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Our 2019 - 2021 House Managers!
SARA NEWTON AND DAVID SHEPPARD
David was born in Sydney, Australia and moved to the US permanently in 1986. Sara grew up in Belleville, Illinois (near St Louis, Missouri). We met at a summer camp, Camp Ondessonk, in Southern Illinois in 1974. We still hike and camp and travel with many of the people we worked with way back then.
Since our marriage in 1987, we have lived in Phoenix, Belleville, Sydney, and recently Grand Canyon Village. Our professions have varied. Sara’s career has included working as head cook in summer camps, mapping with the Department of the Interior and teaching high school science for 28 years. David has worked as an architectural draftsman for about 30 years, but recently he has been an assistant cook and Culinary Arts teacher at Grand Canyon School.
We retired from the Grand Canyon School in May of 2018 with the hope of becoming managers of the Turkey Neck Yacht Club. Our son, Kyle, and his family live in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Kyle is married to Jessica Abramowitz, whose parents, George and Linda, have a house on Deep Creek Lake and belong to the Club.
One of our loves is refurbishing houses. We have a cozy log cabin in Ponderosa, California, and a quaint adobe in Tucson, Arizona. Both houses are on the vacation rental market and fit well into our new nomadic existence – teach as long term subs at the Grand Canyon this winter, spend the spring hiking outside of Tucson, manage the yacht club during the summer, and play in the Sierras during the fall.
Having spent the last few decades in the Midwest and the West, we look forward to exploring the eastern states and seeing more of our grandchildren (and their parents). Our goal is to do a great job for the Club by providing excellent food, managing the property well, and upholding the welcoming social atmosphere that is already the hallmark of the Club. We look forward to meeting everyone and would like to thank the Club Board for giving us this opportunity.
Since our marriage in 1987, we have lived in Phoenix, Belleville, Sydney, and recently Grand Canyon Village. Our professions have varied. Sara’s career has included working as head cook in summer camps, mapping with the Department of the Interior and teaching high school science for 28 years. David has worked as an architectural draftsman for about 30 years, but recently he has been an assistant cook and Culinary Arts teacher at Grand Canyon School.
We retired from the Grand Canyon School in May of 2018 with the hope of becoming managers of the Turkey Neck Yacht Club. Our son, Kyle, and his family live in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Kyle is married to Jessica Abramowitz, whose parents, George and Linda, have a house on Deep Creek Lake and belong to the Club.
One of our loves is refurbishing houses. We have a cozy log cabin in Ponderosa, California, and a quaint adobe in Tucson, Arizona. Both houses are on the vacation rental market and fit well into our new nomadic existence – teach as long term subs at the Grand Canyon this winter, spend the spring hiking outside of Tucson, manage the yacht club during the summer, and play in the Sierras during the fall.
Having spent the last few decades in the Midwest and the West, we look forward to exploring the eastern states and seeing more of our grandchildren (and their parents). Our goal is to do a great job for the Club by providing excellent food, managing the property well, and upholding the welcoming social atmosphere that is already the hallmark of the Club. We look forward to meeting everyone and would like to thank the Club Board for giving us this opportunity.
