Merle Nelson attends the Portland Museum of Art's Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5 with her husband Leonard, former president and longtime museum trustee.
Rosemary Underdahl, a member of the 2014 Trustees' dinner committee, together with her husband and museum Trustee Hans, join Portland Museum of Art Director Mark Bessire and his wife Aimee (center) at the cocktail reception of the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 4 in the Selma Wolf Black Great Hall, Portland Museum of Art.
Les Otten, former president and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Portland Museum of Art, attends the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5 with Veronica Cross of Greenwood.
Elizabeth Astor of Portland, left, enjoys the cocktail reception at the Portland Museum Art with Dr. Douglas Howell and his wife Sharyn of South Portland before the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5.
Patty Hagge, who attended the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5 with her husband Cyrus, shares a moment with the museum's Chief Curator, Jessica May; Director of Finance and Operations, Elena Murdock; and Director of Learning and Interpretation, Jennifer DePrizio.
Dr. Isabella Stumpf and her husband and museum trustee Dr. William Williams of Cape Elizabeth, are joined by fellow Trustee Melanie Stewart Cutler and Karen Sherry, curator of American Art at the PMA at the Trustee's Dinner on Nov. 5
Brett Johnson, owner of Maine Street Design Co., with Jean Sargent and Virgil Cumming, members of the Director's Circle at the Portland Museum of Art, at Trustee's Dinner on Nov. 4
Judy Kane of Falmouth with Portland Museum of Art Trustee and Vice President, Nancy Kaye of West Bath at the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5
Cumberland resident Barbara Goodbody, who serves on the Portland Museum of Art's Collections committee, enjoys the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5 with museum Trustee Jim Houle of Scarborough.
Kristen Levesque, Portland Museum of Art's director of Public Relations, enjoys a moment at the Trustee's Dinner on Nov. 5 with former gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler and Gretchen Johnson, director of Marketing at Verrill Dana, one of the evening's sponsors.
Shari Perkins and Diana Bean of Ogunquit at the Portland Museum of Art Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5
Museum Trustee Beth DeTine (left), with Honorary Trustee Rosalyne Bernstein, who received a standing ovation at the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5 for her 50 years of loyalty and patronage to the Portland Museum of Art.
Museum trustee and Yarmouth resident Heather Veitch attended the 2014 Portland Museum of Art Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 4 with her father James Wagner of Syracuse, New York.
Alec Porteous, a member of the Contemporaries steering committee at the Portland Museum of Art, with fellow steering committee member and wine consultant MaryBeth Lorenz and her husband Christopher, of Pine Capital Investment Management in Portland, at the PMA annual Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 5.
Portland Museum of Art trustee Larry Rubinstein and his wife Robin mingle with guests at The Westin Portland Harborview Hotel before the seated Trustees' Dinner and live auction on Nov. 4
Betsy Evans Hunt with Portland Museum of Art Trustee Cyrus Hagge at the Trustees' Dinner on Nov. 4
Brad Paige, member of Southern Maine Health Care's Board of Trustees, and his wife Jennifer, president of the SMHC Auxiliary, with Vicki Lyons, SMHC’s vice president of Physician Practice Operations, and her husband Dan, at the SMHC Donor Event on Sept. 12.
Karen Chasse, development and community outreach manager for Southern Maine Health Care, with Robert and Patsy Aprile at the SMHC Donor Event on Sept. 12. Patsy is senior vice president and chief operating officer for SMHC.
Derek Veilleux and Fran Harrison of SMRT, the architectural firm for the Edward J. McGeachey Medical Office Building, with Christina Manning, MD, and Peter Manning, MD at the Southern Maine Health Care Donor Event on Sept. 12. Derek was the chief architect for the building.
From left: Dean Ouellett, vice president of Operations for Ouellett Associates, general contractor for the Edward J. McGeachey Medical Office Building, Mike Albaum, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer for Southern Maine Health Care (SMHC), and Marc Fournier, SMHC’s vice president of Support Services, at the SMHC Donor Event on Sept. 12
Merle Westbrook, ANP, CDE, from Southern Maine Health Care Internal Medicine (second from left), one of the practices in the new building, provided tours for a group from the Kennebunks including, from left, Patricia Bibber, Priscilla Campbell Wyman, Ross Wyman, and Dick Bibber at the SMHC Donor Event on Sept. 12.
Joe and Audrey Ferrick at the Southern Maine Health Care Donor Event on Sept. 12
Dr. Harold Osher, whose collection of maps and atlases was donated in 1989, and Meredith Smith, daughter of the late Eleanor and Lawrence 'Sam' Smith of the Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the USM Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education 20th Anniversary Exhibition Reception on Oct. 16. Eleanor Smith donated their collection of maps, atlases and globes to USM in 1986 in her late husband's memory.
From left: Edward Dahl, formerly with National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; James Akerman, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.; Mary Pedley, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan; & Susan Danforth, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. They are four of the seven members of the Osher Map Library Board of Review, who attended the USM Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education 20th Anniversary Exhibition Reception on Oct. 16.
Glenn Parkinson, chair of the board, Friends of the Osher Map Library, and Cecile Aitchison, University of Southern Maine vice president for Advancement, at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education 20th Anniversary Exhibition Reception on Oct. 16.
University of Southern Maine President David T. Flanagan and USM Osher Chair in the History of Cartography Matthew Edney at the USM Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education 20th Anniversary Exhibition Reception on Oct. 16. Edney curated the exhibition.
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