Jason Travelstead President

Jason has been a resident of Litchfield since 2001, when he and his wife Jessica Oneglia Travelstead returned to her hometown to settle down after spending over 10 years in the west pursuing their educations and early careers. While he and Jessica have been raising their daughters Eliza and Hannah, Jason has worked for O&G Industries and is now a Vice President in the Building Division. Along the way he has spent many years as a volunteer coach for Litchfield Soccer Club and Litchfield Hills Youth Lacrosse and is honored to be a past board member of the Litchfield Hills Rowing Club and the Bantam Lake Protective Association. Jason is excited to work with the board, the amazing staff, and the many volunteers to continue and expand the Litchfield Community Center’s irreplaceable role in making Litchfield a great place to call home.

Doreen Hampton Vice President

Born and raised in New Jersey, Doreen Tango Hampton has called Litchfield home since 1996. Doreen received her BS in Marketing and MBA in Finance from Seton Hall University. After working for ten years in University Administration, as a Dean of Graduate Programs, Doreen became a Principal in the Princeton Consulting Group (PCG). With offices in New York City NY, Gillette NJ, Jersey City NJ and Durango CO, PCG offered executive training programs on a global scale. Clients included The World Bank, AT&T, PSE&G, The Port Authority of NY & NJ and United Technologies. Currently, Doreen is a children’s book author, agented by the Liza Royce Agency, New York NY.
An active community volunteer, Doreen has served and continues to serve in various capacities for multiple organizations in and around Litchfield. For the Litchfield Aid of the Connecticut Junior Republic, she served as Vice President, Chairperson of the House Tour House Selection Committee, Chairperson of the House Tour Preview Party and Chairperson of House Tour Liaisons & Hostesses Committee. Doreen chaired the Decorating Committee for the Oliver Wolcott Library Festival of Trees. For the Susan B. Anthony Project, she was a member of the Development Committee. In the Litchfield Garden Club, Doreen was Chairperson of Public Relations, Chairperson of the Nominating Committee, a member of the Strategic Planning Committee and is currently a member of the Bylaws Committee.
Doreen’s favorite hobby is spending time with her five nieces and nephews, especially during the summer months at the Jersey shore. She does enjoy her daily walks around the Historic District in Litchfield, never tiring of the sights, sounds and magical beauty of this special town.

Miles Borzilleri Treasurer

Miles was born in New York City and was raised in Buffalo, Denver, Washington, DC as well as New York. He graduated from Vassar College and the New England School of Banking at Williams College. He came to Connecticut in 1979 and worked in the trust and investment management industry for 45 years (all in CT and all in trust departments) retiring in 2024. Miles has served as a Board member or closely advised over 40 non-profit organizations during his career. Miles and his spouse Annie (a Litchfield native) raised three children in Litchfield.

Shannon Gollow Secretary

Shannon was born and raised in Litchfield. She lives in town with her husband, Rob and her son, Jack. Shannon’s family have been long time supporters of the Community Center since it opened in 2000. She is very grateful for the numerous programs and events it has to offer, such as the concert series, the sweetheart run, the annual summerfest as well as many private and family events, weddings, showers, and birthday parties.
When Shannon is not working at Litchfield Center School as an Instructional Assistant she is on the sidelines of her son’s soccer, basketball, and baseball games.
Shannon is active in fundraising for the School PTO, as well as other community organizations, such as St. Anthony’s Church, The Festival of Trees for The Oliver Wolcott Library, and The annual Joe Bunnell Golf Tournament. Shannon is honored to be a member of the Board of Directors at LCC, just as her husband, Rob and brother, Matt McDevitt were. She is excited to help be apart of something so special and the center of the community that she loves.

John Acerbi

A Litchfield native, John spent much of his childhood roaming and exploring the Borough and surrounding streets on bikes with his friends. Attending Litchfield High School he earned one of it’s only perfect records in basketball, 0-20 before graduating and going on to earn a degree in Photojournalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. While he still bleeds Orange his affinity for UCONN basketball has grown after having to pay two tuitions, so far, to UCONN for his children. After spending several years as a newspaper and freelance photographer John comments on his next move. “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” and joined his mother Judy and father John in the family business, Litchfield Hills Nursery, where he has been for 25 years. Knowing he had just anchored himself in one of the most beautiful places to live in the world John began to raise his three children Colin, 21, Catherine 19, and Will 17 and became involved in Litchfield’s many community activities. He was also president of the Litchfield Area Business Association for several years. As a new board member a John is excited to give back to the a community which has supported him and his family throughout the years in so many ways with his work at LCC.

Lynn Chapman

Lynn and her husband, Stuart, have lived in Litchfield since 2001. They are both natives of Litchfield County. It was at a company Christmas party that they learned of land for sale in Litchfield and embarked on designing and building their dream home where they raised their 3 children, Maddie, Claire and Miles.
Lynn graduated from the University of Connecticut and pursued a career in marketing and advertising sales for several years before returning to school to study interior design. She was an assistant project manager and options coordinator for a developer building single family homes. In 2010, she became a partner in Litchfield Interiors and for many years decorated homes throughout Litchfield and Fairfield Counties, while also working at R. Derwin Clothiers as a merchandiser. In 2016, Lynn closed Litchfield Interiors and went to work at Chapman Lumber where she combined her marketing and merchandising skills until the company was sold in 2021. Lynn is currently freelancing as a decorator and home organizer.
Lynn served on the Litchfield Schools Building Committee, is a yearly volunteer for OWL’s Festival of Trees and was a long standing member of the Litchfield Garden Club. She enjoys traveling, gardening, walking, tennis, reading and spending time with family and friends.

