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Meet Our Board Members
The Community Senior Center of Bolton, Richmond and Huntington is governed by the following volunteer board of trustees and supported by many member volunteers who provide experience and time directly and on committees.
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Jane Vossler, ChairJane has lived in Richmond since 1990 and is retired from a career in teaching. Through her work on the program committee she coordinates activities such as Around the World, a series of travelogues, and spring and winter birding with the Birds of Vermont Museum. She also teaches a class in memoir writing and is the leader of a group that reads plays aloud.
In addition to her work with the Community Senior Center she volunteers with the Richmond Food Shelf and Thrift Store. She loves to travel, kayak, garden, and read and write. |
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Betsy Emerson, Vice-ChairA retired clinical worker, Betsy moved from Massachusetts to Richmond in 2008 to be near her son and his family. She and her partner Jane Van Landingham care for seven sheep and two cats on their Two Grammas Farm in Jonesville.
Betsy leads a needlecrafting group for seniors at Holy Rosary Church. She also enjoys cross country skiing and walking, and is a member of the Grange and Hale and Hearty. Betsy very much supports the multifaceted programming that the Community Senior Center provides for our three towns. |
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Kathy Kort, SecretaryA Huntington resident for over thirty years, Kathy retired in 2014 after more than four decades as a high school special education transition specialist. Her motivation for serving as Board Secretary was to give something in return after the CSC connected her so well with others and helped ease her through her transition into retirement and loss of her spouse.
A resilient advocate for wellness, Kathy enjoys many CSC programs and activities including Bone Builders, swimming, hiking, playing the ukulele, and line dancing along with her daily yoga practice. She also serves on the Board of Green Mountain Performing Arts Center in Waterbury, is a Friend of the Huntington Library, delivers Meals on Wheels and is involved with activities of Richmond Congregational Church. |
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George Lam, TreasurerA Huntington resident since 1995, George grew up in San Francisco and earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Berkeley. He and his wife moved to Vermont to start a family and have never regretted it. George has volunteered on the Huntington school board, Brewster-Pierce PIE, Friday Food Affair and Camp Exclamation Point. He has also been cooking Chinese New Year lunch at Brewster-Pierce for the past 17 years.
George grew up as an avid tennis player but enjoys all racquet sports. He is an active participant in Pickleball and leads the Table Tennis group for the CSC. His goal as treasurer is to provide the board with the necessary information to make sound financial decisions as the CSC continues to grow. |
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Catherine CoggioCatherine is a native of Everett, MA and has lived in Richmond since 1967 where her sixth child was born. A retired RN who has worked in both psychiatry and school nursing, she fully embraces the need seniors have for connection, relationships and a sense of belonging.
A founding member of the Community Senior Center Board of Directors. Catherine has always been active in her community and now devotes extensive time to the Community Senior Center, the Richmond Historical Society, the Hale and Hearty Club, and Richmond Foot Clinic. |
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Jeanne DesiletsJeanne was brought up in Hinesburg, VT and attended Champlain Valley Union HS. She went on to UVM, earning a BS in Physical Education and later a degree in Elementary Education. She and her husband Ray built their home in Richmond in 1982 and raised two children. After teaching in Williston for 34 years, she retired to full-time daycare for her first grandchild and later her grandson.
An avid participant in many CSC activities, Jeanne is also a member of the Hale and Hearty Club, and volunteers in her church. She is a member of the Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority, a women teachers’ organization, and serves as its Vermont State President. Favorite pastimes in her active lifestyle include walking, exercising, gardening, cooking, dancing, music, knitting and crocheting, traveling, and playing her ukulele. |
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Jack LazarowskiJack and his wife Linda moved to Bolton five years ago, downsizing from their Charlotte barn after both of their children moved to the West Coast to pursue their careers. Neighbors invited them to a Bolton Up & Down Senior Dinner at the fire house and so began their new life in a new community. Next came his growing involvement with the CSC. He’s now an active participant in our weekly State of the World discussion group and the Richmond Coffee Hour and hosts the Bolton Coffee Hour.
