Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund Trustees (2008-2009)

Standing: David Gould, Edward Sonn, John Mee, Paul Ressler, Elaine DiCicco, Joellen O'Neil, Brec Saalfield, Albert Powers.  Sitting: Barbara Fisher, Teri Hale, Molly Eberle, Kenneth Anderson, Laura Chelton, Paula von Kleydorf, Lucy Miller, Dorrie Bean, David Prifti

 Kenneth D. Anderson - Former Chair of the Board of Trustees and a consulting actuary, Ken is a life-long resident of Concord and a 1964 graduate of CCHS. He operates his own pension consulting firm in Concord. He has served on various town committees, most recently the Council on Aging Board, of which he was chair for two years. He has extensive experience with youth sports, both as a coach and as a member of the boards for Concord-Carlisle Youth Baseball (Secretary) and Concord-Carlisle Friends of Football, Inc. (Treasurer). Ken and his wife Lynda have three children, all graduates of CCHS. Ken has established a named fund in honor of Norton Levy, a long-time math teacher at CCHS, while his mother has established a memorial fund in honor of his father, William W. Anderson.  

Dorrie Bean - Recording Secretary of the Board of Trustees and formerly program director at Concord Family Service, Dorrie is a director of the Community Agencies Corporation, C.A.R.D. and the Friends of the Performing Arts in Concord (FOPAC). She and her husband, Cliff, are longtime residents of Concord and their four daughters were all educated in the Concord schools. Her many years of volunteer activities include service to the school system's PTGs.  In 2008, Dorrie and Cliff established the Bean Family Scholarship in memory of their daughter, Cathryn.  

Laura Mullins Chelton - Assistant Chair of the CCSF Phonathon.  Laura served as president of the CCHS Class of 1982 and is president and mortgage consultant of Wayside Mortgage Company in Carlisle. She serves as co-chair of the Patriot's Day Ball Committee and is a trustee of the Carlisle Education Foundation. She has also been active on a number of community events committees including the dedication of the renovated War Memorial in Concord Center and the CCHS Alumni Association. A native of Concord, she lives in Carlisle with her three children. 

Molly Q. Eberle - Molly is the former Director of Development of the Concord Free Public Library Corporation. She is a former English teacher who has served on the Education Symposium, on the board of the Thoreau School PTG, as a coach for Concord Youth Soccer, and as president of the Board of Directors at The Discovery Museums in Acton. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Concord with their three children, all of whom attended Concord public schools.

Barbara Fisher - Barbara has been involved in the operation and management of non-profit organizations throughout her career.  She is currently the Vice President for Ambulatory and Emergency Services at UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, after having worked at the Cambridge Health Alliance for ten years.  She has volunteered extensively in the Concord public schools and is an active volunteer in the Tufts University Alumni Association.  Barbara, and her husband David Broadwin, have lived in Concord since 1989.  Two of their children, Rebecca and Megan, graduated from CCHS in 2004.  Their son Mark is a member of the CCHS Class of 2010.

 
David Gould - Associate Trustee - David has spent his entire career helping students make the transition from secondary school to college. His career in college admissions spans 35 years including 27 as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Brandeis University. He established Gould College Planning in Concord to assist applicants and their families in the application process. His wife, Kirsten, is a drama teacher at The Fenn School, and their two daughters benefited from a wonderful education at CCHS. A cooking enthusiast, David is also active in local musical and theatrical groups.

  
 
Teri Hale - Teri formerly worked for IBM and has been an active volunteer in the Alcott, Fenn, Nashoba Brooks, Middlesex Schools and at CCHS.  She was co-chair of Friends of CCHS Boys Soccer and also of the College Mini-Fairs at CHHS. She and her husband David have been Concord residents since 1985.  Their three children are Lucy, Tyler, and Robert, who is a member of the CCHS Class of 2003.

Mary-Elisabeth Jones - Mary-Beth was raised in Short Hills, New Jersey.  She is a graduate of Millburn High School and Dartmouth College, and is a member of the second class of co-education at the College.

Mary-Beth and her husband, George are longtime residents of Concord.  They have two sons, George and Sam.  An active volunteer, Mary-Beth committed to many years of service to her sons' Concord schools, Nashoba Brooks and Fenn.  She is a member of the Fenn Board of Visitors.

Currently, Mary-Beth is a real estate broker with LandVest, Inc.  Prior to working with LandVest, she ran her own design firm, which focused on assisting clients with preparing their properties for sale.  Mary-Beth has over 25 years experience in marketing and sales.

Lindsay Smith Kafka, Esq. - Lindsay grew up in Concord from the age of 8 years old, graduating in 1985 from CCHS.  From there, Ms. Kafka continued her education at Stanford University and Boston University School of Law.

