Freda Bernotavicz

Freda moved to Maine in 1974 from Washington D.C. looking for a healthy place to live and raise a family. With a graduate degree in Instructional Communications, she worked at University of Southern Maine until her retirement in 2017. At the Muskie School of Public Service, she was Director of the Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Adjunct Faculty and Team Leader of a national leadership and workforce development institute using remote technology to provide continuing education programs.

She served on the Maine Governor’s Children’s Cabinet, was Board Member and Chair of the Standards Committee of the National Staff Development and Training Association, and has also served on the board of local non-profits.

Leona Dufour

Leona retired from teaching high school English in upstate New York. She and her husband soon moved to Georgetown after having fallen in love with mid-coast Maine during numerous summer vacations. She has been taking courses at Midcoast Senior College nearly ever semester for the past fourteen years and has also partnered in teaching four courses. Last spring she did a zoom lecture.

In addition to finishing a memoir, she has been keeping a COVID diary for this past year. So far it numbers nearly 70,000 words. She hopes her granddaughter might be interested in it.

Jaki Ellis

Jaki worked with K-12 schools for more than 35 years, promoting the health of children and healthy school communities. This work included curriculum development, policy development, coordination of school health services and facilitation of community advisory committees. She worked with several local Maine school districts before consulting on the national level. Her teacher resources have been published by organizations such as the American Cancer Society, and the New York Academy of Medicine (for the New York City public schools). Jaki wrapped up her professional career in Maine, as the Director for Coordinating School Health Programs at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.. This role included providing statewide training and technical assistance to school health coordinators as part of the Healthy Maine Partnerships initiated by Governor Angus King in 2000.

Jaki graduated from Swarthmore College in 1965 with a B.A. in History and from Bank Street College of Education in 1972 receiving a Masters of Science in Education (M. S. in Ed.)

Jaki has lived in Brunswick for 45 years where she and her husband raised two boys and ran a beef farm on Woodward Point, in addition to full-time jobs. In 2020 they turned over their farm to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, which is managing it as a public preserve.

Jaki has enjoyed many Midcoast Senior College courses since her retirement. She also enjoys outdoor sports, playing music and spending time with family and friends.

Susan Goran

Susan F. Goran has been privileged to practice in a variety of nursing roles in various ICUs throughout Maine and New England for many years. Retiring from a full-time clinical position 4 years ago, she is currently enjoying an adjunct faculty position teaching Leadership in the UNE School of Nursing & Population Health on the Portland campus. Susan attained her initial nursing diploma at the NE Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Boston and later received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing from University of Southern Maine in Portland. Very active in a variety of professional nursing organizations, Susan served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses from 1993-96 providing her opportunities to present on critical care topics including leadership for regional, national, and international audiences. She has contributed to the professional nursing literature with peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and recently published her first textbook, ‘Telemedicine: Care Beyond Touch’ which is helping current healthcare providers learn about the use of telehealth/telemedicine to enhance patient care. Passionate about continuous learning, Susan has both attended classes at Midcoast Senior College as a participant and has offered her medical and nursing knowledge by teaching a course on advance directives entitled Final Gifts. Susan lives with her husband of 35 years, John, in Freeport and they enjoy following the sun during the winter months.

Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart has been a resident of Brunswick since 2009. Prior to moving to Maine, he taught health law and health policy at the University of Rochester, in New York State. He has been a practicing lawyer, a book editor, and a newsletter journalist in Washington, D.C., where he covered the U.S. Supreme Court. He is currently on the Board of Family Focus, and served on the board of the Friends of Curtis Library. He is actively involved in First Parish Church in Brunswick, where he is presently a member of the Church Council.

Bruce Hauptli

Bruce is a life-long educator who taught philosophy for forty years. He earned a BA in mathematics from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI; and a MA and PhD in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

He and his wife, Laurie, retired to Bath in 2015, and he has both taken and taught MSC courses.

