A New Face for a New Year!

2007 will be an extra busy year as Squamscott Community Commons staff and volunteers switch into high gear to launch the campaign to build Exeter's first community center and YMCA. And to make that happen, we have added a fourth member to our staff: Loretta Allison!

Loretta joins the team as the Community Fundraising and Development Manager full time beginning February 1. A graduate of Penn State, with a B.S. in Psychology, Loretta was most recently employed as Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Phillips Exeter Academy working on a $305 million multi-year comprehensive campaign. Prior to her work at Exeter, she was a Campaign Manager with United Way of Merrimack Valley in Haverhill, MA. Loretta brings fundraising, volunteer management, events and marketing experience that will help to make this community center a reality. Loretta resides in Portsmouth with her husband Tim and their chocolate Lab Gerry.

Loretta joins Carol Aten, Robin Drunsic, and Minnie Sabin just in time to help them move into new office space at the "Annex" at 56 Linden Street in Exeter (the building we will be demolishing!) for the new year in Room A106.