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Editor Jim Frick 4 "No human can do Editorial Assistant Lynne Nelson Manion it all" An interview with UM Designer Jim Frick ' president Dale W. Lick. Design Consultant Mike Mardosa 73 Contributing Photographers 12 Ouch! Jack Walas, Mike York, and Keith Dresser The budget cuts hurt, but UM

« leaders are still optimistic. Publisher H. Maxwell Burry, Jr. '57

14 Frozen secrets I UMaine researchers test a new theory that could greatly Alumni Association Officers Page 4 improve climate prediction. Ronald E. Bishop '53, President Sally G. Vamvakias '63, First Vice President James D. Mullen 72, Second Vice President 18 Are we any closer to Willard C. Farnham '59, Treasurer the goal? Deborah S. Aseltine '80, Clerk H. Maxwell Burry, Jr. '57, Executive Director Maine, along with just about James H. Goff '63, Immediate Past President every other U.S. college is still a long way from equality in UMAA Board of Directors men's and women's athletics.

Bunny T. Andrews '63 Pamela L Beal ’69 22 Freed at last! Steven E. Bonville '69 Meredith S. Burgess 78 After 44 months of captivity, Norinne H Daly '59 UMaine graduate, Frank Reed John N. Diamond 77 Karla H Downs 71 comes home. H Allen Fernaid '54 Mana R Fuentes '85G Peter T. Gammons, Jr '61 24 King of the elves James W Gorman '58 Edward C Hall '48 Inventor, entrepreneur Doug Penny S Harris '63 Hall thinks fun and success go Page 22 Steven Harth '67 hand in hand. Earle L Ingalls '41 Susan Rice Keneborus '66 Larry E. LaPlante 73 Robert F McKown '58 27 The power of roots Carol P Mower '53 The first Native American to James D. Mullen 72 Charles J. Ochmanski '60 graduate from Maine believes Karen W Reis '67 her ancestors can teach us a Patricia A Riley 73 Henry L P Schmelzer '65 great deal about caring for the Ronald J Sheay '55 earth. David W Simard '65 William S. Skoohcas '80 Frances R Soderberg '57 Bruce A Verrill 77 Margaret T Villarreal '61 Henry A. Voss, Jr. '65 Carl A. Whitman '35 Departments: Campus 10 Alumni Newsmakers 30 MAINE is published three times a year by the University of Letters 32 Maine Alumni Association The editorial office is located at Page 27 the Crossland Alumni Center, UM, Orono, ME 04469 Tele­ phone 207/581-1137 Third Class postage is paid at Burlington, VT 05401 Circulation 110,000 issues per year Cover by Michael Mardosa INTERVIEW "No Human Can Do It All" Dale Lick talks candidly about his first four years as UMaine president.

n 1986 Dale Lick took over the helm at the University of Maine with exuberance and optimism. And why not? After a decade of severe underfunding, the university was enjoying a surge of support from the legislature, the governor, the trustees, and the public. The new president had a clear vision of how to use that support, and things began to change at UMaine. Faculty salaries were raised to a more competitive level. Old buildings were repaired, and a few new ones were built. Funding for research increased. New state-of-the-art equipment was purchased. The university was reorganized into a more effective system of colleges. Relations with the chancellor and the trustees improved. Academic and admission standards went up. Enrollments increased. Even the Black Bear football and hockey programs catapulted out of mediocrity and into national prominence. The budget crunch of 1990 put the breaks on the progress the uni­ versity was making. But it hasn't dampened Dale Lick's enthusiasm a bit. He still gets a sparkle in his eye when he starts talking about the future of the university. Even in the bad times, he focuses on change— how UMaine can move forward, even with less funds, to address the world of tomorrow. It's an attitude that reflects Lick's two major commitments in life—the progressive yet pragmatic academic leader who believes that education can change the world, and the deeply religious leader of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints, im­ mersed in traditional values. Not everyone, of course, is pleased with Dale Lick's ideas, or with the way they have been implemented. His term as president has been accompanied by more than its share of controversy and criticism. Much of that criticism has centered around his administrative style and what is perceived as an increased emphasis on athletics. Criticism, goes with the territory. College presidents, especially state university presidents, now work in the limelight. Long gone are the days when pipe smoking, academic leaders could run their cam­ puses from an insular "ivory tower." Today's college presidents are true public figures. Their decisions as well as their salaries are subject to public scrutiny and media analysis. In the following interview, Dale Lick talks candidly about the pres­ sures and demands of the job of UMaine president. He also discusses his treatment by the Maine media, the importance of sports, the cur­ rent budget crisis, and the controversies and challenges of the job.

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AINE: You've had a high-pro­ I had the art evaluated and categorized. time here? file as president of the Univer­ Any pieces that added to our collection No, I don't think it's the biggest chal­ sity of Maine, do you think the Mainewere kept and only duplicate or less valu­ lenge. It is a serious problem, but I think Mmedia has treated you fairly? able pieces that would not add to our we are going to play through it all right DALE LICK: I think the press has been collection were made available for sale. and in the end come out even stronger. very uneven. In some cases they may Out of $2,225,000 worth of art, only one- People are taking it seriously, and we are have given me better press than I de­ quarter was made available for sale. All taking a good look at priorities and maybe served. Sometimes they have treated me the valuable art was protected. we will go forward even more cohesively very well. In other cases they have treated Finally, the media did get the whole from here. me very unfairly, mainly because they story and printed a very good follow-up. did not go out and do their job—they But that should have been done in the What has been your biggest challenge? didn't get the whole story. They took a first place. I guess what bothers me is that I think the more difficult problems have piece of a story and ran with it. That has the media is too often more interested in been the changes we have made. For been disappointing. controversy than in getting the factual example reorganizing the colleges was a story. Sometimes there has been unfair­ very difficult process, but I am very Can you give us an example? ness that almost seemed to be meant to pleased with what has happened as a There were some people making some hurt. But on balance, I think the press has result. People had to make dramatic wild statements about me selling off the treated me fairly well. There are really a changes. That is more difficult than budget university's art. And rather than getting great many positive stories about the problems. Budget cuts hurt, but are not as the whole story, some reporters took that university. We just tend to focus on the emotionally draining an issue. as the story—that Lick was out selling art. media reports that are negative. Now the whole story was, in fact, that I There has been some press and faculty was protecting the art, not selling it off. One area that has received a good deal criticism of your budget cutting priori­ When William Palmer left the art to the of press is the current budget crunch in ties. In particular some faculty have university, from his pre-Columbian col­ the state and at UMaine. Is this the big­ questioned cutting well established lection, he specified that it could be sold. gest challenge you have faced in your programs at the same time you are

Spring/Summer 1990 5 moving ahead with new ones. any more attention to sports than I did to thought they were excited. She told me it Some people would say let's just cut across our other programs. My style is to try to was because of our sports. She said that the board. Others say don't touch the optimize all of our programs, and sports they wanted to be part of that exciting set strong programs, or cut off the weak ones, is one of our major areas. People can say of sports programs. We might say that and don't take any initiatives But we that sports aren't important, but in terms doesn't reflect the right values, but it re­ can't follow any of those routes. Even in of media coverage, it is the most impor­ flects their values. When I first came to tough times there are things that we must tant thing we do. Just look at the local Maine, I travelled around the state, and I do that are tomorrow-oriented. If we are paper. They have one full-time education remember people swelled up with pride going to be the institution of tomorrow, reporter, but they have five or six full- when the subject of Black Bear baseball we must do some of those things, and that time sports reporters. We know there will came up. It is their team. Sports can win is very controversial. For example, intro­ be at least one major Black Bear sports people over to the university, and we ducing high technology is critical to our story everyday And there is likely to be a need the support of those people for leg­ future. We must not cut off the legs to our story on the evening news every night. islation, state appropriations, and for bond future, but that is what some people are It's not my doing. It may say our value issues. We can't just put our heads in the saying we should do. I think it is because system is mixed up, but that's the way it sand and say sports don't matter Sports they don't understand how much that is. That's the reality. do matter—they matter a great deal. technology is going to impact on us Why do you think you've be­ come so associated with sports? What about dropping programs? Well, I do enjoy going to sports We really have to make some events. I also enjoy going to the decisions about what will be symphony. But, unfortunately, dropped or substantially re­ “Iguess what bothers not as many people notice me at duced. We can't afford to be all the symphony—they do notice me things to all people. The pro­ me is that the media is at the sports events. But the truth grams that may have to be cut do is I haven't paid more attention to have value—we aren't saying too often more athletics. The statistics show that that they aren't important. But } there has been a 72 percent in­ going into tomorrow's world they crease in expenditures for aca­ are not as important as some other interested in contro- demics during my time here and programs. We have to do some only a 35 percent increase in ath­ pruning to let the plant grow versy than in getting a letics during the same time. People stronger. We cannot afford to drag also say that I spend my time along all the things that we have raising money for sports. But out now. factualstory. ” of all the private money we raised for the university last year, only 8 Is the faculty accepting your percent went to athletics message? I'd like to say yes, but I think that Has the success of the sports probably would not be accurate. I think program during your time here added to I've partially gotten the message across. What is the reason for that? the perception that sports are receiving In the abstract, everyone accepts it. It's Sports are a common denominator for more attention? fine until you name a program. Then ev­ everyone. People either turn to the sports It's true that our sports teams have done eryone says "No, you can't cut that one." page first, or they get there quite quickly. remarkably well during my time here I'd Most everyone can talk about what hap­ like to think that I had something to do pened to the Boston Red Sox or the Black with that, but I know I haven't. It is sim­ There is a perception both on and off Bears and enjoy it. We don't talk about ply that we have a group of great coaches campus that sports at Maine are receiv­ computer physics quite that way. who recruit fine players that go out and ing more emphasis under your presi­ over achieve. And the success has raised dency. When we interviewed you in 1986, you the profile of Black Bear sports. It even When I first came to Maine the local paper said that a successful sports program gets people saying that we are going big carried several stories about Dale Lick can help in admissions and other areas. time. But when people say that, they don't and how Maine sports would thrive under Has Maine's success helped in admis- realize what big time means To go big his leadership. They were extremely ■ sions? time, we would have to take our small $5 positive. It was like I walked on water I had a teacher come up to me after I gave million budget and at least triple it. We And later those same people came back a talk in Portland. She told me that all of are never going to do that. We just want and crucified me for exactly what they her senior students wanted to come to to be competitive in the conferences in had been praising me for. It was true, I did Maine in the fall They were excited about which we play. pay attention to sports, but I didn't pay the university, and I asked her why she

6 MAINE There's been a good deal of talk during media coverage? changes, to move institutions forward, Maine's budget crunch, even by trus­ Unfortunately the media hasn't helped which is absolutely right. But when the tees, about dropping football as a way of because it goes for the tension points president does that, the board has to be reducing costs and bringing more equal­ which often make a story unbalanced. there to support the moves. Too often, ity to men's and women's athletics. How Somebody says something that is not when the going gets tough, the board is important do you think football is to accurate, and the media picks that up. As not there to support the president, who, UMaine? a result a president who is doing a good after all, is only making the changes that There are a lot of people who think that job, gets blamed for doing a bad job. I the board wanted. When you have that football sets the character for an athletic think that has contributed to the fact that kind of a situation, you are going to lose a program—even for an institution. If you college presidents are not in their jobs president. The board has to take some of look around the country at schools that very long. The average length that a presi­ the heat for what's happening. are similar to Maine, all but a very few dent is now in a job is four to five years. I have football. It is part of the hearts and think that is unfortunate. Why don't more boards do that? minds of the people on a college campus. I think it is mostly that people can't handle Now a lot of people say that isn't true in What has to change to keep presidents pressure very well—when people start to Maine, but you would have a hard time in their jobs longer? Is it money? yell and scream, they back off. There are finding anything else that draws boards that do stand up and say, over 9,000 people to campus as "This is what we wanted the Maine football did on six Satur­ president to do." That is critical. I days last fall. We could survive remember Bob Woodbury without football, but it would af­ (UMaine System chancellor) say­ fect the nature of the school. We ready have to ing, " You know, we ask people to be strong leaders, and then when There seems to be a tremendous they lead, we stone them." There turnover now among presidents. mafa some decisions is a lot of truth to that. Is the job just too demanding? The job has changed dramatically about what wid be How does the stress and the in the last 20 years—from academic demands of the job affect you? leader on campus to more of a I'm a very high-energy person, very broad generalist, who not dropped... 74T can't and love what I'm doing. I be­ only must be responsible for eve­ lieve in this institution, and I be­ rything on campus, but also must afford to be ad things lieve in this state. I'm motivated have top level dealings with the by the idea of enhancing the insti­ governor and legislators. The per­ to ad p eop be. ” tution and how it serves the state. son must also do fund raising, and The mission motivates me. And be involved with research, high there are good things about the technology, and the business com­ job. Every morning I wake up munity. He must be an expert in a knowing my day will be different wide variety of things. than any day I ever had before. Well, I think most college or university The days are long—I generally get up at Have expectations for college presidents presidents could be making more money five in the morning, and I go till 10 or 11 risen with the job responsibilities? doing something else. For example, I every night. And most of my weekends Expectations for performance are very, haven't reached out to the business com­ are taken up with university related ac­ very high. No human can do it all, and do munity, but from time to time it has tivities. I wish I had more free time, but I it as well as people want it done. Presi­ reached out to me. And at one point, a don't. As a college president for the last 12 dents are supposed to be on campus all company wanted me to head their or­ years probably the one big negative is the time, and off campus all the time. ganization and they offered me three times that I didn't spend more time with my They are supposed to be low-profile, they what I now make. So most presidents family. But they have been very suppor­ are supposed to be high-profile. They are could make more money in the private tive. They accept my giving up the free supposed to be involved with all areas sector. So they are not in their jobs for the time, because they know what I'm doing intimately, but if they get involved inti­ money. Most presidents simply want to is important. mately, they are showing too much atten­ be part of the world of higher education. tion to that area. Everyone has personal What has been the hardest part of the expectations of a president, and people If it isn't money, then what? job? today express their feelings more than Well, I think what needs to happen is that The hardest part is when I'm attacked. they ever did in the past. Presidents take there must be more help and support That is very, very hard. And it is harder a much greater battering now. from the boards of trustees. The boards on my family than on me. It's very diffi­ are responsible for that president. They cult for them to sit by and listen to people Do those expectations get reflected in often encourage presidents to make say things that are just not true, just not

