The FOVM has a voting Board of Directors and a nonvoting Advisory Board. The FOVM Board meets at 10:00 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month except during August and December, unless there is the need for official business during those months. The Annual Meeting is the second Saturday in April. All FOVM members and donors are invited to attend.
The goals of the FOVM are
•to raise funds for the preservation and operation of the Villa Montezuma Museum;
•to enhance public education about this historic, architectural, and cultural resource; and
•to operate the Villa in compliance with the American Alliance of Museum standards.
Subcommittees include
•Restoration
•Education/Outreach/Events
•Finance/Business/Fundraising
The FOVM Board understands the joys and challenges of operating a museum within a historic inner city neighborhood. We thank all the great support we have from the many downtown organizations and from the area residents. Since the Villa opened in 1972 it has always been more than a house museum; it is part of the celebrations and fabric of the community. The FOVM is grateful to all those who helped make the 2021 museum reopening possible.
The 2023 - 2024 Board
Chairperson: Louise Torio
Vice Chair: Charles Spratley
Treasurer: Mike Ruth, PE
Secretary: Todd McKerrow, M.Arch.
Membership Secretary: Barbara Busch
Robin Coon, GG
Monteen Solberg
Advisory Board: Pamela Bensoussan, ASA
Alessandra Moctezuma, MFA
The FOVM Board of Directors
FOVM Advisory Board
Pamela Bensoussan
Art & Antiques Appraiser
Linda Canada
Historian
Vicki Estrada
Estrada Land Planning
Landscape Architecture
Nick Fintzelberg
Carol Hann
Research
Ben Hueso
Former State Senator
Phil Kern, P.E.
Vonn Marie May
Architectural Landscape Historian
Alessandra Moctezuma
Professor / Artist
Jim Moss
Past SD Historical Society Executive Director
Tonnie Moss
Owen Sutton
Retired Preservation Contractor
Bob Witty
Past SD Historical Society Executive Director
In Loving Memory
Kathleen (Kay) Porter
November 26, 1927 -
September 15, 2020
Loch David Crane
November 28, 1948 -
April 25, 2018
Gabe Selak
March 23, 1971 -
April 3, 2017
Bob Wright
October 17, 1927 -
December 26, 2014
Dr. Clare Crane
June 16, 1926 -
June 17, 2011
Shep Wickham
January 21, 1947 -
March 18, 2012
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Shep Wickham
John Wickham, better know as “Shep” to all, was a longtime employee of the San Diego Historical Society (now the San Diego History Center) who was the live-in docent and caretaker at the Villa for over seven years. Shep passed in March 2012. He’s the one we quote when we say
“it’s not haunted,
it’s ENCHANTED.”
In his final days, Shep offered to come back and REALLY haunt the Villa. We welcome his kind presence.
The late Kay Porter,
our mentor and Advisory Board Chair,
and FOVM Board Chair Louise Torio