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Cathy Prichard

Cathy

Director of Development
Cathy is a Cincinnati native who moved to Portland in 1982 after graduation from college. After spending one year at a CPA firm as a staff accountant, Cathy worked for ten years in advertising and marketing, first as an Account Executive for Business Digest Magazine and then as the Marketing Director for Direct Mail of Maine. While raising two children, from 1992-2007 she held part time positions at Smith Barney, EF Education and LL Bean. Cathy took the Development Director position in spring of 2007 after serving as a Museum Friends Committee member for 7 years, Museum Auction Chair for two years and Museum board member for three years. She is excited to be back in a fast paced environment that is also caring, creative and full of new challenges.

Join us on the Green!

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Please join us at the beautiful Nonesuch River Golf Club on September 20 for our 5th Annual Golf Tournament! A fun day for golfers of all levels, the tournament will be an 18-hole scramble with a shotgun start at 9:00 am. There will be many contests with prizes, including a hole-in-one, closest-to-pin, longest drive, putting, and [...]

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Meet Barbee Gilman, our Board President!

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Teacher? Lawyer? Doctor? Business Consultant? Barbee Gilman could have been anyone of these but instead has decided to stay home while her children are still school-aged and devote her time to her family, her community, volunteerism and leading the Children’s Museum & Theatre Board of Directors. As a passionate friend of the Museum & Theatre [...]

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Dancing With Books

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Dancing With Books is a series of innovative early childhood reading programs at the Museum & Theatre that uses theatre, movement and music to help develop young children’s enthusiasm for performing arts and reading while enriching their language skills in a fun and engaging way. Our most recent series was funded by a generous grant [...]

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Meet the Kids on the Block!

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Renaldo, Brenda and Melody are just three of our Kids on the Block! Hi everyone! Do you know what Mandy, Renaldo, Mark, Brenda, and Melody all have in common? They are our new Kids on the Block life size puppets and each one has a unique disability that they have come to understand and that [...]

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Big Thanks: Auction 2010

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Each year starting in early October, our volunteer friends committee spends endless hours planning and preparing for our annual auction. The auction raises funds for the Museum & Theatre’s exhibits and educational programming, is rewarding to work on as a volunteer and fun to attend as a guest. This year’s auction, which was held this [...]

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Meet Julie Chevalier, 2010 Auction Chair!

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Each year since the late 1980s, our annual auction has raised much-needed funds to keep our Portland-based organization a premier cultural institution for all children and families, regardless of need. For the past four years, we have had one particularly dedicated auction volunteer who has made a huge contribution to our auction leadership team. Her name is Julie Chevalier [...]

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Thanking the foundations that helped us put on “New Clothes!”

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By now, we hope you’ve heard all about our ongoing shows in the Dress Up Theatre, Cinderella and The Emperor’s New Clothes. But have you heard of the New Clothes Collaboration? When these two shows were selected many months ago, we thought of so many ways all kinds of artists in our community could make [...]

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Fairchild Semiconductor and our Youth Rangers make science fun!

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Winter marks a busy season for science programming at Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. Our Youth Ranger program, generously funded by Fairchild Semiconductor, is an innovative leadership training program for students in grades 8-11 interested in environmental education. It involves recruiting, training and employing teenagers as environmental science educators who work under the guidance [...]

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