S rin /Summer 1990 7 INTERVIEW fair. That is the really tough part. low people to have input, they think that a lot of them are changing from a noncol- is the same as making the decision. It is legiate track to a college track because One area you have recently been criti­ not. And when a decision doesn't turn they see options for their life that they cized for is your administrative style. out the way they want it to, they think didn't see before." In Maine only 37 per­ That it is top heavy on the administra­ you are not paying attention to them But cent of our high school students are on a tive side and that it is too centralized. we are paying attention. I think there is college track. Getting more of them to go Those are easy charges to make. They more openness than there has been in on to post-secondary education of some sound good. "Hey, those folks are hiring years. It's just that it is hard to get 12,000 kind is an important goal for the state. all kinds of administrators’" Well the truth people to agree. is that we are not putting on layers of In recent years there's been a lot of atten­ bureaucracy. It is true that in terms of You have expressed a desire to increase tion focused on Greek life and more percentages, we have hired more admin­ academic standards at Maine. But doesn't than a few fraternities and sororities istrators than faculty Why? Well, if you that have to go hand in hand with in­ were put on probation or closed. Is there examine those jobs, you find that a future for Greeks at Maine? those positions address areas that The Greek situation overall has the faculty recommended we been positive in the last few years. cover. For example, we created a We've had to close down a frater­ new department of survey engi­ nity and a sorority, but I think that neering, so we had to hire a chair­ has gotten people's attention and person. The faculty wanted a re­ can ’tjust put our we see adjustments being made I tention program, so we had to hire think many students have gotten in that area. Part of it also reflects heads in the sand and beyond the negative feelings about the role of the university. We are shutting down a few Greek houses not just a teaching institution. We and are now saying, "Hey, that is are also the major research institu­ say sports don’t mat­ not the administration picking on tion in the state. People want us to us, we are doing this to ourselves " bring in more out of state dollars ter. Sports do matter— And they are beginning to turn for research. You can't bring in things around. That has been very those dollars without the people to they matter a great encouraging, seeing our students go after the money and to manage come forward and take leadership. it when it arrives. And we have That doesn't mean that there won't major responsibilities in public deal. ” be problems from time to time But service. We have developed pro­ overall, Greeks make a great con­ grams to meet the needs of the tribution to the university. state, and that has meant new ad­ ministrative positions. I'm not em­ Maine's tuition is higher than the barrassed by the positions we've added, creasing standards in Maine's high national average for state institutions I'm proud of them. schools? and financial aid is slightly lower than That is a problem. It is one we must deal average. What kind of effect will the What about the question of how deci­ with here in Maine. But I don't think that proposed tuition hike have? sions are made at the university? you stop moving forward. What you do is It is true that Maine is slightly above the I think we have more of a shared govern­ try to get programs that will help in the national average. But you really have to ance system now, than when I walked on high schools. And one thing that I think is put it in the perspective of being a part of campus. Just look at how we build budg­ really going to help is our aspirations New England. In this region, our tuition ets. The chairs and deans are intimately program. That program, reaching out to and fees are the absolute lowest of the involved in building the budget process. schools in the state is going to lift kids up state land grant institutions. And what­ We've also involved them in setting the and let them see that they have different ever we raise it to this year, we will still be goals. I supported the change from a options in their life. Let me give you an the lowest. Right now it looks as though council of colleges to a Faculty Senate—a example of how that can work. After one tuition will go up about $240—about 12 governance arm of the faculty. We have of my talks, a principal came up and percent. Now that is a relatively small tried to strengthen the Student Senate. I asked if he could bring a group of his tuition increase The tuition at the Uni­ have an executive council and the chair of students to visit the university. We said versity of Vermont is $3600. Now if we the Faculty Senate sits on that council; a absolutely. So we designed a set of pro­ were going from $2000 to $3600, the impact dean sits on that council; the student body grams for his students. And he brought would be enormous. But going from $2000 president sits on that council. We have two bus loads on two different days. to $2240 is not going to be that great. The tried to develop a real shared governance Afterwards he called us and said,"I want people I worry about most are the nontra- system. It is easy for a person or group to to tell you something, just bringing those ditional students—those people who have say, "Hey, they aren't involving us in kids to campus with your people and a job and a family and are trying to take a decisions " But sometimes when you al­ your programs has excited them, and now few courses. The increase may mean they

8 MAINE will only be able to take one course at a Now that isn't the case, but it is some­ peculiarities of Maine. I feel good about time rather than two and that's a shame. times the perception. So I said to that. Sometimes I think that the criticism myself,"What could balance the great is not based on my lack of knowledge of What about the escalating costs of edu­ natural beauty that we have in the state." Maine, but on the fact that I am not doing cation in general. Are we pricing ele­ Well I thought if we could have at the what some people want me to do. ments of society out of the option of University of Maine a recognized center going to college? for cultural and performing arts, maybe You became a college president at a rela­ It is a concern, because costs have gone up that more than anything else would bal­ tively young age, and now you have faster than inflation. For some private ance with the the natural beauty, and give served at that level for 12 years. What are institutions, costs have gone through the us a perception of quality. Part of that has your long-term career goals? ceiling. $20,000 is not an unusual total already come with the Maine Center for I suppose that the normal step would be cost for private colleges these days. In the Arts. With the MCA as the core piece, for me to seek a job at a larger university that regard, I think we are in a good I think we have the potential to become a or to become a chancellor. There is also position. You can come to the the option of going into the corpo­ University of Maine as a residen­ rate world. Or I may choose to go tial, full-time student for $6,000 to to work full-time for my church. $7,000—a third of the cost of those private colleges. Now couple that <((The change going on How do your religion and reli­ with the financial aid that is avail­ gious beliefs connect with your able, and almost any qualified life and work? student can go to the state univer­ in the worbd is mind- They relate to my value system. sity. My values are reflected in every­ As for the trend of escalating boggbing..SThe big thing I do, whether it is religion or cost, I'm afraid that it is going to education or whatever. Part of that continue, and that is a problem. chabbenge is whether is the concept of the worth of The thing I have to ask is, how can people. The things I do in higher we provide a good education and education reflect my religion and do it at a lower cost? I've got to schools can respond vice-versa. Having a belief system believe that is going to mean we helps to sustain me. The times when use new technology in innovative (juichly enough to be I have been at the center of contro­ ways. One example is UMaine's versy, I have been able to take the instructional television system and long view and not react in kind. I have to believe that system will beaders... ” deliver a quality education to many What is the biggest problem fac­ people at a reduced cost. ing Maine in the 1990's? And what is the biggest problem facing Why is the cost going up so fast? major center in the Northeast for the higher education in general? Just look at the library. Our inflation rate performing arts. The building blocks are The answer to both questions is the same. at the library is running at 20 percent a in place. If that vision becomes a reality, The biggest problem is for colleges and year. That means I have to put $150,000 it would add a great deal to the quality of universities to make the transitions nec­ more into the library each year just to stay life at Maine. essary to be fully relevant in the late 1990's even. and into the next century. The change I How do you respond to the criticism that going on in the world right now is mind- Do you have any special goals that you you don't understand Maine? boggling. And the change in the decade would like to see realized while you are I think the criticism, in the beginning, was of the 90's will be greater than in the last president? generally correct. But I think I probably four decades combined— high technol­ My overall vision for the university re­ understood a little bit more about Maine ogy, the global economy, an increasingly mains the same as when I took office—to than most people were willing to give me pluralistic population. The big challenge make the University of Maine a model for credit for. I took a lot of time to study the is whether schools can respond quickly how well an institution can serve the state before I got here. Also, I came from enough to be leaders through all that needs of the people of this state. But let me a state very much like Maine. I grew up on change. It means that we can't be protec­ express one part of my vision. I've thought a farm, in a town that had 100 people. tive of what we have been doing in the about what would make Maine stand out And I think my understanding has grown past. But we do have to maintain our and tell people that this is a quality place. a good deal—I didn't have a complete values system because one of the areas We know people come to Maine and understanding when I got here. There are that is changing rapidly, and becoming admire the natural beauty. But sometimes things that have happened that have made more and more complex is ethics. people look at that and say, "Well that is me realize that Maine is different—both beautiful, but it is a pretty rural state— good and bad. Like any place, it has pecu­ maybe it is backwards in some ways." liarities. I think I've tried to learn the Interview by MAINE editor, Jim Frick

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Alumni get was a great deal of room for improvement and initiative, grace period for Evans said the trustees and loan payoffs the chancellor earned a very high grade on pluralism is­ sues. The Department of Educa- ! Specific recommendations tion recently announced a pro­ include: gram that could affect UMaine • Courses should be revised alumni who have defaulted j to include minority perspec­ on their student loans. tives. Under the student loan • Special strategies should be payoff program, authorized developed to attract and re­ by the Omnibus Budget Rec­ tain minority and women onciliation Act of 1989, bor­ members of the faculty. rowers now in default can pay • More Franco-Americansand i off their loans before August Native Americans should be 31,1990. recruited to the faculty, staff, Payment in full of principal i and student body. and interest due on defaulted • Centers for study of language loans will save these borrow­ and culture should be estab­ ers the cost of penalties, ad­ lished, and Native American ministrative charges, and col­ languages should be taught on lection fees—costs that could campus. add up to 35 percent of the • Every student should have debt. an educational experience The Department of Educa- I outside his or her own culture, tion program is a one time either abroad or in the United only opportunity. Approxi­ States. mately 2.5 million borrowers • Student exchanges with are currently in default on ap­ other countries should be I ' proximately $6.8 billion in expanded and the number of student loans. For more infor­ international students on mation call 1-800-333-INFO. Maryann Hartman Award winners (left to right) Mabel Sine Wad­ campus increased. sworth, Olympia J. Snowe '69, and Mildred "Brownie" Schrumpf Noting that major commit­ '25. ments of time and money are needed to carry out its agenda, Hartman Award Mildred "Brownie" Schrumpf UMaine adopts the commission called for the '25, columnist, author, gour- j trustees to dedicate $1 million presented to three met cook, and community vol- | pluralism goals to a two-year program of de­ Maine women unteer; Olympia J. Snowe '69, i tailed planning and work U.S. representative from toward pluralism. Maine's second congressional F or a variety of reasons, Given the state's current T hree Maine women were district; and Mabel Sine Wad­ Maine is not characterized by fiscal problems, the commis­ recognized for their service, sworth, women's health care a wide variety of human di­ sion noted that the additional commitment and achievement educator and activist. versity, and its public institu­ resources and commitments it at the Maryann Hartman The award is named for the tions reflect that reality. recommends might seem un­ Awards ceremony held in late Maryann Hartman, Because of the relative lack realistic April. UMaine teacher and scholar of diversity, the UM System But in the forward to its Established by the UM in speech communications. board of trustees adopted a set report, members cautioned Women in the Curriculm pro­ They are presented annually of goals to help foster plural­ that there was a "sense of ur­ gram, the awards recognize to recognize women whose ism and cultural awareness. gency" to address issues of outstanding accomplishments achievements, like Hartman's, The recommendations were pluralism. by Maine women in the arts, provide inspiration to others presented by the Commission "These are issues upon politics, business, education, and increase campus and on Pluralism, headed by for­ which excellence in higher and community service. community awareness of the mer trustee, Dr. Stanley Evans. education turns," the commis­ Recipients this year were accomplishments of women. While admitting that there sion wrote. 10 MAINE process is necessary to guar­ antee complete accuracy in the directory. When verification is com­ pleted, the directory will list alumni information alphabeti­ cally, geographically, and by class year. You can reserve your per­ sonal copy of the new alumni directory when your Harris representative calls.

