellowships program offers short- and long-term fellowships for scholars. This program

provides funding and living space at the Richard and Helen DeVos House on the grounds of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Fellows gain access to the Library’s collections and interact with Mount Vernon staff to advance their academic pursuits.

Learn more at mountvernon.org/researchfellows

2024–2025 Research Fellows

Trenton Cole Jones, Ph.D. Purdue University, The Tory Rising (Mount Vernon Georgian Papers Fellowship)

Greg Brooking, Ph.D. Independent Scholar, Henry Laurens: A Southern Founder

Sherri Burr, J.D. and M.P.A. University of New Mexico School of Law, Generational Impact: An Economic Comparison of Mount Vernon’s Enslaved Population Who Received Freedom in 1800 with Those Who Remained Enslaved Until 1863 (Black Women United for Action Fellowship)

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Laura Clerx Boston College, Nature’s Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850 (James C. Rees Fellowship on the Entrepreneurship of George Washington)

John Stuart Gordon, Ph.D. Yale University, Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power

Philip Mills Herrington, Ph.D. James Madison University, The Plantation Revival (Dr. William M. and Betty H. Busey Family Fellowship)

Kelly Houston Jones, Ph.D. Arkansas Tech University, Tangled Wrath: The Lynching of Enslaved People in the American South

Ryan P. Langton Temple University, Negotiating the Endless Mountains: Networked Diplomacy Along the Eighteenth-Century Trans-Appalachian Frontier (Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship)

Edward J. Larson, Ph.D. Pepperdine University, Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Adams, Paine and the Revolutionary Year of 1776

Sarah Juliet Lauro, Ph.D. University of Tampa, Monumental: Commemorations of Enslaved Resistance

Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Ph.D. Kalamazoo College, Traitor, Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America

James E. Lewis, Jr., Ph.D. Kalamazoo College, American Prime: Why Americans Desired, Adopted, and Abandoned Their Own Prime Meridian

David Marsich George Mason University, Relating to the Republic: Representative-Constituent Relationships in the Early United States, 1794–1844

Sandra Moats, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Global at the Founding: U.S. Consuls and the Development of American Diplomacy

Karima Moyer-Nocchi, Ph.D. University of Siena, Macaroni and Beyond - From James Hemings to African American Women: The Early American Underpinnings in the Making of an Iconic Dish

Cody E. Nager, Ph.D. The Hoover Institution, Determined to be American: Regulating Migration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815

Ross M. Nedervelt, Ph.D. Florida International University in Miami, Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution

Kieran J. O’Keefe, Ph.D. Lyon College, Horatio Gates and the Pursuit of a Republican Revolution

Steven Sarson, Ph.D. Jean Moulin University, History and Historical Consciousness in the US Declaration of Independence

Dillon L. Streifeneder, Ph.D. Independent Scholar, Revolution, War, and the Forging of a Vigorous Government

Whitney Nell Stewart, Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, Bitter Vines: Wine and Slavery in the United States

Kevin J. Weddle, Ph.D. Independent Scholar, Washington at War: The Making of a Commander-inChief (James C. Rees Fellowship on the Leadership of George Washington)

Career stages 17 university faculty members 3 Ph.D. candidates 4 independent scholars

Sandra Patton-Imani, Ph.D. Drake University, Ann Fairfax Washington Lee: Race, Gender, and Sex in 18th Century Virginia

Fellowship lengths 11 one-month fellows 4 three-month fellows 1 six-month fellow

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secur ing our future Birthnight Supper and Ball The Founders, Washington Committee for Historic Mount Vernon The Life Guard Society of Historic Mount Vernon The Connoisseur Society Mount Vernon Travel Program Spirit of Mount Vernon Washington Cabinet

Affinity groups are central to supporting Mount Vernon’s preservation and educational needs.

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n February 18, more than 200 guests attended the 77th annual Birthnight Supper and Ball, Mount Vernon’s longest-running fundraiser. Guests enjoyed cocktails, an elegant three-course dinner, a birthday toast to

General Washington, live music, and dancing. Organized by the Neighborhood Friends of Mount Vernon, this sold-out black-tie gala supported the restoration and preservation of George Washington’s beloved home.

Neighborhood Friends Steering Committee The Neighborhood Friends are Mount Vernon members who live on one of George Washington’s original Five Farms. They support the estate’s mission of education and preservation through their membership contributions.

Joseph and Ann Somerset, Co-Chairs, Riverwood on Union Farm Tyler and Jacquie Brown, Stratford on the Potomac on River Farm Bob and DeNise Enck, Riverside Estates on Muddy Hole Farm Terry and Trisha Enright, Yacht Haven on Union Farm Stephen Fahy and Marjorie Roddy, Stratford on the Potomac on River Farm Mike Fijalka and Llarna Burnett, Stratford on the Potomac on River Farm Daniel and Hyunjoo Fleming, Stratford Landing on River Farm Matt and Audra Gannon, Riverwood on Union Farm Barry and Tracy Hutchison, Stratford Landing on River Farm Ralph and Jennifer Letizia, Waynewood on River Farm David McCallum and Victoria Grady, Wellington on River Farm Michael and Magda Patrick, River Farm Joshua Pinedo and Rachael Glaws, Riverwood on Union Farm Mark Platt and Julia McLellan, Fields of Woodlawn on Dogue Run Farm Jaeson and Stephanie Scott, Riverwood Estates on Muddy Hole Farm Larry and Kathleen Spoth, Surrey-at-the-Potomac on Forest adjacent to Mansion House Farm Gregory and Kristin Try, Waynewood on River Farm 32

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Lead Sponsor

Bronze

Sea Cloud Cruises

The Fijalka Living Trust Robert Highsmith and Sarah Fogg Scott Hoppe Holliday L. Hurd and Gus Polichron John Kerby and Theresa Thompson Charles and Hadley Kimberlin

Platinum John and Stavroula Alachnowicz Richard A. and Janice M. Crosby Rachel Glaws and Joshua Pinedo Julia Gluck Historic Hotels of America Joseph and Ann Somerset

Gold Richard and Julie Crosby Lee Ann Goodyear Victoria Grady and David McCallum Jack and Pat Veatch

Silver Red and Sheri Cavaney Daniel K. Chandler and Neysa M. Slater-Chandler Stephen Fahy and Marjorie Roddy Jim and Jo Carol Porter

Patron Ms. Jeanne M. Defliese and CAPT James D. Huck, USN (Ret) Gina and Michael Giordano Robert and Mimie Helm Brig Gen (Ret) and Mrs. Lynn C. Hooper Ms. Marcia V. Mayo Paul and Janis Mikolashek Lt Col Amy and Kenneth Mitchell Wanda and Roger Monthey Carol Kunes Randall Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Travis Stacy and John Wilkirson Robert Wright and Charlotte Sallfors

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The Founders, Washington Committee for Historic Mount Vernon

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he Founders Committee hosted its annual fundraising event on June 2. The proceeds supported the conservation of paintings, frames, and chairs in the New Room as part of the Mansion Revitalization Project. More than 180 guests enjoyed cocktails on the east lawn, a buffet dinner, views of the Potomac River, tours of the Mansion, and an opportunity

to see some of the cherry bottles excavated from the Mansion’s cellar.

Founders Committee Members

The Founders, Washington Committee is a group of patriotic women from the Washington metropolitan area. Since 1980, their fundraising has supported myriad programs and projects furthering the mission of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.

Their ardent work has added immeasurably to the Mount Vernon experience.

Mrs. I. Townsend Burden III, Chair, Washington, DC Mrs. Geoffrey B. Baker, Washington, DC Mrs. Edmund Bartlett III, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Peter Boer, Golf, FL Miss Edith H. Brewster, Washington, DC Mrs. Brice M. Clagett, Sarasota, FL Mrs. James M. Costan, Washington, DC Mrs. H. Richard Dietrich III, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Eric P. Fraunfelter, Bethesda, MD Mrs. James C. Gerber, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Ian Glenday, Washington, DC Mrs. Lee Bradford Guerry, Alexandria, VA Mrs. Constance B. Harriman, Washington, DC Mrs. Jeffrey P. Hart, Washington, DC Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson III, Berryville, VA Mrs. Mark J. Kington, Alexandria, VA Ms. Martha Dippell Korengold, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Jeremiah D. Lambert, Washington, DC 34

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Mrs. Charles G. Mackall, Jr., The Plains, VA Mrs. I. Guyman Martin III, Washington, DC Ms. Marcia V. Mayo, Washington, DC Mrs. Thayer Sargent McGregor, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. David B. Morgan, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Thomas E. Petri, Fond du Lac, WI and Washington, DC Mrs. Philip W. Pillsbury, Jr. ‡, Washington, DC Mrs. John Daniel Reaves, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Robin D. Roberts, Washington, DC Mrs. Kristina Schendt, Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. William E. Schuiling, Alexandria, VA Mrs. Catharine Trauernicht Scott, McLean, VA Mrs. W. N. Harrell Smith IV, Washington, DC Mrs. Lucille Anderson Streeter, Washington, DC Ms. Hilary C. West, Washington, DC Ms. Frances C. Wheeler, Delaplane, VA Mrs. Togo D. West, Jr., Emerita, Washington, DC Miss Eleonore Wotherspoon, Emerita, Northport, MI ‡ = Deceased

Martha Washington Anonymous

Benefactor Anonymous Lindalee Fitton Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Mackall, Jr. Ms. Marcia V. Mayo

Leader Mary T. Bartlett Valerie K. Burden Diana S. Clagett Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Helm Ann and Knight Kiplinger Sanda and Jerry Lambert David and Nancy Morgan Catharine Trauernicht Scott and K. Dunlop Scott

Patron Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey B. Baker Mary and David Giachetti

Penn Natanson Lupovich, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. I. Guyman Martin III Mrs. Thayer S. McGregor Anne Neal Petri and Thomas E. Petri Beth and Robin Roberts Mrs. Karen M. Schuiling Sam J. Soffa Frances Culp Wheeler

Sponsor John and Stavroula Alachnowicz Ellen Boer Ann and John Bookout Irving and Nancy Chase Mrs. H. Richard Dietrich III Martha Dippell and Danny Korengold Emilia Newell Ferrara Harriet and Eric Fraunfelter Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gerber Mr. and Mrs. John Gerber Lee Bradford Guerry and Witney W. Schneidman The Honorable Constance Harriman and The Honorable Ed Whitfield Mrs. Jeffrey P. Hart

Lucia and Joe Henderson John and Ruth Huber Holliday L. Hurd and Gus Polichron Mr. Garett Jones Ann and Mark Kington Jed and Blythe Lyons Cathy and Mike Mayton Mrs. Michael R. Miller C. Braxton Moncure, Trustee Jean Perin Catherine Porter and James Fuller Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Reaves Thomas G. and Kristina I. Schendt Cheryl Sharp Kate Shuster Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Streeter Katherine J. Ward, Colonel USAF (Ret) Corinne Birdsong Winburn Miss Eleonore Wotherspoon Mrs. Carol A. Yarnall

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The Life Guard Society of Historic Mount Vernon

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n October 17, the Life Guard Society commemorated the 200th anniversary, to the day, of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824 visit to Mount Vernon to pay his respects at the Tomb of George Washington. Nearly 375 guests were welcomed to the black-tie gala by the recreated First Virginia Regiment and called to dinner with artillery salutes that echoed the

enthusiastic welcome the Marquis de Lafayette received upon his arrival in Alexandria. Guests engaged with a Lafayette reenactor and enjoyed dancing and fireworks after dinner. The event proceeds supported the revitalization of the Mansion.

Life Guard Society Members

Named after the elite group of soldiers responsible for ensuring the safety of George Washington, today’s members of the Life Guard Society hold fundraising events to support specific projects at Mount Vernon and support the estate through personal contributions. Membership in the Life Guard Society is not considered an honorary role but rather a call to action. Members give generously of their time, talent, and resources to help with a wide variety of signature projects focused on Mount Vernon’s mission.

Mrs. Kim David, Chair, Baltimore, MD Mrs. Stavroula Alachnowicz, Executive Committee, Alexandria, VA Ms. Cricket Bauer, Executive Committee, Alexandria, VA Mr. Robert W. Helm, Executive Committee, Ellicott City, MD Mr. John H. Kerby II, Executive Committee, Arlington, VA Jennifer Burkhart London, Ph.D., Executive Committee, McLean, VA Mrs. Barbara J. Becker, Alexandria, VA Mrs. Ellen Boer, Golf, FL Mr. Thomas Bogle, Vienna, VA Mr. Donald Bogus, Williamsburg, VA Mr. Michael J. Brown, Delray Beach, FL Mrs. Sheri Cavaney, Alexandria, VA Mr. Daniel K. Chandler, Alexandria, VA The Hon. Sean Connaughton, Alexandria, VA

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Mr. Richard A. Crosby, Alexandria, VA Ms. Jeanne M. Defliese, Alexandria, VA Mr. William Downey, Williamsburg, VA Mr. Akram R. Elias, College Park, MD Miss Elizabeth L. Elser, Fox Point, WI Mrs. Lindalee Fitton, Alexandria, VA Dr. Robert Highsmith, Dumfries, VA Mrs. Holliday L. Hurd, Alexandria, VA Mr. Peter C. Keefe, Alexandria, VA The Hon. Walter D. Kelley, Jr., Alexandria, VA

Mr. Steven Kelmar, Alexandria, VA Mr. Gerald L. Kohlenberger, McLean, VA Ms. Alice Gregory Legum, Annapolis, MD Mr. James H. Lemon, Jr. ‡, Arlington, VA Mr. Shane McCullar, Alexandria, VA Mr. James D. Penny, Williamsburg, VA Mrs. Jo Carol Porter, Fairfax Station, VA Ms. Lola C. Reinsch, Arlington, VA

Mr. Edmund P. Ryan, Alexandria, VA Mrs. Ilona Savage, Alexandria, VA Mrs. Karen M. Schuiling, Alexandria, VA Ms. Kate Shuster, Alexandria, VA Mr. Jeffrey L. Steele, Bethesda, MD Mr. Paul S. Stevens, Alexandria, VA Mr. Richard J. J. Sullivan, Jr., Babylon, NY Ms. Debra Tash, Somis, CA Miss Eleonore Wotherspoon, Northport, MI Mr. Cyrus A. Ansary, Emeritus, Bethesda, MD Dr. Peter H. Cressy, Emeritus, Falls Church, VA Ms. Claire Dwoskin, Emerita, Arlington, VA Mrs. T. Eugene Smith, Emerita, McLean, VA

‡ = Deceased

The Marquis de Lafayette at George Washington’s Tomb, c. 1824, watercolor and needlework on silk Gift of Marta Hallowell Black, 2023

Major General Maribeth and Hal Borthwick Holliday L. Hurd and Gus Polichron Drs. Amy and Bartley Richardson

Brigadier General Mr. and Mrs. Red Cavaney Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Crosby Scott B. and Kimberly L. David Manuel and Mary Johnson Foundation Ann and Knight Kiplinger Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson W. Kirby Helen Herboth Laughery Barbara and Ben Lucas The Thomas F. and Clementine L. Mullan Foundation, Inc. Jeffrey and Barbara Steele Wells Fargo Foundation

Aide-de-Camp Cricket Bauer and Tim Messman Marta Hallowell Black and David B. Black Frank F. Islam and Debbie Driesman Kathleen L. McCarthy Jim and Jo Carol Porter

Stella Boyle Smith Trust, Catherine and Michael Mayton, Trustees Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

Colonel John and Stavroula Alachnowicz Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Aldredge Robert and Mimie Helm Dr. Robert Highsmith and Dr. Sarah Fogg Stephen E. and Mary Sue Kitchen James D. and Pamela J. Penny Ann and John Pyne Ann Cady Scott

Lieutenant Colonel Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation Mary Lang Bishop and C. Morton Bishop III James E. Bramsen Daniel K. Chandler and Neysa M. Slater-Chandler Sarah Miller Coulson The Honorable and Mrs. James K. Coyne Mr. Paul Dolan Miss Elizabeth L. Elser

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth Elisabeth French Mary and David Giachetti Elizabeth and Sheffield Hale Adrian and Larsen Jay John H. Kerby and Theresa Thompson Janet and Jerry Kohlenberger Mr. and Mrs. Edward Laderer Mrs. Anne Lantry Alice and Harry Legum Jacqueline B. Mars Frank and Liz Mauran Ms. Jacqui Michel and Mr. David E. Weisman Margaret H. and David E. Nichols Lois M. Passman Anne Neal Petri and Thomas E. Petri Alden and Amy Philbrick Mr. and Mrs. J. Schley Rutherford Ed and Lori Ryan Andrea and Kenan Sahin Mrs. Karen Schuiling Richard J.J. and Gail F. Sullivan Susan M. and P. Coleman Townsend, Jr. Bob and Louise Tritt W. Patrick Wilson and Jason Geske 2024 Annual Report

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The Connoisseur Society

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he Connoisseur Society’s 2024 contributions supported reproduction lighting in the Mansion, in conjunction with the Mansion Revitalization Project. On May 30 and 31, the Connoisseur Society held its annual homecoming event in Washington, D.C. The group toured the newly refurbished Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the United States Department

of State with Virginia Hart, director and curator of the Diplomatic Rooms and member of the Founders Committee; the Presidential Portraits exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; and the home and art collection of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Joseph, owners of the historic Lafayette House in Alexandria, where General Lafayette stayed during his grand tour of America in 1824.

