Forest Society members elected three new board members at the 113th Annual Meeting on Sept. 27 in Londonderry. Stephen Froling of Hancock, Karl Heafield of New Boston and Andrew Smith of Littleton were all elected to three-year terms.
Froling is a New York attorney who retired in 1999. He is well versed in land conservation, having served on the Forest Society’s policy and development committees and as volunteer corporate counsel and a member of the Land Committee for the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock since 2007. He was also a Harris Center trustee for six years and board chairman in 2006 and 2007. In 2010, The Silver Lake Land Trust of Harrisville and Nelson honored him with its Stewardship Award. Froling currently serves as chairman of the Hancock Planning Board.
Heafield is a CPA with the accounting and advisory firm Baker Newman Noyes in Manchester. He is the board treasurer for the Business and Industry Association and past president of the New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Smith is a real estate broker and owner of Peabody & Smith Realty, headquartered in Franconia. He is a founding member of the N.H. Commercial Investment Board of Realtors and the board’s 2004 Realtor of the Year. He is past director of the Northern New England Real Estate Network. Active in the Littleton business community, Smith serves on the board for the Guaranty Bancorp/Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank and in 2007 was named the Littleton Chamber of Commerce Business Leader of the Year.
Carolyn Benthien and Katharine Eneguess retired from their board positions. Froling, Heafield and Smith will join current board members William Webb, who was reelected as chair; Bill Tucker, newly elected as vice chair; Bill McCarten, reelected as treasurer; Deanna Howard, reelected as secretary; Charlie Bridges, Malin Clyde, Margo Connors, Pamela Hall, Andy Lietz, Jack Middleton, Rebecca Oreskes, Barbara Russell and Lorin Rydstrom.