Dean Smith '89 honored as UM Professor Richard Emerick scholar/athlete Richard Emerick i T hroughout his college ca- retires from UM reer, Dean Smith made com­ mitments to excellence and P rofessor Richard Emerick, stuck to them. who is remembered by thou­ He practiced basketball sands of alumni who took his several hours everyday, and introduction to anthropology eventually became captain of course, retired this May after the UMaine team and a first 30 years on the faculty. team All-North Atlantic Con­ Emerick was the founder of ference selection. the university's anthropology He studied for six hours a Walter Byers Scholarship Award winner Dean Smith '89 department. And in addition day and earned a 3.86 grade to being a highly respected point average in a very diffi­ The NCAA standard for a this winter's measles epi­ teacher, he was one of the cult electrical engineering Byers Award winner reads: demic, it is being hailed by Dr. driving forces behind the es­ program. He graduated with "An individual named a Byers Graves and others as a text­ tablishment and development highest distinction in Decem­ Scholar will have combined book case in disease control. of the university's Hudson ber. the best elements of mind and Jackson was the person who Museum. He served as the The NCAA recognized body to achieve national dis­ first recognized that the museum's first director. Smith's achievements on the tinction, and promises to be a measles had made it to cam­ court and in the classroom in future leader in his or her pus. He acted quickly. With May by awarding him the chosen field of service." the help of the state and the Alumni to be Walter Byers Postgraduate Whoever wrote that de­ commitment of the health cen­ Scholarship. The award is scription must have known ter staff, records were checked called to verify given to recognize the top Dean Smith. and an immunization pro­ new directory NCAA scholar/athlete. It car­ gram was promptly initiated. ries a $7,500 stipend which Over 1,800 students were information Smith will use to continue in a UMaine beats vaccinated the very first day masters program at Maine. the Measles the program began. The Byers Award was just The cooperation of students B eginninginjune,represen- the latest in a long list of dis­ and the media were critical tatives of Harris Publishing tinctions Smith earned this C utler Health Center direc- factors in the success of the Company will start telephon­ year. tor Dr. Mark Jackson is wear­ immunization program. ing alumni to verify informa­ He was a first team, Aca­ ing a T-shirt these days that "This has to be the most tion for the soon to be pub­ demic All-American selection; reads, "I SURVIVED THE successful, best run, least dis­ lished University of Maine he led the NAC in scoring, he MEASLES CRISIS OF 1990". ruptive handling of an epi­ Alumni Directory. was named the Maine Sports A retired physician, Dr. Robert demic on a college campus The information that will Hall of Fame Scholar/Athlete; Graves wrote in his newspa­ I've ever seen," Dr. Jackson be verified includes current and he was the top ranking per column, the shirt is some­ wrote in praising the UMaine name, academic data and cur­ electrical engineering student thing of a badge of honor. effort. rent address. The verification to graduate. Maine did not just survive

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The budget pruning is painful for everyone, but university leaders are still optimistic about UMaine's long-term future.

T t hurts. After four years of major indicated that some classes may be larger tennis team state appropriation increases, the and that students may have some diffi­ Further athletic cuts could take place l University of Maine System is now culty getting into every class they would in the next two fiscal years as the board of trying to hold on to its gains in the face of like to take. trustees discuss the future direction of the state's budget crunch. "We don't think that students will be UMaine athletics. The trustees will make In an effort to produce the minimum kept from getting courses that they abso­ their recommendations this spring impact on campus, the Task Force on lutely have to have," Hitt said. "There The cuts will also mean more limited Programs and Budget Review was ap­ will be less variety, but we are going to be scheduling and travel for the Black Bear pointed by UM President Dale Lick. calling on faculty and deans to be creative teams One trip that will not be canceled After 2,000 people hours of work, the task and flexible." is Maine's football game with the Univer­ force completed its report that sity of Hawaii m Honolulu in included 35 recommendations October. Lick indicated that the amounting to $4,084,000 Hawaii trip would be a money­ worth of cuts. Where the cuts will occur maker, netting the university In early May, Lick ap­ over $30,000. proved the Task Force's re­ By far the most controver­ port, which was forwarded to sial recommendation coming ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Chancellor Robert Woodbury $1,860,000 from the task force was a • ••• .» . . -• / and the board of trustees for change in the Peace Studies, approval later this spring. RESEARCH AND 652,000 Women in the Curriculum, and The task force chairperson, PUBLIC SERVICE Honors Programs from full- UM director of financial man­ 1,168,000 time, nonfaculty directors to agement, Charles F. Rauch ADMINISTRATION half-time faculty directors. Op­ told the university community ponents to the move in each of that a 5 percent cut could not STUDENT AFFAIRS 231,000 the programs claimed that the be made without damage change would dramatically re­ being done. But he expressed DEVELOPMENT 33,000 duce the effectiveness of the confidence that the long-term programs—some even pre­ • - . •. • • effect would be small. dicted that the programs could PRESIDENT’S OFFICE 140,000 "We think we've put to­ ‘ .• y/V 1 . • • *’? ■. I*’.’’ - * . not survive without a full-time gether a program that will director. TOTAL minimize the damage," Rauch •. • • A • •. $4,084,000 "You don't have a program •.’* ••**•*• a * • • said. "I think the long-term if you don't have a director," damage won't be that signifi­ said one defender of the cant." In the research area, Lick said that he Women in the Curriculum (WIC) pro­ The most dramatic effect of the budget didn't expect much change, mainly be­ gram at a public hearing. "The advance­ cuts is the loss of 136 jobs at the univer­ cause a substantial amount of the money ments women have made on campus sity, 45 of which will be faculty positions. comes from outside the university. He should not be eroded." There will be cutbacks in travel, equip­ noted that research funding is up 20 per­ The protests to the cuts in the Peace, ment purchases, and maintenance In cent this year. WIC, and Honors programs led the task addition, the university will implement The Maine athletic department, how­ force to postpone the elimination of the cost-saving energy conservation and re­ ever, was hit hard, taking a 13 percent, full-time directorships until 1991. cycling measures. $295,000 funding cut. The cuts will mean Lick stressed that the postponement Lick, Rauch, and UM vice president the loss of two administrators, and sev­ meant that the programs would have the for academic affairs, John Hitt, expressed eral assistant coaches, the trimming of chance to adjust to the new situation and confidence that students would not be about $60,000 worth of scholarships, and that the current directors could seek fac­ greatly affected by the cuts, although they the possible elimination of the men's ulty status in the coming year. "The rec-

12 MAINE ommendation will strengthen these pro­ A New Direction grams in the long run/7 he said. "All of WW' UNIQUE RETIREMENT CONCEPT these programs are very important to the L.viced Oni Qu trier Mik fr:m the Aul irn M ill university's future." A beautiful 10-acre country site But the UM president stressed that in just minutes from malls, the future the university would have to restaurants, and cultural events. cut some programs in order to stay strong Schooner Retirement Community in others. One way UM can trim pro­ offers a full range of grams without cutting students' options Lifestyle choices to bring is through more cooperation by New security and companionship England universities. to retired adults. "We are now turning to other land grant institutions in New England," Lick said, "and they've got the same problems A Model Apartment Is Available For Your Inspection; Schooner Estates Is Now we've got. We can't afford to have six of Accepting Reservations - every program in the region. We need to Call or Write Today! cooperate and make trade-offs and we are working on that." SCHOONER ESTATES Lick also explained that UM's budget 200 Stetson Road problems will be compounded by the fact Auburn, Maine 04210 that the university expects 500 fewer stu­ 207-784-2900 dents to be enrolled next year. He said the lower enrollment would be caused by NAME concern over the budget cuts as well as increased admission standards. While university officials expressed a desire to cooperate during the state's fi­ PHONE nancial woes, they also cautioned leaders < ■» j % •• • • • . » . * I i * about the effects of continued cutbacks. .1 •< • • ’... •• < » • « i • "What is called for is a careful paring • * . * • • • * of expenditures," Chancellor Robert % • • •

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Research Frozen

Through the study of Earth's glaciers, UM researchers are testing a new theory that could shake up and improve the science of global climate prediction.

By Douglas Watts '86

weltering summers, drought, un­ all start from a presumption that we lumbia University, to theorize that global usually drastic storms—the understand how the Earth's climate climate has changed abruptly in the past weather patterns of the 1980's works. and could do so again in the future. Shave left a growing number of peopleAt the University of Maine research­ Broecker and Denton suggest that as­ concerned that the release of carbon diox­ ers from several disciplines are working tronomical cycles may cause abrupt ide and other pollutants into the atmos­ together to understand global climate changes in atmosphere and ocean cur­ phere may cause drastic changes in the change by looking at how it has changed rents which in turn drive components of Earth's climate. While a hot summer in the past. And one UMaine researcher, the Earth's climate system. doesn't mean the Earth's climate is ir­ George Denton, has helped to formulate A recent $836,000 grant from the Na­ revocably changing, the widespread a new theory which could revolutionize tional Science Foundation will allow concern has led to a surge in climate the way scientists approach the subject. UMaine scientists to evaluate and apply research around the world. Traditionally, scientists have believed Denton's theory, with the ultimate goal of Most scientists agree that the green­ that fluctuations in glaciers are the critical improving our predictions of how cli­ house effect is real, and that increased link in climate change with gradual ad­ mate will change and how that change burning of fossil fuels will eventually justments over tens of thousands of years may effect various environments in Maine result in climate changes. But there is no leading the Earth from ice ages to inter­ and around the globe. general agreement about what types of glacial periods. UMaine researcher Michael Prentice changes will occur or how dramatic they Evidence found in the Earth's geologic says Denton's theory, if proven, could might be. There are many theories, often record, however, has led Denton and fel­ pull the rug out from current computer contradictory, fighting for attention But low scientist Wallace Broecker, of Co­ models used in climate research. Since 14 MAINE Left: Byrd Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest rivers of ice that drain the East Antarctic ice sheet. Ice streams like Byrd are a major part of climate change study because of their stability. If an ice sheet is going to respond to climate warming, ice streams will be critical in determining their response.

"You can't rely on computer modeling sphere is tilted at a greater angle from the only. That is a weakness in the current sun, which weakens northern summers approach to global climate forecasting." enough so snow piles up faster than it Prentice says climate researchers are melts. As the ice sheets grow, they cool just beginning to pay attention to the the Earth enough to allow snow to pile up importance of the geologic record. Previ­ even faster, fueling their own growth. ously, they were primarily concerned with When the earth tilts back enough to give the present and the future. It so happens the northern hemisphere warmer sum­ that the University of Maine has done mers, the scales of the balance tip in the some of the most advanced studies of the other direction, snow melts faster than it Earth's glacial past. The Maine research­ falls, and the glaciers shrink. ers now hope to create a body of data that can be used to test global climate theories. "Until now, you could speculate all ut the established theory is being you wanted, because there was not much questioned by Denton, Broecker, data to restrain you," says UMaine's and others. Denton has spent 36 Detma Schnitker Byears mapping the movement of past and In the last two million years, the north­ present glaciers throughout the world. ern hemisphere has undergone a succes­ His maps show that around 14,000 years sion of 100,000 year-long ice ages. Sand­ ago, nearly every single glacier in the wiched between these are 10,000 year world began receding simultaneously. interludes of relatively ice free living. In This causes a problem. If the tilt of the 1990, we are 11,000 years into an intergla­ Earth causes the glacial retreats, there cial period. But what triggers these dra­ should be a time lag between the retreat matic climate changes? of northern ice sheets and all others. But To answer that question, UMaine re­ Denton's maps show none. All the gla­ searchers are looking back 14,000 years, ciers began melting at the same time. at the Earth's most recent major climate Further, the tilt that warms the north change: the last ice age. Understanding should give the southern hemisphere cor­ more about that ice age may provide the respondingly cooler summers. The gla­ clues needed to predict when a major cial record should show an uneven gla­ shift will occur again. cial retreat, with the northern sheets lead­ Ice ages are marked by the growth of ing the way. polar glaciers, which form when snow These inconsistencies have spurred the r accumulates faster than it melts. The snow new Denton and Broecker theory. They piles up, is compressed into ice, and flows suggest the Earth's climate is controlled these computer models rely on assump­ in rivers of ice. If the atmosphere stays by two stable ocean-atmosphere systems tions of how the Earth's climate works, if cool enough, small mountain glaciers which distribute the sun's heat in drasti­ the assumptions turn out to be wrong, the combine to form continental ice sheets. cally different ways. One system allows predictions made by the model become Vestiges of the last ice age sheet still exist ice sheets to grow, the other doesn't. By worthless. in Antarctica, Greenland, and the far combining computer ice sheet and cli­ The problem with most current com­ Arctic north. mate models with evidence from the puter models is that they just don't con­ In 1941, Yugoslavian astronomer, Mi- geologic record, Denton and Broecker sider all the factors that affect climate. lutin Milankovitch proposed that vari­ suggest astronomical cycles may set the "Current climate models, including those ations in the Earth's orbit may trigger ice frequency of ice retreats and advances, used to predict global greenhouse warm­ ages. This theory was given a boost when but are not strong enough to create them. ing, do not take into account abrupt cli­ ocean bottom sediments and ice cores UMaine researcher Michael Prentice mate change," Prentice says, "and there­ taken from glaciers showed that the last says if Denton's and Broecker's theory is fore, may be inadequate for making accu­ 18 ice ages occurred in frequencies that sound, many fundamental assumptions rate predictions." matched the peaks of the orbital cycles. about the way the Earth's climate works The acid test for a model is to see how For the last several decades, scientists are wrong. well it predicts an event that has already have assumed that somehow, these or­ "This theory demands a whole new happened. To do that you need a detailed bital fluctuations trigger ice ages. The way of thinking," says Prentice. "The ice record of the past. Enter geologists. major culprit is thought to be the tilt in the sheets and orbital variations have been "One good geological finding can un­ Earth's axis, which fluctuates every 41,000 considered the major players in control­ ravel a climate model," Prentice says. years. At one extreme, the northern hemi­ ling long-term climate, with the ocean • CAMPUS