Dinner followed at the home of the Connoisseur Society chair.

In addition, the group enjoyed a curator-led tour of recent acquisitions for the permanent Mount Vernon collection.

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Connoisseur Society Members

The Connoisseur Society is a group of George Washington enthusiasts who are dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, conservation, and exhibition of Mount Vernon’s rich and diverse collections.

Mrs. Lucy S. Rhame, Chair, Alexandria, VA Mrs. Irene Roosevelt B. Aitken, New York, NY Mrs. Cyndy Alaimo, Charlottesville, VA Margaret Appleton Allison, Seattle, WA Marta Hallowell Black, Denville, NJ Ann Haunschild Bookout, Houston, TX Mrs. Nadene Bradburn, Mount Vernon, VA Marjorie McHenry Bride, Cambridge, MA Mrs. Ann Coffin, Chestnut Hill, MA Mrs. M. L. Coolidge, Charlottesville, VA Sarah Miller Coulson, Bryn Mawr, PA Ms. Juliana Falk, Charleston, SC Mr. James L. Freeman and Mrs. Laura Lofaro-Freeman, Palm Beach, FL Mrs. Carolyn S. Fuller, Winston Salem, NC Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gilbane, Cape Elizabeth, ME Mrs. Julia C. Gluck, Alexandria, VA Mr. Joseph P. Gromacki, Chicago, IL Mrs. Bessie Hanahan, Charleston, SC Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Dupont Hayward, Wilmington, DE Elizabeth Whitesides Holdsworth, Naples, FL Matt Holland, Burlington, NC Mrs. Edward C. Johnson 3d, Boston, MA Mrs. Virginia C. Mars ‡, McLean, VA Mr. James D. Marsteller, Atlanta, GA Liz Rollins Mauran, Providence, RI

Mr. David Maxfield, Washington, DC Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McCarthy, White Bear Lake, MN Leander and Stephanie McCormick-Goodhart, Mechanicsville, MD Ms. Pauline C. Metcalf, New York, NY The Honorable Mary V. Mochary, Montclair, NJ Mrs. P. William Moore, Jr., Staunton, VA Margaret Hartman Nichols, York Harbor, ME Jean Perin, Middleburg, VA Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Perkins, Chevy Chase, MD The Honorable Trevor A. Potter and Mr. Dana Westring, Marshall, VA Ann Sherrill Pyne, New York, NY Mrs. Barbara G. Robinson, Greenwich, CT Andrea Notman Sahin, Boston, MA Mr. and Mrs. Randall A. Schrimsher, Huntsville, AL Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott, New York, NY Mrs. Eleanor R. Seaman, Hobe Sound, FL Jean Armfield Sherrill, Winston Salem, NC Mr. Steven Spandle and Mr. Kev Massoyan, Hoboken, NJ Mrs. Suzanne M. Spencer, Pittsford, NY Susan M. and P. Coleman Townsend, Jr., Greenville, DE Ms. Mary Ann Way, Alexandria, VA Mr. David E. Weisman and Ms. Jacqui Michel, Palm Beach, FL Mr. Wallace S. Wilson, Houston, TX

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Mount Vernon Travel Program

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he Mount Vernon Travel Program took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and southern Maine from September 12–17. The program included a tour for members of the Connoisseur Society and one for major

donors to Mount Vernon. Both trips included exclusive and behind-the-scenes opportunities to visit historic sites, enjoy private tours of the region’s most important historic homes, and savor delicious meals in distinct locations reflecting this unique area. The two groups combined for a Saturday night dinner, during which President & CEO Doug Bradburn interviewed historian Eliga Gould about the region’s historic significance.

‡ = Deceased

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Spirit of Mount Vernon

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ore than 750 guests from the government affairs community attended the 23rd annual Spirit of Mount Vernon event on October 3. Guests from the corporate, association, and consulting communities, as well as

policymakers, attended the event, which raised funds for Mount Vernon’s education and preservation mission. Guest speakers Carly Fiorina, national honorary chair of the Virginia 250 Commission, and the Honorable Carlos Del Toro, then-United States Secretary of the Navy, provided remarks. The evening featured a sunset reception, a performance by the Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, fireworks, a whiskey-tasting bar hosted by the Distilled Spirits Council, dinner, and a live auction. The event continues to be a centerpiece of the government affairs community’s philanthropic giving.

Co-Chairs

Presenting Sponsor

Chester “Chip” Davis, Jr. President & CEO Healthcare Distribution Alliance

Ford Motor Company

Matthew Haller President & CEO International Franchise Association Katherine Lugar Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs Hilton Peter Rowan Vice President U.S. Public Affairs Mars, Inc.

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Boeing Intuit Lineage Mars, Inc. PhRMA Virginia Distillery Company Washingtonian

Healthcare Distribution Alliance Hilton International Franchise Association National Association of Chain Drug Stores National Confectioners Association National Retail Federation National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association Northrop Grumman Raytheon Technologies U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Gold Sponsor

Co-Sponsor

Airports Council International - North America American Beverage Association American Council of Life Insurers American Petroleum Institute Americans for Prosperity AT&T Bayer Burke & Herbert Bank ConocoPhillips

The Aluminum Association American Bureau of Shipping American Hotel & Lodging Association Associated Equipment Distributors Consumer Healthcare Products Association Cressy Family Distilled Spirits Council of the United States Fragrance Creators Association

Platinum Sponsor

Growth Energy HR Policy Association K&L Gates Littler Mendelson National Association of Realtors National Drug & Alcohol Screening Association National Grocers Association National Restaurant Association PNC Financial Services Group Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association David and Linda Whitestone

Double Patron Sponsor Cigna Health Care Service Corporation Pharmaceutical Care Management Association

Patron Sponsor American Trucking Associations Amway Mary Lang Bishop and C. Morton Bishop

Breakthru Beverage Bridgestone Americas CDM Defense Materials Cencora CGCN Group Corn Refiners Association Cresa Edison Electric Institute Enterprise Mobility Forbes Tate Partners Global Cold Chain Alliance Household & Commercial Products Association The Jefferson LSG McKesson Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) Monument Advocacy Moran Family National Association of Home Builders National Association of Manufacturers Northern Trust Plastics Industry Association Dan Scandling and Tammy Eddy

Sikich US Pharmacopeia U.S. Travel Association Vulcan Material Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America

Individual Sponsor American Society of Association Executives Armanino Associated General Contractors The Breakers The Council for Responsible Nutrition Energy Equipment & Infrastructure Alliance The Fertilizer Institute Lockheed Martin Summit Wealth Management

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Washington Cabinet

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he Washington Cabinet’s annual gathering took place on November 7-8.

The event included a day of exclusive, behind-the-scenes tours, lunch in the Greenhouse, and a special dinner at the George Washington Presidential

Library. It culminated with the annual meeting, where members were briefed on Mount Vernon’s critical projects and looked ahead to 2026.

Washington Cabinet Members

Members of the Washington Cabinet serve as ambassadors for Mount Vernon, raising the estate’s profile nationally and advocating for its mission and efforts. Through investments of time, influence, and resources, members of the Washington Cabinet are committed to supporting Mount Vernon’s education and preservation mission.

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David M. Rubenstein, Chair, Washington, DC Steven C. Anderson and Kathleen Jaeger Anderson, Great Falls, VA Theodore H. Ashford, Rockland, DE Richard Brown and Mary Jo Otsea, New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Buckley III, Wayne, PA Dr. Peter H. Cressy (RADM USN-RET), Falls Church, VA Dick and Betsy DeVos, Grand Rapids, MI Mr. Remmel Tyndall Dickinson, Little Rock, AR Martha Dippell and Daniel Korengold, Chevy Chase, MD Claire Dwoskin, Arlington, VA Heather Burns Eagon and J. Kenyon Eagon, Portland, OR Jean and Rob Estes, Richmond, VA Nicole Gresham Honeyman and R. Stewart Honeyman, New York, NY Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman, Potomac, MD Manley and Mary Johnson, Upperville, VA Mr. and Mrs. Henry Klehm III, Morristown, NJ Michelle and John Korsmo, McLean, VA Sanda and Jeremiah Lambert, Washington, DC The Honorable Terri Lynn Land and Daniel Tedford Hibma, Wyoming, MI Anne L. Lantry, Washington, DC Ruth and Mike Lipper, Summit, NJ Barry L. MacLean, Libertyville, IL Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Mars, McLean, VA Jacqueline B. Mars, New York, NY John and Adrienne Mars, Jackson, WY Dr. and Mrs. J. Mario Molina, South Pasadena, CA Brian Murdock, Vero Beach, FL Susan K. Neely, Chevy Chase, MD Mr. and Mrs. C. Ashton Newhall, Lantana, FL George Overend, Atlanta, GA Mr. and Mrs. Jin and Julieann Park, Portland, OR Dailey and Gordon Pattee, New York, NY Mrs. Margot B. Perot, Dallas, TX Bruce A. Ragsdale and Richard G. Scobey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire H. Pat and Trudy Ritz, Tualatin, OR Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr., Washington, DC Jordan D. Schnitzer, Portland, OR Mr. and Mrs. Randall A. Schrimsher, Huntsville, AL Shelby and Andrew Silvernail, Lake Forest, IL David and Ilene Smith, Chevy Chase, MD Ambassador Juan Ernesto Snead and Mrs. Gloria McCall Snead, Dallas, TX Alice M. Starr, Waco, TX Mr. Gray Stevens and Ms. Lori Pheasant, Naples, FL Mary and Steven Swig, San Francisco, CA Rob and Jamie Taylor, Park City, UT Bob and Louise Tritt, Kansas City, MO The Honorable Lee L. Verstandig and Toni G. Verstandig, Washington, DC Karen Buchwald Wright, Mount Vernon, OH

‡ = Deceased

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MOUNT VERNON AT A GLANCE

Mansion Preservation Year in Numbers 35

TEN TREES

18TH-CENTURY GLASS BOTTLES DISCOVERED IN THE CELLAR

HARVESTED FROM THE ESTATE AND USED AS TIMBER FOR THE MANSION

Feet 166 Linear of New Sill

Thirty-Nine New Floor Joists

22 FEET

Depth of brick inspection in the cellar’s drywell

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Financial Highlights

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eorge Washington valued fiscal responsibility in all his business ventures. The MVLA carries on this timeless tradition of responsible spending and engages in robust fundraising.

We are proud to have spent 85 cents of every dollar received directly on programs connected

to our mission, including historic preservation and collections initiatives, educational outreach efforts, and enhancements to the guest experience. We allocated just 8 percent of our funds to inspire generous citizens to support our mission. Thanks to our conservative financial management, our administrative costs accounted for only 7 percent of our total expenditures. Our 2024 audited financial statements are available at mountvernon.org/about or by request from our Finance Department.

Operating Revenue

Operating Expenses (Excluding Depreciation)

Other

Fundraising

Endowment Support

Unrestricted Contributions

Management & General

Product & Food Sales

Education

Restricted Contributions Admissions

Unrestricted Contributions $ Restricted Contributions Admissions Product & Food Sales Endowment Support Other Total Operating Revenue

11,407,000 32,561,000 14,625,000 16,991,000 7,789,000 1,391,000

$ 84,764,000

Preservation & Collections

Program Services: Education $ 35,779,000 Preservation & Collections 25,568,000 Program Services total 61,347,000 Support Services: Management & General 4,826,000 Fundraising 5,929,000 Support Services total 10,755,000 Total Operating Expenses $ 72,102,000

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Mount Vernon from the Potomac, painting by Thomas Hill, 1869 Acquired through the generosity of the Jay F. and Patricia P. Hill Family Fund in memory of Patricia P. Hill

ACQUISITIONS

Fine and Decorative Arts Collection Silver meat skewer, owned by George

Three portrait medallions, made

Child’s printed cotton handkerchief,

Washington, made by Ephraim Brasher,

by Wedgwood or Wedgwood and

The Effect of Principle / Behold the Man,

New York, 1790

Bentley, Staffordshire, England: George

attributed to Germantown Printworks,

Gift: Jess and Grace Pavey Fund

Washington, black basalt, 1777–1780, and

Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1806–1830

blue jasperware, 1790–1800; Benjamin

Gift of Robert D. and Carol L. Warrington

Fragment of George Washington’s military

Franklin, black basalt, 1775–1780

sash, in late 19th-century gold locket

Gift: Jess and Grace Pavey Fund

Gold bracelet with seeds from Kentucky coffee trees grown at Mount Vernon,

Gift of the Youth Museum, Portrait medallion, Charles-Maurice de

c. 1861, owned by John Augustine

Talleyrand-Périgord, blue jasperware,

Washington III

His Excellency General Washington /

made by Wedgwood, Staffordshire,

Purchased by the William and Lisa

Lady Washington, engraving after

England, 1789–1792

Moore Acquisition Endowment Fund

John Trumbull, c. 1785

Acquired through the generosity of

Gift of Marta Hallowell Black

Rosalind Pretzfelder

Marietta, Georgia

English mahogany pole screen, London, c. 1760 Gift of Jerry Dalton

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Washington – 1783, drawing by Rembrandt Peale, 1855 Acquired through the generosity of the Jay F. and Patricia P. Hill Family Fund in memory of Patricia P. Hill

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St. John the Evangelist, pastel painting in original frame, owned

Portrait of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, painted by

by George Washington, probably made in Italy, 1750–1770

Charles Willson Peale, c. 1770–1774

Purchase

Gift of Michael Magruder

Silver pudding dish, from Eleanor

Silver caster, part of cruet set owned by

Portland vase, black and white

Calvert and John Parke Custis

George Washington, made by Samuel

jasperware, made by Josiah Wedgwood,

wedding silver, made by John Carter II,

Wood, London, 1736–1737; and

Staffordshire, England, first edition, 1790,

London, 1774–1775

English silver caster, made 1727–1728,

with lock of George Washington’s hair

Bequest of the estate of

with later Washington crest

Purchased by the William and Lisa Moore

Mary Lee Bowman

Gift of Mary Lee Bowman

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Washington Walking in the Garden, painted by Stanley Massey Arthurs, c. 1925 Gift of Susan Marshall Townsend, Vice Regent for Delaware, and P. Coleman Townsend The Apotheosis of Washington, reverse painting on glass, after John James Barralet, made in China, 1802–1810 Purchased by the A. Alfred Taubman Acquisition Endowment Fund

Lafayette commemorative basin and

Eight pieces of blue and white Chinese

The following items were purchased

two pitchers made in Staffordshire,

export porcelain similar to tableware

by the A. Alfred Taubman Acquisition

England, c. 1825, and seven pieces

owned by George and Martha Washington,

Endowment Fund:

of blue and white Chinese export

1760–1800

porcelain similar to tableware owned

Acquired through the generosity

Sacred to the Memory of the Truly

by George and Martha Washington,

of the E. Rhodes and Leona B.

