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MAINE APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB
Trail Champions Campaign Committee
Lester Kenway
Bangor, ME
Lester worked as the Trails Supervisor at Baxter State Park ...
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Tony Barrett
Harpswell, ME
In 1998, Tony left the corporate world and moved to Maine taking on various part-time ...
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Mike Stillman
Farmington and Hamdpen, ME
Mike has a long history in conservation and trails: he served on ...
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Holly Sheehan
Portland, ME
Holly has worked as the Club Coordinator for the Maine Appalachian Trail ...
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Richard “Dick” Spellman
With more than 42 years of strategic planning, economic analysis, market research, renewable energy, ...
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John Copeland
Bath, ME
John got his start in trails as a long-term volunteer with the MATC in ...
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Audrey Laffely
Audrey’s love of the Appalachian Trail started as a child hiking Katahdin with her family. It ...
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David Theoharides
Whately, MA
David has been a member of MATC for over 15 years ...
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Trail Champions Honorary Committee
David Field
Trail Champions Honorary Committee Chair
Hampden, ME
Dave has 65 years of volunteer Trail maintenance experience on the Appalachian Trail. He has served on the Executive Committee ...
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Dave Startzell
Former long-term Appalachian Trail Conservancy Executive Director
David Startzell, retired in 2012 after more than 25 years as executive director of Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC). He ...
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Dick Anderson
Dick is the former Executive Director of Maine Audubon Society, BEP member, Department of Conservation Commissioner, and Founder of the International Appalachian Trail Twenty-five years ago, Dick ...
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Laura Waterman
A pioneer of the Leave No Trace Ethic (with her late husband Guy), a Director of the Waterman Fund, and an icon in the hiking and conservation ...
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MATC Executive Committee
Tom Gorrill
MATC President
Port Clyde, ME
Tom retired as President of Gorrill Palmer Consulting Engineers, Inc. in 2015, after a 37-year career in Civil Engineering. Tom is ...
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Janice Clain
Recording Secretary
Levant, ME
Janice grew up in Piscataquis County, not far from where the A.T. passes through the Hundred ...
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Jonathan Ellis
Treasurer
Brentwood, NH
Jonathan has been the Treasurer since April 2018. He has been a Club member since 1993, a ...
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Doug Dolan
Corresponding Secretary
Hollis, ME
Doug recently retired after 37 years in the semiconductor industry, with the last 20 years as an Intellectual ...
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David Field
Manager of Lands
Trail Champions Honorary Committee Chair
Hampden, ME
Dave has 65 years of volunteer Trail maintenance experience on ...
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Laura Flight
Manager of Campsites
Laura grew up in Winthrop, Maine and was privileged to be introduced to the outdoors at a ...
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Holly Sheehan
Portland, ME
Holly has worked as the Club Coordinator for the Maine Appalachian Trail Club since 2004. She ...
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Rick Ste. Croix
Katahdin District Manager,
Rick has hiked all of the A.T. in Maine and New Hampshire as well as trails in Baxter ...
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Brad Deane
Guilford, ME
Brad is the Manager of the Whitecap District and replacing Dick ...
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Mike Blais
Bigelow District Manager
New Gloucester, ME
Mike is a foundry man and business owner of the Auburn Stove Foundry Company, Inc., in ...
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Ron Tebbetts
Baldpate District Manager
Town, ME
Ron has been a maintainer on the Grafton Loop Trail since 2020. He was on ...
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Tony Barrett
Director
Harpswell, ME
In 1998, Tony left the corporate world and moved to Maine taking on various part-time occupations – most recently ...
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Sasha Nyary
Director
New Gloucester, ME
Sasha is a writer, editor and copy editor currently working in higher education marketing and communications. A journalist ...
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Alan Bellows
Director
Boothbay, ME
A lifelong hiker and backpacker, Alan began his trail work experience in college with week-long AT work trips ...
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Audrey Laffely
Director
Audrey’s love of the Appalachian Trail started as a child hiking Katahdin with her family. It continued into college, with ...
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QUESTIONS?
Contact Lester Kenway, Trail Champions Committee Chair
E-mail: trailser@twc.com
Phone: (207) 745-8826
