Leadership

Our dynamic Board of Directors includes innovative individuals and dedicated leaders who guide our ability to strengthen the health and wellness of our community.

Ann McFarland

President

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Ann and her family moved to Newcastle, Maine from Tappan, New York in February 1961. She attended Franklin Grammar School (1961-69) and graduated from Lincoln Academy, Class of 1973. Her weekends and summers were spent behind the counter of her parents’ gift shop, The Cables. After high school, Ann attended Mt. Allison University in Sackville, NB, Canada for 2 years, transferring to and graduating from the University of Southern Maine, Class of 1979 with a BA in Social Work and a double minor in psychology & sociology.

After graduation, Ann lived in Boston for two years, working at Bay State Resources then at Beth Israel Hospital in their Human Resources Department. From there she spent 10 years in White River Junction, VT working as a bookkeeper for Adams, McNichol & Melen. She finally returned home to Maine in August 1991.

She began her real estate career in the fall of 1992 working for Marilyn McLoon Real Estate as office manager. From 1998 until 2006, she co-owned Coldwell Banker Berton & Associates and in June of 2006, she and her husband, Alden McFarland (LA class of 1965) created TEAM MCFARLAND, the first real estate agents to use the team concept in the Mid-coast Region. In 2010, Alden retired to devote more time to lobstering and Ann joined Drum & Drum Real Estate where she stayed until retiring in December 2013.

Ann has served the real estate community in numerous capacities including serving as a Director on the Lincoln County Board of Realtors 2001-2007 and President in 2003. She was named Realtor of the Year in 2004. She was a member of the Maine Association of Realtors’ Strategic Planning Committee (2004 & 2005). Additionally, she served a four-year appointment (2008-2012) to the Maine Association of Realtors, serving as their Board President in 2011.

Beyond real estate, Ann has been an active member of the Damariscotta-Newcastle Lions Club since joining in March of 1998 and that year was honored as Rookie of the Year by her club. She held numerous positions in her club, including Secretary, Treasurer & Vice-Presidents and was Club President 2004/2005; Zone Chair 2005/2006 for her area of Maine Lions District 41-I and in July 2006, was the Vice District Governor of Maine District 41-I. In July 2007 she became the first District Governor of newly formed District 41 covering the entire state of Maine (previously 3 Districts).

As a Lion, other District positions she has held include: LCIF (Lions Clubs International Foundation) Chair (2008 and 2015-2018), District Governor’s Honorary Committee (2008-present), member of the Policy & Procedure Committee (2008-2022), member of the Budget Committee (2008-2010; 2022-2023) and President of the Maine Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation (2009-2011).

Ann served on the Pemaquid Watershed Association for five years, three years as Secretary; the Skidompha Board of Directors for six years, two years as Secretary; and served on the Board of Directors at the Iris Network in Portland, ME (2011-2013).

She also served at Lincoln Academy as a Trustee and held the Board Chair position from June 2014 until June 2016. She was a member of the Board’s Executive Committee, Governance Committee and Personnel Committee (FAST).

Ann is an active member of the Union Church of South Bristol (UCC) and devoted a number of years to working in their thrift shop and was the chair of their Shelves for Sharing (providing food for community members at risk) (2019-2022) and heads the Tent Sale there summers for the past three years. She is currently the Chair for the church’s Pastor Search Committee.

Prior to becoming President of the Miles Memorial Hospital League in April of 2024, she served as Vice President and devotes a good deal of her time as Team Leader for women’s & men’s clothing and accessories in the Miles Memorial Thrift Shop.

She briefly served on the Old Walpole Meeting House board in South Bristol; where she started and chaired the Capital Campaign Committee.

Ann, and her husband, Alden, live in South Bristol with their two tuxedo kitties, and as time permits, she enjoys boating. She’s a great fan of the games of cribbage, backgammon, mahjong, dominoes and euchre. During the winter, she and Alden find rest and relaxation on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean West Indies. But what she loves most is spending time with her three grandsons and their parents.

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Trudy Reilly

Vice President

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Trudy is an experienced fundraising professional with expertise in development, grant-writing, sponsorship, donor management, stewardship, membership, board development, strategic planning, event management, social media, e-mail marketing, project coordination, website content, public/media relations, advertising and marketing.

She is a graduate of Florida State University and Florida International University and holds degrees in fine arts and communications. Trudy owned and operated a marketing communications company for 15+ years and worked in development for several South Florida-based charitable organizations prior to relocating to Maine in 2019.

She and her husband, Joe, have four sons and reside in Newcastle.

