Board of Director Biographies

Liz Langston

Liz joined the board as the Water Quality Monitoring Chairperson.  In addition to water quality, she also writes the newsletter as the Corresponding Secretary.  She is a Water Watch trainer.  Currently monitors Perdido Bay and Miflin Creek for Wolf Bay WW and Weeks Creek for Weeks Bay WW.

Spouse - Mike
No children
Biologist with Florida Division of Forestry at Blackwater River State Forest

Born in Jacksonville, Florida. Grew up in Pensacola. Currently live in Pensacola.

Father lived in Miflin until 2006. Talked him into becoming a Water Watch monitor and becoming more involved in the environment - particularly Wolf Bay. He and a group of local monitors founded Wolf Bay Watershed Watch in 1998.

Liz is leading the “campaign” to obtain “Outstanding Alabama Waters” designation for Wolf Bay

Enjoys cooking, antiqueing/flea marketing, nature

Sandi Caudill

I have been a resident of the area since October, 2004, having become involved with WBWW within a short time after moving here. The previous 13 years were spent in the Montgomery area, where my husband, Doug, and I were both employees of the State Department of Industrial Relations, Unemployment Compensation. I was a state employee for a total of 37 1/2 years prior to retirement in July, 2004. We retired the same day to begin this adventure together.

I was raised in Birmingham, graduated from Montevallo University, and lived in Gadsden and Selma, but when Doug and I moved to Mobile, I knew I was home. We were there for about 18 years prior to Montgomery and it was during that time that we grew to love the Alabama Gulf Coast and planned to be here when we retired. When we discovered the WBWW, it was a perfect fit for us, as we are firm believers in doing what we can to save the wonders that God gave us. We have been water monitors since April, 2006, and assist with the plant, trash & treasures sales. I have worked at the WBWW greenhouse for the past couple of years.

In addition to WBWW, we are members of the First Baptist Church of Foley and are involved with the Share the Beach program. That involves a nice walk on the beach at least once a week from May thru August and monitoring sea turtle nests, then being there when they hatch to do whatever we can to ensure that the babies get to the water. We see quicker results from this than from our efforts with WBWW!

Doug enjoys hunting and fishing, but my pursuits are a bit lazier. Although I do enjoy a nice boat ride, lazing in the pool, reading, cross stitching, and other projects are more my speed. Together, we will tackle just about any project that presents itself.

Wanda is currently a WBWW Board member at large
Spouse – Leo
3 Children, John (fireman), Rwandalee (realtor), & Rebecca (environmental attorney)
Currently 10 Grandchildren, John, Braxton, Shawn, Cameron, Jessica, Courtney, Hunter, Cenia, Fisher, Claudia.

Wanda was born in Jay Florida and was raised in various State Parks through out the state of Florida. After moving on Miflin Creek in 1979, she changed from being a full time homemaker to a realtor-homemaker. Wanda is active in the St Mark Lutheran Church of Elberta.  Wanda is a charter member of the Foley Lions Club and has served as their president. She was the first Diplomat of the year for Foley Area Chamber of Commerce. She is currently the President of the board of trustees for the Miflin Community Center. Occasionally, she does work for the Sun Shine Kids & Habitat for Humanity.

Both her parents were raised on subsistence farms in the panhandle of Florida. Through them she learned of a simpler life where one lived closer to nature. She knows when to pick blackberries for a cobbler, where to dig wigglers to catch bream, and how to make gumbo from the bounties of Wolf Bay. Her years growing up within remote state parks blesses her with memories of long stretches of Gulf beaches with undulating sand dunes peppered with sea oats plus, memories of towering long leaf pines forest transitioning to Spanish moss laden live oaks encircling crystal clear lakes. She would like to do what she can do to ensure future generation may gain similar memories.

Leo, his wife Wanda and their three children moved from Pensacola to Miflin Creek in June of 1979 because they enjoyed Wolf Bay.  They moved into an historic ferry house on Co. Rd. 20. at Miflin Creek.  Leo is a retired metrology engineer for the US Navy in a measuring standards laboratory.   Leo has much to keep him occupied including his rental units, his CPA business, his vessel mooring business, Wolf Bay WW, hunting and fishing, and other endeavors.  Leo loves to hunt and fish.  He fishes for mullet, redfish, trout, bream, and shrimp in Wolf Bay.  Before so many people showed up he hunted deer. 

Leo has been a water monitor since 1998 and was Monitor of the Year in 1999.  He currently monitors two sites: Gum Branch @ Miflin Creek and the Intracoastal Waterway @ the Orange Beach Sewer Outfall.  At one time he monitored from his dock, too. 

Leo and Wanda have hosted several Christmas parties and always help with the Trash & Treasures Sales.  Leo is the Chairman of the Youth Education Committee and he and Wanda were involved with the Baldwin Co. Water Festival last year.  They have also been very involved with developing the Wolf Bay Watershed Management Plan.  Leo has been on the Wolf Bay Board of Directors as the Treasurer for several years and has recently changed positions to Comptroller. 

