Board of Directors

Tom Campbell
Executive Director

Tom has returned to the helm of the Nehalem Valley Historical Society following a one-year hiatus.
During his previous tenure as president, he was a driving force behind the current success of the NVHS.

Nan Devlin
President

Nan joined the NVHS board in 2021 and recently agreed to take on the role as President, applying her expertise to managing museum communications and membership.

Eileen Nordquist
Secretary

Eileen has long and healthy roots on our community. Her family homesteaded in the Nehalem and Tillamook areas over a hundred years ago. As a young child she stayed with her grandparents in Nehalem each summer through high school.

Tom Mock
Vice President

Tom has been an avid supporter of the Nehalem Valley Historical Society for over 14 years. He majored in History and Anthropology in College and upon retiring from a career in the building materials industry in Portland, moved to Manzanita to pursue his interest in local history.

Rob Borgford
Board Member

Rob is active in the community working with several nonprofit organizations. He joined our board in 2022 and has been supporting programs and assisting with financial reporting.

Dana Beck

After a 40-year career with the US Postal Service in SE Portland, Dana moved here and continued his love of history in the Nehalem Valley. A published writer, he is excited to uncover intriguing local stories.

Carl Whiting

Carl Whiting is an educator, photographer, writer, historian and owner of the Riverine Gallery in Wheeler. He joined our board earlier this year and has undertaken several projects already, including one on the history of Wheeler.

Marie Scovell

Seven generations of Scovells have called the Nehalem Valley their home, and Marie is 5th generation. She is a fountain of local history, and helps NVHS draw a more complete picture of the area.

Steven Gibson
Archive Advisor

Steven is working diligently to bring the archives into a modern, accessible format, a daunting task given the number of individual pieces that are in the collection. He is working with professional archiving companies, computer programs and boxes and boxes of stored material
that – when completed – will allow public access to the NVHS archives for research and personal interest.
A daunting task indeed!