b"Passing the Torch Greetings from the New Board President Dear Friends,Happy Spring! As the season brings renewal to theIt is an exciting time at PBCB as we grow to fulfill the seashore, Pleasant Bay Community Boating also refreshespromise that many have nurtured. Thank you especially our operations. When you visit, you will greet some newto former Board President Ted Baylis for his years of faces and many familiar ones. I may count as both. It is anstewardship. His leadership has been instrumental in honor to take the reins again as President after more thanguiding our growth and getting us through the challenges ten yearsit is a very different PBCB today.of the last two years. See you on campus soon!A decade ago, we were wading out to the motorboats offWith gratitude and best wishes,Jackknife Beach in Chatham to ride to our seven Flying Scots. Now we stroll down our magnificent accessible dock to ride out to any of our fleet of two dozen boats on the moorings. At its core, though, PBCB is much the same.John DicksonWe are serving our community by offering opportunitiesBoard Presidentto many who would have no other way to experience the benefits of being on Pleasant Bay. PBCB Welcomes New Staff MembersDorothy BassettEllen PetersonDirector of Development and Communications RegistrarDorothy brings many years of nonprofit experience,Ellen joins us working at Chatham Marconi Maritime Center'sthis season as Wireless Technology Museum, STEM Educationthe Program Center, and the Chatham Conservation Foundation.Registrar. In addition, Dorothy volunteers as a trustee of theShe brings Friends of Pleasant Bay, The Compact of Cape Codan extensive Conservation Trusts, is a member of the Scholarshipbackground Committee for the Cape Cod Association, and is a founding board memberin recreational management within of the Sipson Island Trust. Dorothy will manage fundraising programs andthe golf, ice-skating, and ice hockey marketing, communications, and community engagement initiatives.realms. Additionally, she has worked with many youth nonprofit Dorothy was born and raised in Chatham. She grew up swimming andorganizations in all capacities, from sailing in Pleasant Bay, and she learned about the Cape's unique ecologyday-to-day operations to program during walks in the woods and clamming trips with her grandfather, father,development and governance.and brother, all commercial fishermen.Ellen was born and raised locally on Dorothy earned an associate's degree at Cape Cod CommunityCape Cod, where she still resides College and completed two internships at the Woods Hole Marinetoday. She grew up swimming, sailing, Biological Laboratory. She spent two weeks aboard the tall ship Spirit ofand boating on Pleasant Bay, with her Massachusetts. She later graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Universitydad's boat moored in Round Cove. of Massachusetts Boston with a certificate in Geographic InformationWhen not in, on, or at the ocean, Ellen Systems and a bachelor's degree in Earth, Ocean, and Environmentaland her husband Roger are hiking the Science. Additionally, Dorothy earned a Tufts certificate in Leadership andendless conservation trails in the area Nonprofit Business Management. or hitting the links."