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John F. Weeks III, Chair
Bank of America
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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
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Sylvia McBeth
Keene
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Annabel Beerel
Southern New Hampshire University
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Selma Naccach-Hoff
Manchester High School Central
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Deborah B. Butler
Sulloway & Hollis, PLLC
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Peter W. Powell
Peter W. Powell Real Estate
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Candice J. Dale
St. Paul's School
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Leonard Reed
Bethlehem |
Michael DeLucia
Senior Assistant NH Attorney General
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Beth A. Salerno
Saint Anselm College (on sabbatical)
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Dayton Duncan
Florentine Films
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E. Charles Sanborn
Canterbury
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Lorne M. Fienberg
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,
Glovsky and Popeo, PC
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Marjorie Smith
NH House of Representatives
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Janice Gregory
University of New Hampshire
Lisa MacFarlane
University of New Hampshire |
C. Paul Vincent
Keene State College (on sabbatical)
Anne Zachos
Manchester
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Rick Agran
Grants Officer
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Terry Farish
Literacy Coordinator
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Sue Butman
Office Manager
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Karen Jantzen
Development Director
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Anne Coughlin
Marketing Director
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Judy McCarthy
Controller
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Lynn Douillette
Database Administrator
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Kathy Smith
Program Director |
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Terry Farish has jonied the Humanities Council staff as Literacy Coordinator. She will direct the Council’s Connections program for adult new readers.
Terry is the author of books for children and adults, including The Cat Who Liked Potato, illustrated by Barry Root and winner of the NH Writers Project’s award for Outstanding Work of Children’s Literature. She’s also the author of If the Tiger, the story of a survivor of the Pol Pot Regime in Cambodia. She has taught at Rivier College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and has led writers workshops in schools through the Children’s Literacy Foundation. She has been a children’s librarian in Leominster and Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she developed a book discussion project for adult English language learners called “Tell Me a Cuento.”
For more information about Connections, contact Terry at 224-4071 x12.
The Humanities Council is very grateful for the service of two long-term board members whose tenures on the board conclude in August.
Debby Butler and Janice Gregory joined the board in January, 2002.
During her tenure on the board, Butler chaired the Council’s Nominations Committee, which is responsible for recruiting, selecting and orienting new members for the board. She also assisted the board in the process of selecting new investment and auditing firms.
Gregory led the board committee that oversaw the Council’s two-year strategic planning process, leading to the creation of the Council’s current strategic plan.
Butler is a Certified Public Accountant with the law firm of Sulloway and Hollis, PLLC. She is a member and former chair of the New Hampshire Board of Accountancy, the regulatory and disciplinary agency governing New Hampshire’s certified public accountants. She formerly served as the Audit Bureau Chief for the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration. She received her BS in Business Administration and Accounting from New England College and is a 2004 graduate of Leadership New Hampshire.
Gregory is the Associate State Director for the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics. She directs strategic planning and is an internal consultant on capacity building, personnel management and budget development. Gregory served on the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on education funding in 2000 – 2001. She was a founding director of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. She earned her BA from Harvard/Radcliffe College and her MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
At its June board meeting, the Council elected its slate of officers, continuing the terms of Chair John Weeks, President at U.S. Trust Bank of America; Vice Chair Jack Herney, Robert Shaw White Professor of History at Phillips Exeter Academy; Treasurer William Chapman, an attorney with Orr & Reno, P.A.; and Secretary Tom Ewing, publisher of The Keene Sentinel.
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