University of Maine Foundation President Receives National Award
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ORONO — Amos Orcutt, president and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, will be honored in August as one of fraternity Alpha Gamma Rho’s “Brothers of the Century.” Orcutt will receive the award at AGR’s Centennial Convention in Columbus, Ohio. He is one of 700 winners of the award, which recognizes distinguished service to the fraternity, which has had over 58,000 members during is 100 years of existence.
“It is an honor to receive national recognition from AGR,” Orcutt says. ” AGR’s goal is to teach young men seeking an education how to live and work together, and make themselves productive members of society. Today young men are looking for and accept fraternal influence for personal development as well as guidance for basic values.”
Orcutt was selected by a committee that included representatives from every AGR chapter, as well as national volunteer leaders of the AGR Centennial Planning team.
AGR, the national agricultural fraternity, will celebrate its 80th anniversary at UMaine in April. One of 14 UMaine fraternities, AGR boasts former U.S. Rep. Clifford G. McIntire of Perham as one of its most prominent alumni. A room in UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House is named for McIntire, who served in Congress from 1951-65. A 1930 UMaine graduate, McIntire died in 1974.
Orcutt serves as alumni treasurer on Alpha Gamma Rho’s Psi Chapter Board of Directors; he previously served as AGR’s North East Regional Vice President.