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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2 Black Bears win 6 UMaine's Black Bear 10 Ride to the top CAA, set records Battalion 13 Class Notes and 4 Cohen Lecture 8 The day JFK came to other features addresses civility UMaine issue Alumni MAINE Magazine Salute to UMaine’s Military Heritage Visit: umainealumni.com FALL 2013 I Support Student Scholarships with my Black Bear License Plate Dennis Cox is Director of Choral Activities and Graduate Coordinator in “I chose the Black Bear plate the Music Division at the University of Maine because I love everything about photodrake.com the University of Maine — the wonderful students, faculty and beautiful location of this fine school. It's the reason I’ve spent half my life here. Were in a great place!” ince the Black Bear license plate was approved by the state 11 years ago, revenue Sfrom the sale or renewal of the Black Bear license plate has provided $750,000 in general scholarship support to UMaine students. The initial purchase costs $20, with $10 going to UMaine scholarships; reissue costs $ 15 with $ 10 going to scholarships. As a Maine resident, you can show your Black Bear pride and help UMaine students. The University of Maine FOUNDATION www.umainefoundation.org Two Alumni Place 75 Clearwater Drive, Suite 202 Orono, Maine 04469-5792 Falmouth, Maine 04105-1455 207.581.5100 or 800.982.8503 207.253.5172 or 800.449.2629 Stay in the know! “"ALUMNI The Alumni Association has multiple ways to learn ASSOCIATION about and connect with fellow UMaine alumni. Fa|| 2013 Volume 94 No.3 Alumni Association Website: umainealumni.com Featuring: • Calendar of events and online registration • Class pages and Chapter/AIG pages elcome to the new MAINE Alumni Magazine! • Online magazine • Profiles of fellow alumni • A quick link to UMaine sites Last spring, we conducted a comprehensive survey of alumni with the help of the • Link to update your contact or personal WMaine Business School. What we learned confirmed some things we suspected, while other things information • Free sign-up for the online Black Bear Network and surprised us. One of those surprises was that alumni of all age groups and demographics wanted its free iPhone app more communications from us, especially the MAINE Alumni Magazine. This summer • Link to make secure, online donation • And much more... we set about to redesign the magazine into a format that we could send to all 80,000 alumni households. Some compromises had to be made to afford to do this such as cutting back on the Facebook: Your best source for late- number of pages and splitting our Class Notes pages into two editions. If you are a member of breaking news and information. Go to facebook.com/umainealumni and click a class graduating before 1970, you will receive a version with Class Notes through 1972. If you on the "like" button. You'll get the three graduated after 1970, you will receive news starting with the Class of 1968. or four top stories of the day. Most of our Black Bear Alumni Interest Groups (AIGs) and many classes have their own Facebook pages as well. The links to these Looking for more UMaine and alumni news? We currently offer several communication channels, are found on our website (umainealumni.com). listed to the right of my column. These are intended to give you up-to-the minute information on Twitter: Follow Todd on Twitter. UMaine news, local and regional alumni events, Black Bear sports, and more. Do you currently @TSaucier„UMaine get Alumni Association emails? If not, then we do not have your current email address. Please go online to www.umainealumni.com and share it with us. If you're on Facebook, please Email: We use Constant Contact to send out "like" us for daily late-breaking news and items of interest. And don't forget to visit our Website, invitations to events and other UMaine news, umainealumni.com. It has everything from Chapters, Alumni Interest Groups (AIGs), and networking opportunities, and promotions. If we don't have your current email, please send it to us. individual class pages, to a calendar of events, local contact information to an archive of past issues, as well as online registration for your local events, and MORE. Be sure to bookmark the Home page for fast, easy reference. Editor: Susan E. Mullaney CBC '59H Associate Editor: Abigail Zelz Please tell us more about yourself and what you prefer Editorial Assistant: Betty-Jo Watt We would love to know more about your communication preferences. Please tell us by completing