PORTLAND — Susan Davis, a native of Lewiston and a graduate of Bates College, was elected president of the international Society of Automotive Historians, which held its annual meeting recently in Hershey, Pa. Davis, a member of the SAH board since 2004, will serve as president for two years.

A Maine resident working in Portland, Davis is the executive director of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. and Museum in Portland. Before coming to Portland in 2006, she founded the Stanley Museum in 1981 in Kingfield, which she ran for 25 years. It was in that connection that she became involved with the Society of Automotive Historians.

SAH was founded in 1969 to encourage research, preservation, recording, compilation, and publication of historical facts concerning the development of the automobile and related items, from inception to the present throughout the world. The Society currently has a worldwide membership of 1,000, and has active chapters throughout the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

For further information on SAH, visit http://www.autohistory.org.