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Maine, Volume 79, Number 3, Fall 1998, University Of Maine General Alumni Association

UMaine Alumni Magazines - All

Contents:

A New Tool for Studying the Genetic Landscape: GenoSIS Brings Together Genetics and Geographic Information Systems --- Is It Breaking Up? UMaine Hosts Conference That Examines the Disintegration of the West Arctic Ice Sheet --- Maybe It's the Men's Turn: Home-Grown Star Andy Bedard Hopes to Help the Black Bears Get Their First NCAA Tournament --- The Dr. Ruth of UMaine: Sandy Caron '79 Helps Students Understand Sexuality and Relationships --- Prescription for Beating the Street: Radiologist Turned Investment Strategist Robert Birchenough '64 Shares Some of the Secrets of His Success

Oral Interview Of Ralph Green By Mazie Hough And Peggy Danielson For The Feminist Oral History Project (Part #1), Mazie Hough, Peggy Danielson

Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)

Part of a series of interviews conducted for the Feminist Oral History Project during 1998 by Mazie Hough and Peggy Danielson concerning the history of Spruce Run.

Thompson Document 18: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Bridget Croft, Henrietta Thompson

Henrietta Thompson Papers

A final letter from Henrietta Thompson to Bridget Croft. It seems that the telephone conversation that prompted this letter was not an entirely felicitous one, and that Henrietta’s recommendation that Croft publish A Sense of Purpose was perhaps mistaken for a promise that Thompson would act on Croft’s behalf to that end.

Maine, Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 1998, University Of Maine General Alumni Association

UMaine Alumni Magazines - All

Contents:

From Dropout to Scholar: High School Dropout Scott Labby Graduated with Honors from UMaine in May, Now He's Headed for Yale Law School --- Right Place at the Right Time: UMaine Alumnus Blair LaCorte '85 Talks About Hish Rise to the Top of the Technology Business --- Is This a Good Idea? A Recent NCAA Rule Allows Even Full Scholarship-Athletes to Work --- 'My Life Is My Message': UMaine Professor Doug Allen Thinks We Can Learn A Lot From the Life and Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi --- The Fantastic World of Andrew Periale: If You Think Puppets Are Just …

Maine, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 1998, University Of Maine General Alumni Association

UMaine Alumni Magazines - All

Contents:

Goal, Lorenz! UMaine's Women's Hockey Star --- Too Much Mercury: UMaine Researchers Have Been Warning About Mercury Concentrations in Maine Waters for Decades --- Lighting 'The Lion King': UMaine Forestry Graduate Don Holder '80 Makes It to the Big Time as the Lighting Designer For One of Broadway's Biggest Hits --- Forcing Diversity Issues to the Forefront: An Ugly Racial Incident Leads to a UMaine Community Discussion on Making the Campus More Inviting for People of Color --- Supreme Justice: A Profile of Maine's Newest State Supreme Court Justice, Leigh Ingalls Saufley '76

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide is a way to bring life into Maine Studies curricula by personalizing history and creating new connections between students and their communities. The guide is geared to help teachers fulfill the Maine Department of Education Learning Results (July, 1997), many of which call for primary research and the understanding of individual lives in an historical context. Specifically, the guide presents an introduction to using the Maine Folklife Center and four units: one on conducting oral histories, one on games, and two on the lumbering life. The games and lumbering units are based on selections …