“Major brealjtfirougfis are. possible in the ne?(t five to 10 years. ” • • • ■ .. ■ -• . • . * . . ■ ’ ** ■ • ■’ / r. • / • ’• • • - ■ and atmosphere batting third or fourth. Denton and Broecker contend that is a detective story, Denton says an an­ Now we think the ocean might be batting parts of the ocean-atmosphere system are cient cold spell called the Younger Dryas first. This (Denton & Broecker's) idea has very sensitive, and when triggered can is the smoking gun. Eleven thousand dictated an entirely new strategy, one cause a reaction large enough to change years ago, Western Europe was climbing that provides a better understanding of the entire system's method of operation. out of the ice age. The forests were com­ the ocean's role " The oceans may be the player with the ing back. Suddenly, the land turned back Ice age climate research has centered power to drastically change the rules of to tundra, the trees died, and mountain on the role of ice sheets, in part, because the game. glaciers began advancing. One thousand they're so big. The new theory suggests If the Earth was a corporation, and years later, the forests returned and that while ice sheets are a striking and climate was its product, the ocean would Western Europe realigned itself with the obvious signal of past global climate be both CEO and recording secretary. rest of the world's warming trend. change, they may only be long-lived af­ CEO because the ocean contains two- Denton says this unusual cold spell ter-effects of a decisive climate shift that thirds of the Earth's carbon dioxide, and was triggered by circulation changes in took a few centuries or less to occur. receives more solar energy than any other the North Atlantic which halted the flow Denton says that 14,000 years ago, player And recording secretary, because of warm water to Western Europe. When something caused the Earth's ocean­ its bottom sediments contain the longest the warm water returned, the Younger atmosphere system to flip from an ice age undisturbed accounts of climatic history. Dryas cold spell ended. While only West­ mode to an interglacial mode, worldwide, ern Europe felt this effect, it is compelling with startling speed Researchers are now proof that climate can be sensitive to scrutinizing the geologic record of 14,000 small-scale changes years ago to see what exactly happened Prentice says our climate may have ceans act as enormous storage Unfortunately, current methods of certain weak spots that have a much lower deciphering the geologic record have batteries of the sun's heat, col­ tolerance to change than others. Once a trouble identifying events which took lecting, moving, and eventually releasingtolerance point is exceeded, the entire less than 1,000 years to occur. If Denton's Oit into the atmosphere. The southwesternglobal climate system may change. decisive climate shift was as sudden as Pacific is a major heat collection area. The Much of the evidence underpinning suspected, finding it may be difficult. North Atlantic, on the other hand, acts as the new theory has only been gathered This problem surfaced when research­ a faucet, spewing out warm water from and analyzed in the last two years. Dating ers discovered that recent marine sedi­ the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Cold Arc­ methods are becoming much more pre­ ment cores failed to show any sign of the tic winds whisk the warmth from the cise, far greater than the plus or minus 500 Little Ice Age. This cool spell occurred in ocean and release it over Western Europe years of early carbon 14 dating the northern hemisphere between 1600 and Scandinavia. This is why wheat and Researchers can now filter the past and 1900. Weather records• and measure- rye grows in Sweden, while areas of through a much finer sieve, dating events ments of mountain glaciers show that for Canada at the same latitude are locked in with greater precision This precision is 300 years, the Earth cooled an average of permafrost. necessary if Denton's idea of abrupt cli­ nearly two degrees, with ice advances But the cycle of warm water flowing mate change is true. that mirrored ice age behavior on a much into the North Atlantic is quite unstable. The fast progress of the research and smaller scale. If the event that triggered Currently, it acts as a conveyor belt. When the widespread debate that the Denton/ the glacial retreat 14,000 years ago was as the warm North Atlantic surface water is Broecker theory is receiving makes Pren­ brief as the Little Ice Age, it would pass cooled by Arctic winds, the ocean loses a tice optimistic that a clearer picture of our unnoticed through the researcher's sieve substantial amount of water through future climate will emerge in the next Prentice reasons that climate might evaporation. The remaining colder water decade. work like a pocket watch. In a watch, contains more salt. This makes it more "Major breakthroughs in our under­ some gears move quickly, others slowly dense, and the highly saline water plum­ standing are possible in the next five to 10 It may take 100 clicks of one gear to move mets from the surface to the bottom of the years, " he says. But unlike some promi­ another gear one click. If the ice age is the Atlantic, flowing straight to Antarctica. nent scientists, Prentice does not think hour hand, moving it may take hundreds This conveyor did not exist during the politicians need to wait for the results of of clicks by other gears hidden in the back last ice age, and warm water was re­ more research to make sound policy of the watch. buffed from the high northern latitudes, decisions. "Every part of the climate has a fre­ keeping them cool enough to sustain "There is no question that we are cur­ quency at which it operates And there glacial expansion. Furthermore, the con­ rently exceeding carbon dioxide levels are parts that change quickly," Prentice veyor itself is very vulnerable to small that have occurred in the past, and that says. "The whole history of ice ages may frequency climate changes. If conditions fact will affect our climate" Prentice says. be contained m small frequency changes aren't just right, it doesn't work. "We do need more research, but we also that trigger larger changes." If finding the prime mover in ice ages need to act now."

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he timing was is totally an individual curious — campus issue. The March 28, the NCAA is not going to do day before the NCAA it." women's basketball According to White, championship. But that UMaine is making a long­ was the date the Uni­ term commitment to versity of Oklahoma comply with the prin­ chose to announce that ciples of Title IX, al­ it was terminating it's though he readily admits women's basketball that the institution's past program. record has not been great The announcement In fact, UMaine was sued provoked a great deal over its lack of compli­ of national criticism, ance with Title IX in 1981 and Oklahoma subse­ "We are definitely out quently reinstated the of compliance with Title women's program. But IX," White says. "No the event left many question about it. But we people asking how a are no more out of com­ school which spends so pliance than most schools much money on men's in the U.S Still, that is no basketball and football defense. We have a legal, could have arrived at moral, and ethical obli­ such a decision. Weren't gation to comply." American colleges sup­ And what does com­ posed to be moving to­ pliance mean? The ward equality in men's NCAA just recently pub­ and women's athletics? lished a 33-page, updated Where is the NCAA7 interpretation of the act, What happened to Title Fifteen years after Title IX, most schools, outlining the specifics. IX? But in general terms it Title IX, signed into including Maine, are far from providing means any institution law by President Ger­ equality in men's and women's sports. receiving federal funds ald Ford, states that must provide for an equal "No person in the But athletic director Kevin White is distribution of resources United States shall, on and reasonably equal op­ the basis of sex, be ex­ determined to have UM make the goal. portunities to participate cluded from participa­ in athletics for both men tion in, be denied the and women benefits of, or be subjected to discrimina­ forcement of Title IX and other civil rights "The office of civil rights says that tion under an education program or ac­ legislation has been nonexistent," she sports have to reflect a variance of no tivity receiving federal financial assis­ wrote in a April 15,1990 New York Tunes more than 7 percent of your student body tance." editorial. "We have lost our passion for make-up," White says. It sounds pretty strong and clear. But fairness, our commitment to equity." Right now Maine's student popula­ many people, including Donna A. Lopi- "She is probably more right than tion is just about 50 percent female, but ano, director of women's sports at the wrong," says University of Maine ath­ out of a total of 565 athletes at the univer­ University of Texas, believe that even letic director, Kevin White. "The NCAA sity, only 169, or 25 percent, are women. after 15 years, there has been little en­ is not actively enforcing Title IX. If a "We know we have a problem," White forcement of the act. campus believes in the goals of Title IX says. "Over the last 10 years, federal en­ then it is going to have to regulate itself. It Equity in sports resurfaced as an issue

18 MAINE at UM this spring as a result of Maine's the department," Dowd wrote women's athletics. revenue shortfall. The athletic department The idea of dropping the UM football If nothing else the recent budget prob­ was asked to cut close to $300,000 from its program even received serious discus­ lems have started an important and operating budget. In the decision proc­ sion at a late April board of trustees' healthy debate about what kind of sports ess, White made it clear that Title IX meeting. "Vermont dropped football, and program the University of Maine should compliance would be a factor, although they don't seem to have suffered," noted support. he emphasized that the act would not be trustee Thomas Monaghan '54. "Do we want to keep a high profile, used as an excuse to cut programs. and keep company with schools like As a result, two of the smaller men's Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode programs, tennis and swimming, were Island, which we have done in the past," ut Black Bear football has thou­ on the line. An innovative and unselfish asks White. "Or do we want to go in a proposal by men's swimming coach Alan sands of supporters and represents different direction." Switzer saved the swimming team. a rich tradition at Maine. It is unlikely thatUMaine alumni are certainly not in Switzer took an early retirement, and the Bthe board of trustees would vote to elimiagreement­ on this question. But in the men's and women's programs will now nate it. White thinks there are three less informal polls that the Alumni Associa­ be combined under the women's coach, drastic options for fulfilling the tion has conducted, keeping a high pro­ Jeff Wren. university's commitment of bringing par­ file in athletics seemed to be a much lower With the eventual elimination of ten­ ity to men's and women's athletics while priority than giving more students a nis, and the development of a new inter­ trimming the overall athletic budget. chance to participate—especially more collegiate women's soccer program, The first option would seek compli­ female students. Maine will have 10 men's and 10 women's ance slowly, essentially through attrition "Maine should retain all sports," wrote programs. So if the number of teams is of personnel and programs. The second Arthur Conro '60, a former Black Bear balanced, why are the number of partici­ option would be to work aggressively football player and track man. "College pants and the allocation of resources so towards compliance by dramatically in­ sports are not to entertain, they are for the out of wack? The answer learning experience is simple—football. and growth of the stu­ As with any good size dent." school, Black Bear foot­ In her Bangor Daily • • •• • . • • • • • • • • • • ball commands a dispro­ News column, Maine portionately large num­ "We have a legal, moral, and alumna Joni Averill ber of participants, also emphasized that scholarships, and re­ ethical obligation to comply." termination of pro­ sources. Last year the V • ? * • • • • • • • . • • • • . * . • • • • • ••• ••• grams was the least • % • . • •• • ■ * 5 • •

Maine football program .... •• ■ . • desirable alternative • • • * • • • • • • •. 9 • .•••*• ' • ’ * • • cost over $1 million. UM athletic director, Kevin White for the university. • • •* • • • . . • . s • **'••• *• • V • * • . • ••• ' Initially, football was • . . • . ’ . ■ ■ t "'Minor' sports are exempted from the Title not minor to those IX formula. But White who participate in says that while it is still recognized by the creasing support for women's programs them," she wrote. "The answer, in my government as a problem for schools, it is while reducing support for men's pro­ mind would be to cut back, pare, com­ no longer exempt from the Title IX man­ grams. Finally there is White's ideal solu­ bine, reorganize across the board, any­ date for equality of participants and re­ tion, one in which an aggressive attempt thing but terminate." sources in male and female sports. would be made to attract additional re­ While Lick has remained open to the "In order to balance football, we may sources for expanding women's programs idea of across the board cuts, he has have to offer more women's sports then while maintaining the current level of warned that it would mean stepping back men's programs here at Maine," White support for men's programs. from the success many Black Bear teams says. White admits that the third option is have enjoyed in recent years. The fact that football is so much more probably unrealistic in the current eco­ "If you want to be competitive, in a expensive than other programs has caused nomic environment. And he does not like number of sports, you can't cut across the some people to suggest that perhaps it the prospects for option two because it board," he said in a recent newspaper should also be considered for elimina­ would mean cutting back in the sports interview. "If we cut football, baseball, or tion. A Mike Dowd column in the Bangor that generate revenue to the athletic de­ women's basketball, to get back to the Daily News provoked a good deal of dis­ partment. That revenue goes to benefit all level we've attained would take years." cussion when he offered two scenarios sports at Maine. That message was not lost on the board for solving Maine's athletic budget. One Ultimately, he sees the solution as a of trustees. At its May meeting, the board was for across the board cuts. The other combination of option one and three— supported the current direction of the suggested that the school drop football. slowly phasing out or modifying some Maine athletic program, including keep­ "At its current million dollar a year men's programs and making a strong ing a competitive football team at the level, the program is a constant drain on attempt at increasing funding sources for Division IAA level.

