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716 Stevens Avenue FALL/WINTER 2015 FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OFPortland, ME 04103 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND,follow us UNE MAGAZINE WESTBROOK COLLEGE AND ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE INNOVATION FOR A HEALTHIER PLANET FALL/WINTER 2015 TEAMING UP TO IMPROVE LIVES WESTBROOK COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Clockwise starting from bottom left: Students work with patients at the Channels Health Fair; Nick Vespa, Marine Sciences ’17, works as an aquaponics WITH THE FAST-APPROACHING WINTER HOLIDAYS, I have found myself PRESIDENT’S LETTERintern at Fluid Farms; UNE student poses with a new friend in Ghana. pausing in recent weeks to reflect upon the many uniquely dedicated men and women who have helped UNE expand and evolve in such important ways over the past few years. UNE MAGAZINE 1 follow us I recognize how fortunate I am to work with and for so many talented, caring individuals. Through our students, who perform thousands of hours of volunteer work each year at the local, national and global level; our faculty, who are leaders in their fields; and our alumni, who maintain lifelong relationships that began at UNE, we continue to extend UNE’s reach, tackling some of the most crucial challenges of our time. Along the way, we create new relationships that span oceans and cross continents. In this issue of UNE Magazine, you will learn more about the ways in which students and faculty in our Westbrook College of Health Professions are putting their classroom knowledge to work to improve people’s lives. I find it inspiring that the learning that begins on our campuses in southern Maine enables students to help people in places as far away as Ghana. You will also learn about a new aquaponics initiative in our College of Arts and Sciences that is allowing students to grow vegetables and edible fish at the UNE Marine Science Center; about a new partnership our College of Dental Medicine has forged with KeyBank to address Maine’s dental provider shortage; and about a long list of institutional awards UNE has recently amassed. I hope you enjoy learning about these and other developments at UNE, and I offer my heartfelt thanks to you — our alumni, parents, and friends — for the role you play in making our University’s life complete. BEST WISHES FOR A JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON. DANIELLE N. RIPICH, Ph.D. | PRESIDENT

A publication of the PAGE 04 Office of Communications The Healing Powers of Teamwork VICE PRESIDENT Anouar Majid PAGE 22 DIRECTOR Aquaponics: Growing Food for a Growing Industry Crystal Canney PAGE 26 MAGAZINE STAFF News in Brief Chief Writer and Editor Jen Porto PAGE 60 Copyeditors Deborah Morton Society Convocation Jennie Aranovitch Josh Pahigian 14 Campaign Spotlight: Innovation 16 UNE Portrait Art Director 18 In the Community Laura Duffy 20 Campaign Spotlight: Opportunity 30 Nor’easter News Graphic Designer 34 Athletics Hall of Fame Marine Miller 36 Campaign Spotlight: Place 38 Alumni Weekend Contributing Writers 42 Class Notes 50 In Memoriam Jen Porto Collyn Baeder 52 Remembering James Dickinson 54 George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture Series Josh Pahigian Zoe Hull 56 Behind the Scenes at UNE 58 UNE Portrait Jennie Aranovitch Ellen Beaulieu UNE MAGAZINE 3 Sarah Delage Isla Baldwin Curt Smyth Emma Bouthillette Angela Coulombe Mary Taddia Bill Chance Anne Schaff Amy Haile Photographers Holly Haywood Jeff ScherA child has his face painted by a UNE student at the We hope you enjoy our UNE Magazine is a publication for alumni,Parkside “Health on the Move” block party. WCHP issue. parents, friends and associates of the University of New England. It is published2 UNE MAGAZINE For more information about UNE, twice a year. please visit www.une.edu. Contact the UNE Communications Office, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, ME 04103, [email protected] For address changes, contact [email protected] Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors.

