June 10th 2004

The Genesee Land Trust’s Annual Meeting took place this year at the Boathouse of the Genesee Waterways. After an informative year’s end summary by Robert Kraus, outgoing President of the Board of Directors, and Gay Mills, Executive Director, board elections took place. Results included: Tom Tette, President, Robert Kraus, Vice President and Bill McIlvride, Secretary. Joining the officers as members-at-large on the Trust’s Steering Committee are board members: Suzanne Wheatcraft, John Morelli and Tom Frey. Carolyn Hunt, long time volunteer and development committee advisor, was voted in as a new board member. Connie Ehindero is returning to the board as well as continuing her committee work.

The business portion of the meeting concluded with the awarding of Volunteers of the Year. Genesee Land Trust is lucky to have many invaluable volunteers making this year’s decision a particularly difficult one. After careful deliberation it was decided to award two of the GLT’s most devoted but largely unnoticed volunteers: Tom Witt, a member who has provided considerable trail work sharing not only his time and effort but even his own equipment, and Art Scissum, the webmaster for GLT, whose work is ever visible, though he is not! Gay Mills read the proclamation awarding the title of Volunteer of the Year and presenting GLT hats to the recipients.

After the close of business, members headed outside to enjoy the late spring sunset as they canoed the Genesee River.

Genesee Land Trust thanks Dennis Money, executive director of the Genesee Waterways Center for helping to make this annual event so pleasurable.