Ben Blaney Ben Blaney - Ben is an Emeritus Professor of Germanic Philology at Mississippi State University. Ben has taught 6 different classes on medieval Norse topics for ASC, as well as one on medieval German literature and one on historical linguistics.

Bill Clark Bill Clark - Bill is a retired park ranger whose career was in natural history and American history park interpretation. He has been a history instructor for Acadia Senior College, and was an Elderhostel instructor on board a Camden windjammer.  He graduated from Tufts University with a BS in geology.  As a park planner he was involved with many National Park Service historical sites. He has been a geology instructor for Yavapai College, Arizona, and Acadia Senior College. Summers, he is a narrator on the Sea Princess, a Northeast Harbor tour boat.

Paul DeVore Paul DeVore - Paul taught anthropology at UMass for 5 years.  His game instruction experience includes poker and backgammon classes for ASC. He played his first hand of cribbage 50 years ago and returned to playing it intensively in recent years.

Robert Evans

Robert Evans - Robert received his first degree at Cambridge University in Natural Sciences. He was awarded his PhD and DSc from the University of London. He is Emeritus Professor at the Jackson Laboratory where he studied the immunology of cancer for 21 years. He has been delving into the Arthurian mysteries as well as the history of Roman and post-Roman Britain for several years. In addition to presenting the course under the auspices of ACS he has also lectured at several institutions on the subject of King Arthur.

Bob Gallon Bob Gallon - Bob is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist who also happens to play tuba in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. In the long-ago past, he taught psychology at Vassar College and, more recently, as a visiting professor at COA. He has taught several courses in both psychology and music for Senior College.

Marie Hall Marie Hall - Marie was educated at Temple University, in Psychology & English; she received a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Russian Literature and Linguistics; at Moscow State University she received a Graduate Certificate. Teaching experience: 14 years Cinnaminson, NJ where she established a grades 5-12 Russian curriculum, Russian culture courses at COA and at Acadia Senior College, and Russian Language and Russian Culture at Temple University Senior College as well as a semester at Moscow and St. Petersburg Special English Schools teaching American culture.

Betsy Hewlett

Betsy Hewlett - Betsy is collections manager and archivist for Thuya and Azalea Gardens since 2001. She holds a M.Ed, PhD Education and a BA in History.

Priscilla Hutton

Priscilla Hutton - Priscilla has been Head Gardener of Thuya Garden since 2006. She is a master gardener and former Greenhouse and Propagation Manager of Deer Meadow. She is responsible for garden, container and lawn maintenance and designer for the past 15 years.

Sharen Kean Sheri Kean - Sheri is a graduate of East Tennessee State University. She taught dance at the Thomas School of Dance in Bangor, the River Dance Studio in Ellsworth, Two Shoes Dance Studio in Bar Harbor, and for MDI Adult Education.

Bob Myers

Bob Myers - Bob received a PhD in New Testament Studies from Emory University. He also received degrees from United Theological Seminary and McGill University.  He taught courses in Religion & Philosophy at Clark College and Mercer University in Atlanta and New Testament courses at the Interdenominational Theological Center. Recently he has led the Jesus Seminar Study group in Atlanta in studies of Jesus' Parables, The Synoptic Gospels, The Letters of Paul, and the Book of Acts. He has also written papers on 19th Century Feminists of the Ordination of Woman, Saul of Tarsus, Two Parables Reconsidered.

Dona Parker

Dona Parker - Dona has an MA in counseling from UMO where she developed a counseling technique called The Art of Drawing Out.  She used her counseling skills working at Hospice of Eastern Maine. After moving to Atlanta, GA, she developed the course "Creativity: Finding Your Inner Resource." Dona taught this class each quarter at Emory University Adult Ed Program for 6 years.  She continues to evolve in her own art making and enjoys sharing creative ideas with others.

Lee Patterson

Lee Patterson - Lee has been a music enthusiast since the 1950s, as an avid listener, in performance as a trained tenor and as a teacher and director of music and operetta.  Though largely self-taught, he has studied music at Harvard and Johns Hopkins.

Frank Pendola

Frank Pendola - Frank is the owner and chef of Nostrano, a private Italian dinner club in Bar Harbor established in  2004. He started cooking at age 5, learning from the greatest chefs in the world – all the Italian Aunts, Uncles, Grandmothers, and Grandfathers in his Niagara Falls, New York Italian neighborhood where he grew up.  Most recently, he spent 15 years as a molecular biologist at The Jackson Laboratory prior to pursuing his culinary endeavors at Nostrano.

Steve Powell

Steve Powell – Steve has a Liberal Arts Degree from Greensboro College with a major in History. Author of a mystery review column in the Greensboro Sunday Record 1984-1986 "Crime, Mystery, Detective," Member of The Mystery Writers  of America since 1985, owner/publisher Wonderly Press (publisher of Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories by  local mystery writer Janwillem van de Wetering in 1997), antiquarian bookseller specializing in detective fiction since 1985, co-owner of Dunn and Powell Books, Inc. and Mystery Cove Bookshop in Hulls Cove.

Barbara Rappaport

Barbara Rappaport – Barbara received her master's in Botany from Univ. of Michigan and worked with her husband in animal cell biology.

Jill Weber Jill Weber – Jill, an ecologist, has worked extensively on the vascular flora and in intensive plant management for Acadia National Park.  This fall and winter she has been teaching botany at COA.

Mette Watt

Mette Watt - Mette earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has worked with the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts, Printmaking courses with U.M.O. and with Susan Gross, a pioneer in establishing non-toxic printmaking.