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THE HEALING POWERS OF TEAMWORK Student volunteers pose together at the Parkside IF THERE IS ONE THING DEAN through UNE’s Interprofessional Simulation and WCHP PROGRAMS “Health on the Move” block party. ELIZABETH FRANCIS CONNOLLY Innovation Center. The Center includes three WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT simulation labs with fully equipped control rooms, 1. Applied Exercise Science THE WESTBROOK COLLEGE OF a task training lab and a debriefing classroom. 2. Athletic Training HEALTH PROFESSIONS (WCHP), The clinical simulation labs use mannequins 3. Dental Hygiene IT’S THAT “WE’RE WORKING TO placed in realistic settings, such as exam or 4. Health, Wellness and BETTER PEOPLE’S LIVES.” operating rooms, giving students and visiting clinicians the opportunity to advance their Occupational Studies With 11 distinct programs — including Physical skills while immersing themselves in realistic 5. Nursing Therapy, Social Work, Dental Hygiene and patient-care scenarios. 6. Social Work Applied Exercise Science — WCHP is training 7. Nurse Anesthesia the next generation of health care professionals This year marked the successful completion 8. Occupational Therapy to improve patient care from all angles. But of an interprofessional team immersion (IPTI) 9. Physician Assistant educating these budding health experts isn’t pilot project within the center that focuses on 10. Public Health just a matter of providing them with classroom helping health professions students improve 11. Physical Therapy lectures and run-of-the-mill internships; by communication and teamwork. The goal of the providing meaningful hands-on learning project is to combat the more than 200,000 UNE MAGAZINE 7 experiences, WCHP positions its graduates to deaths that occur annually in the United States, thrive in a competitive job market. largely as the result of poor communication and coordination between health professionals and WCHP’s student body is comprised of self-starters health care workers. IPTI is a gateway for students who take the initiative to volunteer within their to learn with, from and about each other’s unique communities and seek out new learning and expertise, which will improve their service to practicing environments. The students seize every patients, clients and their communities. opportunity to work interprofessionally, integrating themselves into a variety of other disciplines as During the program, eight student teams they learn from and teach their peers. composed of undergraduates and graduates from LEARNING TO WORK AS A TEAM We’re working to better To prepare themselves for their work within people’s lives. the community, students are making strides  — Elizabeth Francis Connolly6 UNE MAGAZINE

THE HEALING POWERS OF TEAMWORKWCHP, College of Pharmacy, College of Dental cared for because the students were so empathetic,” Moving forward, IPTI and activities in theMedicine and College of Osteopathic Medicine reflected Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, Simulation Center will provide University-widework on a faculty-developed patient case based on FNAP, professor and interim director of the School opportunities for students and faculty.common clinical scenarios. Students participate of Social Work and director of the Interprofes-in team-building exercises, critical case analysis sional Education Collaborative. “Even though BUILDING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIESand didactic sessions, collaborating with each we can’t always fix the problem, that doesn’t meanother and determining courses of action. At the we’re not helping our patients. We focus on When students aren’t working in the Simulationend of the semester, standardized patients are solutions, but care involves more than that.” Center, they’re out making a difference in theinterviewed by student teams in three sessions community. The volunteer work in whichthat include a briefing, huddle and debrief. These While this initiative offers a unique learning UNE students engage is taking place on a local,interviews mimic real-world encounters that opportunity for students, it has also led to national and even global level as they embark onstudents will likely experience in clinical workplace surprising realizations from faculty members, service learning projects made possible throughsettings after graduation and in their service all of whom work as clinical professionals. UNE’s rapidly growing network of communitylearning endeavors. partnerships. UNE’s Service Learning program By observing students, instructors have realized was created in 2010 with the goal of providingBy the end of term, UNE students gain more than that while they are comfortable talking about every student with a community engagementjust the ability to collaborate with other health their own skills specific to their professions, opportunity prior to graduation. While someprofessionals. They also learn that they can