Lindsay is founder and principal of Concord Law Group, P.C., a boutique estate planning law firm located in Concord.  She is active in the OVAL program for Stanford University, a pilot alumni volunteer program for interviewing applicants to Stanford.  Lindsay also volunteers at Open Table, the Concord Council on Aging, and is a former board member of Concord Youth Theatre.

John F. Mee - John is an attorney practicing in Newton. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Middlesex and Central Middlesex Bar Associations. Over the years, he has served as a member of the Concord By-Law Recodification Committee, a Concord Recreational basketball coach, a parish council member at the former Our Lady's Parish, and lector and lay minister at Holy Family Parish. He is also a past president of the Holy Cross Alumni Association. He lives in Concord with his wife, Marie, an accountant with Scheid and Company and a past member of the Concord Finance Committee and of ad hoc committees of the Concord-Carlisle School Committee. Their three children, John, Christopher, and Siobhan, are all graduates of CCHS.  

Lucy Miller - Chair of the Board of Trustees, Lucy Miller worked in higher education administration from graduation from Wellesley College in 1976 until fall 2008, including more than 7 years in the fields of admissions and financial aid; 19 years in development for MIT; and 2 in development for Harvard Medical School.  In late 2008, she moved to the Office of Development at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In Concord, she has been involved as a volunteer for Orchard House and was an officer of the Concord Carlisle Patrons of Performing Students (CCPOPS).  Her daughter, McCurdy, is a member of CCHS Class of 2004 and of the Bryn Mawr College Class of 2008.

 
Albert L. Powers - Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, Al retired from the science faculty at CCHS where he taught chemistry and served as Science Dept. Chairperson. He is a recipient of the national Tandy Scholar for Excellence in Science Teaching award and was cited in 1995 by both Forbes and Time magazines as one of the nation's top 100 educators.  He has also been elected to the American Chemical Society's Aula Laudis Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of Chemical Education.  Al served as President of the NH Science Teachers Association and represented New England and New York as a Director of the National Science Teachers Association, Washington, DC.  Locally, Al has served as a director of the Concord Carlisle Adult and Community Education Program. He lives in Carlisle and his three daughters, Holly (Motasky), Cherie (Higgins), and Heidi (Robinson) are all CCHS alumna.

 
Paul Ressler - Former Chair of the Board of Trustees, Paul is currently a vice president at Unica Corporation and previously held executive positions in operations and general management at Genuity, BBN and other high technology businesses. As an active volunteer, Paul has served on Concord Town Committees, and participated in several non-profits in Concord. Through the Concord-based Jericho Road project, he provides leadership consulting to non-profit organizations in Lowell. He has lived in Concord with his wife, Pam, since 1988 and their children, Kim (CCHS '01), Nick, and Jen (CCHS '08) have all attended Concord Public Schools. In 2005, the Resslers established the Nick Ressler Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of their son, Nick, who would have graduated in 2005 from CCHS. 


Thomas Rutledge - Associate Trustee - Recently appointed, Tom's biography will be posted soon. 

Edward H. Sonn - Retired, formerly was Vice President of Product Development for Data Terminal Systems. Ed has been active on the Carlisle scene where he currently is a member of the St. Irene Parish Finance Council, having served as chair for 10 years. He was chair of the Town Hall Building Committee and served as a member of the Gleason Library Building Committee. Ed and Maybeth moved to Carlisle in 1974. Maybeth, also retired, was a librarian at Gleason Library. Their three children Paul '84, Kathryn '86, and Eugene '91 all graduated from CCHS. Ed and Maybeth initiated the CCSF named fund to honor Elaine DiCicco and another Named Fund to honor Albert Powers.

Priscilla White Sturges - Priscilla was raised in Concord. She holds degrees from Pine Manor College, the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting (London, England) and a BFA in Graphic Design from the Massachusetts College of Art.

Priscilla was an art director at the advertising agency Doerr Associates from 1981 to 1996 when she started the graphic design firm of Waterman Design. Priscilla served on the board of directors at the Concord Children’s Center and volunteered extensively in the Concord public schools. At CCHS she was an officer of the Concord-Carlisle Patrons of Performing Students (CCPOPS), served on the Parents Association’s Grants Committee and chaired the clean-up committee for the “All Night Live” graduation party. Currently, Priscilla is secretary of the Conantum Garden Club, serves on the boards of the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts and Friends of Sleepy Hollow and is an administrator of the Doug White Memorial Sports and Recreation Fund.

Priscilla lives in Concord with her husband, Howard, and their two daughters, Polly, a 2004 graduate of CCHS and 2008 graduate of Wheaton College and Phoebe, a  2008 graduate of CCHS and member of the class of 2012 at the University of New Hampshire.