Terry Emma to head Geneva History Center
The Geneva History Center will be led by a new executive director who is part of the history of the town.
The board of directors April 15 hired Terry Emma. She is a lifelong resident who served on the board for more than five years and raised money for the center.
She has been working part-time as activities director at Geneva High School.
Emma will begin her job at the history center in early May.
The job was advertised locally and in trade publications, according to John Bassett, president of the center.
“I am honored to work for an organization that I have always supported and is so vital to our community. It is a privilege to help preserve the history of Geneva especially since my own family has been part of that story for over 100 years,” Emma said in a prepared statement.
Emma is the sister of former Geneva Park Board President Chuck Emma, a grandniece of the man who built parts of the Geneva City Hall and a great-granddaughter of DeWitt Clinton Cregier, onetime mayor of Chicago.
Former Executive Director Dave Oberg stepped down last year to take a job in Grayslake. Steve Persinger is the interim director.