Sue Spalding

		Spanish

Sue grew up in Springfield Massachusettes but summered every year on nearby Bustins Island. She vowed that she would one day move to Maine. She married another Bustins Islander and moved to Freeport in 1977 - as close as you can get to the island off-season.

She graduated from Oberlin College where she studied English, French, and German. After graduating she lived in southern France for a year to study the language. She earned her MA from Ohio State University, where she studied Spanish, and then taught English as a second language, French, and music.  She has taught in Raymond, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Chebeague, Long Island and Richmond from which she recently retired.

As a family, hers is water-logged. Her husband is a naval architect, and after attending college, her two sons returned to be on the water. One lobsters out of Freeport, and the other worked on the Casco Bay Lines ferries before moving to work in Arlington, VA.  Even her small dog, Lilly, loves to ride the boat to Bustins.

Her passions are music, nature, languages, and islands. At Bustins, she is the municipal clerk and archivisit, runs a Nature Center and publishes the island newsletter.

She is very happy to be teaching on Chebeague once again. She taught music here from 1985 - 1990, again from 1994 - 1996, and always hoped that she would get a chance to come back.

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