{"id":8429,"date":"2025-05-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:33:36","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-diane-maddex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/volunteer-spotlight-diane-maddex\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight: Diane Maddex"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Joan Gordon<\/em><\/div>\n\nOver the last year, Diane Maddex has quietly taken over one function of the South Coastal Village Volunteers\u2019 communications after another: posting Facebook notifications, liaising with our website manager, and contributing to and now designing and producing the newsletter. Using her skills as a professional editor and publisher, Diane has been a volunteer extraordinaire, and we are fortunate that she chose to give her time to our Village\n\n\n\nDiane and her husband, Robert, have been married for almost sixty years and have one daughter, Alison, and one grandson, Lucien, who live outside Philadelphia. Born in California but raised mostly in the Washington, D.C., area, she was graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. During her youth, Diane spent more than a year living in Ankara, Turkey, where her father was a federal government advisor, and later a half year in Rome, Italy. She attended Antioch College, then transferred to Northwestern University outside Chicago, where she studied journalism and English and received her B.A.\n\n\n\nIn 1968 Diane joined the staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation\u2014\u201cthe best thing that ever happened to me professionally,\u201d she reflects. There she wrote about the preservation movement as managing editor of Preservation News and learned about architecture on the job. When she left to live for two years on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands for her husband\u2019s work, Diane became the Micronesian correspondent for the Pacific Daily News of Guam. While on Saipan her first book, Historic Buildings of Washington, D.C., was published. Afterward she returned to the National Trust, where she cofounded and later served as director of the Trust\u2019s new book publisher, the Preservation Press.\n\n\n\nAfter a total of eighteen years with the National Trust, Diane in 1990 left to start Archetype Press, a book producer that developed and printed large-format illustrated books after contracting with trade and other publishers, among them Simon & Schuster, Abrams, and the Smithsonian. With five employees, the company developed book concepts, retained authors and photographers, and produced scores of titles over thirty-two years. Archetype Press specialized in coffee-table books on architecture, interior design, gardens, art, famous hotels, and historic places (including Nemours in Wilmington). Many were award-winning books, such as The Wright Style and Wright-Sized Houses, that were reprinted over many years.\n\n\n\nDiane herself has written a dozen books, half of those on Frank Lloyd Wright. Others include Bungalow Nation, Sea Island, and Midwestern Modern: The Architecture of Alden B. Dow. For her services to the profession, in 1999 Diane was awarded honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects, its highest honor for nonarchitects. In another architectural capacity, she served as a lay member of the Design Review Board of Reston, Virginia.\n\n\n\nAfter vacationing at the Delaware beaches for many years (beginning in Dewey Beach when Diane was about four) and owning several properties here, she and Robert moved in 2002 from Reston to Water\u2019s Edge in Fenwick Island. There she became an HOA member and later president as well as a co-leader of Save Our Assawoman. The couple also worked on the Friends of the South Coastal Library\u2019s annual Cottage Tour and in local politics. In 2009 Governor Jack Markell appointed her as a lay member of Delaware\u2019s state optometry board.\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tIn addition to writing books on Frank Loyd Wright and other topics, Diane Maddex, seen at right in the Delaware Botanic Gardens, was a founding DBG trustee. She developed its website and remains an advisory council member of the public garden on Pepper Creek.<\/strong>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tDiane and Robert, who had been spending winters in Arizona, moved to Tucson in 2019, just before Covid hit\u2014which limited their community activities. In 2024 they decided to move back to the beach and purchased a new home in Ocean View. Wanting to get involved again in the community, Diane discovered that Chris Powers, an acquaintance from years ago, was then chair of SCVV. \u201cI had the Village Volunteers very much in mind, as I was once fortunate to meet Jackie Finer, founder of the Lewes group, on a house tour there with a mutual old friend from D.C.,\u201d recalls Diane. \u201cI was ready to try something new, so I signed up to be an SCVV volunteer. Now it\u2019s quite an honor to be profiled here, among so many caring and deserving volunteers. I salute them all!\u201d\n\nAs noted, Diane has become an invaluable member. She is happy to be meeting new people and getting reacquainted with old friends as she becomes more and more involved in our community. \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joan Gordon<\/em><\/div>\n

Over the last year, Diane Maddex has quietly taken over one function of the South Coastal Village Volunteers\u2019 communications after another: posting Facebook notifications, liaising with our website manager, and contributing to and now designing and producing the newsletter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopay.net\/scvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}