Spring/Summer 1990 19 CAMPUS Academic Programs Women in the Curriculum Celebrates 10th Year

Editor's note: Shortly after this article was written, President Dale Lick approved a UM task force recommendation that Women in the Curriculum change from a full-time director to a half-time faculty director. See our budget story on page 12 Women in the Curriculum associate Sharon Barker (left) with director Evelyn Newlyn.

By Barbara O'Bryant '89 women and minorities in the classroom have women contributed to history? and the administration. One way WIC Whatare women's roles in today's world? accomplishes this is by awarding grants What choices do women have? And, how any women in academia believe to faculty members to revise courses, and have things come to be the way they are that colleges and universities to researchers who contribute to scholar­ for women and men? have not been telling the whole storyship to for women. Newlyn says that there is currently a MAmerica's students. They agree thatThe program also sponsors a lunch good deal of support on campus for what schools are teaching history—what they series where members of the community WIC is trying to do. "But as with any say is missing is her story. present panel discussions or perform­ movement for social change, there is some

Ten years ago a group of women at the ances each week at the MemorialI Union resentment," Newlyn says. "People are University of Maine set out on a mission And during Women's History Week, WIC often afraid of change." to present courses at UM that were about sponsors various activities that reflect the One change being backed by WIC that human beings—women as well as men, diversity of women's accomplishments has met some resistance is the nonsexist minorities as well as whites. As the result and experiences. language policy which was approved by of a $200,000 Women's Educational Eq­ In 1987, the time seemed right for the the Council of Colleges and President uity Act Grant and the cooperation of women's program to grow. The people Arthur Johnson in 1986. WIC produces other New England schools, Women in working with WIC decided to develop a and distributes a pamphlet explaining the Curriculum (WIC) developed into a women's studies concentration at the policy, the harmful effects of sexist program on the Orono campus. This year UMaine. A nationwide search was con­ language and nonsexist alternatives. WIC not only celebrates its 10th anniver­ ducted for a new director of WIC and a "The ability to learn in class is ad­ sary, but also the successful completion coordinator of the women's studies pro­ versely affected by an atmosphere of feel­ of the first year of a women's studies con­ gram. As a result, Evelyn Newlyn was ing uncomfortable and of not belong­ centration. hired and immediately began to imple­ ing," Newlyn says "And the language The program developed at UMaine ment the new program. The response used contributes to that atmosphere It was part of a growing awareness for the was enthusiastic. affects how comfortable a student feels need for women's studies in American "The women's studies program had and how she feels about herself." higher education. The first women's stud­ an excellent first year," says Newlyn. "The Another problem that Newlyn and ies program was started at San Diego first class formed an outgoing group WIC are trying to address is the discrep­ State in 1970. Now there are more than alumni association, later expanded to ancy in the number of women faculty in 500 such programs in the country. include students of all women's studies some disciplines, especially the sciences In its first decade at Maine, WIC has classes on campus. These classes provide and technical fields. The lack of women gone a long way towards fulfilling its nourishment for women." in these areas make it difficult for female mission of educating the university com­ Among the questions considered in students to have role models. And when munity about the need for including the women's studies courses are: What women faculty are in a small minority,

20 MAINE they often feel on the periphery of a de­ partment, rather than at its heart. Newlyn says that many UM administrators are 5 a?. concerned about creating a more hospi­ ■ , table atmosphere for women, but the TT > I K5 .h IP ■ bottom line is that there are just not enough lift women on the faculty. d? w But Newlyn is optimistic about the fu­ ture and points to the fact that a woman is now dean of the College of Science as evidence that a change is underway. Some concrete goals of Women in the Curriculum in the future are to establish an endowed chair in women's studies, to develop a women artists and scholars series, and to bring to the university eminent women representing a diversity of accomplishments. WIC is also advo­ cating the establishment of a long sought women's center. One stumbling block on the path to achieving those goals are budget con­ straints and limited staff. Until this past January, Newlyn worked with just one other person, secretary Brenda Collam- ore. Now she also has a half time associ­ ate, Sharon Barker. Because there is such a limited staff, WIC has put into place a new committee system to help with the work. Newlyn says the committee struc­ ture has the added benefit of allowing lots of university people to be involved with the women's program. Its nice to do business The success and growth of the WIC program at Maine is serving as a model throughout the UM System. "The other with friends. campuses are only now beginning to look at curriculum revision," Newlyn says. "And they look to UM for suggestions, advice, resources, text list, etc." While Newlyn is enthusiastic about the changes happening nationwide and at Maine regarding the status of women, she still finds her work to be difficult. "There is some resistance and hostil­ ity," she says. "But what makes me feel I need to keep doing it is when students talk about how their lives have changed because of these classes." She says that the long term result of such change is that everyone will be bet­ It’s not hard to support things and people in which you believe. ter off. "That's where education comes We actively support the University and higher education. in," she says. "Although we focus on As fellow alumni, we hope you’ll consider Desmond & Payne women, life will be better for women, for your home, auto, business and boat insurance. men, and children. Everyone will be able to do what he or she wants to do. If a man Call us anytime. wants to stay home with the children, he will be able to without suspicion. By ad­ vancing the status of women, both men and women come out winners." 366 U S Route 1 • Falmouth, ME 04105 • (207) 781-2784 4

44 months of brutal captivity made UM graduate Frank Reed thin, pale, and angry, but it didn't destroy his spirit or his love of life.

hen Norinne Hilchey attempted to escape from his captors I felt if I were alone and got the news, Daly '59 heard the several times. "Knowing Frank, I fig­ I'd pass out." news report that her ured he would jump at the chance." As for Frank Reed, he looked thin Wformer UMaine classmate FrankIf Reed's Reed old UMaine classmates and tired, but after extensive testing, had been released in Lebanon after 44 and friends were overjoyed at the he was pronounced in relatively good months as a hostage, she health. And Reed's great screamed, "My God, he's concern for his fellow been freed!" hostages, and his out­ "My husband was in spokenness over U.S. hos­ the other part of the tage policy was reassur­ house," Daly said, "and ing. Even Shiite Moslem when he heard me, he extremists couldn't de­ knew exactly who I was stroy his humanity and talking about." that Reed spirit and con­ It's likely there were viction. many such screams all Not that they didn't over Maine and the try. Since his release, Reed United States. Frank Reed has told stories of intense is the kind of person who physical and psychologi­ makes friends— a charis­ cal torture during his cap­ matic person who leaves tivity. He said that he was a lasting impression on routinely blindfolded and people. tied to radiators. And af­ And most of Reed's ter his two escape at­ Maine friends and ac­ tempts, he was beaten so quaintances had not held severely that his nose, out much hope for his re­ jaw, and ribs were bro­ lease. "I think we wrote ken. off that he would ever be "Twice I tried to es­ free," said Daly. "Like his cape from the clutches of family said, we didn't this fellow and twice I was hope for anything in the caught." Reed said. "The fear that our hopes would first time I was caught I be dashed." spent four days in hell. "I assumed the worst," Brian (Reed's fellow hos­ said friend and former tage) estimated I'd been teaching colleague hit 200 times in the head Robert Stanley '58. "I know Frank is release, you can only imagine the and body. Two days later I tried again. an impulsive guy and I figured he emotions felt by his family—over He struck me in the back and my kid­ wouldn't cooperate with his captors. three years of waiting with little or no neys bled. Thank God he didn't do That could only mean that things information on Reed's well being. worse than that. would be tougher for him." "It has been hard," Reed's mother, "During the first part of my pun­ Stanley said he was not at all sur­ Leota Sprague, told the Boston Globe. ishment, they tried to break my feet prised when he heard that Reed had "I've been afraid to be alone because with a cement reinforcement rod, 22 MAINE which is an Arab way of punishing Fahima Dalati. The couple have a son you....I did everything in my power Tarek. Reed also has two children, not to cry out. This kind of treatment Jacqueline Reed and Marilyn Lang­ went on for a long time." ston from his first marriage. Reed told reporters that his cap- Reed's time as a student at the tors assured him he would not be University of Maine spanned almost killed. But they also continually told a decade. He entered as a member of him that he was close to being re­ the Class of 1955, and in his first year leased. And before he was let go, he played on the freshman basketball Reed had been led to believe that his team. His time at Maine was inter- ' 'tTmce I tried to fellow hostages were either already rupted by a tour in the Army. free, or about to be freed. When Reed returned to the uni­ When he found that he was the versity, he joined the Class of 1959, 1 escape from the lone hostage to be released, he be­ and eventually became that class's came "angry and embarrassed." president. Although he was married, dutches of this That anger caused him to speak he found time to work every morning out against U.S. hostage policy. Reed delivering the Bangor Daily News to fetfow, and twice said that the policy was based on a 300 customers. He was also a mem­ lack of understanding of Arab socie­ ber of the Black Bear varsity golf team. ties. In those countries, kidnaping is Reed's education was interrupted I was caught. an accepted way of solving problems. again in the late 50's, and he ended "It is the Arab patriarch's absolute up graduating in 1961. (Brian estimated duty to negotiate, not to throw around According to friends and family, geopolitical slogans about to prevent Frank Reed always wanted to teach, i hostage-taking...," Reed said. "Even His first teaching job was in Islesboro, that I ’d been hit if you have to go to bed with the Maine (1959-1961). His former col- I devil,you get in to save a life." leagues still remember the enthusias­ 200 times in the Reed's comments were the first tic UM graduate.. time a former hostage had spoken "I remember Frank well," Emo­ out against U.S. policy. But his re­ gene Rolcrson told the Bangor Daily head and body, marks didn't surprise those who News. "He was a person who liked a knew him at UMaine. lot of action. He was always in the dwo days Cater I "He always spoke his own mind," thick of things." says Norinne Daly. "He was a person Reed also taught at South Bristol tried again. 9de of tremendous conviction. He was High School and at several schools in one of the charismatic characters of Massachusetts. He then became an the late 1950's at Maine. He was elementary school principal in New struchme in the ahead of his time. The rest of us al­ Hampshire before moving to Leba­ ways wished we had the guts to say non. During this time he kept up his badland my hid- what he said." own education, completed a master's Robert Stanley has two minds degree from Boston College, and took about the hostage policy. Rationally, courses at Northeastern and Harvard. neys bbed. 'Thanh I he agrees that you can't negotiate Friends were not surprised when with terrorists, bu t when a good friend Reed took the Lebanon job. "The (fod he didn ’t do gets captured, that way of thinking world is my world," he once said. doesn't always work. And he backed the statement up with worse than that. ” "I know Frank Reed," Stanley said. extensive travel. He had been to the "And when you know a hostage, you jungles of Brazil, the Australian out­ say let's do whatever it takes to get back, and even to the North Pole. him released." Above all else Frank Reed is a man Reed's ordeal began in Septem­ who lives life to its fullest. His captors ber, 1986 when he was seized by a tried their best to squash that spirit, Shiite Moslem fundamentalist group, but they couldn't. It was just too driving from his home in west Beirut. strong. At 57, Reed still has a lot of He had lived in Lebanon since 1977, students to teach, places to go and working as director of the Lebanese friends to make. International School. He converted Welcome home Frank. Alumni to the Islamic religion in order to everywhere lift their Maine steins marry a Moslem Lebanese woman, to you.

S rin /Summer 1990 23 I t

Doug Hall Z81 invents toys and games for his own company, and just about everything for Proctor and Gamble. The secret to his success? t Have a good time at what you are doing.

