John Dearborn Remembrance Planned January 21
A memorial service and celebration of the life, work and friendships of the admired John H. Dearborn, Distinguished Maine Professor and Professor Emeritus of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine who died Nov. 24 at the age of 77, will be held Friday, January 21 at 3 p.m. at the Buchanan Alumni House.
Professor Dearborn’s career in Zoology and Marine Sciences at UMaine from 1966 to 1999 continued long after his official retirement, and his writing and interest in marine animals, especially echinoderms, continued until his death. Dearborn’s fieldwork, begun as a modern pioneer in Antarctic marine biology in the 1950s, took him to many interesting, though mostly cold, locations, including the Antarctic, the Arctic and the Juan Fernandez Islands off the Chilean coast, in addition to a number of dives on research submersibles in the Gulf of Maine. Further details on Professor Dearborn’s life are included in a Portland Press Herald obituary.
Gifts in his memory may be made to The University of Maine Foundation, Two Alumni Place, Orono, 04469-5792 in support of the John H. and Bethel B. Dearborn Marine Sciences Fund or the John H. and Bethel B. Dearborn Darling Marine Center Fund.