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The Chickadee Award Committee |
Kelley Drisko has provided library services at Gilbert School in Augusta for over 20 years. She has a teaching certificate in language arts and social studies, and taught high school English for 16 years.
Chris Fricke has been a school librarian for 29 years in Indiana, Vermont and Maine. She has also taught French at both the elementary and high school levels. She currently is an elementary librarian in Portland.
Amy Hand taught elementary school for five years and is currently Children's Librarian at Camden Public Library.
Mary Hazelton has been an elementary school librarian in SAD 40 since 1998. In a previous life, she worked as a special education teacher and Director for many years. She is a regular reviewer for School Library Journal.
Myrna Koonce, Committee Secretary, directs and teaches at the Harpswell Community Nursery School and works as a circulation sub at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. Prior to that, she taught community college classes in South Portland and Auburn, so-directed the Born to Read program at the Maine Humanities Council, and was a Head Start center director and administrator.
Cathy Potter is the librarian at Falmouth Elementary School. She serves as the Chickadee Committee Liaison with the Maine Association of School Libraries. She was a classroom teacher for 12 years before making the transition to the library. She holds a master's in Literacy Education from the University of Southern Maine and a master's of School Library Science from Clarion University.
Susan Pease, Committee Treasurer, is the coordinator of the elementary school libraries for the Auburn School District. In past years, she has been the head of the children's department at the Lewiston Public Library and she started her library career in children's services at the Boston Public Library. In addition, Susan is a storyteller.
Jennifer Stanbro, Committee Chair, is an elementary school librarian in the South Portland School District. Previously she worked as a technology instructor and consultant for K-8 schools in Maryland and Texas. She holds a masters degree in library science from Texas Women's University and a masters of liberal arts degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Kathy Stevens emigrated from England in 1966 and settled first in Biddeford and then Saco. She holds a BS in library science from UMA and an MLIS from Drexel University. She worked many years as a library Ed Tech at Saco Middle School. Kathy has been the Youth Services Librarian at Baxter Memorial Library in Gorham since 2008.
Lynn Young has provided library services in the Cumberland/North Yarmouth district for seven years. She has a B.S. in Child Development, having taught elementary grades in Maine and Vermont. She also worked previously as a Training Specialist for L.L. Bean.