help they don’t spend as much time focusing on students do participate for credit as part of a course,patients by being actively invested and showing where interprofessional knowledge overlaps the majority of students are volunteering purelycompassion — skills not always covered in a and the importance of what that means when for the experience.traditional curriculum. “The patient actors told caring for patients.us that even though sometimes there were no “Students come to me every year with newsolutions for their “problems,” they still felt truly “When a physician prescribes medication, they ideas and interests,” says Trisha Mason, M.A., discuss it with the patient. However, when that coordinator of WCHP Service Learning.Our students are comfortable patient is discharged, he or she also speaks with a “Our list of partnerships continually grows as we nurse, a pharmacist and possibly even a social balance the skills and passions of our studentswith letting each other talk worker. So, he or she is collecting information with the needs of the community.” from four different professions,” Cohen Konradthrough these scenarios because explained. “Our students are comfortable with The list of outreach sites is as long as it is diverse. letting each other talk through these scenarios UNE has formed literally hundreds of partnershipsthey learn what is different about because they learn what is different about each with organizations such as the Alzheimer’s Clockwise starting from bottom left: Child gets measured for a helmet at the Biddeford Blast for Kids event; WCHP students discipline, but also what’s the same.” Association, Greater Portland Immigrant and treat a patient at the Community Health Fair; Students discuss clinical solutions for a patient case in the Interprofessionaleach discipline but also what’s Refugee Health Collaborative, STRIVE and Simulation and Innovation Center. even area day care centers.the same.  — Cohen Konrad8 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 9

THE HEALING POWERS OF TEAMWORK “We try to expose students to communities, Erika Derks, Physical Therapy ’16. “I’ve had the I knew I would make it my mission to change populations and environments they might not be chance to work with individuals who are that. Everyone deserves to have access to dental familiar with,” Mason remarked. “By gaining underserved in the Portland community, and care, and that includes the inmates at the jail.” experience with people they might not see through it has made me a better, well-rounded clinician. their clinical rotations, students are being trained It has taught me initiative, compassion, respect IMPACT to be more culturally aware practitioners.” and gratitude — not only for the people whom we serve but also for those working alongside of By communicating with peers in the Simulation UNE provides endless ways to me. Through these opportunities, I have found Center, participating in team-building exercises a passion for helping those in need.” and developing a commitment to service, WCHP become involved, and I believe they students and graduates have become agents for According to Mason, service learning is a way to change, offering new perspectives on how to are some of the most rewarding help instill in students a commitment to life-long improve patient care. service. “We want them to continue making a and educational opportunities positive impact on their communities — not just “Students ask clinicians really amazing in their jobs but in their personal lives as well,” questions,” noted Karen Pardue, Ph.D., M.S., available.  — Erika Derks she expanded. RN, CNE, ANEF, associate dean for Academic Affairs and associate professor of Nursing. “ItClockwise starting from bottom left: UNE student comforts a young child while volunteering in Ghana; UNE staff and students Students from every program within WCHP are What is most notable about UNE students is their makes practitioners stop and think about whywork together with inmates inside the Cumberland County Jail; UNE student volunteers smile with local children at the Riverton immersing themselves in a variety of different self-motivated nature. Many students encourage they do things a certain way.” As health care isSpring Wellness Fair. ways, whether they’re providing oral health not only their peers to become involved in service consistently changing, faculty members view screenings at health fairs, offering support for learning opportunities but faculty members as WCHP as a learning community that encour-10 UNE MAGAZINE homeless individuals through the Milestone well. The mutually beneficial impact that ages students to challenge existing structures Foundation, or working with youth at the these efforts have for students, faculty and local and introduce innovative approaches. Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital. UNE’s communities has helped the program blossom collaborative program with the Cumberland from year to year. During the 2014–2015 academic year, WCHP County Jail, which provided 12 weeks of wellness students provided 380,000 clinical training hours workshops for inmates, even caught the interest “I was first exposed to the lack of dental care to health care organizations, and they donated of local news outlets earlier this year. Wherever received by the inmates at the Cumberland another 3,700 hours through community-based there is a need within the community, there is County Jail while watching UNE’s ‘Health service learning. While that figure portrays time a student with the passion to address it. Behind Bars’ video,” shared Chelsea Roccaro, in numerical terms, it’s the quality of those hours Dental Hygiene ’16. “I was upset because I saw the and the compassion they embody that have the “UNE provides endless ways to become involved, way the men at the jail believed no one cared most staggering impact. Not only are students and I believe they are some of the most rewarding enough for them, and I was motivated because easing the workload for clinicians, they are also and educational opportunities available,” said UNE MAGAZINE 11

improving the value of patient care by spending “Students don’t have the same requirement, so the priviledge of working with [at the Cumberland THE HEALING POWERS OF TEAMWORKconsiderable time with each individual they see. they are able to sit with people, listen to their County Jail],” added Roccaro. “After meetingOn rotations at Maine General Health, students stories and support them. It’s good for students the inmates, I realized they were men and UNE MAGAZINE 13are participating in home visits, observing to learn to be empathetic, but at the same time, women who had families who love them just asfirst-hand the context of their patients’ lives. These patients need to feel heard.” much as I love mine; we are the same. Not onlyone-time visits eliminate the need for multiple have I grown professionally, but my own personalappointments with multiple doctors, helping to And they are being heard — on a global scale, growth has been impacted as well. I will foreveravoid medical errors. The visits not only benefit thanks to UNE’s Ghana Cross Cultural Health remember this as one of the greatest and mostpatients, who appreciate the one-on-one time, Immersion. Each year, students and faculty travel influential experiences of my college career.”but they are changing the business of family to Ghana for two weeks, providing healthmedicine as a result. education and clinical services to a population I will forever remember this as one with severely restricted access to health services.We want students to experience this For many Ghanaians, this initiative is the only of the greatest and most influential opportunity they have all year to receivebecause it changes them. We want necessary medical treatments. The students and experiences of my college career.  faculty who participate in the immersion havethem to not just get it in their minds been able to build relationships with these  — Chelsea Roccaro community members, and have had their eyesbut feel it in their souls because opened to how health care is practiced in Driven by an arsenal of passionate movers and underserved areas. shakers, it’s clear that WCHP is just getting started.that’s lasting learning [...] Students With a focus on patient-centric approaches, “We want students to experience this because students and faculty will continue working toexperience service learning in a it changes them. We want them to not just get it create positive change within the community in their minds but feel it in their souls because and around the world. And so far, Cohenway that’s compassionate and that’s lasting learning,” Cohen Konrad expressed. Konrad emphasized, “It’s been magical.” “It isn’t just about dosages, it isn’t just abouthands-on, and that will hopefully technicalities. Students experience service Above: UNE students spend quality time with Ghanaian children. learning in a way that’s compassionate and hands-change their practice for the better on, and that will hopefully change their practice for the better in the future.”in the future.  — Cohen Konrad “The way I practice dental hygiene has forever been“It is common for clinicians working in ambula- changed because of the men and women I hadtory care to have performance expectations,and that restricts the amount of time they candevote to each patient,” explained Pardue.12 UNE MAGAZINE

CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT INNOVATIONCAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: INNOVATIONPARTNERSHIPS YIELD STRATEGIES IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENTBY ELLEN BEAULIEU AND ISLA BALDWIN The University of New England has been UNE and Bangor Savings Bank have charted a UNE students and employees around the state. CAPTIONS ABOUT THE AUTHOR designated and recognized as a groundbreaker new course, by which educational institutions and In the near future, private businesses can also in new models of higher education by the Bill and private business can collaboratively accelerate the take advantage of this innovative curriculum Left page: UNE President Danielle Ripich addresses a Ellen Beaulieu is vice president for strategic initiatives at Melinda Gates Foundation. UNE was selected to development of skilled business leaders who will and delivery system to help their current and crowd at a press conference announcing the partnership the University of New England, and Isla Baldwin is join the Gates-funded Breakthrough Models positively impact Maine’s economic development onboarding employees develop and sharpen between UNE and Bangor Savings Bank. organizational development officer at Bangor Savings Bank. Incubator a year ago to collaborate with nationally- for years to come. their abilities. Our combined investment in this recognized business and education leaders to single and unique program is an investment in Above from left to right: Martha-Velerie Wilson, Ph.D., dean develop competency-based programming for The two-year Essential Workplace Competencies the development of Maine’s workforce, which of UNE’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies, adults seeking to complete a bachelor’s degree. Development Program will impact employees can only have a positive impact across companies, speaks at the Bangor Savings Bank press conference; new to Bangor Savings Bank, as well as emerging industries and communities. Faculty and staff from UNE and Bangor Savings Bank come In a meeting to discuss competency-based leaders already in its ranks and across the state, by together in partnership. education as a way to enhance the workforce, leveraging technology and new models education Through collaborating on this initial program, Bangor Savings Bank advanced a simple, yet employed by UNE. As a key component of the UNE and Bangor Savings Bank have demon- powerful question: would the University of New program, Bangor Savings Bank defined the strated that partnerships like this one are a England help develop a new style of education workplace competencies that its emerging viable and vital way for our state to develop a program for Bangor Savings Bank’s emerging leaders need in order to effectively serve its workforce that can support and drive economic leaders? UNE embraced the opportunity to customers. UNE’s instructional designers are development in Maine. collaborate with one of Maine’s most respected creating an online curriculum that is engaging private businesses to prepare our current and and resource-rich. This approach ensures that future workforce for the demands of a global learners can successfully acquire and demonstrate 21st century economy. workplace skills, such as change-response, conflict management and strategic leadership. These Only six months later, what started out as a financial professionals poised to embark on an seemingly simple request has launched, not only exciting future will learn how to lead and be a training program that will impact Bangor role models for their colleagues. Savings Bank employees, workers and young people across the state, but also an innovative In keeping with their commitments to Maine’s partnership that serves as a map for future communities, UNE and Bangor Savings Bank workforce development initiatives in Maine. will offer this workplace readiness program to14 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 15

UNE PORTRAITUNE PORTRAITEVERYDAY HERO, LAURA GROOMESBY JOSH PAHIGIAN To Laura Groomes, a third-year student in the supplies to be sent to developing countries at Epilepsy Foundation. The Goulet Foundation Groomes knows that she is one of the lucky College of Osteopathic Medicine, giving time Partners for World Health in Portland. works to promote brain safety and prevent ones. For others facing epilepsy or the effects freely to others comes naturally. Whether brain injury in honor of Michael T. Goulet, a of traumatic brain injury, solutions never reading BINGO numbers at a local assisted “I think most people go to medical school Saco teen who passed away from a Grand Mal come — that’s one of the reasons she is considering living facility, tutoring southern Maine high because they have a desire ultimately to help seizure in 2010, seven years after suffering a neurology as a specialty. school students in preparation for a Brain Bee others,” Groomes explains. “But then you get traumatic brain injury in a snowmobile accident. neuroscience competition, or visiting area there, and all you do is study all the time. I asked For Groomes, the fit was perfect. “One of the biggest problems with epilepsy and elementary schools to advocate for brain safety, Dr. [Ed] Bilsky how I could get more involved, other neurological conditions is that there aren’t Groomes sees these activities as just part of her and he connected me with the neuroscience While all of Groomes’ volunteer work is meaning- a lot of treatment options,” she explains. “The weekly routine. outreach