Stevens & Smith Historical Site

Board of Directors and Project Leadership

Historic Preservation Trust Board of Directors and Project Leadership


2010 Board of Directors

  • Nancy C. Bell, President
  • Stephen B. Dietrich, Vice President
  • Sarah S. Yocum, Esq.,Vice President
  • Peter Faranda-Diedrich, Treasurer
  • Michael R. Richardson, Secretary
  • Darlene Colon, Member-At-Large
  • Martha Armstrong
  • Clyde Brown
  • Rita A. Byrne
  • Dana N. Clark
  • Brad Forrey
  • M. Steven Funk
  • Beth C. Herr
  • John D. Hershey
  • Carol Hickey
  • Lisa Horst
  • Richard M. Hurst
  • Cheryl Irwin
  • Daniel Jenkins
  • Timothea Kirchner
  • Raymond B. McKeeby
  • Paul Morton
  • Shirlie O’Leary
  • Christopher Scott
  • Marcia Trach
  • Margaret Young

HPT Legal Advisors - Gibbel Kraybill & Hess, LLC

Project Leadership - Phase II

  • Timothy A. Smedick - Staff Project Director

Project Management & Oversight - Phase II

HPT Preservation Action Committee

  • Raymond McKeeby, Chair
  • Nancy Bell
  • Clarke Hess
  • Jeff LeFevre
  • John Metzger
  • L. Scott Paden
  • Sean Cotter
  • Shirlie O’Leary
  • Anthony D’Alessandro
  • Sarah Yocum

Phase II - Project Executive Committee

  • Under Development

We thank the following for their dedicated work on Phase I of the project:

Project Leadership

  • Gail Tomlinson, Director
  • F. David Foulk, Development Director

National Advisory Council

  • Honorable Joseph R. Pitts
  • Dick Thornburgh
  • Honorable Robert S. Walker (retired)

Steering Committee

  • Margot L. Brubaker, Chair
  • Rev. Louis A. Butcher, Jr.
  • Rita A. Byrne
  • Theodora M. Chairsell
  • Darryl P. Gordon
  • Jeffrey N. LeFevre
  • Grace E. Moyer
  • Judy S. Ware
  • Suzanne Woodard
  • Margaret Young

Communications Committee

  • Suzanne Woodard, Co-Chair
  • Hope Banner
  • Rita A. Byrne
  • Beth C. Herr
  • John D. Hershey
  • J. Conley Nowak
  • Barbara Petersen
  • Alice Sanders

Creative Committee

  • Margot L. Brubaker
  • Darlene Colon
  • Thomas H. Cook
  • Ted Darcus
  • William Griscom, PhD
  • Leroy Hopkins, PhD
  • Stephen S. Miller
  • Thomas Ryan, PhD
  • Tracey Weis, PhD
The Thaddeus Stevens & Smith Historic Project is of the utmost importance for Lancaster. Stevens, one of Lancaster's most noteworthy citizens, has long been neglected, and it is great that this prescient advocate of racial equality is finally being recognized, to say nothing of his great Afro-American friend, Mrs. Lydia Hamilton Smith, whom he always treated with the greatest respect.

- Dr. Hans L. Trefousse, distinguished professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

Closer to Equality — Capital Campaign

We have successfully completed Phase I of our campaign to restore historic buildings once containing the home, law office and businesses belonging to Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith and to create rough museum space to house the main interpretive and educational complex. We are now embarking on Phase II of that effort which will complete the interiors and create exhibits and programming to honor the lasting legacy of these two American heroes and inspire people to carry on their work. Please join us by giving a gift. View the Friends of the Closer to Equality Capital Campaign.

A Place in History: The Story of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith

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Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County‎

Office:
123 North Prince Street
Lancaster, PA 17603

phone: 717.291.5861
fax: 717.291.2251
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