The Exeter Historical Society is hosting our sixth annual Youth Night, Thursday, April 19, 2012, featuring the Nancy Carnegie Merrill History Award Winners. The event begins at 7 p.m. with music performed by Exeter High School students (beginning at 6:45pm) and refreshments provided by student volunteers of the Exeter High School’s History Club. The event is generously sponsored by Service Credit Union.
The incoming principal of Exeter High School, Sean Kiley, will be delivering the opening remarks. The student winners of the Nancy Carnegie Merrill History Award represent two local schools, the Cooperative Middle School and Exeter High School. The students will be reading their winning papers aloud during Youth Night, prior to the presentation of the awards.
The award is named for Nancy Carnegie Merrill, esteemed citizen and Exeter town historian. Mrs. Merrill, a graduate of The College of William & Mary in Virginia and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, moved to Exeter, NH, from her native Ohio in 1949 to be the school nurse for SAU16. Her nursing career ceased in 1952 when she married David D. Merrill. After her husband’s death in 1975, she earned her Master of Library Science degree from the University of Rhode Island and served as the reference librarian at the Exeter Public Library. Mrs. Merrill’s interest in local history, backed by her skill and patience as a researcher, has benefited readers of her many newspaper articles and of her important 1988 town history," Exeter, New Hampshire 1888-1988." During her career as a local historian, Mrs. Merrill was the director of collections at the Exeter Historical Society for 25 years, as well as serving on the New Hampshire American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, as a trustee of the New Hampshire Historical Society and historian of the Congregational Church. Mrs. Merrill retired from the society in 2000.
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This program is generously sponsored by Service Credit Union. Service Credit Union is a full service financial institution, offering a wide range of financial products to its members. With 38 branch locations including two staffed 24/7 contact centers, and full internet banking services, Service Credit Union serves anyone who lives or works in New Hampshire (excluding Coos County), 4 towns in Cape Cod, MA., and all branches of the U.S. Military and Department of Defense employees and their families. With over $2 billion in assets, Service Credit Union has 21 branches in New Hampshire, one in Massachusetts, and 16 branches on U.S. military bases in Germany.
