Julie Cox

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Julie Cox

Julie Cox is one of the people who keep Mt. Airy going. Whether she is taking the lead in an organization or working on a committee with others, Julie does the day-to-day work that sustains the organizations, activities, and events that makes Mt. Airy special.

Julie was an important contributor to the New Threads organization that was designed to create jobs by textile recycling and creating community development partnerships. She served on the board and was in charge of collecting used clothing for New Threads.

Julie was also on board of the Allens Lane Art Center for eleven years. She was one of several people who joined the board of what she calls a “remarkable place” when it had financial difficulties. She says “a bunch of us hung in there for a good ten years as the Arts Center worked as it way out of debt and got to a point at which it could blossom again.”

Over the years Julie has taken part in a wide range of activities at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG). Recently she has worked on the Haiti committee and recently traveled to that country. She serves on the Community Needs Committee and, works with another Good Neighbor, Bill Ewing on a committee to raise funds for handicapped accessibility. After taking part in a number of political campaigns over the years, Julie recently became a Judge of elections.

Julie Cox says that she “really doesn’t want to live anywhere else outside of Mt. Airy. Mt. Airy welcomes, celebrates and is committed to its diversity. To do so requires and demands that they be people be committed and involved in keeping the community vibrant and alive. You can’t set it up one day and except it to continue on it own. People have to solve problems as they arise, create organizations, and then change them in response to new circumstances. A lot of people in Mt. Airy are leaders both here and in the broader community. So it is a place where, if there is some kind of problem it is pretty easy to find someone to address it with you.”