Welcome to Neighborhood Falmouth

Neighborhood Falmouth Board of Directors Bios

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Joe Andrews

Joe grew up in Falmouth and is the 6th son of Tony and Marina Andrews of Andrews Farm. As you may be aware Joe’s family has had a long and storied history in Falmouth. Joe was the Senior class president as well as the president of Key Club, of the first graduating class of what was then the new Falmouth High School in 1974. Joe is President of OpenView Advisors which specializes in helping leaders excel through executive advising, coaching, consulting and facilitation for C-level executives and their leadership teams. Prior to starting his company and retiring in 2014, he was the SVP of Human Resources and Chief Compliance officer for Progress Software Corporation and a member of the company's executive leadership team responsible for the company’s human capital management strategy in 38 countries. Joe was also the lead executive of the BOD’s Compensation Committee. Joe has served on the board of a number of associations and well established smaller companies. Joe earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and serves as a frequent conference host/moderator and speaker at human resources conferences and events. Joe moved back to Falmouth in 2014 living in the home he purchased in 2008 on Green Pond. He’s a founding member of the Green Pond Yacht Club. He has 2 adult sons, Jacob & Neil and enjoys boating, sports, music and winters in Florida and Hawaii. Joe is excited about joining Neighborhood Falmouth and has had firsthand experience in dealing with keeping seniors in their homes given that his mother and father did so until passing away at the ages of 93 and 101. He is now involved in assisting his older brother and wife who live in Falmouth to stay in their home despite their disabilities and their everyday challenges.

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Marion Bihari

Chair, MSAC

Marion grew up in Chicago. She became a medical technologist specializing in hematology and then a number of years later became a blood bank technician at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Marion continued to work as a technician after moving to Georgia and then New York, where she worked at the Montefiore Medical Center as a Financial Manager and then an Administrator of a Community Health Center.  In 1990 she changed careers and became a Real Estate agent until she moved to Falmouth in 2001. After arriving on the Cape Marion became a volunteer at the Falmouth Service Center, where she served as their Donor Relations Coordinator. She joined Falmouth Newcomers in 2002, became a board member until moving on to Encore of Falmouth Newcomers where she was a board member and president for two years. For the past sixteen years, she has been the chair and host of the Meet the Author Program bringing celebrated authors to the community. She has served on the board of the Samaritans and is currently on the Gala Committee for the Falmouth Education Foundation and the Gala Committee for Neighborhood Falmouth where she has been a volunteer for two years and a board member.

 

Mike Bihari

President and Chair, Public Relations

Mike moved to Falmouth in 2001 after a long career as a pediatrician, community health center director, and the management of his own healthcare consulting firm. After moving to Falmouth Mike continued to work for an Internet-based health education company in Boston as well as continuing his consulting work, which included a gig with the New York Times to develop and manage a website for consumers about Health Insurance and the new Obamacare law. Since retirement, Mike has been active in the community with healthcare programming. He joined the board of the Falmouth Free Clinic and after becoming president of the board, helped steer the organization from a small free clinic in Town Square to a federally qualified health center serving more than 25,000 patients at five locations on the Cape. After 10 years of service at the health center, Mike joined the board of the newly organized Falmouth Education Foundation and helped to design the process for selecting teacher projects. In 2008 Mike was one of the founding members of the Falmouth Prevention Partnership, a federally funded project to help reduce substance use among Falmouth Teens. For most of his 8 years in the organization, Mike chaired the partnership’s Steering Committee. Additionally, he created and developed all the content for the partnership’s website as well as writing more than 150 articles for the Risky Business column in the Falmouth Enterprise. Mike has also volunteered at the Falmouth Service Center, VIPS, and taught classes in community and school settings.

 

Vicky Cullen

Honorary Director 

Vicky was a science writer, editor, and group manager for more than 30 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she served on and chaired many committees. She was board chairman during start-up of the VNA Child Care Center, and later supported Falmouth soccer activities while her two sons were active in the sport. She joined the Neighborhood Falmouth planning effort in 2006, soon after retiring from WHOI, and became president the following year. Vicky is also a member of the Woods Hole Public Library Board of Trustees.

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Jack Easterling

Jack and his wife, Marcia, “cycled off” the NF Board in 2021 and were persuaded to re-join a year later. Jack was a teacher, coach and administrator at Emma Willard School for girls in Troy, NY. After retiring in 2008, he moved full-time to Falmouth, where the Easterlings already had a summer home. Jack thoroughly enjoys volunteering for a variety of organizations in town, including the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Friends of the Falmouth Public Library, where he sorts books for the book sale, focusing on Classics, Classic Fiction, Poetry and Drama. He also volunteers at the Falmouth Service Center, serves on a committee that lobbies to reduce foreclosures and, of course, is a Neighborhood Falmouth volunteer. Jack believes that these organizations make Falmouth the exceptional and fine town that it is.

