Board of Advisors and Patrons Circle
The Center’s Board of Advisors (formerly the Executive Committee) is a standing committee constituted of University of Maine alumni and friends invested in advancing the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s mission.
Board of Advisors Co-Chairs
- Kathryn Olmstead, associate professor emerita in Communication and Journalism, UMaine; former columnist for the Bangor Daily News (BDN), and editor/publisher/co-founder of Echoes magazine (based in Caribou, Maine), and Member, University of Maine Board of Visitors
- Henry L.P. Schmelzer ’65, former Chair, Maine Public Broadcasting (MPBN) Board of Trustees; former President and CEO, Maine Community Foundation
Members
- H. Allen Fernald ’54 and Sally Fernald, ’55, Campaign Co-Chairs and
owner/publishers of Down East Magazine - LeeEllen Friedland, President, Ethnologica
- Timothy Garrity ’14G, Historian, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
- Philip Hamilton ’85, Managing Partner, Diablo Vista Capital, LLC
- Jeffrey Hecker ’86, ’44H, Professor of Psychology, University of Maine
- Brian Naylor ’79, Washington Correspondent, National Public Radio (NPR)
- Sandra Peters ’69, Educator (retired)
- Lauren A. Sterling, Philanthropy Consultant
- Dr. David A. Taylor ’74, External Relations and Program Development Officer for the Library of Congress
- John K. Veroneau, ’83, Partner, Covington & Burling, LLP
Ex Officio
- Emily Haddad, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Maine
Patrons Circle
Patrons provide an annual gift of $1,000 in support of MHC initiatives.
- William D. Adams and Lauren A. Sterling
- Richard P. and Karin Anderson
- Constance H. Babcock
- Mary Bok
- Lynn Boulger
- Mark and Anne Cressey
- Matthew G. Dunlap and Michelle Ann Dunphy
- Timothy Garrity
- Virginia Nees-Hatlen
- Gregory G. Johnson and Carol Hancock, Founding Members
- Barbara B. Keast
- Parker S. Laite Jr. and Nancy L. Laite
- Celeste A. Ringuette
- Judith B. Rowan
- Matthew D. Smyth
- Robert M. Swan and Jean W. Swan
- A. Lowell Watson and Cynthia J. Watson