Danny Clock

Danny was born and raised in Litchfield. He has spent most of his adult life here and has worked for F North Clark Insurance Agency since 1982. He joined Litchfield Volunteer Ambulance in 1985 and is still a member. Danny has served on various boards including 10 years with the Litchfield Red Cross and 6 years on the Litchfield Education Foundation. In addition to these, he has served 11 years on the Litchfield Board of Education. Danny’s wife Suzanne has supported him through the years of volunteering and raising their son Sam, who is now is a sophomore at Merrimack College. He is very excited to be involved with the Litchfield Community Center.

Elizabeth Dickey

A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Elizabeth Dickey has lived in Litchfield for fifteen years. She is a developmental psychologist, and spent much of her professional life in New York City (1980-2014) working in higher education. As dean and then provost at The New School, and then as president of Bank Street College, she brings a range of expertise to the non-profit community. Because life is full of contradictions & inconsistencies, Elizabeth loves both cities (the chaos of New York), and the countryside (the quiet of Litchfield). Now retired, she is writing about high achieving women, and (on an annual basis) trying to resolve the "contradictions" in her Litchfield garden. She is a graduate of Lake Forest College, University of Mass/Amherst, and Yale University

Anthea Disney

Anthea Disney is a retired News Corporation executive whose career spanned newspaper , magazine and booking publishing, internet start ups, international cable television networks and corporate content development and management. She was chairman and CEO of TV Guide and President and CEO of Harper Collins worldwide. After retirement Anthea co-founded the Womens Enterprise Initiative , devoted to helping women small business owners, in Litchfield , CT where she resides. She served on the corporate boards of HSBC US, CIT Group and Household International and for many years served on the non profit boards of Danbury and New Milford Hospitals, now part of the Nuvance Health Group in CT. She recently joined the board of NCCF , a community foundation focused on improving the quality of life in the Northwest Corner, the Northwest Adult Day center, which is to help manage living with dementia for patients and families and Say Yes, an advisory board at Yale New Haven which brings high school students into the healthcare environment so they can sample future jobs.

Catherine (Kate) Doyle Fahey

Kate began her professional career at Jefferies & Company in Chicago. She was subsequently Vice President at Dillon Read and Director of Institutional Sales and Trading at Oscar Gruss in New York. In 1995, she was a founding partner of CIMCO, in investment firm which specialized in Corporate Restructurings and Merger Arbitrage. Kate has served on the Boards of Bank Street College of Education, Health Advocates for Older People of New York City, the Litchfield Country Club, the Yale Living Donor Center, and was a Charter Member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. In 2006, Kate became a full time resident of Litchfield. Having been raised on a farm in Iowa, Kate maintains her love of country living and its sense of community. She holds B.S and M.S degrees from the University of Iowa.

Win Hotchkiss

Win and his wife Cara moved to town 14 years ago and quickly realized how lucky they were to call Litchfield home. Since then, they have welcomed two daughters, 8 and 11,  and have become more ingrained in the community they have come to love so much. Win currently serves on the fundraising team at The Washington Montessori School and was a past board member of the Litchfield Country Club. Professionally, Win was in medical sales for nearly 20 years before taking time to focus on his family and helping with his wife’s local business. His passion to help patients will easily translate into his desire to give back to the community through the amazing work the Community Center provides to the town and its residents.

Patty Laure

Born & raised in Bristol, CT in a time when you walked to school, played kick ball in the road, red rover, red rover. Ice cream trucks and milk delivered to your door.
Fun fact #1– I have 8 siblings, 7 inlaws, 19 nieces and nephews, 9 inlaw niece nephew, 20 great nieces and nephew.
Moved to San Francisco where I finished college after floundering in and out of school trying to figure out what to do.
FF#2 – I love what I do
Met my husband Martin in SF, lived there almost 10 years.
FF#3 – I love Jerry Garcia and followed the Dead when I was in SF
Moved to Hawaii and opened a restaurant in Lahana, Maui. Moved to Boston opened a restaurant. (helped open)
FF#4 – I do not know how to surf
Moved to Litchfield, CT with husband and daughter, had three more children
FF#5 – I have twins and honestly, still mix them up
Opened Meraki in 2015, blessed to still be here nourishing our community and loving what I do.

Frank VanOrmer

Frank was born and raised in Litchfield and is a graduate of Litchfield High School. After graduating from The State University of New York at Potsdam with his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics Minor, he went on to graduate with his Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Supply Chain Management at Clarkson University School of Business, Potsdam NY. Over the years he has worked for several small local businesses and has most recently found his passion for serving the community as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Scheduling Coordinator for the Northwest District for Vintech Management Services, LLC.
Frank and his wife Kathy are raising their 4 sons in Litchfield and attend many functions and activities the Community Center offers. Frank enjoys giving back to the community through his own interests and his sons activities. He is currently serving as an Interior Firefighter with the Litchfield Volunteer Fire Department, a Captain, Schedule Coordinator and EMT with the Litchfield Volunteer Ambulance, a Board Member representing Litchfield, Bantam, East Litchfield and Northfield Fire Departments and Ambulance Services at Litchfield County Dispatch, a Board Member, T-Ball Commissioner, and Snack Shack Coordinator for Litchfield Tri Town Little League, and a Den Leader and board member with the Litchfield Cub Scout Pack 31. Frank is excited to serve on the Board of the Litchfield Community Center to share his ideas and suggestions that ultimately benefit the entire Litchfield community.