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Wade, Robert G., Sr. Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Wade, Robert G., Sr. Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Robert G. Wade, Sr. was born in Rockland, Massachusetts on August 9, 1900. He attended Bates College, graduating in the class of 1923. He worked in a shoe factory for three years after graduation and married Nellie (Milliken) Wade in 1926. He attended Harvard Business School in 1927. He ran for the state legislature with Willis Trafton and served three terms (1945- 1951?), serving as assistant Republican floor leader and house chairman of the business legislative committee. He once served as the assistant manager of the Guild of Boston Artists. He retired from the investment business in 1986, after 42 …
Berube, Georgette Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Berube, Georgette Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Georgette Berube was born in Lewiston, Maine and attended parochial school, graduating from Lewiston High School. She also attended the Auburn, Maine School of Commerce. In 1970 she was the first woman elected to the Maine legislature from Lewiston. She served in the Maine House of Representatives until 1982, at which time she ran for governor and lost in the primary. She served in the Maine Senate from 1984-2000.
Jonitis, Elizabeth Oral History Interview, Meredith Gethin-Jones
Jonitis, Elizabeth Oral History Interview, Meredith Gethin-Jones
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Elizabeth Jonitis was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania in 1921. Her parents, Clark and Elizabeth Wright, married during World War I and were Quakers. She went to a Quaker boarding school. During World War II she was in the Women’s League for Peace and Freedom and volunteered with the American Friends Service, spending five years with that organization in Washington. She later taught English as a secondary language (ESL) in Lewiston, Maine. In 1954 she worked at Pineland, a school for the mentally handicapped. She worked in Special Education in the Auburn schools and was president of the Central Maine NAACP. …
Jonitis, Peter Oral History Interview, Meredith Gethin-Jones
Jonitis, Peter Oral History Interview, Meredith Gethin-Jones
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Peter Jonitis was born in West Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1913. He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants, John and Alice Jonitis. His father came to the U.S. in 1910 and his mother in 1911. His father worked in the paper mills on Nashua River, specifically operating the boilers burning coal. His mother worked at a woolen mill as a metal picker and cleaner. He attended Ashburnham Street School and Commerce High in Worcester. In high school he ran cross country. He attended Clark University and while there worked at the National Youth Authority. He was in the Boys’ Club in …
Webber, Curtis Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Webber, Curtis Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
G. Curtis Webber was born August 29, 1933 in Lewiston, Maine and grew up in Auburn. He attended Edward Little H.S., class of 1950 and one year of prep school at the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut. Like his father, he attended Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School. In 1958 he joined Frank Linnell’s law firm and continues in the current firm: Linnell, Choate & Webber. In 1965 he was Auburn city solicitor.
Kirk, Geneva Oral History Interview, Meredith Gethin-Jones
Kirk, Geneva Oral History Interview, Meredith Gethin-Jones
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Geneva Kirk was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1917. She attended Lewiston High School and Bates College, graduating in the class of 1937 with a major in French. She began her graduate work at Bates and finished at University of Maine, Orono and New York Long Island, earning her master’s degree in Education. She worked as a teacher in the Norridgewock school system, then for the Central Maine Medical Center School of Nursing for two years. She worked in the Augusta school system for four or five years, then taught in Lewiston from 1948-1979. She was president of the Lewiston …
Poulin, James E. Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Poulin, James E. Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
James E. Poulin was born March 23, 1910 in Waterville, Maine to Dr. James Poulin, Sr. and Mary (McGinn) Poulin. His father was a physician and his mother was a nurse. He attended Colby College and then went to medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He did his internship and residency at the University of Maryland and later went to The Johns Hopkins University. After college, James settled in Waterville to raise a family and practice medicine.
Beliveau, John Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Beliveau, John Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
John Bertrand Beliveau was born February 17, 1937 in Lewiston, Maine. He attended St. Patrick’s elementary and Lewiston High School, class of 1955. He attended Notre Dame and earned his Master’s in Business at New York University and then attended law school at Georgetown. He was a member of the Lewiston Finance Board, county attorney for two years, and served as mayor of Lewiston, 1969-1970. He was a partner at the Marshall, Raymond and Beliveau law firm from 1964-1984. At the time of this interview he was a district court judge in Lewiston, Maine.
