Tear Cap Workshops Board of Directors
President: Sally Dunning, RN, BSN
Sally is recently retired after working more than forty years as a nurse, primarily in maternity and then with elders, at a small local hospital. She also serves as the President of the Board of Trustees of the Bridgton Public Library and is the proud mother of two teachers and five grandchildren. Sally was married for 33 years to the award winning historic restoration carpenter, Bob Dunning, until his untimely passing. Sally is Tear Cap Workshops’ founding board president.
Vice President: Lauren Gould
Lauren is a Senior Learning Strategist at Extension Engine. She has served as the senior designer for The Bridgespan Group, Kauffman Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Institute, Center for Effective Public Policy, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others. In addition to her project work, she also supports a group of learning experience designers. Lauren has a master’s degree in Education from Harvard University and in Creative Writing – Poetry from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is editor for several nationally-known poetry journals.
Carrye Castleman-Ross
Carrye has a distinguished history as an entrepreneur, writer and renovator of historic properties. She is on the select board of Bridgton and is currently developing an historic Bridgton property into a retail operation focused on exotic plants and quality hand-made crafts. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Carrye has a degree in literature and brings to Tear Cap Workshops a wealth of experience in management as well as a unique aesthetic vision.
Karl Gifford
Karl is a stone worker and stone wall building instructor. Karl’s love of stone began on the Appalachian Trail where he worked for the Maine Appalachian Trail Club building stone steps, retaining walls and drainage structures. After 11 years of trailwork, he realized that he wanted to begin working only with dry stone. Since then, he has taken workshops with the Dry Stone Conservancy and the Dry Stone Walling Association (DSWA). He is currently a holder of the DSWA Intermediate Certificate (Level II) and is a member of the Dry Stone Wall Association of Great Britain and recommended by The Stone Trust of Vermont. Karl’s business, Sebago Stonework, started in 2010 with the goal of building high quality stonework that will endure for generations and that effort continues today.
Rosemary Wiser
Marguerite Wiser
Rosemary and Marguerite grew up with high regard for craft and hand-made items. Rosemary is a school nurse at Gould Academy in Bethel who can be found exploring hiking trails or creating hand-bound journals from scratch. Marguerite spends the warmer months of the year with her hands in the soil, managing the farm at The Ecology School.
Staff:
Executive Director: Henry Banks
After graduating from Colby College with a double major in English and Biology, Henry moved to Bridgton, Maine to answer a help-wanted ad for a cabinetmaker position. Ever since, Henry has been a carpenter, cabinet maker and general contractor, based in Denmark, Maine for the last 35 years. He founded the H.B. Wood Company, Inc in 1983 and has been the principle ever since. In addition to building custom homes, cabinetry and furniture, he has also trained, encouraged and mentored a large number of apprentices, many of whom later went on to build their own homes. Although formally a carpenter, Henry has also been a teacher and active community member, involved in the founding of three other non-profit organizations in the area. Henry is a co-founder of Tear Cap Workshops.