Art Teacher Extraordinaire Retiring

Congratulations, Ms. Snider, and thank you!

“LOVE WHAT YOU DO AND NEVER STOP LEARNING ABOUT WAYS YOU CAN ENGAGE STUDENTS!”

While reading Janie Snider’s reflections below you will understand who she is and the impact she has had, not only on her elementary and middle school students, but the adults in her life also. Janie is a gem whom I’m certain will be missed in her daily teaching role. I’m confident that she will continue to make a difference in this world through her interactions with others as she enjoys her retirement. Thank you Janie for your service to the field of education! I know the blog readers join me in wishing you the very best in your retirement.

Last week of school, Hancock Grammar School

IN JANIE’S WORDS…

I have been teaching for 30 years. My first ten years teaching were in SAD#37 including Columbia Falls, Millbridge, Cherryfield, Harrington, and Addison. I started as a long-term art substitute, then as a kindergarten teacher and the following year as the art teacher. In 2002 I started teaching at Hancock Grammar School, where I spent the last 20 years. As a result of consolidation, I also taught art at Lamoine Consolidated for four years from 2011-2015. I received a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, K-8 from University of Maine, Machias and K-12 Visual Arts Certification.

My favorite part of teaching is building the most wonderful relationships with students that revolve around art making! Painting is my favorite discipline. Guiding students through color exploration and expression is so rewarding.

Cherryfield School – notice all the art styles included?

It has been quite the journey from when I was a young itinerant art teacher. I remember being so overwhelmed in my early years; five schools, 600 students and all the different challenges. In year three I was considering giving it up. I was feeling isolated and unsure of my impact on students. Then one day as I was introducing landscape to third graders I learned that I was! As I explained the horizon line, a little boy who normally didn’t participate suddenly started waving his hand, so I called on him. He was so excited to have made this connection, he said, “I saw it this weekend when I was on the lobster boat with my Dad, there it was and I knew it had something to do with art!!!” From that moment on, I never questioned my ability to connect students with the wonders of art in their world. It was my inspirational moment. Nature is my inspiration for my own work and it easily found it’s way into my lessons!

I have seen many changes in education and art education over the years. I truly believe that being included in the “Maine Learning Results” gave validity to arts education. However, it was challenging to keep up with the interpretation of standards that serve as guidance in developing strong arts programming. I was fortunate to have been an active part of this process, a member of the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI, now MAEPL), a local leader, and advocate for arts education. All of which helped me tremendously with meeting students needs! As a result of my work, I was recognized as the 2014 Maine Middle School Art Teacher by the Maine Art Education Association. This was a very important time in affirming my career. Representing Maine and attending the National Art Education Association conference in New Orleans was a definite highlight!

Another huge change is how technology has developed and changed the art curriculum, this boggles my mind. I started my career without using any technology and in 2020 developed an online art curriculum for remote learning.

Three things that are really key to a successful art program are:

• KNOW your students, develop a relationship with them!! Listen to them!!
• SHOW your passion for your profession!! Be creative in your approach!!
• GO WITH THE FLOW, be flexible, be current with best practices and meet students where they are!

Janie in her classroom at Hancock Grammar School

I am most proud of my ability to guide students and help them understand and appreciate art in education and the world. I recently received a message from a former student who was in Washington DC at the National Gallery and was thinking back to the many lessons she learned in my classes. She thanked me for that. I have many young adults that have reconnected with me and shared their fond memories in art! 

Looking into my crystals ball….My advice to teachers is “LOVE WHAT YOU DO AND NEVER STOP LEARNING ABOUT WAYS YOU CAN ENGAGE STUDENTS!” 

K-8 mural, D.W. Merritt Elementary School, Addison. Kindergarten students started at the bottom and the mural grew as each grade contributed.

Stay curious, involved and be a life long learner. Take classes and reach out to others in your area of expertise, they are a gift!

I have come to realize that I was supposed to be an art teacher. So I guess the innate ability to teach was there, I just needed to become aware of it. I knew early on I had some artistic talent and wanted to be an artist. However, life happened and that dream had to be on hold. So I learned a lot of teaching skills over the years that helped me in my work! I’m still learning more about my work through my reflection. I am hopeful that during retirement I will rediscover that innate “art-self” that will bring my life-long dream into being.

