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considerably different from that of
our mayor’s; she grew up in New
York City’s Riverdale section, earn-
ing her bachelor’s degree from the
College of Mount Saint Vincent and
a master of science and professional
diploma in administration from
Manhattan College.
She had never lived in a house –
much less in the country – until her
family moved to Mount Pleasant
some 27 years ago, where she began
her career as a teacher.
“It was wonderful,” she said. “There
was grass and dogs and all that.”
“Our Mount Pleasant sounds a lot
like yours,” she added. “People love
their community. They take roots.
They join churches and participate
in their schools. They have a real
sense of neighborhoods.”
In 1992, Maybury was asked to
run for the town board; she did and
she won, serving while still work-
ing as a teacher and as the mother of
three girls. She became supervisor 18
months ago when the person who
held the position for 20 years left to
join the county executive’s office.
In an unexpected development,
Maybury revealed that she is actual-
ly quite familiar with Mount Pleas-
ant, S.C., because of our nationally
recognized Medal of Honor Muse-
um. Town Hall in Mount Pleasant,
N.Y., has three Medals of Honor in
a special case in its lobby. The town
obtained them through the efforts
of an American Legion commander
“who worked tirelessly to get them.”
A monument outside the building
lists the names of New York resi-
dents who earned the medal.
Asked if she is ever kidded about
her last name, sort of a homonym
of one of television’s most famous
Southern towns, the supervisor
good-naturedly observed that her
surname “is often misspelled, so
it comes out like Andy Griffiths’
fictional hometown.”
She confessed that one day she
might like to move to Dixie.
“Our Mount Pleasant is not a
retirement area. Most of our citizens
are local business people or com-
muters to New York City. But I’ve
noticed that a significant number of
our residents with the wherewithal
to do so have pulled up stakes and
moved south to avoid New York’s
high real estate prices and taxes.”
Told she would always be wel-
come to visit her sister city and the
Medal of Honor Museum aboard
the USS Yorktown, the supervisor
said that sounded like an excellent
idea. And, having read an article
about our Mount Pleasant’s chief ex-
ecutive, she added, “I’d like to meet
your Mayor Billy Swails. He seems
like a really fine fellow.”
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