Bangor native honored with bequest to UMaine Foundation scholarship fund
University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter and University of Maine Foundation President/CEO Jeffery Mills recently accepted a check for $300,000 from the Helen Skoufis estate. Skoufis and her husband, Peter, a member of the UMaine Class of 1941, were longtime UMaine supporters. In 1996, the Skoufises established the Helen M. and Peter J. Skoufis Scholarship at the University of Maine Foundation. Distributions from the fund provide scholarship assistance for undergraduate students who are graduates of Bangor High School and John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. A news release about the bequest is online.