Carol Donache, right, displays her volunteer award with some help from longtime friend Joyce Weaver.
Cecil County’s Historical Society relies completely on volunteers, and one of those leading volunteers was honored recently at the annual Cecil County Volunteer Recognition Dinner.
Carol Donache has been volunteering at the Historical Society for years. She serves at the Society’s official Librarian, maintaining the collection of resource materials, including unpublished manuscripts pertaining to family history. Carol also helps process incoming donations of documents, images and artifacts. And did we mention that she helps research complicated historical questions that arrive from genealogists, doctoral candidates and college professors?
Carol works Mondays and Thursdays, and a modest estimate would be that she donates more than 600 hours per year of her time directly to the community by helping people answer their local history questions. When not at the Society, this lifelong county resident enjoys her pets and gardening.
When it comes to volunteers, there always seems to be some crossover … with one person helping out several organizations. That’s the case for our own Butch Cubbage, a vital board member at the Historical Society who with his wife, Pat, also volunteers at the Cecil County Arts Council. Butch and Pat were honored during Thursday’s dinner at the Chesapeake Bay Golf Club for their contributions to the Arts Council.
The volunteers received plaques and were personally thanked by the county commissioners.
If you see Carol, Butch or Pat this week, please thank them for all they do!
