CONTACTS

Ann E. Finley

Smith College Dining Services Area Manager
afinley@email.smith.edu
413-585-2304

Ann is an Area Manager for Dining Services with Tyler house, Northrop/Gillett houses – the vegan/veggie house, and the Smith College Club as her responsibility for the ‘05/’06 academic year. Ann serves on the Smith College Sustainability Committee, and represents the Dining Services department on sustainability issues. She attended a regional forum at Yale University for sustainability in dining services, and attends monthly Five College Food Service Directors meetings on buying locally grown products.

Ann is a ’96 Ada Comstock graduate from Smith College with a government major. She has worked in Dining Services at Smith College for the past 16 years, and enjoys walking anywhere and everywhere on campus, regardless the weather. She lives in Belchertown with her husband and 3 cats.

Carole J. Fuller

Director, Strategic Marketing
Smith College
College Relations - 30 Belmont Avenue
Northampton, MA 01063
413-585-3404

During the past 40 years, Carole Fuller has written and produced a variety of promotional materials for health organizations, hospitals, small businesses and corporations, social service agencies, and educational institutions.

Carole was born in Portland, Maine, and lived in Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut until 1961, when she went to college in northern New Jersey, married, obtained a B.A. in English and education, a master's in human development, and lived an urban life for 33 years. After escaping to Maine to work at Colby College in 1993, Carole came to Smith in 1998. Now in College Relations, she helps develop print and electronic media that promotes the college's fund-raising initiatives.

Raised on the Yankee dictum Waste not, Want not, Carole now lives in Greenfield where she is a master gardener, invasive plant mapping volunteer, novice beekeeper, and grandmother increasingly concerned about the impact of environmental carelessness on future generations. Decades after her childhood, she can still hear the sound of her father reading Thornton Burgess nature stories and her mother's voice regularly reminding her, "Turn out the lights when you leave the room!"

Gary J. Hartwell

Project Manager Physical Plant
Smith College
ghartwel@smith.edu
413-585-2441

Gary Hartwell is a project manager at Physical Plant. His responsibilities include managing a wide variety of construction projects that support the college’s mission. His completed projects resume’ at Smith includes the Campus Center, Olin fitness center, the parking garage, and many major (and minor) building renovations, utility and infrastructure projects. He is the project manager for the up coming co-gen project, the Ada Housing project and the Neilson HVAC project which will all have a significant impact on green house gas emission and energy use reduction. He is a member of the Smith College Committee on Sustainability and serves on the Northampton Board of Public Works.

Before coming to Smith in 1994 Gary was a Vice President and field superintendent at Marois Construction, Inc., a commercial, industrial and institutional construction company. In the early 1980’s he was a partner in a small solar contracting company and installed over 30 residential domestic hot water systems.

Gary is a graduate of Southeastern Massachusetts University, now UMass Dartmouth. He lives in Florence, MA with his wife, two children, a small gas boiler and numerous Energy Star appliances. He rides the 2.2 miles to work on his 1983 bicycle and walks when the roads are frozen. During the spring of 2005 Gary started an all out energy conservation project with his family that included replacement of all incandescent lighting with compact fluorescent lights, reduced use of electric appliances, added insulation and some significant behavior change. The results are in. During the last 12 months (June 1, 2005 to May 30, 2006) Gary and family have reduced their electric consumption 41.6% and their natural gas consumption 28.5%. They plan to install a 1.7kW photovoltaic solar system (solar electric power) this fall. It will provide about 66% of their current electric load.

Todd R. Holland, PE

Energy Manager
Five Colleges, Inc.
thollandpe@fivecolleges.edu
413-585-2447

Mr. Holland is the Energy Manager for Smith, Amherst, and Mount Holyoke colleges. His responsibilities include identifying and implementing cost-effective ways to reduce fossil fuel and electrical energy consumption. He brings to the position a diverse background in the energy services, food processing, machine design, and commercial construction industries.

Before joining the Five Colleges community, he was employed by the engineering consulting firm of van Zelm Heywood & Shadford of West Hartford, CT, where he worked on Smith's utility infrastructure master plan and cogeneration feasibility study.

Mr. Holland is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, and a registered professional engineer in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Ohio, Oregon, and Rhode Island. He lives in South Amherst with his wife, three kids, a dog, and lots of bicycles.

Joanne McMullin Benkley

Program Coordinator
Environmental Science and Policy Program
Bass 107
Northampton , MA 01063
jmcmulli@smith.edu
413-585-3951

Joanne coordinates the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ES&P) –which includes both the ES&P and Marine Science and Policy minors. In that capacity, she works to foster environmental awareness within the campus community by organizing lunchbags, lectures, panels and other events. She manages the ES&P listserv, which provides weekly information to subscribers about environmentally related events, news, and internships (Add yourself to the list by emailing enviro@smith.edu!), and ES&P’s Smith College-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) internship program, which each Spring connects students with summer opportunities across the country in numerous fields related to the environment.

Joanne serves on the Smith College Sustainability Committee and the College Council on Community Policy.

Joanne grew up on a family farm in Massachusetts, where her time spent wandering the beautiful hills of Hawley served as the inspiration to learn more about the natural world and its inhabitants in order to help preserve them. She currently lives with her husband Mark and daughter Norah in Leicester, MA.

L. David Smith

Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program
ldsmith@smith.edu
413-585-3828

David Smith is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Smith College. David’s childhood experiences at the beach led him to become a marine ecologist and invertebrate zoologist. He has conducted research on both coasts of North America at a number of field stations including the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Bamfield Marine Station, and the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. Prior to coming to Smith College in 2001, he was an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. He is very interested in biological invasions and has examined the roles of ships and other vectors in moving marine organisms. He and his students are also investigating ecological arms races between introduced predators and native prey. David teaches courses in Invertebrate Diversity, Conservation Biology and the capstone seminar in Environmental Science and Policy. One of his primary goals is to have his students recognize and appreciate the biological diversity that surrounds them.

David’s academic background includes a B.A. in Biology from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina, and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Maryland. He lives in Northampton with his wife, two children, three cats, and biologically diverse yard.