Orestis, John Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Orestis, John Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
John C. Orestis was born March 8, 1943 in Lewiston, Maine. He attended Lewiston schools, Georgetown University and American University Law School. John served in the 105th Maine legislature, 1971-1972. He was involved with Model Cities and was Committee Chair of the task force on Housing, National League of Cities (Board of Directors); budget and audit committee; president of the Maine Municipal Association in 1975; corporation counsel for mayors Beliveau and Clifford, and mayor of Lewiston from 1973-1976. He practiced law 1968- 1986, and then began a nursing home business.
Dawson, Pauline K. Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Dawson, Pauline K. Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Pauline K. Dawson was born on December 26, 1917 in Rumford, Maine to Christine Cyr and John Knauer. She was raised in Mexico, Maine and married Everett C. Dawson. She was secretary for the Oxford County Democratic Committee, and worked at the Oxford paper mill. She was one of five daughters. Her sister, Myrtle Milledge, was also interviewed for this project.
Cote, Paul A. Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Cote, Paul A. Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Paul A. Cote was born in Lewiston, Maine on January 13, 1930. He attended St. Patrick’s parochial schools and Lewiston High School, Colby College and Boston University Law School. He blonged to the Young Republicans, and became a municipal court judge under Governor John H. Reed, 1960-1965. He was Chair of the school board in 1962, nominated by Georges Rancourt, and Chair of the failed Charter Commission in 1970. He died October 12, 2003.
Trafton, Barbara Mcknight Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Trafton, Barbara Mcknight Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Barbara (McKnight) Trafton was born May 22, 1949 in Rumford, Maine. She graduated from Wellesley College in the class of 1971, then attended University of Southern Maine and earned a Masters in Education and Northeastern for a Masters of Business Administration. She has served in the state house and state senate for two terms and has been a member of the following committees: Joint Committee, Energy Health and Institutional Services in the House; Joint Committees in the Senate: Judiciary and Public Utilities. She was spokesperson for Maine Turnpike widening in 1991, and is on the Board of the Maine Audubon …
Goulet, Maurice Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Goulet, Maurice Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Maurice Goulet was born September 13, 1923 in Portland, Maine, attended St. Dom’s Lewiston High School. He lost his hand in 1942 while working at the Hyde Willis Company in Bath, Maine, worked at Brunswick Naval Air Station, and then was a special student at Bates College in 1945. He worked with Life/Group Insurance, Central Maine Broadcasting System, a Consulting/Construction Firm, and as a Real Estate Appraiser. He was appointed to the Planning Board under Roland Marcotte and was involved with the Housing Authority and the Zoning Board of Appeals. He owned WCME and made it an FM station.
Lander, Alice Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Lander, Alice Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Alice Eileen Bernier Lander was born on October 31, 1923 in Waterville, Maine, the youngest of ten children. Alice graduated from the public school system in Waterville in 1942 and met her husband, Charlie, whom she married in 1946. Alice and Charlie moved to Portland, Maine in 1964 and Alice became involved with Muskie’s Senate campaign. Charlie did a lot of driving for the Muskies in the 1960s and 1970s. Both Alice and Charlie were present in Washington, DC during Muskie’s vice-presidential and presidential campaigns.