By Jim Frick

oug Hall '81 is having a whole brother and sister he took his show on the lot of fun He has no boss, works road, performing all over northern New when he wants to, plays with England all kinds of gadgets and toys, and getsAs to a senior, Hall also dabbled in col- Dtry out his wildest ideas with other i lege politics In vintage Doug Hall style people's money. he ran for student body president on the "It doesn't get much more fun than slogan, "I know we're going to lose, but this," Hall says. "I wake up each morning we'll have one hell of a party " and pinch myself and say to my He did lose but he kept his campaign I family,'guys, this is way too much fun'— promise and had a much bigger and bet- nobody should be having this much fun." ■ ter party than the winners. Hall has all that fun by dreaming up Attending Maine is something of a new product ideas, and then turning them tradition in the Hall family Doug's into a reality. He does it for Proctor and brother, Bruce, and his sister, Pamela, Gamble as the company's 'master market both went to Maine as did his parents inventor' and for Richard Saunders Inc., a Merwyn and Jean Turner Hall. The tradi­ company in which he is a principal owner tion was started by Hall's grandmother,

(No Richard Saunders is not the founding Hazel Emerson Hall '29, a relative of > partner in the company, it is the Richard Ralph Waldo Emerson go to law school." Saunders who was also known as Ben "The joke around my house was that But in the summer after his junior year Franklin.) we had to go to Maine, because we had no Hall got a job for Proctor and Gamble in Of course, Doug Hall has always found other clothes," Hall remembers Pennsylvania, and he quickly found out a way to have a lot fun in his life, and he Even as a kid, Hall was always invent­ that he did not want to be an engineer. has always been something of a performer ing and taking things apart. He says both "That wasn't such a good time to find and an entrepreneur. While he was a of his parents were very supportive out I didn't like engineering," Hall says. chemical engineering student at the Uni­ through all his craziness, although he "But I was so close to getting my degree, versity of Maine, he earned money per­ j remembers that his mother did get furi­ I figured what the heck I'll finish." forming as Merwyn the Magician and as ous when he cut up her favorite trunk for When he graduated, P&G offered him MoMo the Clown. a magic escape trick < a job, not in engineering but in manufac­ "Hey, juggling and magic was a lot Hall's father ("a great guy") suggested turing, as a member of a brand manage­ better than working for a living," Hall that the young Hall become a patent at­ ment team. says. "When I was younger, I said to torney, because it was the most socially "I didn't quite know what a brand myself, 'you can either get a real job, or respectable way of being an inventor management team was,"Hall admits, "but you can learn these tricks and get paid for "And then he said 'if you're going to be it sounded like more fun than engineer­ having fun.' I really liked the idea of a patent attorney why don't you get an ing." doing magic and the money was good " undergraduate degree in chemical engi­ I The engineering did come in handy One time, at a Black Bear Football neering, they do a lot of stuff with inven­ however, as Hall was called upon to work I game, Hall performed the illusion of cut­ tors'.", Hall remembers. "So I went to as a liaison and coordinator between ting a female student into three pieces Maine for a chemical engineering degree production, packaging, and advertising. with a guillotine. And along with his with the idea that I would graduate and He remembers his first big product pro-

I 4 • 24 MAINE in the group. "I run this team of bright people, and our mission is to invent exciting new products quicker than anyone else," Hall says. Hall works without supervision, and says he is the only P&G employee he knows who meets with the company president in jeans and Reeboks. "I don't vjfec-.-: '"fit1 8. & wear a suit anymore," Hall says. "It just isn't fun." One of the most successful Doug Hall ideas was a coffee campaign called "Jumpstart Your Brain with Folgers." "Folgers wanted us to figure out a way to get young people interested in drink­ ing coffee," Hall says. "Twenty years ago, 80 percent of 20-year-olds drank coffee, today it is only 30 percent. And since Folgers is the number one coffee in America, they were obviously not happy with the decline." Hall came up with the "jumpstart" idea and started a test program at Miami University in Ohio. They delivered 21/2 tons of coffee a day to the campus and offered it at sampling stands along with a fudge creamer that takes the bitterness out of coffee. Coffee use on campus doubled, and a year later is still up over 25 percent. The Folgers campaign was selected as one of the top ten newspaper ads of the year and a jingle that Hall wrote was selected as the best radio jingle. The Miami University project will also be used as a case study in MBA programs at Harvard .T<> and the University of Virginia.

jf 0 s ‘IT’* nd Hall's team has had lots of motions were with Coast soap, Brigade ness for myself. I wanted to be an entre­ other bright ideas. When toilet bowl cleaner ("my mother never preneur." Duncan Hines wanted to liked it"), and Spic and Span. Liquid Spic Hall hooked up with another former Abuild its cake business, Hall got the idea and Span is a Doug Hall product. P&G worker, Kip Knight, but just as they of "Duncan Hines Fantastic Party Cakes." With Spic and Span he put together a were getting their company started, Hall Everything you need for a party—a cake diamond promotion (every bottle or received a call from his former employer. mix, frosting mix, punch out decorations, package contained either a real diamond "P&G called me a couple of months and a three-dimensional, biodegradable or a zircon) that was voted into the Pro­ after I left," Hall says. "They told me that baking pan are included in the package. motion Marketing Association's Hall of they understood why I left and that they The "Pantastic" baking pans make cakes Fame. It also earned P&G the second wanted me back. Now Proctor doesn't in the shape of Garfield, Miss Piggy, highest return on investment in the hire people back. I think I was the second Kermit, a heart, a bear—even a Major company's history person they had ever asked to come back. League Baseball stadium. Hall even Hall's bright ideas and knack for get­ I said I'd come back as long as I didn't managed to steer some business to a ting things done well and quickly lifted have any adult supervision. To my sur­ couple of Maine companies, Kaiser Fiber him up the corporate ladder. In a short prise, Ross Love, who is now vice-presi­ of Waterville and Packaging Corporation time he became one of P&G's youngest dent for all P&G advertising, said okay." of America of Portland. brand managers. So now, along with his own company, "It looks like it is going to be a huge "I was brand manager for Safeguard," Hall runs a group called the Proctor and success," Hall says. "And the whole thing Hall says. "But I quit the job because once Gamble Invention Team. It is a collection was done in six months." you got up into the higher management of multi-skilled people who each have at In order to get projects completed with they wanted you to do respectable things, least two areas of expertise. Hall has the such unheard of speed, Hall's team keeps not fun things. I decided to go into busi­ advertising and engineering background crazy hours, and they generally work on five or six projects at a time. their partner in as many places as pos­ have to work for a living. But with all I "We work weird hours," Hall says. sible. If a team is flexible enough to make have going, and with licenses and royal­ "Last night we were up until 2:30 in the 25 successful connections, they win. ties, well, we are already financially se­ morning formulating ideas. We were on "Octopus" was chosen by Games Maga­ cure. That opens doors to new ideas. I'm a roll, so we just kept going. Right now we zine as the party game of the year. interested in doing more with TV shows. have several exciting projects including a How do Hall and his colleagues come And I'm working on a children's book television show, "Let's eat with Bert Wolf" up with these crazy new game ideas? idea with my daughter." that will be aired on the Family Channel "Coming up with an idea is easy," Hall Of course, that daughter, Kristyn, is this July." says. "The tough part is selling it to adults, only three, so he sees the collaboration as When Hall is not working at P&G, he selling it to a company. We come up with a long-term effort. goes to work for his own company, in­ ideas that are pragmatic and work. Cost, venting, packaging, promoting—gener­ marketing, everything has to be thought ally having more fun. He says that his through. Can you make money on the oth of Hall's children (the other is work is not in conflict with P&G because dang thing? Is it feasible? An idea is only one-year-old Victoria) love to he carefully stays away from "grocery a great idea if it can work." play in their daddy's office base­ ment. And who wouldn't? The basement store products" and concentrates on In order to make those ideas fly, Hall B » consumer electronics, toys, and games. looks for people "who have an incredible was entirely redone with electronic white­ Some of the dozen people working in desire to be great and do wonderful board on which you can write and then Hall's company are also from Proctor and things." And Hall instills an attitude that make a copy ("great for brainstorming Gamble, and the formula for success is second best will not be accepted. Neither sessions"). He has a huge computer sys­ the same as Hall applies at P&G—small will missing a deadline. tem on which he can make commercials. focussed teams of highly innovative, | "Atmosphere is key," Hall says. "I There is animation equipment, a FAX— highly skilled people. spend most of my time telling studios even equipment for formulating new and agencies to do better. You can do beverages. And it's furnished in what wonderful things if you are challenged Hall terms,"cutting edge, ultra-modern." he enterprise that has earned and if you have enthusiasm In fact I often And then, of course, there is the Hall Hall and his colleagues the most quote my relative Ralph Waldo Emerson toy and game collection (over 200 board recognition is a Richard Saun­ who said 'nothing ever happens without games). All and all, it's a pretty exciting Tders spinoff, a toy and game companyenthusiasm.' I try to get people to stretch, I place for a couple of young kids and their called HAHA. A logical name for an en­ to do better Unfortunately, in today's 31-year old father to hang out. trepreneur whose approach to life is to world second best is too often accepted as And how does Hall's wife Debbie react have fun, but the name was actually a being good enough. And deadline is also to all the fun and games? J second choice. a key. We say we can do anything in 90 "Debbie's a wonderful woman," Hall "Originally we were going to call the days, and we back that claim up." says. "She realizes that she has three chil­ company HOHO," Hall says. "But we 1 Not all of Hall's ideas are instant hits. dren in the house—our two daughters decided not to because we didn't want to He has been trying to market a new toy and myself." get the big guy mad at us. After all, Santa called "Stinky the Pig" without success. In his "free" time, Hall is brushing up has the patent on hohos. You should never The concept for the toy is that Stinky goes on his juggling and magic. And as usual get the big guy mad at you." on an eating binge, and players must he is finding ways to mix his play inter­

So rather than thinking of himself as remove tires and other items from inside I ests with his work Santa, Hall promotes himself as King of the pig in a limited time (the time is kept I "Right now I'm in the process of put­ the Elves. by winding Stinky's tail). If you beat the ting together a promotional campaign for "Elves make toys, and we're a toy time limit, Stinky lets out a squeal of Hawaiian Punch that might use some company, so I wanted to be King of the delight. If you are too slow, it grunts and jugglers and magicians," Hall says. "I Elves," Hall says. " Next year, somebody releases an unpleasant odor. may even perform in it! I also intend to else in the company will have a turn at "Ninety-five percent of the fifth grad­ put together some new products that use being the king." ers we surveyed love Stinky," Hall says. magic principles." HAHA's first creation was a story­ "But 90 percent of their parents hate him, Whatever Doug Hall does for the rest telling game called "Once." More re­ so the toy companies aren't too interested of his life, you can bet that he will proba­ cently, they have marketed "Pop Opin­ in him right now." bly be enjoying himself. It's more than ion" and "Octopus", which are distrib­ True to his philosophy of "if they don't just a promise, it's a philosophy of life. uted by University Games and Random like it change it", Hall is now working on "In my life there is no separation be­ House, respectively. a more pleasant odor to accompany the tween play and work," Hall says. "I'm "Pop Opinion" is a game where par­ 1 pig's grunt. not sure what I'll be doing tomorrow, but ticipants provide their own personal And what's in the future for a 31-year- I know it will be fun. If you are having a opinions to a set of questions. There are old having a great time making lots of good time at what you're doing then no right or wrong answers. And there is money? 1 everything works. a special Doug Hall feature— participants "I'm not sure, and I'm not really wor­ And if your not having fun then you are required to eat microwave popcorn rying about it right now," Hall says. "I get have to change something. And you have while they play. to play with multi-millions of dollars, to take the responsibility to change An HAHA's most successful game is making wonderful new products. We are old vaudevillian once told me that there "Octopus." In it, players attach velcro having fun and we are making people is no such thing as a bad audience only a fasteners around their heads, wrists, and lots of money. But when it is no longer bad performance. If you flop then it is ankles and try to connect themselves to fun, I'll do something else. Most people your fault not theirs."

26 MAINE —— > • • • • • • w A fter becoming the first Native American to graduate from Maine, the first Penobscot to earn a Ph.D., and after serv­ ing for over a decade in the Peace Corps., , * Eunice Baumann-Nelson'39, returned to Indian Island to find inner peace and self-understanding.

