Board of Directors
| Wendy Allen, President | For thirty years, Wendy pursued a career in educational publishing, lastly as Creative Director for Scholastic. Her artistic career began in 1983 when she painted her first portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who soon became the central focus of her work. In 2009, during the Lincoln Bicentennial, CNN aired an interview highlighting her unique career and artistic focus. In 2019, Allen received the YWCA “Callie” Award as Gettysburg Business Woman of the Year, recognizing women who contribute significantly to the community in Adams County. That same year, she was presented with a Key to the Borough of Gettysburg. On May 23, 2024, Allen received the Cal Doucette Award from the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable. In 2025, she received the Jim Getty Spirit Award from Destination Gettysburg. Allen currently serves as President of the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder and daily presenter of the Fellowship’s One Hundred Nights of Taps in Gettysburg, which will celebrate its tenth anniversary this year. In addition, she serves on the Board of Advisors for The Lincoln Forum. |
| Kenneth Kime, Vice President | Ken is a native of Gettysburg and has been a member of the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania for twenty-five (25) years. He has served on the board of directors for the past six (6) years and was the Archivist/Historian for two (2) years. He is currently serving his second term as Vice President. Ken is a thirty (30) year veteran of the National Park Service retiring in 2011 as a Program Management Specialist. He lives in the Gettysburg area with his wife, Sharon. They have three (3) grown children and three (3) grandchildren. He formerly served as the Adams County Chairman of the American Red Cross from 1981-1983. Ken serving on the Lincoln Fellowship board is very rewarding. |
| Daniel M. Bringman, CPA | Daniel Bringman, Treasurer of Lincoln Fellowship of PA, has a BS in Accounting from Penn State and MS in Accounting from the University of Illinois. He is a CPA and was Executive Vice-President and CFO of Gettysburg Foundation before his retirement in 2020. Previously he worked for Pricewaterhousecoopers, a large construction company in the Washington DC area, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (now United Lutheran Semianary) as Vice President, Lutheran Social Ministries of NJ s Chief Financial Officer and Raffa PC. He has served on various non-profit boards including Adams County Habitat for Humanity, Gettysburg Civil War 150th committee, Main Street Gettysburg, SpiriTrust Lutheran and St. James Lutheran Church in Gettysburg. He is semi-retired and works for a CPA firm in Hanover from February to April. Daniel and his wife Lucinda have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Interests include Travel, Golf, spending time with friends and family and volunteer work in his church and community. |
| Angela Somma | Angela Somma is the Secretary with the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania. She retired after 32 years of public service with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration where she was Chief of the Endangered Species Program. Since retirement, she has served as a consultant to environmental organizations on the Endangered Species Act. She also volunteers for the Adams County Literacy Council, the Adams County Historical Society, and the Eisenhower National Historic Site. She and her husband Chris live in Gettysburg. |
| John Tuskan | John Tuskan is the Historian/Archivist with the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania. After 30 years of federal uniformed service, he retired as a Captain, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS). His uniformed career included service in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and USPHS. After retirement from active duty, he taught in colleges in both Maryland and Maine. He currently serves as a National Park Service, Seasonal Park Ranger at the Eisenhower National Historic Site. John and his wife Sandy live in Gettysburg. |
| Scott Burkett | Scott Burkett has been a press spokesman and radio news reporter for four decades. A recipient of the Congressional Certificate of Merit, Scott was on the Emmy-winning team for “Cosmo’s World”. He won awards for his interview with the Apollo 11 crew on the 25thanniversary of their historic moon landing. A living historian, Scott has appeared in the movies “Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals” and numerous television productions. |
| Dr. Ashley Whitehead Luskey |
Dr. Ashley Whitehead Luskey is the Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, where she teaches classes in Civil War and Public History, facilitates the CWI's Student Fellows program and First Year Experience program, leads battlefield tours for VIPs, and coordinates the CWI's annual summer conference. She is a nine-year veteran of the National Park Service, with whom she worked as an interpretive Park Ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park and Historic Jamestowne, in Virginia. An active public speaker and scholar, Ashley is a 2008 graduate of The College of William & Mary, holds an M.A. in History, with a concentration in Public History, and a Ph.D. in 19th-century American history from West Virginia University.
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| Rosalie Hunter Moore | Rosalie Hunter Moore began her exploration of Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address when moving to the area in 2006. She memorized the Address (Bliss version) after testifying for No Casino Gettysburg in 2010. She then created an informational display about emancipation for Freedom’s Eve on December 31, 2012, on the Square, beside the Wills House. This event joined other communities around the country in commemorating Night Watch: the wait by enslaved people holding hope, 150 years before, that Lincoln would sign the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. A Lincoln Fellowship board member since 2024, Rosalie also volunteers as secretary of the Thaddeus Stevens Society. She is learning to portray Gettysburg’s “Mag” Palm in educational historic events. Rosalie offers proofreading and copyediting services on a freelance basis to prepare other people’s writing for publication. |
| Therese Orr | Therese Orr has been a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg since 2016. She particularly enjoys giving tours to guests whose ancestors were at this battle, taking them to the spot on the field where they would have fought. In addition to tours for typical Gettysburg guests, Therese provides leadership tours for some of the programs operating in Gettysburg. Due to her service in the Navy, she especially enjoys the ROTC and other military programs. Therese also provides several of the free evening tours of the Soldiers National Cemetery provided by the LBGs each summer. |
Board member not pictured:
Susan Iuliano
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