Members of the MARK board include:
Peg DiBenedetto, President
-Halcott Center
Peg is a mother of 3, grandmother of 2. For the last 10 years she has hiked the Catskill Mountains for NYC DEP Land Management. A lifelong resident of the Fleischman’s area, Peg is pleased that her children, and now her grandchildren, have/ are being been raised on the land where she grew up on her father’s dairy farm. After graduating from Margaretville Central School, Peg ‘s college experiences took her to Iowa and Texas, before she finished her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology at Oneonta State. She and her family lived for a time in South Korea while her husband Michael taught for the Department of Defense Schools. She is active in the communities of Halcott and Fleischmanns and is a hands on contributor to both the MARK project and several other community organizations. In her down time, Peg enjoys traveling and snorkeling, and spends as much time as possible in the Caribbean.
Gail Lennstrom, Vice President
-Margaretville
Gail accepted the invitation to join the Board of Directors of the MARK Project in Sept. 2008 because of two shared interests and missions she has with the organization. One is in the promotion of Health and Wellness. Gail holds both the allopathic tradition and also the more holistic (Body/Mind/Spirit) and complimentary health care model with equal importance. This has evolved through Gail’s 40 year career as a practicing Physical Therapist (Columbia University–1968).
She has worked in a wide variety of acute hospital, rehabilitation center, outpatient clinic and home care settings. She believes that physical therapy invites clients to ‘be all that they can be’ physically, while also accepting and dealing with their current limitations and challenges and maximizing their strengths and assets. Towards these ends Gail is serving as a representative from the Mark Project to the Community Health and Wellness Task Force and the Margaretville Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Wellness Committee.
Her second shared interest with the Mark Project involves creating the best housing situation possible for people in need of a safe; clean and hospitable living environment, while also seeking to optimize a responsive and responsible landlord/tenant relationship. She is part owner in a Private LLC, in which she manages both a residential and commercial rental property and a college housing unit in Delhi. She also owns and manages a large Retreat and Vacation rental property in Big Indian (The Crystal Spring House) serving groups of up to 16 since 1990. Renovating several properties in need of TLC and reselling them involved much of Gail’s time from 2003-2005. Serving on the Buildings Committee of the Mark Project currently provides a place for her to further explore and promote these interests on a community level.
Glen Faulkner-Secretary
-Margaretville
Glen Faulkner is a lifelong resident of the New Kingston valley where he and his wife Elaine live with their two children Erica and Brian. Glen graduated from Margaretville Central School in 1984, received an electronics engineering degree from SUNY Morrisville, and was employed for ten years as Plant Manager for Time Warner Cable in Saugerties. In 1996, an employment opportunity allowed Glen to work back in the local area as 
he assumed the role of Cable Television Manager for the Margaretville Telephone Company. In 2008, Glen was promoted to General Manager where he oversees the daily operations of the Company including its Cable and Broadband Subsidiaries.
Glen Faulkner is a lifelong resident of the New Kingston valley where he and his wife Elaine live with their two children Erica and Brian. Glen graduated from Margaretville Central School in 1984, received an electronics engineering degree from SUNY Morrisville, and was employed for ten years as Plant Manager for Time Warner Cable in Saugerties. In 1996, an employment opportunity allowed Glen to work back in the local area as he assumed the role of Cable Television Manager for the Margaretville Telephone Company. In 2008, Glen was promoted to General Manager where he oversees the daily operations of the Company including its Cable and Broadband Subsidiaries.
Glen is a member of the Margaretville Fire Department, part-time pyrotechnician for Bay Fireworks, Commissioner for the Middletown Hardenburgh Fire District, and is active in various community organizations. Additional interests include spending time in the great outdoors working on land improvement projects (playing on his tractor), playing sports, watching baseball (Yankees), and family vacations.