Janet Kehl

Jay Kuder

M. Kelly Matzen

Craig Snapp

An enthusiasm for science and technology led Craig to a PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University. A 30-year Silicon Valley career followed, doing research, product development and management in the field of wireless semiconductor devices. Retiring to Brunswick in 2003 allowed him to spend more time in the great Maine outdoors, become an avid photographer and volunteer for a number of land conservation non-profits including being on the board of the Downeast Coastal Conservancy. He has most recently become active with the local Citizens’ Climate Lobby chapter.

Craig has enjoyed taking a variety of Midcoast Senior College courses and has taught one on “Exploring Your World and Beyond with Google Earth.”

Erv Snyder

Erv has been a resident of Brunswick since 1975. He was a lawyer with a general practice in Wiscasset (1975 – 2012).  He spent 13 years on Brunswick School Board, 4 years on Brunswick Town Council and just termed out on the Mid Coast/Parkview Hospital Board of Directors. Having served on many public building committees in Brunswick, Erv was an active member of many committees of the First Parish UCC Church in Brunswick.

Bill VanderWolk

A French teacher during his 40-year career, Bill spent the last 29 years of it at Bowdoin, retiring in 2013. He has taught courses at MSC on French literature in translation and is Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee.

David Vogt

David Vogt received his BA in Physics from Colby College and MBA at Harvard Business School. He spent 12 years at Education Development Center, a MIT spin-off including one year teaching the materials developed in a public high school, worked in nuclear radiation software modeling, and served in the U.S. Army. He has published papers, taught undergraduate filmmaking, worked on the technical and management side in software and hardware systems with a robotics focus. Other work included a Substance Abuse Group Volunteer Facilitator at SMART Recovery, a non-profit international organization. He is retired, enjoying the proximity to his family and grandchildren in Maine.

Karen Williams

Her career was in banking as Vice President Director of Internal Auditing and then as Executive Vice President of Operations for banks in Manchester, NH and then for a bank group in Illinois. She and her husband have recently moved to the Highlands in Topsham, ME to be nearer to their family. She and her husband are greatly enjoying Maine and are especially glad to have decided on the Brunswick – Topsham area for all the cultural and educational opportunities available. They have both enjoyed taking courses at Midcoast Senior College.

George Young

George graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English from Duke, and as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale. He taught Russian language and literature and general humanities at Grinnell, Dartmouth, and the University of New England. In retirement, both at OLLI in Portland and MSC in Brunswick, as both student and teacher, he has shared his long standing love of the great books, especially in  Russian and ancient classical literature. As a scholar he has written extensively on Russian literature and religious philosophy of the late Tsarist period.  His most recent book, The Russian Cosmists, is regarded as the standard work on the subject in English. In a long break from academia, he worked for twenty some years as a fine arts dealer and auctioneer, specializing in nineteenth and early twentieth century American and European paintings.  He and his wife now enjoy slow hiking, nine hole golf, children, grandchildren, and the many rich but affordable opportunities for cultural life in Brunswick.

Morton Achter

Doug Bennett

Jayne Boisvert

Raymond Boisvert

Susan Bowditch

Bob Bunselmeyer

Jim Bunting

Jim Bunting is a retired lawyer and American history instructor. He holds a BA (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Rutgers University, a JD from the University of Michigan, and a MALS degree specializing in American history, from Duke University. He has taught at Western Reserve Academy, Ohio where he was chair of the History Department and taught Advanced Placement US History and designed and implemented an elective course for seniors on Constitutional Law

Scott Burnham

Scott Burnhamis a graduate of NYU Law School. As a lawyer he practiced intellectual property law and taught the subject as a law professor for 35 years.

John Burr

John Burr is a retired journalist who has reported and served as editor-in-chief for the Jacksonville Business Journal and worked as a reporter and senior editor for the Florida Times-Union. For this course, he will draw on his long-time interest in climate issues and his experience as an environmental reporter. He has taught a continuing
education climate class at the University of North Florida and has given a presentation at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden.

Marlis Cambon

Michael Chaney

Edward Cherian

Fred Cichocki

Hugh Clark

Hugh Clark retired in 2017 after 35 years on the faculty of Ursinus College with a teaching and scholarship focus on Chinese history and culture.

