Faculty

 

Loraine Washburn, Marine Science

 

Inspiration:

“If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering." ~ Aldo Leopold, Round River

 

Related Activities:
 Lecturer, Biology Department, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (2005 & 2008)
 Board Member, Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, Brunswick, Maine (2003 - 2010)

Senior Fellow, New England Regional Network, Environmental Leadership Program
 Visiting Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1990 - 2001)

 Environmental Educator and Museum Services Coordinator, Thames Science Center, New London, Connecticut (1979 - 1983)

Education:
 
 Ph.D. Biology, University of California-Los Angeles (1990)

B.A. Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1978)

Tropical Ecology course, Organization for Tropical Studies (1984)

 

 

 

Noël Thibodeau, French and Spanish

 

Inspiration:

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." ~Chinese Proverb

 

Related Activities:

 French/Spanish Faculty, Drama Moderator, St. Dominic Regional High School, Auburn, Maine (1999 - 2009)

 French/Spanish Faculty, Holy Name Catholic Jr. Sr. High School, Worcester, Massachusetts (1997 - 1999)

Education

 M.A. in Teaching, French, University of Maine-Orono (1997)

 Coursework at L'Universite du Maine, Le Mans, France (1997)

 Coursework at L'Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, France (1989 - 1990)

 B.A., Romance Languages with Theatre minor, University of Maine-Orono (1993)

 

 

 

Leah Titcomb, English 

 

Inspiration:
“The heartbeats I felt in the womb — two heartbeats, at once, my mother’s and my own — are heartbeats of the land.”

~ Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge

 

Related Activities:
 Published in the Goddard Literary Journal, Plainfield, Vermont (2011)

 Author of Thru A Woman’s Eyes (2006)
 Editorial staff of The Pitkin Review, Plainfield, Vermont (2010 - present)
 Natural History Teacher, Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, Maine (2009 - 2010)

 College Professor, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona (2008)
 Outdoor Classroom Teacher, Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, Maine (2007 - 2008)
 Wilderness Trip Leader, Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, Maine (summers 2007 - present)
 Science Teacher, Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, Vermont (2006 - 2007)
 English Teacher, Lincoln Elementary, Prescott, Arizona (2006) 

 

Education:

 M.F.A., Creative Writing, Goddard College (2011)
 B.A., Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona (2006)

 

 

 

James Beckwith, Mathematics

 

Inspiration:

"Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference."

                            ~Robert Frost

 

Related Activities:

Math/History Teacher, Pine Tree Academy, Maine (1967-1972, 1983-2008)

Math/History Teacher, Grand Ledge Academy, Michigan (1972-1977); Lansing Community College, Michigan (1976-1977)

Trip Leader, Cycle tour of Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec (2008, 2010)

Boys Director, Camp Ausable, Michigan (1975-1976); Camp Lawroweld, Maine (1968-1970)

Solo Cycle Tours in Maine (2001, 2007),  Scandinavia (2006), and Canadian Maritimes (1998)

 

Education:

B.A., History, Atlantic Union College (1967)

M.A.T., Math, Michigan State University (1975)

 

 

 

 Sean Lent, History

 

Inspiration:

"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm.  When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road.  But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet.  When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking.  This understanding extends to everything."   ~Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure--The Book of the Samurai     

 

Related Activities:

History Teacher, Deering High School, Portland, Maine (2011)

History Teacher, South Portland High School, South Portland, Maine (2010)

Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Southern Maine (2009-2010)

President, Maine Forensic Association (2009-2011)

Debate Coach, Deering High School, Portland, Maine (2008-present)

SAT Instructor, Maine Prep, Brunswick, Maine (2008-present)

Debate Coach, Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maine (2001-2002, 2006-2008)

 

Education:

M.S. Education, Teaching and Learning, University of Southern Maine (2011)

B.A. History, University of Southern Maine (2009)