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, assistants, committee chairs, appointees, colony officers and past governors are as follows:

Officers
Governor: Joan C. Miller
Assistant General: Thomas R. Kellogg, Esq.
Secretary: Layton H. Fireng
Assistant Secretary: Scottie Sawyer-Kershner
Treasurer: Dorothy Y. Lees
Assistant Treasurer: open
Historian: Valerie Cullen
Registrar: Pamela A. Kolyer
Elder: Lois Bartlett
Captain: R. Dana Smith Jr.
Counselor: Thomas R. Kellogg, Esq.
Membership Officer: Debra G. Miller
Deputy Governor General: Joan C. Miller
Deputy Governor: Anne V.G. Hain

The Assistants
Gary A. McCardell
Daniel G. Lute
Daniel G. Lute
Hilary Armstrong
Verna Kratzenberg
Steward J. Leister
Jean J. Conroy
Clara Deily

Robert J. Heinsohn, phD

Rebecca C. O'Neill

Colony Officers

Western (Pittsburgh Area)

Colony Governor
William B. Cockrell, Esq.

Assistant Colony Governor
Jane R. Blair

Secretary
Gwen N. Glasbergen

Treasurer
Robert M. Coates

Registrar
Patricia A. G. Hill

Immediate Past Colony Governor
Margaret M. Leo

Susquehanna (Harrisburg Area)

Colony Governor
James R. Buckner

Assistant Colony Governor
Deb Miller

Secretary
open

Treasurer
Lisabeth W. Black

Elder
Alice Boucher

Archivist
Dorothy Y. Snyder

Immediate Past Colony Governor
Alice Boucher

Living Past Governors
Norman P. Robinson (2008-2010)
Lynmar Brock, Jr. (1971-1973)
Frederick T.J. Clement, Jr. (1996-1997)
Mimi Johnson (2004)
Henry Justi (1983)
Edward Parker, IV (1998-2000)
D. Weston Darby, Jr. (1979-1980)


Committee Chairpersons
Audit: Clara Deily
Newsletter Co-Editor: Anne G. Hain
Archivist: Mark F. Lloyd
Newsletter Co-Editor: Fred T.J. Clement
Bylaws Committee (ad hoc): Thomas Kellogg, Esq.
Nominating: Robert J. Heinsohn
Community Relations: Winchell S. Carroll
Paralimentarian (ad Hoc): Thomas R. Kellogg, Esq., Mark F. Lloyd
Education: Rebecca C. O'Neill
Photographer: Joan Stanford
Executive: Joan C. Miller
"Pilgrims Then & Now" (ad hoc): Alice Boucher
Finance: Norman P. Robinson
Social Events: Deborah Markowitz
Junior Membership: Hillary R. Armstrong & Mary Jean Kwitowski
Thanksgiving (ad hoc): Elder: Lois S. Bartlett
Membership: Kathleen Myers & Sally Jo Miller
Web Site: open

Webmaster: Joseph Wood


 

Past Governors of the SMDPA

Charlemagne Tower, Jr. 1896 - 1903
Francis Olcott Allen 1904 - 1908
Charlemagne Tower, Jr. 1909 - 1910
George Champlin Mason 1911 - 1920
George Fales Baker, M.D. 1921 - 1922
Ashbel Welch 1923 - 1924
Georges Fales Baker, M.D. 1925 - 1926
Joseph Wharton Lippincott 1927
Herman Vandenburg Ames 1928 - 1929
Louis Iungerich Matthews 1930 - 1931
Samuel Leonard Kent 1932 - 1933
Tristram Coffin Colket, 2nd 1934 - 1935
Laurence Howard Eldredge 1936 - 1937
Frank Worthington Melvin 1938 - 1939
Leon Stauffer Oliver 1940 - 1941
Alexander Reed McIntire 1942 - 1943
Margaret Antoinette Lennig 1944 - 1945
George Scott Castle 1946 - 1947
Louis Iungerich Matthews 1948 - 1950
Ralph Dornfield Owen 1951 - 1953
Bertram Lippincott 1954 - 1956
Ledyard Hart Hecksher 1957 - 1959
Arthur Thatcher Lukens 1960 - 1961
Norman Joy Greene 1961 - 1962
Henry Martin Justi, Jr. 1963 - 1964
Donald Weston Darby 1965 - 1967
Charles Brunner Barclay 1968 - 1970

Lynmar Brock, Jr. 1971 - 1973
Arthur Thatcher Lukens, Jr. 1974 - 1976
Roosevelt Schuyler Lippincott 1977 - 1978

Donald Weston Darby, Jr. 1979 - 1980
Conrad Wilson 1981 - 1982

Henry Kellogg Justi 1982 - 1983
Joseph Lanktree Castle, II 1984 - 1985
Barbara Brock Kidder 1986 - 1988
William Brewster 1989 - 1990
Constance Flynn Lagerman 1991 - 1992
Randolph Dickinson Zelov 1993 - 1995

Frederick Tomson Jones Clement, Jr. 1996 - 1997

Edward Augustus Parker, IV 1998 - 2000
Stacy Budd Campion Wood, Jr. 2001 - 2003

Mimi B. Johnson 2004 - 2004
Winchell S. Carroll 2005 - 2007

Norman P. Robinson
2008 - 2010
 

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SMDPA News

Constance Flynn Lagerman, 90, of Bryn Mawr, a former board member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Ardmore, died Saturday, Sept. 29, at her home.

Mrs. Lagerman was on the church's executive committee for more than five decades and served as a reader and Sunday school teacher, her son, Richard, said.

Born in Haverford, she attended what was then Harcum Junior College.

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