The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines - All University of Maine Alumni Magazines Winter 2006 Maine Alumni Magazine, Volume 87, Number 1, Winter 2006 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 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 - All by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Fisherman Scientist MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipient Ted Ames ’68, ’71G There is life after racing for horses at UMaine’s Witter Center Across North America on a Harley-Davidson Bold ideas for marketing the new World Trade Center Plus CLASS NOTES The Charles F. Allen Society is Changing Students’ Lives THE CHARLES F. ALLEN SOCIETY recognizes donors who have included a planned gift of at least $10,000 to benefit the University of Maine in their estate and gift plans. While the University may not receive most planned gifts until sometime in the future, we would like to know about your intentions so that we can thank and*recognize you now. Planned gifts have helped many UMaine students who might not otherwise have been able to afford a college education to pursue their goals and dreams. When you write or review your will, please consider leaving the University a charitable bequest through the University of Maine Foundation for future generations of UMaine students. If you have already provided for the University of Maine in your will, trust or other form of deferred gift, you automatically qualify for membership in the Charles F. Allen Society. Please inform us of your intentions. For further information on planned gifts or how to remember the University of Maine in your will or trust through the University of Maine Foundation, please contact Amos Orcutt, President/CEO. Jessica Paul '06 Chemical Engineering 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 MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR GIFT . Another Option for Leaving Your Legacy The University of Maine Foundation established a do- nor-advised fund program for charitably-minded alumni and friends of the University of Maine. The central objective of this program is to meet the diverse philan­ thropic needs of the University’s many alumni and friends, while raising permanently endowed funds for the benefit of the University of Maine. A donor-advised fund enables you to streamline the management of your charitable gifts. Through a donor- advised fund, the Foundation can receive, invest and administer gifts to the University and other charitable organizations on your behalf. "Started in 1934, the Foundation is Alumni and friends are increasingly confronted with now managing more than $150 options for charitable giving. By making gifts through million in assets. We are committed the Foundation’s donor-advised fund program, contributors can share their good fortune with the to providing alumni and friends of community while also receiving a tax benefit. Plus, our the University of Maine with quality one-stop service enables donors to pool their charitable service that has been the hallmark of assets and invest them wisely, thereby increasing the amount available to the organizations they support. our success." A donor-advised fund with the Foundation may be Amos E. Orcutt '64, President/CEO created through a gift or by will or trust with no initial start-up costs and few administrative obligations. Other advantages include: • the freedom to add to or make grants from the fund at any time • all correspondence and paperwork handled by the Foundation staff when grant recommendations are made • a cost-effective alternative to the legal intricacies of establishing and operating a family foundation • a way to remove assets from the donor’s estate • possible qualification for full federal income tax deductibility up to 50% of adjusted gross income We encourage you to leave your legacy so generations of students and others will benefit from your foresight and generosity. 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 Editor Jim Frick Editorial Assistants Abigail Zelz Betty-Jo Watt Design Jim Frick Design Consultant Mike Mardosa '73 Alumni Association Officers Bion A. Foster '68, '70G, Chair Sandford Blitz '92G, Vice Chair Stephanie Barry Brown '65, Vice Chair Catherine Cleale '86, Vice Chair Barbara Brown Dalton '81, Vice Chair Suzanne K. Hart '68, Treasurer M. Perry Hunter '52 , Vice Chair Gregory D. Jamison '72, '98G, Vice Chair Douglas E. Kneeland '53, Vice Chair But we are ready for... Nancy Prisk '72, Vice Chair • Someone else doing yardwork & maintenance Todd D. Saucier '93, '97G, Acting President • Someone else doing housework * Great fitness programs, Tai Chi & yoga • A gym and indoor heated UMAA Board of Directors Stanley C. Allain '61 swimming pool Peter T. Berry '61 • Access to golf and wooded hiking trails Dwight S. Blease '83 Rachel L. Bouchard '91 Now this is living! If you’re ready for an Elizabeth Cleale '00 active, maintenanceTree lifestyle, call Perry R. Clough '63 The Highlands! Candace A. Guerette '83, '86G A. Jeffrey Harris '72, '87G Call a member of our Marketing Alton M. 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Postage paid at Burlington, VT 05401. 2 Maine Winter 2006 Volume 87, Number 1 Winter 2006 Alumni Magazine Around the Campus 4 News from the University of Maine. After the Finish Line There is an active life for retired racing horses at UMaine's 8 Witter Center. Page 8 A New Era for the Visual Arts With a beautifully renovated Lord Hall for its new home, the visual arts at UMaine gain more than just space. 12 The Call of the Road Karen Larsen '92 fulfilled her quest for adventure by taking a solo motorcycle journey across North America. Bold Ideas in a Global Economy 16 Class of 1985 member John Coleman has steered his VIA Group to success with innovative, exciting marketing ideas. Page 12 The Fisherman Scientist Stonington lobsterman Ted Ames '68, '71G also just happens to be a groundbreaking researcher. Plus Mainely People with: Classnotes, alumni events, weddings, obituaries, and more. Cover photograph by William Drake Page 16 Winter 2006 Maine 3 Around The Campus Fighting the flu UMaine launches ormer CBS News anchor jazz studies minor A UMaine researcher was re­ Dan Rather addressed a cently approved for a $615,155 full house at the Maine The College of Liberal Arts and grant by the National Institutes Center for the Arts on Novem­ Sciences recently announced of Health (NIH) to try to find a ber 1, as the guest speaker for the creation of a new minor in way that human cells might Fthe 2005 William S. Cohen Lec­ jazz studies at the University of reject invasions by influenza, ture Series. Maine. The program, which HIV, Ebola, and other viruses. Rather, who joined CBS will be under the direction of Assistant professor of phys­ News in 1962, called for a re­ music professor and UMaine ics and astronomy Sam Hess, turn to independent journal­ Jazz Ensemble director, Karel who worked at NIH before ism, warning the audience to Lidral, is designed to offer stu­ coming to UMaine, has re­ take a critical view of what dents a significant and in- ceived a "career award" to they see and hear in the pleth­ depth experience in jazz. study how viruses penetrate ora of "new" media outlets. The focus of the program is cellular membranes and what "You need to ask yourself: the study of jazz through the might be done to block infec­ Is more better, and is all that Dan Rather art of improvisation. The pro­ tion. calls itself news really news," gram will also feature courses "We're doing something he said. Delivers 2005 in jazz arranging skills and in that hasn't been done," Hess The event was the fifth in Cohen Lecture jazz history. explained, "...using lasers and the lecture series, which in the spectroscopy to see what's go­ past has featured such important political leaders as Senator ing on in a virus." John Glenn and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Al­ bright. Cohen, a former U.S. senator and secretary of defense, Legendary teacher/ delivered the first lecture. coach receives Biodiesel project national award promising for University of Maine professor northern Maine and former Black Bear football coach Walter Abbott '58, '65G As a UMaine Cooperative Ex­ has been recognized for distin­ tension crops specialist, Peter guished service by the Nation­ Sexton has played a key role in al Interscholastic Athletic Ad­ examining biodiesel as an alter- ministrators Association.