Marstel-Day Selected as Virginia Business Finalist for the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition Sponsored by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business

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Marstel-Day President Rebecca R. Rubin

We are honored and humbled to be considered for an award that bears Tayloe Murphy’s name.

Fredericksburg, VA (Vocus) August 5, 2010

Rebecca R. Rubin, President of the Fredericksburg-based environmental and conservation consulting firm Marstel-Day, LLC, announced today that the Company was notified that it was one of 12 Virginia business firms overall, and one of only four in the Service sector, selected as finalists for the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award established and sponsored by the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Five winners will receive a scholarship for a one-week course at the Darden’s Executive Educations Program in a selected program offering that best meets their firms' current growth needs. The winning firms' best practices will serve as models to help other businesses succeed in their respective communities.

Tayloe Murphy, Sr. was a well-known businessman and entrepreneur from the Northern Neck area of Virginia. He served his community both as a banker and as a state legislator. He also served the Commonwealth as Virginia’s State Treasurer during the Governor Darden Administration. Most importantly, Mr. Murphy was a man who never forgot his community roots and worked tirelessly to find solutions for the economic and social challenges faced by the people of the Northern Neck. It was said about Mr Murphy that he “. . . was a man of deep convictions, with sound views on public issues, a forward-looking approach combined with a complete understanding of the Virginia tradition … If there is one word that most fully characterized his service ... that word is ‘integrity.’”— Virginius Dabney, The Richmond Times Dispatch (editorial), 1962. The Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award program is established not just in his honor and memory, but intended to further his vision.

The Tayloe Murphy Center at the Darden School of Business is run with the purpose of helping economically and socially challenged communities within Virginia, with the intent to help them succeed by encouraging and educating local business leaders and local forward thinkers to encourage and facilitate their communities to look toward reinventing themselves to meet the demands and needs of the day, much the way Tayloe Murphy did for the Northern Neck in his day.

Rubin said: "We are honored and humbled to be considered for an award that bears Tayloe Murphy’s name." In familiarizing herself with the biography of Tayloe Murphy, she was impressed by his forward-thinking spirit and his desire to use his knowledge and abilities to contribute to the success of so many others within his community. “I am deeply impressed by Tayloe Murphy’s willingness to think outside of the traditional box for solutions while still honoring and preserving worthy traditions.” Rubin stated that, “We want to be a contributor to the vitality of the Fredericksburg community, economically, environmentally and socially, and offer new and better ways to address these issues while respecting the deep history of this community.”

The winners of the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award scholarships will be announced at a ceremony held at U.Va’s historic Rotunda on September 1, 2010.

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