Profiles
Profile: Mark Masselink
April 12, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Mark Masselink has visited Boca Grande every year since the late 1990s. He’d travel here annually with a group of friends to go tarpon fishing in Captiva and Sanibel islands, and eve…
Profile: Dr. Richard Lockey
April 5, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Dr. Richard Lockey has been a professor of medicine at the University of South Florida since the early 1970s. He is the only remaining founding faculty member of the Morsani School o…
Profile: Kathy Berry
March 29, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Kathy Berry has been working hard for the past several months to make sure that the annual Boca Grande Bike Parade & Woman’s Club Spring Fair taking place this Saturday, March 30…
PROFILE: John Mitchell
March 22, 2019
BY SUE IRWIN – Beautiful pieces of handcrafted art decorate the walls of John Mitchell’s home at the north end of the island. There are colorful images of the sea that he has painted with oils, and…
Profile: Tom Wilcox
March 15, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Tom Wilcox has been promoting growth and high performance in nonprofit organizations for 50 years, 42 of them as a CEO. Although he’s still doing some consulting for a few organizati…
Profile: Barb Jenkins
March 8, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN She keeps a busy schedule, and you can often find her on the tennis courts, playing bridge or attending an event at the Boca Grande Community Center. Island seasonal resident Barbara…
Profile: Sally Johnson
March 1, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN She knew at a very young age that she wanted to study acting, and with the encouragement of her mother, she headed down that path and never looked back. “I’d always dreamed of being …
Profile: Chuck Young
February 22, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN He’s a friendly guy from Minnesota, and he’s been enjoying a “Grande” life in Boca since he retired a few years ago. Chuck Young is originally from Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father …
Profile: Jack Carley
February 15, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN After graduating from college in 1962, Jack Carley had almost a year before entering officer candidate school, so he decided to drive to California to do some sightseeing and a littl…
Profile: Charles Stark
February 8, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN After serving in the Navy for almost five years and an accomplished 32-year career with IBM, Charles Stark returned to his original passion and earned a master’s degree in history at…