Hancock Grammar School

I plan to make time for me and my art! I plan to take art classes, garden, read, travel with my honey and spend time with family and friends. I have grandkids that I am excited to have more time with!❤️ I know me and I am always busy, so my goal is to slow down just a bit and smell the roses!!

If I was given $500,000….definitely, buy a camper to continue my trips to the national parks. Contribute to my grandkids education fund and invest in my community arts programming! 

I hope to be 94 and looking back!! My mom made it to 93 and we had a conversation about regrets before she passed. No regrets here, I have lived a good life, learned many lessons to carry me into the present! I have listened to my intuition and followed my heart, which is full of love!!❤️

Janie painting, home studio

Music Teacher Extraordinaire Retiring

Congratulations, Mrs. Murphy and thank you!

“I love helping students find their voices.“

Kim Murphy has been teaching music for the last 34 years and is retiring this month. She’s one of those teachers who I thought would never retire since she has a ton of energy and is totally engaged in every aspect of teaching. She has high expectations for herself and her students. Kim always has a smile on her face and her laughter is contagious! I’m certain that she will be missed! (You can learn something about Kim’s humor by the most of the photos below and the embedded links, be sure and click on the center capitalized titles to see the videos).

Kim started teaching grades 6-12 Choral and General Music at Oak Hill High School, Sabattus, Litchfield and Wales. Shortly afterward the position changed and she taught Band and Chorus, grades 9-12 at Oak Hill High School. She took a sabbatical in 1996-97 and then moved to Lincolnville. For the last 25 years she has taught at the high school, Camden-Rockport High School for 3 years and when the new high school opened, Camden Hills Regional High School (CHRHS), she has taught there. Earlier in her music career she worked as a music therapist in Peapack, NJ and Bethlehem, PA.

Kim was a double major and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education and Music Therapy. She is a Nationally Board Certified teacher.

What has been your favorite part of teaching?                                                                                                                       

• I love helping students find their voices. Find their self-confidence through singing. I love it when someone has a solo – and other people never realized what a beautiful voice that person has.  And then there is just the self-confidence in getting up and singing before a large crowd – whether in a small group or a large group. There are life lessons – the teamwork is necessary. 
• I love music festivals – where students from different schools come together to create works of beauty. It’s SO different from sports – where someone is always the winner and someone is always the loser. With music festivals – the competition has already happened (through auditions) and the coming together to create a concert in 2 – 3 days is a wonderful way to build connections.
• And then of course – I love musicals!

Tell the readers about a moment in your teaching career that has been unforgettable? 

• Well – there are many.  But a recent one is…. During the 2020-21 school year, I had the FIRST tent up!  And my tent was the FIRST to blow away! UNDER THE TENT!

And there she blows!

What changes have you experienced during your teaching career that have been positive and/or negative?

• I think it’s great that kids can take so many AP courses – and get college credit. Yet this (adding of AP classes to schedules) has really hurt music programs in that the schedule and time for Band and Chorus is getting squeezed out. And also – is it healthy for a student to have so many AP classes?
• In a positive manner, I think students are more assertive; they self-advocate for what they need in education; education is now –  less “top down” instruction and more collaboration.

YESTERDAY!

What do you think are three keys to ANY successful music ed program? 

• Know your students, be genuine in your care for them
• Flexibility and creativity – learn to work with schedule changes, or things that happen that throw your carefully written plans out the window
• Plan, plan, plan 
• And (a 4^th!) have a sense of humor!

What are you most proud of in your career?

When I was hired at CRHS I said that my personal 10 yr goal was to have the strongest choral program in the State of Maine. We are lucky – we have fantastic community support. I think – with the numbers of students that have been accepted to District III, All State, All Eastern and National festivals over the years – I think that it has been one of the strongest choral programs in the State. Unfortunately – right now – due to Covid and other challenges – the Chorus program is not as strong (in numbers) and that breaks my heart. You have to have the numbers.

Who influenced your work as a teacher or perhaps inspired you?

Charlie Seymour and Steve Moro

Look into your crystal ball: what advice would you give to teachers?

Teaching is the hardest and best profession. There are days when you will want to cash in your chips early – don’t! Hold on. Your students learn more from your daily attitude and mindset than you realize. As a teacher – you teach a subject area – but it’s the character that you bring into the classroom that has the lasting educational benefit.

IT’S TIME TO SING!

How much of what you do is learned skills and how much is innate?

