Fred Scott, Jr. - Director. Fred W. Scott, Jr. spent a lifetime as a purebred beef cattleman in central Virginia. Fred has long been interested in civility in civic


discourse and improving public governance and he cherishes being a lifelong family friend of an opposing candidate. He serves on the board of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia and is the lead sponsor for the National Discussion and Debate Series (a McNeil/Lehrer production; broadcast by PBS nationwide) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA. He serves on the board of the Bossov Ballet in Maine. In his more agile days, Fred was a Sergeant of Marines, repairing aviation search radars. He has been an active aviator for over forty years and he flies Angel Flight patients and transplant missions when his schedule permits.


Barbara B. Sieg - Director. Barbara is the Art Director and Associate Editor of LaBelle France: The Sophisticated Guide to France and Golf Odyssey: The Sophisticated


Guide to Golf Travel. She works with the American Heart Association, the University of Virginia Jefferson Scholars Program, the University of Virginia Medical Center Board, the Little Keswick School Board, and the Charlottesville Garden Club. She has three children.


Gary W. Taylor - Director. Gary is a Charlottesville native and a UVA graduate in business. For the past twenty years he has been with Northwestern Mutual Financial


Network. He has served in leadership capacities on the boards of the Virginia Discovery Museum, PVCC Foundation, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Central Virginia Estate Planning Council and the Central Virginia Association for Insurance and Financial Advisors. He also currently serves on the national board for the Managing Directors Association and speaks regularly on leadership and financial and estate planning concepts. Gary lives with his wife of twenty-one years, Tana, and their children, Kari, Hilary, and Morgan.


Elsie W. Thompson - Director. Elsie has been a passionate advocate of the Paramount since before its 2004 restoration and reopening. Past president of the Boys &


Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, she also gives her time to UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Virginia State Arboretum. She is treasurer of the Virginia Chamber Music Foundation and serves on the Steering Committee of the Ron Brown Scholars Program. She is a graduate of UVA Law School and Radcliffe College. After working in antitrust, corporate and mining law in New York City and Houston, Elsie moved to Charlottesville, where she has been involved in a number of entrepreneurial ventures and nonprofit organizations. In recent years she has helped manage the Boys & Girls Clubs’ summer tennis program in Charlottesville. She and her husband, W. McIlwaine Thompson, Jr., have four children aged 17 to 27.


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