 

Marcia Easterling

Like Jack, Marci had a full and active career in independent schools, in her case teaching mostly English and history. Since moving here full-time, Marcia has given her time and talent to a variety of organizations throughout the community. She volunteers for Neighborhood Falmouth and at the Falmouth Service Center, is on the board of the League of Women Voters, and is secretary of the Social Action Committee at the UU Fellowship. She enjoys traveling, reading, cooking and spending as much time as possible with her twin daughters and their families. AND she takes piano lessons to keep the gray matter active!

 

The Rev. Nell Fields

Formerly an editor and journalist, Nell spent the bulk of her career as a publisher for publicly-traded newspaper company in Los Angeles. She then moved to the technology and financial services (payments) sectors where she held executive management positions at Korn-Ferry International and First Data Corporation. She was recruited to lead an emerging payments company in Williamstown, MA, where she successfully raised both angel and venture capital finding. For the past 10 years, she has served as minister at the Waquoit Congregational Church – United Church of Christ (WCC) on Cape Cod.  She is active in a number of organizations in the community including Falmouth Clergy Association, Upper Cape Interfaith Alliance, and No Place for Hate-Falmouth where she serves on the steering committee. She also serves on the Cape Cod Association’s Scholarship committee, and on the advisory board for Belonging to Each Other, and the Cape Cod Military Museum. She recently served on the board of directors for the United Church of Christ Massachusetts conference. Currently, she is moderator of the Barnstable Association for her denomination. Nell holds a BA Journalism, from the University of Kentucky; a MFA English from Mills College (Oakland, CA), and a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School. 

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Margaret Gifford

Born in Pocatello, Idaho, and lived on grandparents’ homestead in the Buckskin Valley until work could be found in California.  Father was journeyman lineman and mother was a school teacher.  After building phone lines on the east side of the Sierras our family settled in Barstow CA—an old route 66 town mentioned in the song! Schooled in Barstow, college at the University of Redlands, CA, with a degree in music.  Married after college, supported then husband by secretarial jobs—one at the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory in Chapel Hill, NC.  Had 3 children in 4 years.  After divorce in 1970, married Cameron Gifford, professor at Earlham College, Richmond, IN, then moved to Woods Hole, MA.  

Worked at Marine Research Inc, in Woods Hole, and when Cam’s WHOI project moved to Florida purchased HV Lawrence, an 1886 landscape, greenhouse, flower shop doing business there for 17 years.  During that time I was involved in the Falmouth Band Parents, Woods Hole Historical Society, Falmouth Inter-faith Choir, Falmouth Chamber of Commerce board, fund raising for Falmouth Hospital including being on the foundation board. Before they hired a functions person a group of concerned ladies planned all the fundraising galas!!   In 1993 the trickle-down economics did not trickle to HV Lawrence and we went bankrupt. I worked at the Falmouth Housing Authority until I helped start a new real estate company called Act 1 Carol O’Loughlin Real Estate.  It still made sense to keep helping Falmouth Hospital as they merged into Cape Cod Health Care as well as continuing with the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce.  In 2000 the Falmouth Historical Society (Museums on the Green) needed planners for the first Heritage Dinner and I have been involved with them ever since.  I have continued to work in real estate since 1993 and am at Sothebys. The earliest Neighborhood Falmouth organizational group met with Joanne Voorhis, Paul Ferris Smith and other concerned Falmouth folks and until real estate became too demanding I met with the beginnings of that wonderful, caring group.  I have supported NF since that time

 

Suzanne Gnospelius

Sue became a full-time resident of Falmouth in April of 2012 after many years of summer residency.  She grew up in Braintree, Massachusetts, but in 1972 she moved from Hingham, MA, with her husband and three small children, ages  4, 3, and six-months old, first to Stamford and then Wilton, CT, and then on to Lake Forest, IL  Houston, TX, Philadelphia, PA and then in 1999, back to the South Shore of Boston.  She was a stay-at-home Mom to her children, and became an active volunteer in her various communities serving the schools, civic organizations, and her Church.  She especially enjoyed volunteering with the aging community.  Shortly after returning to Massachusetts, she became a full-time college student.  In 2008 she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Gerontology from the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus.  In Falmouth Sue serves on the Pastoral Care, Strawberry Fair, and Christmas Fair Committees at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, as a volunteer at the Falmouth Service Center’s Hand in Hand Thrift Shop, as a member of the Membership Committee, and Co-Chair of the 2019 Gala at Neighborhood Falmouth, and as the Assistant Membership Chairman at Falmouth Newcomers.  Her son and his family including a granddaughter and grandson, live outside of Chicago, she has a daughter-in-law and two grandsons in Ridgewood, NJ, and her daughter, son-in-law who is Australian by birth, and granddaughter live in Melbourne, Australia.  She spends as much time as possible traveling to see them all.  Sue is happy to be living in Falmouth, one of the most caring communities that she has lived in.  The level of volunteerism here is spectacular.