Wow – that’s an interesting question. I come from a family of teachers – so I think that was how we grew up. So – teaching comes naturally. I was going to be either an English or Math teacher. Those subjects come easily to me (well….not Math anymore – ha ha). But Music didn’t come easily. I had to work at it. I had to make it look easy. But – because I had to work at my music skills so hard, that made me a better teacher – because I could understand why kids were struggling, and I could break it down into smaller chunks for them to understand.

I’VE GOT MY OWN TENT!

What does retirement look like for you?

Exciting and Terrifying.  I have an Air BNB business at my house, which I LOVE to do – and hope to be able to grow that – especially in the shoulder seasons (when I would have been at school). I’m connecting with community theater and music groups – because that is my passion. I do a lot of work with my church – and hope to be able to volunteer more with places like AIO food pantry (food and energy assistance for citizens of Knox county) or other social programs. And finally – I will fly to CA (whenever I damn well please) to see my son!

If you were given $500,000.00 to do with whatever you please, what would it be?

I would create a theater program for kids – especially kids who struggle in life.  

Imagine you are 94 years old. You’re looking back, do you have any regrets?

I hope not!  You have to live in the moment and enjoy each beautiful step.

The concert photos in this blog post were taken by Marti Stone Photography.

Happy Retirement

Maine is fortunate to have such marvelous arts educators!

We know that what a teacher offers can have an enormous impact on student development day to day AND over their lifetime. As educators retire at the close of another school year, 2018-2019, I invite you to join me in THANKING them for their years of service and dedication to students across the state.

I certainly appreciate your commitment and I wish each of you a healthy retirement and many, many years of laughter and love! Yahooooooo!

The following visual and performing educators have contributed a combined 371+ years to teaching visual and/or performing arts education!

• ANGELIKA BLANCHARD, Manchester School and Windham Primary, Visual Arts
• DAWN BODEN, RSU#3 Unity/Thorndike, Elementary Music, 35 years
• JOY DREW, Wentworth School, Scarborough, Music, 27 years
• VICKY MORGAN-FICKETT, York Middle School, Visual Arts, 15 years
• MARY GANNAWAY, Elementary Music, Sanford, 43 years
• SUE NELSON, Elementary Music, 21 years
• NANCY NEUBERT, Sanford Junior High School, General Music and Chorus, 39 years
• WENDY SCHLOTTERBECK, Leavitt Area High School, Visual Arts, 34 years
• CAROL SLADE, SAD #17, Elementary Visual Arts, 20 years
• BONNIE TAYLOR, K-4 Falmouth, Visual Arts, 23 years
• RICK OSANN, Bonny Eagle High School, Theatre and Visual Arts, 15 years
• LISA MARIN, PreK-12 Moosabec Community School District and Union #103, Gifted and Talented Coordinator and Visual Arts, 23 years
• JIM SMALL, Madison High School, Visual Arts, 38 years
• VANESSA WHITE-CAPELLUTI, Wells High School, Visual Arts, 38 years

If you  know of a teacher who is not on this list please be sure and email me at meartsed@gmail.com with the information and I’d be glad to add them. Thanks!

Happy Retirement!

Maine is fortunate to have such marvelous educators!

We know that what a teacher offers can have an enormous impact on student development day to day AND over their lifetime. As educators retire at the close of another school year, 2017-18, I know that you join me in THANKING them for their years of service and dedication to students across the state.

I certainly appreciate your commitment and I wish each of you a healthy retirement and many, many years of laughter and love!

The following have contributed a combined 483+ years to teaching visual or performing arts education!

• VICKI BOVE, Gorham Middle School, Visual Arts, 40 years
• FLO ESINGER, SAD l5, Visual Arts, ? years
• ALLEN GRAFFAM, Mt. Ararat High School, Music, 42 years
• KATIE HALL, Falmouth Elementary School, Visual Arts, 24 years
• PHIL HAMMET, Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, Visual Arts, 16 years
• JULIE KLEHN, Waterboro Elementary School, Visual Arts, 31 years
• STEPHANIE LEONARD, Fairmount School, Bangor, Visual Arts, 25 years
• ANNE MACEACHERN, Sanford Junior High School, Visual Arts, 40 years
• JENNI NULL, Songo Locks Elementary School, Music, 40 years
• SAM MOORE-YOUNG, Carrie Ricker School, Litchfield, Music, 32 years
• BEVERLY PACHECO, South School, Rockland, Music, 36 years
• CANDACE PARKER, Lee Academy, Theatre Arts, 22 years
• MARYELLEN SCHAPER, Bonny Eagle Middle School, Dance and PE, 42 years
• CAROL SHUTT, Mount Desert Island Elementary School, Visual Arts, 22 years
• KATHI SUSI, Pittston Consolidated School, Gardiner, Visual Arts, 28 years
• THEO VAN DEVENTER, Mt. View Middle School, Thorndike, Music, 43 years
• Flo Eslinger, who is retiring from elementary visual art after serving SAD

