Compass Rose (Board of Directors)

Kelly Bailey, Indian Township
kelly@thecclc.org

Stephanie Bailey, Indian Township - President
stephanie@thecclc.org

     Stephanie is a Passamaquoddy educator and activist. She produces a tribal newsletter titled Keq Ktotoli Oluhk? (What are We Doing?) to elevate dialogue about contemporary issues in Passamaquoddy life and to share storylines of their culture. She is mother to five children and lives with her family in Indian Township.

Kathlene Clement, Indian Township
kat@thecclc.org

Gary Cook, Campobello Island, NB.
gcsongfish@yahoo.ca

     Gary is a 5th-generation fisherman from the Cobscook Bay region who plies his hand-line trade with deepest respect for whole system ecology. This husband and father of two is a powerful singer/songwriter and musician. He started writing his own songs in response to the collapse of the fisheries.

Wanda Corey, Trescott

Wanda is a business woman and mother. She has served on may local boards and school committees. Her roots run deep in Washington County and she is committed to economic and educational successes for local people. She and her teenage son make their home in Bailey's Mistake.

Paul Jans, Whiting

Paul is based, with his family, in Whiting, Maine. His history of travel extends south of the equator and east of the Prime Meridian. Most days, though, he only travels as far as East Machias to attend Washington Academy where he is a junior. At WA, he is a member of the Environthon Club and the Student in Government Club. Playing violin, he is a member of the Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestra.  When not selling airsoft guns on ebay, Paul volunteers for the CCLC Board of Directors.

Jim Miner
jim@thecclc.org

     Jim is active in many community organizations and retired in 2006 as Director of Physical Plant at University of Maine, Machias.  In addition to his broad leadership within the CCLC, he has dedicated hundreds of hours to the design of CCLC buildings and offers insight and guidance on campus development initiatives.   

Wayne Newell, Indian Township
wnewellits@gmail.com

    Wayne is a leader within the Passamaquoddy community.  He serves as Director of Bilingual and Bicultural Program and Curricular Development for the Passamaquoddy schools. Active in politics, education and business, Wayne dedicates his life to inter-human understanding so that human beings of all cultures can work together cooperatively.

Sally-Jo Rice, Pembroke

Stephen Rogers, Calais

Colby Soctomah-Lewey, Pleasant Point

Donald R. Sprangers , East Machias - Vice President

Don was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and moved to Maine in 1990.  He is a secondary science educator with 25 years of teaching experience; the past 18 years serving students at Washington Academy in East Machias, Maine.  He received his BS in Secondary Science Education in 1982 from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and his MS in Education in 2003 from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Don serves as advisor to the Washington Academy FFA and coaches their Envirothon team.

Don Sprangers is the recipient of the 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  He was also honored in 2007 by The Conservation Fund with the International Paper Environmental  Educator of the Year Award for his creation and implementation of the Washington Academy Sustainable LIFE Curriculum. 

Don also serves as vice president of the Downeast Salmon Federation located in Columbia Falls, Maine.  In his leisure, he enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, and woodworking.

Shelly Tinker, Lubec

Shelly is a local girl with deep roots in the community. She is a 3rd generation mechanic and works in her families garage. Shelly is married to a 5th generation fishermen from Campobello and has 2 terrific kids. Her interstests are everything but she has pursued underwater photography and had the privledge of helping with two successful whale rescues.

Staff

Alan Furth, Trescott - Executive Director
alan@thecclc.org

Alan came to live in the Cobscook area in 1978. An educator and singer / musician, he has been working on building intentional learning communities throughout his years in education. He is the Director of the CCLC.

Penny Guisinger, Pembroke - Director of Development & Communications
penny@thecclc.org

Bonnie Lyons, Lubec - Custodian

Pat Mallar, Trescott - Financial Coordinator
pat@thecclc.org

Charley Martin-Berry, East Machias - Passages Director
passages@thecclc.org

Charley Martin-Berry is the Lead Teacher and Program Coordinator for Passages at the Cobscook Community Learning Center. She holds a degree in Women’s Studies and Anthropology from the University of Maine at Orono. At UMaine, Charley spent three years coordinating a weekly support and activist group for adolescent girls in the greater Bangor area. Later, she worked in non-profit educational organizations in fundraising and administrative positions before returning to Washington County with her family. Charley currently teaches five young parents in their homes using the Passages curriculum of the Community School. As coordinator of the Washington County Passages program, she works on fundraising and networking with local health, educational, and community organizations, and supervises the second Passages teacher. Charley loves her newfie, Ursa, and wants to learn as much as she can about sailing. You might find Charley humming r. e. bell or Ani DiFranco songs, or quoting her mom.

Kara McCrimmon, Trescott - Director of Educational Programs (and all that stuff)
kara@thecclc.org

Kara’s journey to a CCLC staff member began on a bus. In September 2003 Kara began her third semester with the Audubon Expedition Institute, working towards her MS in Environmental Education. AEI has a long history in Downeast Maine, and her group continued with that tradition by participating in a workday on the CCLC land, when it was still full of trees (and if she remembers correctly, mosquitoes) and free of buildings and infrastructure. With an interest in folk education, and looking for ways to bring her music into her life as an environmental educator, Kara came back to Lubec to finish her fourth semester – an internship – with the CCLC. Kara fully intended to return to her West Michigan homeland to live and work, but the call of the CCLC kept coming back and in September 2004 she heeded the call and moved to Trescott.

Currently Kara serves as the Curriculum and Program Director for the CCLC, working with staff and community members to develop courses and programs for the Learning Center. She has also coordinated the Mowry Beach Project, a partnership project between the CCLC, Quoddy Regional Land Trust, and Lubec Consolidated School. She enjoys hiking the beautiful trails of Cobscook Bay with her dog Flurry, going to music sessions and playing Irish whistle (among other instruments) with the Black Socks String Band, and generally enjoying life along Whiting Bay in Trescott.

Michelle Moores, Trescott - Administrative Assistant / Host / Coordinator of Speaker/Video Series
michelle@thecclc.org

Michelle was born and raised here in Washington County. She is raising three great children while going to college part time. She enjoys all the vast learning experiences offered at the CCLC.

* Wayne & Lorraine Rice, Pembroke - Groundskeeper & Office Assistant
Senior Community Service Employment Program

Kevin Thompson, Machiasport - Director of Office Systems
kev@thecclc.org

Kevin came to Washington County in 1993 from California. He apprenticed for a local potter for five years, then developed his own line of functional and raku pottery. He has taught pottery in the after school program for MSAD #77 and gives demonstrations and introductions to ceramic arts for local schools. Currently, Kevin teaches pottery courses, manages the IT infrastructure & website, co-coordinates programming, and serves as office administrator at the CCLC.

Cora Townsend, Passages Teacher
cora@thecclc.org

I am the Full time Passages teacher here at the Cobscook Community Learning Center in Trescott, Maine.  I graduated from the University of Maine at Machias in 1993 with a major in Education and minor in History.  
I travel Washington County, meeting with my students weekly.
           
I am totally into stones, they are beautiful, natural, inexpensive, and most of mine are free. I collect wherever I chance to see an interesting specimen. Knitting, crocheting, and stone jewelry making are hobbies of mine.

“Life is a highway and each of our roads leads in different directions. If I know you, we have met at an intersection. If we are friends we have lingered at more than one stoplight.”