Board of Trustees

Josh joined the PLC board in 2016 and has previously served as Treasurer and Vice Chair. His professional life included many years working as a personal trust and investments banker with State Street, Shawmut and other banks.  He then had a twenty-year second career a major gift officer for Tufts University School of Medicine.  Josh continues to serve on the Board of Advisors for the medical school. He and his wife Hollis have had a home in New Boston on the corner of Gregg Mill and Lull roads since 1972. They have two grown sons, Joshua and Andrew. Josh continues to consult on fund raising and enjoys gardening with his wife.

Doug has served on the PLC board since 2018 and currently chairs PLC’s Land Protection Committee.  He and his wife Doria Harris are property monitors for the PLC and help organize the annual Rose Mountain Rumble cycling event.  Doug is an enthusiastic cyclist and furniture maker and is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen.  Before retiring to Lyndeborough Doug was Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Boston College and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is currently a member of the Lyndeborough Conservation Commission.

Rita joined the PLC board in 2020 when the Bedford Land Trust (BLT) merged with PLC.  She had previously served as one of BLT’s two board co-chairs.  Rita has also been an employee of the Society for the Protection of NH Forests (SPNHF) for many years, first as the Policy and Reservation Stewardship Coordinator and more recently as the administrator of the NH Tree Farm Program, a forestry certification program co-sponsored by SPNHF.  Rita has a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology and before moving to NH with her family and falling in love with the out-of-doors, she was a laboratory technologist. She resides in Bedford.

Andrew currently serves as PLC’s Treasurer, chairs the Finance Committee, and is a member of the Development & Outreach Committee.  Andrew’s introduction to the Piscataquog Land Conservancy came in 2018 when he rode in his first Rose Mountain Rumble.   He practices health care and corporate law with Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green, P.A., where he is a shareholder. He has served on non-profit boards including Red River Theatre and Granite VNA. Andrew holds a B.A. from Stanford University and J.D. from Tulane University Law School.  A New Hampshire resident since 1987, Andrew lives in Manchester.

Patty joined the PLC Board in the spring of 2026 and serves on the Development & Outreach Committee.  Since retiring from a 39-year banking career in 2023, she has taken on the role of a public-school paraprofessional working with special needs students (a very rewarding experience says Patty).  She has also served on several other local boards, including the Monadnock United Way and the Greater Keene & Peterborough Chamber of Commerce, where she was Board Chair during the merger of the two organizations.  Patty and her husband David have been residents of Francestown for twenty-five years and spend every opportunity exploring the trails and backroads in the area.  They also spend as much time as they can hiking in the White Mountains.

Dave currently chairs the PLC Stewardship Committee.  He was PLC’s Volunteer of the Year in 2017 and has served as a volunteer property monitor since 2012.  Dave is the property monitor at PLC’s Florence Tarr Wildlife Sanctuary and Marston-Dunlap Wildlife Sanctuary both in Bedford/Goffstown, as well as the trail maintainer at the Tarr Sanctuary and the Town of Bedford’s Marston-Dunlap property in Bedford. He leads outings for PLC and the Harris Center, and writes articles for the PLC newsletter that share insights about the natural and human history of our region. Dave attended UNH Cooperative Extension’s NH Coverts program in 2017. Dave retired in 2015 after working as an engineer for 35 years. He is a resident of Bedford.

Scott is a PhD scientist and spent his career in the bio-tech and medical device industries. He and his wife Claire retired to New Boston several years ago and live in Gordon Russell’s former home above Great Meadow. The PLC conservation easement on the Russell property stimulated Scott’s interest in the PLC. Scott was our Volunteer of the Year in 2024, has served on PLC’s Land Protection Committee since 2024 and monitors two properties for the PLC. He is also a member of New Boston’s Conservation Commission (Chair) and Planning Board (Vice Chair).

Betsy first became involved with PLC activities in 2006, when she started attending PLC nature walks.  She later became an event host, and then a property monitor.  She is a retired library director at New Hampshire Institute of Art and has advanced degrees in both Library and Information Science, and Fine Arts. She combines her interest of the outdoors with her art as a plein air painter, and PLC properties appear regularly in her work.  Betsy also volunteers with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNH as an art history instructor and is a docent at the Currier Museum of Art. Betsy and her husband Ralph live on Deering Reservoir where the headwaters of the Piscataquoq River run right past their dock.

Terry is a longtime member of PLC and is an easement landowner.  She held the position of Assistant Director of Charitable Trusts at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office for 38 years and was a Nonprofit Specialist to the Governor’s Office from 2021-2023.  Terry is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Association of Nonprofits, the Hillside Cemetery Association, and the New Hampshire Historical Society where she serves as Secretary.  She currently owns and operates Knowles Consulting LLC and is an adjunct professor at the Carsey School of Public Policy at UNH teaching nonprofit management in the graduate program.  She lives in Weare.

John is President & Secretary of Hitchiner Manufacturing in Milford, NH, a multi-national manufacturer of investment castings for the global aerospace and defense, automotive and commercial industries. He is a southern New Hampshire native and grew up spending as much time as possible outdoors. An avid cyclist, John first got to know PLC through the Rose Mountain Rumble gravel ride, which has been sponsored by Hitchiner since 2023. After traveling the world in his twenties John decided NH was still the best place on earth and now lives in Amherst with his wife Stacey and their two children.

Marilyn has served as Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer since joining the board in 2016.   Marilyn’s career includes more than three decades as architect, planner, partner and chairman of the design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.  In 2008 she left practice to become Dean of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, leading studios advancing the critical role design plays in addressing physical, societal and environmental challenges. She currently splits her time between New York City and South Hill, New Boston.

Mike is a retired biologist from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station where he assisted in studies of forest insect pests and in studies on the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases. He is a member of the PLC Land Protection Committee, the Piscataquog River Local Advisory Committee, the Deering Conservation Commission, and is a Curatorial Affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Entomology. Mike also volunteers with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the NH Audubon Society. He is an avid nature photographer. His photographs have been published in magazines and books. Mike and his wife Sue live in Deering where they enjoy the outdoors and everything New Hampshire has to offer.