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New Board Members
Meet two new members of the VSA Board of Directors
Robert G. Chapman, Jr. of Montclair, New Jersey has held a variety of positions involving the application of information technology to the financial industry. During the 1980s and 1990s he was the Senior Executive Vice President and CIO of National Westminster Bancorp, a commercial banking organization. Prior to his work for NWB, he was Vice President of Transaction Technology, Inc. (CITICORP) and was Chairman of Chapman Systems inc.

Mr. Chapman holds a BSEE degree from Princeton University (1961), an MSEE degree from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA (1961-1962) and participated in The Executive Program, University of Michigan (1992). He is a Trustee of Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, NJ and is the Vice Chairman of the Zoning Board Adjustment, Montclair, NJ. He and his wife, Carol, are alumni of the London Summer School and Bob serves as membership Secretary of the Alumni Association.

Bryan C. Green of Richmond, VA is an architectural historian with Commonwealth Architects in Richmond. He has a BA in History and Anthropology from University of Notre Dame, an MAH Certificate (1991) in Historic Preservation as well as a PhD in Architectural History from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Green has served as an architectural historian for The Virginia Department of Historic Resources and as Associate Curator for Prints and Photographs, The Virginia Historical Society. In 2002 he received the Gabriella Page Historic Preservation Award from the association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities for Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion. In 1992 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Victorian Society summer school in London, England.

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Today's Board and Officials

President
Bruce Davies, Victoria, British Columbia

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

immediate past president
Patricia Pixley, Omaha, NE

Vice-Presidents
Kathleen Bennett, Upper Montclair, NJ
Edward W. Gordon, Boston, MA
Hyman Myers, Merion Station, PA
Charles J. Robertson, Washington, DC

Secretary
David Buchta, Lexington, KY

Treasurer
Sallie R. Wadsworth, Brookville, IN

Directors
William Ayres, Stony Brook, NY
Robert Chapman, Montclair, NJ
Bryan Green, Richmond, VA
Sylvia Johnson, Akron, OH
Erika Kotite, Novato, CA
Thomas Crichton McGehee, Mobile, AL
Jeffrey Plank, Scottsville, VA
Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, Chicago, IL
Ingrid Steffensen, Short Hills, NJ
Tina Strauss, Deerfield, IL

Historian
C. Dudley Brown, Washington, DC

Emeriti
Patrice K. Beam (Director), Davenport, IA
Donald H. Bergmann (Director), St. Louis, MO
Billie S. Britz (President), Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Richard Hubbard Howland (President), Washington, DC
Gwen Koch (Director), Evansville, IN
William J. Murtagh (President), Alexandria, VA
Guy Lacy Schless (President), Philadelphia, PA
Marilyn Tuchow (Director), 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, National Academy of Design
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 Eckardt Ledes, The Magazine Antiques
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, Athenaeum of Philadelphia
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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