The Westchester County Historical Society recently elected five new members to its Board of Trustees representing various geographic areas of the county as well as a wide range of expertise and knowledge about Westchester”™s deep, diverse heritage.
The individuals elected to three-year terms are:
Ӣ Marc Cheshire, Croton-on-Hudson village historian, is also on the board of Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters and serves as Secretary of Revolutionary Westchester 250.
Ӣ Anthony J. Czarnecki of Cortlandt Manor currently is president of The Chartwell Group USA, a criminal justice consulting firm, and is the senior adjunct professor of criminal justice at Westchester Community College.
Ӣ Patrice M. Kane of Bronxville, retired from her position as head of Archives and Special Collections at Fordham University Library in 2018 after a 30-plus year career in library sciences. She is a member of the Bronxville Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Ӣ Dana Matsushita is a trustee of the Scarsdale Historical Society and community leader, also serving on the boards of Scarsdale High School PTA Scholarship Fund for College, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, and the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale.
Ӣ David Thomas of Port Chester is president and founder of the Friends of the African American Cemetery in Rye, spending more than a decade protecting, preserving and relating the story of the sacred burial grounds first established in 1860 for the free Black families in the towns of Rye, Mamaroneck, Scarsdale and Port Chester.
Members elected as officers for the 2022-2023 year include Susan Jainchill of Ardsley who will complete her second term year as president, Jan Kelsey of Rye will serve as vice president, Geoffrey Parker of Somers will continue as treasurer and John Stockbridge of Bedford will serve as secretary.
Established in 1874, the Westchester County Historical Society is one of the oldest historical societies in America and the only organization that collects and promotes the countywide history of Westchester. The society”™s comprehensive and accessible collection of books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, maps and atlases and images pertaining to the history and genealogy of Westchester County is housed in the state-of-the art temperature- and humidity-controlled environment of the Westchester County Records Center at 2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford.
