Marie Allen, Simone DeSorcy and Eleanore Tompkins have joined the board of directors of Island Elderly Housing, Inc., which currently provides 165 quality, affordable apartments for the Island’s low income elderly and disabled, enabling them to lead independent lives in one of four campuses, Woodside Village and Aidylberg Village in Oak Bluffs and Hillside Village and Love House in Tisbury.

Marie Allen moved permanently to the Vineyard in the late 1990s after working with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. For 20 years she served as the governor’s appointee on the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. She is a member of the Oak Bluffs board of assessors and a corporator of the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank. Ms. Allen has been active with the NAACP and is a recipient of the NAACP Living Legend award.

Simone DeSorcy was born on the Island and raised in West Tisbury. She is a graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, Stanford University and Parsons School of Design. Previous to moving back to the Island she lived and worked in San Francisco, Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Manhattan and Amsterdam. She currently works for the Town of West Tisbury, designs dresses and coordinates events. Simone is the daughter of Donald and Rosemarie DeSorcy of Lamberts Cove.

Eleanore Tompkins, currently a resident of Aidylberg Village, has been coming to the Vineyard since she was a child and moved here permanently in 1990. She spent many years as a nurse at the New York Foundling Hospital. She is an associate of the Sisters of Charity and is very active in the religious life of the Island and beyond.