President’s Council of Retired EmployeesFriday 3 October 2025 at 8:15 amFoster Board Room, 3rd Floor, Buchanan Alumni House and Zoom Members: Louis Bassano, Gail Dyer-Martin, Michael Eckardt, Richard Kent, Jennifer Perry, Thomas Sandford, Claire Strickland, Althea Tibbetts. Ex Officio Member: Sarah McPartland-Good Approval of Minutes of 9/5/25: Louis moved approval. Althea seconded. Approved. Members: Gail […]
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President’s Council of Retired EmployeesFriday 5 September 2025 at 8:15 amFoster Board Room, 3rd Floor, Buchanan Alumni House Members: Louis Bassano, Michael Eckardt, Cindy Eves-Thomas (Website editor), Richard Judd (Secretary), Jennifer Perry, Thomas Sandford (Chair), Althea Tibbetts. Ex Officio Members: Taylor Defa, Sarah McPartland-Good, Approval of 6 June 2025 Minutes: Louis moved approval; Althea seconded. […]
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President’s Council of Retired EmployeesFriday 6 June 2025 at 8:15 amFoster Board Room Members: Louis Bassano, Gail Dyer-Martin, Richard Judd (Secretary), Richard Kent, Thomas Sandford (Chair), Jen Perry, Althea Tibbetts, Gail Werrbach, Sarah McPartland-Good (ex officio) Approval of 2 May 2025 Minutes: Minutes were approved with a correction: table tents were not done by the […]
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President’s Council of Retired EmployeesFriday 2 May 2025 at 8:15 amFoster Board Room, 3rd Floor, Buchanan Alumni House and Zoom Members: Louis Bassano, Gail Dyer-Martin, Michael Eckardt, Cindy Eves-Thomas (Website editor), Richard Judd (Secretary), Thomas Sandford (Chair), Claire Strickland, Althea Tibbetts, Gail Werrbach. Ex Officio Member: Sarah McPartland-Good. PCRE members introduced themselves to our new […]
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Old timers would say if we didn’t have snow in January, we’d have it in the spring. That was certainly true this year, small amount at a time often. As a 1965 Senior at Farmington State Teachers College (the college’s Centennial year), the year before the college became part of the University of Maine System, […]
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In late December, 1989 we completed the construction of our house in Winterport, and on Christmas eve fired up our new wood stove. When we woke up on Christmas day the house was very chilly and the outside temperature was 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The pipes in our baseboard heating system had frozen, and […]
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When my boots landed on the ground in the Maine Woods in ’65, I went to work for Dead River Timberlands. Back then it was common knowledge in logging circles that sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas the growing cold would freeze the wet soils, allowing loggers to build ‘winter roads’ without gravel. ‘Winter roads’ would […]
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Message from the Chair, President’s Council of Retired Employees Greetings to University of Maine Retirees, I am looking forward to seeing you at Homecoming on Thursday, June 5. We believe we have another great program including a presentation on staying engaged as we age by Professor Lenard Kaye, School of Social Work. Don’t forget the […]
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President’s Council of Retired EmployeesFriday, 4 Apr 2025 at 8:15 amFoster Board Room, 3rd Floor, Buchanan Alumni House and Zoom Members: Louis Bassano, Gail Dyer-Martin, Michael Eckardt, Cindy Eves Thomas (Website editor), Richard Judd (Secretary), Richard Kent, Thomas Sandford (Chair), Claire Strickland, Althea Tibbetts, Gail Werrbach. Ex Officio Members: Sarah McPartland-Good Approval of 7 Mar […]
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President’s Council of Retired EmployeesFriday 7 Mar 2025 at 8:15 amFoster Board Room, 3rd Floor, Buchanan Alumni House and Zoom Members Present: Louis Bassano, Gail Dyer-Martin, Michael Eckardt, Cindy Eves-Thomas (Website editor), Richard Kent, Thomas Sandford (Chair), Claire Strickland, Althea TibbettsEx Officio Members: Taylor Defa, Sarah McPartland-Good PCRE welcomed President Ferrini-Mundy who spoke to the […]
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