Meet the Crew at the Jackson Memorial Library

Board of Directors

President: Christopher Brewer Williamson

Vice President: Mary Cady

Secretary: Anne Rogers

Treasurer: Dr. Alexis Saba

Board Members:

Elaine Wilson

Ryan Aponte

William Lang, M.D.

Shelly Gallender

Dara Zuckernick

Board Bios

Christopher Brewer Williamson, President

Christopher “Chris” Williamson graduated from Williams College with honors in history in 1970, earned a Masters Degree in English from The University of New Hampshire in 1975, and took graduate courses at Boston University in Education and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in drama. After teaching, directing plays, coaching, and serving in various administrative capacities at schools in New Hampshire and Ohio, he was appointed Head of The Wardlaw+Hartridge School (Pre-K – 12 in Edison, New Jersey) in 1994, then The Applewild School (Pre-K – 9 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts) in 2005. After retiring in 2015, Chris has done some educational consulting and returned as Interim Head at Applewild from February 2018 to June 2019.

Chris served two terms as Treasurer of the Board of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) and as President of the Patriot (NJ) Athletic Conference. More recently, he was elected a Vice-Chair of the Williams College Alumni Fund and served on the Board of the Fitchburg Greenways Committee, the Nashua River Watershed Association, the Midcoast Community Chorus, and the Morris David Dorenfeld Foundation.

Chris and his wife Peggy have lived on Patten Point Road in Spruce Head since 1978, mostly in the summers until retirement, and have enjoyed the Jackson Memorial Library with their children and now grandchildren for over 40 years. He was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors in August 2020, Treasurer in 2022, and President in 2025.

Mary Cady, Vice President

Mary Cady attended the University of Colorado, majoring in science, and then completed the Physical Therapy program at Northwestern University. She practiced at Boston Children’s Hospital, becoming the department’s in-patient supervisor. 

After living outside the U.S. for seven years, she returned to the states and settled in Michigan. While raising her two sons, she worked part-time, first in sales and then in public health, where she coordinated the Worksite Wellness program. Mary also has been an active volunteer with the Ronald McDonald House and the Humane Society, as well as through her ESL tutoring through the county literacy organization. 

She and her husband began spending summers in Maine in 2002, and in 2021 they became full-time residents. She’s been a volunteer at the Jackson Memorial Library for a number of years. Besides reading, she enjoys cooking, gardening, walking, nature and travel.

Mary was elected to the JML Board of Directors in August 2024, and elected Vice President in 2025.

Anne Rogers, Secretary

Anne Rogers and her family have spent summers in St. George since 2005. For many years, she volunteered with her daughter Zoë at the Jackson Memorial Library, working at the front desk and on the annual Book Sale and Raffle.

She and her husband moved to St. George as year-round residents in 2021. Prior to moving here, Anne lived in Sacramento, California. After completing her Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, she earned an additional Masters in Horticulture at the University of California, Davis. She worked as a horticulturist for a large California developer overseeing landscape installation and maintenance in four states. Later, she worked for a Sacramento landscape architect before becoming a freelance residential garden designer.

Anne volunteered in several organizations at her daughter’s schools in Sacramento. She was on the board at the Brookfield School. She also served on the board of her Neighborhood Association for many years. She was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors in August 2024, and became secretary in 2026.

Dr. Alexis Saba, Treasurer

Alexis Saba is the Senior Manager of Academic Programs at the Farnsworth Art Museum. In her role managing year-long arts integration programming, she has the privilege of collaborating with local educators, students, community organizations, and artists at the museum and in our community. She has over 15 years of experience in education leadership, community-based research, and program development. 

Prior to her work at the Farnsworth, Alexis held faculty positions in Education at Indiana University and Colby College where she taught in the foundations of education and international education. Her research included working with rural communities in the global South that were advocating for access to arts-based educational solutions. 

Alexis and her partner Jon, who works in commercial fishing and aquaculture, reside in Tenants Harbor. Alexis is also a self-taught silversmith. She was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors as Treasurer in 2025.

