Maine Alumni Magazine, Volume 86, Number 2, Spring 2005
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines - 2000s University of Maine Alumni Magazines Spring 2005 Maine Alumni Magazine, Volume 86, Number 2, Spring 2005 University of Maine Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines_2000s This Book is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines - 2000s by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MAM 2005 -86-2 aine’s 1 resident r^miltor LASS NO The Charles F. Allen Society is Changing Students’ Lives THE CHARLES F. ALLEN SOCIETYrecog nizes 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 fixture, we would like to know about your intentions so that we can thank and recog nize you now. Planned gifts include bequests, charitable gift annuities, living and testimonial trusts, pooled life income plans, gifts of retirement plan assets, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, gifts of real estate and life insurance designations. 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. Including the University in your estate plans creates a perpetual legacy that will have a constant impact on the lives of students and their communities. 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 us. Erica Hutchinson '06 Business Administration Major UNIVERSITYo/MAINE Two Alumni Place FOUNDATION 100 Foden Road, Suite 303, Orono, Maine 04469-5792 South Portland 207-253-S 207-581-5100 or 800-982-8503 www.umainefoundation.org Maximum protection. Optimum performance. ThinkPad R51 2888-EVU: Celeron M 340, 256MB RAM, 30GB 4200rpm HDD, 14.1 XGA(1024x768) TFT LCD, Intel Extreme, 24x-10x CD-ROM, Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI), Modem(CDC), 10/100 Ethernet(LOM), UltraNav, Secure Chip, 6 cell Li-Ion battery, WinXP Pro, 3 year depot warranty. At the University of Maine Alumni Association CyBear Store, we know how easily accidents can happen. That’s why we’re proud to offer top quality IBM ^laptops and desktops backed by IBM’s superior 3-year no fault warranty. If at any time your laptop gets dropped, a beverage gets spilled on it - whatever* - IBM will stand behind it. Shop the UMAA CyBear Store to take advantage of this and many more great deals on IBM computers and accessories. *Some restrictions may apply. www.mainealumni.com An Invitation to Join Veterans for Peace Editor Jim Frick Editorial Assistants Abigail Zelz Betty-Jo Watt Design Jim Frick Design Consultant Mike Mardosa '73 Publisher Donna Keirstead Thornton '78, '79G Alumni Association Officers Bion A. Foster '68, '70G, Chair Sandford Blitz '92G, Vice Chair "We, having dutifully served Stephanie Barry Brown '65, Vice Chair Catherine Cleale '86, Vice Chair our nation, do hereby affirm Barbara Brown Dalton '81, Vice Chair Suzanne K. Hart '68, Treasurer our greater responsibility to M. Perry Hunter '52 , Vice Chair Gregory D. Jamison '72, '98G, Vice Chair serve the cause of world Douglas E. Kneeland '53, Vice Chair Nancy Prisk '72, Vice Chair peace by applying the Donna Keirstead Thornton '78, '79G, Interim President concept of engaging conflict UMAA Board of Directors peacefully without Stanley C. Allain '61 Peter T. Berry '61 violence." Dwight S. Blease '83 Rachel L. Bouchard '91 Elizabeth Cleale '00 Perry R. Clough '63 There are nearly 100 local Veterans for Candace A. Guerette '83, '86G Peace chapters and more than 5,000 A. Jeffrey Harris '72, '87G Alton M. Hopkins '50 members throughout the United States. Dione Williams Hutchinson '54, '71G Jonathan P. LaBonte '02 Join us by contacting: James M. Leger '00 In the Greater Bangor Area— Kurt R. Marston '74, '79G VFP Chapter 003 John M. Rohman '68 Dianne McLaughlin Tilton '81 170 Park Street David W. Townsend '74, '81G Bangor, ME 04401 Brooke D. Wagner '86 Phone: 207-843-5287 or Jeffrey M. Wright '73 207-947-3513 Publications Committee Portland Area— Kristen Andresen Lainsbury '97 VFP Chapter 001 Nonni Hilchey Daly '59 Phone: 207-778-7292 Nancy Morse Dysart '60 email: [email protected] H. Allen Fernaid '54 Douglas E. Kneeland '53, Chair Steve Riley '50 National Office— Donna Keirstead Thornton '78, '79G VFP, Inc. Jeff Tuttle '91 438 N. Skinner MAINE Alumni Magazine is published four times per year by the St. Louis, MO 63130 University of Maine Alumni Association for dues paying members Phone: 314-725-6005 of the Association. Membership