Hanover
Kristine McDevitt, an attorney who is contracts manager with Pitney Bowes and chair of the conservancy’s lands committee, succeeds former president Nancy Collier, who stepped down after six years in the role.
McDevitt is a member of the Hanover Improvement Society and the CRREL Restoration Advisory Board. She served as co-chair of the Lyme Road Village town committee on the rezoning of Lyme Road.
McDevitt and her family have lived in Hanover since 2001, a conservancy news release said. Their “forays to Balch Hill were the basis for her deep appreciation” of the town’s “readily accessible, unique natural resources.”
Karen Geiling, a financial adviser, succeeds McDevitt as vice president. An active outdoorswoman, Geiling holds a master’s degree in business administration from Boston University and an undergraduate degree in biology.
New board member Aricca van Citters is a researcher at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass., and a volunteer with the Hanover Improvement Society, the Ray School, and Ford Sayre’s K-8 Nordic ski program. She and her family live in the Balch Hill neighborhood.
Dudley Smith is a former New London Hospital board chairman and retired senior vice president of the New Jersey-based insurance company Chubb & Son. He and his wife recently moved to Berrill Farms, condominiums in Hanover, where they have taken an interest in trails, the release said.
Jay Pierson, retired accountant and graduate of Dartmouth and the Tuck School of Business, continues as treasurer.
— Staff report