leadership
2022-2024 board members
beginnings
a presence in nueces county since 1952
OFFICERS
President
Mary Helen Dunnam
Vice-President
Kathy Wemer
Secretary
Amanda Kowalski
Treasurer
Sue Ryland
Immediate Past Co-Presidents
Allan Hayes, Dan Garza
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Membership
Michelle Balis
Bulletin Editor
Penny Pillack
Hospitality
Karen Howden
Social Media Administrator
Penny Pillack
Webmaster
Michael Carlisle
TRUSTEES
RudyTejano Peña
Dottie Ewing
Renee Trevino
The Nueces County Historical Society is the longest tenured group in Nueces County!
The NCHS was formed November 8, 1952, in Judge Noah Kennedy’s office in the 1914 Nueces County Courthouse, and has been a constant presence in Corpus Christi and Nueces County, Texas.
The NCHS was incorporated on August 25, 1988. Mr. Cecil E. Burney, principal attorney of the Corpus Christi Law Firm Wood & Burney, was the lead incorporator of the Society. Other members of the Society, listed in the papers of incorporation included:
- Ms. Peggy Bickham
- Judge Mike Westegren
- Mr. Charles Davis
- Ms. Margaret Walberg
- Mr. Thomas Murphy
- Mr. Ray Garcia
- Ms. Margaret Ramage
- Mr. Russell Reed
- Mr. Bobby Haeglin
- Dr. Cleo Garcia
The incorporators, all living in Corpus Christi, saw the need to formalize a group for persons who, according to their stated purpose, shall “support literary and historical undertakings, with their primary activities being located in Nueces County, Texas.”
This stated purpose continues to hold true today, and we thank those forward-thinkers from 1988 who saw the need for this Society.
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