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Plymouth's 400th Anniversary

Members of the Plymouth 2020 Committee: 2008

Chairman: Rev. Dr. Peter J. Gomes (Harvard Memorial Church)

Kathy Babini (Social Studies Coordinator, Plymouth Schools)
James W. Baker (local historian)
Peggy Baker (Director, Pilgrim Hall Museum)
Paul Bumpus (Historian General, General Society of Mayflower Descendants)
Benjamin B. Brewster (Chiltonville Representative)
Tamson Burgess (Editor, Old Colony Memorial)
Thomas Calter (State Representative, 12th Plymouth District)
Paul Cripps (Executive Director, Plymouth County CVB)
Vinny DeMacedo (State Representative, 1st Plymouth District)
Ellie Donovan (Acting Director, Plimoth Plantation)
Rodney Randy Joseph (Sachem, Federation of Old Plimoth Tribes)
David Kirkpatrick (Plymouth Rock Studios)
Butch Machado (Plymouth Selectman)
John Mahoney (Plymouth Selectman)
Rev. Gary Marks (Pastor, Church of the Pilgrimage)
John McDonagh (Former Director, Plimoth Plantation)
Enzo Monti (North Plymouth Representative)
Therese Murray (Senate President, Senator for Plymouth & Barnstable)
Paula Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe)
Edward Santos (Plymouth Industrial Development Association)
Kenneth A. Tavares (Plymouth resident)

Honorary Members:

Brian Alosi (Chairman, Plymouth 375th Committee)
John Talcott, Jr. (Chairman, Plymouth 350th Committee)

On January 20, 2009, Plymouth Town Clerk Laurence Pizer officiated at the official swearing in of the members of the 400th Anniversary Committee during the selectmen’s Tuesday night meeting. The committee is charged with preparing for and overseeing the town’s 400th anniversary celebration, now only 11 years away.

Chairman Gomes observed, “In my sermon on Sunday, I said it is my sense that, although Mr. Obama is not the Messiah, he may be as good as it gets and we should do everything in our power to help him. It was very wise of him, I think, to choose to be inaugurated on the day in which the 400th Anniversary Commission in the town of Plymouth is installed.”