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AUBURN — The board of the Androscoggin Historical Society gave its Volunteer of the Year Award to Richard Plourde of BlueStar Graphics in Lewiston at the society’s recent annual dinner.
Plourde has almost completed a renovation of the society’s website to make it more attractive and more technologically current. The site will be unveiled this summer.
Curtis Jack, of Lewiston, was also elected president of the society. Jack is a former teacher, who retired to become an educational consultant working with districts from Madawaska to Southern Maine. He’s also a history enthusiast, particularly fascinated by U.S. history and the Civil War period. He taught at Auburn Middle School, then at Wales-based Regional School Unit 4, where he later became an administrator, retiring in 2013.
Beverly Robbins was elected vice-president. She is the administrator of Outreach Ministry of Hope Haven Gospel Mission and active in Harbor Baptist Church in Lewiston. She is the vice regent of the Maine Daughters of the American Revolution and the chapter regent of Mary Dillingham- Burnt Meadow Chapter. She is past president of Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary.
New board members are Lucy Bisson of Lewiston, Stephen Marsden of Auburn, and Ethelind Wright of Lewiston.
Re-elected officers include recording secretary Merton Ricker and treasurer David Chittim, as well as board members Bruce Hall, John Henderson, Cathy McDonald, Rick Morris, Marilyn Wilkinson, Elizabeth Young and David Colby Young. Outgoing president Douglas Hodgkin continues as a member of the board.
Bates College associate history professor Joseph Hall spoke was guest speaker at the dinner, on the topic “What Does Androscoggin Mean?”
PHOTO CAPTION: President Douglas Hodgkin (right) of the Androscoggin Historical Society presented the Volunteer of the Year award to Richard Plourde of BlueStar Graphics, who is reconstructing the society’s website. (Photo by David Colby Young)
