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Four new directors join the Humanities Council Board

 

 

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John F. Weeks III, Chair
Bank of America

John D. Herney, Vice Chair
Phillips Exeter Academy
William L. Chapman, Treasurer
Orr & Reno, PA
Thomas M. Ewing, Secretary
The Keene Sentinel

Roberta "Mitzi" Barrett
Nashua

Peter W. Powell
Peter W. Powell Real Estate

Annabel Beerel
Southern New Hampshire University

Leonard Reed
Bethlehem

Candice J. Dale
St. Paul's School

Beth A. Salerno
Saint Anselm College

Michael DeLucia
Senior Assistant NH Attorney General

E. Charles Sanborn
Canterbury

Dayton Duncan
Florentine Films

Tracy Schier
Hudson

Lorne M. Fienberg
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,
Glovsky and Popeo, PC

Cathleen A. Schmidt
Citizens Bank

Cleve Kapala
TransCanada

Marjorie Smith
NH House of Representatives

Lisa MacFarlane
University of New Hampshire

Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.
University of Delaware

C. Paul Vincent
Keene State College

Anne Zachos
Manchester

Sylvia McBeth
Keene

Selma Naccach-Hoff
Manchester High School Central

 

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Deborah Watrous
Executive Director

Rick Agran
Grants Officer

Terry Farish
Connections Program Director

Sue Butman
Office Manager

Karen Jantzen
Development Director

Anne Coughlin
Marketing Director

Judy McCarthy
Controller

Lynn Douillette
Database Administrator
Kathy Smith
Program Director
   
   

Four new directors join Humanities Council Board

The Humanities Council is pleased to welcome four new members to our Board of Directors.

Cleve Kapala is Director of Government Affairs for the Northeast U.S. Region for Trans-Canada. He has an A.B. in history from Middlebury College and earned his M.S. in environmental studies from Antioch University. He is a member of the Connecticut River Valley Resource Commission and the immediate past president of the Connecticut River Joint (NH and VT) Commissions. He sits on the Steering Committee of the Northern Forest Sustainable Economy Initiative, working on economic development issues in the upstate northern forest regions of New York, Vermont, NH and Maine.

Tracy Schier maintains an active consulting practice in strategic planning, board development, and evaluation and has served more than 50 colleges, universities, health care and social service institutions in 20 states and Canada. Since 1986 she has also served the Lilly Endowment in numerous capacities: project director, program evaluator, trustee mentor, editor, and writer. She is co-founder of the Boston College Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education and directed the Yale University project on Colleges Founded by Women Religious. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Rivier College and recently completed two terms as trustee of the Nashua Symphony. Schier is a graduate of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. She holds masters degrees from Ohio University and Rivier, and a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of higher education from Boston College.

Cathleen A. Schmidt is President of Citizens Bank in New Hampshire and Vermont. She is also a member of CFG’s Executive Policy Committee, the company’s senior leadership team. Schmidt serves on the boards of the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Heritage United Way, the Manchester Economic Development Corporation and the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts. She is a cum laude graduate of Boston College, where she received a B.A. in economics and psychology.

Bryant F. Tolles, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of History and Art History at the University of Delaware where he also served as Director of the Museum Studies Program. He formerly served as the Executive Director of the Essex Institute in Salem, MA, one of the nation’s oldest and largest regional history, decorative arts and fine arts museums. He earned a Ph.D. in history from Boston University, an M.A. in the teaching of history from Yale University, and a B.A. in American Studies from Yale. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center and the Mount Washington Observatory. He is the author of several books on the history and architecture of New England’s resort hotels.

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