Child Health Center adds Earles to board

NORWAY – Linda and Roy Earle have joined the Child Health Center’s Board of Directors.

Roy Earle is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey where he lived until moving to Maine in 1967. For 25 years he worked for a pharmaceutical company and then taught economics and business management at New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University. After moving to Maine he taught at Ricker College in Houlton and Casco Bay College in Portland.

He is a World War II veteran and is an Iwo Jima survivor. He is active in the 4th Marine Division Association, Oxford Rotary Club and Woodfords Club and is a volunteer in the Yarmouth schools.

Linda Earle came to Maine in 1971 from California where she attended the San Francisco State University and taught grades two to six. After moving to Maine she continued to teach in Freeport and became active in church activities and Girl Scouting. She has been a member of Rainbow Girls since she was a young girl. She is active in the Oxford Hills Rotary and is a mentor at the Rowe School under the Child Health Center’s Big Brothers Big Sisters Program.

The Child Health Center is a nonprofit charitable organization whose purpose is to help improve the health and well being of children in western and central Maine. The Child Health Center’s main office is in Norway and there are branch offices in Auburn and Rumford.

Anyone who would like to learn about the Child Health Center’s services should call 743-7035 or visit the Web site at www.childhealthcenter.org.