A wonderful note from Ann MacEachern on her retirement from Sanford Junior High School after 40 years:

“I’ll miss the chance to interact with kids as they discover talents they didn’t know they had. The outliers, the experimenters and the endearingly quirky denizens of the art room have made most days a joy. 

Retirement will give me a chance to reorder my priorities: more family time (I have 5 grandchildren), my OWN art projects need attention, traveling adventures, live music venues, environmental concerns, sorting years of accumulation to make space for new blessings… the list goes on. 

To ARTS teachers everywhere: Keep pushing for expansion ARTS time in school schedules, physical space in school buildings and fewer students per art teacher. The world needs creative problem solving now more than ever!”

Happy Retirement!

Maine is fortunate to have such marvelous educators!

We know that what a teacher offers can have an enormous impact on student development day to day AND over their lifetime. As educators retire at the close of another school year, 2016-17, I know that you will join me in THANKING them for their years of service and dedication to students across the state. I certainly appreciate the commitment from the following educators and I wish each of you a healthy retirement and many, many years of laughter and love!

• LINDA BABB, RSU#25, Bucksport, visual art, 47 years
• SUE BOISVERT, Scarborough, music
• JIM BROWN, China Middle School, music. 16+ years
• MARY DEVENNEY, Erskine Academy, visual art, 18 wonderful years
• DEBBIE DiGREGORIO, C.K. Burns School, Saco, visual art, 32 years
• WES FRANKLIN, Greely High School, visual art, 35 years
• PAUL GREENSTONE, Lake Region High School + other schools over the years, music, 40+ years of teaching
• SUSAN HANSON, Blue Point and Eight Corners School, grades K-2, visual art, 31 years
• KENNETH JONES, North Haven Community School, grades K-12, visual art, dance, theater, 24 years
• MARGIE LANDIS, Mt. Ararat High School, music, 30 years
• BETH LIBBY, Wentworth School, grades 3-5, visual art, 36 years
• ROBERT HELSTROM, Hodgdon, music
• CHERYL McGOWAN, Skowhegan Area Middle School, music, 36 very full years
• BETTY MCINTYRE, Windham High School, music, 32 years
• PAUL SCHNELL, George E. Jack and Edna Libby Schools in Standish (SAD/RSU 6), incredible music teacher, 40 years
• JOYCE St. PIERRE, Sanford Schools, elementary visual art, 40 years
• SARAH STUART, Mattanawcook Junior High School, Lincoln, visual art, 40 years
• PAM TURCOTTE, Winthrop Grade School, visual art, 37 years
• Wes Franklin, Visual Art, Greely High School, 35 years

Together these teachers have taught for over 500 years! WOWZER! If you or someone you know is not on the list and retiring please email me and I’d be glad to add them to the list. Thanks!

In and email from Joyce St. Pierre

Art in a room, from a box going floor to floor and room to room, on a cart and in a beautiful art room….all my experiences.

Taught from 6 to 12 classes a day, in 4 to 7 buildings a week, in 22 schools located by lakes, in mountains, towns and cities!

Students ranged from pre-K to K – 6, HS, college, adult ed, and an alternative school.

It’s been fun, frustrating, exhilarating, challenging, expected and unexpected…all over and more…

I’ve worked with some of the best people in the world!

Wouldn’t have changed a thing.

In an email from Kenneth Jones

I have been the k-12 Visual Art teacher from 1998 to 2010 and since then I’ve taught Visual Art k-4 and 9-12. During the entire time I was also the k-12 Physical Education teacher from 1993-2017. Inside of the P.E. job I’ve leaned heavily on my BFA in Dance and Theater. I choreographed all of the John Wulp productions on North Haven (including “Islands”) and produced a Circus Arts presentation every other year for the past twelve years that is full of dance. Every three years I’ve led an “Empty Bowls” fund raiser- focused on a different food bank in Maine or in the world.

