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BUSINESS PEOPLE

The Van Wezel Foundation has elected Mark Famiglio as chairman. He has been a member of the board for four years and served on the executive committee for three. New members of the executive committee are: Monica Slater Van Buskirk and Phil Delaney, vice chairmen; Shaun Merriman, treasurer; Karl Newkirk, secretary; and John Dart, at large legal counsel.

New members of the board are: David Chaifetz, Mario Govic, John Jakes, John Kayser, Margie Lee, William Stanford, Martin Sullivan and Sharyn Weiner.

Ira Wiesner, elder law attorney in Sarasota, recently participated in a work group sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is designing protocols and guidelines for protecting vulnerable older adults during disasters. Wiesner's primary focus is coordinating assistance to elders with cognitive impairments.

The Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Housing Council elected officers for 2011-2012 at its annual meeting May 31. They are: president, Kenneth Stock; vice presidents, Ralph Friedland, Howard Greber and James Slavin; treasurer, Murray Seitman; secretary, Judith Gofman; and immediate past president, Henry Mason.

Trustees for 2011-2012 will be: Sheila Birnbaum, Debbie Yonker, Gerard Daniel, Steven Greenfield, Donna Lerner, Myron Ash, Hyman Polakoff, Barbara Baseman, Nathan Benderson and Elkan Ries.

Larry Haspel and Ed Rosenthal are new trustees. Haspel is a retired cardiologist and professor of medicine and cardiology. Rosenthal founded Florikan Corp. of Sarasota and currently serves as chairman of the board.

Marie Brown, Gershom Cohn and Jack Weintraub are founders and life members. Phyllis Davis is the incoming president for the Kobernick House Resident Association. Wally Sachs is the Anchin Pavilion Resident Council president.

Williams Parker attorney Michael Wilson has been appointed to the 12th Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee for the Florida Bar. The grievance committee reviews complaints submitted by bar counsel and decides whether there is probable cause to believe a lawyer violated the professional conduct rules imposed by the Supreme Court of Florida and whether discipline appears to be warranted. Wilson practices primarily in the areas of federal, international and state and local taxation.

Larry Morse has joined the Lakewood Ranch office of Raymond James Financial Services. He also works for Raymond James in Winter Haven, where he previously was employed as assistant vice president of investments with A.G. Edwards.

CAPTAIN'S WOMAN by Saliee O'Brien « Bodice Ripper Novels

SHE WAS DISGUISED AS A BOY- Forced to flee England to escape her lecherous kinsmen, she was a stowaway on a pirate ship, with a secret as dangerous as her life.

BUT SHE WAS ALWAYS A WOMAN!- She served her Captain, a man cold as ice. But her love couldn’t touch him, for he had a secret as mysterious as his stormy past.

CAPTAIN’S WOMAN- A novel of flaming passion, a woman’s enduring love and the storms that beset it.

This is one crazy story. The heroine, Mary, is nineteen and living at her deceased grandmother’s home, which is now being run by the grandmother’s male relative. Mary is using the name George Read because she’s been living the last five years of her life as a boy. Her mother died and she went to live with the grandmother….who really believes she’s male. When she was little, her mother dressed her as a boy and took her to visit her grandmother. The grandmother didn’t like boys so that’s the reason for the disguise.

Sir Cecil, who’s thirty and married, is bisexual. He’s been at Hunter House since the grandmother died two months before. He takes a liking to ‘George’, who is not a blood relative. He catches him undressing one day and discovers that George is really a woman. He rapes Mary and tells her she’s to be his secretary and that they’re to continue their sexual relationship. She told him no and told his wife that she was really a woman. Cecil had Mary arrested for being an imposter and she was taken away by two men. On the way to Newgate Prison, they raped her outside of the carriage. She got away from them, naked, hid and then returned to the spot she was raped and put all her clothes, and wig, on. She found a ship called The Hague and snuck onto it and hid.