New Hampshire Chapter Welcomes New Trustees

Sept. 5, 2008 -- At the New Hampshire chapter's annual meeting in Keene, the Conservancy honored two outgoing trustees for their dedicated service and thoughtful guidance to the Conservancy: Suzanne Birchard of Amherst and Annie Faulkner of Stoddard. Sue and Annie, what can we say, but, "Thank You."

Also at the annual meeting, the chapter welcomed two new trustees to the board. Anne Filson and Roger Worboys bring fresh ideas, new perspective and solid commitment to conservation.

Anne Holmes Filson
Anne spent idyllic summers at her grandparents’ cottage on the shores of Silver Lake in Madison, where she played on the lake, climbed mountains, and ate blueberries from the Ossipee Pine Barrens. She earned a BA (cum laude, geology) at Mount Holyoke College and studied at U.C. Berkeley and Simmons College. She became an elementary school librarian in Fairfax County, Virginia, and later taught English as a second language in high school. Anne retired in 2000. She and her husband, John, split the year between homes in Reston, Va., and Silver Lake. They are avid long-distance hikers and have completed a coast-to-coast jaunt across England and Hadrian’s Wall Trail.
Aside from this remarkable background, Anne is also a gifted poet. She recently composed three haiku about the Ossipee Pine Barrens:

Cloaked in dense white fog
Pitch pines stand silently, ghostlike,
In the dawn sun

At dawn the sun breached
The dense fog enveloping
The old pine barrens

Backlit by sun at dawn
Webworm nests stretch wide
Like lacy mantillas

Roger D. Worboys
Roger earned an MBA at the University of New Hampshire, served in the U.S. Army, and entered the corporate world in 1973, starting as a trainee for Continental Cablevision. He ultimately served as the company’s regional vp. Roger has also worked as an officer and member of the board for Simmons Communications, Insight Communications, and Bresnan Communications. Since retiring and returning to New Hampshire, Roger has served on the board of Great Bay Services, which serves the adult developmentally disabled. He has also served on the board of the Mill Pond Center for the Arts in Durham and serves on the board of Cross Roads House, He is a trustee of Alfred University, and on the advisory committee of Newport Computer Services in Rochester. Roger lives in Durham with his wife, Mary Lee.

Anne and Roger join the chapter's full board:

Chair: Richard Mallion, Whitefield
Vice Chair: Karen Ebel, New London

Taylor Caswell, Hollis
Alice Chamberlin, Warner
Patience Chamberlin, Exeter
William Crangle, Plymouth
Gerald J. Gartner, Hollis
Pam Hall, Portsmouth
Kennett R. Kendall Jr. Durham
Lucia Kittredge, Hopkinton
Michael Krinsky, Marlborough
Robert M. Larsen, Concord
Andrew E. Lietz, Rye
Thomas D. Lee, Ph.D., Lee
Frank Magilligan, Lebanon
Jack B. Middleton, Esq., Freedom
Arthur Mudge, Hanover
Barbara Putnam, Keene
Merle Schotanus, Grantham
Laura Simoes, Concord
Col. Cyrus B. Sweet III, New Castle

Honorary Trustees
Thomas S. Deans, Intervale
Anthony Grassi, Sunapee
John R. Schott, Fitzwilliam