Following graduation from VPI (BSCE) served 25 years in the USAF as a civil engineer, international pilot, educator, squadron commander, and chief liaison officer to the US Senate. Upon retirement as a Colonel, he joined the Northrop Grumman Corporation first in Dallas and then Washington DC where he engaged in manufacturing process control, strategy/organizational development, and international mission solutions, sales, and marketing. He retired from Northrop as the VP for Corporate Business Development and started a one-person consulting firm, Tapp Associates, providing strategic advice to the defense industry. Jim and Rosemary lived in northern Virgina 1999-2022 and kept a boat in the St Mary’s City area on which they explored and fell in love with the Shore and the St Michaels, Oxford, Easton area. They bought a home in Bozman in 2016 as a family retreat/short-term rental and began visiting Christ Church. Jim and Rosemary purchased a permanent home in St Michaels and became full time members of the Church in 2021. Jim, an avid supporter of Log Canoe racing, is a member of the St Michaels Board of Zoning Appeals and Waterways Advisory Board.
This is the table, not of the Church, but of the Lord. It is made ready for those who seek God, those who love God, and those who want to love God more. So come, you who have much faith, and you who have little, or are questioning faith. Come, you who have been here often, and you who have not been for a long time or ever before. Come, you who have tried to follow and you who have failed. Come, not because the Church invites you; it is Christ who invites you to be known, to be fed, to be loved here.
