
Beauty and Community in Perpetuity.
A volunteer organization dedicated since 1906 to preserving and celebrating the historical and natural environment, and the community of Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire.
Board of Directors
Toni D. Gildone, President
Vernon (Andy) Bean, Treasurer
Peter Russell, Finance Committee Chair
Sally Keller, Corresponding Secretary
Sharon Epple, Recording Secretary
Alex Bird, Vice President - Events
Tom Shiele, Vice President - Buildings
Stephanie Plent, Vice President at Large
Bruce W. Hill, Vice President - Grounds and Landscaping
Richard H. Stein, Vice President - Conservation Easements
Susan T. Campbell, Curator Melville Museum
Kenneth D. Campbell, Historian
1906 – 2024 LIST OF OFFICERS
PRESIDENTS
1906-08 Silas E. Buck (died Aug 1908)
1908-28 Mrs. Benjamin L. Robinson (Margaret C.)
1928-48 Mrs. Lawrence H. Wetherell (Josephine B.)
1948-56 John D. Johnson (died Dec 1956)
1957 Mrs. Lawrence H. Wetherell (Interim President Jan-July)
1957-58 Herbert E. Bixler
1958-61 George B. Farnham
1961-63 Elmer L. Ford
1963-65 William W. Torrey
1965-69 D. Glyn Millard
1969-71 Robert Newbegin
1971-73 Coburn B. Kidd
1973-75 Richard E. Cunningham
1975-77 David F. Gourd
1977-81 Robert M. Brandin
1981-85 Edward M. Read
1985-87 George H. Cox
1987-89 Thomas N. Kell
1989-93 Mary R. Payson
1993-97 Patricia C. Strauss
1997-2001 Robert B. Stephenson
2001-05 Mary R. Payson
2005-07 Anne S. Newbegin Webb
2007-12 Kenneth D. Campbell
2012-18 Susan T. Campbell
2018-19 Timothy J. Gordon
2019-24 Susan T. Campbell
VICE-PRESIDENTS
Heather Ames, Thomas A. Angeloro, William C. Arthur, Valerie Atkins, Ellen Avery, Burgess Ayres, Katharine G. Ayres, Jeannette Barker, Mary R. Batiste, Reynold A. Belletete, Mrs. Ernest Bernbaum (Ruth), Mrs. George Bigelow, Alexander Bird, The Rev. James Bixler, Arthur H. Bradford, Robert M. Brandin, Helen P. Brown, Mrs. Silas E. Buck, Mrs. Albert Burgess (Virginia), Kenneth D. Campbell, Bowman F. Cann, Charles E. Chamberlain, William L. Coleman, George H. Cox, Mrs. E. Granville Crabtree, Richard E. Cunningham, Alice E. Cutter, Lucia B. Cutter, The Rev. Ralph E. Danforth, Peter B. Davis, Noel Dowling, Sean M. Driscoll, Mrs. Robert English (Barney), Bryan English, Llewellyn Thomas Evans, John O Field, Edward Gilchrist, Toni Gildone, Maria Goodman, David F. Gourd, The Rev. Lathrop C. Grant, Janet Grant, The Rev. Frederick W. Greene, Sam Greene, Mrs. Walter F. Greene (Eunice), Sam Hackler, Sylvia Hamilton, Mrs. Josiah Harmar, Robert P. Haynes, Bruce Hill, Howard H. Hill, Gunilla Johanson, John D. Johnson, Thomas N. Kell, James H. Kennedy, Coburn B. Kidd, Bruce Larsen, Frank D. Lindquist, The Rev. William W. Livingston, William W. Locke, Seth F. Low, Mrs. Seth Low, The Rev. Anders G. Lund, Patricia H. MacIsaac, Mrs. Endicott Marean, Charles B. Marvin, Amy R. Meyers, The Rev. Charles S. Mills, Randy Morse, Marijean Parry, Carlos T. Pierce, Stephanie Plent, Margaret Pokorny, John W. Poole, Donald E. Proctor, Edward M. Read, Ronald Reid, Charles Richmond, Sally J. Roberts, Lloyd C. Robinson, Margaret C. Robinson, H. Charles Royce, Jr., Warren Ruffle, Lucius C. Ryce, Bayard Sawyer, William N. Simonton, Roger R. Smith, Richard H. Stein, Robert B. Stephenson, Martin H. Stevens, Patricia C. Strauss, John P. Strauss, James A. Sullivan, .The Rev. David C. Torrey, Norman L. Torrey, William W. Torrey, Schuyler Van Santford, Sally Waters, Anne S.N. Webb, Lawrence H. Wetherell, Josephine Wetherell, Lambert Whetstone, Mrs. Bradford de Wolfe (Susan) Mrs. Francis M. Woods (Davida)
TREASURERS
Edmund G. Blake, Mrs. Charles E. Chamberlain, Jane M. Cunningham, George B. Farnham, Katherine W. Fox (1906-1940), Samuel S. Goodhue, James H. Kennedy, James T. Kilbreath, Jr., Frank D. Lindquist, Charles B. Marvin, Andrea McGillivray, Francis X. Quinlan, John Raleigh, Peter Russell, Edward J. Shea, Roger R. Smith, Robert B. Stephenson, Virginia Warfield
ASSISTANT TREASURER
Mrs. Charles E. Chamberlain
AUDITORS (Almost surely incomplete)
James W. Balentine, Jane M. Cunningham, Walter F. Greene, Tammy Griffin, James A. Kennedy, William W. Locke, Iver Olsen, Donald E. Proctor, William Raymond, Lynn Rust, Smith Batchelder & Rugg CPAs, Harold L. Stillman
RECORDING SECRETARIES
Ellen A. Avery, Mrs. Delcie D. Bean, Jr. (Margaret C.), Mrs. Ernest Bernbaum, Judith M. Bixler, Llewellyn Thomas Evans, Mrs. Llewellyn Thomas Evans (Rachel P.), Carrie W. Fernald, Mary F. Ley, Nancy Lloyd, Viola S. May, D. Glyn Millard, Mrs. John Mitchell (Emma M.), Mary R. Payson, Christine Pedott, Mary E. Phelps, Dorothy P. Rich, Elizabeth Sanderson, Robert B. Stephenson, Miss A.E. Tilton, Jane W. Torrey, Mrs. Norman L. Torrey (Elizabeth B.)
CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES
Mrs. Richard D. Anable, Helen P. Brown, Helen L. Cox, Mrs. E. Granville Crabtree (Edith R.), Jane M. Cunningham, Louise Curran, Mabelle E. Cutter, Janet S. Grant, Sylvia Hamilton, Lisa Bostnar Jackson, Margaret A. Johnson, Mrs. Endicott Marean (Anna), Mrs. Carlos T. Pierce, Frederick S. Richardson, Thomas Schiele, Patricia Scholl; Diane Schott, Megchelina Shore-Bos, Lucy Slade, Anne C. Stevens, Mary B. Stillman, Mrs. Charles P. Strong, Ann W. Winsor, Mrs. Arthur J. Young
CURATORS OF MELVLLE ACADEMY MUSEUM
Susan T. Campbell, Sean Driscoll, Jeanne Duval, Kate Fox, Sally Waters Larsen, Mary Jo Marvin, Michaele Osgood, Mary Payson
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