Business news

Bank promotion

BANGOR – Elizabeth A. Sherman of Greenbush has been promoted to officer in the TD Banknorth Maine branch on Union Street.

As customer sales and service manager, she will continue to oversee day-to-day operations, manage sales and handle consumer and mortgage lending for customers in Bangor, Brewer and surrounding area.

Sherman joined TD Banknorth in 1989 and has 17 years in banking. Previously, she served in mortgage processing and collections, and as a branch supervisor and a teller.

Sherman volunteers with the March of Dimes’ WalkAmerica and Junior Achievement. She is a 1988 graduate of Old Town High School.

Business fellowship

PORTLAND – Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker and the University of Southern Maine School of Business have created a position to further develop partnerships that support the educational needs of students and business professionals.

The position, known as the Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker Distinguished Fellow of Accounting and Taxation, is to be held by a senior faculty member in the USM School of Business who has a demonstrated record of high-quality teaching. Criteria include evidence of leadership in the field and involvement with practitioners in the discipline.

USM Professor of Accounting George R. Violette of Portland has been named the first Distinguished Fellow. Violette, who joined the USM faculty in 1988, said that the position would provide professional development and research opportunities, as well as learning opportunities for students.

Pharmacy scholarship

AUGUSTA – Community Pharmacies, a Maine-based regional pharmacy chain, is starting the William G. Waldron Scholarship at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.

The scholarship will be awarded to a Maine pharmacy student in his or her sixth year of study. Community Pharmacies will pay the final year of tuition for the qualifying student – nearly $25,000 per year. This will be the first year the scholarship will be offered.

Because Maine does not have a pharmacy school, Community Pharmacies wishes to extend a helping hand to enable Maine graduates to return to Maine and live and work in their home state after graduation.

“There are unfilled pharmacists positions in Maine,” said Steve Zanardi, vice president of Community Pharmacies and a 1976 graduate of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. “We are hoping that by offering this scholarship that students will be excited about the prospect of coming home, filling some of our vacancies and beginning their futures here.”

Community Pharmacies employs about 20 pharmacists at eight locations throughout Maine.

William G. Waldron, for whom the scholarship is named, was the chairman of Community Pharmacies and a trustee of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He also was the former owner of J.E. Goold, a Maine-based pharmacy wholesale business. He was an entrepreneur in Maine and owned many businesses. Waldron was known for his generosity to employees and to organizations such as the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.

Community Pharmacies stores are in Saco, Raymond, Gorham, Bucksport, Dexter, Corinth, Randolph and Newport. The company plans to open two more stores this year in Blue Hill and Cornish.

Map production staff

BANGOR – KAPPA Mapping Inc. has welcomed Paul Burpee and James Wickett to its map production staff. Burpee and Wickett bring more than 70 years of combined experience in mapping, photogrammetry and imagery technology to the firm.

In their new positions, Burpee and Wickett provide stereo map compilation services for the company, utilizing digital production software and traditional analytical compilation instruments.

Burpee has been a digital imagery technician and served with the U.S. Army for 26 years as a specialist in Imagery Intelligence.

Wickett has 37 years of experience in the mapping industry in field survey, conversion and photogrammetry control.

KAPPA Mapping Inc., at 6 State St. provides map production services including flight planning, topographic mapping, and orthophotography to surveyors, planners, land developers, engineers and government agencies. For information, call (866) 836-8834, e-mail info@kappamap.com, or visit www.kappamap.com.