dues are $40 per year. The editorial e-mail: [email protected] office is located at One Alumni Place, P.O. Box 550, Orono, ME 04473-0550. Telephone: (207) 581-1137. Postage paid at Burlington, VT 05401. Visit our Web Site: veteransforpeace.org Volume 86, Number2 Spring 2005 Alumni Magazine Around the Campus 4 News from the University of Maine. Hitting the Ground Running 8 UMaine's new president, Robert Kennedy, won't have to spend any time learning about the campus or the state. Page 5 Build It, and They Will Come 12 As it gets ready to celebrate five years of operation, the success of the Hutchinson Center in Belfast has exceeded everyone's expectations. Rising Star of Style After earning acclaim for his work with fashion icon Carolina Herrera, Bill Hamilton '84 now has his own line of clothing. Fine Wine Without Grapes 18 A little winery in Winterport may change your perspective on fruit wines. Page 18 Plus Mainely People with: Classnotes, alumni events, weddings, obituaries, and a volunteer profile of Anne Jenkins '67. Cover photo by James Roderick © 2005 Page 12 Spring 2005 Maine 3 Around The Campus Search Begins for New Alumni Stephen King to Graduates: "Stay in Maine" asked the graduates to "read Association CEO Four years ago, Stephen King '70 spoke to the enter books" and to remember to ing Class of 2005 at the share their good fortune with The University of Maine university's convocation cer others, once they have estab Alumni Association will begin emony. At that time he lished successful careers. a search for a president/CEO vowed that he would return The graduation ceremo late in the spring, with the in four years to speak at their nies also included the award goal of naming a new president graduation. ing of honorary degrees to by fall. The search will be King made good on his former New York Times and headed by former UMAA chair promise, addressing 1,993 Chicago Tribune reporter and Greg Jamison '72, '98G. graduates, a record number, editor Douglas Kneeland '53 "We seek candidates who in two ceremonies at the and to Andrew Shepard, share the vision of our board Alfond Arena on a cold and CEO and cofounder of the and staff," said current UMAA rainy Saturday in May. Maine Winter Sports Center. chair Bion Foster '68, '70G. "Al Stephen King at UMaine's May 7 King offered the gradu commencement ceremony. The Class of 2005 valedic though we are an independent ates ten pieces of advice as torian is Dusty Lavoie, an Association, we have forged they move on to the next "I was born here, I choose education major from Lisbon partnerships with the univer phase of their lives. Num to live here, and I'll die here," Falls. The class salutatorian is sity that have benefited all par bers 7 through 10 were all the he said as he extolled the vir engineering physics major ties. We will continue to seek same—"Stay in Maine." tues of the state. King also Tyler Dunn of Skowhegan. new and creative ways to be of service to our alumni and UMaine, and our new presi dent will be a driving force in forging and negotiating these Professor of Distinction new partnership initiatives." Finance professor Robert Strong, Ph.D., is the 2005 recipient of the UMaine Fraternity university's most prestigious fac ulty honor, the Distinguished Blueberry Study Earns Awards Maine Professor (DMP). The DMP is given once a year by the Needs Volunteers The UMaine Sigma Phi Epsilon alumni association and recog fraternity continued to chal nizes outstanding achievement University of Maine graduate lenge the "frat boy" stereotype in teaching, research, and public student Ann Barker is looking by recently winning three re service. It's accompanied by a for volunteers to participate in gional awards for excellence. $4,200 cash prize, funded by the a study examining how wild Twenty-five students were on Class of 1942. blueberries affect cholesterol hand at the annual Carlson's As a teacher, Strong believes levels and other risk factors for Leadership Academy to re in giving students the intellectual tools they need to evaluate cardiovascular disease. ceive the top honors from an idea. One extension of that philosophy is the Student Port Volunteers must be at least among 27 Northeast chapters. folio Investment Fund (SPIFFY), which Strong formed in 1993, 30 years old and have border- SigEp won the Excellence in and continues to advise today.