Janis (my wife and the k-12 French teacher at NHCS) are off to Durres, Albania where she has accepted a job teaching 2-8 French and TEFL English on the high school level at the Albanian College- Durres. I’ve been promised that they will find a way to keep me busy. I’m taking my bike so I will, very happily, peddle Albania .

Thank you for all of your support over the years. I have benefited tremendously from the conferences I have attended over the years. They serve such an important role for any teachers in isolated positions. I remember your journey to North Haven when North Haven was recognized for Excellence in the Arts. As I recall, it was a bit of a sloppy day on the water!

It has been quite a run on the island but we are both excited for this next adventure.

Happy Retirement

Maine is fortunate!

We know that what a teacher offers can have an enormous impact on students development day to day AND over their lifetime. As educators retire at the close of another school year, 2015-16, I know that you will join me in THANKING them for their years of service and dedication to students across the state. Maine appreciates the commitment of the following educators and wish you well and many healthy years of laughter!

Combined the following have taught for 503+ years. HAPPY RETIREMENT!

• BETSY ALLEN-McPHEDRAN, Visual Art, RSU #38, 29 years of service
• SARAH BARNUM, K-6 Visual Art, Augusta School Department, 30 years of service
• PIPER BOLDUC, Visual Art, Old Orchard Beach High School, 37 years of service
• LISE DUNN, Music, Mast Landing School, Freeport, 42 years of service
• MARY DYER, Visual Art, Winthrop High School,  40+ years of service
• ELAINE FLETCHER, Visual Art, Harrison Middle School, 30 years of service
• JULIE HAYES, Visual Art, Vine Street School, Bangor, 31 years of service
• KATY HELMAN, Visual Art, Deer Isle Stonington High School, 18 years of service
• KIM KRAMP, K-8 Visual Art, Conners Emerson School, Bar Harbor, 35 years of service
• JOHN NEAL, Music, Oak Hill High School, 38 years of service
• DIANE NOBLE, K-6 Visual Art, Saco Schools, 38 years of service
• BLAISE SPATH, Music, Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, 33 years of service
• BETH WHITNEY, Music, Woolwich Central School, 34.3 years of service
• ROGER WHITNEY, Music, Wiscasset Schools, 35 years of service
• LINDA THORNDIKE WILLIAMS, Visual Art, Berwick Schools, 33 years of service

If you know of others retiring this year who are not on the list please email me at argy.nestor@maine.gov so I can add them to the list.

Congratulations and THANKS to our Retirees

Maine is fortunate!

We know that what a teacher offers can have an enormous impact on students development day to day AND over their lifetime. As educators retire at the close of another school year, 2015-16, I know that you will join me in THANKING them for their years of service and dedication to students across the state. Maine appreciates your commitment and we wish you well and many healthy years of laughter!

Combined the following have taught for 583 + years. HAPPY RETIREMENT!

• BRIAN HUTCHINSON, Winslow, Band: 42 years of service
• VENNICE HUTCHINSON, Winslow, Vocal Music: 38 years of service
• SUE SCANLON, Mattanawcook Academy, Lincoln, Visual Arts: 43 years of service
• FRANK CHIN, SAD 54, Visual Arts: 38 years of service
• ELLEN NORTON, King Middle School, Visual Arts: 44 years of service
• SUE OLMSTED, Durham Elementary, Music
• ROBIN KENISON, Bath Middle School, Music: 34 years of service
• HOLLY SMITH, Rockland High School, Visual Arts: 31 years of service
• KAL ELMORE, Bangor High School, Visual Arts: 26 years of service
• EDIE GRENIER, MSAD #20 Fort Fairfield, Visual Arts: 36.53 years of service
• JUDY BABBIDGE, Connor Conslidated School (EUT), Music
• ALISON BRENNAN, Calais High School, Music: 38 years of service
• BONNY COX, RSU50-K-12, Music: 21 years of service
• CAROL SHUMWAY, Mt. Blue High School, Music: 27 years of service
• KAREN RENTON, Yarmouth, Music: 34 years of service
• ANN DILLON, Greeley Middle School, Music: 29 + 14 years of service
• WANDA WHITENER, Tremont School, Music: 38 years of service
• DEB GRABBER, Granite Street School, Millinocket, Art: 10 years of service
• CAM WEIR, Yarmouth Elementary School, Art: 40 years of service

Happy Retirement!