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n the early hours of April 22, over Americans who organized and partici­ organizers did not allow television cam­ 1,000 people ascended Cadillac pated in the ceremony. To her, the sun's eras or other recording equipment at the Mountain to take part in a sunrise appearance was a symbol—Maine Indi­ event. Icelebration of the 20th anniver­ ans had returned to their sacred ground. The sacredness of the Earth Day cere­ sary of Earth Day. The centerpiece of that Both Mount Cadillac and Mount mony was important to Baumann-Nel­ celebration was a sacred Native Ameri­ Katahdin are considered sacred by son. This was not a show. It represented a can ceremony, similar to ones tradition­ Maine's Native Americans. They would growing awareness among her own ally performed at the vernal equinox. travel to those sites regularly to hold tra­ people of the value and importance of It was overcast and cold as one of the ditional ceremonies. But when the Cadil­ their Native American roots. Indians started a base fire from which he lac road was constructed, and Mount "We are only beginning now to show would light the pipe to be used in the Desert Island became a tourist haven, the signs of revering some of those traditions ceremony . Just as he lit the pipe, the Indians abandoned this traditional site. that are revivable," she said in a pre-Earth clouds suddenly separated, and the ris­ On this Earth Day, Baumann-Nelson Day Bangor Daily News interview. "I don't ing sun covered the mountaintop. and the other Indian elders insisted that want to jeopardize that slowly awaken­ The moment had special meaning for the ceremony not be a tourist event. The ing consciousness." University of Maine graduate Eunice public was more than welcome to attend, Native American values are important Baumann-Nelson '39, one of the Native but as participants, not observers. The to Eunice Baumann-Nelson—very impor­

Spring/Summer 1990 27 r tant. They are the basis of her feeling of gave me a feeling that I must be a lovable been stranded on the island for days oneness with the Earth and with her past. person, that I must have self-worth. That during crucial class sessions because fast They are the source of her spiritual being, positive self-image has always been with moving ice flows made it impossible to her inner peace, her sense of self-worth me. If someone didn't like me, or if I cross the river." And she thinks those same Native wasn't asked to join something, I always Being the first Native American to American values carry an important considered it a problem with them, not graduate from UMaine was not the only message to a world edging closer to eco­ —me.~ educational "first" that Baumann-Nelson logical disaster. earned. In 1957 she earned a Ph.D. in "I identify strongly with my ances­ interdisciplinary studies from New York tors," Baumann-Nelson says. "They were aumann-Nelson's childhood was University, making her the first Penob­ one with all that surrounded them. There also very influenced by her fa­ scot Indian to earn a doctorate. was no belief system that transcended the ther, a tribal leader who was a Soon after receiving her doctorate, earth, the planet. There was life in all Bgraduate of Dartmouth College. Educa-Baumann-Nelson t married and moved to things and all things deserved respect. To tion was a high priority in the Nelson Indianapolis were she worked as both a Indians, land was Mother Earth—and they family. university teacher and a social worker. assumed responsibility for maintaining a Wanting to follow in her father's foot­ While in Indiana in the 1950's, she and her balance." steps, Eunice Nelson enrolled at the Uni­ husband became involved in the fledg­ She does not see a return to Na­ ling civil rights movement. tive American values as a step back "My husband, a Swiss, was one into the past. This, after all, is a of the earliest whites to get involved women who prides herself on being in the movement," she says. "It a progressive thinker. Rather, she “dhere is a way of was part of our way of looking at sees the future as a coming together the world. I'm not sure where I got of those values, reverence for living that can bring my liberalism All I know is that as Earth—spirituality if you will, and long as one person is denied rights, science. great peace and I have to do something about it." Baumann-Nelson has studied That liberalism—that concern frontier scientific theories such as tranquility, liberty, and for human rights, human welfare, James Lovelock's Gaia, and the and education became the direc­ superstring theory, and she sees tion for her life. It led her to the job uncanny parallels between those equilibrium. 9dy of librarian of the Museum of the theories and the myths of Native American Indian in New York. It American and other cultures. ancestors fcnew that led her to direct work camps for the "Many new ideas in physics, American Friends Service Commit­ such as the superstring theory, are way. I now tfiow that tee. It led her to work for the New corroborating the extensive knowl­ York City YWCA And in 1964, it edge, insight, and understanding led her to an extended period of of the universe that our ancestors Peace Corps service in Peru and possessed," she says. Bolivia ' The superstrmg concept is a the­ While in Bolivia, Baumann-Nel­ ory that explains all the forces in son survived one of the more fnght- the universe. It explains the ultimate versity of Maine after graduating from i ening experiences of her life. While her nature of physical reality as one-dimen­ Old Town High School Other Maine husband was on a trip to Washington, the sional strings—smaller than quarks, that Indians had attended the university, but country underwent a three-day coup The are vibrating in all things The variations she holds the distinction of being the first Baumanns lived next door to the Bolivian in elements and forms of life, depend on Native American ever to graduate from president who was being overthrown the loops these strings form, and the type Maine. Both her brother and sister also For three sleepless nights, Baumann- of vibrations they create. received college degrees from other insti­ Nelson and her two adopted Native The theory presents almost a musical tutions. American children lay on the floor with view of the world It is a view that implies In that June of 1939, many newspapers mattresses pressed against the windows harmony and connectedness. And it is a carried feature stories about Baumann- to stop any stray machine gun fire. view which, according to Baumann-Nel­ Nelson's distinction. Here is part of the Eventually, Baumann-Nelson's com­ son, can be inferred from the ancestral account that appeared in the Portland Press mitment to helping people, led her belief system and certain myths. Herald: j home—to her own community on Indian Baumann-Nelson is a Penobscot. She "Eunice Josephine Nelson of Old Town Island, where she was appointed director grew up on Indian Island where she will be the first Indian ever to be gradu­ of Indian health and human services. learned to hunt, fish and canoe. She re­ ated from the University of Maine when She looks at her return to Indian Island members being independent and self- she receives her bachelor of arts degree in as a paradox. , reliant even as a young child. And she English here Monday.. .Miss Nelson has I "I was at a point in my life where I says her upbringing helped her to form a participated extensively in extra-curricu­ realized that my education, my training, lifelong positive self-image. lar activities, being a member of the my experiences around the world, every­ "When I was growing up, my nick­ Contributors' Club, creative writing or­ thing I had left Indian Island to obtain, name was 'Love/ she says. "My sister ganization, and the women's rifle were also what gave me the understand­ would always call me that. And the name team....Many a tale she can tell of having ing that I had to return to my heritage—to

28 MAINE help my own community. No matter how far I strayed from my roots, they were An idea always there—I never lost the identity with my ancestors." In 1977, the University of Maine recog­ worth entertaining. nized Baumann-Nelson's many achieve­ ments by awarding her an honorary Want to set a high note for your party? Get out the record player and a few party platters from the deli at Shaw’s! Doctorate in Humane Letters. Baumann-Nelson remains active in Indian affairs, education, and a host of shaws other issues. She is currently one of three SUPERMARKETS humanities scholars serving on a com­ mittee that is studying why Maine Indian communities have survived. The com- mittee is part of the Maine Intertribal Commission which is funding the project with a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant To Baumann-Nelson, part of the an­ swer to why Maine's Indians have sur­ vived is that they share a bond forged by the terrible persecution of their ancestors by Europeans. But even more important, she says, is the bond created by Native American values. "We stayed together because we share values as a group," she says. "Our close­ ness to nature is strong, it is our 'religion.' ' This identity with the Earth is part of our spirituality." | There are many Native Americans, of course, who do not identify with their roots. People who have as Baumann- Nelson says, "become caught up in the materialism, corruption, and greed of the DISCOVER contemporary world." This abandonment of their heritage BANGOR’S upsets Baumann-Nelson. But her concern NEWEST extends beyond Native Americans to all young people in today's world. AND MOST "I worry about our youth," she says. CONVENIENT "They seem bored with life. With all they have, VCRs, stereos, computer games, HOTEL their lives are still empty. Wealth doesn't buy inner peace. It can't help you under­ stand your humanity. You can't express your worth by what kind of car you drive WE ARE BANGOR’S or house you own. Without spiritual val­ CLOSEST HOTEL TO ues what is left? Only emptiness." This is the knowledge that Eunice THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE Baumann-Nelson wants to share with others. Of all her accomplishments in life, she considers her own personal develop­ Full Service Restaurant • Function and Banquet ment and self-understanding her most and Lounge room facilities valuable achievement. Beautifully decorated • Just minutes from Downtown "There is a way of living that can bring traditional-style rooms Bangor and the airport great peace and tranquility, liberty, and Color TV with Cable/HBO • Swimming pool, in-room equilibrium," she says confidently. "My temperature control ancestors knew that way. I now know ■ ■ ? that way. I am free of sexism, racism, and 1 750 Hogan Road, Bangor, ME the desire to acquire power or to exploit Comfort A At the Bangor Mall, 1-95 • Exit 49 the earth. If I can achieve that state, then Inn. Call 942-7899 or 1-800-228-5150 there is hope that everyone can."

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Frederick E. former UMaine football and baseball star, who spent 17 Hutchinson '53 days touring the Soviet Union with a team of players from new Ohio State the Double-A Eastern League vice president as part of an effort to help the Soviets learn America's na­ tional pastime. I nternationally recognized In an interview with the agronomist Frederick E. Kennebec Journal, Merrill talked Hutchinson '53 is Ohio State about his experience with the University's new vice presi­ Soviet baseball players: "They dent for academic affairs and have no conception of things provost Hutchinson had been that are very elementary to us," acting vice president and pro­ he explained. "They have no vost since July 1 and was se­ idea why you play the infield lected for the position in De­ in, why it is back, this type of cember from a field of 200. thing In a double-play situ­ I "I am extremely pleased I ation, their guy is 60 feet from and proud," Ohio State Presi­ second base." dent Edward H. Jennings said This was the first time a in the university's alumni team of professional baseball magazine, "that after a rigor­ players from the United States ous review of many distin­ had traveled to the Soviet guished candidates from the I Union The Americans worked nation's finest universities, the with the Soviet National team most qualified person was I in Tallinn in Estonia, Kiev in already here performing the the Ukraine, and Moscow. job. There is no question in my Carl "Stump" Merrill '66 travek I to help the Soviets with basball. Merrill, who is a member of mind that Dr. Hutchinson is the New York Yankees organi­ the outstanding individual for Richard G. 1 his appointment, Dumont zation, has coached or man­ this job and clearly will be said, "I consider it a privilege aged at every level of profes­ recognized as one of the major Dumont '63 is i to have the opportunity to sional baseball. He is currently academic leaders in America." provide leadership to UMFK the manager of the Tnple AAA Hutchinson has been at UMFK president as it positions itself and pre­ Columbus Clippers of the In­ Ohio State since 1985. He has pares its students for the new ternational League. Last year served as director of the Ohio L ast winter, after a four decade and for life in the 21st he led the Yankees' Single A Agricultural Research and month search, Dr. Richard G. century " Prince William Cannons to a Development Center and was Dumont '63 was named the Building on those qualities pennant vice president for agricultural University of Maine at Fort which make UMFK unique— administration and dean of the Kent's seventh president. He its bilingual and bicultural James W. College of Agriculture had been interim president background, its natural envi­ since July. At his inauguration ronment, its small size and its Gorman '58 May 5, Dumont said the presi­ dedicated faculty and staff— dency was "the greatest honor are Dumont's primary goals. makes peace of my professional career." climb "A more perfect match of man and mission is hard to Carl Merrill '66 imagine," Chancellor Robert teaches baseball J ames W. Gorman '58, of Woodbury said. "He is a Cape Elizabeth, was part of a broad-based scholar, an ad­ to Soviets 46-member expedition that be­ ministrator of national repute gan climbing Mount Everest and, most appropriate of all, in March for the Earth Day 20 he is thoroughly in tune with w btile the Soviets are be­ International Peace Climb the very special character of coming more and more west­ 1990—a climb intended to the St John Valley. Dick ernized, they are still light foster good will among the Dumont is an ideal choice for years away from the rest of the United States, China and the Fort Kent." world when it comes to base­ Soviet Union and pick trash In an interview with the St. ball. That is the observation of off the highest peak. Frederick E. Hutchinson '53 John Valley Bureau following , Carl "Stump" Merrill '66, a High winds, however, 30 MAINE forced Gorman and five other colleagues to remain at Camp 3, an advanced base camp at 21,325 feet about sea level. Winds were estimated to be blowing 180 miles an hour off the top. One hiker described the climb to the Maine Sunday Telegram as being a wonderful experience. "It's one of those places where you're glad you came but you wouldn't want to spend too much time there." Although high winds and bad weather did delay the final ascent to the summit, six climb­ ers from the Peace Climb ex­ Tabitha Spruce King '71 recently pledged a $750,000 challenge gift to the Old Town Library. pedition made it to the top of the 29,028-foot-high peak on Tabitha Spruce library's $1.5 million expan­ to buy a book in Old Town, it May 7. sion campaign, King, with her was difficult. There was maybe Gorman, a L.L. Bean direc­ King '71 pledges husband,Stephen '70, pledged one small bookstore. Now, tor and retired Western Elec­ to library $750,000 as a challenge gift, paperbacks are in supermar­ tric engineer, will surely re­ with the understanding that kets!" member this climb for a long the matching funds will be time to come. raised from a community T he Old Town public library fund-raising drive. Bernard was a second home for Ta­ "I was very pleased at the bitha Spruce King '71 when concept of the addition," King Lown M.D. '42 Earl Coombs '68 she was growing up in Maine. told the Old Town-Orono Times. And when the opportunity "The library has been over­ is honored honored with arose to give something back grown for some time." Presidential to this place that holds so many At one time, King remi­ R. eceiving the International fond memories for her, King nisced, the Old Town library Institute of Boston's 18th an­ Award was more than ready. To kick­ was one of the few places to nual Golden Door Award last off the Old Town public obtain books. "If you wanted February was Dr. Bernard Lown '42. Dr. Lown is an in­ ternationally known cardiolo­ E arl C. Coombs, '68, was gist and co-president of Inter­ named Maine's 1989 Presiden­ national Physicians for the Pre- tial Award winner in Science. vention of Nuclear War He was selected for his out­ (IPPNW). standing teaching of high Established in 1970, the school physics at Winslow Institute's Golden Door High School. Award honors Americans of "I believe that students foreign birth who have made must experience physics con­ distinguished contributions to cepts; and therefore, I place a American life and culture. Dr. heavy emphasis on laboratory Lown, professor of cardiology work and demonstrations," at the Harvard School of Pub­ Coombs said. "And, I am us­ lic Health and senior physi­ ing cooperative learning cian at Brigham and Women's strategies to improve student Hospital, was born in Lithu­ learning and group skills." ania and came to the United In addition to his time spent States in 1935. He was instru­ in the classroom, Coombs is mental in the IPPNW's receipt very involved in extracurricu­ of the Nobel Peace Prize in lar school activities as well. He 1985 for its work in heighten­ is an advisor for the Senior ing awareness of the cata­ Class, the Science Club and strophic consequences of Scott Hi-Q. Earl Coombs '68 was a 1989 Presidential Award winner in science. atomic warfare.

