Our Board

Read Armstrong

Read has been a resident of Bath and Woolwich since 1961. He has spent many summers at Bay Point in Georgetown and now shares his mother’s cottage on First Beach with his sisters. His mother, Barbara Paiement, was one of the original FOSIL Board members. Read previously held a position on the FOSILS Board but took a leave due to moving overseas for a number of years.

Read served 25 years in the US Army and Maine National Guard as a helicopter pilot, retiring in 1994. He worked at Bath Iron Works for 35 years in many capacities with his last 15 years being in Project Management and Planning Management positions. Read and his wife Anne have three children and 4 grandchildren who have spent most of their summers at Bay Point enjoying the view of Seguin Island.

David Patton

Dave was born and raised in Bath and is presently a Georgetown summer resident.  He is a retired professional engineer and partner in an engineering firm, which undertook work designing, constructing, and operating electrical generating facilities.  He loves being on the ocean and is a past Trustee Chairman of the Marion Bermuda Sailing Race and past Commodore of the Blue Water Sailing Club.

Allison Lubin

Allison was born and raised in Bath and is now a summer resident of Georgetown.  The granddaughter of one of the original board members, Barbara Paiement, her love for Seguin runs deep.  She grew up spending time at her grandmother’s cottage in Georgetown with a direct view of Seguin, visiting the island whenever possible.  Allison and her husband Ken have two daughters and enjoy their summers on the water visiting harbors up and down the mid-coast.  Seguin always being the landmark that welcomes them home.  Allison’s career for the last 24 years has been in medical research, managing clinical trials to bring much needed treatments to patients.

Betsy Lane

Betsy moved to Bath in 1961, and spent her summers at the family cottage at First Beach in Georgetown.  She and her husband, Craig, moved to Georgetown in 1986, where they owned and operated Camp Seguin, a 30-site campground.  They returned to Bath in 2021.  She is retired from Woolwich Central School, where she was the secretary for 19 years.  She has 2 children and 4 grandchildren, who all live in Bath. She enjoys kayaking, reading, and knitting. She volunteers as a Greeter at Maine Maritime Museum, and fills in when needed at the Bath Area Food Bank.

Betsy is following in the footsteps of her mother, Barbara Paiement, who was on the original Board of Directors, and joining her brother, Read, and niece, Allison, in their efforts to preserve the legacy of Seguin.

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Tom McNamara

Tom is a resident of West Bath and is an active volunteer on the Island. He comes to us having had a career in sale-marketing covering office equipment, pharmaceutical, defense products and telecommunications across 34 countries. He served our country as a Marine Corps officer and is a Vietnam veteran.

Chris Hall

Born and raised in NH, Chris moved to Bath in 1973, enrolling in the Apprenticeship wooden boatbuilding program. After finishing an American Studies major at Hampshire College, he and wife Sarah Robey built a house and raised their family in north Woolwich in the 1980s. Their daughter Hannah and son Eben were graduates of Wiscasset and Morse High Schools.  Sarah retired in 2022 after 40 years as a primary care Physician Assistant in Wiscasset

A self-employed woodworker, boat builder, and carpenter for many years, Chris switched to a library career in 1996, working at Patten Free Library in Bath and completing a graduate degree in Library and Information Science from UM Augusta. For 16 years, from 2001 until his retirement in 2017, he was Registrar and Curator of Exhibits at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. Working within the FOSILS organization has been a nice blend of hands-on and historical work for him.

Karissa Davan

Karissa is a lighthouse enthusiast who really appreciates the beauty and history of these historic structures. Karissa and her husband, Rick, live in Phippsburg and enjoy the incredible lighthouses of the Kennebec.

Karissa has practiced law for nearly thirty years and has served on many nonprofit boards over the last three decades. She is a land and sea pilot and has used Sequin to guide her home many times. Seguin is where the sky touches the sea and a crossroad of all things Maine- she hopes to meet you there.

Gordon Reed

Gordon Reed was born in Connecticut, but spent all his summers at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Georgetown. After high school he went directly into the yacht business where he worked as professional crew on yachts up to 80 feet. After three years of cruising the East coast from Jonesport Maine to Marathon in the Florida Keys, the lure of returning to Maine was too strong and upon returning he went to work at Robinhood, holding positions as operations manager, service manager and Vice president. A former Marine Surveyor, Gordon has surveyed vessel and marine structures all over the East Coast. He and his wife have resided in Bath since 1978. 

Jenny Kahrl

Jenny’s grandparents Faith and George Kahrl bought the Todd house and land at the head of Heal Eddy in 1938. Jenny has spent time on Kennebec Point every summer of her life and has family members still living in Bath full time.  She has been a cattle rancher in SW Montana since 1995 running a herd of heritage breed Red Devon cattle and sells animals from Alberta to Oregon and Utah.  She raises a breeding stock (cows and bulls) and also sells grassfed beef.  She owned a butcher shop 2014-2021, grow it from 2 employees to 10, increasing services to “state inspection” status so that producers could sell their meats wholesale, increasing their potential annual sales of locally raised beef, pork, lamb, alpaca, and bison.  She was one of the founders of a cultural arts center in Bozeman, Montana- The Emerson Center for Arts and Culture taking a 30,000 sq ft school building and transformed it into a center which includes theatre, large event space, artist studios and galleries, ceramic, jewelry, music and dance studios, and a restaurant.  She looks forward to serving the needs of Seguin Island Light Station, and the community which it enriches!

Steve Cohen

Steve was born and raised in Massachusetts and has lived in Maine since 1985. He graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in accounting and retired from Bath Iron Works as a cost estimator. Before joining Bath Iron Works he was a product line manager for OSRSM Sylvania for many years. Besides being an active volunteer on Seguin Island, Steve is site manager for Maine Midcoast CA$H which prepares free taxes, he volunteers at the Maine Maritime Museum, Repair Café, Midcoast Hunger Prevention, and the Pejepscot Historical Society. His interests include hiking, biking, gardening, and other projects.