program.” ful to her, her efforts through the Neuroscience current first-line medications for epilepsy were program resonate the most personally. At an developed before the 1970s, and they come with “The truth is, I don’t feel like I’ve done that Through the outreach program, Groomes handed event in Biddeford last fall, she shared the story many side effects and oftentimes don’t even stop opportunities to brighten the lives of those much,” the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native says. out helmets to area youths at a brain safety event of her own struggles with epilepsy. She explained seizures. When it comes to the brain, there’s around her, and thinking that her extra efforts at UNE’s Harold Alfond Forum, visited elementary how she was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 12, still so much that needs to be figured out.” are not particularly noteworthy. Those at UNE and in the surrounding com- schools to read a book about a turtle named endured the escalation of her condition as an munity who have gotten to know Groomes Franklin who proudly wears a helmet despite peer undergraduate at Goucher College, tried twelve Groomes could also envision herself playing a CAPTIONS would disagree. While first and second-year pressure meant to discourage him, tutored Brain different drug combinations and underwent meaningful role in patients’ lives as a physiatrist Left page: Laura Groomes medical students typically hunker down, devoting Bee participants and served as a Brain Bee judge. brain surgery. or rehabilitation physician. In this specialty, she Above: Biddeford Mayor Alan Casavant presents Groomes themselves nearly exclusively to their rigorous would help patients improve their quality of life with the City of Biddeford UNE Student Volunteer Award. coursework and studying for their board exams, After a busy first two years at UNE, Groomes Groomes’ breakthrough came in 2012. That after experiencing a stroke, traumatic brain injury, Groomes actively sought out opportunities to was presented with the City of Biddeford UNE summer, she spent nearly three weeks bedridden spinal cord injury or other debilitating disease. volunteer in the community. Student Volunteer Award in May. “I was surprised,” at Johns Hopkins Hospital, while a neurologist she reflected. “I didn’t really feel like I deserved it.” studied her brain and devised a plan to fix it. While she isn’t sure yet where she will eventually Some of her efforts include serving as a pharmacy Electrodes inserted into her brain isolated the land in the field, Groomes expects that the tech at the Biddeford Free Clinic, recruiting A suggestion by Bilsky, UNE’s vice president area from which her seizures were originating, many rotations she will complete over the next other first and second-year medical students to for Research and Scholarship and founding then that bit of brain tissue was removed. She two years will help her make up her mind. join her in visiting area schools through the UNE director of the UNE Center for Excellence in hasn’t had a seizure since. Wherever she ends up, it seems certain that Center for Excellence in the Neuroscience’s K-12 the Neurosciences, also led Groomes to the Laura Groomes will be actively looking for Outreach Program, and helping repurpose medical Michael T. Goulet Traumatic Brain Injury and16 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 17

IN THE COMMUNITYIN THE COMMUNITY“VISUAL VOICES” ART PROJECT ILLUMINATES EXPERIENCESBY COLLYN BAEDER AND ZOE HULL A glimpse into the identity of the aging were advised by Rebecca Boulos, M.P.H., Ph.D., of community formed very early on, creating a Following the conclusion of their project in May, CAPTIONS population through art — that’s what an inter- assistant clinical professor in the School of space where everyone felt comfortable sharing Baeder and Hull endeavored for continued art professional group of students at the University Community and Population Health, and their perspectives.” opportunities for the residents of Park Danforth. Left page from top to bottom: Jane Muesse shows her of New England, along with residents of the Park Regi Robnett, Ph.D., OTR/L, professor in the They applied for a grant from Maine Arts artwork illustrating her identity; Adrian Jung looks on as Danforth senior living community, set out to Department of Occupational Therapy. This project was funded through the innovative Commission’s Creative Aging Partnership Program Ann Heath presents her project. reveal through a research project titled, “Visual interprofessional student-led mini-grant program on behalf of Park Danforth for which they were Voices: An Arts-Based Assessment of the The resulting artwork, created by both students of the Center for Excellence in Interprofessional awarded $943. These funds will support a six-week Above: Collyn Baeder and Zoe Hull pose with Visual Voices Perceived Identity of Aging Maine Residents.” and participants, was displayed in Mechanics’ Education (CEIPE). Funds were contributed by art program for the community’s residents participants from Park Danforth. Hall on Congress Street in Downtown Portland faculty members, the Office of Research and slated to start later this summer. Their project used art to explore social and during the First Friday Art Walk in May. More Scholarship, private contributions and an developmental topics such as identity and aging. than 200 people visited the exhibit over the endowment by former trustee Brian Dallaire, Six female residents from Park Danforth partic- course of the evening, including Park Danforth Pharm.D., and his wife. The purpose of the ipated in group discussions and art activities, residents, UNE faculty, staff, students, adminis- grant was to encourage students from different exploring how they perceive themselves and trators and the general public. A smaller, more health professions to learn about, from and how they feel perceived by their friends, family intimate exhibit took place at Park Danforth with each other to provide better client care and health care providers. The goal of the on Saturday, May 9. and improve population health. project was three-fold: to share perspectives of aging adults with the community with the aim At both exhibits, attendees had the opportunity “Elders are like any population — each person of encouraging a more holistic view of this to illustrate their own thoughts about perception ages in his or her own way, affected by multiple demographic, to create an opportunity for and identity. As a result, members of the public and diverse factors of life,” says Shelley Cohen participants to engage in creative activities that approached UNE’s student research team to express Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, FNAP, director of the promote healthy aging, and to measure the that the artwork did, in fact, help to broaden their CEIPE. “This project brings students from impact of the Visual Voices methodology. perspectives on the aging adult population. different professions together — not only to foster the creation of art that empowers but to develop At the helm of Visual Voices were UNE Master of Reflecting on the project, Baeder stated, “I was relationships that then help them gain insight Public Health students Collyn Baeder and Zoe constantly impressed by the level of openness and into the aging experience. Stereotypes cannot Hull, and Master of Science in Occupational empathy that the participants displayed with us survive in the face of personal relationships Therapy students Adrian Jung, Michaela Hoffman, and each other as we explored these personal developed through artistic expression.” Rebecca Masterjohn and Virginia Sedarksi. They topics together.” Hull concurred, adding, “A sense18 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 19

CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT OPPORTUNITYCAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: OPPORTUNITYRAND GERIATRICS IMMERSION SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED FUNDBY EMMA BOUTHILLETTE The elder population of America is expected to In the mid 1990s, Dr. Rand transferred his explained. “It is going to allow us to take that Ideally, this fund will help as many as five “I know that this has been a thought on Chase’s double over the next few decades, and caring private practice to Mercy Hospital, shifting his further and get [students] out more in the students each year pursue a clinical activity mind for a long time,” said Dr. Rand’s wife, Judy. for this aging population will require specialized focus to elder care. He recruited Pat Holt, a nurse clinical world where their [experience] really focused on elder care. Dr. Rand hopes, in “I think it’s wonderful! Hopefully this will help medical professionals certified in the field of practitioner, and they developed a practice needs to be. The key, I think, is the word addition to inspiring students, his gift will the students and improve the delivery of health geriatrics medicine. The magnitude of this need that served nursing facilities, based on a concept immersion. Although the curriculum is still also trigger others to contribute to the endowed care to the aging population in the future.” motivated J. Chase Rand, D.O., to establish the he learned about while attending an American being developed, the goal is to try to catch fund. His dream is to see the fund provide a Rand Geriatrics Immersion Scholarship Endowed Geriatrics Society Convention. students in the first year with an interest.” significant stipend for a medical student to opt CAPTIONS Fund with a $100,000 gift to the University of for a fourth-year fellowship and become certified New England College of Osteopathic Medicine As this new practice grew, COM approached Dr. Rand’s gift will be fully funded over the next as a geriatric physician. Left page: J. Chase Rand, D.O., pictured at his home (COM). The 80-year-old retired physician hopes Dr. Rand to create a partnership