The Reading Public Museum Foundation has appointed five new members to its board of directors, the foundation announced Wednesday.
• English Bradley, a lifelong Berks County resident and Reading High School graduate. Bradley is acting director of Berks Community Television. She has over 10 years of experience in marketing, sales, high-end customer service, full-cycle recruiting and administration. She is passionate about managing and shifting culture in organizations and communities.
• Daniel B. Laws Jr., also a graduate of Reading High School. Laws is the founder, president, CEO and thought-leader of DaBrian Marketing, Muhlenberg Township, a top digital marketing agency serving companies in the U.S., Canada and Europe. An active member of the community, Laws serves on several directorial boards in the greater Reading area. He is a sought-after speaker by organizations across the country on topics related to sales, digital marketing and analytics.
• Dave Meyers, director of the Berks Alliance, a community development collaboration of the anchor institutions of Berks County. Prior to his role with the alliance, Meyers was the founding director of the O’Pake Institute for Ethics, Leadership and Public Service at Alvernia University. He also served as vice chair of BCTV and on the boards of the Reading School District and the Reading Muhlenberg Career & Technology Center. Meyers served as chief of staff and secretary of the board at Bucknell University and has held several leadership positions in state government, including deputy chief of staff and special assistant for two of Pennsylvania’s governors.
• O. Christopher Miller, a Reading city councilman and real estate agent with Re/Max of Reading. Miller has lived in the city for more than 40 years and has supported its heritage and culture by serving on the boards of the Berks History Center, Centre Park Historic District, Reading Architectural Review Board, WCR Center for the Arts, Yocum Institute for Arts Education and the Reading Rotary Club. Earlier in his career, Miller worked as an exhibit designer for the Reading Public Museum.
• Ron Pook, a longtime antiques dealer, appraiser and auctioneer. At the request of several museums who had used his auction venue to deaccession material, Pook and his wife, Debra, in 1984 started Pook and Pook Inc., Auctioneers and Appraisers, Downingtown, Chester County. The Pooks live in a restored farmhouse in the Oley Valley and are active collectors of Pennsylvania German art and material. Pook previously served on the RPM foundation from 2012 to 2017.
The foundation also recognized retiring board members Debra Pook, who completed her second three-year term, and C. Jack Lusch, who has served multiple terms and in various leadership capacities since 2013.
The foundation thanks Dr. Seth Rosenzweig, who was reappointed to a second three-year term and serves as board secretary and a member of the executive committee.
“We welcome these highly-qualified additions to our board, and honor the guidance and support of the retiring members, as well,” Dr. Anna Weitz, board chair, said in a release. “These important elections build on the foundation’s commitment to fulfill our fiduciary responsibility to serve all parts of our diverse community.”
The RPM Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization established in 1991 to operate and manage the Reading Public Museum and its environs, including the Neag Planetarium and 25-acre arboretum.
The museum is overseen by three different organizations: the foundation; the Reading School District, which owns the museum buildings and park-like grounds, mostly in Reading; and the Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, a corporation made up of school board members that owns a major portion of the museum’s collection.
Source: Berkshire mont
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