Longtime UMaine Employee Gives Back
Longtime UMaine employee gives back L-R: Tony and Sue Randall receive their Stillwater Society giving society recognition from UMaine Director of Athletics Ken Ralph. Long-time friends of UMaine athletics, Susan G. Randall '89 and Tony Randall, have established the...
Carter Shaw – Class of 2022
Carter Shaw -- Class of 2022 Carter Shaw grew up in Corinna, Maine with a huge love for the outdoors. When making his decision as to where to go attend college, those passions came to his mind, and he decided on the University of Maine to pursue a double major...
Alumna Provides Emergency Funds and Angels
Bernadine "Bert" Dickison Robertson '67 is always thinking about the current students at her alma mater. Recently, she asked the UMaine Foundation staff how she could help students who may have been impacted by the government shutdown and brutal weather. Inquiries to...
Coach/Teammates Influence Giving
Coach/Teammates Influence Giving In his University of Maine football career, Walter Abbott led his UMaine Black Bear team to greatness on and off the field. For Dick Todd '72, "[Walt] had a tremendous positive influence on my development as a young man. It was time to...
Donor Inspiration – Jane ’77 & Kelly ’76 Littlefield
Donor Inspiration - Jane '77 & Kelly '76 Littlefield Jane '77 and Kelly '76 Littlefield have given year over year to the University of Maine in a very unique way. Their donations are prominently...
Gift Annuities Ensure Support
Gift Annuities Ensure Support Larry Wade graduated from Maine Maritime Academy after coming to Maine from his home state of Massachusetts. He and his wife Deanna joined Kiwanis Club Orono-Old Town after moving to the area in the early '90s, and met Dr. Winston Pullen,...
Creating a Legacy Through Estate Giving
Creating a Legacy Through Estate Giving When Sylvio Normandeau matriculated at the University of Maine, he scraped together everything he and his father could gather to pay for his first semester. "I had enough money for the first semester between my father's and my...
Bryant Goodenough — Class of 2020
Bryant Goodenough -- Class of 2020 Bryant Goodenough always had a passion for math and science. When it came time for him to start his college career, Goodenough searched for majors of study that would allow him to apply his love of innovation and problem-solving to...
Arianna Giguere — Class of 2020
Arianna Giguere -- Class of 2020 In the physics department at the University of Maine, Arianna Giguere finds a tight-knit, supportive community of peers and professors. “Despite being the only girl out of around 20 junior physics majors, I have accepted the...
Ana Eliza Souza Cunha — Class of 2019
Ana Eliza Souza Cunha -- Class of 2019 Ana Eliza Souza Cunha was born in São Paulo, Brazil and moved to Orono when she was 4 years old. As Orono is her hometown, Souza Cunha has experienced the culture and activities that the University of Maine has to...
Elizabeth Van Dyne — Class of 2019
Elizabeth Van Dyne -- Class of 2019 As a product of her own experience with health and physical fitness, Elizabeth Van Dyne decided on her major in human nutrition and dietetics and minor in exercise science as a way to help people achieve their fitness...
Elizabeth Lemin — Class of 2019
Elizabeth Lemin -- Class of 2019 With her senior year beginning, Elizabeth Lemin ’19 looks back on how her passion for dietary studies began: “Health and wellness has always been a passion for me ever since I visited my grandfather in the Maine Veterans’ Home...
Over $133,000 raised in tribute to President Susan J. Hunter
During a recent tribute dinner for University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter, University of Maine Foundation Board Chair Kurt R. Marston joined Foundation President/CEO Jeffery N. Mills in presenting Dr. Hunter a certificate acknowledging over $133,000 raised in...
Vision for Tomorrow Match Helps Future Surveyors
Undergraduate scholarships are an essential component of the University of Maine’s $200 million Vision for Tomorrow comprehensive campaign. An estate gift from an anonymous donor is leveraging additional support for many existing scholarship funds as part of the...
Vision for Tomorrow Matching Gift Program Raised Over $4.8 Million
A $1 million bequest to the University of Maine Foundation from an anonymous donor has leveraged $3.8 million in additional support for the University of Maine as part of the now-completed Vision for Tomorrow matching gift program. The majority of the support is...
SPIFFY wins portfolio competition
SPIFFY, the Maine Business School’s student investment club, has won first-place in a worldwide portfolio competition. The competition was part of the Quinnipiac Global Asset Management Education (GAME) VIII forum March 22–24 in New York City, in which 1,500 students...
University of Maine Foundation announces largest capital gift in UMaine history
An anonymous gift of $10 million from the family of a University of Maine engineering graduate has been committed to help construct UMaine’s Engineering Education and Design Center, according to UMaine President Susan J. Hunter and University of Maine Foundation...
Charles-Alexandre Roy – Class of 2019
Charles-Alexandre Roy moved to the United States from Quebec in 2011. His wife, Victoria Roy (Reeves), a 2012 and 2017 University of Maine alumna herself, is originally from the Bangor area. Their love is what brought Charles to Maine. Currently, Charles...
UMaine Alumnus Creates Fund for Maine 4-H Poultry Projects
L to r: Professor Emeritus of Animal, Veterinary and Aquatic Sciences Robert O. Hawes, Frankie Bozzino from Winterport, holding a Cochin Bantam that Bob had given him as a chick and Alice McKinstry Hawes Dr. Robert O. Hawes and his wife, Alice, recently...
