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Statement
Anne Large
Candidate
for 1st Vice President
VISION:
My vision for CPCA is
to make it a more open, transparent, relevant, and active organization
that truly represents the views of all of the residents of Cleveland
Park.
The
CPCA is an organization with great potential to be a force for good in
the neighborhood-but its current structure and processes inhibit its
ability to achieve that potential.
CPCA
needs to continue to recruit and retain members in the neighborhood,
and to engage them in every way that it can. It needs to improve
and expand its communication with and among members, using every means
available-from meetings to email, listservs, podcasts, online polls,
and a regularly updated website.
The
CPCA will, of course, continue the great work it has done in the past
of assembling interesting forums to educate and inform its membership,
as well as testifying in front of relevant bodies (ANC, zoning, etc.)
about issues of concern to its members and the neighborhood.
But
it should also leverage the expertise and energy of its large
membership to be of service to the neighborhood as well-soliciting
ideas to help its local businesses thrive, organizing neighborhood
service events (clean-ups, clothing drives, etc.), and hosting informal
social events so members can meet each other.
The
CPCA can and should be an organization devoted to maintaining the best
parts of the neighborhood we all treasure-while also ensuring it
remains the vibrant, civil, and active neighborhood we all want it to
be.
BIOGRAPHY:
I
have lived in Cleveland Park for a total of 33 years. I grew up
on 34th Place and attended National Child Research Center (NCRC),
Beauvoir, and National Cathedral School (NCS). In 1998, I
returned to Cleveland Park with my husband and 3-month-old and bought
our first house at the corner of 35th & Porter Streets. Two
years ago, having added a second child and a dog to our brood, we moved
to Macomb Street.
My sons walk to school at St. Albans, where the older one is a
chorister in the National Cathedral choir. My husband, Curt,
walks to work; he owns 13 DC-area bars & restaurants, including
three on the Cleveland Park's Connecticut Avenue strip (Aroma, Atomic
Billiards, and Nanny O'Briens).
Before attending graduate school, I had never owned a car; even then, I
biked to school while my husband drove to work. I have always
sought to live in places where I could walk, bike, and take public
transportation to work, eat, and play-and that preference played a
large part in our decision to return to Cleveland Park.
I have an MBA and a Certificate of Public Management from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business and work as Vice President, Strategic
Planning and Business Development at the Washington Hospital
Center. I have served on the boards of NCRC and the NCS Alumnae
Association, and am now a board member of Miriam's Kitchen, a DC
homeless organization. Curt chairs the Advisory Board for DC's
529 College Savings Plan and has served as Treasurer of Samaritan
Ministries, another DC homeless organization. We are members of
St. Albans Parish, where I have taught Sunday school for many
years. We have been financial supporters of the Rosedale
Conservancy, ROMP, FONZ, the Cleveland Park Historical Society, and the
National Cathedral Association.
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