
Amy Ferlauto
Board President
Amy grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and San Juan, Puerto Rico and has lived in MidCoast Maine off and on since 1984, finally settling in Thomaston in 2002. She has also lived in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic, and has travelled throughout Europe, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and has a BA in Community Studies. She has worked at Camden Hills Regional High School as a Spanish Teacher since 2007. Prior to teaching at CHRHS, Amy was a social worker, working with immigrant families and gang affiliated youth in Santa Barbara, and homeless youth in Rockland. She is continuing to study Italian, and has also studied Portuguese. She is passionate about language learning, teaching and introducing the world to her students.
Amy has a daughter, Isabel, who is a 2019 graduate of Oceanside High School. During the 2015-2016 school year Amy took a leave of absence from her job to live in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico with Isabel, who is half Mexican. Amy wanted to give Isabel the opportunity to learn about Mexican culture and to get to know her heritage and her Mexican side of the family. While her daughter attended the local high school as a ninth grader, Amy taught at a language school, Cornerstone Idiomas, giving Spanish lessons to foreigners living in Barra. Additionally, she gave English lessons to locals, and ran a group for teenagers called, “Todos somos americanos” (We Are All Americans).
Amy has been connected to the Penobscot School since 1992 when she first took an Italian class. She has been the coordinator of two weekend Spanish Immersions at the school, and has volunteered with many other Spanish Immersions as well, including “Español en el bosque” at Tanglewood. She is excited to be a new board member and to contribute to a school that has been such an integral part of our community for so many years.
Samuel Huertas
Member at Large, acting Treasurer
Sarah Werkman
Member at Large, Japanese Instructor

Eleanor Motley Richardson
Secretary
Eleanor Motley Richardson is a well-know author of local history. She and her husband Peter retired to a Rockland house built by his great-grandfather in 1882. A German major, she first studied 3 years of Latin and 9 years of French. COVID inspired her to dig into Spanish. She is a regular attendee in Billy Smith’s Tertulia classes on Tuesdays, and went to Málaga Spain in March 2023 to further her studies. Professionally, she served as an organist and choir director for 30 years. Curious about what was inside the instrument, she became an organ builder for 7 years before her retirement.