Executive Board
President: Vinny Goldsmith
Crofton, MD
Vinny Goldsmith is a lifelong Marylander. He is a business analyst working in the telecommunications industry. He has been involved with the AACLC since 2002 - first as a Laubach tutor and then as President of the Executive Board, and Past-President. He was re-elected to President in 2010. He also currently serves as the webmaster of the AACLC’s webpage icanread.org. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Business. Mr. Goldsmith also organizes the annual spring social which recognizes the achievements of students and tutors.
Vice-President: Julie Floyd
Past-President: Creighton Olsen
Edgewater, MD
Creighton Olsen is co-owner of Homes2di4, Inc, a full service Maryland residential real estate sales and investment corporation. He has been a trained Laubach tutor since October 2005.
He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1983. He was awarded his Juris Doctor at Quinnipiac College School of Law, Hamden, CT in 1996, and has practiced as a tax attorney.
Creighton has served on the Board of AACLC as Corresponding Secretary 2006-2008, and President 2008-2010. He was recalled to active military duty in February of 2009 and has been proudly serving in Iraq since then.
Recording Secretary: Mary Lee Austin
Glen Burnie, MD
Mary Austin has been a literacy tutor at Ordnance Road Correctional Center for several years. She also tutors other AACLC students and has been the Recording Secretary since March of 2009.
Corresponding Secretary: Stanley Milesky
Severna Park, MD
Stanley Milesky has been a reading tutor and member of the Anne Arundel County Literacy Council for over eight years. Mr. Milesky is the Deputy Director of Finance for Howard County Maryland. Before assuming his present position, Mr. Milesky enjoyed a career of over 33 years with the Maryland Department of Transportation, where he served in a variety of senior management and finance positions, including six years as Chief of Treasury for the City of Baltimore. He now holds a similar position in Howard County.
Mr. Milesky serves on a number of boards of directors including as treasurer for Lexington Market, Inc., the Baltimore Industrial Authority, and the Urban Development Foundation; as Clerk to the Baltimore Board of Finance; as a member of the boards of directors for the Baltimore Public Markets Corporation, the Maryland Government Finance Officers Association and the Julia E. Milesky Theatre Arts Award Memorial; and is a volunteer member of the Mental Health Players.
Mr. Milesky graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1969, earned a Bachelor of Science degree form Towson State University in 1978, and in 1981 was awarded a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California.
Mr. Milesky resides in Severna Park, Maryland with his wife and family.
Program Director: (not a voting board member) Pat Eckel
Harwood, MD
Pat Eckel graduated from Valparaiso University in 1969 with a double major in English and Spanish and a minor in Education. She earned a Masters degree in English in 1971 and another Masters degree in Applied Linguistics in 1972, both from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
In 1973 she began a teaching career at Northwestern High School in Prince Georges County, Maryland. For twenty-six years she taught all levels of English from 9th grade Basic Reading to 12th grade Literature and Composition for Talented and Gifted students. She also taught ESL classes and Beginning Spanish.
In 2000 she became the Instructional Coordinator at Northwestern HS to aid the faculty’s transition into the computer age. Pat organized and delivered in-service workshops before, during and after school and during the summers for teachers and students.
Among the seven grants she co-authored and administered was a nearly half million dollar Smaller Learning Communities Grant from the federal government. She retired from Prince Georges County in June 2007 and assumed the duties of AACLC Program Director in March 2008. Since she began as Program Director, the number of active student-tutor pairs has grown from 75 to 142.
She lives with her husband in Harwood. She has four grown children and two grandchildren.
