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Paula Walsh
Paula, a geriatric nurse practitioner, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UMass Dartmouth College of Nursing and works at Hawthorne Medical Associates. She is a graduate of Simmons College and completed her Masters in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Paula has lived in Dartmouth for 23 years, is an active member of St Marys Church, currently serving on the Parish Council, and was a member of the Board of Directors at the New Bedford Yacht Club, chairing the junior regatta for several years. 
 
   
 Coastal Neighbors Network Board of Directors 
Kate Fentress:  Board Chair
Kate has a Masters in Social Work from Boston University (1978). She was the first employee of the Women’s Fund at the Community Foundation, where she and a group of
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Dr Steve Kiechel: Board Vice-Chair
Steve moved to Dartmouth in 2010 from Toledo, Ohio where he practiced orthopedic surgery for 40 years. He specialized in the challenges of geriatric orthopedics and was 
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Nancy Kurtz: Board Secretary/Treasurer
Nancy has been active in nonprofits most of her adult life. She is on the board of the Association for the Relief of Aged Women, having served as both president and treasurer.
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Kim Goddard
Kim is a marketing consultant with over thiry years of experience working for companies such as Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Lucasfilm and Bose Corp. Kim is also a photographer and dedicated 
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Gretchen Graef
Gretchen has worked extensively with families throughout her professional life, first as a psychiatric social worker and then as a family law attorney. She worked at The Children’s 
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Margot Hand
Margot is a freelance copy editor for General Reinsurance Corp., where she delights in untangling sentences in articles translated from German and Korean, and leans on a 
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Margaret Jones  
Margaret has worked in Local Government, Banking, Financial Planning and for an Elder Law Attorney both in the UK and New England. She was office manager for Mass Audubon's
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Lisa Mellgard
Lisa began her career as a geologist in the oil industry in New Orleans and then moved into working with computers.  She worked as a systems analyst and database programmer,
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Richard Murdock
Dock Murdock, President of Murdock Associates, has served nonprofit organizations for 35 years developing fund raising and direct marketing programs. Dick has been a frequent 
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Paula Walsh  
Paula, a geriatric nurse practitioner, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UMass Dartmouth College of Nursing and works at Hawthorne Medical Associates. She is a graduate of Simmons 
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