Board of Trustees

Zachary Burkholder was born and raised in Germantown. Once he graduated from Central High School, he went to Virginia for school. And during his time there fell in love with building and remodeling homes. He spent some time in Lancaster County becoming a contractor. And in 2014 moved back to Germantown to start his own remodeling business. He loves working in the old stone and brick homes, and trying to keep them up to date while not losing their original style. He is also a very active member of the Germantown Mennonite Church right next to the Johnson on Washington Ln.

Kevin Ann Blough is a commercial contracts and software licensing attorney with 12+ years in-house counsel experience.  Most recently she worked for Oracle Corporation and for Primavera Systems, a small software company headquartered in Bala Cynwyd.  Ms Blough has a long standing love of history, art and architecture.  She grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, where she took full advantage of the city’s rich culture and history.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, where she double majored in Art History and English Literature.  She later moved to Chicago and earned her law degree from  IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.  After graduating from law school, Ms Blough remained in Chicago for 10 years, working as Legal Counsel for a small start-up software company, followed by 7 years as lead Contracts and IP Counsel for the American Dental Association.  Since returning to Philadelphia in 2008, she has become actively involved in the city’s cultural institutions.  Ms Blough is past president of the University of Virginia Alumni  Association, Philadelphia Chapter. She presently serves on the Board of the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, a historic house museum in Germantown; and is a Member of the Chestnut Hill Musical Cocktails Committee, a fund raising committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra.  Ms. Blough presently lives with her husband, Jim, in Ardmore, PA.

DuRay Montague has lived in and been a student of historic properties throughout his many years in greater Philadelphia. Arriving after completing his Engineering degree at his hometown Howard University, he quickly became thrilled by the treasure trove of historic buildings and homes here. He moved into the Penn Knox neighborhood into a 1880s Victorian because he believed in the premise that “When in Rome do as the Romans do”.  As a member of the Advocate Community Development Corporation DuRay and his wife Michele lived in North Philadelphia while restoring a row of Diamond Street brownstones attributed to Frank Furness.  For over a decade they lived in and enhanced the 1890’s Stone Colonial “Breezewood” designed by prolific architecture Horace Trumbauer in Wyncote PA. Here DuRay became an admirer of the many local works of the architect and his African American protégé, Julian Able.  DuRay and family now live in one of the gems of the Tulpehocken Station Historic District. DuRay applies his professional skills while traveling the globe to ensure effective and safe manufacture of some the world’s most important medicines and vaccines.  DuRay is a frequent volunteer of the Germantown Face to Face mission and member of the West Central Germantown Neighbors association.

Naomi Taback received her Ph.D. in European History from UCLA. Her research focuses on the history of early modern England, the American Colonies, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Naomi is an Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University, where she teaches great books of civilization from Gilgamesh to The Second Sex. Previously, she worked at the Getty Research Institute as an assistant curator of rare books. She grew up in the San Francesco Bay Area, moved to Los Angeles for college, and afterwards to Brooklyn, NY. She now intends to remain in Philadelphia in West Central Germantown, near the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion. When she is not teaching, she enjoys gardening, walking her dog in the neighborhood, and watching existential films.