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In Gratitude

Our founder Lou Mills, along with several active community members and conservation leaders in the County, set out to establish the Orange County Land Trust to help set a permanent foundation for a sustainable and vibrant Orange County. These visionary leaders understood the growing need for an organization like OCLT to take proactive measures and protect critical acreage to help offset the impacts of rapid development and maintain vital balance.

This page pays tribute to our founding and past board members for whom we owe our achievements and whose commitment to our mission has made a lasting, perpetual impact. We are forever grateful for their contributions.

Today, and long into the future, we will continue to do what our founders set out to accomplish back in 1993 to ensure that agriculture and nature continue to thrive alongside our communities.

OCLT-founding-group-photo
Photo by John Stage

Front, left to right: Founding board member, the late Ann Botshon, founding board member John Gebhards, and founder, the late Lou Mills.

Back, left to right: Founding board members Elmire Conklin, the late Jacques Levine, the late Bob Augello, the late Helmut Nimke, Linda Francis, Nancy Schneider, the late Art Lain, former board member and supporter Andy McLaughlin, volunteer Wendy Insinger (pictured sitting), and founding board member Jean Wort.

Founding Members

Past Board Members

Advisory Council

Lou Mills, Founder*
Bob Augello
Marty Borko
Anne Botshon
Tom Bregman
Elmire Conklin*
Dr. Ralph Decker
Joseph Fowler
Linda Francis
John Gebhards
Seymour Gordon
Simon Gruber
Dr. Richard Hull
Art Lain
Jacques Levine
Helmut Nimke
Nancy Schneider
John Tramontano
Jean Wort

Tom Alford
John Baranowski
Lynn Barber
Jack Berkowitz
Jeffrey Birnberg
Derek Bloomfield
William Brown*
Michael Bruno
Al Buckbee
F. Edward Devitt
John Dodson
John Doyle
Amanda Fuller
Peter Garrison
Dr. Michael Gilman
Elinor Hart
Lucy Joyce
Bud Kassel
Lester Lain
Doug Land
Marlena Lange*
John Lehman
Bruce Lott

Dr. Douglas McBride*
Tom McGimpsey
Andy McLaughlin
Rick Milton
Steve Neuhaus
Arlene Nolan*
Fred Osborn
Nancy Percent
Deanna Prisco*
Howard Protter
Norman Shapiro
Edwin Silver
Dennis Smith
Herb Stein
T. Marshall Swartwood
Mark Taylor
Stuart Turner*
Al Valk
Brian Varley
Mary Yrizarry*
Sandra vanHeerden
Irv Zuckerman

*Denotes former board president

Maggie Smith
Susan Najork
James Ottaway, Jr.
Dr. William Richards
Klara Sauer
Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
Paul Dolan
Winthrop Aldrich
Carol Ash
David L. Rider, Esq.
Richard Hoyt, Esq.
Chris Davis
Pamela Breeman
R.J. Smith
Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch

Thank You
We also express our utmost appreciation to our supporters, volunteers, and landowners for their service and dedication.

If we inadvertently missed someone, please email us, click here, to let us know. Thank you.

L to R: The late Sandra vanHeerden and the late Doug McBride
John Gebhards
L to R: Jo and Dick Hull
The late Seymour Gordon
The late John Yrizarry
The late Ed Devitt
L to R: The late Ed Devitt, the late Lou Mills, the late Sandra vanHeerden, the late Doug McBride, the late Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff and Jean Wort
The Birnberg Family
The late T. Marshall Swartwood
L to R: Mary Ellen Shute and Elinor Hart
L to R: Barbara Felton and William Brown
The late Deanna Prisco
The late Bud Kassel
The late Bob Augello
Nancy Percent
L to R: Doug Land and the late Sandra vanHeerden
Marty Borko
L to R: The late Stu Turner and Lucy Joyce
L to R: The late Lou Mills, Jean Wort, and the late Elmire Conklin
L to R: The late Lou Mills and Jim Ottaway, Jr
L to R: The late Joe Fowler and the late Ann Botshon
L to R: The late Jerome Spector and Paula Spector
L to R: Jeanne and Brian Varley
L to R: The late Jacques Levine and Art Lain
L to R: The late Herb Stein, the late Lester Lain, the late Deanna Prisco, Mary Yrizarry, Marlena Lange, and Mark Taylor
L to R: The late Deanna Prisco, Jo Hull, and Mary Yrizarry
L to R: Sophie Delaune, Arlene Nolan, and Lisa Stern
L to R: Ruth Turner and the late Stu Turner
L to R: Mary Yrizarry and the late Michael Gilman
L to R: Marlena Lange and Fiona Reid
L to R: Jim Delaune and the late T. Marshall Swartwood
L to R: Jim Delaune and Fred Osborn, III
L to R: Irv and Dale Zuckerman
L to R: Greg Langer and Bruce Lott
L to R: John Gebhards and Chris Kenyon
L to R: Francis Wickham and Dennis Smith
L to R: Doug Land and Lynn Peebles
Jean Wort
Derek Bloomfield
Dennis Smith
The late Rick Milton
John Doyle
John Doyle
Linda Francis
The late John Lehman
The late Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
The late Herb Stein