2024 Election Results for SAA ARCS Steering Committee

Hi all,

I am excited to share our election results-- Denise Gallo will be serving as Member-At-Large and Gailyn Bopp as Co-Chair/Chair Elect. Their bios are listed below to learn more about them.

Thank you again to all the candidates on the ballot this year and section voters! 

Denise Gallo
Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary

Denise Gallo has served as Provincial Archivist for the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Warwick,R.I. since 2018. Prior to that, she held the same position for the Daughters of Charity, Provinceof St. Louise, Emmitsburg, MD. Dee's transition to religious archives came after 10 years asHead of Acquisitions and Processing at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Dee has been a member of ARCS, having served as Section Chair in 2013-2014. She was awarded the Sr. M. Claude Lane Award in 2016. In addition to SAA, she holds membership in the New England Archivists.

She also is active as a Mentor for the Archivists for Collections of Women Religious and has served as that group's president in 2018. She has recently completed research for ACWR's NHPRC Collaborative Archives grant project on their List of Catholic-operated Native Boarding Schools in the United States. She also serves as an advisor for the Franciscan Central Archive.

Gailyn Lehuanani Bopp, MLISc
University Archivist, Brigham Young University-Hawaii 

Gailyn Lehuanani Bopp is a kanaka maoli woman from Oʻahu in the Hawaiian archipelago, and works at Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi as University Archivist and as Assistant Professor of Theatre.  As University Archivist, Gailyn stewards the collections of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as pertaining to the Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi campus, the history of the Church in the Pacific, and the community of Lāʻie and the Oʻahu Ko'olauloa region.  Gailyn graduated with her MLIS degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with emphasis in Archives, and has formally served in leadership and on various boards and committees of the Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists and the Hawaiʻi Library Association.

Best,

Beaudry Allen
Chair of SAA ARCS

[a summary of election results and ARCS Steering Committee changes are below]

Congratulations to the two new members elected to the Archivists of Religious Collections Section Steering Committee (ARCS)!

• Gailyn Bopp begins a two-year term as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.
• Denise Gallo begins a two-year term as Member-at-Large.

 Continuing in their present positions for two more years are:

•  Shoshana Traum as Secretary.

 Transitioning into new positions for one year are: 

• Beaudry Allen as Chair.
• Erin Louthen as Immediate Past Chair.

 Continuing in their present positions for one more year are: 

• Rhiannon Allen-Roberts as Member-at-Large.
• Trevor Alvord as Member-at-Large.

 Continuing in their present non-elected position: 

• Thomas McCullough as Newsletter Editor/Web Liaison