CONGRATULATIONS and BEST WISHES!

Best Wishes to the following for a wonderful – happy and healthy retirement. Combined they have contributed over 350 years of teaching visual or performing arts to students across the state of Maine. Their expertise and commitment to education is appreciated and I am certain their students will miss them! Never to be taken away from them, or the districts they have served, is the impact they have made on students education in the arts. THANK YOU all! I hope you will continue to be involved in arts education in Maine by providing me (argy.nestor@maine.gov) with an email address to continue to be on the Maine arts education list-serv. May your days be filled with sunshine wherever your journey takes you!

• Pat Reed – East End Community School, Portland, Visual Art, 27 years
• Penny Appleby – Leavitt Area High School, Performing Arts, 40 years
• Dianne Anderson – Traip Academy, Kittery, Visual Art, 20 years
• Jonathan Smith – Oxford Hills Elementary School, Music, 28 years
• Nancy Capone – Lake Region School District, Music, 25 years
• Marta Robbins – James F. Doughty School, Bangor, Visual Art, 28 years
• Charlene Farnham – Searsport District Middle & High School, Music, 40 years
• Jack Clifford – RSU 19, Music,
• Mark Schumpert – RSU 19, Music,
• David Kent – Windham, Music,
• Kath Hartley – Bangor High School, Visual Art, 25 years
• Deborah Jellison – Mary Snow School, Bangor, Visual Art, 27 years
• Helena Bosse – Dr Lewis Libby School, Milford, Visual Art, 20 years
• Sybil Wentworth – MSAD 40, Elementary Music, 39 years
• Marianne Tibbetts – Augusta, Elementary Music, 35 years
• Ann Stepp – Portland, Music
• Robert Helstrom – Fort Fairfield, Music, 11 years
• Sandra Irwin – Tremont School, Visual Art
• Chris Prickitt – Dexter Schools, SAD46, Music
• Nancy Curran – South Portland, Music

Please note that some of these teachers started their careers in other schools/districts but the one listed is where they are retiring from this year.

Happy Retirement!

THANK YOU!

The following arts educators are retiring this year. I appreciate your contributions and years of dedication to educate students in the arts. Congratulations on your retirement!

• Jay Hoagland, Belfast Area High School, visual arts – 25+ years
• Sarah Tabor, Bangor High School, visual arts – 28 years
• Pat Craig, Hampden Academy, visual arts – 34 years
• Carlene Hirsch, Bangor High School, theater
• Gail Dufour, East End Elementary Schools, Portland, music – 26.9
• Mark Nordli, Deering High School, Portland, music – 30.9 years
• Denis Drobinski, Nathan Clifford School and Portland High School, music – 35.9
• Judy Mason, Ella Lewis School, Peninsula School, RSU 24, visual arts – 14 years
• Rush Brown, Sanford High School, visual arts – 21 years
• Joyce Jack, Bonny Eagle Middle School, music – 37 years
• Jennie Morrison, Cony, Augusta, visual arts – 35 years
• Linda Stearns, Songo Locks School, Naples, visual arts – 40 years
• Tom Block, Wiscasset High School, visual arts – 37 years
• Linda Stanley, Westbrook High School, visual arts – 37 years
• Jean Shorey, Canal Elementary School, Westbrook, visual arts – 27 years
• Martha Michaud, Madawaska, music – 35
• Kathy Keene, Hall School, Waterville, visual arts – 22 years
• Brenda Angotti, Millinocket, music – 38 years
• Iris Fields, Harmony, music – 40 years
• Patti English, Winthrop, music – 24 years
• Ginny Hallowell, Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast, visual arts – 26 years
• Lucille Hussey, Massebesic Middle School, visual arts – 35 years
• Debbie Chappell, Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School, visual arts
• Katherine Snow, Brunswick High School, visual arts – 40+
• Ronnie Decker, Leavitt High School, Turner, visual arts – 23 years

There may be others retiring that I am not aware of! If you or a colleague of yours is retiring from teaching please let me know. Thank you!

Rush Brown, Sandford High School

Linda Stanley, Westbrook High School

Jean Shorey, Westbrook

Iris Fields, Harmony

Carlene Hirsch, Bangor High School

Tom Block, Wiscasset

Joyce Jack, Bonny Eagle