Ross Crolius

Joseph Coté

Norm Curthoys

Dave Cutler

Dave Cutler is a retired U.S. Army Field Artillery Colonel, who served during the Cold War in cannon and rocket field artillery units in Korea, Germany, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After retirement from the Army, he was a federal employee in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in the Pentagon. He holds a master’s degree in International affairs and is a graduate of the U.S. Marine Corps War College.

Susan Danly

Susan Danly is an independent curator of American art with over 30 years of experience in museums across the country. Most recently she has focused on the history of Maine art and is currently a trustee of the Monhegan Museum of Art and History and consulting curator for an exhibition of Fitzgerald’s work now on view at the Monterey Museum in California.

Leona Dufour

Leona Dufour lives in Georgetown and holds a B.A. in English from Wilkes University and a M.A. in English from the University of Maryland. She taught honors and advanced placement in English at Carmel High School in Carmel, New York.

Charisse Gendron

Christos Gianopoulus

Charisse Gendron is an adjunct professor in philosophy at the University of Maine in Augusta. Fore more than 35 years he has taught courses in history, philosophy, and world religions at other branches of the University System and Maine Community Colleges. He earned a B.A. at Bowdoin College and an M.A. Political Science at American University and MPA, Public Administration, Syracuse University. 

Stuart Gillespie

Stuart Gillespie retired from a 30-year career as Director of Choral Ensembles and chair of Fine Arts at Naugatuck Valley Community College in. He began his career in music as a baritone singer with the United States 7th Army Chorus – Europe. He was the choral master of the Manchester Symphony Chorale from 1972 to 1984 and a singer of historical sea music at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT. In 1998 he received the American Choral Director Association’s “Outstanding Choral Director of Connecticut” award. He is a published composer and when not messing around with old boats, old cars or old music, he takes delight in teaching the 50 voice Midcoast Senior College Singers.

Susan F. Goran

Peter Griffin

John Hail

John Haile (B.A. Bates, M.A. Middlebury) recently retired from a career as an English teacher and administrator at Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut, Western Reserve Academy in Ohio, and Brooks School in Massachusetts.

Bruce Hauptli

Paul Kalkstein

Janet Kehl

Ann Kimmage

Dennis Kimmage

Jay Kuder

Jay Kuder has been a professor of special education at Rowan University (NJ) for over 35 years and the founder and former coordinator of the autism certificate program at the university. He has published Teaching Students with Language and Communication Disorders and numerous research articles. His current research and writing focus on college-age students with autism.

Gary Lawless

Ed Lovely

Susan Mikesell

Richard S. Neiman

Victor Papacosma

Steve Piker

Terry Porter

Dan Possumato

Stephanie Rayner

Martin Samelson

Niles Schore

Gardner Shaw

Jay Sherwin

Barbara Snapp

Craig Snapp

David Spurr

Donald Stein

Donald Stein is professor emeritus at Emory University. He has taught and done research in the field of recovery of function from brain damage for five decades and has written extensively on this topic. He is still involved in the research and development of new, safe and effective treatments for TBI, stroke and brain cancer.

Sarah Timm

David Treadwell

Bill VanderWolk

Bud Warren

Richard Welsh

Breda White

Born in Ireland, and raised and educated in the UK, Breda has  studied, lived, worked, and taught in Spain, Canada, and Bahrain.  She has a joint degree in Spanish and Linguistics from the University of Exeter, UK, and a Masters in Spanish Language and Literature from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She has taken several art history summer courses with the Courtauld Institute in London. Prior to moving to Maine, she lived in Boston and Simsbury, CT. in 1993, Breda began a 29-year academic career at Portland’s Waynflete School, teaching Spanish, French, and Art History, then moving over to college advising, becoming the schools Associate Director of college counseling. She developed a cycle of six Art History electives, ranging from Mediaeval Architecture to 20th century Modernism. During Covid, she also developed a series of architectural history lectures for Portland’s Victoria Mansion.  Breda and her husband, David, share a love of choral singing and sing in the Choral Art Singers and Masterworks choirs, and in Renaissance Voices. Now re-retired, Breda is a VP  of the Portland Symphony orchestra, an active volunteer docent at Victoria Mansion in Portland, and an avid cook!

Bob Williams

George Young