Charlene L. Martin

Charlene L. Martin, Ed.D. has over thirty years of experience in higher education. She is the former Dean of Continuing Education at Assumption College and the founding director of the Worcester Institute for Senior Education known as WISE. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from Assumption College and a Doctorate in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration with a specialty in Higher Education from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She is an adjunct professor and her research and publications focus on educational opportunities for older adults in retirement. She and her husband, Jim Martin, live in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Maureen Ryan Doyle has worked as a freelance writer for many years and is also the owner of a small property management company in Central Massachusetts. She was the winner of Good Housekeeping Magazine's New Traditionalist writing competition. Maureen earned her B.A. degree in History from Assumption College where she was a member of the first undergraduate class of women. She has pursued graduate study at Emerson College in Boston and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. She and her husband, Francis X. Doyle, reside in Holden, Massachusetts. Their family includes their daughter, Maryssa, and son and daughter-in-law Colin and Dani Doyle.

Both Maureen and Charlene serve on the Steering Committee of the Worcester Women's History Project and have co-chaired the Worcester Women's Oral History Project since 2008.