SVHS invites members and guests to join us for the 2025 Annual Meeting.

All attendees are asked to RSVP in advance so that accurate numbers for seating and for refreshments can be established.

Doors open at 5:30pm.

6:00pm- Start of the Evening with the Annual Meeting of the Membership.

All are welcome to join us for the business meeting where the SVHS Board President and the SVHS Committee chairs will present their year-end reports to the members -- it is a great opportunity to learn more about the work of the society! Members will vote on the slate of new Directors of the SVHS Board as proposed by the Nominating Committee.

7:30pm- SVHS Lecture Series

All are welcome to join SVHS as they welcome Dr. Ian Isherwood as the evening's guest lecturer and his presentation: "Living History: A War Historian’s Journey from Sewickley to Gettysburg.”

Dr. Ian Isherwood returns to the Sewickley Valley to talk about his experiences as a professional historian at Gettysburg College. Isherwood will discuss what it is like to teach history to 21st century college students and work as a military historian in transformational times.

Dr. Ian Isherwood is Associate Professor of War & Memory Studies at Gettysburg College, where he has taught the history of war for fifteen years. In 2022-2023, Isherwood was the Harold K. Johnson Visiting Chair of Military History at the United States Army War College. He is the author of two books, Remembering the Great War: Writing and Publishing the Experiences of WWI (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front (Pen & Sword, 2024), and the co-editor of another with Steven Trout of Serpents of War: An American Officer’s Story of WWI Combat and Captivity. Isherwood graduated from Quaker Valley High School in 1996.

This presentation is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be available following the presentation and the Valor in the Valley exhibit will be open for all to visit.