meet the board Members
Camryn Thane | President
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Trey Concilio | Past President
Paul A. Concilio III (aka Trey), is a lifelong resident of McLennan County. Trey was raised with an appreciation of music from the first half of the 20th century. That evolved into his becoming an excellent audio engineer and videographer. Along with the music, Trey developed knowledge and appreciation of the history of the motion picture industry. Another natural association was his work in the broadcasting industry. In 2007, Trey, as a private individual, purchased the dormant 1912 Texas Theatre in McGregor which is now another of the Museum’s projects.
Les Marshall | First VP
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Josh Rutherford | Secretary & Musical Talent
Robert Brown | Artist and Theater Expert
Robert is the owner of an advertising agency with a specialty in marketing, graphic design and website design. He has served on multiple nonprofit boards in McLennan and Falls Counties. Two charities that are particularly close to his heart are the Palace Theatre in Marlin and the Marlin Public Library. In 2006, Robert was chair of a committee which raised funds to build a new 5,000 square foot library for Marlin, Texas, serving all of Falls County. Robert is currently the head of the renovation committee of the Palace Theatre in Marlin. The Palace Theatre was built in 1925 and was operated as a live performance and movie theater until the mid 1970’s. In 1982 the building was donated to a nonprofit group - The Palace Theatre Center, Incorporated. Since 1982, the facility has been used for dinner theaters, style shows and live music events. Robert is serving in an advisory capacity to the Texas Museum of Theatre & Broadcast during the renovation of the Texas Theatre.
Rick Mathews | Founding Father
Rick Mathews has been in Texas since 1996. Rick is noted for being an authority on the motion picture palaces of the 1920’s and most especially, the voice of the silent screens; the theatre pipe organs of the day. Rick’s interest in the theatre organ started early in life and by the age of 16 he was the featured house organist at the Denver Fox Theatre. As the theatre’s organ showed signed of needing repairs and adjustments, Rick was tutored into becoming a pipe organ technician. Rick’s day-job is in the commercial air conditioning industry. Rick’s talents has seen him involved in the preservation and restoration of not just the pipe organs but the vintage movie palaces as well. Rick’s talents will be relied upon for the building restoration and renovation projects as well as being the primary driver for the restoration and installation of the 3-manual (keyboard), 17-rank (sets of pipes) Robert-Morton theatre pipe organ in the Museum.