House Speaker Glenn Cummings at UMaine Tuesday
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Maine Speaker of the House Glenn Cummings (D-Portland) will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, Oct. 23 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program.
Cummings will spend the afternoon at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members.
The Distinguished Maine Policy Fellows Program, which began in the spring of 2006, brings Maine elected officials and senior policymakers to UMaine for intensive one-day programs through which they can learn more about UMaine, the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, and the work of the university’s faculty members and students. It is also intended to provide opportunities for UMaine students to have access to high-level public officials, through whom they can learn more about government and the development of public policy.
Cummings, who is serving in his fourth term in the Maine House, was sworn in as Maine’s 98th speaker last December.
News coverage possibilities exist during the 1:15-3 p.m. time frame, when Cummings will visit three UMaine facilities: the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center (1:15-2 p.m.), the Student Recreation and Fitness Center (2;10-2:25 p.m.) and the Forest Bioproducts Initiative facility in Jenness Hall (2:30-3 p.m.).