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SAVANNAH — The Georgia Historical Society announced Friday that Shan Cooper and David Abney, both of Atlanta, have been elected to serve as board chair and vice chair, respectively, of the GHS Board of Curators. GHS also announced that Dan Cathy, Beatriz Perez and Venessa Harrison, all of Atlanta, and Jeff Kole of Savannah have been elected to serve as board members. The new leadership was elected at the annual meeting of the Board of Curators held in Savannah.

The meeting was led by Thomas M. Holder, chairman and CEO of Holder Construction Co., who presided over his final meeting as chairman. Shan Cooper, who recently stepped down as executive director of the Atlanta Committee for Progress to launch a new company called Journey Forward Strategies, now begins her two-year tenure as board chair.

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