 

Carol Kenney

Carol, an Air Force brat, came to Falmouth in the fifties when her Dad was in Korea. She graduated from Falmouth High School, went off to college and met her future husband, Ray Kenney, the day she began her teaching career at Otis Air Force Base Elementary School. When their three kids were in high school, Carol went to law school in Boston thereafter opening a practice in Falmouth. She was assistant town counsel for twenty years but now limits her practice to elder law. She was a town meeting member for twenty-eight years, Cape Cod Community College Foundation board member, United Way board member, Falmouth Hospital board member and volunteer attorney for Falmouth Human Services. Presently she is a member of the Council on Aging board, a volunteer attorney at the Falmouth Senior Center, and a member of the Falmouth Hospital Ethics Committee. She enjoys travel, learning to play golf, and most of all the company of her six grandchildren.

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Bill Laberis

Professionally, I worked 43 years as a journalist (large and small daily papers in Mass); senior writer, senior editor, managing editor then 10 years as editor-in-chief for Computerworld magazine; after which I ran my own publishing company for 11 years before working until my retirement as a publishing executive. In Holliston, where we raised our boys, I was the founding treasurer of the Holliston Education Foundation in 1989, which today boasts a substantial endowment. For three years I chaired the Stewardship Committee at the Holliston Congregational Church, where I also served on the Board of Deacons and in other capacities. I coached soccer (pretty well) and basketball (not well!) For the past 5 years I have worked with Meals on Wheels in Falmouth, delivering nutritious lunches largely to housebound elderly individuals. That experience is really the catalyst for my seeking a board position with Neighborhood Falmouth.I am a grandfather; avid boater and fisherman; avid golfer; big-time vegetable gardener plus some dahlias. We love the Town of Falmouth and do what we can to support ongoing efforts to clean our estuaries. My wife of 43+ years, Jan, is a landscape designer. I am a graduate of Columbia University.

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Vicky Lowell

Secretary/Clerk

Vicky and her late husband moved to Falmouth in 1966, and Vicky immediately dove into the League of Women Voters. From there she ran for and was elected to Town Meeting, where she is still a member, 40+ years later. She has serviced as Chair of the Planning Board and was also an elected Barnstable County Commissioner. With a Masters degree in Environmental Policy, Vicky has focused on land use and open space. She was founder and first president of The 300 Committee and a long-time board member of the Woodwell Climate Research Center. She was also a trustee of Falmouth Hospital where she was key in facilitating the hospital’s merger with Cape Cod Healthcare. She was involved with NF for many years as a volunteer driver.

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Michael McNaught

The son and grandson of British regular army officers, Michael was born in Scotland and educated in England and the USA. He has BA and MA degrees in history from Oxford University and an MA from Columbia. He came to the USA (“for one year”) in 1961, and never went home again. After teaching in New York city for seven years he served as the Headmaster of the Berkshire Country Day School in Lenox, Mass, from 1968-1975, then as the Assistant Headmaster of the New Canaan Country School in Connecticut from 1976 until his retirement to Falmouth in 2004. Michael has maintained his love of both history and teaching by lecturing extensively around Cape Cod for the past 19 years, including stints at Cape Cod Community College and the public libraries of Chatham, Orleans and Falmouth. Over the years he has served on numerous boards, including the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust, the Moors Association and the Falmouth Historical Society.

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Kit O’Connor

Kit grew up in Connecticut but, like so many people who eventually retire here, she got to know and love Falmouth by visiting her grandparents every summer. Their house on Oyster Pond was built by Kit’s dad in 1950. After college and grad school, Kit and her husband Matt moved to northern Virginia where they raised their three boys. In 2012 they returned to the same house on Oyster Pond, this time to take care of Kit’s parents who were 91 and 93.  Soon after they arrived, Kit took a job working for the newly formed Falmouth Prevention Partnership, which eventually became part of Gosnold. After five years, she moved on to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth, where she is currently the administrator. Kit has been an active volunteer for Highfield Hall and the Falmouth Service Center. She enjoys visiting her children and grandchildren, kayaking, walking 300 Committee properties, and enjoying all that Falmouth has to offer. “It is an honor being asked to be on the board of Neighborhood Falmouth. My mother, Mavise Crocker, was an early board member and part of the working group that helped get the organization off the ground. It feels like I have come full circle.”

