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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Puller Pushes to Increase Gunston Hall Director Salary

The upcoming Virginia General Assembly will have to amend the Governor's budget, or else it may be a while longer before the position is filled.

Gunston Hall needs a new director, but the position will not be open until it pays more. Virginia State Sen. Toddy Puller (D-36th) recently told Patch that next month she will present a budget amendment to the Virginia Senate Finance Committee that would increase the salary of the director position from about $90,000 a year to a yet-to-be determined six-figure salary.  "The main thing Gunston Hall wants is to be able to pay their executive director more money than they are allowed by state law to do," said Puller. "I told them (Gunston Hall representatives) that I would carry legislation for that, but they are hoping the governor will include that in his budget, and they won't know about that until he unveils his budget on Dec. 19. But …

Thursday, May 3, 2012

A Message From the First Regent of Gunston Hall

This was sent to the community via email on Thursday

Editor's Note: The following is a letter from Wylie Raab, the First Regent of Gunston Hall. It was sent out via email on Thursday, May 3, and highlights the recent firing of Director David Reese and the future of programs at the estate of George Mason.    Regents of Gunston Hall met for their semi-annual meeting over the weekend of April 13-16. With the departure of David Reese as Director, Mark Whatford, who has served as our librarian, archivist, and IT specialist, agreed to step in as Acting Director.  New Jersey Regent-at-Large Sara Hill is heading the search committee which will choose a successor to Mr. Reese. Over the past year the Regents have been working hard at a 360° analysis of Gunston Hall. We have worked closely with the …

Ann Thomson Mason

11:53 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2012

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