Bill Horne
Bill Horne was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to John and Barbara Horne, the oldest of four children. After graduating from Beverly High School in Massachusetts in 1965, Bill attended Harvard University, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemical Sciences in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Boston University in 1976.
After doing postdoctoral research at Boston University and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Bill moved to Branford in 1983, conducting research for twenty-four years in the Yale University School of Medicine’s Departments of Pathology, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation and Cell Biology, as well as the Child Study Center. He spent the last three years of his research career part-time in Boston after the research group he worked with moved to the Harvard Dental School.
A member of the Branford Land Trust since shortly after moving to Branford, Bill began his active involvement in the mid-1990’s, serving as a Director for ten years and as President for another five years. He continues to be active in the land trust’s property management committee, where he has supervised Branford High School students doing internships at the end of their senior year and served on the land acquisition committee. In addition to his work with the land trust, Bill was a member of the Conservation and Environmental Commission from 1998 to 2010 and co-chaired the commission for five years.
In 1997, Bill and several other local environmentalists formed Citizens for Branford’s Environment. The group’s initial goal was to make open space and the protection of Branford’s environment part of the discussion in local elections. In 1997 and 1999, they presented a series of questions to the candidates for First Selectman, videotaped the candidates’ responses and had them broadcast on Branford Community Television. Citizens for Branford’s Environment also joined the grassroots campaign to protect more than 200 acres north of the Supply Pond from becoming a golf course and residential development. The effort eventually led to the Town’s purchase in 2006 of three-quarters of the property to be kept as open space, creating the Queach Preserve. Bill attends almost every meeting of the Planning and Zoning Committee and the Inland Wetland Commission in an effort to protect our natural resources and to prevent unnecessary degradation and building in our town.
Bill works incessantly on issues affecting our lives of which most town residents are ignorant. To keep our citizens informed, he prints a newsletter, “The Concerned Citizen”, on the internet. He will email it to anyone interested to keep readers informed of issues pertinent to Branford.
Bill is married to Lea Brilmayer. They have a daughter Rebecca, a son Ben and twin granddaughters.
After doing postdoctoral research at Boston University and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Bill moved to Branford in 1983, conducting research for twenty-four years in the Yale University School of Medicine’s Departments of Pathology, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation and Cell Biology, as well as the Child Study Center. He spent the last three years of his research career part-time in Boston after the research group he worked with moved to the Harvard Dental School.
A member of the Branford Land Trust since shortly after moving to Branford, Bill began his active involvement in the mid-1990’s, serving as a Director for ten years and as President for another five years. He continues to be active in the land trust’s property management committee, where he has supervised Branford High School students doing internships at the end of their senior year and served on the land acquisition committee. In addition to his work with the land trust, Bill was a member of the Conservation and Environmental Commission from 1998 to 2010 and co-chaired the commission for five years.
In 1997, Bill and several other local environmentalists formed Citizens for Branford’s Environment. The group’s initial goal was to make open space and the protection of Branford’s environment part of the discussion in local elections. In 1997 and 1999, they presented a series of questions to the candidates for First Selectman, videotaped the candidates’ responses and had them broadcast on Branford Community Television. Citizens for Branford’s Environment also joined the grassroots campaign to protect more than 200 acres north of the Supply Pond from becoming a golf course and residential development. The effort eventually led to the Town’s purchase in 2006 of three-quarters of the property to be kept as open space, creating the Queach Preserve. Bill attends almost every meeting of the Planning and Zoning Committee and the Inland Wetland Commission in an effort to protect our natural resources and to prevent unnecessary degradation and building in our town.
Bill works incessantly on issues affecting our lives of which most town residents are ignorant. To keep our citizens informed, he prints a newsletter, “The Concerned Citizen”, on the internet. He will email it to anyone interested to keep readers informed of issues pertinent to Branford.
Bill is married to Lea Brilmayer. They have a daughter Rebecca, a son Ben and twin granddaughters.