FARMINGTON — Franklin Community Health Network President Rebecca Ryder announces the appointment of three new community members to the FCHN/Franklin Memorial Hospital board of directors. They are Dr. David Dixon of Strong, Clinton Boothby of Livermore and Leslie Gatchell of Jay.

Dr. Dixon came to the area in 1969 after finishing his surgical residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland. He had a vision of health care that would serve the community — combining the best clinical medicine with the best preventive medicine — in a network that would make health care available to all.

After his retirement from his surgical medical practice, he served as FCHN vice president for medical staff affairs and education for five years, retiring from that post in 2011. Dr. Dixon was instrumental in establishing Franklin Memorial Hospital’s partnership as a teaching site with the Maine Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine in 2009.

Clinton Boothby, Esq., is a partner at Boothby Perry, LLC formerly Boothby Law, LLC. He received his bachelor’s degree in agriculture and resource economics from the University of Maine and later his juris doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law. He is a member of the Oxford County Trial Lawyers Association. Before attending law school, Boothby was a co-owner/manager of Century Elm Farms in Livermore. He is a former chairman of the SAD 36 Board of Directors, as well as a former chairman of the Livermore Board of Appeals.

Leslie Gatchell is a retired middle school teacher and athletic coach who collectively served 29 years in Livermore Falls, Rumford and Mexico schools. He received his bachelor’s degree from Farmington State Teachers College and his master’s degree from the University of Maine. He is currently the president of the Franklin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.

They join board members Connie Adler, Ron Aseltine, Joseph Bujold, Sheena Bunnell, Gilly Hitchcock, Jef Howell, Peter Judkins, Dr. Robert O’Reilly, Paul Soucie, Meredith Tipton, Carol Timberlake, Tim Wallace, Doug Walrath and Waine Whittier.