MADELINE LITTLEÂ is excited to serve on the board of Friends of theOldSchoolhouse. A graduate of NYC Tisch School of the Arts, Madeline spent nearly two decades in New York working in theater, film, and television before returning to Barnstable where her family has deep roots.
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Madeline brings experience marketing, event planning, fundraising, and community engagement through her professional and volunteer work on Cape Cod. She is involved with the Barnstable Comedy Club, the Barnstable Land Trust and other local community initiatives.A new mother, Madeline is especially excited to contribute to the community her son will grow up in and to help preserve and strengthen the history, character and sense of community that makes Barnstable Village special.
CRYSTAL GIPS, President, earned degrees at Keuka College (B.A. in English), University of Arizona ((M.Ed) and Boston University (ED.D) and an honorary degree (Doctor of Human Letters) from Keuka College. She enjoyed a career of 45 years as an educator -- high school teacher, principal, professor, dean of  School of Education, and state director of a teacher education program for the  California State University system. Most recently, she served for 14 years on the Board of Trustees Keuka College, with three years as chair. She has filled a number of rolls for the Unitarian Church of Barnstable including as treasurer and most recently as director of the restoration and preservation projects at the church. In her unclaimed time, she likes to paint, knit, cook and bakeand read as well as travel.
LISA HANDY STANDISH, Vice President, was a student at the Old Barnstable Schoolhouse from 1954  until I it closed in 1957.
She earned a B.S. in Human Service and a M.S. in Community Economic Development from the University of Southern New Hampshire. Her focus was organizational development. She founded the Cape Ann CDC Â to create affordable housing for fishing families. She co-founded the New Fish Festival and was the founding Chair of the Gloucester Seafood Festival and the Gloucester Fisheries Forum. She served on the Gloucester Board of Health, and the boards of the Women's Fisheries Network and the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives. She worked at the Massachusetts Office of Business Development as a fisheries development
specialist, and served on the Governor's Council on Aquaculture Development. She later worked at UMass Dartmouth Center of Marine Science and Technology. She was the founding chairperson​ of The Dartmouth Agricultural Commission where she organized and led a campaign to bring 2,000 acres of coastal farmland under conservation. She was a Trustee at the Trustees for Reservations and served on the Board of the Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies in South Dartmouth, MA During the past 20 years, Lisa developed, owned and operated the Mountain Village Farm B&B in Kingfield, ME. Lisa has deep roots and a large extended family on Cape Cod.
DAN EWING, Treasurer, retired in 2012 from Instron, an ITW company, where he served as Vice President of Human Resources. Since moving to Cape Cod in 2013 he has served as Treasurer of the Unitarian Church of Barnstable from 2016 to 2026 and is currently the Treasurer of Friends of the Schoolhouse, Inc.
CHERYL BYRNE, Secretary, brings a wealth of expertise as a retired library consultant and educator. She conducted nationwide workshops on Facility Maintenance and Development for the Public Library Association and authored "Managing Facilities for Results" for the ALA. Her specialized consulting work focused on strategic planning, facilitating community dialogues to create actionable goals, and designing library building programs that optimize space for evolving modern services. Cheryl also shared her knowledge by teaching courses in library management. During her tenure as a library director, she guided the renovation of the Brewster Ladies Library and spearheaded the initial development phases of the Eastham Library. Her leadership record includes serving as president of the New England Library Association, the Master Gardeners Association of Cape Cod, and the Friends of Nickerson Park. Currently, she serves as President of the Meeting House Music Festival Board and as a dedicated Trustee for the Snow Library.
KRISTEN HARPER is the minister of the Unitarian Church of Barnstable. Her community involvement is extensive including serving on the Board of We Thrive, the Cape Cod Council of Churches and on the community advisory board for the Superintendent of Barnstable Public Schools. She was on the organizing team for Barnstable Neighbor to Neighbor, and packs and drives for Cape Kids Meals. Kristen lives with her family, her puppy Levi and cat Advent in Marston Mills.
SCOTT FITZMAURICE was raised on Cape Cod and educated at the University of New Hampshire and the University of California Santa Cruz. He has been passionately involved in the Cape non-profit sector for 30 years. Scott was co-chair of Cape Cod LGBTQ/ Gay Pride shortly after joining the committee in 1994, when the second Pride committee formed, alongside Cathy Reno. In 1996 he founded CIGSYA (The Cape and Islands Gay and Straight Youth Alliance) which later rebranded to We Thrive , the regions LGBTQ youth and community center located in Hyannis. As executive director, he has lead the organization to be sustainable. Under his leadership the organization peaked with three properties including attainably priced omni-generational. rentals. Scott helped form both the Freedom from Addiction Network and the Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition - Youth Project.
Scott owns and manages properties in RI and on Cape and also creates expansive thinking around how our community might repurpose abandoned or unused properties to create homes without building new.. Scott recently owned and operated Lucious Organics, a local premium greenhouse operation providing heirloom vegetables to local restaurants. He is a life coach and Professional Development Trainer and deeply committed to retaining the character and history of Cape Cod,
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 MADELINE LITTLE is excited to serve on the board of Friends of the Old Schoolhouse. A graduate of NYC Tisch School of the Arts, Madeline spent nearly two decades in New York working in theater, film, and television before returning to Barnstable where her family has deep roots.
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Madeline brings experience in marketing, event planning, fundraising, and community engagement through her professional and volunteer work on Cape Cod. She is involved with the Barnstable Comedy Club, the Barnstable Land Trust and other local community initiatives.A new mother, Madeline is especially excited to contribute to the community her son will grow up in and to help preserve and strengthen the history, character and sense of community that makes Barnstable Village special.
TIM JOHNSON lives in West Barnstable where, as a life-long artist, he enjoys painting and sculpting with clay in his home studio.
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Now retired from over 40 years of teaching, Tim is a passionate early childhood educator with a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Among many achievements and positions along his career--including owning his own one room school house in New Hampshire and teaching in both public and private schools such as Pike Elementary in Andover. Tim is also extremely proud of his tenure locally as a kindergarten teacher at the Barnstable-West Barnstable Elementary School.
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In his retirement, Tim has also held the post as Children's Librarian at Sturgis Library and remains passionate about storytelling and puppetry. Over a long career dedicated to bringing creativity to the classroom, Tim has also had a successful career s a published author and illustrator for Houghton Mifflin.
SCOTT KENYON, Property Manager, resides in Sandwich and has lived on Cape Cod for over 20 years. Scott has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Health Care Administration. He is a Veteran of the United States Air Force and a Persian Gulf War/Desert Storm Veteran.
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He is semi-retired, choosing to never fully retire and instead blending ongoing purpose with passion projects, flexible part-time work with local high school students, and community contribution.
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Scott has been in the construction trades, real estate portfolio, and health care facility management business for 54 years. Specifically, having spent 40 of those years in the management and operations of Hospitals and Health Care Facilities overseeing all aspects of hospital and health care facility maintenance, repair, capital projects, construction projects, Â energy procurement and utilization portfolio, and real estate leasing/property management.
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Most recently retired from a national healthcare organization, Steward Health Care, in 2024 as Senior Vice President of Corporate Real Estate & Facilities overseeing a portfolio 43 acute care hospitals nationwide and over 15 million square feet of commercial and health care space.