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Finds peace studies naturally follows. The University of Maine could truly Reflections on Greek "off the wall" do students, the state, and the nation an life, past and present enduring service by scrapping this fraudu­ lent "peace studies" apparatus and invest resources in developing a freedom stud­ I read with great interest your and Char- I I ivi aine has always had its share of off- ies program, using real scholars who will I les Horne's article, "Greeks on Campus- the-wall activities and the "peace stud­ deal with real issues. Political organizers I Can they Clean Up Their Act?" I com­ ies" program is yet another example hawking frmge-group causes under the mend you on the fair presentation I (MAINE, Winter, 1990). Emily Markides' guise of scholarship only diminish I The problem of Greek organizations assertion that "we have been brought up Maine's efforts to make a serious contri­ has been around for years prior to the in a world of the language of war" is bution to the improvement of life and I time lapse since the great university hyperbole at best. "Our language is mili­ learning in this society. upheaval of the '60's. Perhaps I can be tant," she claims. In the next breath, she permitted to reflect on what I retrospec­ militantly declares "we have to learn a D. Jeffrey Hollingsworth 74 tively perceive as some of the problems of new language." Her blanket indictment, i my years at Orono in the early 30's. typical of the elitist, society-is-to-blame Oh, yes! We had problems. Drinking school of thought, just doesn't hold wa­ Finds peace studies was a fact of life even then, but since pro­ ter. hibition had been relegated to limbo re­ The "peace" studies program is nei­ "important to our cently, and since university regulations ther original nor legitimate, but simply changing world" were very rigid about drinking, it was not warmed-over radicalism from a genera­ out of hand I do not believe sex was "in­ tion ago. Markides has set up a typical vented" in the 1960's. I strongly suspect left-wing agitation front instead of a bona that whatever sexual abuse took place, it Thank you for your article in the Win­ fide course of study. The usual leftist was well cloistered and rarely took place buzz-words, causes and canards are I ter 1990 edition on Emily Markides. Her in fraternity houses. I doubt the "ram I exposed as Markides, the activist, talks peace program is very important to our pasture" in the Lambda Chi Alpha house about the program's emphasis' suppres­ changing world. Recently, I met Emily was the setting of sexual orgies I suspect, sion of women (and) minorities, environ­ and I was inspired by her energy, enthu­ however, such a conclusion might not mental extremism, humanistic econom­ siasm, and desire to achieve peace and have been obtained just prior to that ics, revolution, etc. All this burdens the quality of life for all human kind fraternity's demise a short time ago. word "peace" with more baggage than it Awhile ago, I heard rumors that her Our problems centered largely on a can stand. Her formula is on loan from the peace program could have been discon­ failure to accomplish academically what

I I 60's, when anti-Vietnam War movements tinued From what I know about the rela­ I the university had set as standards of per­ I tried a tortured linkage between ending tively small funding needed for her work, formance Nonethe less, threats of proba­ the war and an ultra-left agenda of social I I hope this is not the case. We need her tion and removal of social privilege and political ills. efforts for the 1990's. As an alumnus, I seemed to have a salutary effect I believe Markides' quest for "peace" strikes a firmly believe that the university should the internal controls of the fraternity were dangerous chord. Her militancy is evi­ also support her efforts. effective in maintaining order, especially dent when she speaks of the need for a as related to study hours during the "new world order." She issues her own John McCormack '72 week—no blaring radios, no rock music call to arms by declaring there won't be (it wasn't yet invented, and no television peace without "bringing down the hier- distractions) The presence of a "house archial structure." What we find is not mother" also, I believe forced us to main­ the language of a peacemaker but the tain at least a modicum of decorum and Marxist-Leninist language of revolution­ Complaint about milk acceptable social behavior I do not recall ary action. carton on MAINE cover evidence of improper dress or absence of Emily Markides' outlook is clouded dress below the second floor But what I by her Mediterranean brand of the social­ T I can vouch for is the cleanliness of the fra­ ist world-view. Tragically, she misses the JL enjoyed your recent article on Greeks ternity house—its waxed floors, the or­ fundamental point that although peace is on Campus, but feel I must register a ] derly nature of the rooms on the ground eminently worthy, there are basic values complaint about your cover photo. floor, and though cluttered study rooms worth defending. Freedom—an all too It would be much easier to believe that above, they were not fouled by dirty rare commodity throughout history—is Greeks were trying to 'clean up their acts' laundry and the products of alcohol con­ the most important. The examples of if you didn't show one of them sitting on sumption and sexual activity. It was a Eastern Europe, China, and other areas a milk carton stolen from a dairy. matter of pride for all of us We had not where people seek liberation from totali­ lived in pig sties at home before college; tarianism should be sufficiently convinc­ Betsy Murphy '80 so why should we now7 ing Where freedom flourishes, peace

32 MAINE ( Remote — Secluded The influences of affluence, denial of pant in this country—high school and authority, and assertion of individual college students are not excepted. independence with responsibility to no What is happening in universities— man—and, I fear, not even to one's own hopefully to a lessening degree—orgies, self have led many down the primrose gang rapes, fatal hazings, waning aca­ path of unacceptable behavior. demic achievement, must be stemmed or John Halstead, the university's vice I fear the awarding of an academic degree president for Student Affairs has summa­ will have precious little meaning. rized the status of Greek letter organiza­ I am not recommending a sudden elimi­ tions as being at a "cross-roads". In other nation of the Greek system, but I have words—control yourselves or be con­ grave reservations about its future. trolled. I thought we had come to expect reason, logic, and intelligent thought. The Donald G. Johnson, M.D. '36 Bunlmgton, ME 04417 evils of hazing persist; Arthur Hauck in the 30's approached this dilemma and Vacationing basically eschewed hazing. It didn't elimi­ nate the situation totally, but it certainly Seventh grader for the Outdoorsman greatly alleviated the problem He pro­ and Family moted community spirit on the campus disturbed by research with constructive activities and not the "Revisit Maine In Every Sense" useless, destructive behavior formerly present. I nyourWinter 1990 issue of MAINE, on TELEPHONE: 207-732-4771 We have evolved in a negative direc­ page 16, you talked about Randy Alford's One hour north of the Campus tion away from logic and reason. We are research with cockroach brains. This was besieged by sexual abuse and promiscu­ a mistake, or at least sending it to my your hosts: Chris and Pete Norris '68 ity and its attendant evils (witness the in­ parents was. cidence of HIV [ AIDS] infection in college I am a devoted member of the People student populations); substance abuse, for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also Changing especially alcohol consumption, is noto­ known as PETA. You may have heard of Your Address? riously high, other drugs perhaps to a them. Quite frankly, if I were you I would lesser degree, but certainly too high. The be scared of PETA. I have reported your Please attach your stupid, sloppy behavior which accompa­ university to them Your university will present mailing label and be losing the money of former students nies the aforementioned should be ruled print your NEW address out particularly in this group of intelli­ after they read about the cockroach re­ on the lines below. gent and educable individuals. search in PETA's magazine. The current fraternity-sorority system Cockroaches do not invade Maine's Name______may be correcting its deficiencies; I sin­ potato fields, so what relevancy do they Street______cerely hope it is, but I see evidence that it have to what Alford is trying to prove. City______is no longer an elitist group, I fear, doomed This Randy Alford sounds real intelli­ State______Zip ______gent. Boy would I trust a guy who says to its own destruction unless it looks to its Editor, MAINE magazine things like, and I quote, "I let signals go in, future. Alumni director, Max Burry, Crossland Alumni Center Greek Alumni custodians and I turn some dials and let certain sig­ states, "The are University of Maine nals come out." of the tradition." That may or may not be Orono, Maine 04469 true. But, I submit, Greek alumni have How can Mr. Alford have relevant become disenchanted with the fraternity research if he only lets certain signals system, and in many instances consider it come out? What happens to the other to be anachronistic and worthy of a natu­ signals that may contradict his theory? It BODWELL MOTORS ral death. is very possible that he is so power hun­ gry that the possible contradicting bad If the university is to perpetuate per­ Ford-Lincoln-Mercury signals are simply being trashed. / fT / /■ missiveness—i.e. consumption of alco­ Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodg This man strikes me as very nasty and hol in what is said by Gary Root to be "re­ 169 Pleasant Street inaccurate. V* * J a sponsible drinking", for example, I con­ Brunswick 04011 You could always switch over to us­ sider this is truly a denial of responsibil­ 729-3375 / ity to college students and to the families ing computers, (it is possible) which cost money, I know, but could be paid in part who sacrifice to see that they have the ad­ Bath vantages—I didn't say wisdom— that by former charitable students, and mem­ 443-5533 comes with a college degree. What is bers of PETA. "responsible drinking" if not a "cop- I may only be in seventh grade, but my out." The problem of alcoholism is ram­ I.Q. is larger than almost all of the kids in Bill Bodwell ’50

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ost alumni know a little about the Annual Alumni Fund, but when it comes to really understanding what happens with these donated dollars and why they are necessary, there is some confusion. This Mis the first of a series of Fund pages that will highlight the volunteers and ac­ tivities of the Annual Alumni Fund. The pupose of the Fund is to serve the University of Maine But the concept of alumni giving is somewhat new at UMaine and alumni need to be knowledgeable about how their private philanthropic contributions will make a difference between mediocrity and excellence. With the foremost goal of the Annual Alumni Fund going to serve the arts, academics, and athletics, your contribution is insuring the university’s excellence. Sally Grindell Vamvakias ‘63 The importance of the Fund cannot be overstated And although we have been succesful this year in reaching our goal, more private support will be needed to maintain the university’s recent advances in the face of continued state budget cutbacks. The challenge is to have alumni think again about the importance of Maine being a first-rate institution and then support the university at a level proportionate with their income. Two integral parts of the Annual Alumni Fund are Reunion Class Giving and the Insurance Endowment Program Here are two prominent Maine alumni leaders, Hank Schmelzer '65 and Robert McKown ’58 to explain the importance of these programs to alumni and the university

Hank Schmelzer on Reunion Class Giving

Reunion Class Giving allows alumni to come together as a class once again and share a common experience. At reunion time, alumni are more in tune Hank Schmelzer ‘65 with their alma mater. There is a sense of camaraderie that is renewed between class members. Thinking about college experiences reenforces an alum's desire to support his university. That unified support is repre­ sented in the class gift to the university.

Robert McKown on the Insurance Endowment Program

The Insurance Endowment Program is a futuristic fund raising vehicle offering alumni the opportunity to make a donation to the university which will grow overtime. It’s only in its fourth year, but the program is approaching the $1 million mark with $946,333 in gifts from alumni and friends This is really a unique opportunity for alumni to make donations to the university. Donors are able to leverage their contribution by paying a certain amount of money over the course of many years. And the university reaps five to ten times more than the original gift

For more information on these and other programs, write: UM Annual Alumni Fund, Crossland Alumni Center, Orono, ME 04669 (207) 581-1135 Robert McKown ‘58

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