Mary Sue Kessler and Linda McLarty, owners of First Look Tours, teamed together in 2006 to conduct executive tours around the Dayton Region. Each year First Look has expanded and increased services to include recruitment, relocation, retention and aviation heritage. Jill Wallace joined the team in 2009 to assist in demonstrating why the Dayton Region is one of the most livable and unique areas in America.

Mary Sue Kessler retired from National City Bank as Vice President of Community Development. Her professional career encompassed uniquely diverse service including a teaching position with the Dayton Public Schools and a management position with the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.

Mary Sue's longtime commitment to the community has been recognized with numerous awards including being named a Top Ten Woman by the Dayton Daily News, A Woman of Influence and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the YWCA and presented the Outstanding Service Club Award by the President's Club of Dayton. Her personal interests include playing a good round of golf and spoiling her four grandchildren.

Linda McLarty has been Vice President of McLarty Communications, a Dayton public relations/marketing firm since 1992. Prior to that she taught English as a Second Language internationally and provided consultant instructional services to foreign executives temporarily residing in the United States. Linda also worked in advertising sales for a national marketing firm and for various newspapers.

Linda has lived in Beavercreek, Ohio since 1983. She has been a member and officer of various community non-profit organizations and enjoys the arts, French and Italian cooking classes, and bicycling on the "Rails-to-Trails" paths.

             

Jill Wallace joined the First Look team in 2009, Dana Cluxton and Susan Richardson came on board in 2011. The First Look team of specialists is excited to share with recruits and visitors why the Dayton Region is unique and has so much to offer. Mary Sue, Linda, Jill, Dana and Susan are knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about giving customized Recruit tours, Relocation assistance, as well as Aviation History tours, Military Reunion bus tours and Convention Visitor tours.

Jill Wallace is a third generation Daytonian. She retired as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at National City Mortgage Corporation and brings over thirty years experience in the human resources field. She is a strong advocate for our community with a special interest in our schools and the arts.

Currently Jill is on the Board of the Centerville Arts Commission. She has previously served as an officer and member of various community organizations as well as Human Resources and Business professional organizations. In her leisure time she enjoys her talented daughter's musical concerts and also shopping, especially for shoes!

Dana Cluxton grew up in the Vandalia community, is married, mother to two sons and one daughter. As a result of company transfers her family relocated many times over the years and she is very pleased to be back home in the Dayton Region and living in Butler Township.

Dana has served the local community as co-chair of the Dayton Philharmonic Designers Show House, docent in the schools with the S.P.A.R.K. Program, and Interpreter at Carillon Historic Park. She is currently a Bell Board member at Dayton History and board member of the Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm.

Dana enjoys her family, golf and gardening.

Susan Richardson moved to the Dayton area after retiring from the U. S. Air Force in 2005. She served 26 years as an Aerospace Physiologist, training aircrew members in the physiological hazards of flight, protective equipment, and emergency procedures. As Aerospace Physiologist, Susan had the opportunity to fly in 22 different military aircraft, including the U-2 reconnaissance plane above 70,000 feet and NASA's Zero-G aircraft. She specializes in Aviation Heritage tours.

Susan is an Ohio State University certified Master Gardener, Wright State University Public History student, volunteer docent at the National Museum of the U. S. Air Force, and mother of three great kids.

She enjoys gardening, visiting museums, and being with her family.