AUBURN — The Androscoggin Historical Society recently held its annual meeting dinner and elected new officers.

Heather MacNeill of Lewiston received the Volunteer of the Year award. She is a recent honors graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

During the summer of 2015, she reorganized a large accumulation of historical materials about the city of Auburn. In making the presentation, President Douglas Hodgkin noted that these materials now are more accessible to researchers.

After the dinner, State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. told the story of the Maine homefront in World War I, featuring contemporary illustrations from postcards and other photographs.

Re-elected were President Hodgkin, Recording Secretary Merton Ricker and Treasurer David Chittim, as well as board members Christopher Beam, Bruce Hall, John Henderson, Cathy McDonald, Rick Morris, Maurice Poliquin, Beverly Robbins, Marilyn Wilkinson, Elizabeth Young and David Colby Young.

Curtis Jack is the newly elected vice president. After graduating from Old Town High School and the University of Maine at Farmington, Jack began his teaching career at Auburn Middle School as an eighth-grade social studies teacher. After 17 years, he took a position in Regional School Unit 4 as a sixth-grade social studies teacher until assuming the role of administrator. He continued as an administrator until 2013 when he retired from public education to pursue a role as an educational consultant working with districts from Madawaska to Southern Maine. A history enthusiast almost from birth, Jack is fascinated by U.S. history with a particular interest in the Civil War period.