1760–1790

Carpenter Foundation

Acquired through the generosity of anonymous donors in honor of

George Washington and Lafayette at

Mindy Fetterman

Mount Vernon, painting after Thomas Pritchard Rossiter and Louis Remy

Illustrious George Washington, silk embroidered picture attributed to Elizabeth Miltimore, c. 1809 Louisa Bird Cunningham with her children, Ann Pamela, John, and Benjamin Cunningham, painted c. 1827

Mignot, after 1859

Monument to Mary Ball Washington

Gift of Joan Alexander Worrall

engraved by David Johnson, c. 1830 Commemorative pitcher, “America Lamenting the Death of Her Favorite Son,” transfer-printed creamware made in Staffordshire, England, 1800–1805

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The Destruction of the Bastille, drawn by Étienne-Louis-Denis Cathala, 1789, presented to George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette Courtesy of Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman

Selected Loans The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association

Silver salver with Washington crest,

is grateful for loans of original art,

likely made by Richard Humphreys,

artifacts, documents, and period objects:

Philadelphia, c. 1783; three silver bottle tags and knee buckle, made in England,

Rare books owned by George

18th century; and portrait miniature

Washington, The History of the Rise,

of George Washington Parke Custis,

Progress, and Establishment, of the

painted by Robert Field, 1801

Independence of the United States of

Courtesy of an anonymous lender

America: including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies,

Fragment of silk gown owned by

from their Origin to that Period (4 vols.),

Martha Washington, 1750–1790

by William Gordon (London: printed

Courtesy of a Custis descendent

for the author; and sold by Charles Dilly and James Buckland, 1788)

Ten jasperware medallions of

Courtesy of Ambassador Nicholas

French Revolution subjects, made by

silverplate, c. 1789, presented by

F. Taubman

Wedgwood, Staffordshire, England,

George Washington to Secretary of War

1789–1792 Gold ring with George Washington’s hair, owned by Lafayette’s daughter Anastasie, and Lafayette commemorative gloves Courtesy of Marta Hallowell Black 50

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Promised gift of Rosalind Pretzfelder

Two-bottle wine cooler, Sheffield

James McHenry Courtesy of Marjorie McHenry Bride

Ephemera: Movie props, map, and letter from National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, 2007.

Purchased by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscripts Endowment

ACQUISITIONS

Library Collection Highlights Presidential pardon signed by

1783 Six Favorite Sonatas for the

Documents: Letter from George

George Washington for David Blair,

Piano Forte or Harpsichord, with an

Washington to General Edward Hand,

April 15, 1794

Accompaniment Obligato for a Violin…

February 6, 1780; Invitation, George

Purchased by the David M. Rubenstein

by Luigi Boccherini and Giuseppe

Washington to Edward Hand, undated;

Rare Books and Manuscripts Endowment

Diettenhofer (St. Martin’s Lane,

Invitation, John Adams to Edward

London: T. Skillern, 1783), owned and

Hand, February 14, 1800

Photograph of U.S. President Harry

signed by Ann Blackburn Washington

Gift of Davis Bennett

S. Truman placing a wreath on

Gift of the Missouri State Museum;

Washington’s tomb, February 22, 1947

original gift of Mrs. Virginia B.

True copy of deed between Maurice Veal

Purchased by the David M. Rubenstein

Harding Ferguson

II and Edward Bush, made for Augustine

Rare Books and Manuscripts Endowment

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Survey by George Washington for John Elswick, April 16, 1751

Letter from George Washington to John Hancock, March 29, 1777

The Ted and Mary Wendell Early American Collection: 47 documents, 10 maps, and 1 map slipcase. Including 25 documents Survey by George Washington for Walter Shirley, May 1, 1751

written, annotated, or signed by George Washington Gift of Ted and Mary Wendell

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Salt print photograph of George Washington Parke Custis by Col. B. F. Hawkes, 1854 Purchased by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscripts Endowment

Letter from George Washington to Theodorick Bland, April 4, 1783 Purchased by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscripts Endowment

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GENEROUS SUPPORT

Thank You

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ur 2024 accomplishments were made possible by generous contributions from patriotic individuals, corporations, associations, and foundations representing all 50 states as well as countries

around the world. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association relies on this support and does not accept government funding. We are grateful for this commitment to Mount Vernon’s mission of education and preservation.

Cumulative Lifetime Giving Mount Vernon is grateful for the generous support of major contributors. The following list represents cumulative contributions to Mount Vernon since our modern record-keeping began in 1986 and does not include planned gift intentions. $25M+ John F. Mars and Adrienne B. Mars Donald W. Reynolds Foundation $10-$24.99M The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company Fund Scott and Lynn Molitor David M. Rubenstein Robert H. Smith Family Foundation Karen Buchwald Wright $5M-$9.99M Anonymous Mr. Richard H. Brown and Ms. Mary Jo Otsea Distilled Spirits Council of the United States The Life Guard Society of Historic Mount Vernon Neighborhood Friends of Mount Vernon $2.5M-$4.99M Anonymous The Boeing Company Ann and John Bookout Maribeth and Wm. Harold Borthwick Sarah Miller Coulson Una Keyes Davis Donald and Nancy de Laski ‡ The Founders, Washington Committee for Historic Mount Vernon Google Inc. Estate of Dorothy Compton Marks Herbruck W.K. Kellogg Foundation The F. M. Kirby Foundation Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Dr. J. Phillip London ‡ and Dr. Jennifer Burkhart London Mr. Forrest E. Mars, Jr. ‡ Jacqueline B. Mars Mr. and Mrs. P. William Moore, Jr. Lucy S. Rhame Richard M. Scaife ‡ Eleanor R. Seaman The Gordon V. and Helen C. Smith Foundation $1M-$2.49M Allegheny Foundation Annenberg Foundation Anonymous (4) Frank ‡ and Barbara Becker Estate of Sally A. Burge The Cabell Foundation The Connoisseur Society Crawford Taylor Foundation Jean and Rob Estes J. Hap and Geren Fauth Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth Dr. Denis Franks and Mrs. Joy Ammerman Franks Gay and Stanley N. Gaines The Gilder Foundation Linda and Bill Graves Estate of Robert and Bettye Hammond Tom and Char Hand, Americana Corner William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Heinz Endowments Mary Hillman Jennings Foundation William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Lambert Kayden Family Fund, Sanda and Jeremiah Lambert Terri Lynn Land and Daniel Tedford Hibma Robert and Carew Lee ‡ The Lemon Foundation Christopher and Betsy ‡ Little Richard King Mellon Foundation

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Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Molina Family Foundation Frank Peters Moore ‡ George and Carol ‡ Overend The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation Jess and Grace Pavey Fund The Payne Fund Margot B. Perot Robert W. Plaster Foundation Jim and Jo Carol Porter Melody Sawyer Richardson Wayne and Grace Rickert Robertson Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Albert H. Small A. Alfred Taubman ‡ Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell $750,000-$999,999 Anonymous (3) The Challenge Foundation Coca-Cola Consolidated RADM and Mrs. Peter H. Cressy Richard A. and Janice M. Crosby DIAGEO Estate of John C. and Paula P. Evans Lucia and Joe Henderson Estate of James W. Howard Betty Wold Johnson ‡ Barbara B. and Benjamin F. Lucas II Ms. Linda A. Mars Anne Neal Petri and Thomas E. Petri The Richard S. Reynolds Foundation Randy and Kelly Schrimsher Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. ‡ Adelia Garro Simplot Jeffrey and Barbara Steele Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schott Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. J. Sullivan, Jr. Estate of Mr. Evert Tigner, Jr. $500,000-$749,999 John and Stavroula Alachnowicz Margaret and James ‡ Allison Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Bishop , Jr. ‡ Dr. Patrick M. Byrne The Chisholm Foundation Theodore F. and St. Clair Craver Anne and James F. Crumpacker Family Scott B. and Kimberly L. David Mr. Remmel Tyndall Dickinson Martha Dippell and Daniel Korengold Julia Cobey Gluck Robert and Mimie Helm Holliday L. Hurd and Gus Polichron Melanie and Mark Jacobsen Virginia James The Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust Helen Herboth Laughery A. Michael and Ruth C. Lipper

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Estate of Ms. Sarah E. Lobban Lockheed Martin Corporation Estate of Ms. Irma Sue Macy Mars Foundation Liz and Frank Mauran Microsoft Corporation The Middendorf Foundation, Inc. Eleanor ‡ and Phillip Newman Nimick Forbesway Foundation James D. and Pamela J. Penny M. Elaine Rand Drs. Amy and Bartley Richardson William H. ‡ and Ilona S. Savage Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated Mark and Rosemary Schlachter Ann Cady Scott Estate of Betty Shaver The L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation T. Eugene ‡ and Joan H. Smith Susan M. and P. Coleman Townsend, Jr. Harlow Giles Unger Stephen K. and Ann W. West ‡ $250,000-$499,999 Estate of Russell B. Adams, Jr. Anonymous (7) Estate of C. Joseph Arbogast Malcolm and Jean Baber ‡ BAE Systems Royce and Kathryn McCormick Baker ‡ Battelle Ms. Cricket Bauer and Mr. Timothy Messman Mary Lang Bishop and C. Morton Bishop III Marta Hallowell Black and David B. Black Breakthru Beverage Group Brightside Foundation Brown-Forman Corporation Burke & Herbert Bank Carrier Corporation Castle Rock Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lewis Chapin Dr. Thomas F. Cleary ‡ Geraldine W. and Robert J. Dellenback Foundation, Inc. Delman Family Charitable Fund Bonnie P. and Richard A. Dial Dominion Energy Robert H. and Lorraine F. ‡ Duesenberg Claire Dwoskin Akram and Lourdes Elias Finch Family Foundation Foley & Lardner LLP Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Forbes Lynn and Foster ‡ Friess Robert B. and Anne W. Gibby ‡ The Florence Gould Foundation The Amanda and Greg Gregory Family Fund Beatrice and Randolph H. Guthrie The Phil Hardin Foundation Pierre and Martina Hayward Bonnie and Frank X. Henke III

Robert Highsmith and Sarah Fogg Huether-McClelland Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Keiser John H. Kerby and Theresa Thompson William S. and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation David H. Koch ‡ Virginia Dawson Lane and Charles Glover Lane The Lehrman Institute Rush Limbaugh ‡ Richard Lounsbery Foundation Penn Natanson Lupovich, M.D. Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation, Inc. James Douglas Marsteller Estate of John William Mason The Ben May Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buck Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McCarthy Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Robert L. McNeil, Jr. James C. ‡ and Virginia W. Meade Claude Moore Charitable Foundation Charles ‡ and Judith Koper Morris Mr. and Mrs. C. Ashton Newhall Margaret H. and David E. Nichols George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Foundation Estate of Mrs. Arthur Newton Pack Robert ‡ and Christine Ralphs Dr. and Mrs. James S. Reibel Mrs. George Revitz John ‡ and Barbara G. Robinson Mrs. Patricia S. Robinson ‡ Mr. and Mrs. J. Schley Rutherford Andrea and Kenan Sahin George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Ms. Kate Shuster Stella Boyle Smith Trust, Catherine and Michael Mayton, Trustees The Honorable Ken Starr ‡ and Alice Starr Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman Jamie and Rob Taylor The I. N. and Susanna H. Van Nuys Foundation Ellen C. and James M. ‡ Walton Chuck and Lucy Weller Constance and Frederick ‡ West Estate of The Honorable Henry K. Willard II Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Christine and Jaime Yordán Foundation Estate of Robert and Anne Zelle

Multiyear Supporters Mount Vernon is grateful for the generous support of the following major contributors who made payments on multi-year commitments in 2024.

The Boeing Company Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Brown Jasen and Brandi Cassady Red and Sheri Cavaney Richard A. and Janice M. Crosby Scott B. and Kimberly L. David Una Keyes Davis Delman Family Charitable Fund

Martha Dippell and Daniel Korengold Dr. Denis Franks and Mrs. Joy Ammerman Franks James L. Freeman and Laura Lofaro Freeman Julia Cobey Gluck Linda and Bill Graves Robert and Mimie Helm Huether-McClelland Foundation Steven Kelmar Lambert Kayden Family Fund, Sanda and Jeremiah Lambert Honorable Terri Lynn Land and Daniel Tedford Hibma Helen Herboth Laughery The Lemon Foundation The J. Phillip (Jack) London Family Jacqueline B. Mars Molina Family Foundation Ourisman Automotive of Virginia George and Carol ‡ Overend and Family The Payne Fund Anne Neal Petri and Thomas E. Petri Jim and Jo Carol Porter Wayne and Grace Rickert William H. ‡ and Ilona S. Savage Randy and Kelly Schrimsher Eleanor R. Seaman Stella Boyle Smith Trust, Catherine and Michael Mayton, Trustees Alice Starr LTC Timothy & CPT C. Monika Stoy, USA and KyungJin & HaeSook Choi ‡ Estate of Mr. Salvatore A. Versaci The Virginia Society of the Cincinnati Karen Buchwald Wright

The 1732 Society The 1732 Society recognizes extraordinary annual contributions of $25,000 and above from individuals, foundations, and corporations toward our mission of education and preservation. $1M+ Frank ‡ and Barbara Becker The Boeing Company Jean and Rob Estes Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth Tom and Char Hand, Americana Corner John and Adrienne Mars Margot B. Perot Lucy S. Rhame David M. Rubenstein $500,000–$999,999 Allegheny Foundation RADM and Mrs. Peter H. Cressy Betsy Little ‡ Estate of Ms. Sarah E. Lobban Drs. Amy and Bartley Richardson Estate of Mr. Evert Tigner, Jr. 2024 Annual Report

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$250,000–$499,999 Maribeth and Wm. Harold Borthwick Mr. Remmel Tyndall Dickinson Finch Family Foundation Holliday L. Hurd and Gus Polichron Honorable Terri Lynn Land and Daniel Tedford Hibma Mr. and Mrs. C. Ashton Newhall $100,000–$249,999 John and Stavroula Alachnowicz Anonymous (3) Ms. Cricket Bauer and Mr. Timothy Messman Estate of Mr. Robert A. Bergeron Peter ‡ and Ellen Boer The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation The Challenge Foundation Scott B. and Kimberly L. David Fleetwood Foundation Ford Philanthropy Estate of Frances Hallada Robert and Mimie Helm Jay F. and Patricia P. Hill Family Fund Betty Wold Johnson Foundation Janet and Jerry Kohlenberger Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McCarthy Matt and LeeAnne Murrell James D. and Pamela J. Penny Dr. Scholl Foundation Randy and Kelly Schrimsher William and Karen Schuiling Ann Cady Scott The Scrooby Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Shepherd Jeffrey and Barbara Steele Gail and Richard J. J. Sullivan, Jr. Mary and Steven Swig $50,000–$99,999 Anonymous (2) Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Sarah Miller Coulson The Honorable and Mrs. James K. Coyne Richard A. and Janice M. Crosby Heather Burns Eagon and J. Kenyon Eagon Mrs. Lindalee B. Fitton Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Hardwick Adrian and Larsen Jay Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation Kiplinger Family Foundation The F. M. Kirby Foundation Anne L. Lantry Lockheed Martin Mr. Michael Magruder Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation, Inc. Jacqueline B. Mars Ms. Linda A. Mars Liz and Frank Mauran National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association 56

George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Foundation Jess and Grace Pavey Fund The Roller-Bottimore Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Smith, Jr. Susan M. and P. Coleman Townsend, Jr. Estate of Marion Turner The I. N. and Susanna H. Van Nuys Foundation The Honorable Lee L. Verstandig and Toni G. Verstandig Estate of Robert and Anne Zelle $25,000–$49,999 Sarah and Todd Alijani Steven C. Anderson and Kathleen Jaeger Anderson Anonymous Battelle Bayer Corporation Mary Lang Bishop and C. Morton Bishop III Marta Hallowell Black and David B. Black Mr. Richard H. Brown and Ms. Mary Jo Otsea Burke & Herbert Bank E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Red and Sheri Cavaney Coca-Cola Consolidated Ms. Celia W. Coe Mr. and Mrs. Robert Decherd Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation Bonnie P. and Richard A. Dial Martha Dippell and Daniel Korengold Mary and David Giachetti Greg and Amanda Gregory Gillian and John Growdon Elizabeth and Sheffield Hale Estate of Ray and Betty Hannah Sophie and Val Hawkins Robert Highsmith and Sarah Fogg Nicole Gresham Honeyman and R. Stewart Honeyman Estate of James W. Howard Intuit Mr. Frank F. Islam and Mrs. Debbie Driesman Virginia James Manley and Mary Johnson John H. Kerby and Theresa Thompson Karen M. and Jefferson W. Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Henry Klehm III Curt Kolcun Michelle and John Korsmo Helen Herboth Laughery A. Michael and Ruth C. Lipper Barbara B. and Benjamin F. Lucas II Mars, Incorporated Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Mars The Ben May Charitable Trust

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The Mendell Family Fund, Inc. Dr. J. Mario and Therese Molina More Perfect Thomas F. and Clementine L. Mullan Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Murdock National Grocers Association Ms. Susan K. Neely George and Carol ‡ Overend and Family Jin and Julieann Park Dailey and Gordon Pattee Peterson Family Foundation Anne Neal Petri and Thomas E. Petri Petrovich Family Foundation PhRMA Jim and Jo Carol Porter Ann and John Pyne Bruce A. Ragsdale and Richard G. Scobey Mrs. George Revitz H. Pat and Trudy Ritz Sandra K. Ross Samueli Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Sans Estate of Ms. Sandra A. Sawicki Mr. Jordan D. Schnitzer and Ms. Renata Baranow Shatz Charitable Foundation George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Shelby and Andrew Silvernail David and Ilene Smith Estate of Mrs. Tom K. Smith, Jr. Gloria and Juan Ernesto Snead Mr. Gray Stevens and Ms. Lori Pheasant Summit Ridge Energy Bob and Louise Tritt U.S. Chamber of Commerce Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell Wells Fargo Foundation Miss Eleonore Wotherspoon Karen Buchwald Wright Jaime and Christine Yordán YPO DC| The Washington DC /Baltimore Chapter