Foundation honors donors with reception
The Speech Therapy Telepractice Program at the University of Maine has provided support and experience for students who study communications sciences & disorders. Led by Dr. Judy Walker, the Telepractice Program offers students opportunities for hands-on learning...
Kassidy Seeley – Class of 2018
Hailing from Jonesboro, Maine, Kassidy Seeley is a senior Communications Sciences and Disorders major. Kassidy is incredibly grateful for the Class of 1996 Scholarship, which she receives. "I am very fortunate that foundations and programs, such as the Class of 1996...
Austin Steward – Class of 2019
Austin Steward is a Junior from Colebrook, New Hampshire and he is a recipient of the the Class of 1952 Scholarship. Austin's family's UMaine legacy began with the Class of 1952. "[The Class of 1952] was my grandfather's class...I got to meet the class members...
Emily Doyon – Class of 2017
Emily Doyon graduated in May of 2017 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. While studying at UMaine, Emily was the proud recipient of the Henry H. Fogler and Mary Moynihan Fogler ’43 Scholarship. “Scholarships from generous alumni and friends…have made it...
Thomas Colfer – Class of 2020
Thomas Colfer is a sophomore Engineering Physics major from West Gardiner, Maine and is a recipient of the Mary Mincher Talbot Scholarship. Thomas, like many students today, is balancing a full-time course load while also having a family. Like all students who are...
Brandon Richards – Class of 2019
Brandon Richards is a recipient of the Class of 1944 Music Scholarship. Music has long been an integral part of Brandon Richards' life. Growing up in Belfast, Maine, Brandon first picked up a trumpet in the 5th grade, but also has enjoyed playing other musical...
Maine Hello 2017
The University of Maine campus is preparing to welcome its' largest incoming freshman class in university history. On Maine Hello day this year, over 2,500 students are expected to be moving into their homes for the academic year. As a UMaine tradition, many alumni...
Humanities Center named for generous donors
The University of Maine Humanities Center has a new name, reflecting the generous support of Clement McGillicuddy ’64 and his wife Linda of Hobe Sound, Florida and Northeast Harbor, Maine. The McGillicuddys support the Humanities Center through a fund they established...
Trust gift to help Orono Bog Boardwalk campaign
In life, Katharine Kirkpatrick was an avid community member, an adventurer, and a dedicated volunteer. Her commitment to adventure continues after her 2016 death with a gift of $141,826 from the Katharine M. Kirkpatrick 2002 Trust to the Orono Boardwalk...
Tal Kleinhause-Gedalyahou – Class of 2019
Growing up in Israel, 5 miles from the Gaza strip, Tal, who is a Wildlife Ecology Major, already faced many challenges in her life. Coming to the United States, and particularly to the University of Maine to follow her passion for nature and science has been a dream...
Sarah Holbrook, The Making of a Neuroscientist
Sarah Holbrook moved to Fort Fairfield, Maine as a young girl with her mother and siblings, and immediately began to feel welcomed and supported in their new community. Soon, volunteerism and community connections served to bolster her place as a valuable and...
Emera Maine Honors UMaine Professor Dick Hill through Scholarship Fund
As part of the Maine Day of Giving on May 3, 2017, Emera Maine, in collaboration with the University of Maine Foundation, announced its creation of the Emera Maine Professor Richard C. Hill Scholarship Fund. Alan Richardson, President and COO, Emera Maine, spoke...
Olga Crystal Remesha – Class of 2018
Olga, who is a native of Burundi, has been studying at the University of Maine for the past three years, studying marketing with a concentration in international business, and dreaming of studying abroad in Germany. Due to financial hardship, she almost would not have...
Faith Rideout – Class of 2019
Majoring in International Affairs with a concentration in International Security, Faith always had the lifelong dream of studying abroad in Japan. With the support of the grant she received, Faith started her semester abroad in Japan this semester, spring 2017. After...
Marissa Rublee – Master’s Candidate 2017
After starting her graduate degree as soon as she completed her undergraduate, Marissa, a graduate student in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Master’s Program, was faced with financial hardship. Receiving scholarship support has lifted that burden off her...
Over forty years of support for the University of Maine
As Associate Director of Planned Giving, Dan Willett has helped hundreds of UMaine alumni and friends set up planned gifts through the University of Maine Foundation. He is highly visible as a leader in the southern Maine business community as a result of his service...
BECUM spring 2017 recap
In spring 2017, the Boston Executive Club of the University of Maine celebrated 10 years of bringing University of Maine alumni together to network in a professional setting, highlighting UMaine's signature academic and research programs, and engaging volunteer...
New Scholarship Celebrates the Power of Stories
Professors Emeriti Kristin M. Langellier and Eric E. Peterson share many stories through the unique intersection of their personal and professional lives. Married since 1979, both taught communication courses at the University of Maine from 1980 until their retirement...
Honoring Bob Cobb, former dean of the College of Education and Human Development
Well before he became the longest serving dean of University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development, Bob Cobb grew up on a dairy farm in Winthrop, Maine, where his parents instilled in him a desire to do well in school and play sports. “I always wanted...
Nick Maynard – Class of 2017
Nick is a senior double majoring in Accounting and Finance. The scholarship which is in memory of David M. Cheney the former president of Lambda Chi Alpha chapter here at UMaine, has helped him to cover any additional school expenses. Nick is very actively involved...
Kayla Greenawalt – Class of 2018
Due to her double majoring in Ecology and Environmental Science as well as in Business Management, Kayla Greenawalt has spent many hours doing hands-on research in a lab on campus. When she is not spending her time in a lab, Kayla is actively involved on campus as a...
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