Lord’s Point Association May Annual Members Meeting Saturday, May 30th
Per LPA by-laws, members will be asked to vote to elect new members of the board of directors.
As requested in previous member meetings, we are sharing the list of candidates and bios (when available) with the membership ahead of the meeting.
Officer candidates:
- President: Nancy Walker
- VP: Ray Thompson
- Clerk: Peggy Roberts
- Treasurer: Jim Turner
Directors:
There are two 2-year terms available and five people running: (Please see bios below)
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- Bill Gibson
- Bryan Bentz
- Mike Snurkowski
- Peter Chomowicz
- Rich Drake
There is a one-year term that is traditionally filled by the outgoing president, Jen Daly McFadden.
Write in candidates/nominations from the floor are accepted at the time of the vote.
Rich Drake
Rich Drake lives at 32 James Street (the SE corner of James and Boulder) where he moved his family 26 years ago. Rich served on the board as Clerk (then called the Secretary) in the early 2000’s and has served on the Dock Committee for the past several years. He is a licensed professional engineer and retired from A/Z Corporation in 2021 to work with his wife Michelle in the company they co-founded, Stonington Designs. If you’ve noticed several trailer hitch covers around Lords Point, those are one of their product lines. Rich and Michelle also both volunteered their labor to create the signs at the Bob Hollis Memorial Playground and the Pollinator Garden.
Brian Bentz
Bryan Bentz has spent every summer of his life at Lord’s Point – at the last house on Lindberg Rd. While he and his family don’t stay through the winter, they are on Wilcox Rd, 500 yards away.
He is in his second term on the LPA board. For the Town of Stonington, he served more than 20 years on the Board of Finance, and is currently on the Board of Selectmen; he is also a Justice of the Peace. He was an active Quiambaug Volunteer Fire Department fireman for 10 years.
Bryan is a graduate of Stonington High School, class of 1977. He received his Physics degree from MIT in 1980, and a second degree in EECS in ’82. He has worked in applied Physics in submarine-related technologies, and in AI (starting in the 1980’s), building systems to track quiet submarines, and then moving into machine understanding of language and speech. He has run his own business in these areas since 1995.
He loves history, and maintains a website about Quiambaug Valley history (including a Lord’s Point page), at http://qb.mindhenge.org/ He wrote software to enable the overlap of historical photos with current photos of the same location, gradually fading back and forth, some examples of which are on the Lord’s Point page.
He and his wife, Dr. Mary Ann Bentz, are raising their grandson Aidan, age 8, who loves the Point.
His main website is http://www.bentz-engineering.com/
Peter Chomowitz
Peter Chomowicz and his family (wife Jill and children Jay and Lucy) moved to Lord’s Point in 2010 where they enjoyed summers while living in the Middle East. They moved to the Point full-time in 2015 when Peter took a job as an R&D director at Electric Boat. For the last few years he’s been a professor at Brown University and his wife owns ReReads Bookshop in Westerly. Though the kids are grown he still enjoys all the reasons the family was drawn to the Point: dog walking, all things related to the ocean, the block party, and as he is fond to say, “the Point is Mayberry by the Sea. There’s just no other place like it.” In his spare time he rides his bicycle as much as possible and looks forward to serving our community in any way he can.
Jim Turner
Jim Turner, of 39 Ashworth Avenue, has lived full time on Lord’s Point since 2021 but has been a “regular” on the point as a member of the Smith family since the late 1990’s. Jim is a member of the Dock Committee and has been active in the community as a volunteer firefighter, Stonington High School Athletic Boosters President and coaching youth sports (soccer, football and basketball).
Jim recently retired from Pfizer after 32 years of service as the Groton Site Lead for the Global Workplace Experience team and was responsible for all site operations including utilities, facility maintenance, environmental, health & safety, soft services, security, emergency response and real estate transactions. Jim was responsible for managing a $120M annual expense budget and supporting $50M in capital improvements annually by providing critical services to the 2.75M square foot facility comprising of laboratories, vivaria, warehouse, office, clinical trial manufacturing and support spaces with a site population of nearly 4,000 colleagues and contractors. Jim joined Pfizer in 1994 after being with the Submarine Base Fire Department for 5 years, as a firefighter. He had roles of increasing responsibility in the Pfizer FD as Training Officer, Lieutenant, Captain and Fire Chief. Jim holds an AS in Fire Science Technology, BS in Fire Science Administration and a Master’s in Business Administration as well as many professional certifications.
Married to Lynn for nearly 27 years and Dad to Colin, Hannah & Ryan, Jim is looking forward to serving the Lord’s Point Community in a greater capacity as a board member.
Additional Notes from the LPA : Materials for May Members Meeting
All,
We look forward to seeing you at the LPA May Membership meeting tomorrow, Saturday, May 30th at 5pm at the Community House.
In an effort to fulfill requests from members at previous meetings, we have worked to get materials that will be discussed posted on the LPA website ahead of the meeting.
These items include DRAFT minutes from the August 2025 members meeting and DRAFT minutes from the May 15, 2026 special meeting. Please note these DRAFT documents will be formally voted on during the Saturday meeting. As noted in the May 15 minutes there was discussion about LPA’s lawyer Tim Bleasdale and his qualifications. You can find information on Tim’s background here.
Additionally, we have also posted the most recent list of members running for the LPA board, as well as bios for those who have submitted them.
See you Saturday.