ROSCOE, NY — The Sullivan County Historical Society (SCHS) has named Harold Gold as this year’s winner of its History Maker Award and Elsie Winterberger as winner of its History Preserver Award. The 2015 honors will be presented during the SCHS annual meeting and awards dinner on Sunday, October 18 at the Rockland House, starting with a 4 p.m. social hour followed by the dinner at 5 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $30 per person. The public is also invited to support the SCHS with ads in the SCHS Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner Journal.

The History Maker Award recognizes Gold, a resident of South Fallsburg, for his over 65 years of community involvement and his role, as a charter member of the College Board of Trustees, with the establishment of the Sullivan County Community College. Gold is the last remaining member of the nine original college trustees.

Winterberger, a past resident of the Town Forestburgh, spent 17 years as Forestburgh town historian. Appointed in 1974, she shared her historical knowledge though a weekly newspaper column, Forestburgh Lore, in the pages of the Sullivan County Democrat and other local publications beginning in 1977.

Call 845/434-8044.