BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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George Dana Bisbee, Chairman
Concord
Former Assistant Commissioner of the NH Department of Environmental Services for eight years, including two years as Acting Commissioner; also served for 14 years at the N.H. Attorney General’s Office, principally in the Environmental Protection Bureau and as Bureau Chief; served as the State’s Deputy Attorney General for five years. Currently the head of the Environmental Practice Group at the law firm of Devine, Millimet & Branch, was formerly with Pierce Atwood, LLP. Has an abiding interest in state environmental policy, with special emphasis on water quality. Has resided in Concord since 1981. |
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J. Steve Kahl, Vice chair
Plymouth
Founding director of several academic environmental chemistry laboratories and research centers in New England…since 1991, leader of EPA-funded program assessing long-term response of New England lakes to acid rain…30 years in research and policy for the protection of New England lakes working for state agencies and academia…volunteer lake monitor and loon counter…board member of Maine Congress of Lakes Associations, former acting executive director of the Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute. Plymouth resident |
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Philip J. O'Brien, Secretary
New London
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow… Public Advisory Group Member of the NH Comparative Risk Project…graduate of the MIT –Harvard Public Disputes Program and of Leadership New Hampshire…a former member of the Mt. Sunapee Advisory Committee…environmental issues testimony on two occasions before the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee… …retired Director of the DES Waste Management Division and former Executive Director of the Lake Sunapee Protective Association. |
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Christopher Devine, Treasurer
Holderness
Executive Director of the Squam Lakes Association….selectman for town of Holderness…former consulting ground-water geologist…member of NH Lakes Government Affairs Committee since 2000….graduate of Leadership NH 2006…Holderness resident since 1997…NH resident since 1988. |
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Jane Beaulieau
Manchester
Jane is serving her third term as state representative in her home district 17 in Manchester, where she is Vice Chair of Environment and Agriculture. She is Board Chair of the Friend of the Valley Cemetery, and Chair of the Manchester Conservation Commission. Jane is a member of the State of NH Committee to Study Exotic Invasive Weeds and Species, and also serves on the Advisory Board of COLSA UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. Founder of Not So Plain Jane's, one of the largest day spas in NH, she is also founder and Marketing Manager of Jewell and the Beanstalk Cafe and Market in Manchester. Jane is Mother to Amber Jewell and Nana to Kelly Edward Grogan. |
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Laurie Beeson
Holderness
Former president of Squam Lakes Conservation Society…..trustee of Squam Lakes Natural Science Center….retired chief marketing officer for Frito-Lay, Hallmark Cards….U.S. Marine veteran…..Holderness resident since 1983…..avid fisherman. |
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Gordon W. Cormack
Madison
Gordon Cormack has spent 4o years in the construction industry and been in business for 35 of those years. He is President of Cormack Construction Management, a medium size general contracting\construction management design build firm doing custom residential and commercial remodeling and new work in NH and western Maine. |
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Kathleen DiFruscia
Windham
Kathleen Sullivan DiFruscia has been a resident of Windham since 1981. She has a Juris Doctor (J.D.) with honorsfrom Suffolk University Law School, 1978. Married to Anthony DiFruscia she was a participant with Master Plan Committee to revise Windham’s Master Plan in mid-1980’s. She is Legal advisor to the Cobbetts Pond Improvement Association, Inc.; a Member, of the Steering Committee, Windham Endowment for Community Advancement; Member, Windham Economic Development Committee; Member of the Board of Directors, NH Lakes Association admitted to the practice of law in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and is a Partner in the DiFruscia Law Offices in Methuen, Massachusetts. |
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Joseph Goodnough
Sunapee
Joe has owned his camp on Lake Sunapee for 44 years. He retired from the computer industry where he worked in sales and marketing. He is a former president of the Lake Sunapee Protective Association and has served on the board and committees of New Hampshire Lakes for the past 12 years. On Sunapee he is an active weed watcher, water tester and honorary LSPA Board member. |
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Susan Goodwin
Wolfeboro
Chemistry teacher at the Kent School (Kent, CT), retired 2008. Previously lab assistant at Sloan Kettering Institute of Cancer Research in NYC. Director of the Lake Wentworth Association. Editor of The Zephyr, the LWA newsletter. Lifelong summer resident of Lake Wentworth and now year-round resident of Wolfeboro. |
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J. "Woodie" Laverack
Holderness
Woodie Laverack moved to New Hampshire in 1970, where he had summered with his family on Big Squam all his life. Stockbroker for Paine, Webber and later A.G.Edwards before retiring in 2009. Member and chair of the Ashland Budget Committee, member and co-chair of the Ashland School Board and as a Utility Commissioner for the Town of Ashland. Served as director and officer on the boards of the Squam Lakes Association, the New Hampshire Lakes Association and Plymouth Friends of the Arts. Woodie lives in Holderness with his wife Susan. |
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Carl Lehner
Holderness
Former president of Leigh Fibers, a family held textile waste recycling firm in South Carolina... Avid paddler from whitewater racing in the 1970s to paddling arctic rivers in the far north... Mountaineering climbs in the Rockies, Alaska, Andes, and Tibet.... Member stewardship committee of Squam Lakes Conservation Society... Undergraduate degree in geology, MBA from MIT... Holderness homeowner since 1991... Avid fisherman |
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David Packard
Goffstown
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Kenneth Warren
Lebanon
Aquatic biologist with the Department of Environmental Services for 36 years..Alumni Achievement Award from Keene State College for environmental work in New Hampshire..Initiated the Exotic weed Control Program in 1981..Extensive knowledge of New Hampshire Lakes...Knowledge dealing with algae control in water supplies and formerly certified to control aquatic nuisances in NH...Former member of New England Environmental Biologists...New Hampshire native currently living in Lebanon...avid outdoorsman |
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NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED AT 2010 ANNUAL MEETING (information coming soon...)
Theodore Braun
James Haney
James Nelson
Peter Sorlein
Robert Varney
John Wilson
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HONORARY DIRECTORS
Courtland Cross New London
Joseph Farrelly Deerfield
Anne Lovett Holderness
Sidney Lovett Holderness
James Moore New London
Philip Parsons Sandwich
H. Hallock Richards Moultonboro |
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