‡ = Deceased

$10,000–$24,999.99

Airports Council International - North America Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Aldredge Gen and Mrs. John R. Allen Margaret Appleton Allison American Beverage Association American Bureau of Shipping American Council of Life Insurers American Hotel & Lodging Association American Petroleum Institute Americans for Prosperity Foundation Susan and Richard Ammerman Anonymous (3) Estate of C. Joseph Arbogast Associated Equipment Distributors AT&T Ms. Elaine C. August Mr. Mark Barbaro David Baron Estate of Mrs. Charlotte T. Battle The Honorable Diane Black and Dr. David Black James and Kati Blalock Mr. Tom Bogle Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bogus Ann and John Bookout Mr. and Mrs. Alan Box Mr. Michael J. Brown Mr. Fredrick Butler and Ms. Elizabeth Butler Amélie and Charles Cagle Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Carmichael Mr. Daniel K. Chandler and Ms. Neysa M. Slater-Chandler Irving M. and Nancy Chase Cigna Mr. Casey Clark William J. and Isobel Clarke Foundation The Honorable and Mrs. Sean Connaughton ConocoPhillips Consumer Healthcare Products Association Theodore F. and St. Clair Craver Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Crosby III Anne and James F. Crumpacker Family Mr. and Mrs. Jeff L. Dahlgren Ms. Emily Monk Davidson Ms. Jeanne M. Defliese and Capt. James D. Huck, USN (Ret) Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Tom Dewberry Mrs. Mary R. Dick Mrs. Junia Doan Mr. and Mrs. William Downey Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Dubke Miss Elizabeth L. Elser Mr. Stephen R. Fahy and Mrs. Marjorie E. Roddy Ms. Tarry Faries Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fiorina Flowerree Foundation Fragrance Creators Association The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Frykholm Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fuller Noe Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gilbane The Honorable and Mrs. Edward W. Gillespie Dr. and Mrs. John W. Given Julia Cobey Gluck Growth Energy Mr. and Mrs. Glen G. Hamel Health Care Service Corporation Healthcare Distribution Alliance Lucia and Joe Henderson

Mrs. Helen Herman Hilton Historic Hotels of America Elizabeth Whitesides Holdsworth HR Policy Association International Franchise Association Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Johnstone Erin Jorgensen K&L Gates Mr. and Mrs. Peter Keefe The Honorable and Mrs. Walter D. Kelley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kelly Steven Kelmar Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kitchen Mrs. Frank Kostlan Lambert Kayden Family Fund, Sanda and Jeremiah Lambert Yee K. Lee The Lemon Foundation Lineage Littler Mendelson Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lyons Mrs. Charles G. Mackall, Jr. Mars Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Claude G. Martin Mr. David M. Maxfield Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer M.V. Mayo Charitable Foundation Catherine H. and Michael R. Mayton Mr. and Mrs. George R. McClelland Greg McNeely Ms. Sarah Meade Ms. Nancy Mikulin The Thomas F. and Clementine L. Mullan Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Musser National Association of Chain Drug Stores National Association of Realtors National Confectioners Association National Drug & Alcohol Screening Association National Restaurant Association National Retail Federation Dr. and Mrs. Greg Neas Margaret H. and David E. Nichols Dr. and Mrs. Elias G. Nimmer Northrop Grumman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perl Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Pherson, Jr. Mrs. Rachael C. Glaws Piñedo and Mr. Joshua Piñedo PNC Financial Service Group The Pointe O’View Fund at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation The Honorable Trevor A. Potter and Mr. Dana Westring Mrs. Lee A. Prier David W. Pritchard and Wendy Kaler Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Felipe Propper de Callejon Raytheon Technologies Ms. Lola C. Reinsch Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Rodbell Steve and Jean Roth Laura P. Rutherford and John Schley Rutherford Ed and Lori Ryan Andrea and Kenan Sahin William H. ‡ and Ilona S. Savage Ms. Shirley Scafetta Scandling Family Foundation Estate of Mr. Kenneth C. Scheidig

Sea Cloud Cruises Eleanor R. Seaman Ms. Kate Shuster Ms. Judith C. Singleton Stella Boyle Smith Trust, Catherine and Michael Mayton, Trustees Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Smith Mr. Sam J. Soffa Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Somerset Mr. Steven Spandle and Mr. Kev Massoyan Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Stephens Mr. Gregory Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schott Stevens Ms. Debra Tash Mrs. Naoma Tate Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Thomas Mrs. Sylvia D. Valloric The Vehicle Suppliers Association Virginia Distillery Company Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association Mr. David B. Warren Mr. David E. Weisman and Ms. Jacqui Michel Hilary Carter West David and Linda Whitestone Wynne Whitman The H.W. Wilson Foundation Mr. Patrick Wilson and Mr. Jason Geske Wold Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wright $5,000 –$9,999.99 Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ain Mrs. Cyndy L. Alaimo Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22 The Aluminum Association American Trucking Associations Amway Anonymous (3) Dr. and Mrs. Richard N. Baney Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bartlett III Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Barton, Jr. Ms. Norma Baumann Mrs. Gayle Benson Mr. David B. Best Ms. Mary R. Bhuta Blue Star Families Bill Boddie Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Bradburn Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bramsen Breakthru Beverage Group Antoinette Brennan Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brewington Ms. Marjorie Bride Bridgestone Americas Mrs. Patricia Brookhart Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Brown Mrs. Barbara Bundy Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Burd, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden III Mr. and Mrs. James M. Butler Mr. Dennis Carroll and Ms. Leslie Hill CDM Defense Materials CGCN Group Mrs. Tammy W. Chincheck Mrs. Diana S. Clagett Dr. Virginia Hertenstein Conley Mrs. M.L. Coolidge Corn Refiners Association Ann M. Covington Ms. Carolyn I. Creevy

Cresa Mr. John Danio Ms. Karen S. Dauer Angus Davis Mr. Donald F. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. John Dillon Paul Dolan Perry T. Dunlap The Thomas J. Edelman Foundation Edison Electric Institute Mr. Steven R. English and Mrs. Molly Munger Enterprise Mobility Stephen and Jennifer Errico Dr. Judith N. Eshleman Mr. and Mrs. Reade Fahs Ms. Juliana Falk Ms. Ruth Ann Fay Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Ferrill Mr. Michael Fijalka Forbes Tate Partners The Honorable and Mrs. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen Ms. Elisabeth R. French Christine Giordano Global Cold Chain Alliance Mr. Newell M. Grant Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Griffith Mrs. Mary E. S. Hanahan Household & Commercial Products Association The Herndon Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Kim Hinds Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Hines Ms. Karen E. Hooper Brig Gen and Mrs. Lynn C. Hooper, (Ret) Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Horton Paul and Sally Houdayer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Jacoby Margaret T. Jason and Jack Tarver The Jefferson Ms. Ladonna Jensen Mr. Thomas S. Kenan III Mr. and Mrs. David Kepner Ms. Betsy Kleeblatt Katherine A. Koch ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kolve Mr. and Mrs. Edward Laderer Virginia Dawson Lane and Charles Glover Lane Mr. Freddy Lebron Alice and Harry Legum Mr. and Mrs. Albert Leung Guy Lidstad and Jennifer Roth Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Livingstone Ms. Susan Lohafer LSG Mr. and Mrs. Rafat Mahmood Mrs. Mary Lynn Marks Mr. David W. Mayger Mr. and Mrs. Michael McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart Mr. and Mrs. Brian McGregor McKesson Mr. and Mrs. William McLoughlin Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Metcalfe George L.N. Meyer Family Foundation The Jack Miller Family Foundation Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Mitsubishi Corporation Americas The Honorable Mary V. Mochary Monument Advocacy Claude Moore Charitable Foundation Ms. Karen E. Moore 2024 Annual Report

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Ms. Martha Moore Mr. and Mrs. P. William Moore, Jr. Mr. Neil Moran/Moran Family Mr. and Mrs. David B. Morgan Mr. Bruce A. Morrow National Association of Home Builders National Association of Manufacturers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nicholson Northern Trust Ms. Rita Norton Mr. Mark Z. Orr William and Cathleen Osborn Mr. and Mrs. Richard Owens Lois M. Passman Mr. Dean S. Patterson Ms. Jean Perin Bruce and Pam Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Alden Philbrick Plastics Industry Association Mr. and Mrs. David A. Powell Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Reh Ms. Rebecca A. Rhinehart Melody Sawyer Richardson Estate of Ms. Kathryn A. Sansome Mr. Daniel F. Scandling and Ms. Tammy Eddy Mr. K. D. Scott and Ms. Catharine W. Trauernicht Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Seabaugh Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sellers Ms. Cheryl L. Sharp Sikich Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Maryland Mrs. Suzanne M. Spencer Alice Starr Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Stecker Mr. Mark J. Sullivan Lea and David Sylvestro Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor Mrs. Jo Thoburn Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Thompson II Ms. Georgene M. Tozzi Mr. and Mrs. John Trerotola US Pharmacopeia U.S. Travel Association Van Metre Companies Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John D. Veatch Ms. Shawn Voelz Vulcan Materials Wadeco, Inc. DBA Wade Rain, Inc. Ms. Lorraine H. Wahl Ellen C. Walton Ms. Mary Ann Way Mrs. Togo D. West, Jr. Ms. Linda K. Wickens Wilcox Historical Society Sam Wilsey Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Mr. and Mrs. Craig Wood Mr. Michael Woodburn Mr. Robert A. Wright and Ms. Charlotte Sallfors

$1,000–$4,999.99

Associated General Contractors of America Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ahlerich Mr. and Mrs. Craig Albert Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Allan Allen Solutions Douglas J. Aller American Forest & Paper Association American Society of Association Executives 58

Mr. John Amling Mr. Donald Andersen Mr. Andrew B. Anderson Jacqueline Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Anderson Mr. Robert C. Anderson Jane Andrew Mrs. Maria Angeloni and Dr. Gabriella Angeloni Anonymous The Thomas and Nancy Arata Fund of InFaith Community Foundation Peter Arkley Armanino Mr. Ronald Arner Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Asher Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Atkins Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Austin Mr. and Mrs. John C. Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Bailey Mr. Jeffrey Bain Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey B. Baker Lornel A. Baker Sharon Balius Ms. Ibolya Balla-Mckeon Ms. Brenda Banks Ms. Carolyn Barbour Mr. and Mrs. David F. Barbour Mr. David E. Barensfeld Mr. Jeffrey Barnes Nora Barnes Col Arthur D. Barondes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barry Curtis and Christine Bartell Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bartlett, Jr. Mr. Jonathan Bauman Mr. and Mrs. John H. Beakes Mr. Bruce D. Beard and Ms. Beth Delucenay Mr. James Beard III Ms. Debra B. Beasley Lynn Beasley Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beasley Becker Electric Company, Inc. Ms. Susan E. Beecroft Mr. and Mrs. Alex A. Beehler Mr. Nathan G. Bein Ms. Evelyn Belter Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Bemis Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Ben’Ary Donald and Shelley Bennett Mr. Michael E. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. George P. Benz Ms. Melissa Berge Kathleen Berkowitz Robert J. Bernasconi Mr. and Mrs. James Berndt Mrs. Charlene Bickings Ms. Betty M. Bidwell Susan and James Bierschenk Lanetta Bixler Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Black Mrs. Mary Blackburn Ms. Sharon Blackwell Judy Bogle Blair Mr. Robert Bogenschutz Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bolton Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bondi Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bonfield Mrs. Pris Bornmann Elizabeth Boyd Ms. Sandra E. Boyd

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Mr. Paul Boykas Mr. Aaron Brace Mr. Cortney C. Brand and Ms. Mira V. Brand Ms. Barbara H. Branscum Mr. Joseph P. Brazy The Breakers Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brenner Mr. Robert Brent and Mrs. Cynthia Redick Miss Edith H. Brewster Mr. Matthew Briney Mr. David Brinton Mr. and Mrs. W. Bristor, Jr. Mrs. Noydena L. Brix Mrs. Prudence A. Broadwell Dr. and Mrs. William H. Brooks Carole Brown Mr. and Mrs. Larre Brown Michael and Marcelle Brown Mr. Steve Brown Mr. Miguel Browne and Ms. Silvija A. Strikis Ms. Linda S. Broyhill Mrs. Karen I. Brubaker Chris and Rochelle Brumfield Jennifer A. Bryan, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin David Bryant, Jr Susan Bryerjoyner Mr. Charles E. Buchner Ms. Andrea Buel Ms. Mary Bullen Mr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Burbank The Frances and Townsend Burden Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Childs F. Burden Mr. and Mrs. James M. Burke Mr. Kevin Burke and Ms. Barbara Ianniello Col and Mrs. Raymond E. Burrell Dr. William M. ‡ and Betty H. Busey Family Col. Charles Busick, USA, Ret. and Mrs. Charles Busick Mr. and Mrs. Jelks H. Cabaniss III Chad Caldwell Paul F. Callaway Dr. and Mrs. Colin G. Calloway Mrs. Eileen Cameron Ms. Christy Campbell Capt and Mrs. Daryle D. Cardone Mr. Kurt C. Carlson Rob Carlson Capt Jo A. Carlton, USN (Ret) Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Carr Ms. Catherine P. Carstarphen Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Cerone Ms. Claudia Chaney Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Chapin III Ms. Kelly Chapman Ms. Susan A. Cheney William Chester Mr. Thomas L. Childs Col and Mrs. Forrest S. Chilton IV Mr. Peter Christensen and Ms. Michele C. Aubry Ms. Rita Christianson Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ciske Dr. Douglas E. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Claster Mr. Earl F. Clayton Ms. Peggy Cleary Mr. Robert R. Clendineng Mrs. Stuart Cobb Mr. Mark Coblitz

Dr. and Mrs. Peter Cocolis Mr. Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Coggins Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Keith S. Collins Keith Colonna Bill Com Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Combs Mr. Leonard Condon Mr. Robert J. Conley Mr. Coleman Conroy Ms. Marion Cooney Mr. Donald Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Cordle Ms. Arlene Corliss Ezra and Daphne Cornell Mr. Jess Correll Council For Responsible Nutrition Mr. Robert Cover and Ms. Bonnie Lepoff Candace and Charles Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Berry R. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Cox Mr. Edwin H. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cox Mr. Randy C. Crawford Mr. Ralph E. Crowell II Mr. Jonathan M. Croyle Mr. W. S. Cryder Mr. and Mrs. Brent Culp Mr. German P. Culver, CPA Mr. Stephen Daas and Ms. Peggy Sauer Mr. Walter L. Dalton Mr. and Mrs. Clinton R. Daly Miss Elexis Z. Damianos Ms. Betty Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Justin Danowski Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Davey Jim Davlantes DCAcar Charter Bus Mrs. Debra R. Dean Mr. Kevin Deardorff and Ms. Lisa Blumerman Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.L. deButts The Honorable and Mrs. Carlos Del Toro Fran Della Badia Ms. Shirley DellaVecchia Mr. and Mrs. Eric Delman The Charles Delmar Foundation Ms. Ruthann C. Demeter Gerald F. Denotto Mr. and Mrs. Henry Depippo Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Dickson Mr. Thomas Diedrich Mrs. Barbara Diehl Mr. and Mrs. H. Richard Dietrich III Dr. and Mrs. Richard F. Dietz Ms. Pamela Dikeou Ms. Gloria Dinsdale Ms. Kim L. Dismuke Distilled Spirits Council of the United States Mr. and Mrs. Frank Doe Mr. Rob P. Doerschner Mr. David M. Domzal Ms. Diane Donley Dr. Laneta J. Dorflinger and Dr. Mark L. Graham II Dorrance Foundation for Education Mr. Jack Dougherty Tom Doughty Mr. and Mrs. Peter Downes