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Karen Roberts

Treasurer

Karen consults with life science companies, utilizing her extensive management, financial and human resource experience to provide services on an as needed project basis.  She has held numerous senior financial positions in multiple industries.  Karen earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Salem State College.  Along with her husband, Jeff MacDougall, they raised two sons and after lengthy challenging careers, they settled in Waquoit Village of Falmouth in 2015.  In her free time, Karen enjoys the beach, Pilates, learning to play golf, boating, being with family and friends, travel and all that Cape Cod has to offer.  While participating with her siblings in the care for her own aging parents, both of whom desired to stay in their own home, Karen quickly realized it takes a village to make that happen.  When she moved to Falmouth and discovered Neighborhood Falmouth, it was an organization she could easily support, both volunteering time and financial contributions.  In addition to NF, Karen volunteered for over a decade raising money for cancer research and patient support, held volunteer positions for cub scouts, school and sports activities for her children and serves on the Salem State University Board of Overseers.  

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Karen Smith-Lovejoy

I grew up in New Jersey and moved to North Carolina when my father was transferred, in the 70’s.  After graduating from college, I worked in an outpatient substance abuse clinic before starting my decades long career in the not-for-profit sector. I spent the next 30 years transferring to various markets, working with staff, volunteers and their Boards to help them assess their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, to best meet their missions.  I also provided training to field staff in fundraising efforts for big ticket events netting 100K or more, which I thoroughly enjoyed. During my career and since retiring, I have volunteered as treasurer and president of home owner associations in Arizona and Florida. I volunteered for an agency in Arizona much like Neighborhood Falmouth with a similar mission. I was president of an art league in Arizona and president of an art school on Whidbey Island, in Washington state. Having lived around the country my volunteering has afforded me both the opportunity to contribute to my community and meet some wonderful people.  My husband (Ben) and I moved to Falmouth in 2021 and I currently volunteer for Hand in Hand Thrift Shop.  I am a sculptor and a collector of contemporary art. I look forward to working with the Neighborhood Falmouth team! 

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Bob Spadafora

Chair, Volunteer Committee

Bob bought his first home in Falmouth in Great Harbours in 1975. He was attracted to Falmouth after growing up in Boston and graduating from Boston College.  His first job was with State Street Bank in Boston in their computer services division. Their clients were community banks. Bob’s clients included Falmouth National Bank as well as others. He thought Falmouth was a great location and a super spot for his 2 young children to spend summers. His career has been entirely in the financial services industry. He has held senior positions at State Street Bank, Colonial Mutual Funds, Sun Life of Canada and was president of IFMG, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual.  IFMG was at the time the largest provider of brokerage and insurance services to banks in the country. Bob met his wife Fran at State Street Bank and moved to Falmouth on a full time basis in 2015 after finishing his career in San Diego at CUSO Financial Services, another provider of brokerage services to credit unions.  Bob has traveled extensively with his career and logged more than 5 million air miles and 2,000 nights in hotels.  Joining Neighborhood Falmouth 4 years ago has been a rewarding way to give back to the community he fell in love with more than 40 years ago. Bob and Fran have 3 children and 4 grandchildren. His oldest son, Rob junior purchased a home 2 years ago in Sandcastle Estates. The entire Spadafora Clan have enjoyed many wonderful memories in Falmouth and look forward to many more in the years ahead.

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Janet B. Totten

Vice President and Chair, Governance Committee  

Janet is originally from Philadelphia, where she hopes she has left that distinctive Philly accent. She was as surprised as anyone that her political science major actually prepared her for a career conducting survey-based research and consulting projects across several industries. After moving to Jamaica Plain, she began working for Time-Warner Communications and opened JP Licks, a local ice cream store. From JP, she fled to Falmouth and shifted her focus to non-profit management, first at Falmouth Historical Society and later at Highfield Hall. She has served on the boards of Falmouth Service Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project and Friends of Fairwinds, and is currently serving as vice president with Falmouth Education Foundation. She also enjoys lending a hand to West Falmouth Library, Falmouth Art Center and Museums on the Green.

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Joanne Voorhis

Honorary Director

Joanne served the Falmouth Schools as a teacher, psychometrist, and assistant elementary school principal. A long association with the League of Women Voters includes having served the group as president and currently as treasurer. Active in town affairs, she was a Town Meeting member for 36 years and served on the Finance and Human Services Committees. She is a former president of both the Falmouth Education Association and the Woods Hole Child Center. She is one of the three founding members of Neighborhood Falmouth.