Mission and Organization

Mayo Bulloch

President

Mayo Metcalf Bulloch retired from Case Western Reserve University after a 33-year career where she oversaw various programs including academic support, disability services, teaching assistant training, student community service, and student orientation and parent programs.   She and her husband Steve bought land in Searsport in 2004 and moved to Maine permanently in 2016. 

She has served on the Carver Memorial Library Board, Friends of Sears Island Advisory Board, Searsport Historic Preservation Committee, and Waldo County Literacy Volunteers Advisory Board.  She has co-taught in two Senior College courses and enjoyed many more.  Her main interests are literature, film, and travel.

Martha Laitin

Vice President

Martha Laitin,  born and raised in Belfast, earned an MEd in Guidance from Elmira College in New York. She taught Head Start in Belfast and was a Guidance Counselor in the Belfast school district. Martha also has been an Admissions Counselor and Acting Director of Admissions at Unity College.  Following a year as chairperson of the Board of Directors of the rural community health center in Brooks she became the patient educator and first on-site administrator of the facility which included a family practice medical office, a dental office and an ambulance service.  Since 1989 she continues to serve as a Senior Specialist in her real estate career as a broker serving the Belfast area. 

Martha has been an active member of the Belfast Garden Club, Maine Realtors Association, and serves on the board of the Deborah Lincoln House, a home for elderly ladies in Belfast.  Martha has been a student and an instructor at Belfast Senior College and currently serves as Chairperson of Special Events Committee and Vice President of the Board of Trustees.

Sam Causon

Treasurer

Samantha (Sam) Causon worked as a management accountant for various manufacturing companies before emigrating from the UK with her husband in 2004. While living in NC she volunteered at county animal shelters and gained a certificate in botanical art and illustration from UNC botanical gardens. In 2019 she relocated to Belfast with her husband and their pets and now enjoys spending time working on her home and garden, painting and drawing in her attic studio, reading or listening audio books. 

Sam started taking zoom classes with Senior College during the pandemic as a way of meeting people and this led to making real life friends and to her joining the Board of Trustees in 2022 where she served as Secretary until being elected Treasurer in September 2023.

Karen Gleeson

Monica Morris

Monica Morris worked as a chemical engineer at Exxon’s refinery in Linden, N.J, a consultant for Coopers and Lybrand in New York City, and a business analyst for Gillette in Boston.  She then shifted her career into education and was a Montessori elementary and middle school teacher for over 20 years.  She also taught Montessori teachers-in-training in the US and Europe.  She has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and a masters degree in business administration.  Monica was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and lived in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts before coming to Belfast 3 years ago.   

Denise Pendleton

Penise Pendleton holds an MFA in Writing and a MA in Literacy Education and is a published poet. She has devoted most of her career to promoting reading, writing and the arts in the nonprofit organizations including  Maine Arts and the Portland Public Library. As program officer at the Maine Humanities Council, she developed the statewide Born to Read program.

She presently serves as coordinator of Literacy Volunteers of Waldo County and is on the Searsmont Town Library board.  Denise is a Belfast native, returning with her husband after a thirty-year hiatus to raise her two children here.  Her passions include being with family as well as reading, writing, and getting into the great outdoors.

Mike Ray

Mike is 67, having moved to Midcoast Maine from Ohio in 1989. For the last 22 years he's lived in Lincolnville, working a variety of jobs in the area: rigging work at a boatyard, counseling developmentally disabled adults, guiding kayak camping trips, restaurant work, public transportation, and building the house his wife Barbara and he live in. Right now he's pretty much retired – which means he seems to get paid less for working more hours. 

He's served on some Lincolnville Town boards and committees: formerly the Planning Board, Land Use Committee, and  Broadband Committee; currently the Select Board, the Conservation Commission, and the newly-formed Heart and Soul initiative. He's also on the Legislative Policy Committee of the Maine Municipal Association, and for the last few years has been splitting and schlepping firewood for the Waldo County Woodshed.