Read Armstrong
PresidentRead 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
Vice PresidentDave 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
SecretaryAllison 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.
Tip Koehler
Capital Campaign ChairTip spent many summers visiting his grandfather’s cottage in Ocean Park as a child. He and many of his cousins returned to Maine full time to live and raise their families. Tip has three grown sons who still live and work in Maine.
Tip is a retired naval architect with 41 years in naval combatant design, manufacturing, and testing on Bath built ships. He is an avid sailor and has sailed past Seguin many times both on Bath Built ships and on “Gryphon” his Sabre sloop which was manufactured here in Maine. Tip also participates in the “Seguin Sprint” portion of the Monhegan Race every August where he won the “Best Performing Sabre” in 2023.
Tom McNamara
On-Island Committee ChairTom 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
HistorianBorn 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.
Charlotte Kaplan
Charlotte is a retired loan officer and Vice President at First Federal Savings and Loan, and manager of its Wiscasset branch. Charlotte has lived all her life in Woolwich. She has two adult daughters who live in Portland, and she loves to spend breezy days with them sailing and exploring Casco Bay. She has a passion for “creating” be it working with fibers, metal, clay, glass, etc., with quilting being her focus.
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.
Kimberly Emerson
Kimberly returns to the FOSILS Board after retiring from a career in education. She also worked part-time as Executive Director for Maine ASCD. She and her husband have two children.
When not volunteering with FOSILS or Midcoast Hunger Prevention, she enjoys hiking, creating fiber arts, pickleball, kayaking, and especially traveling with her husband.
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.
