Matthew Storin

Matthew Storin

Matt served as editor of The Boston Globe from 1993 to 2001. Earlier, he was editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, executive editor of the (NY) Daily News, editor of Maine Times and national editor of U.S. News & World Report. His reporting career, which began in his...
Bob Hirsch

Bob Hirsch

Bob Hirsch had a 30+ year career with DuPont where he was a research director and retired as a global managing director having run five of the company’s businesses. He grew up in Baltimore, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Scranton prior to...
George A. Cooke

George A. Cooke

George Cooke has spent summers in Maine since childhood and, along with his wife Laura, became a permanent resident of Lincolnville in 2019 following his retirement from an active legal practice in the media and entertainment business. After graduation from Dartmouth...
Dwight Blue

Dwight Blue

Dwight Blue, a longtime fan of the Conference and the student volunteer coordinator at The Strand, has been teaching English at Oceanside High School in Rockland for 20 years.  Originally from Lincoln, NE, he moved to Maine in 2000 after graduating from the University...
Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole

Bruce J. Cole is the past president and founder of McNabb Marketing Resources, Inc., a Rockport-based communications and marketing company.  McNabb organized technology exhibitions and conferences in North America and Europe and operated in a number of markets,...

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