UMaine alumna Ashley Underwood is one of the final six remaining on the CBS reality show “Survivor,” according to a column in the Waterville Sentinel. Zach Dionne, also a UMaine alum who is now an editor at AOL’s PopEater, writes that Underwood has not factored into many major strategic decisions, decisive challenge victories, or memorable […]
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An obituary for Elbert George “Al” Moulton Jr., a UMaine graduate and native of Brooks, Maine, appeared in the Village Soup’s website. Moulton served several terms in Vermont state government, and was the first director of development and secretary of commerce and community affairs. He was the state’s chief economic development leader under four governors […]
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The Bangor Daily News marked the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs mission to Cuba with a story about Houlton, Maine, attorney Torrey Sylvester. According to the story, Sylvester graduated from UMaine on June 1, 1959, and joined the U.S. Navy the next day. He was a gunnery officer on board the USS Conway, […]
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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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