Susan Carlisle Named Honorary Alumna at Husson University’s Alumni Hall of Fame Event

BANGOR, MAINE – October 30, 2013 – Local Bangor area resident and philanthropist Susan A. Carlisle was named an Honorary Alumna at Husson University’s Alumni Hall of Fame event on Friday evening, October 4.

Carlisle was recognized for her support of undergraduate education.  She and her husband David created an endowed scholarship at Husson University that each year is awarded to a student from northern Penobscot County, Maine, preferably from Penobscot Valley High School.

Husson University President and CEO, Dr. Robert Clark, CFA, said, “The scholarship Susan and David made possible tells students, who they never met, that someone believes in their potential. Scholarships are deeply appreciated by our student scholars who often come from families of limited means. By supporting education, Susan and David are opening the doors of opportunity and helping the next generation to prosper and thrive.”

Other individuals honored at the event included the 2013 inductees into Husson University’s Alumni Hall of Fame. They are:

• Mark W. Clark, owner and president of Monogram Building and Design, Inc., a privately owned company that remodels and builds semi-custom and custom homes on Maryland’s Eastern shore. Clark graduated from Husson in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

• Sidney H. Snow, president and CEO of Snow’s Home and Garden in Orleans, MA, “The Lower Cape’s Family Department Store.” Snow earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Husson in 1976.

• Ted Towne, vice president of finance for the Washington Nationals, a Major League Baseball team. Towne graduated from Husson University in 1996 with a degree in accounting.

More About Susan Carlisle:

For more than 35 years, Susan Carlisle has been actively involved in many non-profit organizations in the Bangor area.   A graduate of Walpole High School in Walpole, Massachusetts and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Carlisle spent her immediate post-college years working as an editor for a small educational publishing company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

After relocating to Bangor, Maine, she began her volunteer career, much of which has focused on children and education. She chaired the successful $4.5 million capital campaign that led to the establishment of the Maine Discovery Museum, a hands-on children’s museum in downtown Bangor, and continued her service to the museum as a board member and as founding chair of their annual benefit auctions from 2003 - 2012.  In addition, she served five consecutive three-year terms as an elected member of the Bangor School Committee and the United Technologies Center. 

For more than 20 years, Carlisle was a volunteer for the Bangor Junior League where she served in a variety of capacities. As part of the eventual dissolution process of the local Junior League, Carlisle helped oversee the transfer of its $100,000 endowment to the Maine Community Foundation.  This transfer provided the seed money necessary to startup the Maine Community Foundation’s Penobscot County Fund.   She served as chair of this fund at its inception and remains involved with the Maine Community Foundation as a volunteer grant-reader for both the Penobscot County Fund and the Maine Charity Fund. 

In 2001, Carlisle received the International Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow Award.  Five years later, she received WLBZ-TV’s “2 Those Who Care” Award.  She remains committed to Husson University in her capacity as a trustee and a member of the educational institution’s Women’s Philanthropy Council.