TCT Board of Trustees

TCT TRUSTEES There are ten trustees, who serve for five-year terms. The trustees elect their successors, but any ten members of the Trust may nominate a person to fill a vacancy on the Board. The incumbent trustees are as follows:

Robert Bednarek - Year-round Truro resident for more than 25 years. Secretary, Truro Conservation Commission. Architect.

Betsey Brown - Lifetime Truro resident until 1999; currently living in Orleans. Former Chair, Truro Planning Board and Local Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee. One of seven founding trustees.

Fred Gaechter - A 3-year member of the TCT board and Treasurer, he served as chair of the Truro Board of Selectmen and Board liaison to the Open Space Committee. He is also a Cape landscape and nature photographer and a singer in the Outer Cape Chorale.

Carol Green - Currently Truro resident, April-December. Businesswoman. Present Board Member, Castle Hill, Center for Coastal Studies and WHAT.

Tony Hodgin - Retired history teacher, now year-round Truro resident. Member of Truro Conservation Commission, Board of Friends of Cape Cod National Seashore, Truro Historical Society board, and Truro Cultural Council. Along with Gaechter anchors the Outer Cape Chorale bass section.

John Marksbury - Chair of the TCT board, he has served as a Trustee for the past five years. A fundraiser in Boston, he served as a member of the Committee for Truro Town Hall and serves as Director of Development, for the Longee School of Music.

John Pendleton -Year-round Truro resident. Retired real estate attorney. Retired secondary school teacher. Member, Council on Aging Board of Directors. Member, Tercentennial Committee. Member, Puma Park Board of Directors.

Joel Searcy - A Truro resident and local business owner, he served as Chairman of the Truro Finance Committee, is vice-president and a director of Highland Affordable Housing, Inc. , and also served on the Community Center Building Committee.

Phil Smith - A year-round Truro resident and retired financial executive. Current Chairman of the Truro Finance Committee. Serves as treasurer and a director of Highland Affordable Housing, Inc. and several other local organizations.