Saulter, Leonard Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Saulter, Leonard Oral History Interview, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Leonard Saulter was born May 22, 1926 in Waterville, Maine to Harry and Elaine (Howell) Saulter. His father worked in the woods for the Conservation Corps and his mother worked as a nurse’s assistant. Leonard attended Waterville Public Schools. After high school, he served in the Army Air Corps for two years and then went to prep school at Coburn Classical in Waterville. Following one year of prep school, Leonard went to Bowdoin College where he majored in Economics. Next, Saulter was hired to work for Hathaway Shirt Company in the Sales and Merchandising department, and was later promoted in …
Snow, Roger Vinton, Jr. Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll, Mike Richard
Snow, Roger Vinton, Jr. Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll, Mike Richard
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Roger Vinton Snow, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine on June 10, 1918. His father was a corporate and probate lawyer and moderator of Falmouth town meetings. Alida, his mother, was chairman of the Republican town committee. Roger attended Waynflete until the 4th grade, and then Portland Country Day School, Lincoln Junior H. S., Deering H. S., and Deerfield Academy. At Williams College his major was French, with a minor in Spanish, graduating in the class of 1940. During World War II he worked for W. R. Grace in New York, a New England Shipbuilding Corporation. After the war, he …
Flanagan, David Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Flanagan, David Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
David Flanagan was born in Bangor, Maine on June 39, 1947. He grew up in Bangor, Hampden, then, Portland where he attended Deering High School. He was the eldest of eight children. His mother, Constance Flanagan, was a registered nurse, and his father, Thomas Flanagan, was an insurance claims adjustor for the USF&G Company. His family was Catholic. He attended Harvard University where he studied history and government, and then went on to the University of London, Kings College, to get a master’s degree, and returned to Boston College Law School on a scholarship. He worked on the congressional campaign …
Clifford, Jere Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Clifford, Jere Oral History Interview, Marisa Burnham-Bestor
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Jere Clifford was born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1927. Clifford’s maternal grandfather was the District Attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts who prosecuted John Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy’s grandfather. Clifford’s paternal grandfather built Lewiston City Hall and Bangor City Hall. Clifford attended Pettengill, Wallace, Frye, and Jordan schools and then Lewiston High School. He began the V-12 Naval Officer training school at Bates, then attended Tufts University and Boston University Law School. He did his internship in Washington D.C., and later practiced law with his father in Lewiston. He served as an alderman in 1952 and on the Lewiston Development Corporation …
Marden, Robert Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Marden, Robert Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Robert A. “Bob” Marden was born in Waterville, Maine on January 4, 1927. His parents were Harold Chesterfield Marden and Dorothy Harlow Marden. He attended Waterville high school and knew Dick Dubord, the Gray family and the Mitchell family. He went to Colby College for two years and the proceeded to Boston University law school. After he passed the bar, he returned to Waterville and became very close friends with the Dubord family, the Muskie family, and the Mitchell family. He was in the city council while Dubord was mayor and then became the county assistant attorney, the county attorney, …
Micoleau, Charlie Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Micoleau, Charlie Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Charles J. “Charlie” Micoleau was born on February 2, 1942 in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended Bowdoin College, graduating in 1963. He earned a master’s degree in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and received his J.D. from George Washington University in 1977. Micoleau worked in Maine for an anti-poverty program in 1965, and eventually worked his way into the Maine Democratic Party ranks. He was a scheduler for Senator Muskie’s 1970 Campaign, and became the Administrative Assistant from 1975 to 1977. He currently practices law in the firm of Curtis, Thaxter, Stevens, Broder, and Micoleau.
Mcaleney, Helen I. Twombly Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Mcaleney, Helen I. Twombly Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Helen I. Twombly was born on April 24, 1909 in Munroe, Maine. Her parents were Ethel [Lamson] and Guy Mark Twombly. Her father was a government employee. Her mother was an active Democrat who served on the Democratic State Committee. When Helen’s mother died, her father retired and became active in the Maine Democratic Party, and was a key organizer of Waldo County. Helen attended the University of Maine at Orono for two years, and then worked for the government in the WPA. She also worked at North Yarmouth Academy before retiring. She married Bill McAleney in 1942, and remained …
Nutter, Fred Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Nutter, Fred Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Fred Nutter was born on September 11, 1933 in Sanford, Maine to Betty and Arthur Nutter. Nutter had aspirations to be in broadcasting, and after serving in the Navy, went to Emerson College. While at Emerson, Nutter would return home to the Sanford area on weekends to help operate WSME Radio. In the early 1960s, Nutter moved to the Portland market, working for WPOR Radio, and by 1965, WCSH Radio as a newsman. WCSH eventually transitioned over to a television station. His reporting career took off with his assignment to Portland City Hall. He then went to Augusta as a …