William Zoellick, Chair

Bill Zoellick is the CFO and Education Research Director for Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute, a non-profit organization that partners with Acadia National Park. He works with scientists, teachers, students, educational researchers, foundations, and donors to support research at Acadia and to engage students and teachers in that research. He has a B.A. and an M.A.ed. from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana and a M.A .in Accounting and Financial Management from the Keller Graduate School.

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Margot Kelley, Vice Chair

Margot Anne Kelley is an educator, artist, and advocate. After earning a Ph.D. in American Literature from Indiana University, Margot taught English at the college level for more than a decade. She then returned to graduate school, earned an M.F.A. in Media and Performing Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and began teaching photography and art theory as well as actively pursuing her own art projects. Now, she blends those interests in her position as Interim Director of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, where she is also an Associate Professor of Critical Theory.  Those efforts counterpoint her work as a founding trustee for the K2 Family Foundation, which is committed to promoting science-based art projects, increased access to education, and creative approaches to environmental sustainability. Margot and her husband, Robert, live on the St. George peninsula in mid-coast Maine.

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Donald Foster, Treasurer

Donald A Foster is President of Evergreen Solutions, LLC that specializes in management and financial consulting, strategic planning, project management and process improvement primarily in the private sector. 

Mr. Foster grew up near Machias Maine and graduated from the University of Maine, Machias (B.S. Education 1965). He served as an Officer in the US Army from 1967-1987. He earned an M.S. in Government Contracting from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1976; Rotary wing aviator qualification (1969-1970); Armed Forces Staff College (1981-1982); Defense Systems Management College (1982). He held various positions around the world and finished his military career as the Project Manager for the UH-1 helicopter systems, Aviation Systems Command, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Mr. Foster's professional career includes positions as Executive Vice President/General Manager and President/Chief Executive officer of R.H. Foster Energy LLC, (a full line energy distributor) 1987-2001.

Other professional positions include: Board chair, Machias Savings Bank; President, Maine Council, Atlantic Salmon Federation (focus on salmon habitat restoration and conservation); Trustee, Unity Foundation; Corporator, Cole Foundation; Machias Rotary Club; member Ralph Pollard Lodge, Orrington, Maine Anah Temple Shrine.Mr. Foster is an avid fly fisherman, tennis player, skier and gardener.

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Stephen Mulkey holds a B.S. in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife and an M.A. in Biology and Ecology, both from the University of Missouri. His Ph.D. in Biology and Ecology is from the University of Pennsylvania. His scientific research includes ecosystems spanning the globe and he is recognized for research and program development relevant to climate change. He is the current President of Unity College..

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Martha Dolben is Executive Director of the African Food and Peace Foundation, a U.S. non-profit organization that supports the work of Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme and its African Rural University (ARU) for women. Martha also works to advance the effectiveness of small women’s learning and leadership circles, in college and beyond. Her poetry and other writings explore the disciplines of intimacy, friendship, and ethical will. She was awarded the Women’s Environmental Leadership (WE Lead) Unity College Environmental Leader Award in March 2008.

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William T. Hafford `08   

Will is a 2008 graduate of Unity College currently pursuing his doctorate at Antioch New England in Keene, NH. He received a B.S. in Adventure Education Leadership and Adventure Therapy and while a student at the College served on the Board during the two years he performed the duties as President of the Student Government Association.

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Jim is the Director of the Learning Resource Center, Professor of Developmental Studies at Unity College. He has been a community member of Unity Barn Raisers and Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA). He received a M.A. in Education and a B.S. Rehabilitation Services from the University of Connecticut. 

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  Sally is a past parent whose son Sam attended Unity for two years before transferring. Since his transfer, both have remained actively engaged with Unity College. Sally currently serves on several boards including National Audubon Society and is personally committed to the environmental and community mission of the College.

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 Robert T. Kelley is an entrepreneur, technologist, and humanist. He is a is a Founding Partner of LiquidHub, a global systems integrator and technology consultancy. He has helped found and run technology startups and mentored and invested in a variety of early stage companies. Rob received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and his Masters and Doctorate from Indiana University, where he investigated the cultural implications of virtual reality. 
 

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Amy, a senior majoring in Environmental Policy, came to Unity College from Exeter, New Hampshire. She is currently serving as Student Government Association President. Some of her interests include running and biking.

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Jeff is a 2000 graduate of Unity College with a B.S. in Environmental Education. He is currently the Director of Lake George Regional Park in Skowhegan, ME and is serving his second term in the Maine House of Representatives representing District 85. Jeff serves on the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee. While a student at the College he served on the Board during the two years he performed the duties as President of the Student Government Association.

