Organization
The Organization Structure of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is based on that found in the Plymouth Colony. It is headed by a Governor who has an Assistant Governor (now called Deputy Governor) and a board consisting of a number of other Assistants. Its current officers and assistants including those elected by the membership at the annual meeting held January 2009 are as follows:

 

Officers

Governor: Norman Robinson
Deputy Governor: Robert Heinsohn, PhD
Secretary: Layton Fireng
Assistant Secretary: TBA
Treasurer: Deborah Yingst
Assistant Treasurer: David Hunt, Jr.
Historian: Valerie Cullen
Registrar: Stephen Connelly
Elder: The Rev. Judith Meier
Captain: Richard Smith Sr.
Counselor: Thomas Kellogg, Esq.
Membership Officer: Joan Miller
Deputy Governor General: Robert Heinsohn, PhD
Assistant General: Joan Miller
The Assistants
Colette Bailes
Mark F. Lloyd
Alice Boucher
Deborah Markowitz
James Buckner
Debra Miller
Hunter Davis
Peter Zelov

 Patricia Hill

 
  
  
Colony Officers

Western (Pittsburgh Area)

Colony Governor
Margaret Leo

Assistant Colony Governor
TBA

Secretary
Linda Laitine

Treasurer
Robert Coates

Registrar
Patricia Hill

Immediate Past Colony Governor
W. Brewster Cockrell, Esq.

Susquehanna (Harrisburg Area)

Colony Governor
Joan Miller

Assistant Colony Governor
Debra Miller

Secretary
James Buckner

Treasurer
Robert S.Fuller

Elder
Alice Boucher

Immediate Past Colony Governor
Robert Heinsohn, PhD

Living Past Governors
Winchell Carroll (2005-2007)
Mimi Johnson (2004)
Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. (2001-2003)
Edward Parker, IV (1998-2000)
Frederick T.J. Clement, Jr. (1996-1997)
Constance Lagerman (1991-1992)
Henry Justi (1983)
D. Weston Darby, Jr. (1979-1980)
Lynmar Brock, Jr. (1971-1973)
 
Committee Chairpersons
Audit: Peter Adams
Membership: Joan Miller
Archivist: Mark Lloyd
Newsletter: Stacy Wood
Bylaws Committee (ad hoc): Thomas Kellogg, Esq.
Newsletter Production: Fred Clement
Community Relations: Winchell Carroll
Nominating: Debra Miller
Education: James Buckner
"Pilgrims Then & Now" (ad hoc): Alice Boucher
Executive: Norman Robinson
Social Events: Aldys Davis & Deborah Markowitz
Finance: Robert Heinsohn, PhD
Thanksgiving (ad hoc): Elder: Rev Judith Meier and Aldys Davis
Junior Membership: Hunter Davis
Web Site: Stacy Wood
Black Tie Dinner Dance: Peter Zelov
Webmaster: Joseph Wood
  
  

Past Governors of the SMDPA


Charlemagne Tower, Jr.1896 - 1903
Francis Olcott Allen1904 - 1908
Charlemagne Tower, Jr.1909 - 1910
George Champlin Mason1911 - 1920
George Fales Baker, M.D.1921 - 1922
Ashbel Welch1923 - 1924
Georges Fales Baker, M.D.1925 - 1926
Joseph Wharton Lippincott1927
Herman Vandenburg Ames1928 - 1929
Louis Iungerich Matthews1930 - 1931
Samuel Leonard Kent1932 - 1933
Tristram Coffin Colket, 2nd 1934 - 1935
Laurence Howard Eldredge 1936 - 1937
Frank Worthington Melvin1938 - 1939
Leon Stauffer Oliver 1940 - 1941
Alexander Reed McIntire1942 - 1943
Margaret Antoinette Lennig1944 - 1945
George Scott Castle1946 - 1947
Louis Iungerich Matthews1948 - 1950
Ralph Dornfield Owen1951 - 1953
Bertram Lippincott1954 - 1956
Ledyard Hart Hecksher1957 - 1959
Arthur Thatcher Lukens1960 - 1961
Norman Joy Greene1961 - 1962
Henry Martin Justi, Jr.1963 - 1964
Donald Weston Darby 1965 - 1967
Charles Brunner Barclay1968 - 1970
 Lynmar Brock, Jr.1971 - 1973
 Arthur Thatcher Lukens, Jr.1974 - 1976
Roosevelt Schuyler Lippincott1977 - 1978
 Donald Weston Darby, Jr.1979 - 1980
Conrad Wilson1981 - 1982
 Henry Kellogg Justi1982 - 1983
Joseph Lanktree Castle, II1984 - 1985
Barbara Brock Kidder1986 - 1988
William Brewster1989 - 1990
 Constance Flynn Lagerman1991 - 1992
Randolph Dickinson Zelov 1993 - 1995
 Frederick Tomson Jones Clement, Jr.1996 - 1997
 Edward Augustus Parker, IV1998 - 2000
 Stacy Budd Campion Wood, Jr.2001 - 2003
 Mimi B. Johnson2004 - 2004
 Winchell S. Carroll2005 - 2007
 

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