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MA Winter 2007 Alumni Magazine On Top of the World John Bagnulo ’03 Ph.D. Conquers Everest Outsmarting the Counterfeiters GETTING Jim Rittenburg ’76, ’81 Ph.D. Learning About Islam TOUGH UMaine Honors Mike Bordick ’88 with BIG TOBACCO Maine Assistant Attorney General Melissa Reynolds O’Dea ’92 Senior Alumni Bequest Initiative Join Barbara and become one of the 80 Senior Alumni who will support the Senior Alumni Scholarship Fund in their wills. Alumni Executive Committee has equest initiative so that the nt will someday replace annual scholarship fundraising efforts. The approach is simple—if just 80 Senior Alums remember the Senior Alumni Scholarship endowment in their wills with a bequest for $10,000 or more, or make a gift to the endowment in the amount of $10,000, Senior Alumni Scholarships will one day be awarded, just as they are now, without the necessity of annual scholarship fundraising. Last year, fifty students received Senior Alumni Scholarships, including nontraditional students, distinguished scholars and students with outstanding artistic and musical talent. With tuition and fees costing $7,464 this year for in-state students, the need for scholarship aid has never been greater. Sample language for remembering the fund is as follows: I give and bequeath $________________ to the UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION “I wanted to be sure that the Senior to be added to the Senior Alumni Scholarship Fund with the income to provide scholarship Alumni Scholarship Fund would be aid as detailed in the fund description on file able to help future students just as we at the University of Maine Foundation offices. do now. Leaving a bequest in my will For further information or to let us know that you have become one of the special 80 by remembering the easiest way to do that. ” the Senior Alumni Scholarship Fund in your will or trust, please contact the Planned Giving Officers in —Barbara S. Knowlton ’48 either the Orono or South Portland offices. UNIVERSITY of MAINE Two Alumni Place FOUNDATION 100 Foden Road, Suite 303, W Building Orono, Maine 04469-5792 South Portland, Maine 04106 207-581-5100 or 800-982-8503 www.umainefoundation.org 207-253-5172 or 800-449-2629 It's Familiar. It's Comfortable. It's Home. It should be no surprise that Maine's natural beauty, culture and peaceful way of life makes it one of the fastest growing retirement areas in the country. And now you have a familiar place to come home to-Dirigo Pines Retirement Community. Our affiliation with the University of Maine, makes Dirigo Pines a natural place to enjoy life, the benefits of retirement and lifelong learning. Living at Dirigo Pines couldn't be easier with services and amenities such as: • Housekeeping and maintenance • A variety of living options to fit every lifestyle • Social, cultural, and educational activities • Fine dining prepared by our Executive Chef • Access to UMaine activities and academic opportunities • Access to Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems See Dirigo Pines for yourself. Join us for dinner next time you're in the area, or call us today to find out about our "Getaway Stay." 207-866-3400 9 ALUMNI DRIVE Orono, me 04473 207-866-3400 Retirement Community WWW.DIRIGOPINES.COM BLACK BEAR FOR A Editor Jim Frick LIFETIME Editorial Assistants Abigail Zelz Betty-Jo Watt Did you know....? Design Jim Frick — Lifetime Memberships are endowed. Design Consultant Earnings support the UMaine Alumni Mike Mardosa '73 Publisher Association forever.... Todd D. Saucier '93, '97G — Your Alumni Association supports Alumni Association Officers student grants and scholarships, John M. Rohman '68, Chair Sandford Blitz '92G, Vice Chair preserving our Maine traditions and Barbara Brown Dalton '81, Vice Chair legacies. Bion A. Foster '68, '70G, Past Chair Suzanne K. Hart '68, Vice Chair Douglas E. Kneeland '53, Vice Chair — Lifetime Memberships pay tribute Jonathan P. LaBonte '02, Vice Chair to the privilege we share in being Kurt R. Marston '74, '79G, Treasurer Todd D. Saucier '93, '97G, President Black Bears. Jeffrey M. Wright '73, Vice Chair Become a Black Bear for LIFE. UMAA Board of Directors Stanley C. Allain '61 It’s the Membership that counts. Neil K. Ashton '66 Peter T. Berry '61 Karen Rossello Boucias '71 Nathan P. Briggs '02, '05G L. Dewey Chase '64 Elizabeth Cleale '00 Perry R. Clough '63 Elizabeth A. Downing '77 Joanne Bodwell Ferreira '73 A. Jeffrey Harris '72, '87G Cortlynn I. Hepler '05 Greg D. Jamison '72, '98G Scott A. Leach '83 Samantha H. Lott '02 Irvine W. Marsters '63, '71G Michael J. McInnis '68 Leonard E. Minsky '50 Rania A. Nazmy '06 Sarah E. Simmonds '89 Brooke D. Wagner '86 Publications Committee Kristen Andresen '97 Nonni Hilchey Daly '59 Nancy Morse Dysart '60 H. Allen Fernaid '54 Douglas E. Kneeland '53, Chair Steve Riley '50 Jeff Tuttle '91 MAINE Alumni Magazine is published by the University of Maine The University of Maine Alumni Association Alumni Association for dues paying members of the Association. Buchanan Alumni House Membership dues are $40 per year. The editorial office is located at One Alumni Place Orono, ME 04469 One Alumni Place, Orono, ME 04469-0001. Telephone: (207) 581- (207) 581-2586 1-800-934-2586 1137. Email: [email protected] Postage paid at Burlington, VT 05401. www.mainealumni.com 2 Maine Winter 2007 Around the Campus News from the University of Maine. Learning About Islam 10 Muslim students raise awareness of their religion on the UMaine campus. Page 10 12 Getting Tough With Big Tobacco Assistant attorney general Melissa Reynolds O'Dea '92 is a national leader in enforcing the Master Settlement Agreement. On Top of the World John Bagnulo '03 Ph.D. becomes the first Mainer to conquer Mount Everest. Outsmarting the Counterfeiters Jim Rittenburg '76, '81 Ph.D. uses high technology to protect products and enhance security. The Consummate Professional Page 18 20 UMaine honors Major League Baseball veteran Mike Bordick '88. Plus Mainely People with: Classnotes, alumni events, weddings, death notices, and more. Page 20 Cover photograph by William Drake Winter 2007 Maine 3 Around The Campus New School of Pharmacy Planned In recent years, there has been a criti­ cal shortage of pharmacists in Maine. In an innovative public/private part­ nership, the University of New Eng­ land (UNE) and the University of Maine will address that problem by es­ tablishing a new college of pharmacy in the state. The new college will also involve partnerships with Maine Medical Cen­ ter and Mercy Health Care Systems in Portland, the Student Recreation Center is on Schedule Southern Maine onstruction of the University of swimming pool with lap lanes, a spa and Medical Center in Maine's new $25 million state-of- sauna, locker rooms, racquetball/squash Biddeford, and the-artC recreation center is right on courts, multi-purpose rooms, and a con­ Maine General schedule and on budget, according to as­ ference room. Health and Medi­ sociate dean of students Kenda Scheele. The building will also be environmen­ cal Center in Au­ The center, which is near Stewart tally friendly and is expected to receive a gusta and Commons, is scheduled to open next silver certification by Leadership in En­ Waterville. fall. It will house three basketball/vol­ ergy and Environmental Design (LEED). The new col­ leyball courts, a 14,000-square-foot fit­ According to Scheele, UMaine will be lege is expected to ness center, an elevated indoor jogging among the first campuses to have a be located on the track, a multiple activity court, a leisure LEED-certified recreation center. UNE's Westbrook College campus in Portland. It will be headed by John Cormier, former dean of the college of pharmacy at the Medi­ New Street Signs Make Campus a Friendlier Place cal University of South Carolina. The pharmacy program will offer Did you ever drive on to cam­ campus in the past, but the students a choice of doctoral degree pus and try to follow a problem was, they tended to options that will prepare them to be UMaine map to find a certain disappear," said University pharmacists and/or pharmaceutical street? You may have encoun­ of Maine public information scientists. About 100 pre-pharmacy stu­ tered a common problem. director Joe Carr in an inter­ dents are expected to enter the program While the streets were clear­ view with the Bangor Daily next fall. ly and properly marked on News. "This new initiative represents an­ the map, there were often no It is hoped that the larger, other way for the University of Maine actual street signs on the better installed signs will to collaborate with statewide partner ground to confirm you were keep the amount of sign theft institutions to address a critical need in the right place. down. for our state," said UMaine president All that changed recently In addition to street signs, Robert Kennedy. "This kind of partner­ with the installation of high­ the university is also replac­ ship model works well in a state like ly visible street signs throughout campus. ing building signs.