Merit-Based Scholarships

List of 4 members.

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  Deanne Bodemer 

  Admissions Coordinator

  (207) 824-7710

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  Deanne graduated from the University of Maine with a B.S. in Business Administration. She spent 15 years in the financial industry before staying home with her three children. Making a career change, she graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a B.A. in Tourism and Hospitality. Her focus was on Outdoor Recreation, which fit well with her lifestyle, with the local business community, and in her previous position as the Membership and Events Manager at the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce. Deanne enjoys reading, finding treasures in antique shops, snowmobiling, hiking, and traveling to new places both near and far.
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  Otis Bryant 

  History Teacher and Admissions Associate

  207-824-7782

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  Otis Bryant is a native Long Islander but is culturally a son of the South. He attended the Stony Brook School- a boarding school on the north shore. He earned his BA in history at Trinity College [CT ] and an MA in American Political History at Howard University in Washington, DC. He enjoys Mandarin RnB and Korean Hip Hop and RnB, especially as the latter pays studied and intimate homage to the African American greats of the 2 genres.  He is a world traveler, especially to China, and uses this knowledge to build relationships with students and to promote global literacy within campus communities. Live NBA games are the best.
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  Marcy LaVallee 

  Associate Director of Admissions

  (207) 824-7732

  1998

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  Ms. LaVallee is a third-generation alumna of Gould Academy (Elizabeth Sargent LaVallee ’67 and Alzena Lord Sargent ’42) and a graduate of The University of Maine with a B.A. in Studio Art.  Her area of study focused largely on sculpture with an emphasis on metalwork including welding and bronze casting. While a student, she was an active member of the Delta Zeta sorority, served on the Panhellenic Council as Vice President of Recruitment, and was inducted into the Order of Omega.
  
  

  She has an extensive background in marketing as a product manager for Gemline and more recently as a corporate program manager for Geiger. She loves the outdoors, the mountains, and spends weekends during the winter as a U.S. Ski & Snowboard Level 100 certified alpine coach for the GACP weekend program.  She also enjoys camping, reading historical fiction, riding dressage on her horse Bode, and practicing Kyokushin Karate.
  
  

  She lives in the Bethel area with her partner, Asher Anderson ’05, and their three children, Lewis ’26, Charlotte, and Tristan.
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  Greg Miller 

  Associate Director of Admissions, Financial Aid Coordinator

  207-824-7735

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  Greg Miller spent the last five years in Newport, Rhode Island, as the head men’s basketball coach and assistant athletic director at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS).
  
  

  Prior to that, he worked for three years as an assistant coach at St. Lawrence University (one year as an adjunct professor in First Year Program) and two years as an assistant coach at Susquehanna University.

  After college, he played nine years of professional basketball in various countries throughout Europe (6 in Germany, 1 in France, 1 in Sweden, and 1 in Switzerland).
  
  

  He lives on campus with his wife, Alex Norden, and likes to spend time reading, hiking, and exercising.