An artist & designer by temperament and training, Jack continues to dabble in creating beautiful things. He is also an avid gardener and delights in designing and building such things as a cold frame for nurturing his baby plants before placing them into the Fernwood Community Garden which he also organizes. |
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Maggie LeugersMaggie brings wide ranging experience in health, wellness and recreation programs to the CSC. She holds a BS in Community Recreation from the University of Cincinnati and was a Recreation Leader for Cincinnati’s Recreation Commission. Since coming to our area, she has been a PE and Health instructor at Pine Ridge School in Williston, served as Superintendent of Recreation for the City of Burlington for 29 years, and was South Burlington’s Recreation & Parks Director for over 2 years. Currently she serves on a committee with the Vermont Senior Games, part of the Governor’s Council for Physical Fitness.
A Richmond resident, Maggie and her husband Michael built their home here in 1982. She is passionate about enhancing our communities’ quality of life by helping to improve conservation, health and wellness and social equality. |
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Martha NyeMartha, a Richmond resident since 1987, is originally from Lewis County, NY, and is retired from a career in non-profit development. She brings a high level of enthusiasm and energy to establishing and growing the menu of CSC activities, and coordinating them with other members and many outside resources who provide programs.
Martha’s current interests include woodturning, genealogy, walking, hiking, expanding her program list and advocating for a community senior center that can further enrich seniors’ lives. |
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Mary O'NeilA Burlington native and Richmond resident since 1973, Mary earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Education from Trinity College and a Master’s in Education from the University of Vermont. She retired from teaching at Champlain Valley Union High School in 2002.
Mary has served on the board of Our Community Cares Camp, and participates in various church, civic and educational groups and activities and the Hale and Hearty Club. A firm believer in lifelong education, Mary appreciates the varied opportunities the Community Senior Center provides. |
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Roger PedersenRoger and his wife Rayola moved to Richmond from Maryland in 2014, where they had lived since starting their careers. He continues to maintain a part time working relationship with his law practice in Maryland.
Never having lived in Vermont or a small town, Roger was impressed by Richmond’s feeling of closeness and community, and its government. He set out to learn more about the town’s workings and history, to meet people and to make new friends. In addition to his connection to CSC, he now serves on the Richmond Development Review Board and as a guide at the Round Church. An avid horseman, he moved his thoroughbred to Richmond where they both participate in the local equestrian community’s activities. Admittedly not accustomed to the climate, he enjoys biking above fifty degrees and downhill skiing with Rayola and friends on double digit bluebird days. |
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Rich Roberge
Rich is an active, hands-on person with a great talent for working with people. He helped build his own homes, including the one in Richmond where he and Sue settled in 2017 after moving from Hyde Park to be closer to their daughter. He credits his ability to mentor and motivate people to many years of working with students, parents and school officials as a scholastic hockey coach. He was also responsible for first-aid in his career as a tool maker and production supervisor, and as a coach.
Rich and Sue are especially active in many of the CSC’s outdoor programs. His 20-plus years of kayaking and his first-aid background also make him a capable leader and instructor for this popular CSC water sport. |
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Earl WesterEarl’s career in marketing and Diane’s as an educator involved several moves in the US and abroad, but their years in western Massachusetts convinced them they would settle somewhere in New England. On one summer vacation they stopped in Richmond and it clicked: they retired here in 2009.
His English major curriculum focused on writing and led Earl into advertising and press relations. He continued with communications work in various corporate roles, and for former business friends after retiring. Today he enjoys applying his writing and communications experience to help connect seniors with the CSC’s many activities, programs and community services. He and Diane enjoy traveling around New England and Quebec. An avid skier, Earl also enjoys biking, kayaking and hiking, especially when his family visits. |
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Doris WheelockBorn and raised in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Doris became a Bolton resident in 1988. She is employed at Global Foundries and previously worked for 31 years during the facility’s IBM ownership. A member of Trinity College’s last graduating class, she earned an associate degree in Business Administration.
With a dedication to promoting nutrition and service to others, Doris has voluntarily provided monthly meals for seniors in Bolton since 2004. She is committed to seeing the development of a Community Senior Center to serve the communities of Richmond, Huntington and Bolton. |