June is currently the Disbursement Officer for WBWW and previously Recording Secretary.
Spouse - James J. Taylor from Summerdale
3 children (girls), 2 grandchildren (1 boy & 1 girl) and 1 step-granddaughter
Both James and June graduated from Foley High School
Also volunteer at the Baldwin County Heritage Museum and currently am Chair of the Board
Worked at Solutia for 37-1/2 years, the last 10 as Shipping Department Manager. Retired from Solutia in 2000.
Born and raised in Westlake, Ohio (suburb of Cleveland).  Moved to Wolf Bay area because mother’s family lived here.
June enjoys antiques and RVing.

Currently the WBWW Recording Secretary. The position is responsible for assisting the President in setting agendas and publishing the minutes for both regular and specially called meetings of the Board of Directors and our annual general membership meeting. The position is also required to maintain the Corporate Records.

Spouse---- Teresa (Tess)
1 child, daughter currently residing and working in Indianapolis, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Ind.

Retired from regional telephone company headquartered in Chicago, Il. A 32 year career span with varied management responsibilities including operations and maintenance for voice and data switching networks, budgeting, personnel and vendor selection, major account management with Indiana University and Cummins Engine Co. Also was a Core Team member with a non-regulated startup subsidiary helping build a business from the ground up.

My wife is a native Alabamian and we are water people, so L.A. was the natural choice. We became property owners and part-time residents in Baldwin Co. in 1995, and full time residents early in 2000. We currently live on Wolf Creek abeam of the islands with the great Blue Heron nests.

With a keen interest in watersports, gardening, and the outdoors in general, the overall health of the surrounding environment is very important to me and my family. Our participation in WBWW helps to keep us abreast of and have a collective voice concerning  local and regional environmental issues that impact the lifestyle that we have come to love.  

Stanton (Stan) Mahoney, Jr.

WBWW Executive Director
Spouse Jessica (Jessy), no children, two “mostly” Springer Spaniels.  Stan is a retired Navy commander.
Hobbies include reading, gardening, water sports, and photography. Likes volunteer work with Heart Association, Japanese Society of Mobile, Board of Adjustments, City of Foley, and spokesman for organ donation (heart recipient, UAB-1996). Foley Filipino – American Association, Good parties, and Navy Football.  Dislikes: persimmons , split-pea soup, and Army Football.
Strengths: Organizational and communication skills. Goal oriented.
Background:
B.S. Naval Architecture, U.S. Naval Academy
M. A. International Relations, Salve Regina College
M.A. Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College
Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Kirk (FF 1087)
Faculty, Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College
Chief Estimator, Trawick Builders, Foley, Alabama
Heart Transplant recipient, UAB, Dec 24th, 1996

Why WBWW: grew up here on Wolf Bay and seeing rapid growth in our community (Foley, Gulf Shores, and Orange Beach), wanted to preserve what we have loved and enjoyed for future generations.

Homer Singleton

Homer Singleton Jr, born Foley, Alabama. Grew up on the Bon Secour River and Highway 59 south of Foley. Foley High School, 1956. University of Alabama, B.A. 1960. U. S. Army 1961-63, 82nd Airborne Division, medical corpsman. The Duke Divinity School, B.D. 1967, L.S.U. Law School, J.D. 1975. Law practice Lake Charles, Louisiana until 1995. Inordinately fond of birds, bayous, bays and kayaks. Water monitor, Phytoplankton monitor and bird survey's.

Sylvia Womack

Sylvia is an Alabama native, born in Repton, Al.

She has two children, a son, Dr. William A. Womack, Dr. of Anesthesiology at Thomas Hospital; a daughter, Tanya Fratto-Blair, President of Diamond Innovations with Sandvik Corporation and two granddaughters, Lauren and Rebecca Womack.

Sylvia was a Manager/Lender with Baldwin Co. Savings Bank in Bay Minette, moved to Florida and accepted the position of Vice President, Human Resources/Payroll for SouthTrust Bank, NW Florida. She retired in 2004 and moved back to Baldwin County.

Hobbies include reading, water sports, gardening, exercise, concerts/plays and volunteering. She is presently a volunteer with WolfBay Watershed, Board member of Foley Library, Clothes Closet, Officer in Foley Women's Club member of NewComers Club and a member of the Elks Lodge. She is a member of First Baptist Church of Foley.

Background; Weaver Airline School, Faulkner State University, Chipola College and Institute of Financial Education.
Strengths - Organizational skills and communication skills

Sylvia's goal is to help preserve this beautiful area for our families and future generations to come.

Don Cook

Don recently retired after having served his country for 42 years; 4 in the USN, 30 as a Navy federal employee and another 8 years at the Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo days as a computer systems analyst. Don retired as CIO/Director of Software Engineering for the Naval Education and Training Command.

