Wayne has two grown children (daughter, Jess and son, Jeff) and two grandchildren. Wayne has been a member of MSLS and the Narragansett Chapter of MSLS since 1987; he was president of Narragansett in 1990 and treasurer from 1991 – 2000 and has been a member of MSLS’s Executive Committee since 2008. He is currently a member of Gray’s Ordinance Review Committee and a lieutenant in Gray’s volunteer fire department and enjoys farming, ice hockey, camping and fire fighting in his spare time.
Vice President Gregory J. Copeland
Gregory
J. Copeland
began his surveying career by chance with F.A. Hesketh and Associates in
Bloomfield Connecticut in 1984.
Applying for a drafting job, Greg was offered a field position and hasn't
looked back. After moving to
Maine in 1990, Greg earned his Maine PLS license in 1995.
Greg has been employed at the City of Biddeford's Engineering
Department Since 1993. His
position there incorporates the use of both Surveying and GIS.
Greg attended the former Hartford State Technical College in
Connecticut.
While in Connecticut he was an associate member of the Connecticut
Association of Land Surveyors and has been a member of MSLS since 1996,
serving as Director-at-Large since 2007.
He is past Chairman of the Maine GIS Users Group and was appointed to
a 3 year term on the board of the Maine Library of Geographic information in
2007.
Greg lives in Biddeford and in his spare time enjoys golfing and dabbling in theater.
He has been a member of the Maine Society of Land Surveyors from
1987-present and Androscoggin
Fred
Nehring
undertook land surveying as a second career.
Previously as a New Yorker,
Fred had managed a credit union an was a community organizer.
He came to Maine in 1998 and
enrolled in the University of Maine’s Spatial Information Science and
Engineering program.
He graduated cum laude in 2003
and worked as an apprentice under Terry Leighton.
He qualified for his
professional license in 2006 and began his own practice shortly afterward.
Fred has been a member of the
Maine Society of Land Surveyors
since
joining as a student in 2002.
He is active in the Midcoast
Chapter.
He brings to the ExCom board
his prior experience in management and accounting.
Fred lives in Boothbay with
his wife, Tilly.
He helps out with Habitat for
Humanity and is a member of his local chamber of commerce.
For fun Fred works part time
for the local cinema as a projectionist.
He is also an avid gardener,
enjoys reading and cooking.
Executive Committee
(ExCom)
From MSLS
Constitution:
ARTICLE V: Officers and Directors Section 1. The officers of
the Society shall consist of a President, a Vice President, a Secretary
and a Treasurer. The Board of Directors shall consist of two (2)
at-large Directors and one (1) director from Local Chapters organized in
accordance with Article IV, and a Governor from M.S.L.S. to the National
Society of Professional Surveyors.
ARTICLE VI: Administration. Section 1.
Executive Committee: The management of the Society's business and fiscal
affairs shall be vested in the Executive Committee, restricted in its
actions only by the Constitution and By-laws of the Society. The
Executive Committee shall be responsible to the membership for its acts
and shall fully report the same at all general membership meetings.
Section 2. The Executive Committee
shall be constituted as follows: the President shall hold the Chair; the
Vice President shall hold the Vice-Chair; the Secretary shall be the
Secretary; the Treasurer; the immediate past president; and the Board of
Directors of the Society. A vacancy on the Committee by the immediate
Past President shall be filled by the next immediate Past President.
Current Executive Committee Members
Arthur Montana, Director -
Androscoggin Chapter
William M. Coombs, Director - Pejepscot Chapter
Gregory J. Copeland, Director - Vice President
Kevin Farrar, Secretary
Jason Farthing, Director - Narragansett Chapter
Stephen Gould, Director Somerset Chapter
A. John Lloyd, NSPS Governor
Robert C. Libby, Jr., Immediate Past President
Dan Livingstone, Director - Hancock/Penobscot Chapter
Keith W. Morse, Director - At Large
Joe LaBranche, Jr., Director - Midcoast Chapter
William Shippen, Director - At Large
Kilburn B. Swallow, Director - Crown of Maine Chapter
Wayne T. Wood, President
M.S.L.S.
Members are welcome to attend Executive Committee Meetings which are
generally held the second Wednesday of each month (except for one
combined summer date). Check the most recent issue of
FieldNotes for a specific upcoming meeting time
and place or contact any ExCom member.
Learn about MSLS Committees ~ Serve
on a MSLS Committee
The advancement of our profession and
important Society work is largely accomplished by individuals willing to their
time to work on a MSLS committee. If you might be willing to join a
committee to help work on a special project, ongoing MSLS efforts, or just want
to find out more about committees, contact Executive Director,
Bruce Bourgoine for more information.
Standing MSLS Committees
Legislative Committee (Dan Bernier, Counsel)
*
Nominating Committee (Robert Libby, Chair)
* Constitution & Bylaws Committee (John Schwanda, Chair)
* Ethics Committee
* Unlicensed Practice
Membership Committee (John Schwanda)
Budget & Finance Committee (
Liaison Committee (Wayne Wood, Chair)
$
Board of Licensure (Greg
Copeland, Liaison)
$ ACSM/NSPS (John
Lloyd, Governor)
$
$
$ MDOT (Don Dostie, Liaison)
Publications Committee (Jocelyn Lloyd, Editor)
Education Committee (Karl Olson)
Scholarship Committee (Dave Cook,
Chair)
Historical Committee (Bill Saucier, Chair)
MSLS Web (Bruce Bourgoine, Webmaster)
* Case Law Update/ADR (Donald Richards, Chair)