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Mac McCabe (properly named Frederic C. McCabe, Jr.) was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of two public school teachers. He went to Phillips Academy, Andover, received a B.A. in Economics from Case Western Reserve University, and received an MBA from Harvard University in 1971

His original work was in department store retailing and clothing manufacturing, and in 1975 he moved to Maine to become the Merchandise Manager at L. L. Bean, where he spent seven years with management positions ranging from Director of Merchandising to Director of Retail and Special Sales. In 1982, he left Maine to take over all of the businesses at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He was responsible for retail operations, mail order, publishing, graphics and design and rights and reproductions.

He returned to Maine in 1985 to work as a solo management consultant, and in 1989 he committed to devoting 100% of his work to the socially responsible business world, both as a consultant and interim CEO. His consulting clients included over 20 of these businesses. He also served as General Manager of Northeast Cooperatives (the original wholesale grocer in New England for the natural foods world); as CEO of Eileen Fisher, an upscale and progressive women’s clothing manufacturer in Irvington, New York; and as General Manager of the Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, New York, which is renowned in the urban economic development world. Greyston employs former convicts, addicts and homeless people, and their primary product is the brownies that go into Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream (60 employees and 7,000 pounds of brownies a day!).

In 1997, Gary Hirshberg, the CEO of Stonyfield Farm yogurt, asked Mac to become his co-founder of O’Naturals, to this day the only natural and organic quick service restaurant chain in the country, based in Portland. The company not only serves strictly natural and organic meals but also embraces green design and architectural practices and a healthy relationship with employees in what is often considered the ghetto of the employment world. O’Naturals has three of its own restaurants and the beginning of national franchising. Most recently, O’Naturals has signed a master franchise agreement with the Compass Group, the largest foodservice in the world, for exclusive rights for restaurants and food stations to colleges and universities, hospitals and business and industry settings.

Mac is blissfully married to Dr. Kaitlin Briggs, Associate Director for Honors Writing and Research at the University of Southern Maine. Between them they have four adult daughters and have recently been blessed with their first grandchild, Thelonius. During the precious moments when he can escape from the restaurant world, Mac loves to row his peapod around Winnegance Bay in West Bath.

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Nadine Mort is a Special Education Consultant with over thirty years experience in the public and private sector specialization in Specific Leaning Disabilities, Emotional Disturbance and Autism in young adults.  She has extensive experience facilitating Educational Workshops and as a Master Mentor with the Extended Learning Project, Council for Exceptional Children and CHAD. She is the co-founder, with her husband Greg Mort, of The Art of Stewardship Project a foundation that supports and encourages environmental awareness through the arts. Her community volunteer involvement includes serving on the current boards of trustees of the Sandy Spring Museum, Unity College, The Montauro Group, and the Night Sky Conservation Foundation. Former board participation includes the Montgomery General Hospital, Montgomery General Hospital Women’s Board, George’s River Land Trust and Rising Stars. She presently serves on the advisory council of Circle of Blue.

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John Newlin

John is the Executive Director of Maine International Center for Digital Learning. He’s worked in education since 1984 as both teacher and as a school change facilitator . He received his MS Teaching in Environmental Studies from Antioch NE and his B.A. in Political Science and Certificate in Global Studies from the University of Iowa.

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Bruce is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Bangor Savings Bank. He’s a Maine native and a Maine-licensed CPA with over 25 years of financial institutions experience. Bruce also serves on the Advisory Board of CEI Ventures, Inc., the Board of the Bangor Region Development Alliance, the Board of the Bangor YMCA and as the Treasurer of The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation. A graduate of the University of Maine with a B.S. in Business Administration, Bruce resides in Brewer with his wife Sharon and their three daughters Jordan, Hannah and Gabrielle.

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Robert Pollis holds a BS and an MA in Economics from the Univeristy of Maine in Orono. Pollis began his career in banking in 1972 and has held the position of Senior Vice President at Key Corporate Capital since 1997. In addition to serving on the Board of Trustees at Unity College, his past and current civic and community service includes serving on the Board of Directors of Campfire, softball coach for the Cumberland Recreation League, Parish Council for Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Treasurer of the Toe of the Boot Landowners Association. An avid outdoorsman, Pollis enjoys hiking, fishing, canoeing, boating and gardening.

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William Roesing

Bill is former president of Campaign Planning Inc. a political consulting firm. He recently retired to Camden, ME where he is working on a book and is actively engaged in the community. During his career, he worked with several high-level political candidates including Governor Pete DuPont, Senator Howard Baker, and Newt Gingrich and was an advisor to the Seagram family.

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Arlene Constable Schaefer was born in Unity, Maine to the late George and Florine Constable, and graduated from Unity High School where she was active in music, basketball, softball, and taught swimming at the Kanokolus Beach for six summers. Arlene graduated from Pennsylvania State University, with a BS degree in elementary education, and from American Airlines Stewardess College, Ft.Worth, Texas. She met her husband, Charles A. Schaefer, an officer in the USAF, while they were both working in the Washington, DC area.

