The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music elected two new trustees at the annual meeting of the organization held on December 4th in the Hoffman Auditorium at the Apple Hill Center. Elected to the Board of Trustees were Charles Bingaman of Walpole and John Tonkinson of Keene.

Bingaman, an attorney by training, lived in the Chicago area most of his life where he was Executive Director of Illinois Institute of Continuing Law Education and was a leader in the Association of CLE Administrators. He also served on the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Judicial Performance Evaluations and served as a Hearing Board Chair for the Illinois Supreme Court Attorney Registrations and Commission. After his retirement and move to Walpole, he has worked as an organizational consultant for non-profits throughout the United States. Most recently he has established Leadership Walpole. He also served briefly as the interim Executive Director at Apple Hill during the summer of 2007 prior to the appointment of current Apple Hill Executive Director Leonard Matczynski.

Tonkinson, trained as a biochemist, earned his PhD at Columbia University from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. He was previously vice president of business development at HistRx and has also held positions at Hybridon, Schleicher & Schuell BioSciences, and most recently Protein Forest, Inc. Presently he works in new business development in the biotechnology field establishing start up companies, developing growth strategies and business models, and negotiating research and business partnerships with multinational companies. In addition to his professional background, Tonkinson served two terms as a member of the Keene Board of Education, including as chair of the board’s Finance Committee. Mr. Tonkinson lives in Keene with his wife and two children.

Officers of the Board of Trustees elected at the annual meeting were Jack Calhoun of Harrisville as President; Donall B. Healy of NYC and Stoddard, NH as Vice President; Emily Carr of Saunderstown, RI and Jaffrey, NH as Secretary, and Jan Weekes of Richmond as Treasurer. Alfrieda J. Englund was recognized for having served three years as president of the Board of Trustees, and Alfred H. Weeks, Esq was honored for having completed two terms on the Board.