President Karen Petraglia
Ms. Petraglia is a past President and current Treasurer of the Founders Chapter Glass Club, Boston. She has served as Co-Chair of the Seminar Committee for the National American Glass Club, working with NBMOG member Loreen Ryan to organize annual glass events held in Toledo, Chicago, Asheville, Cape Cod and Boston. She also serves NAGC as Education Resources Chair. An active collector and specialist in the areas of Scandinavian glass, Pairpoint glass and glass animals, Ms. Petraglia has been a long-time member and supporter of NBMOG.
Vice President Gene DesLandes
2nd Vice President Phillip E. Chasse, Jr.
New Bedford native Phil Chase served as President of the Pairpoint Cup Plate Collectors of America, a national organization of collectors that numbered more than 2,000 members. As an officer of the PCPCA Mr. Chasse helped open the group's downtown New Bedford office in 1986 and oversaw the group's development of a comprehensive collection of contemporary glass cup plates and related material. This collection has been transferred to the NBMOG and today numbers more than 4,000 examples.
Treasurer Andrea Natsios
Clerk Nancy K. Griswold
Mattapoisett resident Nancy Griswold is a collector of early American glass and a past Corresponding Secretary of the Founders Chapter Glass Club, Boston. Ms. Griswold served as President of NBMOG at the time of its transition to New Bedford. During this period the Museum opened its development office on North Water St. and organized its extensive and ongoing glass installation at New Bedford City Hall.
Nancy Marsden
Ms. Marsden developed an interest in glass collecting after a visit to the Thornton Burgess Museum on Cape Cod, where she purchased her first Pairpoint cup plates. She subsequently joined the Pairpoint Cup Plate Collectors of America and participated in the inaugural meeting of Chapter 10. She served on the group’s national board as Convention Chair, Secretary, Vice President and President.
Dr. Joseph S. Heyman
A New Bedford native and current President of the Mt. Washington & Paipoint Glass Society, Dr. Heyman began collecting glass as an engaging diversion from his 37-year career at NASA Langley Research Center and as an Adjunct Professor of Physics and Applied Science with the College of William and Mary. After retiring from NASA he was the Chief Scientific Officer for Luna Innovations Inc. for five years, and now is a full-time photographer. Dr. Heyman has lectured widely on the subject of Pairpoint glass and glass photography, not to mention nonlinear acoustics, thermography, shearography, eddy current testing and laser ultrasonics.
Peggy Hooper
Ms. Hooper is the current President of the Founders Chapter Glass Club, Boston. She served as liaison between the club and the National American Glass Club during preparations for the NAGC 75th anniversary convention, which was held in Boston in the spring of 2008. In previous years she has served as Founders' Treasurer and Program Chair. Ms. Hooper is a second-generation collector of early American pressed glass.
Alice Saville
Since 1994 Ms. Saville has served as editor of Glass Shards, the quarterly newsletter of the National American Glass Club. She has served terms as President and Program Chair for the Founders Chapter Glass Club, Boston, and is a nationally recognized authority and speaker on the subject of Vaseline (uranium) glass. In 2005 she organized a Founders Chapter program featuring Dr. Ken Tomabechi, who traveled from Japan to discuss his definitive 1995 book, succinctly titled Uranium Glass.
Arthur Reed
Mr. Reed began blowing glass in 1971 and has studied at the Penland School of Crafts in Asheville, NC and the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle WA. He founded Sweetwater Glass in DeLancey, NY in 1985. His work is featured in the 1989 Corning Museum of Glass survey publication Contemporary Glass and is represented in the collections of major museums including The Corning Museum of Glass, The Chrysler Museum of Art and, most notably, The New Bedford Museum of Glass.
Edmund Beard
Jeffrey Costa
Jon E. Piwowarczyk