Marc Neves, Treasurer
-Halcott Center
Marc Neves splits his time between New York City and the Catskills but it is the town of Halcott Center, where he lives with his wife Carrie that he considers home. They love the outdoors and are avid hikers, skiers and bikers. Marc earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University. He is Director of Research for private equity firm Prana Investments, which invests in real estate in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Marc joined the MARK Board to further advance his commitment to nurturing and protecting both the culture and the natural beauty of the Catskills. In addition to his work with MARK, he has been a member of Halcott’s Zoning Commission and is a loyal supporter of The Open Space Institute, The Watershed Agricultural Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Caroljean Finch
-Margaretville
Carol Finch is a graduate of SUNY Delhi with a major of Business. She has been with NBT Bank for 30 years, and is presently the Branch Manager of the Margaretville Office, as well as, she supervises the Grand Gorge and Hobart Office. Along with being a member of the MARK Board of Directors, she is a member of Rotary and on the Loan Committee of the Catskill Watershed Corporation, along with a member of the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce. She has two children and two grandchildren. Carol enjoys reading, and vacationing in Florida.
Donald Hill
-Andes
Donald Hill of New York City and Andes is the owner of Donald Hill Interiors, LLC (DHI). Hill received formal training in architecture at Parsons School of Design in New York, Italy and France. In tandem with architecture, Donald studied French and Italian decorative arts. He has guest lectured at Altos de Chevon School of Design in the Dominican Republic and been a featured guest on WNBC “Weekend Today” in New York. While 
upstate, Donald contributes his talents and energy to several multicultural arts organizations and fundraising efforts, and serves as a volunteer designer each year for the Roxbury Arts Group’s Over the Top Tabletops gala fundraiser. A collector of early American furniture and decorative arts and of Americana, Donald periodically donates a flag from his extensive collection of pre-1912 American flags to raise funds for Delaware County charities.
Rick Osterhoudt
-Margaretville
Rick Osterhoudt was born and raised in Fleischmanns and has been employed by Fleischmanns anchor business of Wadler Brothers for the past 27 years. A graduate of Margaretville Central School, Rick went on the study at both Mohawk Valley Community College and SUNY Institute of 
technology where he emerged with a bachelors degree in Science. Rick was a co founder of Catskill Mountian Youth Soccer where he coached for over 16 years. He served as Fleischmanns Fire Chief and on the Fleischmanns Recreation Commiittee for nearly a decade. He and his wife Chris live in Margaretville with their family and Rock now spends most of his spare time travelling East Coast Motor Cross circuit with step daughter Casey.
Gary Rosa
-Margaretville
Candice Rudd
-Roxbury
Candace was born and raised in Margaretville and returned to the area after living in Florida for 20 yrs. She is a Margaretville Central School Graduate who continued her education in Nursing School at SUNY Ulster.
While in Florida, Candace tapped into her creative side and owned and operated her own Salon for nearly 20 years. Here 
entrepreneurship didn’t stop with a fifteen employee Salon, she was also the owner of a monogramming store and the owner/ manager of a two rental properties.
In 2001, Candace and her family, husband, Marshall and son Sands opted for a slower more quite lifestyle and arrived back in the Catskills locating in Roxbury. Since that time Candace has been active in the Community and an annual participant in and supporter of Relay for Life in Delaware County.
She is expecting my first grandchild this year and family is a huge part of her life.
She also enjoys skiing and snowshoeing in the winter along with year round travel. She also practices yoga, enjoys bike riding and the outdoors. She is dedicated to health and wellness for herself and those around her.
Her commitment to the MARK Project Mark comes with a passion to help make the community a better place and her ability to give back to the community she loves.
Matt Sluiter
-Bovina
Ernest Steiglehner,
-Arkville
Ernest A. Steiglehner of Arkville is the 2009/2010 M-ARK Project President. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine transportation from SUNY Maritime. He worked for Eastman Kodak and Canon USA in sales and marketing during his professional career. He is presently managing investments in the Arkville-Margaretville area.
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