Comments from Amos Orcutt, president and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, are included in a New York Times story about the battle between Maine and Pennsylvania over the origins of the whoopie pie. Orcutt is one of the leading proponents of a legislative measure to declare the whoopie pie Maine’s official dessert.
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The website allgov.com has a profile of Pamela White, who was recently appointed to the position of U.S. ambassador to Gambia. White is a Lewiston native, according to the profile, who graduated from UMaine in 1971 with a degree in journalism. She began her public service career with the Peace Corps teaching English in Cameroon […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about Michael Merchant, a UMaine graduate who is part of the cast of the new season of a Discovery Channel reality show. Merchant, who graduated in 2007 with a degree in biology, will appear on “Out of the Wild: Venezuela” starting Thursday night.
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A group of talented musical performers who met as UMaine students will stage a Jan. 23 South Portland benefit concert to benefit the ALS Association of Northern New England. Emily Cain, the minority leader of the Maine House of Representatives who is also a staff member in UMaine’s Honors College, will be joined by Matthew […]
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Tuesday’s Portland Press Herald includes two stories about recent UMaine graduates participating in network reality television programs. One report notes that Ashley Hebert, a Madawaska native who is now a dental student, was chosen for “the first one on one date of the new season” of ABC’s “The Bachelor.” The other story reports that Ashley Underwood, a former […]
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