Board of Directors 2010-2011

Rufus Perkins, Sugar Hill (President)

After graduating from Harvard and receiving a master’s degree from the University of California, Rufus joined the Metropolitan Area Planning Authority and was primarily involved in developing the economic base analysis for a regional transportation plan for the Boston metropolitan area. After the completion of that project, he joined Arthur D. Little, Inc. working as an economist until his retirement. He was involved in projects in utilities, new towns, regulatory issues, recreational demand, and railway planning. He worked extensively in the Middle East and in Europe. His main area of experience is in the development of economic models for the projection of consumer demand.

Rufus is an enthusiastic skier, both cross country and downhill, and enjoys all the many activities of maintaining his land. His connection to the region is lifelong, as his great-grandfather built a summer house on Sunset Hill in 1889, and Rufus claims to have spent at least some part of every year of his life in the area. He spends a large portion of his time in the area but maintains ties to Cambridge Mass. He and his sister and brother permanently conserved their family land on Bronson Hill in 2009.

Chuck Phillips, Franconia (Vice President)

Chuck has over 40 years experience in business and industry in operating management roles — manufacturing, finance, labor relations, human resources – and in both internal and external consulting. He established the organization development function for the Aircraft Engine Group of General Electric, serving as manager of organization development for eight years and providing consultation across much of GE during that time.

Since leaving GE in 1982, Chuck has worked with a variety of organizations world-wide — industrial, financial, educational, governmental, large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit — on a wide range of strategic change management consultations, organization improvement initiatives, and training and development projects. He is now a principal/partner of Sapience Organizational Consulting. He is an avid birder and photographer.

Christine Latulip, Littleton (Treasurer)

Chris has recently returned to the banking industry as vice president of Union Bank, having developed her skills over 30 years in community banking and finance.

Chris earned a master’s degree in community economic development from Southern N.H. University in a personal quest to link for-profit business acumen with non-profit ideals. She serves as treasurer of Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc. in Littleton. Christine is a member of the AMC’s 4000-Foot Club having hiked all 48 peaks in New Hampshire.

Lynn Kenerson, Sugar Hill (Secretary)

A West Coast native, Lynn graduated from UC San Diego and went on to the University of Oregon for graduate study in Exercise and Movement Science. Moving to central Idaho provided her with the opportunity to work outdoors year-round, as a ski instructor in the winter and a white-water river guide in the summer.

Lynn has lived in New Hampshire’s North Country since 1994, working for the ski school at Cannon Mountain and raising her family. An invitation to serve on the Sugar Hill Conservation Commission was her introduction to volunteering for local non-profits. She has also served as an officer of the Lafayette Regional PTO, and together with a group of parents founded the Gale River Cooperative Preschool. Lynn has been a member of ACT’s board since 2000 and has held the offices of Vice-President and Secretary during that time. Lynn and her extended family were among the founding members/contributors to ACT.

Ned Cutler, Easton

Ned has over 25 years of management experience in sales and marketing, and in product and program development and implementation. Other areas of experience include operations management, public relations, customer service, and commercial insurance.

Since 1997 Ned has specialized in the restoration of antique furniture, a business that he moved to Easton several years ago. He and his wife, Lisa, had supported land conservation efforts in Massachusetts before moving north and becoming involved in ACT. Ned holds a bachelor of arts degree in environmental science from New England College.

Douglas Evelyn, Sugar Hill

Doug has been active in the American museum field for over four decades, starting at the American Association of Museums in the 1960s before a 36-year career at the Smithsonian Institution where he was  deputy director respectively at the National Portrait Gallery in the 1970s, the National Museum of American History in the 1980s and the National Museum of the American Indian from 1991 until his retirement in 2005. He’s served as Treasurer of the American Association of Museums, President of the American Association of State and Local History, and a trustee of the US Committee of the International Council of Museums. Currently he’s an independent museum planning and management consultant and member of non-profit boards, including serving currently as Chairman of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown. Doug, his wife, Martha, and Martha’s brother donated family land in Sugar Hill to ACT. The MacCornack-Evelyn Forest is adjacent to ACT’s Foss Forest and the Bronson Hill Conservation Area.

Tony Ilacqua, Littleton

Tony grew up in Quincy, MA.  He attended the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he received a BS in Nautical Science.  Tony also attended Lyndon State College where he received a BS in Environmental Science.  Early in his career, Tony worked as a Merchant Marine Deck Officer and a USNR Officer.  Tony served on the NH Waste Management Council as well as the North East Resource Recovery Association Board of Trustees.  Tony founded the Littleton Energy Conservation Committee, was a co-founder of the Town of Littleton Transfer Station, and managed the Littleton Transfer Station for 19 years.  Tony retired in July 2010.  He currently is a board member of Second Chance Animal Rescue as well as ACT. Tony and his wife Carol created the Merry Mont Wildlife Conservation Area in Littleton by conserving their land with ACT.

Rosalind Page, Lisbon

Rosalind, a United Kingdom native, moved to the U.S. in 1980 to live and work in Connecticut.  She started her own surveying business in 1993.  Rosalind spent 17 years visiting the White Mountains hiking, camping and skiing having owned a condominium in Lincoln before moving to Pearl Lake in 2004.  Rosalind is a member of the Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors, the Southern Connecticut Surveyors Properties Council, the State of Connecticut Advisory Committee on Surveyors Code of Practice Standards, the Wallingford, Ct. Energy Conservation Commission, and speaks at schools on non-traditional careers for women.

Rosalind enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, taking care of her dogs, traveling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, reading, being a “localvore,” and annual trips to Umbria, Italy to help her family with their olive harvest and oil pressing.  Rosalind is making the transition to full time residency in the North Country with her partner Tom and their family of “fur kids.” Rosalind and Tom conserved a the Pearl Lake Shorefront portion of their Lisbon land with ACT, finishing a project started by previous owner Betty Matthews.

James Seidel, Lyman

Jamie  earned his bachelors of science  in conservation and resource management from the University of Maryland in 1969.  He spent a long career with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, first working with the Soil Conservation Service in Belfast, Maine then Augusta, Maine and Easton, Maryland.  As the USDA broadened its scope, the Soil Conservation Service became the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Jamie continued his work based from the NRCS offices in Woodsville and Lancaster, N.H., focusing on conservation planning and implementation with farmland and forestland landowners.  Jamie is a USDA NRCS Certified Conservation Planner and chairs the Lyman Conservation Commission.

Marghie Seymour, Littleton