ABOUT
GREG WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT
Greg grew up in Belle Union, graduated from South Putnam High School and has lived in Cloverdale since graduating with construction management and architectural technology degrees from Indiana State University in 1984. From there, his life has come full-circle. After college, Greg worked for Alan Stanley and Associates (ASA), in Greencastle, and then for MSE Corporation, in Indianapolis. After earning a civil engineering degree from Purdue, and his Professional Surveyor License, he acquired ASA Land Surveying in 2006 and became the firm’s president and co-owner.
Greg and his wife, Debbie, raised four children in Cloverdale – Jacob, Miranda, Hannah, and Anne Marie. When their children were young, Greg and Debbie’s lives revolved around their various activities. He is still involved with many community groups that serve the county and its residents. In addition to being a member of the Putnam County Parks Board, he is treasurer of the Camp Friend board, an assistant scoutmaster for Cloverdale Boy Scouts of America Troop 93 and a member of the Wabash Valley Eagle Scout Board of Review Committee. He’s also a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Cloverdale Building Corporation and the Putnam County Antique Tractor & Machinery Association.
HOLLY COOK, VICE-PRESIDENT
Holly has lived in Roachdale, in the northern part of Putnam County, for 20 years. Extremely active in the county’s civic life, she has served as president of the Roachdale Town Council; secretary of the Roachdale Revitalization Cooperative Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to downtown beautification; a member of the Historic Preservation Society, Delta Theta Tau charitable sorority; and a member of the Roachdale Park Board.
A Strategic Buyer for Rolls-Royce, in Indianapolis, and a lifelong learner, Holly enjoys hiking and exploring the outdoors. As a student of wildflowers, mycology and wild plants – mainly edible and invasive ones – she has been a regular leader of one of Putnam Parks & Pathways’ Monthly Nature Hikes. She also is interested in rock and mineral identification in Indiana and other areas of the country. International cooking is another in a long list of passions and, when traveling, the local cuisine and culture are as important to her as the sightseeing.
REBECCA BILBREY
A Van Bibber Lake resident, with decades of experience in visual communications, education, graphic design, and marketing, Rebecca is an assistant professor of visual communications at Ivy Tech Community College; but she has always been an Indiana naturalist.
Rebecca has planted hundreds of native trees and plants while eradicating invasive species at various locations in Indianapolis via Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and on the 32-acre self-sustaining, off-grid homestead she and her husband planned and built. In addition to building a small log cabin from the timber they selectively harvested, the couple created nesting sites and pollinator houses for native bees, keeping pure Russian, Italian, Carniolan, and feral swarms. Rebecca completed coursework in small scale wind and solar power systems, planning and implementing solar power arrays on her homestead, including panels, charge controllers, inverters, and battery banks.
She studied and implements permaculture practices on her homestead, including animal husbandry (cows, goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits, and turkeys), designed and constructed livestock dwellings, created natural habitat plantings, raising and releasing hundreds of Monarch butterflies, and the planning and engineering of a one-acre pond habitat with environmentally friendly plant management. Rebecca leads solar oven cooking, and home canning and food preservation demonstrations.
She has enjoyed more than 2,000 miles of organized bicycle rides with the Central Indiana Bicycle Association and has received numerous awards as a photographer, graphic designer, illustrator, educator, artist, and children’s magazine publisher.
SARA CAMPFIELD
Sara holds the seat on the county parks board reserved for the president of Putnam Parks & Pathways. After graduating from Purdue, with a degree in agronomy, Sara worked in schools in West Central Indiana for nine years, including five years as a biology and chemistry teacher.
In 2019, she was named executive director of the Putnam County Soil & Water Conservation District, and she, her husband John and their two daughters, moved to Greencastle. The Putnam County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is a government organization dedicated to helping residents and landowners in Putnam County preserve our natural resources. The SWCD can help with identifying natural resource concerns and getting technical assistance to help with those concerns. The SWCD office is co-located in the USDA Service Center in Greencastle.
Sara says she learned a lot about identifying plants by participating in FFA in high school. Today she is a leader of PC RIP, the county’s task force to educate the public about invasive plants and work to remove invasive plants in public areas in Putnam County. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, hiking trails and camping.
JANET PANOCH
A lifelong enthusiast of the natural world, Janet has extensive experience in education, ranging from kindergarten to high school and from community college to medical school. Currently a researcher in Supportive Oncology at the IU School of Medicine, with a PhD in health communication, earlier in her career she was the paleoartist in the Dinosphere at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, educating and entertaining visitors about Indiana fossils.
Merging her enthusiasm for learning and engaging in nature, Janet’s interests include evidence-based wellness training and programs that encourage people to make the most of the outdoors. She serves on the board for the Putnam County Hospice and Palliative Care Association, and she leads Community Matters: A Public Support Group sponsored by the Putnam County Democrats. A person with incredible personal energy and limitless ideas, Janet believes in “showing up to be the change we want to see.”