Student Assistant: Jennie Collins '14 the tear-out postcard survey in this issue or go online to www.umainealumni.com and find the link to the survey on the Home page. There's also a QR code for smartphone users. Our goal Editorial Interns: Sunny Hubler '11, Evan Hendershot '14, Casie James '14, is to give you more of what you want in future MAINE Alumni Magazine issues. The survey is Travis Poulin '14 anonymous, so feel free to provide an honest critique. Publisher: Todd D. Saucier '93, '97G, '44H Since I became Chair, we have tried to make a series of changes that reflect a focus on creating the best alumni experience for all alumni. We recognize that there are many different preferences Alumni Association Officers within an alumni body of 105,000 people. You will see more experimentation on our part as we Samantha Lott Hale '02, Chair try to find the right formulas for success. At this point, we are beginning to see increased alumni Nathan P. Briggs '02, '05G, Chair-elect participation and attendance. For example, look at Homecoming, at the Greatest Tailgate Ever Kurt Marston '74, '79G, Immediate Past Chair Michael D. Lynch '88, '89G, Treasurer event at Gillette Stadium for the UMaine vs. UMass football contest, and at local AIG events. Todd D. Saucier '93, '97G, '44H, Secretary Even the commentators at Gillette were amazed when over 1,200 Black Bear fans showed up to cheer their underdog team to a hard-fought victory. The next big event will be the Frozen Fenway UMAA Board of Directors hockey tournament on January 11, 2014 vs. Boston University. Tickets are available at Fenway Perry R. Clough '63 Park and from Ticketmaster. Keep checking our Website for more details. Elizabeth A. Downing '77 Calista W. Hannigan '89G As always, we rely on our local Chapters and Alumni Interest Groups to H. Arnold James '72 Christine Born Johnson '82 bring an ongoing Black Bear presence to their regions. Please keep an eye Lindsey D. Mayo '05 on our calendar to see where Black Bears are gathering! And watch for Jay P. McCloskey '70 details of the 2014 Black Bear Roadtrip. Erin E. Merrill '05, '07G Leonard E. Minsky '50 GO BLUE! David C. Mitchell '87 James D. Morin '10 ShirarW. Patterson '01, '03G Samantha Lott Hale '02 Emma J. Pope-Welch '06, '08G Chair, UMAA Board of Directors John P. Poulin '94 Sharad Rathnam '01 Jon F. Sorenson '86 Paul M.Tomassini '91 Seth A. Woodcock '99 The University of Maine does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual MAINE Alumni Magazine is published twice per orientation, including transgender status and gender expression, national veteran’s status in year by the University of Maine Alumni Association employment, education, and all other programs and activities. The following person has been for alumni and friends. Telephone: (207) 581 -1147 or designated to handle inquires regarding nondiscrimination policies: Director, Office of Equal (800) 934-2586. Email: [email protected]. Opportunity, 101 North Stevens Hall, 207-581-1226. edu. The editorial office is located at One Alumni Place, Orono, ME 04469-5792. Around the Campus • Best ever start in school history at 10-1 • Michael Cole broke UMaine’s all-time sack record Black Bears Win First • Sean Decloux set school record for field goals • Ricky Stevens had a school-record 90-yard rush vs RI CAA Championship • Maine won 12-straight FCS contests, the longest unbeaten streak since ’50-’52 with Record-breaking • Head Coach Jack Cosgrove ’78 '84G named CAA Coach For complete stats for the season Photo courtesy go to www.goblackbears.com UMaine Art Department Finds New Home for Expression by Travis Poulin '14 and Casie James ’14 The newly renovated 43,600-square- The Wyeth family has long been associ­ foot building provides space and tech­ ated with Rockland, Maine, and the nological advancement to a program Farnsworth Art Museum. that arguably has not had as much recognition, funding, or facilities as When Jamie Wyeth was awarded an other programs on campus. The former honorary degree by UMaine in 2001, he Stewart Commons Dining Hall has toured the art buildings and was dismayed been transformed into an interdisci­ by what he saw. “They took me to the plinary home for both the traditional cellar of one place, then they took me to and digital art forms. The Innovative the attic of another. There didn’t seem The ten-million-dollar renovation offers Media Research and Commercialization to be much interest in art here,” Wyeth art students a natural-light painting studio Center (IMRC) is now home base for told the Bangor Daily News.