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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications Spring 1990 Maine, Volume 71, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1990 University of Maine Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation University of Maine Alumni Association, "Maine, Volume 71, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1990" (1990). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 369. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/369 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I These are some of the famous faces you can see this summer at Maine’s finest cultural center! RAY CHARLES JAY LENO June 22 I--------------------------July 21 ] Please send me more information 3 I about Maine Center for the Arts | 1990 Summer events & exhibits! | | Name: | Jalisco Couple/Mexico PATTY LOVELESS | Address: 200 BC-600 AD July 19 I I ' State: I I I I --------------------- I ^^.eturn coupon to address below. J JOHN PRINE & LIVINGSTON TAYLOR ROGER WHITTAKER Schedule subject to change. July 27 July 15 The 1,629-seat Hutchins Concert Hall presents a wide variety of prominent performing artists throughout the year. Be sure to call or write for a current schedule of all our concerts. The Hudson Museum dramatically presents the University's collection of primarily Native American artifacts, ranging from the Arctic to South America, including an extensive gallery of Pre-Hispanic Mexican and Central American material. Admission free/Donations encouraged. Museum Hours: Tuesday-Friday 9-4; Saturday 10-3; Sunday 11-3 (Closed Mondays & holidays) Concert Tickets & Information: (207) 581-1755 Hudson Museum Information: (207) 581-1901 Maine Center for the Arts Hutchins Concert Hall • Hudson Museum • University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469 DIRECTIONS: Just minutes from Exit 50 or 51 off 1-95 - follow signs to University of Maine. AIR-CONDITIONED • 10 miles from Bangor / 40 miles from Ellsworth Expanding Your Capacity For Growth: SpragueEnergy With moremnrp th^n1?Dthan 120 ^vp^rc:years nfof pynpripncpexperience markpfinamarketing and handling energy and bulk commodities, Sprague Energy is the most versatile performer 1 on the East Coast. Sprague offers you a unique combination of deep water terminals, pipeline access, multi-faceted sourcing and distribution networks, and the most experienced personnel in the field. Petroleum Products: distillate, residual, marine fuels. 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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. MAINE < .-C» •’V»N * V •,‘C. •T « .* 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.