He graduated from Florida Technological University with a BSBA in Management and completed some postgraduate programs at Naval Postgraduate School, Harvard’s J.F. Kennedy’s School of Government and MIT.  Among the awards he received were the highest two awards a federal employee can earn, i.e. Superior Civilian Service Award and the Meritorious Civilian Service Award.  He also was named the northwest Florida’s “Federal Manager of the Year” and was recognized by the University of West Florida as having sponsored the most college students in the area through the “Cooperative Education Program”.

Don has been an apprentice, a journeyman and a leader/manager. He taught classes and briefed VIP’s from around the world in a myriad subjects including IT, education and training, new technologies, personnel, EEO, sexual harassment and world cultures. He has worked in headquarters staff positions in both the corporate world and government. He also mentored students at the middle school level as well as senior employees at the professional level.

Don and his wife Betty have lived on Wolf Bay for 17 years and want nothing more than to preserve the quality and beauty of this wonderful area for all of our generations to come!

Leslie Lassiter

Leslie grew up along Hammock Creek enjoying fishing, floundering, and exploring the wetlands and woods.  Her paternal great grandparents moved to Wolf Bay in the thirties.  Her maternal great grandparents moved to the Elberta area in 1909.  She is a 1992 graduate of Foley High School and received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Alabama in 1999 with a major in marine biology and a minor in chemistry.  In 2007, Leslie obtained designation as a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control.

Leslie is a divorced mother of four children, Colin, Drew, Morgan, and Emmy.  They reside on the same property in which her great grandparents settled off of Wolf Bay.

Leslie joined Wolf Bay Watershed Watch in 1998 as a water quality monitor.  In 2000 she gained employment with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management as a construction stormwater inspector.  Leslie became the stormwater coordinator for the Mobile Region working mainly in Baldwin County.  She currently works for the City of Foley as the Environmental Manager.  Her career centers on environmental issues including stormwater management, erosion and sediment control and development of environmental ordinances and regulations.

In her spare time she serves on the Elberta Planning Commission, Coastal Clean Water Partnership, Baldwin County Environmental Advisory Board, and attends St. Bartholomew’s Catholic Church.  She also enjoys visiting the beach and watching football.

Dale Siebert

Born in Brewton, Alabama, and raise in Penscola, Florida.  Spend four years in the US Air Force.  Graduated from Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, with Bachelors Degree in Management. 

Employed by the Barber Companies for approximately 20 years in several positions from property manager to, currently, Vice President.

Divorced with one child; Kristi.

Richard Peterson

Richard Peterson, P.E.
Graduated Foley High School, 1976
University of South Alabama, BS Civil Engineering, 1982
Married Molly Moseley Peterson
Three Children, Alex, Audrey and Clark
Employed with Riviera Utilities, 17 years
Current Position - Superintendent, Gas, Water and Wastewater
Hobbies, fishing, sailing, canoeing

Tommy Patterson

Tommy was born and raised in Gainesville, Georgia around Lake Lanier. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Forest Management in 1972.

He began his forestry career with the Alabama Forestry Commission (state agency) in 1974 as a field forester in NW Alabama. In 1980 he was promoted to the AFC State Headquarters Office in Montgomery to manage several statewide forestry programs. Later, those programs included computer management and Best Management Practices for forestry (water quality as it relates to forest management). He finished his state career (after 28 years) as an assistant regional forester trying to manage wildfire control and forest landowner assistance in 17 counties.

After retiring in 2003, Tommy and his wife Lillie, bought their home on Wolf Bay and began their new lives on the coast. They have three daughters and three grandchildren. They have been WBWW members for several years and have helped out in several of the organizations projects. Tommy is also a member of the community singing group, Coastal Chorale.

Tommy loves to fish and sail and do most anything else that can be done on the water. He got certified as a SCUBA diver in 2001 just so he could see what was down below. He has a strong desire to enhance our waters and waterways for present and future generations.

For most of his life, Tommy has had a passion for flying radio controlled airplanes and helicopters. In 2005 he decided to try his hand at being an entrepreneur and created Gulf Coast Aerials. This unique business performs aerial photography from a radio controlled helicopter, a fifty foot robotic mast or from a full size aircraft. You can check out his portfolio at www.gulfcoastaerials.com He has provided many aerial photos of the Wolf Bay Watershed to WBWW.

Christine O'Connor

Christine O’Connor recently retired after more than 25 years in academic medicine. The past three years were spent regrouping and rebuilding the Department of Medicine at Tulane Medical School, post-Katrina New Orleans, where she had been Senior Department Administrator for 17 years.

Christine's undergrad major was Pre-Med with a minor in Ethology (animal behaviorism) with her senior thesis done on manatees in Crystal River, Florida. Her grad work was in Health Administration from the University of South Carolina.

Christine was born in Saranac, New York and raised in Marlton, New Jersey where she worked with horses at many racetracks and spent her summers as a lifeguard on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Prior to retirement she lived in New Orleans with her husband Sean Hickey, an avid sailor.

Christine and Sean have owned property in the Perdido Beach Community since 1994. Her passions outside of work are: animals (horses, dogs, cats ), swimming and boating, gardening (a recent graduate of the Baldwin County Master Gardner’s Program) and reading.