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Suzzanne Kelley, President - Kelley graduated with her master's in history from the University of Central Oklahoma and is now a PhD Candidate in history at NDSU. She is the managing editor at New Rivers Press, located at MSUM. Kelley started her service with PND during the Ladbury Demonstration Project, and now, among other PND activities, is the editor of Prairie Places, PND's quarterly newsletter.
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Lauren Donovan, Vice President - Donovan is a native of Mott and a University of North Dakota journalism graduate. She has lived in Hazen since 1981, where for 16 years she was editor of the Hazen Star weekly newspaper and for the past 10 has worked as a regional reporter for the Bismarck Tribune. She and her husband, Patrick, have three children. Lauren's work takes her on the region's back roads and byways, where she meets many North Dakotans and has the opportunity to view and record history and history in the making. Her interests involve outdoor recreation and sports, reading and writing.
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Susan Quinnell, Secretary - Review and Compliance Coordinator, ND SHPO, State Historical Society of North Dakota Bismarck. Susan received her MA in History and MS in Construction Management from Colorado State University, where she worked as Associate Director of the Architectural Preservation Institute. She currently reviews projects for compliance with cultural resources laws.
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Esther Hockett, Treasurer -
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Janinne Paulson - Paulson is a licensed social worker for Mountrail County. Originally from Page, she brings a lifelong amateur interest in history, architecture and old buildings. When PND assisted a Stanley group in saving its former Presbyterian Church from demolition, she found an avenue for involvement in historic preservation. The church is now the Sibyl Center, a venue for the arts, where Paulson serves on the board.
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Jeanette Robb-Ruenz - Retired Teacher, President of O.P.E.R.A. incorporated, Secretary of the Ellendale Historical Society, President of the American Legion Auxiliary, Vice President of the Whitestone Hill Battlefield Historical Society, Curator of the Coleman Memorial Museum
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Melanie Thornberg - A graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Cum Laude, with Majors in English and Education. Thornberg is an Interpretive Guide at the Gingras Trading Post Historic Site and a substitute teacher. Executive Committee Member of the North Dakota Humanities Council, and North Dakota Farmers' Market and Growers Association. Former Executive Director of the Walhalla Chamber of Commerce and the Northwest Broadcast News Association. Former member of the Heart of North America Trail - Phase One Task Force and the North Dakota Nature and Rural Tourism Association. She is married to Bob Thornberg and they have five children and one grandchild. Thornberg enjoys skiing and traveling.
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Mary Humstone - Private Historic Preservation Consultant, Former Assistant Director of the Mountains Plains office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Fullbright Scholarship recipient spending time in Japan. One of the founders of the nation wide Barn Again! program.
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Jim Lindberg - Director of Preservation Initiatives, Mountains/Plains Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Denver, CO. Since, 1991, he has helped the Trust strengthen statewide and local organizations, save historic places in an eight state region, and establish statewide Main Street programs in NE and CO. In 2002, Lindberg co-authored, Protecting America's Historic Neighborhoods: Taming the Teardown Trend.
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Merlan E. Paaverud Jr. - Director, State Historical Society of ND, Bismarck, ND. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1969 to 1972. Paaverud was Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and Director of the Society's Historic Preservation Division, which includes the State Historic Sites. He was the agency's Grants and Contracts Officer from 1987 to 1988, and Site Supervisor at Fort Totten near Devils Lake, ND from 1983 to 1987. From 1988 to 1991, he worked in the Office of Inter-governmental Assistance, now the Division of Community Services.
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Kevin Carvell - Carvell recently retired after more than two decades as district director for U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan. Prior to that, he taught journalism at the University of North Dakota and was on the editorial staff of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. He is an Army veteran, member of the North Dakota Historical Society and the Fargo-Moorhead Heritage Society.
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Rep. Mary Ekstrom - State Representative from Cass County District #11, Owner of Ekstrom and Associates Architects and Planners, Presidential Design Award 1989, BLLD Fellow 2001.
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Deborah Olson Frederickson - A graduate of North Dakota State University and employed at MeritCare Medical Center, she is a past board member of Friends of the Opera, a sustaining member of Fine Arts Club, a long-time member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a current board member of the Hawthorne Neighborhood Association where she served as principal investigator for the Island Park historic overlay/design standard project. Seeing many of the architectural landmarks of Fargo succumb to the wrecking ball, Frederickson, a lifelong resident, found she had no choice but to be a preservationist. She is proud of her 2005 Preservation North Dakota Bentley Award for Volunteer of the Year. She and her husband Neil, live in the Lars Christianson House, one of the first homes built in the Charles Roberts Addition to Fargo. Her hobbies include: decorating, gardening, and listening to opera.
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Donald S. Haugen - Partner and CPA with the accounting firm Eide Bailly, LLP, President of the State Historical Society of North Dakota Foundation, ND Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Treasurer YMCA Foundation.
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Dr. Tom Isern - Professor of History at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
Isern's academic specialty is the history and folklore of the Great Plains of North America, with particular interest in farming, ranching, and rural life on the plains. He is the author or co-author of six books and of the weekly newspaper and radio feature, Plains Folk. His CD release, Candles at Canaan: Signs of Life in a Lonesome Land (Prairie Public, 2006) is a collection of audio essays on the subject of regional renewal.
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Alfred Jason Lindell - owner, Sun Dog Glass Design, Park River, ND. A native North Dakotan, his work is intrinsically tied to the prairie landscape. In 2002, he returned to his hometown of Park River and purchased a 1920 Greco-Roman designed church building, renovating it into a living space and a studio of traditional leaded glass fabrication and restoration. Fascinated by the possibility of design, he taught himself the art of fusing. He is currently ND's only professional fuser. Lindell is a founding member and Vice-Chair of New Bohemia and a governor appointed board member of the North Dakota Council on the Arts until 2010.
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Sarah Vogel - Sarah Vogal Law Firm, P.C., Bismarck, ND. Vogel served as ND Commissioner of Agriculture from 1989-1996. She was co-founder of Marketplace of Ideas, the nation's largest rural development conference. She also served as the Assistant Attorney General of ND, during which time she was selected by the American Bar Association as one of the twenty young attorney's whose work made a difference to the county. She was counsel for the State Historical Society of ND and she worked on the case, which helped save the historic Stutsman County Courthouse, the oldest courthouse in the state.
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Gary Wolberg - Wolberg atended law school at the University of North Dakota. He is an attorney with the law firm Fleck, Mather and Strutz in Bismarck, ND.
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