Board of Directors

 

Edith Aronson, Chair
Occupation:  Writer & Teacher, Portland , Maine 
 

Inspiration: 

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be."  Thomas Jefferson
 

Related Activities:
 Board Member, Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation (2008-present) 
 Advisory Board Member, Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR) (2011-present)
 Board Member, Walch Educational Publishing (2000 - present)
 Member, Harvard Graduate School of Education Visiting Committee (2007 - present) 
 

Education:
 A.B. History, Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1984)
 Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1997)

 

  

Nori Gale, Member

Occupation:
 Communications Specialist, Time Warner Cable, Portland, Maine

 

Inspiration:

“Turn soft and lovely any time you have the chance.”

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop and look fear in the face…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“Promise me you’ll always remember…you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.”

 

Related Activities:

Board Memeber, Portland Ballet Company (2005-2008)

PTO Co-President, Longfellow Elementary School (2004-2006)

Leadership Maine Alumni, Sigma Class

Community Volunteer, Portland, Maine (current)

 

Education:
B.A., American Studies, Colby College (1990)

Maine College of Art, studio art (1992-93)

Maine Summer Institute in Graphic Design, Design Inquiry 

  

 

Maura A. Halkiotis, Member

Occupation:

Certified Public Accountant, Yarmouth, Maine

 

Inspiration:

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived."~Henry David Thoreau

 

Related Activities:

Volunteer Financial Advisor, Yarmouth Senior Housing, Yarmouth, Maine

Co-Founder and Organizer, Yarmouth Pumpkin Run, Yarmouth, Maine

Co-Founder and Organizer, Yarmouth Livestrong Ride, Yarmouth, Maine

 

Education:

 B.A. Journalism/English, University of Massachusetts

B.S. Accounting, University of North Carolina

 

 

 

Cindy Mahoney, Member 

Occupation:
 Community Volunteer, Freeport, Maine (2008-present)

 

Related Activities:
 Pioneer Class Honorary Mom

 Community Volunteer, Manchester, Maine (1996-2008)

 

Education:
 B.A., History, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, New York (1987)
 Teaching Certificate, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (1990)

 

 

Laura Moorehead, Member 

Occupations:
 Director of Training, Institute for Civic Leadership, Portland, Maine
 Lead Consultant, Moorehead Consulting Partners, Bridgton, Maine

Inspiration:

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~ W.B. Yeats

 

Related Activities:
 Consulting clients in the sciences and leadership
 Convening of youth development organizations in the Greater Portland area, partnering with youth in the convening process
 Fifteen years of involvement with experiential, outdoor education
 Member and consultant to Lakes Environmental Association in western Maine

 

Education:
 B.A., Lewis and Clark College, Portland Oregon
 M.S.O.D., American University, Washington, D.C. (in partnership with the NTL Institute) 

 

 

Mary Noyes, Member

Occupations:
Retired owner of a family business, Aircast, Inc.
Consulting and charity work, DBA letsPLAY

 

Inspiration;
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."  ~ Gandhi

 

Related Activities:

 Board Member, Steadman Hawkins Sports Medicine Foundation, Vail, Colorado

 Capital Campaign, Morrison Developmental Center, Portland, Maine (2008)
 Board Member, Maine Children's Cancer Program (1995-2002)
 Honorary Member, ACL Study Group

 The Refugees, LLC, Investor
 Active Participant, The Pan MASS Challenge
 True North Health Center  (2006-present)
 Portland Ovations (2009)

 

Education:
B.A., Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (1981)

 

 

Elizabeth H. Ottinger, Member
Occupation: High School Administrator/Dean, McDonogh School, Owings Mills, Maryland

Inspiration:

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes

Related Activities:
My daughter was a member of CSG's Pioneer Class and LOVED it!
Junior Class Dean, McDonogh School. 2000-present.
Faculty Co-Chair, Annual Giving Campaign, McDonogh School. 2010-present.
Faculty Advisor, Rollins-Luetkemeyer Leadership Program, McDonogh School, 1998-2002.
Led four Outward Bound student expeditions to Colorado and Maine, 1998-2002.
Director of College Counseling, McDonogh School. 1986-2001
Various committees and the Board, Grace United Methodist Church, Baltimore, Maryland. 1999-present.
Alumni Board Member, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1994-1998.
Admissions Officer, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 1980-1986

Education:
M.Ed, Higher Ed Administration and Counseling, Bucknell University, (ABT)
B.A., Economics, Bucknell University, (1980)

 

 

Judy Sandick, MD, Member

Occupation: Physician, Miles Hospital, Damariscotta, ME

 

Inspiration:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

 

Related Activities:

Daughter was a member of the class of Fall 2010. The experience changed not only her life, but our whole family as well.

2010 Volunteer physician, logistician, medical director, then interim executive director for CDRS/SHINE in Port au Prince, Haiti, directing Earthquake related relief efforts

Active volunteer physican at Seeds of Peace summer camp, which is "dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence."

2007 Volunteer physician in Kashmir Pakistan, doing primary care in rural impoverished areas with minimal health care systems and helping in implement a post-disaster health care system

Volunteer camp doctor at Outward Bound on Hurricane Island, ME

Lived experiential learning for 6 years as we educated our four children while circumnavigating in our small sailboat.

 

Education:

Candidate Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (2011)

Albany Medical College M.D. Albany, New York (1982)

Middlebury College B.S. Biology Middlebury, Vermont (1976)

 

Angela Wheaton, Member

Occupation: Director of Project Management for Delivery System Operations, Martin's Point Health Care, Brunswick, ME

Inspiration:

"Begin doing what you want to do now.  We are not living in eternity.  We have only this moment; sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake."  Marie Beynon Ray

 

Related Activities:

Hiking, traveling, geocaching, and Triathlons

 

Education:

AA, Recreation and Leisure Services, University of Maine at Presque Isle (1982)

BA, Behavioral Sciences, University of Maine at Presque Isle (1984)

MA, Theological Studies/Counseling, Gordon Conwell Theological Studies (1987)