The 2016 Wodonga Citizen of the Year was on Tuesday elevated to the position unopposed at the society's annual meeting.

Mrs Elliot was the only nominee for the role which has been long occupied by John Flower, who will remain on the committee.

The change in leadership coincides with the group moving from its premises in South Street to the former Bonegilla migrant camp due to rent becoming unaffordable at the Wodonga site.

Mrs Elliot said her dad Don Pollard had motivated her to take on that top job.

"My father lived at Bonegilla and was one of the stalwarts of the community with the hall and the camp and I thought if I don't raise my hand my father is going to be turning in his grave because he just loved Bonegilla and was a community person," she said.

"We're going to have to work really hard to make that work out there and being an old Bonegilla girl I thought I could move and shake.

"It's going to be a special trip, it won't be just walking past a museum and saying 'what's on'."

A hut at the camp is being prepared by Wodonga Council for the society and the move is expected to happen in mid-September.

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It is hoped the new rooms, that will house the society's artefacts, will be open to the public from early October to coincide with Seniors Week.

A new vice president, Jeff McEachern, and treasurer, Bri Pfeiffer, were appointed on Tuesday but the secretary's position is vacant after the retirement of Uta Wiltshire who will continue to run the society's Facebook page and write Border Mail columns.

Mrs Elliot appealed for anyone with administrative skills and an interest in history to apply.

"It would mean the world of difference to us because Uta has done everything, she doesn't delegate, and now it's hard to fill those shoes," Mrs Elliot said.

The annual meeting heard that membership had risen from 38 to 51 in the last year.

Two of them are John Watson and Eric Kerr, current and past Wodonga councillors respectively, who were apologies on Tuesday.