. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. PEOPLE & PLACES. Left to Right: Jerry? Schill ends hisl 8-year tenure at the helm of the NCFA this summer. • Billy Carl Tillett will miss the feisty NCFA spokesman. • Denny Hooks of Carolina* In late summer, Jerry Schill will end his 18-year stint as president of the North Carolina Fisheries Association (NCFA) — the trade organization that has represented the state's commercial fishing interests since 1952. He and his wife, Pam, will retire to a 100-acre dairy farm in Pennsylvania — but not before elec
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. PEOPLE & PLACES. Left to Right: Jerry? Schill ends hisl 8-year tenure at the helm of the NCFA this summer. • Billy Carl Tillett will miss the feisty NCFA spokesman. • Denny Hooks of Carolina* In late summer, Jerry Schill will end his 18-year stint as president of the North Carolina Fisheries Association (NCFA) — the trade organization that has represented the state's commercial fishing interests since 1952. He and his wife, Pam, will retire to a 100-acre dairy farm in Pennsylvania — but not before electricity, plumbing and bathrooms and a modem kitchen are installed in the nine- bedroom, Amish-built farmhouse. They plan to transform the house into the Joshua Christian Family Center, a place where families can retreat from the quick urban pace to find solace in its bucolic setting. Schill explains that the name is derived from a line in the Book of Joshua that reads: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the ; If guests are not interested in milking cows, planting or harvesting, they can work with the Belgian draft horses or explore the farm's rippling streams and 45 woodland acres. "This is a place for people to get in touch with their spirituality and our country's agrarian roots," Schill says. The forthcoming move means the Schills will reconnect with their own roots in Pennsylvania, where Schill grew up on a dairy farm and married Pam, his high school sweetheart. After a four-year stint in the Air Force, he became a professional photographer. In the 1980s, the family moved to North Carolina when Schill became a sales representative for an agribusiness covering Pamlico and Carteret counties. It would be Schill's first introduction to the state's commercial fishing community. "I got the political bug in 1986," says Schill, recalling his unsuccessful bid for the North Carolina House of Representatives. "I was beaten, but I did
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