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Mr. Philip E. Downs Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Dowse II Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Draime Mrs. Carolyn Drennen Mrs. Jannell L. Dudick Ms. Elizabeth L. Dudley Mrs. Louisa C. Duemling Robert H. and Lorraine F. ‡ Duesenberg Dr. Karen Duffy Mr. Henry Dugan and Ms. Caroline Griffin Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dunbar Raynor and Janice Duncombe Dr. Linda Durham Claire Dwoskin Mr. and Mrs. Denis J. Dwyer Maj Gen and Mrs. Robert Dyess Mr. John M. Eagle Mr. Edward P. Eagles Mr. Wesley Eans and Dr. Rena Allen Mrs. Barbara J. Early Mr. George H. Eatman RADM and Mrs. Thomas J. Eccles Mr. and Mrs. Dean S. Edmonds III Dr. Cheryl L. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Wes Edwards Mr. Richard R. Elder The Elevation Group Akram and Lourdes Elias Mr. and Mrs. Gary Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Elston Ms. Diane Elton Energy Equipment & Infrastructure Alliance Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Enright Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Epstein Ms. Mary Ernest Mr. and Mrs. William T. Ethridge, Jr. William and Alicia Ethridge Kaara N. Ettesvold Mr. Daniel K. Evans Mrs. Ellen E. Everett Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Everett Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Everitt Mr. and Mrs. Gary Eyler Ms. Patricia Ezell Mr. and Mrs. John J. Fagan Commander and Mrs. Thomas E. Fahy Ms. Donna Falgiatore Dr. Bruce Faure Mr. and Mrs. Edward Felder Ms. Patricia Fenno Ms. Royann M. Fenyk-King and Mr. Norman M. King Ms. Emilia N. Ferrara Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Ferrara Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ferrari Mr. and Mrs. Jay F. Ferrin The Fertilizer Institute Mrs. Robert B. Field Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Litton Field Ms. Diane J. Fields Ms. Sheila Finch-Tepper Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Finegan Mr. S. R. Finks Mr. and Mrs. Brian Flynn Miss Eileen G. Foley Ms. Janet R. Foote and Mr. Silas Beck Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Ford Mr. and Mrs. Silas Ford Mr. Glenn Foster Col and Mrs. Tom Foulk, (Ret) Florence Bryan Fowlkes Fund of The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia

Mrs. Margaret Franco Mr. and Mrs. Dino Frangos Dr. Denis Franks and Mrs. Joy Ammerman Franks Mrs. Beverly Phelps Fraser Mr. Eric P. Fraunfelter and Mrs. Harriet H. Sweeney Douglas K. Freeman James L. Freeman and Laura Lofaro Freeman Col and Mrs. Marc E. Freitas, (Ret) Dr. and Mrs. Alan F. Frigy Mr. Santo J. Fruscione Mr. James Fuller and Mrs. Catherine T. Porter Mr. Brad Gage Mr. and Mrs. Matt Gannon Ms. Aphrodite Garrison Ms. Pamela P. Gartin Mr. and Mrs. James Gartner Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Gasbarra Mrs. Marcy Gefter and Mr. Michael Scott-Morton Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gerber Mr. and Mrs. John Gerber Mr. and Mrs. James F. Gerrity III Dr. and Mrs. David C. Giammittorio Holly Gibson John Gibson Ms. Carolyn J. Gill Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Gill Mr. and Mrs. Harrell N. Gillis Ms. Melinda Gillis The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg and Ms. Deecy Gray Mr. and Mrs. Melbern G. Glasscock Mr. and Mrs. Ian Glenday Mr. Neil Glenicki Mr. James R. Glenn and Ms. Elizabeth McKay Mrs. Louella Glessner Donna Glynn Ms. Donna J. Goddard Robert H. I. Goddard and Hope Drury Goddard Fund Mrs. Donna Golden Ms. Florence Goodyear Ms. Lee Ann Goodyear Dr. Alexia Gordon Mr. and Mrs. John I. Gordon Gary and Mary Graham Ms. Mary Gramaglia and Mr. Luis Lizarralde Elisabeth W. Grant Mr. and Mrs. Max Grant Estate of Mr. William RC Grau, Jr. Mr. Sam Graves Mr. John Grazioso Mr. Carlyle Gregory, Jr. Ms. Catherine A. Griffin Mr. Robert E. Griffiths and Mrs. Sandra H. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Grimes Mr. and Mrs. John Grimsley Mr. and Mrs. Limond Grindstaff Mr. Michael Grisanti and Dr. Paula P. Grisanti Patrick and Sheila Proby Gross Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Grubb Mr. Peter D. Guerrant III Ms. Lee Guerry and Mr. Witney W. Schneidman Mr. and Mrs. William Guidera Guilford Foundation Beatrice and Randolph H. Guthrie

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Guy IV Mr. Joe Haggerty Suzanne Hahn Terry and Laura Haines Dr. Martha L. Hale Ms. Kathleen Hall and Ms. Julie Hall Ms. Dawn B. Hamill Anne Hamlett Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hammell Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hanfling Mr. and Mrs. DuWayne H. Hansen Fred Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Harbeck Ms. Patricia M. Hargrove and Mr. Richard C. Schiming Lt. Col. Thomas Harper and Mrs. Emily Harper The Hon. Constance Harriman and The Hon. Ed Whitfield Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harris Mr. and Mrs. James Harry Ms. Lois H. Hart Mrs. Virginia K. Hart and Mr. Jeffrey P. Hart Mr. Kirk Hartung Ms. Julie Hasler Mr. Kenneth K. Hatai Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hatherill Ms. Shawn Hawley Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hawn Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Hay Ms. Virginia Hayes Mr. Jeffrey Hegstrom Mr. Mark V. Heitz Mr. Gregory Hemontolor Ms. Hannah L. Henderson The Honorable Karen L. Henderson Mr. Doy B. Henley Mr. and Mrs. Mark Henneman Mr. Douglas Herkner Col Kenneth F. Herrington Mr. David Heywood Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hicks Ms. Muriel Higgins-Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Dean B. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hillis Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hinds Dr. Roy Hoffman and Mr. Nathan E. Hoffman The Arthur and Arlene Holden Fund at the Cleveland Foundation Mr. Paul Hoover Ms. Tonya Hoover and Ms. Peggy J. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hopewell Mr. and Mrs. Outerbridge Horsey Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hoskinson Mr. Michael A. Housley and Ms. Elizabeth Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Hovatter Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Hovis Mr. and Mrs. John J. Huber Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hudgens Mr. and Mrs. H. Douglas Huether Mr. and Mrs. David Hunn Mr. Byron Hurst Mr. David Hutchinson and Ms. Nancy Dakin Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hutchison Capt and Mrs. Joseph M. Iacovetta Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Imhoff Mr. Victor M. Inga International Paper Company Mr. John Peters Irelan

Thomas Israel Mr. and Mrs. George T. Jackson IV Melanie and Mark Jacobsen Dr. Jolanda Janczewski Mr. and Mrs. Marshall N. Jarvis II Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Jesson Mrs. Cerise Joe Mrs. Nabers C. Johnson Ms. Shirley Johnson Mr. Stephen Johnson Ms. Susan Johnson Mr. Frederick Johnston Mary Ellen Johnston Mr. Bruce Jolly, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Jones Mr. Garett Jones Mrs. Hope H. Jones Ms. Patsy R. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Jones III Mr. Steve Jones and Ms. Kristen Raines Mr. and Mrs. Gerard P. Joseph Ms. Donna Jost Mr. Crawley Joyner Mr. and Mrs. Harold Joyner Anne Packer Julian Mr. and Mrs. Roderick D. Jung Ms. Kathleen E. Justice-Moore Sumner Roy Kates Charitable Trust Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. Katholi Ms. Vivian S. Kavadas Mr. Thomas Kays and Ms. Dorothy Keough Mr. and Mrs. John C. Keegan Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Kellogg Gen and Mrs. John F. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Larry V. Kelsch Mr. and Mrs. John Kendrick Mr. and Mrs. David Kenney Ms. Nancy Keuffel Mr. and Mrs. William P. Killmer Ms. Dawn M. Kilmeade CDR Charles and Hadley Kimberlin, (Ret) Mr. Lee Kind and Mr. Peter Kind Mr. Hugh King King’s Jewelry Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Kington Mr. and Mrs. S. Dillard Kirby Robert and Viesia Kirk Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Kirkendall Mr. and Mrs. Richard Klingenmaier Mr. John P. Klochak Carla Knobloch Mr. Douglas Kooker Mr. Robert Y. Kopf, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Kopple Mr. and Mrs. John Kornylo Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kosann Mr. and Mrs. Jason J. Kratovil Dr. and Mrs. David R. Kraus Mr. and Mrs. William Krokowski Ms. Kathleen S. Krowl Mr. and Mrs. Scott L. Kubista-Hovis Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kurhajetz Ms. Frances J. Kurilich Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kushan Ms. Mary A. Kuza Jeffrey and Kelly Kwoka Dr. Megan Laabs Joanne Lannigan CAPT Chris LaPlatney 2024 Annual Report

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Ms. Karen U. Lavoie Dr. Mark A. Lawley Mr. and Mrs. David Lawrence Jacqueline Lawrence Mrs. Robert W. Lawson III Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Le Bon R.E. Lee Electric Co., Inc. Mr. Roy Lee Mrs. Sherri P. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lehner Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leopold Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lesnak Salli LeVan and Michael Steck Mrs. Pam Lewis Ms. Cynthia Light and Mr. Terry C. Havens Ms. Sherryl L. Lilley Mr. and Mrs. James Lindsey Estate of Mr. Carrol V. Lipp Joan S. Lohrey Dr. Jennifer Burkhart London Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Long Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Long Mrs. Judylee R. Loos Warren H. Lortie Fund Mrs. Lisa Lugovich Penn Natanson Lupovich, M.D. Ms. Margie Luttenbacher Margot Lynn Mrs. Elisabeth Lyon Mr. Richard M. Lyon Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Lyon, Jr. Mr. Douglas Macherey Ms. Suzanne MacKenzie Mr. Rich Mackey Mrs. Lillie D. MacPherson Col and Mrs. Francis Maffei Mr. Wayne Malone Ms. Jennifer Marks Dr. and Mrs. Will Marling Mr. Michael J. Mars and Ms. Terri Campbell Mr. John C. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. I. Guyman Martin III Mr. and Mrs. Chris Massey Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mathews Kirk Mathewson Ms. Victoria S. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Rick L. Mattice Mrs. Peggy Mauch Mrs. Linda L. Mayer Mark D. Mayer Ms. Marcia V. Mayo Ms. Patricia A. Maziarz Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mazzucchelli Mr. Patrick McAleer Laura McAuliffe Mr. David McCallum and Ms. Victoria Grady Ms. Elizabeth Monaco McCarthy Robert R. McCormick Foundation Ms. Debra W. McCracken Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. McCuddy Mr. and Mrs. James J. McCullough The Honorable and Mrs. Robert McDonnell Mr. Junius C. McElveen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary McFarland Ms. Margot McGinley Lisa and Robert McLaughlin Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. McLaughlin Mrs. Susan McLaughlin Mr. James McManamon and Ms. Pamela Braden 60

Mr. and Mrs. Edward McManus Mr. John McMichael Mr. and Mrs. John McNally Col and Mrs. Jules G. McNeff Ms. Judith A. McNelis Miss Janet McNulty Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. McWhorter Mr. James Mead Ms. Susan Means Mr. Jesus H. Medrano and Ms. Bonnie Rideout Ms. Beverly J. Melani Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Meldrum Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mercer Mr. Albert Messina Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyer Adam Meyerson and Nina Shea Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Mica Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Mihaly Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mikolashek Mr. Dave Millard and Mrs. Mary Ann Best Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Miller Mr. Paul Miller Mr. Scott P. Miller and Ms. Susan Miller John Mingus and Carolyn Yocom Ms. Cathy S. Minns Cynthia Mirsky Gina Mitchell Judith A. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell Mrs. Jacqueline G. Mock Dr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Molen Scott and Lynn Molitor Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mollett Mr. and Mrs. C. Braxton Moncure Montague Family Ms. Susan Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Montgomery Wanda and Roger Monthey Darrell Moore Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Moorhead Angela Moreland Mrs. Judy Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Morr Mrs. Judith Koper Morris Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery A. Morrow Ms. Martha Morse Mr. John A. Moulson Mr. Jeff Mueller Ann and Craig Muhlhauser Mrs. Shirley V. Myers N.C. Society of Cincinnati Ms. Carolyn Nahigian Ms. Joanie D. Nasher National Chicken Council National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution National Society of Washington Family Descendants Mr. Dan A. Neely Mr. and Mrs. George E. Nelson New World Somewhere Fund Mr. and Mrs. Louis Newell Mr. and Mrs. Adair Newhall Mr. Phillip B. Newman III Nicholson Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David O. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Noble Mr. Andrew Noha Noland Foundation

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Mr. David Nordahl Bobby Norton Dr. and Mrs. Richard Obregon Ms. Cecelia Olives Mr. and Mrs. Tony Onorato Mr. and Mrs. John Ordway The Oregon Community Foundation Bonnie Outman Mr. and Mrs. Dean M. Owens Ms. Olga Paradis Brenda P. Parker Sara Suzanne Parker William Parker Michael and Lorraine Parrish Ms. Cindy Parrott Mr. and Mrs. Michael Patrick David Patten Mr. and Mrs. David A. Paukovich Mr. John Pellett and Ms. Sally S. Marfing Zack Pendarvis Robert S. Perkin CDR and Mrs. Clifford S. Perrin Mr. Bernd Pesler Mrs. Beverly J. Peterson Ms. Christie Phillips Mr. Brian Pickerall and Hon. Kathleen Miller Ms. Jan Marie Pickrel Mrs. Nina H. Pillsbury ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pittman Mr. Mark A. Platt and Mrs. Julia E. McLellan Politico Mr. Michael D. Pollard Poole Braun Team Mrs. Virginia Poole Mrs. Evelyn M. Poole-Kober Mrs. Marilyn Porter Mr. Jonathan F. Potter Mr. and Mrs. David D. Prescott Ms. Rosalind Pretzfelder Bill and Carrington Price Price-Blake Family Foundation Inc. Jennifer Pritzker Private Tours of Washington Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Propts Mr. Albert Pylinski, Jr. Victor Quiroga Wade Radford Mrs. Christine Ralphs Mrs. Lee Ramer Mrs. Carol K. Randall Ms. Teresa Rankin Colonel and Mrs. Victor G. Raphael Mr. Daniel B. Rather Mary and Ross Read Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Reaves Mrs. J. Woodward Redmond Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Reed Ms. Nancy Reed Dr. Bernard Reen III Mr. James Regino Ms. Jane Reiser Mr. David F. Remington Mr. and Mrs. John J. Renner II Ms. Kathy E. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Brian Rhame The Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati Billie Rich Ann Richards Keith Richards, MD Mrs. Sarah E. Richards Mr. and Mrs. J. Kemp Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Richardson Ms. Jane Richbourg Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ricketts Ms. Robin A. Rinaca Mr. and Mrs. Steve Risner Ms. Sheila Ritsch Margaret Rivas Dwain Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Robin Roberts Mr. James Roberts and Ms. Julie D. Carter Mr. Timothy J. Robinson Mr. Loren M. Rogers Ms. Phyllis B. Rogers William Romenius Ms. Meredith Roscoe Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Ross Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Roth Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Roth Mr. Michael P. Rucker Laura Rue Mr. James L. Rumizen Mr. Neal Ryan S&W Controls, Inc. Mrs. Brenda D. Salm Carolyn Sampson Ms. Sondra Sampson Mr. Alexander Samuel Mr. Christopher S. Sargent Mr. and Mrs. John A. Sargent Mr. and Mrs. Julian Saul Ms. Chris M. Sauld and Mr. William K. Tolar Ms. Lara Sayer and Mr. Cory Young Mrs. Ethel M. Scarlett Mr. Bruce Schaaf Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schaefer Mr. and Mrs. Brian Schaub Kristina Ingrid and Thomas Gerard Schendt Mr. Theodore G. Schmidt, Jr. Greg Schniegenberg Mr. Gerhardt H. Schrage ‡ Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schreiber Mr. Rob Schuler and Ms. Stephanie Triko Mr. and Mrs. Allan Schultz Mrs. Colleen C. Schumaker Mr. James A. Scoggin Mrs. John H. Scott Wesley Scott Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Semon Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Semple Ms. Janette Sena Ms. Ruth Sharp Mr. Charles Sharretts Ms. Judy Sheakley Mr. Albert J. Sheffield Dr. Daniel Sherman and Ms. Michele Hartlove Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Shiver Mr. Frank Shoemaker Capt and Mrs. Robert H. Shrouds Sybille Sidden Mr. Lou Sidney The Leo J. Signaigo Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Cris Simmons Adelia Garro Simplot Simply Sabrina Terry and Faith Sincich Mrs. Thalia Sinnamon Mr. and Mrs. David L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Smith Mr. Robert Smith Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Smith

