MILESTONES
ENGAGEMENT Ms. Pamela Gamble of Greenwich, Conn. announces the engagement of her daughter, Kirstin Freeman Gamble, to Andrew Philip Jacques Bridier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilles Bridier of Nantucket. Miss Gamble, also the daughter of the late Thomas Gamble, graduated from Smith College and holds a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Formerly Curator of Education at the Nantucket Historical Association, she is now a museum consultant in Boston. Mr. Bridier, who is the grandson of Elizabeth C. Murray and the late Philip C. Murray of Nantucket, is the General Manager of Murray's of the Vineyard and a Managing Partner of Castaway Clothing. An October wedding on Nantucket is planned.

Kirstin Freeman Gamble and Andrew Philip Jacques Bridier

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Michael Reilly joins Island Properties with over six years of experience in the Nantucket real estate market. A sales and rental specialist, Michael also brings a background in financial services and investment banking to his position. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder and attended Avon Old Farms School. He has a wife, Caroline, an island event planner; and a son. Michael has been a year round resident of Nantucket since 2001. Acting on the recommendation of Gov. Jon Corzine, the New Jersey state Senate recently appointed

Maia Farish

Maia Farish to a two-year term on the New Jersey Historic Trust.

Though she's a selfdescribed native New Yorker, Farish has had a lifelong connection to Nantucket. As a young adult, she had a mentor in the late Walter Beinecke.

"Beinecke was certainly one of the pioneers of the historic preservation movement in America," says Farish. "He set the gold standard on Nantucket by which the revitalization of historic communities elsewhere in the country would be measured. He saw promise in Nantucket. He built a marina there, but he kept the old fishing shacks for artists' studios and galleries. Beinecke 'got it.'"

Farish worked with Beinecke at the Nantucket Historical Trust, a private foundation, and with Preservation Institute: Nantucket, a historic preservation summer residency program of the University of Florida School of Architecture.

After a stint as director of public relations for the Nantucket Historical Association, she served as executive director of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, a position that allowed her to leverage the town's historic preservation efforts as a means to improve business, services, cultural offerings, and community planning.

Farish brought those same skills to her position as executive director of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, a nonprofit membership organization that supported preservation advocacy, public programs, community relations, and education curricula for young people and adults, among other enterprises.

Farish is concentrating on the effort to restore Hollybush Mansion, Rowan University's 19th-century, Italian-style villa that was the site of the historic Glassboro Summit between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in 1967. The University is planning an event on June 23 to kick off a year-long commemoration of the event's 40th anniversary.

Farish is the mother of NHS graduate Michael Gaillard, and the daughter of Elizabeth Oldham.

BIRTHS

Jose I. Aguilar was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on March 28, 2007 weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces. He is the son of Ana Tejada and Santos Aguilar of Nantucket.

Madeline Rose Lombardi was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on March 30, 2007 weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces. She is the daughter of Travis and Adriene Lombardi of Nantucket. Her grandparents are E.J. and Robin Harvey and John and Deborah Dooley of Nantucket. Her great-grandparents are Peggy Grasing of Middletown, R.I., Virginia Harvey of Newport, R.I., Ruth Gifford of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Jack and Jeanne Dooley of Nantucket and Ralph and Maggie Lombardi of North Edgecomb, Maine.

Alejandra Yulysa Ramos was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on March 29, 2007 weighing 7 pounds and 3 ounces. She is the daughter of Rosa Lidia Ramos and Juan Carlos Ramos of Nantucket. Her grandparents are Antonia Isabel Pineda, Victoriano Vivas, Maria del Carmen Ramos and Manuel Alarcon of El Salvador.