Board Members:

Elaine Wilson

Elaine served as Vice President of the Rockland Midcoast Children’s Museum in 2008, which she helped form into the Coastal Children’s Museum in 2009. She served as President of the Board for the Coastal Children’s Museum from 2009 to 2018.

Elaine has a Bachelors in Science in Education K-8 from Cortland State Teacher`s College and enjoyed a long career in education, working as a third, fourth, and fifth grade teacher and student teacher trainer, among other positions. After earning a Master’s degree in Human Development and Counseling from University of Rhode Island, Elaine also began working as a Children and Family Therapist. She also studied Comparative Education abroad through Temple University.

Elaine joined the Board in 2023 and shortly thereafter was elected as secretary, a role she filled until 2026. In her free time, she enjoys reading and sailing.

Ryan Aponte

Ryan received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and took graduate courses at the University of Texas. After many years working as a journalist and editor, he entered the technology sector in 2004 and currently works as a Program Manager at Red Hat.

Ryan and his family first came to St George as visitors 20 years ago. In 2020, they moved to Port Clyde and in 2024 his daughter became a student at St George MSU.

Ryan serves on the board of the St George Sailing Foundation and enjoys reading, running, and messing about in boats. He was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors in 2025.

William Lang, M.D.

William “Bill” Lang grew up in New Orleans and after a few misadventures, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) in 1970 and Boston University of Medicine (M.D.) in 1977.

Bill practiced Internal Medicine for 15 years in San Francisco while living across the Golden Gate Bridge in Mill Valley (altogether for 42 years). During that time he sat on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conducted epidemiologic and clinical research in AIDS for approximately 5 years. He then left medical practice to work in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical research in new drug development for breast and colon cancer and rare diseases as Senior Director of Clinical Research and as a consultant until retirement in 2020. He still does some occasional consulting work.

Since then, although he has given up his longtime and passionate avocation of cycling, Bill has resumed a lifetime love of gardening and discovered a new passion (and received significant training in) aesthetic pruning; and he has acquired a tractor (“which has changed my life!”) so he can now bush hog our meadow and tame the wilds of the corner of Martinsville he shares with his wife, Maggie.

Maggie and Bill and their three kids have been coming to Tenants Harbor for summers for 40+ years. They are now thrilled to have moved here permanently last April to further enjoy old friendships and start new ones. And live in Maine! 

Bill was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors in 2025.

Dara Zuckernick

Dara received her education at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, a Master of Science in Cell Biology, and a Master of Business Administration. Her career was spent in the life science industry, both as a researcher and later, as a sales and marketing executive. After retiring in 2015, she continued to work as a business consultant while also opening an art gallery in her Pennsylvania community. In Pennsylvania, she also served on the board of The Art Trust, a local non-profit contemporary art organization. Like many non-native Mainers, Dara summered in the Pemaquid peninsula area for several decades before taking the leap and moving to Tenants Harbor full time in 2018.

Since moving to Maine, she has turned her hobbies into employment via a part-time role with the Center for Contemporary Art in Rockland, and as a strength and conditioning coach with CJ Strength in Rockport (she happens to hold multiple New England Olympic weightlifting records).

After moving to Tenants Harbor and signing up for a library card, Dara volunteered for the Jackson Memorial Library by managing the art shows in the community room. She is currently reading her way through every Pulitzer Prize winning novel, in reverse chronological order. When not reading, lifting heavy things, or looking at art, she might be found puttering in her garden.

Dara was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors in 2026.


Shelly Gallender

Shelly grew up in the deep south and earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University. She then spent the better part of a decade bouncing between New Orleans and Maine before finally settling in Tenants Harbor in the spring of 2019.  She currently works from home as an engineering consultant specializing in Materials and Corrosion. 

Shelly worked as an assistant at Jackson Memorial Library in 2021 and 2022, then became a regular weekend volunteer. She is also a hike leader and the Outings chair of the Maine Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC,) as well as a hike leader and committee member of  AMC's Cold River Camp in Chatham, New Hampshire. 

In her free time, Shelly loves coming to the library with her two children, reading, hiking, travel, and cooking.

Shelly was elected to the Jackson Memorial Library Board of Directors in 2026.