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Mrs. T. Eugene Smith Ms. Virginia Smith Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Harrell Smith IV John Smyth Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Smyth Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Somerville Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sparks Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Speight Mr. and Mrs. Brandon J. Spencer Mr. Victor F. Splan and Ms. Patrice Kelly Mr. Skip Sroka and Mr. John Kammeier Mr. and Mrs. Dave St. Onge Mr. John Staelin and Ms. Elizabeth Locke Mr. Ross Staffhurst Douglas Stafford Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Stasiowski Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Staudt Doug and Margaret Stay Mr. Walter Steimel, Jr. and Ms. Lauren E. Freeman Ms. Rhonda Stemmer Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Sterrett, Jr. David Stevens Mr. Timothy D. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Preston Stiner Mr. and Mrs. Guy M. Stinson Mrs. Marion P. Stone Mr. William F. Stone, Jr. Ms. Barbara Story Ms. Mary Strand Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Strasser, Jr. Ms. Teresa Straw Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Streeter Mr. Larry Sturgeon and Mr. John Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Sullivan Mr. Dean Summers Summit Wealth Management Supreme Forest T.C.L. Mr. and Mrs. Matti Suzuki Michael D. Swanson, MD Mr. John J. Swartz Mr. Stephen R. Swartz Dr. and Mrs. Michael Sweeney Mr. and Mrs. David Swezey Mr. and Mrs. Michael Synge Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Tague Mrs. Lynn Tanguay Nancy Tate Mr. and Mrs. Allen Taylor Mr. M. S. Thomas and Ms. Mary Lenzini Mrs. Regina M. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. J. Timothy Thompson Mrs. Mary Thompson Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Thompson Mr. Jack C. Threet Mr. Tito Tiberti Ambassador Warren W. Tichenor Mr. and Mrs. Roger Tieman Mr. Holland Timmins Ms. Kimberly Tolman Joanna G. Toole Ms. Jan Tracy Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Travis Mr. Mark A. Treadwell and Ms. Patricia E. Anderson Ms. Patricia A. Trout Mr. Gary Troy Mr. Robert Truan Lizbeth Trustee TTR Sotheby’s Mrs. Elizabeth G. Tullis

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tuohig Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Turcotte Eve-Lyn Cobey Turmail and Brian Turmail Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs. William G. L. Turner Mr. Scott M. Uhl Erich and Gabriel Umar Mr. and Mrs. Rick Unbehaun Ms. Kay Unvererth Ms. Janet C. Uribe Frances Usher Matthew and Angela Vahue Christian Valentine Mr. and Mrs. Milton Valera Mr. and Mrs. Tom E. van Gorder Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Van Metre, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Van Name Linda Vanella and Frank Concerto Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Varacalli, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth W. Varsa Ms. Valerie Vashio Ms. Mabel Vasquez Mr. Stephen P. Vaughn Mr. and Mrs. Steve Veletsis Ms. Elsa Velez and Ms. Bianca Kerrigan Mr. and Mrs. Bob E. Vincent Robert and Susan Vincent Mr. Paul Von Gahl Stephen and Charla Voss Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Vuori Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Walker, Jr. Dr. John Wallace Brad and Cyndy Wallin Ms. Julia Walz Mrs. Patricia Wangeman Ms. Julie L. Wanslow and Mr. Kenneth A. Shuster Ms. Katherine J. Ward Mr. Thomas S. Ward George Washington Masonic National Memorial The Honorable and Mrs. William H. Webster Chuck and Lucy Weller Dr. William L. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh Mr. and Mrs. Fowler C. West John Weston and Kate Cappaert Mr. and Mrs. James N. Westwood, Esq. The Wetmore Family Foundation Ms. Frances C. Wheeler RDML (Ret) and Mrs. Garry R. White Mr. and Mrs. George H. White III Mrs. Linda L. White Mr. Raymond A. White Mrs. Ann Wick Lanette Wickham Mr. and Mrs. Boyd J. Wiedenman Mr. and Mrs. Justin Wilcox Brahna Wilczynski Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkirson Lt Col W.B. Willard, Jr. USA (Ret) Ms. Patricia Williams Ms. Penny E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Rushton M. Williamson, Jr. RADM Louise C. and Mr. James E. Wilmot Karen H. Wilson Mr. Robert C. Wilson and Mrs. Sara Najjar-Wilson Mrs. Corinne Winburn Dr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Wise Chuck Wise

Mrs. Karen E. Wise Mr. Robert Witajewski Miss Isabella G. Witt Bethany Witte Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wood Mr. John G. Wood Mr. and Mrs. John R. Woodhull Jillian Woodworth Mr. James T. Workman Mr. and Mrs. James Wright Liza and Chris Wright Mrs. Melissa C. Wynne Mr. and Mrs. George Yamnitzky Mr. and Mrs. Billy Yarborough Mrs. Carol A. Yarnall

Carol Yeager Mr. and Mrs. William L. Yeager The Robert and Edith Young Family Foundation Dr. Edward Zaiko and Dr. Ivana Pelnar-Zaiko Ms. Deborah Zaloznik and Mr. Ernest Zaloznik Mr. and Mrs. David Zazworsky Mrs. Lauren A. Zboril Mr. Todd M. Zelnick Mr. John E. Zemansky Kimberly Zenz John Zimmerman Mr. and Mrs. Tmitri J. Zukowski Mr. Stephen Zynda

Ann Pamela Cunningham Society Members of the Ann Pamela Cunningham Society have remembered Mount Vernon in their estate plans or provided for a planned gift, such as a bequest in their will or establishing a charitable annuity. Its namesake, Miss Cunningham, founded the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union in 1853 and tirelessly gathered support from across America to rescue George Washington’s home and ensure his legacy endures.

Judith M. Allen Mr. ‡ and Mrs. James E. Allison Anonymous (13) Mr. and Mrs. ‡ Armstrong Phyllis A. Bailey Mark S. Barbaro Ms. Donna H. Barr Mr. Russell Baum Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Beck Mr. and Mrs. George P. Benz Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Berkeley Warren and Laura Bingham Mary Lang Bishop and C. Morton Bishop III Ronald and Lenetta Bixler Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Black Ann and John Bookout Maribeth and Wm. Harold Borthwick Mr. Evan Bowler Mr. Richard T. Bretches Edith H. Brewster Prudence A. Broadwell Ms. Barbara Broman Mr. Joseph S. Buc Ms. Karen J. Buege Dennis ‡ and Marlene Burke John Bushman Mrs. Richard W. Call Maj. Daniel K. Chandler, USA (Ret) and LCDR. Neysa M. Slater-Chandler Richard and Betsy Cheek Dr. Douglas E. Clark Earl F. Clayton Joseph Merryman Coale III Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Mrs. George R. Cole Gilbert S. Conn Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cornyn Ms. Nancy E. Cortese Candace and Charles Cowan Mrs. Barbara L. Cox Theodore and St. Clair Craver Richard A. and Janice M. Crosby Mr. and Mrs. James F. Crumpacker Mr. Fred Dailey

Keith B. ‡ and Mary A. Daniels Col. William Bruce Danskine Mrs. William Lipscomb Davis, Jr. Spencer Dayton Mr. Vincenzo Devito Paul and Nancy Downes Paul Drew Eva R. Duggins Miss Deanne Dullea Ms. Barbara Early Mr. George H. Eatman James ‡ and Nancy Eberhardt Barbara Edington Carrie E. Edwards Dr. Ronald L. Eshleman ‡ and Dr. Judith N. Eshleman Donald G. and Sandra Brown ‡ Everist Mr. and Mrs. J. Hap Fauth Mrs. Kathleen T. Ford Judith Foreman CAPT and Mrs. ‡ J. Compton French, Jr. USN (RET) LTC Carolyn J. Friedle (Ret.) Mr. and Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines Fredrick L. Geisler Carolyn J. Gill Golden Retrievers of Ginger Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gomez Eleanor Gomolinski-Lally Ms. Taffy Gould John A. Grady Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Gregory, Jr. Richard and Claire Griffin Kenneth J. and Linda J. Grimes Dr. and Mrs. Randolph H. Guthrie Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Benjamin A. Hagood Richard Ten Haken Thomas P. and Charlene D. Hand Steve and Patty Harrison Mr. and Mrs. ‡ Ray C. Hawn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson III Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. Henke III Jamie Anne Higgins Elizabeth Whitesides Holdsworth 2024 Annual Report

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Bob and Jeanne Howlett Mr. and Mrs. John J. Huber Wayne Huber Mary F. Hume Holliday Hurd and Gus Polichron Mr. John Peters Irelan Mr. Robert Irwin Louise G. Jenne Virginia Hurt Johnson Frederic ‡ and Marsha Julius Auntie Karyn John B. and Emily M. Kendrick Mrs. Helen Kirkpatrick Dieter and Ruth ‡ Kluin Barbara Knopke Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kuranko Patricia A. Lachman Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lane Richard and Donna Larson Helen Herboth Laughery Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Robert W. Lawson III Larry L. Ledbetter Lt Col Bryan L. Lee, USA-Ret Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Leftik Mr. and Mrs. A. Michael Lipper Mr. and Mrs. ‡ Christopher M. Little Barbara B. and Benjamin F. Lucas II Mr. Michael Magruder Ms. Charlene M. Mann Ms. Angela Marchese Elizabeth Rollins Mauran David Maxfield Mr. and Mrs. George L. Mayer Catherine H. and Michael R. Mayton Nathan and Valerie McCarry Dr. John McCusker and Mrs. Ann Van Pelt Daniel and Deborah McGinn Ms. Lucy McLean Mr. Michael Alan McReynolds Mark Melchiori Mr. Joseph N. Meli Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Miller Ms. Joan W. Miller Mr. ‡ and Mrs. William E. Minshall Larry Mobley and Emily Ettinger Frances Edmonds (Mohr) and Michael Mohr Dr. Bruce and Julie Molen Scott and Lynn Molitor Wanda and Roger Monthey Mr. and Mrs. P. William Moore, Jr. Thomas and Mary Donna Morr Judith Koper Morris Bruce and Myrna Morrison Ms. Alice Navasargian David Donald Nelson Mr. Dale Newlin Janice B. Norcutt Mr. Benjamin Nulton, Jr. Jeff and Mary Jane Olhasso Eleanor R. Page Mr. Robert E. Page David and Christa Pannorfi John D. and Allison Peebles Dr. Ivana Pelnar-Zaiko and Dr. Edward J. Zaiko Ms. Bernice Perkins Anne Neal Petri and Thomas E. Petri David and Tommye Powell Martha K. Preston Ms. Rosalind Pretzfelder Bruce and Corrinne Radford 62

Dr. Bruce Ragsdale Ms. M. E. Rand Mr. ‡ and Mrs. J. Woodward Redmond Barry L. Rice Melody Sawyer Richardson Ronnie R. Richardson Mrs. Charlene Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Rohde Mr. and Mrs. Mike Rorie Jane Rose Dr. Tamzin A. Rosenwasser Mrs. John Schley Rutherford Mr. Thomas A. Sachs Mr. and Mrs. Sans Miss Ann Sargent William H. ‡ and Ilona S. Savage Shirley Scafetta Mark and Rosemary Schlachter Dr. Michael Schreiber Mr. James A. Schroeder Kurt and Margaret Semon Ms. Cheryl Sharp Mr. and Mrs. Everette C. Sherrill Mrs. Nelson T. Shields III Kate Shuster Susan H. Silveira Mr. ‡ and Mrs. Albert H. Small The Reverend Letitia L. Smith Paul J. Smith, Jr. Mr. Richard N. Smith Kim Sommer Carolyn and David Soper Sarah J. Spicer Judith M. St Aubin Robert A. Stein, MD Helen S. Stevenson Margaret M. Stewart Thea Stidum Timothy and Monika Stoy Ms. K. Anne Street Harold W. and Mary O. Sundstrom Kevin and Sylvia Sutton Mary Ann Taylor Brian and Cynthia Tennant Mr. Roger J. Tieman Richard and Karen Toth Mrs. Elizabeth G. Tullis Lt Col (Ret) and Mrs. William G. L. Turner Mr. Rick D. Unbehaun Mr. Harlow G. Unger John J. ‡ and Sylvia D. Valloric James and Nancy Van Metre Mrs. Mary C. Vassallo Mr. and Mrs. John D. Veatch Paul Verdinella The Honorable William F.B. Vodrey Ms. Suzanne L. Walck Patricia Wangeman The Honorable ‡ and Mrs. John W. Warner Ms. Carol A. Widmayer Sondra K. Williams Don ‡ and Kay Wilson Miss Virginia Wood Ms. Elizabeth R. Woodman Miss Ruth Wren Ms. Bridget Wright Ms. Karen Buchwald Wright and Mr. Tom Rastin Donna J. Zeck Mrs. Teresa Zeitz

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Legacy Gifts Mount Vernon is grateful to the members of the Ann Pamela Cunningham Society whose planned gifts have left a lasting impact. Their legacy lives on at George Washington’s home.

Mr. Russell B. Adams, Jr. CPT and Mrs. Richard Alexander Anonymous (8) Shepard and Boyce Ansley C. Joseph Arbogast Nancy Bagwell Margaret Jane Barton Marilyn G. Bernard Robert and Kathleen Best Mrs. A. Smith Bowman Margrett Buchholz Jean B. Burnett Sylvia Button Mr. Jack A. Buzbee William H. Carothers, Jr. Ms. Joan Cataldo Mr. Harry L. Clark Adelaide Comegys Martin C. Coren Mr. W. Alan Dayton Mrs. Helene L. Deboe Mrs. Arthur J. Dewey, Jr. Enid Storm Dwyer Mr. John C. and Mrs. Paula P. Evans The Donald H. Evory Trust Mrs. Elizabeth M. Falk Mr. Robert D. Fisher Selma G. Fleisher Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Gammill III Alexander (“Sandy”) Gaston Gene R. Gilchrist CDR James T. Gobbel, Jr. USN (Ret.) Dolores Grammatikas Mr. William Grau, Jr. William R. Griffiths and Dorthy W. Griffiths Ms. Kathryn L. Hafer Mrs. Randall H. Hagner, Jr. Frances Hallada Ray and Betty Hannah Mr. Stephen W. Hartwell II Dorothy Compton Marks Herbruck Richard A. Higgins Dr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Hollis The Honorable and Mrs. A. Linwood Holton Paul and Sally Houdayer James W. Howard Heather Karen Hunt Norma M. Jayne

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keadle G. M. Kirchner Gerhardt and Barbara Kraske Marilyn A. Kubu Mr. and Mrs. Constantine L. Lagakis Dr. Janet K. Lecklider Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee IV Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. Ms. Sarah E. Lobban Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lohrey Ms. Irma S. Macy Dr. Leonard Madison and Mrs. Geana Madison Lucille J. Marottoli John W. Mason Douglas Clinton McDougal Mr. Denman K. McNear William Mirra David Moore Nancy J. Moser Jane Pumphrey Nes Dr. Ronald N. Ollstein Mr. David A. Overton Francis and Margaret Paca Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Peebles Ms. Ann G. Prothro William L. Race Patricia S. Robinson Dolores M. Sabalos, Ph.D. Ms. Kathryn A. Sansome Ms. Sandra A. Sawicki Mr. Willard H. Scott, Jr. Pauline Shermar Mrs. Tom K. Smith, Jr. Miss Millicent R. Stoltz Mr. Donald Taulman Carl M. Tenny Mr. Evert Tigner, Jr. Mrs. Helen Timberlake Marion Turner Tse Van Deo Mrs. Letitia R. Wallace Stephen K. and Ann W. West The Honorable and Mrs. Henry K. Willard II Mr. Douglas D. Williams Alfred Woodill Ms. Teresa K. Wren Mary D. Wright Robert and Anne Zelle

Memorial Gifts Special gifts were made during 2024 in memory of the following individuals: Wynn William Anderson Angie Aquila Joe Arbogast Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Bauer Dennis Brittingham Joel W. Chapman Katherine Christy Mary Higgins Clark

Donald V. “Don” Colley Jeffrey R. Dacus Janis Sayre Downs Rusty Embrey Nancy Emison Mrs. Virginia B. Harding Ferguson Mindy Fetterman Dr. J. Edward Fisher

‡ = Deceased

Leo Paul Francisco Douglas S. Frazier Patricia Anne Frazier Nancy Garozzo Gregory John Glessner Judy Grant Lt. Robert Harris Janet Hovis Betty Wold Johnson William Bryan Kelly James Lemon Queen Esther Makell Robert Messenger Mo and Jean Nafzinger Richard Nelson LTC Charles Robert Odom, USA (Ret’d)

Kermit T. Paulos James Penick Felipe Propper de Callejon William M. Romano Chris Rose Joe Snyder George Soganic Ken Spratlin Dr. Ouida Faye Taylor Wilma Van Deman Phillis Wheatley Shirley Whitney Helm Sandra Wiese Florence Keys Willard Wiley C. Wilson

Matching Gifts Mount Vernon is grateful to the following corporations and foundations that match gifts from their employees and board members to Mount Vernon. To find out if your company matches gifts, please visit: doublethedonation.com/mountvernon.

