![]() ![]() In addition, she loved art galleries, art shows and antique shops. Sharon was a voracious reader and planned her summer schedule around area book sales. and Canadian Rockies with her sisters and their husbands. Every winter she would spend a week or more skiing the U.S. After Heinie’s death she traveled to England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Costa Rica and Cuba. Before Heinie’s death they travel to Scandinavia, Austria and the Rocky Mountains. Following Heinie’s death in 1999, Sharon continued to live in Harpswell and commuted to Cape Elizabeth High School every school day until she retired. ![]() in Bethel on the Carrabassett River in Bigelow in Cape Elizabeth and finally, in Harpswell. Heinie Merrill and over the next 28 years they had many adventures traveling, skiing, tuna fishing, golfing and fishing for Atlantic salmon. Following their divorce in 1967 she moved to Dover, N.H. Sharon was briefly married to Jeffrey Griffith in 1966. ![]() It was a lot of hard work, but she found great satisfaction in helping several hundred students successfully gain acceptance to the college/university of their choice. It was a complete one-person operation, she was both owner and staff. From 1992 to 2013 Sharon had her own private college planning business, Merrill College Planning. A full list of all of the professional associations, committees, boards of directors and educational teams that Sharon served on is far too long to be listed here. Sharon assisted in writing the College Board handbook Beyond High School and also assisted in writing the Maine Department of Education’s Comprehensive Guidance Curriculum Guide. She served on accreditation visiting teams of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (1988-1992). She was on the Board of Governors of the New England Association of College Admissions Counselors and a National Assembly Delegate (1989-1997). She was treasurer of the Maine Association of Counseling and Development (1989-1991) and the Maine Representative to the New England Regional Assembly of the College Board (1986-1988). She served as president on the Maine School Counselor’s Association in 1988. She received the Maine Distinguished Counselor of the Year (1993) from the Maine Association of Counseling and Development. During her time at Cape Elizabeth Sharon was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the counseling profession. Between 19, Sharon earned three master’s degrees from the University of New Hampshire in: Comparative English Literature Counseling Education and Educational Administration. This was a position she would hold for the next 27 years. In 1982 Sharon moved to Cape Elizabeth High School in Cape Elizabeth, to become director of guidance. From 1971 to 1982 Sharon was director of guidance for the Raymond Consolidated School District (SAU 33), Raymond, N.H. Her next move was to Somersworth High School in Somersworth, N.H., where for three years she was a guidance counselor and taught French. The following year (1967) she was a graduate assistant in the English Department at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. In 1966 she moved to Springfield, Mass., to teach French at the John F. After graduating with honors in 1965, she was a graduate assistant in the UMO English Department for the following year. ![]() She attended Unifree High School and the University of Maine – Orono, where she carried a double major in English and French. Sharon was born on Main Freedom, to Clyde and Carolyn Briggs, the fifth of six Briggs children. A beautiful, gracious, gifted and talented lady, she will be sorely missed by all of us that knew and loved her. 6, 2021, from Covid -19 at the Governor King memory care wing of Catagan Lodge, The Highlands, in Topsham. Merrill 1943 – 2021 HARPSWELL – Sharon B. ![]()
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