University of New England

Six new trustees
added to UNE board

BIDDEFORD/PORTLAND - The University of New England appointed six new members to its Board of Trustees at a June 1, 2007 meeting:

Judge Hugo L. Ricci, Jr. '66, of North Providence, Rhode Island, a graduate of St. Francis College, was a practicing attorney in Rhode Island for more than 28 years, and in 2003 was appointed associate judge to the Workers Compensation Court in the State of Rhode Island. In 1998 he received the Rhode Island Bar Association Dorothy Lohmann Community Service Award for his many years of pro bono work on behalf of disadvantaged clients before the Public Utilities Commission. 

Alice M. Savage, M.D., Ph.D. '55, of Windsor, Maine, a graduate of Westbrook Junior College, is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. She worked for many years at the Veterans Administration Medical and Regional Office Center in Togus, Maine where she was instrumental in establishing satellite VA clinics in Caribou, Bangor and mobile clinic services in Calais and Machias. She received the Tower Award for Alumni Achievement from Westbrook College and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Sandra L. Goolden of Yarmouth, Maine, is the founder and president of Goolden Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in non-profit and public policy projects. She is the editor and co-author of Reaching Level 7 Performance: Achieving Business and CEO High Performance in the New World, and is an active community volunteer, serving as trustee of the Maine Historical Society, the United Way of Portland and is a founding board member of the Cancer Community Center.

Gerald E. Talbot of Portland, Maine, is founder and president of Black Education and Cultural History, Inc. In 1972 he was the first African American elected as a Maine State Senator, a position he held until 1978. In addition, Talbot is co-author of Maine's Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of its People. He is a life member and past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is a minority affairs spokesperson for AARP and is on the Maine State Board of Education.

Ann Butterworth '77, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, is director of ceded reinsurance at Liberty Mutual. A UNE graduate, she went on to earn her Associate in Risk Management and Associate in Reinsurance degrees. She previously served as Product Line Manager at Swiss Reinsurance America, and as assistant vice president of Benfield, Inc. Butterworth served as the Westbrook College Board of Directors Alumna Trustee Representative to UNE's Board from 1999 to 2007, and served as president of the Alumni Board of Directors.

Tonia Hanson Tibbetts '91, of Searsmont, Maine, has served as president and past president of the Westbrook College Alumni Association's Board of Directors, as class secretary, class agent and as Alumni Association secretary. In 2006 she was awarded the Heloise E. Withee Alumni Service Award from Westbrook College.

(Press releaste poste June 21, 2007)