Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra Announces New Board Members

The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra (GLCO) is pleased to announce new members Dibby Smith,
Jim Graves, and Tom Bailey to the organization’s Board of Trustees.

Dibby Smith is returning to the GLCO Board, where she previously served from 2012 to 2018
and was President from 2013-2017. She is a nurse who worked in Public Health for the last 20
years of her career. She and her husband Scott lived in several developing countries in the
1970’s and 1980’s. Since moving to Petoskey in 2010, she has been very active in the local
community, serving on the boards of the Northern Michigan Chapter of the American Red
Cross, the Hestia Women’s Giving Circle, and the League of Women Voters of Northern Lower
Michigan. She is an active member of the Petoskey Rotary Club and of Women Who Care as
well as two book groups. Dibby grew up in a musical family and played the viola in middle
school. She sings in church and community choirs, including the GLCO Chorus, and participates
in the annual Bay View Week of Handbells.

Jim Graves is a retired Professional Engineer from Detroit Edison, where he was Director of
System Development. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson
University in Potsdam, New York. Jim served on the board of charitable organizations
Farmington Youth Assistance and Second Chance Ranch and Rescue, as well as the Little
Traverse Choral Society. He has held leadership roles in churches in Farmington, Harbor
Springs, and Petoskey, and has enjoyed singing in university, community, and church choirs
throughout his life, including the GLCO Chorus.

Tom Bailey served as Executive Director of the Little Traverse Conservancy in Harbor Springs
from 1984 through 2018. He previously worked for the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources and US National Park Service. In 2016, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of
Lake Superior State University by Governor Rick Snyder and was previously named to Snyder’s
Blue Ribbon Panel on Michigan State Parks and Outdoor Recreation. He was appointed by
Governor John Engler to the Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund Technical Advisory Board
and the Michigan Water Resources Commission. He co-founded several nonprofits including the
Top of Michigan Trails Council and Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy,
Michigan’s state association of land conservancies. He holds a BS degree in Park and Recreation

Resources from Michigan State University where he also pursued graduate studies in land use,
resource economics and environmental law. He is married to artist Heidi Marshall.

The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra is a nonprofit professional orchestra headquartered in
Petoskey. For twenty-four years the mission of the GLCO has been to inspire, entertain and
educate through live, professional, community-connected orchestral programming. For more
information, visit www.glcorchestra.org.