Michael J. Hammons of Park Hills has been named new board president of The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) and Wayne Onkst of Erlanger has been elected to the board.
KHS recently installed new officers and members of its Governing Board.
Hammons is the director of advocacy at Children Inc., and serves as director of Kentucky’s Voice for Early Children, which is Children Inc.’s online advocacy network. Hammons helped found the Kenton County Historical Society and the Dinsmore Homestead Foundation, has written several historical works and published others, and helped preserve the home of renowned artist Frank Duveneck.
Wayne Onkst, of Erlanger, was elected as a board member. His term expires November 2019. Onkst is ending his service on the KHS Governing Board as representative for the Archives and Records Commission. He was appointed Kentucky’s State Librarian and Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Commissioner in 2006 and will retire from that post this month. Before that he served as director of the Kenton County Public Library. He is a member of the Kentucky Oral History Commission and other organizations.
Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd swore in the KHS member-elected officers and board members Nov. 6 during the society’s annual meeting at the Old State Capitol in Frankfort.
The board is the policy-setting body for KHS, a state agency that educates and engages the public through Kentucky’s history in order to confront the challenges of the future.
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