AARP America’s Charities Ameriprise Financial Amgen Foundation Matching Gifts and Staff Volunteer Program Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. Bayer Corporation The Benevity Community Impact Fund Blackbaud Giving Fund Boeing Gift Matching Program Bright Funds Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation BWX Technologies, Inc. Caterpillar Foundation Constellation Brands, Inc. Cybergrants Exelon Foundation Matching Gifts Program Give Lively Foundation, Inc. Goldman Sachs Gives

The Home Depot Foundation Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Matching Gifts Program J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Inc. Lilly Endowment Inc. Lockheed Martin Corporation Merck Foundation Nordson Charitable Giving Programs Norfolk Southern Foundation Paypal Giving Fund PNC Foundation Matching Gift Program Portland General Electric Employee Giving Campaign Sherwin Williams TD Bank Group Texas Instruments Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation Wisk

Volunteers The Mount Vernon Volunteers Program is now in its 32nd year.

Our team of approximately 256 active volunteers provided 22,318 hours of support across the estate in 2024. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association is grateful for the time, energy, and dedication of the volunteers.

American Eagle of Freedom Award

(more than 15,000 cumulative hours) Dick Noble (emeritus)

The George Washington Award (more than 7,500 cumulative hours) Andrea Boyce Faye Holland (emerita) Cal McWhirter (emeritus)

Eagle of Excellence Award (more than 5,000 cumulative hours) Judi Paulos Pat Veatch Richard Walsh

Platinum Eagle Award (more than 3,500 cumulative hours) Bob Simoniz Cheryl Sharp Diane Kapanowski Judy Morrill Debra Schwartz Linda Durand

Golden Eagle Award

(more than 2,000 cumulative hours) Jan Mikolashek Carol Boland Mickey Fenyk-King Carolyn Ostrom Bill Kane Julia Gluck Pat Duffy Susan Finkel Jack Coulter Ed Coan Nancy Harper Pat Creswick

Stevi Will Sharon Fletcher Rose Gunthorpe Bob Howlett Margaret Snow Sandy Ross Mary Jane Holt Mary Klappa Tom Sparks

Silver Eagle Award

(more than 1,000 cumulative hours) Jonathan Hill James Carty Gay Massarsky Pat Getz Gail Eger Tom Clutz Larry Ledbettter Kitty Ahmad Pam Broka Barbara Diehl Betty Davis Stephen Fahy Elaine Harar Delores Taylor Kathy McLoughlin Jeanne Howlett Kathy LaBarre Irene Schubert Larry Porter Mitch King Ann Ewers Trish Klingenmaier

Executive Staff Douglas Bradburn, PhD, President & CEO Julie Almacy, Vice President, Media & Communications Joe Bondi, Senior Vice President, Development Lindsay M. Chervinsky, PhD, Executive Director, George Washington Presidential Library Joan Flintoft, Vice President, Hospitality Phil Manno, Chief Financial Officer Susan P. Schoelwer, PhD, Executive Director, Historic Preservation & Collections & Robert H. Smith Senior Curator Joseph Sliger, Vice President, Operations & Maintenance K. Allison Wickens, Vice President, Education

George Washington Eagle Award

(more than 10,000 cumulative hours) Darlene MacPherson (emerita) Ray Hawn (emeritus)

Disclaimer

All contributions to Mount Vernon are tax-deductible under the limits of the law. The support of the many generous donors listed on these pages is deeply appreciated by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, as is the support of the thousands more who made gifts of less than $1,000. Although every effort has been made to include all donors who support Mount Vernon with gifts of $1,000 or more, omissions and errors occasionally occur. We reserve the right to edit listings to comply with our organizational style guide. We would appreciate corrections and additions forwarded to the Senior Vice President for Development, The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, P.O. Box 110, Mount Vernon, VA 22121.

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The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association Program Committees EXECUTIVE Officers Margaret Nichols, Regent (2021–2024) Andrea Sahin, Secretary (2021–2024) Anne Petri, Treasurer (2021–2024) Members-at-Large Catherine Waddell (2021–2023) Susan Townsend (2022–2024) Adrian Jay (2023-2025) GOVERNANCE Lucia Henderson, Chair Mary Bishop Maribeth Borthwick Sarah Coulson Andrea Sahin Catherine Waddell Hilary West

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AUDIT Cammie Mayer, Chair Elizabeth Hale Karen Kirby Liz Mauran Susan McCarthy Hilary West COLLECTIONS Ann Bookout, Chair Sarah Coulson Adrian Jay Helen Laughery Catherine Mayton Susan McCarthy Ann Pyne DEVELOPMENT Karen Kirby, Chair Mary Bishop Helen Laughery Catherine Mayton Ann Scott Susan Townsend

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EDUCATION Catherine Waddell, Chair Helen Laughery Liz Mauran Susan McCarthy Anne Petri Ann Pyne Ann Scott Hilary West FINANCE Ann Bookout, Chair Maribeth Borthwick Sarah Coulson Lucia Henderson Anne Petri Ann Scott HORTICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, & FORESTRY Catherine Mayton, Chair Sarah Alijani Mary Bishop Elizabeth Hale Virginia Lane Cammie Mayer Anne Petri Susan Townsend Hilary West

INVESTMENT Maribeth Borthwick, Chair Sarah Alijani Adrian Jay Helen Laughery Catherine Mayton Susan Townsend Catherine Waddell LIBRARY & LEADERSHIP Sarah Coulson, Chair Ann Bookout Maribeth Borthwick Karen Kirby Anne Petri Catherine Waddell Hilary West MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS Liz Mauran, Chair Elizabeth Hale Lucia Henderson Adrian Jay Laura Rutherford

PRESERVATION Susan Townsend, Chair Sarah Alijani Elizabeth Hale Lucia Henderson Karen Kirby Cammie Mayer Liz Mauran Andrea Sahin VIEWSHED Virginia Lane, Chair Elizabeth Hale Adrian Jay Liz Mauran Laura Rutherford Hilary West

Ad Hoc Committees & Task Forces

Record of the Members of the MVLA

CAMPAIGN FOR MOUNT VERNON Andrea Sahin, Co-Chair Catherine Waddell, Co-Chair Karen Kirby, Development Liaison

Regents Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, 1853–1874; resigned 1874; died May 1, 1875 Mrs. J. Scott Laughton, (née Lily Macalester, later Madame Berghmans), 1874; died 1891 Mrs. Howard Townsend, 1891–1909; died 1912 Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys, 1909; died 1927 Mrs. Alice Haliburton Richards, 1927; died 1936 Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, 1937; died 1942 Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks, 1943–1948; died 1959 Mrs. Albert Harkness, (formerly Mrs. Thomas Ives Hare Powel), 1948–1958; died 1974 Mrs. Francis F. Beirne, 1958–1968; died 1969 Mrs. Thomas Turner Cooke, 1968–1976; died 1993 Mrs. John H. Guy, Jr., 1976–1982; died 2016 Mrs. Thomas Dunaway Anderson, 1982–1986; died 2013 Mrs. Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., 1986–1990; died 2010 Mrs. Clarence Morton Bishop, Jr., 1990–1993; died 2007 Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette, 1993–1996 Mrs. Robert E. Lee IV, 1996–1999; died 2019 Mrs. James M. Walton, 1999–2004 Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines, 2004–2007 Mrs. Shepard B. Ansley, 2007–2010; died 2016

PAVILION TASK FORCE Ann Scott, Chair Lucia Henderson Helen Laughery Cammie Mayer Susan Townsend QUARTERS TASK FORCE Sarah Coulson, Chair Maribeth Borthwick Ann Pyne Susan Townsend TRADITIONS & GRACIOUSNESS Laura Rutherford, Chair Mary Bishop Catherine Mayton

Ann Haunschild Bookout, 2010–2013 Barbara Bourgeois Lucas, 2013–2016 Sarah Miller Coulson, 2016-2021 Margaret Hartman Nichols, 2021-2024 Anne Neal Petri, 2024Vice Regents ALABAMA Madame Henry S. LeVert, 1858; died 1877 Mrs. Hilary Herbert, 1882; died 1884 Miss Leila Herbert, 1894; died 1897 Mrs. Robert D. Johnston, 1900; died 1934 Mrs. Morris Williams Bush, 1946; resigned 1959; died 1971 Mrs. Preston H. Haskell, Jr., 1963; died 1971 Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette, 1983; resigned 2001; Regent 1993–1996; Vice Regent Emerita 2002 Laura Peebles Rutherford, 2005 ARIZONA Mrs. Arthur Newton Pack, 1962; resigned 1984; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2000 ARKANSAS Mrs. Robert Ward Johnson, 1859; died 1862 Mrs. Charles Gordon Scott, 1872; resigned 1878; died 1910 Mrs. Celsus Price Perrie, 1919; resigned 1922; died 1938 Mrs. J. Fairfax Loughborough, 1932; died 1962

Mrs. Henry Hollenberg (formerly Mrs. John McCaughey Harrison), 1970; resigned 1982; Associate Vice Regent 1982; died 2011 Mrs. Sam Buchanan, 1995; resigned 2006; Vice Regent Emerita 2007 Catherine Hamilton Mayton, 2012 CALIFORNIA Mrs. William Blanding, 1859; resigned 1884; died 1885 Mrs. George Hearst, 1889; resigned 1918; died 1919 Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler, 1920; resigned 1940; died 1952 Mrs. Lockwood de Forest, 1956; died 1984 Mrs. Richard W. Call, 1984; resigned 2001; Vice Regent Emerita 2002 Maribeth Armstrong Borthwick, 2002 COLORADO Mrs. Nathaniel P. Hill, 1889; died 1908 Mrs. Horton Pope, 1919; resigned 1947; died 1950 Mrs. David A. Pfaelzer, 1970; resigned 1986; Vice Regent Emerita 1986; died 2019 Mrs. Eileen M. Olander, formerly Vice Regent for Kansas, 1986; resigned 1995; Vice Regent Emerita 1995; died 2015 Mrs. Andrew W. Armour IV, 1996; resigned 2000 Judith Wilson Grant, 2017; died 2020 Sarah Seaman Alijani, 2022 2024 Annual Report

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CONNECTICUT Mrs. Samuel G. Goodrich, 1858; resigned 1864; died 1868 Mrs. Susan E. Johnson Hudson, 1870; died 1913 Miss Annie Burr Jennings, 1915; died 1939 Mrs. Wilmarth S. Lewis, 1942; died 1959 Mrs. Clifton McCausland Bockstoce, 1965; resigned 1990; Vice Regent Emerita 1990; died 1995 Clare N. Cooley Edwards, 1992; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018 DELAWARE Mrs. Joseph P. Comegys, 1858; died 1888 Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys, 1888; resigned 1927; Regent 1909–1927; died 1927 Mrs. Antoine Lentilhon Foster, 1911; died 1934 Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, 1937; resigned 1958; died 1975 Mrs. C. Lalor Burdick, 1961; resigned 1983; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2007 Miss Elizabeth N. du Pont, 1985; resigned 1986; died 1989 Mrs. Nelson T. Shields III, 1987; resigned 2001; Vice Regent Emerita 2002 Mrs. Calhoun W. Wick, 2001; resigned 2004 Susan Marshall Townsend, 2005 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mrs. George W. Riggs, Acting Vice Regent 1858; appointed 1867; resigned 1868; died 1871 Mrs. William H. Emory, 1870; resigned 1871; died 1900 Mrs. Joseph K. Barnes, 1873; died 1912 Miss Jane A. Riggs, 1912; died 1930 Miss Helen Louise Sargent, 1931; died 1948 Miss Constance Ellen Tyler, 1952; died 1963 Mrs. Randall H. Hagner, Jr., 1965; resigned 1991; died 2007 Mrs. Richard H. Streeter, 1992; resigned 2000; Associate Vice Regent 2000 Lucia Bosqui Henderson, 1999; resigned 2014 to become Vice Regent for Virginia Mrs. Togo D. West, Jr., 2014; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018 Hilary Carter West, 2020 FLORIDA Madame Achille Murat, 1858; died 1867 Mrs. David Levy Yulee, 1868; died 1884 Mrs. James M. Baker, 1888; died 1901 Mrs. Thomas Palmer Denham, 1913; resigned 1948; died 1950 Mrs. LeRoy Collins, 1961; resigned 1982; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2009 Mrs. John K. Aurell, 1985; resigned 2000; Vice Regent Emerita 2000 Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines, 2000; resigned 2013; Regent 2004–2007; Vice Regent Emerita 2014 Claudia Puig Amundsen, 2014; resigned 2019; Vice Regent Emerita 2019 66

GEORGIA Mrs. William J. Eve, 1858; died 1889 Mrs. Joseph John Wilder, 1891; died 1914 Mrs. Jefferson Randolph Anderson, 1919; resigned 1949; died 1956 Mrs. Barnwell Cubbedge, 1958; resigned 1969; died 1985 Mrs. Frank Anderson Chisholm, 1971; resigned 1986; Vice Regent Emerita 1986; died 2015 Boyce Lineberger Ansley, 1987; Regent 2007–2010; died 2016 Elizabeth Medlin Hale, 2018

KENTUCKY Mrs. Alexander Jeffrey, 1858; resigned 1885; died 1894 Mrs. George W. Woodward, 1885; resigned 1889, re-appointed 1891; died 1897 Mrs. William F. Barret, 1901; died 1920 Miss Mary Mason Scott, 1923; died 1934 Mrs. Mason Barret, 1938; resigned 1953; died 1955 Mrs. Walter N. Haldeman, 1960; resigned 1974; died 1984 Mrs. Phillip B. Newman III, 1985; resigned 2000; Vice Regent Emerita 2000; died 2017

IDAHO Mrs. Richard R. Simplot, 1999; resigned 2010; Vice Regent Emerita 2011

LOUISIANA Mrs. Isaac F. Morse, 1858; resigned 1872; died 1893 Mrs. David Urquhart, 1873; resigned 1876 Mrs. Tobias G. Richardson, 1880; died 1910 Miss Annie Ragan King, 1912; died 1933 Miss Sarah Duncan Butler, 1936; resigned 1960; died 1966 Mrs. Frank G. Strachan, 1963; resigned 1987; Vice Regent Emerita 1987; died 2000 Mrs. Donald J. Nalty, 1990; resigned 1999; Vice Regent Emerita 1999 Cameron Kock Mayer, 2000; resigned 2024; Vice Regent Emerita 2024

ILLINOIS Mrs. William Barry, 1859; died 1883 Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, 1885; died 1913 Mrs. George A. Carpenter, 1916; resigned 1947; died 1948 Mrs. Henry Porter Isham, 1949; resigned 1972; died 1986 Mrs. Erskine Phelps Wilder, Jr., 1976; resigned 1992; Vice Regent Emerita 1992; died 2005 Mrs. Tyler R. Cain, 1994; resigned 2001; Associate Vice Regent 2001; died 2013 Catherine Marlette Waddell, 2013 INDIANA Mrs. Graham Newell Fitch, 1859; died 1880 Mrs. Charles Denby, 1901; died 1906 Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott, 1914; resigned 1932; died 1933 Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz, 1936; resigned 1978; Honorary Vice Regent 1978; died 1979 Mrs. James T. Neal, 1982; resigned 1994; Vice Regent Emerita, 1994; died 2023 Mrs. Alpha Coles Blackburn, 2008; resigned 2014; Vice Regent Emerita 2014 IOWA Mrs. VerPlanck Van Antwerp, 1858; died 1870 Mrs. John F. Dillon, 1872; resigned 1873; died 1898 Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, 1913; Regent 1937– 1942; died 1942 Mrs. Charles Leslie Brockett (formerly Mrs. Douglas Nelson Gibson), 1955; resigned 1983; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2000 KANSAS Mrs. Milan Lester Ward, 1876; died 1910 Mrs. John V. Abrahams, 1916; resigned 1921 Mrs. John Reynolds Shelton, 1923; resigned 1930; died 1936 Mrs. Earl K. Lord, 1930; died 1956 Mrs. Eileen M. Olander, 1970; resigned 1986 to become Vice Regent for Colorado; resigned 1995; Vice Regent Emerita 1995; died 2015 Mrs. J. Craig McIlvain, 1993; resigned 2003; Associate Vice Regent, 2003

