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Zerkle resigns from broadcasting museum board
West Chester resident Bill Zerkle has resigned as president of the Board of Directors of the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting.
During a meeting with the board last week, Zerkle said his efforts to spearhead a campaign to place the issue of incorporation on the May 2010 ballot could become a conflict of interest with his involvement with the museum.
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Citing a possible conflict of interest, West Chester Twp. resident Bill Zerkle resigned last week as president of the Board of the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting.
His resignation, which is effective immediately, comes amid the Board’s multi-million dollar effort to rehabilitate the 1940s-era former Bethany Station off Tylersville in West Chester.
In his letter to the Museum Board dated Tuesday, Nov. 3, Zerkle said he has been behind the rehabilitation efforts for the past decade.
“However, I have become quite concerned that my strongly-held position regarding West Chester cityhood will prove detrimental to museum development,” Zerkle wrote to the board. “I therefore respectfully request that you accept my resignation as both president and member of the Voice of America Museum Broadcasting effective immediately.”
Zerkle said Monday, Nov. 9, that the incorporate effort is so divisive and so politicized that it could have a negative effect on fundraising for the museum’s capital project.
“I’m not willing to watch the VOA board suffer from my political involvement,” Zerkle said.
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