Current Board Members
Glenn Silloway (President) is a political scientist by training and an avid amateur historian by choice who likes research, writing, and just being in historic situations. After spending most of his adult life in Minneapolis (through 2003), he’s found a good spot in Morro Bay, where history is literally beneath your feet almost everywhere you go.
Marlys McPherson (Treasurer) is a retired research analyst who has worked in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Since moving to Morro Bay in 2003, she has been an active community volunteer, serving on the boards of the League of Women Voters-SLO County, State Parks Association, Morro Bay Bird Festival, and Pacific Wildlife Care. She was also on the Morro Bay Citizens Finance Committee and the Public Works Advisory, and served one term on the Morro Bay City Council (2016-2020). In addition to her treasurer duties for the Historical Society of Morro Bay, she is on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.
Donna Stoll (Secretary) and her husband Chuck were college sweethearts at Cal Poly. After careers in education they returned to where it all started and retired in Morro Bay. Donna loves being an active member in the P.E.O. Sisterhood, helping with MB Lions Club philanthropies, participating in Morro Bay Open Space Alliance (MBOSA) events and learning about our rich historical beginnings through HSMB.
Roger Castle (Director) has been a theatre and movie technician, a contractor, an author and is an amature historian. He is a Morro Bay native and a past HSMB president. He is currently managing the organization of our historical photographs and other artifacts.
Joe Ingraffia (Director) Joe moved to Morro Bay from Southern California on a full time basis in 2015. He is a lawyer by education and a feature and television assistant director by professional experience. He currently serves on the Morro Bay Planning Commission.
Alice Kolb (Director) has been an area resident since 1958. She attended Sunnyside School, MBHS, Cuesta College and studied history at Cal Poly, where her faculty advisor was Daniel Kreiger, the author of many local history stories in the Tribune. Alice served on the Morro Bay planning commission in the early 1980's. She was an active volunteer with the California Medical Association Alliance and now enjoys retirement with time to attend history classes presented through Cuesta College Community Programs at local historic sites.
Mary Sproul (Director) is a former elementary teacher from New Mexico who started her retired life in Morro Bay in 2008. Her 'retired life' is full of volunteering in the communities from helping at church to playing the ukulele with her band. Her interest in Morro Bay history was sparked by the stories of the shops on Morro Bay Boulevard, and she is currently working on organizing the historic artifacts.