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Maine Alumnus, Volume 65, Number 2, March 1984 The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 3-1984 Maine Alumnus, Volume 65, Number 2, March 1984 General Alumni Association, University of Maine 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 General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 65, Number 2, March 1984" (1984). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 336. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/336 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]. 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Inc • Petroleum Heat and Power Company of Rhode Island • Sprague Steamship Agency Maine alumnus March 1984 Features n The Donna Browne Story By Gerald Rogovin ’49 Donna Browne ’80, a Portland CPA, is intelligent and skilled in financial matters. Her 125-mile commute to classes at UMO was just the beginning of her success story. 12 Weather or Not By Anita Shreve Why is Michael Latti ’56, a Boston attorney, suing the National Weather Bureau for $2.2 Million? page j 14 A 50th Birthday for the Trees By Dave Platt What used to be a meadow and cow pasture is now the Fay Hyland Botanical Planatation—home to many coniferous trees. Dr. Hyland looks back. 17 Come Blow Your Horn By Rich Tozier The hidden pluses of music study at UMA and the Two-Plus-Two degree program for musical careerists Scott Rapaport and Melissa Hamilton Fowler. page 18 18 A Pat on the Back for a Bear Who Dunn Good B\ Catherine Palmer ’72 Senior Pat Dunn, the man behind the UMO mascot, “Bananas,” bears his soul and his new fur to alumni and friends. Departments 3 University of Maine News page 14 6 Letters 10 General Alumni Association News r “Lifetime Experience” documentary film . Roger Castle ’21 . survival kits . countdown to a million . GAA brochure . and more 20 Deaths 21 Class Notes Bill Treat ’40 . Jacqueline Courtois ’56 . Rep. Olympia Snowe ’60 . Peter Nystrom ’76 . Reunion . and more 36 Gallery Cover Photo by Steve Maines ’66 page 12 Maine Alumnus is published tour times yearly bv the General Alumni Assoei ition lor alumni and triends of the Umversitv ol Maine at Orono The magazine's editoitai offiee is located at the Crossland Alumni Center, UMO, Orono ML 04469 A voluntary gitt ot MO to the Annual Alumni Tund is a subscription Third class postage is paid at Orono, Maine 04473 Circula tion is 150,00 issues yearly Telephone (207) 581 1132 1920 Building a greater Univer­ sity at Orono are members of the Alumni Association's high­ est annual giving league—those 1940 In recognition of Raymond H. "Bub'' Fogler '15, whose record of who contribute $5,000 or more. devotion and service to the University is immeasurable, the This major giving program, established General Alumni Association announces the in honor of Fogler, who turned 92 on February 29, provides resources which may be added to the Alumni Endowment Fund, proceeds of which sup­ port the University in areas of greatest need. Raymond H. Fogler Society NION Put the "YOU" back Barbara Barker '39 (left) into Reunion I and Betty Taverner '42 Come to Orono June 7-10,1984 1 I Classes celebrating this year Senior Alumni (this means all people who r I Reunion brochures will be mailed in April. If you have not graduated before 1934) Also: I received a brochure by May 1, please clip this form. 1924—60th Reunion 1954 I 1939 I 1929—55th Reunion 1944 1964 I I 1932—Mini Reunion 1949 1969 I I Please send a reunion brochure to: I Honoring the Silver I Name (class) I I Anniversary Class of '59 I Address I and I I the Golden Anniversary I I Mail to: Nancy Dysart, 108 Crossland Alumni Center, University Class of '34 I I of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME 04469. 2 MAINE ALUMNUS University of Maine News ulties of the University of Maine, the Monaghan insisted. But he could not say faculty union, calling on trustees to re­ whether McCarthy would be paid the scind the appointment. $52,000 he was scheduled to get as a Presented the petitions in December, tenured professor for that leave, or trustees voted 7-6 not to reconsider the whether McCarthy will get another decision and the union talked of filing a year’s pay as chancellor—$70,500. grievance over the issue. “We’ll cross that bridge when we Just a week earlier, Gov. Joseph E. come to it,” Monaghan said. Brennan criticized the decision and the Portland Press Herald $52,000 salary it granted to McCarthy. Brennan said the trustees may be “send­ ing the wrong message to the Legisla­ Paul Silverman ture” that the university “is wallowing in dollars.” Resigns Presidency The university will be asking the new University of Maine at Orono President session of the Legislature for its first Paul Silverman resigned at the end of capital funding in 10 years and for addi­ January, effective September 1. In a McCarthy tional money for UM faculty, still brief letter to his staff, Silverman said among the lowest paid in the nation. his request for a paid leave of absence, McCarthy said he wanted to empha­ beginning March 1, had been approved McCarthy Declines size the well-being of university employ­ by the Board of Trustees. ees, particularly the faculty, whom he While some observers speculated that Tenured Position said, “remain very close to my heart.” Silverman’s resignation was the result of Chancellor Patrick E. McCarthy settled He urged the governor “to fully sup­ a 3!/2-year conflict between Silverman a protest January 3 that has been churn­ port our $6.2 million request for faculty and his boss, Chancellor Patrick McCar­ ing inside the University of Maine sys­ and employee salaries” and the capital thy, Silverman said his decision to leave tem since last October by declining his construction plan. his $60,000-a-year job had nothing to do appointment to a tenured professorship. Commenting on McCarthy’s decision with relations between his office and the Trustees last October voted to make to decline the professorship, trustees chancellor’s. “My wife, Nancy, and I McCarthy a “distinguished service pro­ Chairman Thomas F. Monaghan said, have been considering the change for fessor’’ with tenure and a $52,000 salary, “I think it’s a testimony to his char­ some time,” the campus president told effective Sept. 1, 1985, when he is sched­ acter. It’s the kind of attitude toward the Alumnus. uled to step down as chancellor. He also the system that prompted the board of “Presidents come and presidents go. was to take a year’s paid leave for study trustees to offer him a professorship in It’s an orderly change,” McCarthy was and research before starting to teach in the first place.” reported to have said of Silverman’s September 1986. In McCarthy’s corner from the start, resignation. McCarthy said he thought But the faculty union attacked the Monaghan said, “Once again he’s put the conflicts with the trustees and the board’s decision, saying, in effect, the himself second and the university system chancellor’s office had nothing to do trustees had subverted its own policy on first. It’s unfortunate that the university with Silverman’s leaving, adding that he tenure and the $52,000 salary was ex­ will lose his services as a member of the wished Silverman well. cessive. Full professors in the UM faculty.” In his statement to colleagues, Silver- system average about $30,000. AFUM President Gerald E. Work, man said, “This will bring to a close When he decided to teach after his who teaches at the Orono campus, said, nearly four years of stewardship which term, McCarthy told reporters he didn’t “I’m glad that the issue has been re­ has been both demanding and satis­ realize it would become an issue first for solved. Under the conditions that ex­ fying. ... I look forward to new the union then politically reaching the isted, this was the only course of action challenges and opportunities.” governor’s office. open to a person of integrity.” Silverman told the Alumnus, “It is He said he felt then and now he had a Work objected only to McCarthy’s with much sadness and also with a sense “great deal to offer” and he still repeatedly using the word “union” in of relief that I leave. Our overriding im­ believes the appointment was both pro­ his statement of January 3. “It was the pression of this campus has been one of per and appropriate. total faculty,” Work contended, though support, love and deep affection that But McCarthy said because of the he said he did not know how many of alumni have for this institution.” union’s reaction and “certain other the 1,100 signatures on the petition were General Alumni Association President, political implications” which he did not faculty members.
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