PORTLAND/ELLSWORTH — Dighton Spooner of Portland and Peter Lamb of Kittery Point have been appointed chair and vice-chair of the Maine Community Foundation Board of Directors.

Spooner is senior associate director of career planning at Bowdoin College. Prior to Bowdoin, he was project director for “Craft in America,” a multi-media project that included a PBS TV series. He began in television production and broadcasting at Boston’s WGBH-TV and worked at CBS Television Network in Los Angeles and at Granada Television and ECM Productions, Ltd., in London. Spooner holds a B.S. from Northeastern University.

Lamb is an independent philanthropic advisor. He is the former vice president of philanthropy and senior philanthropic advisor at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. He has served on the boards of environmental, historic, arts, and education organizations, including the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees and Gulf of Maine Council. Lamb received a B.S. from the University of New Hampshire and is a senior advisor at The Philanthropic Initiative, Boston.

Spooner succeeds George Shaw, a former attorney at Hemenway & Barnes in Boston, who will remain on the community foundation’s Board of Directors as secretary.