NEW NHPB BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED

(DURHAM – July 13, 2016) – The New Hampshire Public Broadcasting (NHPB, New Hampshire Public Television) Board of Directors elected three new board members and re-elected five members to three-year terms at its June meeting. Also, two new members joined the NHPB Community Advisory Board.

Joining NHPB’s governing Board of Directors are Amanda Grappone Osmer of Canterbury, owner of Grappone Automotive Group in Bow, NH; John H. Morison III of Mont Vernon, chairman and CEO of Hitchiner Manufacturing Co. in Milford, NH; and Teresa R. Rosenberger, president of Devine Strategies in Concord, NH. The NHPB Board of Directors officers for FY17 are Jeff Gilbert, chair; Katie Wheeler, vice chair; Bill Barker, treasurer; Ron Abramson, secretary; and Mark Collin, past chair. Re-elected to three-year terms were Ron Abramson, Abramson Immigration + Solutions; Mark Collin, senior vice president, CFO and treasurer of Unitil Corporation; Kathy Eneguess, president of Magalloway Consultants; Jeff Gilbert, managing director of W.J.P. Development LLC; and Ed MacKay, director of the Higher Education Commission. (List of all NHPB Board of Directors: www.nhptv.org/about/board.asp)

Also in June, the NHPB Community Advisory Board elected Clinton Frederick Miller, MD of Portsmouth and Kate Luczko, president and CEO of Stay Work Play, to the board. The board serves as ambassadors in delivering messaging about NHPB programs, services and events, brings varied perspectives to program development, and represents the state’s geographic and demographic diversity. Dr. Kristen Nevious, director of the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communications at Franklin Pierce University, serves as chair of the advisory board, and Joan Goshgarian, executive director of the NH Business Committee for the Arts, serves as vice chair. (List of all NHPB Community Advisory Board members: www.nhptv.org/about/cab.asp)

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