Former Director of UMaine Honors Program Dies, Media Report

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported Samuel Schuman, a former director of the University of Maine honors program died Nov. 11. He was 72. Schuman, a professor and college administrator, is remembered by many as “the affable chancellor at the University of Minnesota,” the obituary states. In 1977, Schuman moved into his first administrative position as director of UMaine’s honors program, now the Honors College. Four years later he moved on to Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he served as academic dean and vice president of academic affairs, according to the report. The Bangor Daily News also carried the obituary.