Contents: Homepage Interactive Maps Greenway Forms Project Profiles Greenways Defined Blueprint for Action Facts and Thoughts Public Input Staff Links		A Brief Sketch of Elaine Marsh Project Director Elaine Marsh is life-long lover of Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. She and her husband Harold and daughter Niki enjoy recreation in boats, bikes, skis, and hiking boots in and around these bountiful bodies of water. Harold, her husband of 22 years is a senior research chemist at Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Their daughter Niki is a sophomore at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Most Cherished Affiliation She is President and Cofounder of Friends of the Crooked River, a citizen group which advocates for the preservation and restoration of the Cuyahoga River. Board Work Board of Directors for the Ohio League of Conservation Voters Board of Directors for Great Lakes United Coordinating Committee for the Cuyahoga Remedial Action Plan; Chairman of Community Involvement Committee Advisory Boards for EcoCity Cleveland and the Cleveland Waterfront Coalition Committee Work Ohio EPA appointed member of the External Advisory Committee for Ohio Rules on the Antidegradation Mayoral appointee for the City of Akron’s Technical Advisory Committee for Infrastructure Improvement Township Trustee appointed member of the Comprehensive Planning Committee for Bath Township Awards 1994, The Cuyahoga: Portrait of a Crooked River, a video which she co-produced received an award at the North American Environmental Education Film Festival 1996, The Conservation Award from the Garden Club of America 1997, Water Conservationist of the Year from the League of Ohio Sportsmen Previous Lives She has served as Executive Director of the Cleveland Waterfront Coalition, Executive Director of the Seneca Trail Council of Campfire and Associate Director of Student Services for Aultman Hospital School of Nursing.
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Elaine Marsh is life-long lover of Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. She and her husband Harold and daughter Niki enjoy recreation in boats, bikes, skis, and hiking boots in and around these bountiful bodies of water. Harold, her husband of 22 years is a senior research chemist at Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Their daughter Niki is a sophomore at Beloit College in Wisconsin.

Most Cherished Affiliation

She is President and Cofounder of Friends of the Crooked River, a citizen group which advocates for the preservation and restoration of the Cuyahoga River.

Board Work

Board of Directors for the Ohio League of Conservation Voters
Board of Directors for Great Lakes United
Coordinating Committee for the Cuyahoga Remedial Action Plan; Chairman of Community Involvement Committee
Advisory Boards for EcoCity Cleveland and the Cleveland Waterfront Coalition

Committee Work

Ohio EPA appointed member of the External Advisory Committee for Ohio Rules on the Antidegradation
Mayoral appointee for the City of Akron’s Technical Advisory Committee for Infrastructure Improvement
Township Trustee appointed member of the Comprehensive Planning Committee for Bath Township

Awards

1994, The Cuyahoga: Portrait of a Crooked River, a video which she co-produced received an award at the North American Environmental Education Film Festival
1996, The Conservation Award from the Garden Club of America
1997, Water Conservationist of the Year from the League of Ohio Sportsmen

Previous Lives

She has served as Executive Director of the Cleveland Waterfront Coalition, Executive Director of the Seneca Trail Council of Campfire and Associate Director of Student Services for Aultman Hospital School of Nursing.