DOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

March 2010

Kimberly B. Arnold:  Ms. Arnold is an independent marketing consultant.  A Wesleyan University graduate, she received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.  She has worked for Anderson Consulting and as a Marketing Manager for VISA.  She lives in London, England, with her husband and children, and is a fourth-generation summer resident of her family camp in Township 27.

Louie Cataldo (Vice President; Governance Committee Chair):  Mr. Cataldo is a carpenter, Registered Maine Guide, property manager, and firewood processing business owner who formerly worked at the Georgia-Pacific Woodland paper mill.  He currently serves as First Selectman of Grand Lake Stream Plantation and has been on the Board of Directors of the Grand Lake Stream Guides Association for 20 years.  He served 14 years on the local school board.  A U.S. Navy veteran, he is an avid hunter and fisherman and was member of our Wabassus Lake Project Committee.  He is a native of Grand Lake Stream.

Edward J. McGrath, Esq. (Forest Resources Committee Chair):  Mr. McGrath has practiced environmental law for more than thirty years.  As a senior partner in the Denver law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP, he developed that firm’s environmental practice group.  Upon retiring from the firm after eighteen years, he returned to Washington where he was a member of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Chartered for a period of three years.  A graduate of Williams College and Columbia University School of Law, he was a member of the Leadership Committee of the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership.  He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is a long-time seasonal resident of Grand Lake Stream, having first come to Grand Lake Stream as a boy in 1946. 

James P. (“Jay”) Petri (Treasurer; Financial Management Committee Chair; Wabassus Lake Project Committee Chair):  Mr. Petri, Vice President for Commercial Real Estate at Cambridge Savings Bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Cornell University and the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.  He has experience in agribusiness, commercial, industrial, and real estate banking and management.  He is President of the Stockbridge Foundation and serves on the University of Massachusetts Dean’s Council for the College of Natural Resources and the Environment.  He lives in Bolton, Massachusetts, and is a fifth-generation camp owner on Sysladobsis Lake.

Stephen Schaefer (Secretary; Development Committee Chair; Past President):  Mr. Schaefer owns Maineline Studio, a professional portrait studio in Calais, Maine.  A Registered Maine Guide, he served on former Governor Angus King’s Land Acquisition Priorities Advisory Committee and was a Grand Lake Stream selectman for ten years.  He currently is a member of Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission and Vice President of the Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club.  He resides in Grand Lake Stream.

David C. Tobey:  Mr. Tobey moved to Grand Lake Stream in 1973 after visiting frequently on hunting and fishing trips with family since he was a child.  He is a Registered Maine Guide, a trapper, a commercial eel fisherman, and a caretaker, and depends on his knowledge of the area’s natural resources to earn his living.  He has served as President of the Maine Professional Guides Association and the Grand Lake Stream Guides Association, as an Assessor for Grand Lake Stream Plantation, and on the Leadership Committee of the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership.  He lives in Grand Lake Stream.

Lindsay P. Wheaton (President; Trails and Education Committees Chair):  Ms. Wheaton and her husband own and run Grand Lake Lodge, a local sporting camp.  A graduate of American University in political science, she has a Master's Degree in clinical psychology and formerly worked with children in the local school systems.  She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Grand Lake Stream Historical Society and was a member of the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership Leadership Committee.  She resides full-time in Grand Lake Stream.

Lee Whitely:  Mr. Whitely was President of the Technical Papers Division and Director General of the Axhom Division of Lydall, Inc., and was on the corporation’s Board of Directors for many years.  He has a BS in Forestry and a Master’s in Pulp and Paper Technology, both from the University of Maine.  A Registered Maine Guide, he served on the Leadership Committee of the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership and has been on various nonprofit boards.  He lives in Grand Lake Stream and owns a camp on Fourth Machias Lake.