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Tim Cheney

Treasurer

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Tim migrated to Walpole, Maine from Connecticut in 1998. He owns and operates Clark's Cove Farm & Inn. Tim joined the Board in January of 2024 and brings over forty years of experience in both private and public sectors of the staffing, nonprofit and addiction treatment and research industries. Specific expertise in both contingency and retained search and contract staffing in the technology arena and program development in the substance use treatment arena. Proven track record in strategic planning, sales and operations management, ‘C’ level business development, technology solutions development, recruitment and training, process design, development and implementation and sustainability planning.

Tim was the founder and CEO of ENSO Recovery, a Maine-based multi-location OUT MAT outpatient treatment program that was awarded four contracts to open the first MAT programs in Maine Correctional facilities and four recovery houses in Sanford and Augusta, Maine. Tim is the owner of Chooper's Guide, a comprehensive addiction treatment and recovery information web resource. He is also the founder and president of the Choopers Foundation, a former member of the Maine Substance Abuse Service Commission and previously a consultant to Patrick Kennedy's One Mind and the Kennedy Forum addiction and mental health initiatives. He also developed the first real-time multi-platform first responder opioid overdose reporting and notification application and acquired Rockers in Recovery in 2024.

Tim was the City of Boston Drug Treatment Program Research Director and the New Haven Community Correctional Center's Program Director. As Boston's SMSA representative and member of the Community Correspondents Group (CEWG), he authored five NIDA epidemiological publications. He also introduced Narcotics Anonymous into the Connecticut State Prison system in 1983 and was the first delegate for Harm Reduction advocacy at the 1979 NIDA conference in Seattle.

After founding and selling two human resource and technology companies to an international public company, he served as SVP, Regional Executive SVP and International Technology Division Chairman. He negotiated the staffing industry's first technology cooperation agreements with the Peoples Republic of China in 2000.

Tim serves or recently served on the following boards or commissions:

• Miles Memorial Hospital League
• RAE Health
• Maine Substance Abuse Services Commission
• Floridians for Recovery
• Faces and Voices of Recovery
• Substance Abuse Awareness Council of Indian River
• Leadership Council for the Association of Recovery Organizations (ARCO) Founding Member
• Member of the Kennedy Forum
• Advisory Board member for Cohen Veterans Bioscience
• Advisory Board member for Orion Bio-Networks
• Children’s Home Society of the Treasure Coast
• Police, Treatment and Community Collaborative - Founding Member
• Ammon Foundation
• Technology Advisor for C4 Recovery Solutions
• Guardians for New Futures

Tim is the recipient of the following SUD and Child Welfare awards:

• Empire State Opioid Epidemic Innovation Award (2018)
• Co-Occurring Collaborative – Innovative Practice Award (2017)
• C4 Recovery Solutions - Frederick French Award of Excellence (2015)
• The Presidents Call to Service- Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
• Children’s Home Society of Florida – Treasure Coast Division – The David & Lorraine Thomas Child Advocate Award (2009)
• Congressional Award – Flag of the United States for Advocacy with Foster Children (2009)
• Guardian AD Litem 19TH Judicial District – Governor of Florida Annual Child Advocacy Award (2006)

Tim received a BA from Boston University (Summa Cum Laude with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa). He attended Yale Divinity School and holds designations of Certified Personnel Consultant and Certified International Personnel Consultant.

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Susan Winter

Past-President

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Susan has worked as a nurse in various settings, including administration for nearly 50 years. Much of that time was spent here in Lincoln County as a home health and hospice nurse and later as a nurse educator and then director of a nursing program in another state. She also spent time with the organization that evaluates and credentials nursing programs, and worked with an education consortium that was successful in bringing together multiple nursing programs to facilitate access across the state of New Mexico.

Her involvement with the Miles Memorial Hospital League started many years ago during its annual Tent Sale (an institution that was a precursor to opening the Thrift Shop) and was rekindled on her return to Maine as a volunteer at the shop. She has a strong commitment to supporting LincolnHealth; both of her parents received excellent care there, and she and her husband are active users of its services. They could not be happier to have such good quality care so close to home, so her commitment to the success of the Miles Memorial Hospital League is strong.

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Bev Smith

Member at Large

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Beverly Smith was born in Hartford, Connecticut and lived there most of her life.

After college graduation, she went to work at Hartford Financial Services. She held various positions there over her 25-year tenure. She joined the company as a trainee Work Measurement Analyst, a job that required her to sit with employees and time them as they did their work. People hated to see her coming and in turn, she hated the work. It wasn’t long before she discovered there were writing jobs in the company. Having been an English major with writing skills, she set her sights there and was able to become a technical writer and then the manager of a group of IT technical writers.

“The Hartford,” as it was called back then afforded many opportunities to try different roles. She became a Grass Roots Lobbyist in the Government Affairs Office and an Internal Management Consultant.
In the late nineties, she found her way to Human Resources at first as manager of their HR Communications unit, then as an HR Director and finally as the company Ombudsman. In that role she was the one and only go-to person for any of the 30,000 employees across the nation who needed to report fraud or unfair treatment on a confidential basis.

