New President for Union
County Historical Society
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M. Lois Huffines was installed as President of the
Board of the Union County Historical Society at the Society's annual
dinner on November 15.
Dr. Huffines
recently retired from Bucknell University where she was Associate Vice
President of Academic Affairs, Director of Graduate Studies and
Professor of German and Linguistics. She has a Ph.D. in Germanic
Linguistics from Indiana University. She is a researcher
and lecturer on the English spoken by Pennsylvania Germans and its
effects on the language of the surrounding communities, and on the
Pennsylvania-German dialect spoken in both sectarian and non-sectarian
Pennsylvania-German communities. Dr. Huffines has served as a
board member of the Pennsylvania German Society. An active member
of the Union County Historical Society, she is an editor of the
Society’s Heritage books and chair of the Publications
Committee, and past Secretary of the Board. Dr. Huffines will
head the Society for the next two years.
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