Arlene taught school in East Orange, New Jersey, Fairfax County, Virginia, Stuttgart, Germany, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Unity, Maine. She participated in Air Force officers’ wives clubs and many community events when her husband was in the military. While in the Air Force they lived in Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Germany.

Arlene and her family moved back to Unity, Maine in the summer of 1990 where she has been active in church, and church choirs, Rotary, Unity Barn Raisers, Vibrant Community Project, Unity Historical Society, Garden Club, Friends of Unity Wetlands, and is a director on the board of the Friends of Lake Winnecook. Her hobbies are traveling with her husband, gardening and she is an avid genealogist. She is the mother of three grown children and has eight grandchildren.

Gloria M. Sosa has been a Project Manager in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Region II Emergency and Remedial Response Division (Superfund) in New York City since 1987. Gloria coordinates the cleanup of inactive hazardous wastes sites in Niagara Falls and on Long Island, New York, including the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.

Gloria has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Unity College in Maine (1980) and a Master of Science in Applied Science from New York University (1986).

Gloria resides in Sea Cliff, New York, a small town on the Long Island Sound where she is an avid kayaker, triathlete and hiker. Her husband, George O. Williams, a physicist, is the professor of Science at the Webb Institute for Naval Architecture in Glen Cove, New York. Gloria is a member of the board of trustees of the Long Island Shetland Sheepdog Rescue, an organization that has rescued a sheltie per week for the last ten years.

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Robert M. Tonge received his BA in History, Government and Economics from Colby College in 1949. He worked as a sales representative for Gerber Products from 1949-51. From there, he worked for Maxon, Inc. in advertising and marketing from 1951-55. In 1955, Mr. Tonge became a partner in the investment firm Smith & Company. He was with the firm until 1975, when he founded R.M. Tonge Company based in Waterville, Maine. He continues to be a partner today.

Mr. Tonge is a current member of the Unity College Board of Trustees and has been since 1991. He currently is Chair of the Investment Committee and serves on the Student Life Committee and the Executive Committee. His past committee assignments included Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee from 1994-97 and Chair of the Business Committee from 1997-98. He served as Treasurer of the Board from 1997-98, then as Chairman of the Board from 1998-99.

Since 1956, Mr. Tonge has been a member of the Waterville Rotary Club. He served as Treasurer from 1965-68, then as President from 1968-69. In 1990, Mr. Tonge was awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship by the Rotary Club International.

Mr. Tonge currently resides in Waterville with his wife, Muriel. They have been married since 1949 and have three sons: Robert, James and Richard.

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 Travis, a Unity College alum, currently is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine. His research focus is on sustainable material use with a focus on innovative policy approaches to maximize waste prevention of electronic waste and fluorescent lighting. Travis has published many books and peer-reviewed journal articles and presented nationally and internationally on sustainable material use and active learning–based pedagogy in environmental science. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a private consultant and as a government contractor in Washington, DC, supporting environmental policy and management projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and the U.S. Army.

Travis is a 1983 graduate of Unity College with a B.S. in environmental science. He received his Ph.D. in environmental and natural resource policy from The George Washington University and his M.P.P. in environmental policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at Unity College, Travis was President of the Student Government Association and co-captain of the lacrosse team.

Travis resides in Portland with his wife Amelia Randolph and enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, canoeing, playing saxophone and enjoying the gourmet delights of Portland.

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C. Jeffery Wahlstrom

Jeff Wahlstrom brings more than 25 years of hands-on, nonprofit leadership experience to his position as President and Managing Director of Starboard Leadership Consulting, including 12 years of fundraising and related work for Kimball Union Academy and Trinity College and 11 years as president of the United Way of Eastern Maine. Since joining, in 2005, with the law firm of Rudman Winchell to form Starboard Leadership Consulting, Jeff has consulted with dozens of organizations and their leaders on strategic, leadership, and management issues.

He has successfully facilitated nonprofit mergers, counseled organizations through executive searches and leadership transitions, led strategic planning processes, and supported the development and implementation of a wide range of efforts, from community assessments to board governance projects. Jeff has also developed an online board self-assessment for nonprofit boards of directors that is available through the Maine Association of Nonprofits, and he is a frequent presenter and workshop leader on a lengthy list of topics.

As a volunteer, Jeff has gained substantial experience as a member of a variety of state and local boards, including the Bangor School Committee and the Unity College Board of Trustees. He has served as the President of the United Ways of Maine, chaired both the Maine Philanthropy Center’s board of directors and the Bangor area’s Communities for Children initiative, and he is currently the Chair of the board of trustees for the Maine Health Access Foundation. His active community service has resulted in Jeff being honored by Bangor Rotary with their Paul Harris Fellow’s award and by the Bangor YMCA for his work on behalf of youth.

A 1980 Graduate of Bates College, with an M.A.L.S. degree from Dartmouth College, Jeff and his family live in Bangor, Maine.

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