Sue McMullan, Director
Sue Stocker McMullan
Director
Certified Camp Director (CCD)
American Camp Association
Sue has been a leader at Alford Lake Camp for over forty years. She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Camp Association, New England Section; on the Maine Youth Camping Board as Chair of the Education Committee; on a Board of Directors of a local day camp, as a faculty member for ACA Camp Director Institute (resulting in Certified Camp Directors nationally). She is a current member of the MYCA Advisory Committee and Education Committee and is on the Board of Trustees of The Waynflete School in Portland, Maine. Sue has served in other leadership positions outside of her camping profession: many positions in the Waynflete Parents Association, speaker and facilitator to parents groups, Emergency Medical Technician and Supervisor of Student Rescue, college basketball coach, and a past CPR instructor. Sue has four children, now young adults! Her special interests lie in camper and staff development; community building and community service; communication with and creation of relationships with parents; and the connection of quality education in the camping experience.
Betsy Brayley, Assistant Director
Betsy Brayley
Assistant Director
Elizabeth Rent Brayley graduated from Cape Elizabeth High School and was immediately recruited by a nation wide insurance company where she served as an Administrative Assistant for a number of years. Before beginning her career in camping, she was a stay at home mom for a number of years and successfully raised four children while doing volunteer work. In recent years, Betsy has attended many camping conferences, parenting workshops, and The National Symposium for Children. She has served on the Program Committee for the New England Camping Conference through the Maine Youth Camping Association. Her years of administrative leadership at Alford Lake Camp has given her the continued strength in training of staff, in intensive work with campers and their families and continues to provide guidance and be a resource for prospective families.
Jean McMullan, Consulting Director
Jean Gentry McMullan
Consulting Director
Certified Camp Director (CCD)
American Camp Association
Jean has devoted a lifetime to organized camping where she has been engaged in many
educational, music and professional activities. She has served as President of the
Maine Youth Camping Assoc., President of New England Section of the ACA and been National President of the American Camp Association, as well as serving many years on the American Camping Foundation Board. She holds Maine’s Halsey Gulick Award, the Eleanor Eells Award, Independent Camps’ Speedy Altman Award, New England’s Service Award, and shares American Camping Association’s Distinguished Service Award with her husband, Andrew.
Jean’s interests have centered around camp standards and certification and camp leaders’ professional development. The international exchange of campers and staff
is another keen interest. She helped spearhead the first Soviet campers to visit and camp in the U.S. and has challenged older ALC campers to camp in several other counties with different cultures – effectively encouraging the friendship of American campers abroad. Jean currently serves on an ACA national task force focusing upon the accreditation and professional development of camps and camp leaders with the intent of doubling the number and quality of camps and of campers in camps by 2020 – the so-called 20/20 Vision of the American Camp Association.
Jean’s focus is her family and she revels in the role of grandmother to her ten grandchildren. She loves the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, founded and conducted by her husband, Andrew, for 14 years; loves to sing and to laugh and is known for her true stories. She is passionate about the positive role of camping in a person’s life and especially about her beloved Alford Lake Camp in Maine.
