Fred St. Cyr joins Nasson Community Center board of directors

Thursday, January 21, 2010

SPRINGVALE — Fred St. Cyr has joined the Nasson Community Center's board of directors.

"Fred has extensive experience that will assure the continuing success of the Center," Marynel R. Driscoll, the president of the board, stated in a press release.

A graduate of Sanford High School, St. Cyr received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Master of Science degree in Education from Gorham State College. He has completed postgraduate studies at a number of colleges throughout New England. He is currently "retired" from education, following a career devoted to eight years of teaching Industrial Arts and Science in Maine and Coastal Connecticut and 27 years in Secondary School Administration; he served as the director of the Sanford Regional Vocational Technical Center and the assistant principal and, later, the interim principal at Sanford High School.

St. Cyr also served as Industrial Education Instructor of graduate and teacher recertification courses at the University of Southern Maine. As well, he taught a variety of courses in Sanford's adult education program.

Among his diversified experiences, St. Cyr was employed by the Sanford-Springvale Redevelopment Corporation, for which he focused on the redevelopment of the Nasson College Campus. He is currently focusing some of his energy on a small part-time design-development business — F. St. Cyr Associates — as a designer, project manager and consultant.

St. Cyr has donated numerous services to Sanford and Springvale. Some of these include assisting with the designing and planning of the present Sanford High School and Regional Vocational Center, as requested by Architect Irving W. Hersey Associates, of Durham, New Hampshire; renovating the former Sanford High School to the new Willard School; designing the addition to the Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library and, years later, its recent marquis; consulting for the Sanford Town Hall's "new" Town Clock project; and remodeling and renovating the Sanford Memorial Gym. He is and has been affiliated with a variety of professional and service organizations.

St. Cyr is married to Elizabeth J. St. Cyr, the Superintendent of Sanford Public Schools.

He has been a professional musician since the early 1950s and is still very actively engaged in that delightful avocation.

Also new to the Nasson Community Center and Little Theatre are Sanford Community Adult Education students who are volunteering as receptionists, including such assignments as scheduling the events calendar and other various clerical duties from 3 to 5 p.m. on weekdays. These students, under the direction of ESCP Coordinator Lisa Blanchette, and SCAE Director Kathi Metcalfe are: Jean Allain, Rebecca Bolduc, Lisa Merlin, Richard Rodney, and Betty Ryder.

"The Center thanks the adult education staff and these students for this very important and helpful service," Driscoll said.

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