Co-op Board Members
Our Board of Directors comprises nine people who serve three-year terms. An annual election is held during the month of April. Board meetings take place on the third Wednesday of each month at the Hanover Food Store. The Board uses the Policy Governance model to conduct its business, a process used by many cooperatives. Want to email the Board?
John Boutin
Co-op employee working in Lebanon Cheese Department. Term ends in 2013.
Margaret Drye
Term ends in 2013. Field Editor, Taste of Home Magazine, guest columnist, Valley News. Former Chair of Plainfield Finance Committee. Cornish Rescue Squad EMT, American Red Cross Instructor Trainer. President of Meriden Bird Club, Leader of Covered Bridge 4-H. Leadership New Hampshire graduate.
Martha Graber
Term ends in 2012. Dr. Graber specializes in kidney disease at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Tricia Groff
Term ends in 2014. Secretary. Pediatrician at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Board member of the Upper Valley Haven and the Norwich Childcare Center.
Don Kreis
Term ends in 2012. Treasurer. Associate Director and Assistant Professor of Law, Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School; former general counsel, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission. Board President, Cooperative Fund of New England; Board Member, Renewable Energy Vermont; freelance architecture writer and commentator. Member, Board of Civil Authority, Town of Norwich, and Advisory Board of news web site vtdigger.org.
Kay Litten
Term ends in 2014. President. Former high school teacher of foreign languages and English. Worked in the Carleton College (Northfield, MN) Library. In Scituate, MA, served as a Library Trustee and Board Chair; also a founding member and officer of a buyers’ cooperative.
Janet L. Saint Germain
Term ends in 2012. Vice President. Long time background in finance and economics. Currently working as a financial advisor.
Dale Shriver
Term ends in 2014. Nominating Committee Chair. Is a process improvement and systems consultant from Hanover. Works regularly with private and public educational institutions and has delivered consulting services to many culinary schools.
Corrie Wolosin
Term ends in 2012. Recent founder of a Slow Food USA Convivium in the Upper Valley. Early career spent as an event planner and fundraiser in non-profit arts organizations. Later served on the Friends of the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Board. Currently working in marketing.
