2025 Homecoming

Exterior of Wells Conference Center
Wells Conference Center

The 2025 UMaine Retirees Homecoming will be held on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at the Wells Conference Center!

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Keynote Speaker: Lenard W. Kaye, D.S.W., Ph.D., Professor of Social Work at the UMaine School of Social Work and Director of the UMaine Center on Aging.

Highlights

  • Welcome by President Ferrini-Mundy.
  • Keynote by Dr. Lenard Kaye, Professor of Social Work and past Director of the Center on Aging. More information below.
  • Four optional after-lunch tours: Hudson Museum, Athletic Facilities, Hotel Ursa (including historic campus buildings Coburn and Holmes Halls), and the Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Lab.
  • Introduction of the 2025 Hikel Awardee. Announcement of the Brown Scholarship awardee.
  • Free lunch and door prizes.
  • 25 organizations will be available to meet with attendees.

Featured Speaker

Dr. Lenard Kaye is a Professor of Social Work and Immediate Past Director of the Center on Aging and Past Interim Director of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering. A prolific writer in the field of health and human services and aging, he has published approximately 200 journal articles and 17 books on specialized topics in aging, including older adult part-time work and the federal SCSEP initiative, social isolation and loneliness, home health care, productive aging, aging in rural America, family caregiving, issues in aging, support groups for older women, and congregate housing. He has served on the advisory boards of a wide range of national and local health and human services programs serving older adults.

Schedule

9:00 AM:

  • Check-in for handouts and parking passes.
  • UMaine Activity Information Tables (25 Organizations).

10:15 AM: Welcome by Thomas Sandford, Chair of the President’s Council of Retired Employees, and UMaine President Ferrini-Mundy!

  • Introduction of 2025 Barbara Hikel awardee and Harold Brown Scholarship awardee.
  • Break to stretch legs.

11:00 AM: Featured Speaker Dr. Lenard Kaye, Professor of Social Work and past Director of the Center on Aging.

11:45 AM: Lunch followed by Door Prizes led by Jeff Mills and closing remarks.

1:15 PM: Four Tours — Check-in (parking, location etc.) in dining room corners:

  1. Tour of Hudson Museum (max 25) — SE corner
  2. Walking tour of UMaine Athletics Facilities Improvements (max 50) — NW corner
  3. Tour of Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory (including the Tick Lab) (max 25; if more than 25, a presentation will be offered at Wells in lieu of an on-site tour) — SW corner
  4. Tour of on-campus Hotel Ursa (max 20) — NE corner

1:20 PM: Disperse for Tours

3:00 PM: End