Gillespie Forum Board
June Gillespie 1929 - 2023.
Gillespie Forum Founder.
Kate Chaterdon, PhD
Board Member since 2021, Associate Professor English Department (Writing Studies) at Marist College.
Werner Steger
Board Member since 2008, Former Chair, Professor of History, History Department Chair and Honors Coordinator at Dutchess Community College, Handel Foundation Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2008-2013, President of the Dutchess County Historical Society from 2003 to 2007.
Heather Gillespie Walano
Gillespie Board Member
Kristin Bayer
Gillespie Board Member since 2013, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, History, Marist College.
Jeffrey Urbin
Gillespie Board Member, Education Specialist and Director of the Pare Lorentz Film Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
Todd G. Wilmot
Gillespie Forum Secretary, Board Member since 2015, Assistant Professor of History at Dutchess Community College. His area of specialization is Medieval Europe.
Fungisai Musoni-Chikede, Ph.D.
Gillespie Board Member. Marist College History Department. Director, African Diaspora Program
Jean Cook
Gillespie Board Member. Retired teacher from Dutchess Day School.
Paul Hirsch
Gillespie Board Member, Treasurer.
Former Board Members
Mary Louise Van Winkle
Former Gillespie Board Member, Former Dean of Academic Affairs, Dutchess Community College, Former Executive Vice President Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka AK, Former Interim Vice President Academic and Student Affairs, Adirondeck Community College, member of the World Affairs Council for the Mid-Hudson Valley. Our friend, Mary Louise, passed away March, 2020.
Walter Engel
Former Treasurer, Founding Member of the Gillespie Forum, Retired Dentist, Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Mid-Hudson Valley, Asst. Treasurer of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie. Deceased.
Meg Devlin O’Sullivan
Former Gillespie Board Member, Gillespie Forum Board member 2015-2019, Assistant Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Trevor Hiblar
Former Gillespie Board Member, Content Architect in the Digital Scholarly Publishing Field.
Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Gillespie Forum Chair, Board Member 2016-2024, Professor of History, Marist College, Coordinator for the American Studies Program, Chair of the Department of History 2008-2014, Director of the Core Liberal Studies Program 2005-2008, member of the Red Hook Public Library Board of Trustees, and author of Common Threads: A Cultural Study of Clothing in American Catholicism (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Elizabeth Kaknes
Former Gillespie Co-Chair, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Marist College.