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MAINE Mrs. Josiah S. Little, 1858; resigned 1866; died 1893 Mrs. Lorenzo M. Sweat, 1866; died 1908 Mrs. Alice Haliburton Richards, 1911; Regent 1927; died 1936 Mrs. Harold Lee Berry, 1930; resigned 1968; died 1971 Mrs. William L. Vaughan, 1971; resigned 1987; Vice Regent Emerita 1987; died 2003 Mrs. Everett B. Carson, 1989; resigned 1992 Margaret Hartman Nichols, 2012; Regent 2021–2024 MARYLAND Miss Emily L. Harper, 1866; died 1892 Mrs. George R. Goldsborough, 1893; resigned 1904; died 1906 Mrs. Henry W. Rogers, 1905; died 1931 Mrs. DeCourcy W. Thom, 1935; resigned 1946; died 1963 Mrs. Francis F. Beirne, 1948; Regent 1958–1968; died 1969 Mrs. Robert E. Lee IV (formerly Mrs. Carew C. Rice), 1972; resigned 2006; Regent 1996–1999; Vice Regent Emerita 2007; died 2019 Barbara Bourgeois Lucas, 2008, Regent 2013–2016; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018 MASSACHUSETTS Mrs. Horatio Greenough, 1858; resigned 1865; died 1891 Miss Alice M. Longfellow, 1879; died 1928 Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, 1930; died 1934

Mrs. John Templeman Coolidge, 1940; resigned 1948; died 1964 Mrs. Samuel Cabot, 1949; died 1969 Mrs. Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., 1975; Regent 1986–1990; resigned 1993; Vice Regent Emerita 1993; died 2010 Ms. Elizabeth M. Chapin, 1994; resigned 2008; Vice Regent Emerita 2008 Andrea Notman Sahin, 2011 MICHIGAN Mrs. Elon Farnsworth 1858; resigned 1877; died 1879 Mrs. Joshua Henry Rathbone, 1885; resigned 1918; died 1923 Mrs. Edward H. Parker, 1923; died 1924 Mrs. Benjamin S. Warren, 1925; resigned 1959; died 1968 Mrs. Alexander L. Wiener, 1964; resigned 1989; Vice Regent Emerita 1989; died 1995 Mrs. Lloyd A. Semple, 1990; resigned 2006; Vice Regent Emerita 2007 MINNESOTA Mrs. Henry H. Sibley, 1859; died 1869 Mrs. Charles Eugene Flandrau, 1889; died 1911 Mrs. Charles Eliot Furness, 1914; died 1935 Miss Anna E. Ramsey Furness, 1940; died 1964 Mrs. David Bradford, 1982; resigned 1992; Associate Vice Regent 1994; died 2004 Mrs. J. Hap Fauth, 1995; resigned 2007; Vice Regent Emerita 2008 Susan Brewster McCarthy, 2023 MISSISSIPPI Mrs. William McWillie, 1858; died 1873 Mrs. William Balfour, 1873; resigned 1885; died 1887 Mrs. Kate Walthall Freeman, 1885; resigned 1888; died 1919 Mrs. Benjamin Sherrod Ricks, 1907; resigned 1914; died 1918 Miss Mary Govan Billups, 1916; resigned 1963; died 1971 Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist, 1974; resigned 1990; Vice Regent Emerita 1990; died 2019 Mrs. Stewart Gammill III, 1991; resigned 2011; Vice Regent Emerita 2011 ; died 2024 Susan Stevens Reeder, 2011; resigned 2022; Vice Regent Emerita 2022 MISSOURI Mrs. Robert R. Walton, 1858; resigned 1859; died 1860 Mrs. Wilson Price Hunt, 1860; died 1878 Mrs. Robert Campbell, 1879; died 1882 Mrs. Benjamin Graham, 1893; died 1915 Mrs. Charles Nagel, 1916; resigned 1943; died 1951 Mrs. Marvin E. Holderness, 1948; resigned 1959 to become Vice Regent for Tennessee; died 1970 Mrs. Robert Neill, Jr., 1964; resigned 1973 Mrs. Tom K. Smith, Jr., 1982; resigned 1997; Vice Regent Emerita 1997; died 2023 Ann Cady Scott, 2010

NEBRASKA Mrs. Robert H. Clarkson, 1894; resigned 1900; died 1902 Mrs. Charles F. Manderson, 1900; died 1916 Mrs. Alexander C. Troup, 1923; died 1950

Mrs. Thomas B. Battle, 1982; resigned 1999; Vice Regent Emerita 1999; died 2023 Jean Armfield Sherrill, 2002; resigned 2022; Vice Regent Emerita 2022 Carolyn Sherrill Fuller, 2023

NEVADA Mrs. M. E. Hickman, 1866; resigned 1874 Mrs. John P. Jones, 1875; resigned 1876; died 1936

OHIO Mrs. George H. Pendleton, 1858; resigned 1863; died 1886 Mrs. Emily R. McIlvaine Hewson, 1866; resigned 1873; died 1904 Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell, 1875; died 1890 Miss Mary Lloyd Pendleton, 1893; resigned 1897; died 1929 Mrs. James E. Campbell, 1897; resigned 1902; died 1913 Mrs. Lewis W. Irwin, 1907; died 1916 Mrs. Charles J. Livingood, 1919; resigned 1935; died 1936 Mrs. Chester C. Bolton, 1938; died 1977 Mrs. Kenyon C. Bolton, 1978; resigned 1989; Honorary Vice Regent 1989; died 2014 Mrs. Charles D. Weller, 1996; resigned 2001; Associate Vice Regent 2001 Melody Sawyer Richardson, 2003; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018

NEW HAMPSHIRE Mrs. Salma Hale, 1858; resigned 1861; died 1865 Mrs. Onslow Stearns, 1866; resigned 1873; died 1895 Mrs. Abby Godwin Winder, 1890; died 1906 Miss Harriet L. Huntress, 1914; died 1922 Mrs. Gordon Woodbury, 1929; resigned 1949; died 1966 Mrs. John Lawrence Sullivan, 1952; resigned 1985; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 1994 NEW JERSEY Miss Phebe A. Ogden, 1858; died 1865 Mrs. Nathaniel Norris Halsted, 1868; died 1891 Mrs. Francis S. Conover, 1893; died 1914 Mrs. Willard Hall Bradford, 1915; resigned 1939; died 1941 Mrs. Thomas Turner Cooke, 1946; resigned 1987; Regent 1968–1976; Vice Regent Emerita 1987; died 1993 Mrs. Stephen K. West, 1989; resigned 2005; Vice Regent Emerita 2006; died 2020 Elizabeth Whitesides Holdsworth, 2006; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018 Karen McCabe Kirby, 2020 NEW YORK Miss Mary M. Hamilton (later Mrs. George Lee Schuyler), 1858; resigned 1866; died 1877 Mrs. James Brooks, 1867; resigned 1876; died 1882 Mrs. Howard Townsend, 1876; Regent 1891–1909; resigned 1909; died 1912 Mrs. Philip Schuyler, 1893; resigned 1894; died 1915 Miss Amy Townsend, 1894; died 1920 Mrs. Henry Gold Danforth, 1922; resigned 1948; died 1961 Ms. Thomas Stilwell Lamont, 1952; died 1972 Mrs. Douglas Williams, 1975; resigned 1994; Vice Regent Emerita 1994; died 2006 Mrs. Randolph H. Guthrie, 1996; resigned 2008; Vice Regent Emerita 2009 Ann Sherrill Pyne, 2019 NORTH CAROLINA Mrs. P. K. Dickinson, 1858; resigned 1859; died 1881 Mrs. William Richmond Walker, 1859; died 1908 Mrs. Alexander Boyd Andrews, 1909; died 1915 Mrs. William Ewen Shipp, 1919; died 1936 Mrs. John Witherspoon Labouisse, 1944; resigned 1978; Honorary Vice Regent 1978; died 1985

OKLAHOMA Mrs. Russell Story Tarr, 1947; resigned 1974; died 1988 Mrs. William Vilas Hanks, 1978; resigned 1996; Vice Regent Emerita 1996; died 2006 Mary Elizabeth Creekmore Henke, 1999; resigned 2016, Vice Regent Emerita 2017 OREGON Miss Mary F. Failing, 1907; died 1947 Mrs. Clarence M. Bishop, Jr., 1976; Regent 1990–1993; resigned 1996, Vice Regent Emerita 1997; died 2007 Mrs. James F. Crumpacker, 2001; resigned 2014; Vice Regent Emerita 2014 Mary Lang Bishop, 2017 PENNSYLVANIA Mrs. J. Scott Laughton (née Lily Lytle Macalester; later, Madame Berghmans), 1859; Second Regent 1874–1891; died 1891 Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, 1893; died 1894 Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison, 1896; died 1922 Mrs. William R. Mercer, Jr., 1924; resigned 1928; died 1960 Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Pepper, 1929; resigned 1948; died 1955 Mrs. Henry Norris Platt, 1948; resigned 1983; died 1984 Mrs. Robert McAdoo (formerly Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock, Jr.), 1985; resigned 1988 Mrs. James M. Walton, 1991; Regent 1999–2004; resigned 2007; Vice Regent Emerita 2008 Sarah Miller Coulson, 2011; Regent 2016–2021

RHODE ISLAND Mrs. George I. Chace, 1858; died 1893 Mrs. William Ames, 1894; died 1904 Mrs. John Carter Brown, 1907; resigned 1935; Honorary Vice Regent 1935; died 1936 Mrs. Albert Harkness (formerly Mrs. Thomas Ives Hare Powel), 1936; Regent 1948–1958; resigned 1971; died 1974 Mrs. Richard Alexander, 1978; resigned 1996; Vice Regent Emerita 1996; died 2019 Liz Rollins Mauran, 2009 SOUTH CAROLINA Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, Regent 1853–1874; resigned 1874; died 1875 Mrs. James Chesnut, Sr., 1860; died 1864 Mrs. Francis Wilkinson Pickens, 1866; died 1899 Mrs. John Julius Pringle, 1901; died 1921 Miss Virginia Leigh Porcher, 1924; died 1940 Mrs. Benjamin Allston Moore, 1948; resigned 1967; died 1987 Mrs. Daniel W. Hollis, 1970; resigned 1985; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2015 Mrs. Benjamin A. Hagood, 1987; resigned 2002; Vice Regent Emerita 2003 Virginia Dawson Lane, 2003 TENNESSEE Mrs. Francis B. Fogg, 1858; died 1872 Mrs. Aaron V. Brown, 1874; died 1889 Mrs. Thomas Shapard Webb (née Mary Polk Yeatman), 1893; died 1917 Mrs. Horace Van Deventer, 1920; died 1956 Mrs. Marvin E. Holderness, former Vice Regent for Missouri, 1959; died 1970 Mrs. Alex Pirtle, Jr, 1980; resigned 2000; Vice Regent Emerita 2000; died 2012 Mrs. David Bowlin, 2003; resigned 2003 Mrs. William Lipscomb Davis, Jr., 2006; resigned 2012; Vice Regent Emerita 2013 Adrian MacLean Jay, 2022 TEXAS Miss Ella Hutchins, 1866; resigned 1872; died 1913 Miss Mary E. Maverick, 1873; resigned 1873; died 1891 Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey, 1896; Honorary Vice Regent 1937; died 1938 Mrs. John Mirza Bennett, 1940; died 1963 Mrs. Thomas Dunaway Anderson, 1967; Regent 1982–1986; resigned 1991; Vice Regent Emerita 1991; died 2013 Mrs. W. Temple Webber, Jr., 1992; resigned 2001; Associate Vice Regent 2001 Ann Haunschild Bookout, 2002; Regent 2010–2013 VERMONT Mrs. Hampden Cutts, 1859; resigned 1878; died 1879 Mrs. J. Gregory Smith, 1878; resigned 1884; died 1905

Mrs. Cornelius Low King, 1885; died 1896 Miss Mary Evarts, 1911; resigned 1923; reappointed 1924; died 1928 Mrs. Horace Brown, 1930; resigned 1940; died 1943 Mrs. James Shepard Dennis, 1946; died 1946 Mrs. A. John Holden, Jr., 1961; resigned 1978; Associate Vice Regent 1993; died 2004 Mrs. Arthur J. Dewey, Jr., 1984; resigned 1993; Associate Vice Regent 1994; died 2016 Mrs. Frederick West, 1998; resigned 2000 VIRGINIA Mrs. William F. Ritchie, 1858; resigned 1866; died 1870 Mrs. Thomson Francis Mason, 1872; died 1873 Mrs. Charles B. Ball, 1874; died 1918 Mrs. William R. Cox, 1921; died 1925 Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, 1927; died 1943 Mrs. Edward Clifford Anderson, 1947; resigned 1960; died 1994 Mrs. John H. Guy, Jr., 1963; Regent 1976; resigned 1995; Vice Regent Emerita 1995; died 2016 Mrs. P. William Moore, Jr., 1996; resigned 2014; Vice Regent Emerita 2014 Lucia Bosqui Henderson, formerly Vice Regent for the District of Columbia, 2014 WASHINGTON Mrs. John Leary, 1907; died 1935 Mrs. Stanley D. Lyle, 1944; died 1955 Margaret Appleton Allison, 1985; resigned 2019; Vice Regent Emerita 2019 WEST VIRGINIA Mrs. Lewis William Washington, 1870; died 1898 Mrs. Eugene Van Rensselaer, 1900; died 1923 Miss Constance Lee Peterkin, 1924; resigned 1946; died 1948 Mrs. Augustine Jaquelin Todd, 1955; resigned 1985; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 1987 Mrs. Robert W. Lawson III, 1987; resigned 2009; Vice Regent Emerita 2009 WISCONSIN Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, 1858; died 1902 Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks, 1914; Regent 1943; resigned 1956; died 1959 Mrs. John Cunningham Lobb, 1960; resigned 1962; died 2005 Mrs. Douglas Seaman, 1989; resigned 2001; Vice Regent Emerita 2001 Anne Neal Petri, 2008; Regent 2024WYOMING Mrs. Thomas S. Taliaferro, Jr., 1936; resigned 1950; died 1953 Mrs. John F. Mars, 2003; resigned 2012; Vice Regent Emerita 2013 Helen Herboth Laughery, 2013

2024 Annual Report

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Farewell Address

To The Council of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of June, 1874: LADIES: It was my intention as well as my duty to have met you at this time, and conformed in person to the legal requisition accompanying a resignation so important as mine, but Providence does not permit.

I am at present not only unequal to such a journey, but the serious state of my health requires me, instead of turning my face towards the “spot” for which, since 1853, I have lived, labored and almost died, to seek the best medical skill, with the hope of prolonging, if possible, a life yet needed to finish what I began so many long years ago. One more duty is before me—one I regard as important—though circumstances have combined to make it now a very sad one.

It would have been a pleasure to have met, once more, those who have labored with me in our vineyard from the “early hour,” though now their numbers are so few; those who appreciated my work; its motives, its sacrifices; whether they were of the “early” or “eleventh” hour sister laborers; and to have taken a kindly farewell of all whose hearts have been, like my own, single unto their patriotic work—but it is not to be.

I will not yet, however, utterly resign the hope that I may be permitted to reappear among you some day, with my last self-imposed task performed; ready to say, “Now let thy servant depart in peace.”

But in parting, I feel it due to you as to me; to the responsibilities I solemnly assumed, which were so important in their results; to those you have taken upon yourselves, to say a few words as to those responsibilities, or duties laid down in the beginning of our work—not to be lightly regarded, for they were pledges to future generations as well as to ours.

The minds and hearts which conceived the rescue of the Home of Washington; of the completion of a worthy “tribute” to public integrity, private virtue; an expression of the gratitude due and felt by a country destined to act such an important part in the drama of the world; conceived it with all the reverence felt in older regions for the resting places of their honored dead; where only pious hands are permitted to be in “charge,” so as to have them carried down to admiring ages in the same condition as when left.

Such was the pledge made to the American heart when an appeal was made to it to save the Home and Tomb of Washington, of the Father of his Country, from all changes, whether by law or desecration. Such, to the last owner of Mt. Vernon, ere he was willing to permit it to pass from his hands. Such to the Legislature of his mother State, ere she gave us legal rights over it. Such we are bound to keep. Our honor is concerned, as well as our intelligence and legal obligations. The mansion, and the grounds around it, should be religiously guarded from changes—should be kept as Washington left them.

Ladies, the Home of Washington is in your charge. See to it that you keep it the Home of Washington! Let no irreverent hand change it; no vandal hands desecrate with the fingers of—progress! Those who go to the Home in which he lived and died, wish to see in what he lived and died! Let one spot in this grand country of ours be saved from “change!” Upon you rests this duty.

When the Centennial comes, bringing with it its thousands from the ends of the earth, to whom the Home of Washington will be the place of places in our country, let them see that, though we slay our forests, remove our dead, pull down our churches, remove from home to home till the “hearthstone” seems to have no resting place in America; let them see that we do know how to care for the Home of our Hero! Farewell!

Ladies, I return to your hands the office held—so long under another name—since December 2d, 1853.

Respectfully,

Ann Pamela Cunningham 68

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