Speakers
We schedule a wide variety of speakers, usually two at each meeting September through May of the membership year.  Our June Spring Celebration features a special program.  Last minute emergent scheduling issues, however, can result in changes.  Here you will find the presentations scheduled for the membership year 2024-2025.  When you click on the colored text, you will link to more information about the speaker, organization or both.  Below the current schedule, we list subjects or organizations that have been represented by speakers at past meetings to help you see what NBNC offers.
 
Club members have the opportunity to log in and hear speakers they have missed or want to hear again by selecting Meeting Videos section at the lower right portion of the Home page.
 
Updated 9/8/2025
 
Meeting Date
First Speaker
Second Speaker
9/12/2025
   
  Karen Williams
 
 Barnes Sutton
10/10/2025
John Grimes
Chief
Emergency Management
 
Johnny Griffin
Director
 Wilmington Film Commission
 
11/14/2025
 
Jessica Clark
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Surfrider
Shane Fernando, CEO
Thalian Hall Center for the
Performing Arts
 
12/12/2025
 
 
Brunswick Family Assistance 
Kyle Abrams/Morgan Cleppe
** 2026 **  
*****
1/09/2026
 
Amy Keith
OLLI
 
 
Jim Mckee
Site Manager Brunswick Town
 
2/06/2026
Julie Bowling​/Michelle Old
Branch Director
Diaper Bank of North Carolina – Lower Cape Fear
Camilia Club Of Wilmington
Tidewater | Tidewater Camellia Club 
Darrell Sheldon, Matt Hunter
3/13/2026
Joshua Toler
GFL
Tammy Daniels 
Wilson Center | Cape Fear Community College
4/10/2026
 
Tim McNeilly
Recreation Management
 
Mary Ellen Rodgers
Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter
 
5/8/2026
Doug Dawson
Brunswick Search and Rescue, Inc.
 
Ruth Smith
www.honorflightcfa.org
 
6/12/2026
Martha Peterson
Author "The Widow Spy"
 

 
 
 
SOME PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS
Art League of Leland
Bellamy Mansion
Brunswick Civil War Roundtable Club
Brunswick Community College
Brunswick County Library
Brunswick Search and Rescue
Cameron Art Museum
Cape Fear River Watch
Former Steward on Air Force One
Friends of the Battleship USS North Carolina
Good Shepherd Center
ILM Airport
Latimer House
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society
NC Aquarium
NC Coastal Federation
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Paws Place
Samara’s Village
Sea Turtle Program
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington’s Involvement in WWII