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Today's Board and Officials

President
Bruce Davies, Victoria, British Columbia

Executive Vice-President
John J. Simonelli, Paterson, NJ

Vice-Presidents
Kathleen Bennett, Upper Montclair, NJ
Edward W. Gordon, Boston, MA
Erika Kotite, Novato, CA
Charles J. Robertson, Washington, DC

Treasurer
Robert Chapman, Montclair, NJ

Secretary
Sallie R. Wadsworth, Brookville, IN

Directors
William Ayres, Stony Brook, NY

Dorothy Cooper, Deptford, NJ

Sylvia Johnson, Akron, OH

Thomas Crichton McGehee, Mobile, AL
Hyman Myers, Merion Station, PA
Patricia Pixley, Omaha, NE
Jeffrey Plank, Scottsville, VA
Ingrid Steffensen, Short Hills, NJ
Tina Strauss, Deerfield, IL

Historian
C. Dudley Brown, Washington, DC

Emeriti
Patrice K. Beam, ­Davenport, IA
Donald H. Bergmann, St. Louis, MO
Billie S. Britz , Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Gwen Koch, Evansville, IN
William J. Murtagh, Penobscot, ME
Guy Lacy Schless, Philadelphia, PA
Marilyn Tuchow, Birmingham, MI

Advisory Council
Christopher Forbes, New York, NY
Margot Gayle, New York, NY
Sibyl M. Groff, New York, NY
Sally Buchanan Kinsey, De Witt, NY
Michael J. Lewis, Williamstown, MA
Pauline C. Metcalf, New York, NY
Roger W. Moss, Philadelphia, PA
James F. O’Gorman, Windham, ME
Helen Tucker, New York, NY
Richard Guy Wilson, Charlottesville, VA

Editorial Advisory Board
Kenneth L. Ames, Bard Graduate ­Center
David Barquist, Yale University Art Gallery
Annette Blaugrund,
New York, NY

Michael K. Brown, Bayou Bend Collection
Gretchen Buggeln, Winterthur ­Museum

Susan Casteras, University of ­Washington
Barbara T. Gates, University of Delaware
Robin Karson, Library of American Landscape History
Neil Larson, Woodstock, NY
Allison Kyle Leopold, New York, NY
Edward Maeder, Historic Deerfield
Paul R. Miller, Preservation Society of Newport County
Barbara J. Mitnick, Morristown, NJ
Mary Alice Molloy, Chicago, IL
William D. Moore, University of North ­Carolina
Roger W. Moss, Philadelphia, PA
Adrienne Munich, SUNY Stony Brook
James F. O’Gorman, Wellesley College
Norton Owen, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Gretchen Sorin, Cooperstown ­Graduate ­Program
Valerie Steele, Fashion Institute of Technology
Mark Thistlethwaite, Texas Christian University
Neville Thompson, Bellingham, WA
Thayer Tolles, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island
Richard Guy Wilson, University of Virginia

National Office Staff
Kenneth Olin, Business Manager, Philadelphia, PA
Susan McCallum, Summer School Administrator, Summit, NJ

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