McCready Elects Board Members

Crisfield – The Board of Directors of the McCready Foundation has elected its officers and appointed new board and Associate Board members for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The all-volunteer board oversees the operations of McCready Memorial Hospital, the McCready Outpatient Center and the Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Associate Board members, also volunteers, serve on various board committees.

Chris Sterling, CPA of Crisfield was elected board chairman, replacing John D. Samus of Crisfield. Leslie Wilson of Marion remains second vice chair. The office of first vice chair has not been assigned.

Crisfield resident Samuel Davis and Michael T. Hall of Westover were voted on to the Board of Directors after serving on the associate board.

In addition to its new board members, the Board of Directors selected three new Associate Board members: Russell W. Blake of Pocomoke, who is Pocomoke city manager; Dr. Nicholas Blanchard, PharmD/Med of Fruitland, who is the Dean of Pharmacy and Health Professions at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore; and Regina Bell, CPA of Regina Bell Associates, Princess Anne.

Sterling was a member of the McCready Associate Board for a year before being appointed to the Board of Directors six years ago. He was second vice chair for the last two years. Sterling has an accountancy practice in Crisfield.

He is a graduate of Crisfield High School and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting at Salisbury University in Salisbury. He is a member of the Maryland Society of Accountants, of the City of Crisfield Board of Zoning Appeals and of the board of directors of the Crisfield Heritage Foundation. He is also a first vice president, past president and past secretary of the Crisfield Lions Club. He is a past treasurer of the Crisfield Little League. He has been president and first vice president of the Crisfield Area Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife Vanessa have two children, Nate, 14 and Emily, 11.


Wilson has been a member of the Board of Directors and of its marketing and fund raising committee since 2005. She has also been an Associate Board member and represented the board on McCready Hospital’s Quality Council.

Wilson joined Chesapeake Eye Center as an ophthalmic medical technician in October 2008. She is currently an optician in the firm’s retail optical departments in Salisbury and Berlin. She was a researcher and project manager in a nine-year CDC-funded University of Maryland Medical School study of the human health effects of Pfisteria. She did similar work with Johns Hopkins University’s Salisbury Eye Evaluation project and the local Watermen’s Eye Study. In addition, Wilson is an author of several professional journal articles on Pfisteria and on eye disorders.

She is a deacon at the First Baptist Church in Crisfield. She is a past president of the Elks Ladies Auxiliary and past treasurer of the Marion Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. She has also been active in other local organizations including Girls Little League Softball.

Wilson is the former owner of MaidPro of Salisbury. She and her husband Lee live in Marion. They have two grown children, Charlotte Wilson and Elijah Wilson III, and one granddaughter, Emma Wilson-Piskor.


Hall was a member of the McCready associate board and of the board finance committee for a year before his appointment this summer to the board of directors. He now chairs the finance committee.

He is the owner and secretary/treasurer of Somerset Well Drilling, Inc. in Westover, a family business purchased by his father, Tom Hall, in 1977.

Hall is a Master Well Driller and is licensed in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. He has been a contractor/member of the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association since 1995. He is also a member of the National Ground Water Association, of the National Federation of Independent Businesses and of the Maryland-Delaware Water Well Association.

He is on the board of the Friends of Teackle Mansion and serves as administrative board chair for the Mount Olive Methodist Church in Westover. He is a member of the Somerset County Economic Development Commission.

Hall and his wife Kristi have two children, Matthew, 14, and Morgan, 11.


Davis served several terms on the McCready associate board before being appointed to the Board of Directors. He is the owner of two Crisfield businesses – Sam’s Auto Center and The Captain’s Carry Out restaurant, established 24 and 28 years ago, respectively. His business career also included serving as an auditor of a local bank and as comptroller for Whittington Farms, a multi-state corporation.

He is current chairman and a past chairman of the board of the Crisfield Housing Authority, in which he served for 14 years. He has been a member of the Zoning Appeals Board for six years.

Davis was the youngest person ever to be a Crisfield City Council member. He is a past president of the Crisfield Kiwanis, a former Little League coach and the current chairman of the Crisfield Church of God finance committee. He is a member of the Maryland Auto Dealers Association.

Davis and his wife Mary Frances have one son, Samuel L. and two grandchildren.