In 2013, she and her husband Frank moved to St. Augustine Florida. Bev was all set to retire, but a job literally found her. She called “Betty Griffin Center,” a non-profit serving Domestic Violence victims hoping to work as a volunteer writer of resumes for survivors. Instead, they hired her as their HR Director, where she remained for several years. Bev still works for them as an HR Consultant.

Betty Griffin Center was partially funded by their two thrift stores located in two different areas of the county. Bev worked closely with the managers of each, so she comes to Miles in Motion with some knowledge of the inner workings and challenges of the thrift world.

Bev has been in Maine since 2022. When she arrived, the Thrift Store was one of her very first stops. She is delighted that she joined as a volunteer and is looking forward to serving on the board.

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Marva Nesbit

Member at Large

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Marva and her husband, Ed Dougherty, moved permanently to Maine in early 2002. She grew up in Alexandria, Virginia and lived in her childhood neighborhood so the move to Maine was a big leap for her.

Most of her career was with the Federal government in Washington, D.C. working alternately with scientists, engineers, or senior military officers -- a unique niche for someone with a background in the social sciences. Nearly 20 years was spent with the Agricultural Research Service, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (with labs located all over the U.S. and the world). Marva served in a variety of jobs with ARS ultimately in the position that became Chief of Staff.

Her final position was on faculty at one of the U.S. military's senior service schools located at National Defense University on campus at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C. She taught Strategic Leadership and Decision-making to senior military officers. Students spent a full academic year of intensive course work culminating in a Master's degree. It was the highlight of her career.

After retiring to Maine, Marva continued to consult another 12+ years largely back in the D.C. area doing leadership training, executive coaching, and assisting organizations with strategic/program planning. Once she stopped consulting following her husband's death, she became increasingly engaged in the local nonprofit community. Marva is currently a member of the LincolnHealth Board of Trustees (and an officer) and serves on several of their committees. She currently chairs the Philanthropy Committee and previously chaired the capital campaign for the Watson Building on campus. Marva is active in the Damariscotta Region Chamber and is a past president. She is vice president of the board of the local public access TV station, LCTV, where she also hosts a local show, Community Conversations.

Marva volunteers in the jewelry department of the hospital league Thrift Shop. She has also assisted several other local nonprofits with fundraising.

Education: Radford College, B.A.; University of Maryland- College Park, M.S.; Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA.

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Bill Fearn

Member at Large

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I have lived and travelled the world over. I started high school in Juneau, Alaska fishing for trout and salmon; I graduated high school in New York City riding my skateboard in lower Manhattan.

I joined the Marines for adventure, and I found it. As an Embassy Guard in Havana, I witnessed the turmoil of the Mariel Crisis firsthand. I was in Buenos Aires during the Islas Malvinas/Falkland Islands War. In the closing years of the Cold War I led a rifle platoon through winter warfare training in the Norwegian Artic. As a staff officer with the US Navy 5th Fleet I travelled, usually by myself, across Southwest Asia at the height of the Iraq insurgency. I spent both miserably cold and burning hot days on the Khor abd Allah and Shat al ‘Arab, the principle Iraqi waterways, working with the fledgling Iraqi Navy and Marine Corps. I spent time in the Southern Philippines during the Abbu Sayyef troubles. From a participant’s perspective, I can recount the operational history of the US War on Drugs. I can tell you about coca leaf harvesting, maceration, and cocaine production. In addition to coordinating military support for counter narcotics operations I planned and conducted humanitarian assistance projects and disaster relief in distant and dangerous places like the Alto Amazonas and San Martin regions of Peru.

I like to read. I do my best to be a lifelong learner. I have a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Texas and three master’s degrees, two of arts and one of science. My most recent master’s degree, in Occupational Safety and Health Management, is from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I am certified as both a Red Cross and an American Heart Association First Aid Instructor. I am active with the South Bristol Volunteer Fire Department and recently completed Firefighter certification and Advance Emergency Medical Technician licensing. As a lay responder, before joining the fire service, I gave lifesaving CPR to three people in emergency situations.

Sometimes I remind myself of Forrest Gump, a casual observer of significant world events, and, like Forrest, I like to run. I have completed 23 marathons, in three of them I escorted blind runners who could only speak Japanese.

I like to brag about a unique achievement of mine. I was awarded First Place in the annual 4th of July Pie Baking Contest at the American Embassy in Lima, Peru in 2012. It was stiff completion between my entry, “Fat Billy’s Two Cherry, Lard Crust Pie” and the sophisticated runner up, a gourmet chocolate mousse recipe. My crust won the day.

My wife Donna and I recently moved to Maine looking for more adventure.

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