2022 Elected Trustee Candidate Biographies
Chelsea Miller: Chelsea is an active member and operator at Seashore Trolley Museum since 2019. She, her husband, and her son are frequent visitors to the museum. Chelsea has a BA from Bard College (graduated 1997) and is working toward her MS in Marketing and Communications from Lasell University (expected graduation date December 2022). Chelsea worked for many years at Maine Medical Center, a not-for-profit, in the Communications Department. As part of that team, she worked very closely with the Philanthropy department to write emails, letters, press releases and other messaging to encourage giving to the hospital. She also helped coordinate fundraising events and press coverage of those events. Additionally, Chelsea served on the DEI and wellness committees at the hospital. Chelsea enjoys serving her community. For many years, Chelsea was an active member of the Parkside Neighborhood Association in Portland, ultimately serving as Vice President and President. In these elected leadership roles, Chelsea oversaw all activities and communications of the association, liaising with both neighbors and city officials to help promote a better, safer, more beautiful neighborhood for all who lived there. Chelsea served for four years as a victim advocate for SARSSM (Sexual Response Support Services of Southern Maine), where she also assisted in fundraising activities.
Chelsea is eager to bring her marketing and communications experience to Seashore Trolley Museum as a board member to help further the museum’s objectives and maintain the wonderful destination that serves our community and beyond.
Daniel Vardaro: Dan is currently serving as an Elected Trustee; he was appointed to fill the remaining six months of the term vacated by Michael Peters in November 2021. The term Dan is filling ends April 30, 2022, and Dan is seeking to be elected to his first full three-year term as an Elected Trustee.
Dan is an active volunteer at Seashore Trolley Museum, currently serving in the Operations Department as a Dispatcher and Operator, as well as a Restoration Shop volunteer, the Streetcar Curator, a member of Seashore’s Scrapping Committee, and a leader on the Yard Shifting Crew. Dan is a retired Graphic Communications Instructor of 34 years full-time, and also a retired Program Consultant and Instructor of Northeastern University’s Graphic Design Program of 30 years. Dan has served as a board member and one term as president of the Printing and Publishing Council of New England, an organization that has a $4M+ endowment. He has also been a board member for 12 years of the Boston Litho & Craftsman’s Club.
Dan would like to see an improved visitor experience, continued restoration of our collection, a new display barn, and new ideas to move the museum forward with growth of members, volunteers and facilities.
2022 Appointed Trustee Biographies
Robert Drye: Rob has been a member of Seashore Trolley Museum since 1997. Rob is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees; he is finishing his second consecutive three-year term as an Elected Trustee. When his term ends on April 30, 2022, Rob will transition into an Appointed Trustee role if he is endorsed by the membership.
Rob is the Overhead Superintendent, the museum’s Safety Coordinator, and he also serves as the project sponsor for Blackpool car 144 and Manchester car 38. He is a volunteer in the Railway Operations Department, running the cars for the public. Rob recently led the museum through a two-year Bylaws review and revision process. Rob’s home is Plainfield, NH since 1980. He is married with nine children and six grandchildren. Rob has worked as a Data Communications Engineer for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, New Hampshire and its affiliates since 1983. Rob has also volunteered as an Emergency Medical Technician and member of the Cornish, NH Rescue Squad since 1981 and he has been Plainfield (NH) Village Water District Commissioner since 1999.
Frederick Maloney: Fred lives in Boston, MA and has served as a Trustee of the Society for over 12 years; he was appointed to the position of Senior Trustee (a non-voting position) by the board in 2018. Following a vacancy on the board created by Peter Osgood’s resignation during the summer of 2021, Fred was appointed by the Trustees to serve as an Appointed Trustee at the September 2021 board meeting. Fred will continue in this role following an endorsement by the membership at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
Fred was the primary sponsor on past extensive shop staff full restorations of Montreal 957, New Orleans 966, Cleveland 1227, and Brooklyn 4547; the current, but suspended, Newark PCC No. 5; and is a leader of the pending project on Toronto CLRV 4068, along with Baltimore No. 5748. Over his lifetime, Fred has worked on many other cars to varying degrees.
Although Fred could have stopped working professionally in his career with Willis Towers Watson years ago, he continues to work to financially support projects at the Museum, as well as the Annual Fund Campaign. Fred is a member of the Founders Legacy Society, pledging to leave his estate to a permanent endowment fund to support largely the restoration of unrestored “National Collection” cars from leading cities primarily for public exhibition.
Randall Stahl: Randy lives in Webster, MA and has served as a Trustee of the Society for 3 ½ years. Following a vacancy on the board created by Peter Osgood’s resignation during the summer of 2021, Randy was appointed by the Trustees to serve as an Appointed Trustee at the September 2021 board meeting. Randy will continue in this role following an endorsement by the membership at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
Randy holds an applied EE degree in railroad applications. He has 35 Years of experience on class one and class two railroads; he began his railroad career in 1976 on the East Troy electric railroad. In 1984, he went to work on the Milwaukee Road in West Milwaukee as locomotive electrician helper. Randy worked for a variety of railroads in the Chicago area including the Belt Railway of Chicago, Indiana Harbor belt and Chicago South Shore and South Bend. Randy moved to shortline Wisconsin and Calumet in 1988, Wisconsin Central in 1992, Canadian National in 2001, Montreal Maine and Atlantic in 2013, Providence and Worcester in 2014 and finally Grafton and Upton RR in 2019. Randy has spent twenty years in management as a supervisor in various departments. He also has years of experience restoring and operating electric railroad equipment. He has also served on the board of The Wisconsin Electric Railway Historical Society.
Randy wishes to continue his Trustee position because he believes that the museum is at a critical time. Randy believes that the future of the transit collection hinges on a new large display building. Randy’s strength is finding cost effective ways to achieve the desired results and providing effective oversight on the project. He has many sources of advice and personal experience building and/or renovating railroad buildings.