that would offer three years and will be disbursed to students overlooking Panther Pond in Raymond, Maine. that his contribution will inspire generations of a resource for student training and residencies. through scholarships ranging up to $5,000. “You can feel the passion when an individual medical students to pursue careers in geriatrics. This collaboration developed into what is now The amount awarded will be commensurate with enjoys what he or she does. [Dr. Rand’s passion Above from left to right: Associate Dean for Clinical known as MatureCare. This geriatrics group, the student’s experience level and the geriatrics for elder care] is even more profound now,” said Education Guy DeFeo, D.O.; MatureCare Medical Director Dr. Rand, a native of Portland, Maine, and a founded in 2002, is now the largest of its kind clinical activity he or she wishes to pursue. DeFeo. “He really spent his lifetime serving the Daniel Pierce, D.O. founding faculty member of COM, earned his in Maine with six full-time physicians, two people of this area. He wants to see more Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry at per-diem physicians, nine nurse practitioners, UNE Associate Dean for Clinical Education Guy people involved with it and literally following ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tufts University and continued on to Philadelphia a social worker and a psychiatrist. The practice DeFeo, D.O., explained that this fund will help in his footsteps.” College of Osteopathic Medicine to earn his provides medical direction and services to 14 Dr. Rand create a lasting legacy while encouraging Emma Bouthillette holds a B.A. in English with a minor in doctorate. He then served a 12-month rotating nursing facilities and one hospice center in medical students to see first-hand what geriatric fine art and history from UNE, and a M.F.A. in creative internship at Doctors’ Hospital in Columbus, Maine. It also provides a clinical resource for care involves. writing from the University of Southern Maine. Her writing Ohio. In 1963, he returned to Maine and medical students. appears in various Maine publications, and she is working established a family practice in Westbrook. “There is no specific residency program for on a memoir. MatureCare Medical Director Daniel Pierce, geriatric medicine, but we want students to During the last decade of his family practice, D.O., sees Dr. Rand’s gift and the establishment experience the type of care and practice that Dr. Rand saw an increase in patients over the age of the Rand Geriatrics Immersion Scholarship is really quite unique,” said DeFeo. “A medical of 65 who required acute and long-term care for Endowed Fund as a vital component in fostering education is truly based on experiences… [this both minor and chronic illnesses. This prompted geriatrics as a specialty. fund] encourages more people to be exposed to him to obtain certification in Geriatric Medicine. this type of practice. That leads to a career choice.” He also became certified as a Medical Director “This gift will continue the work that UNE has from the American Medical Directors Association. focused on in geriatric training already,” Pierce20 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 21

FEATURE STORYJeri Fox harvests green beans from the Marine Science AQUAPONICS: GROWING FOOD FOR A GROWING INDUSTRYCenter’s garden, where vegetable seedlings grown in theaquaponics room are transplanted. BY JENNIE ARANOVITCH22 UNE MAGAZINE If you could imagine a food production system aquaculture — the raising of aquatic organisms For two students in particular, Joe Simonowicz, that created fresh, delicious and nutrient-dense for food — and hydroponics — the growing of Environmental Science major, Aquaculture food, utilizing minimal energy and space while plants in water, rather than soil —aquaponics and Aquarium Science minor ’15, and Dylan creating no waste, you might think that it is an ingenious system that uses waste from fish as Turner, Aquaculture and Aquarium Science seems too good to be true. But that is exactly nutrients for edible plant life, such as vegetables. and Marine Biology double major ’17, the what UNE’s Aquaponics Club is doing in the Biological filtration, made possible by bacteria, experiment was riveting. “That created a real Marine Science Center. breaks down ammonia, a main ingredient of fish hunger for Joe and Dylan,” recalled Gill. “The waste, into nitrate, which is beneficial to plants. goal was to take this to the next level.” Led by Jeri Fox, Ph.D., associate professor in the The plants, in turn, absorb the nutritious nitrate Aquaculture and Aquarium Science program, and clean the water for the fish, allowing for the The intense student involvement in the project and Shaun Gill, M.S., assistant director of use of the same water for repeated growing cycles. is something that Fox is very quick to point the Marine Science Center, members of the It is practical, cost-effective, environmentally- out. “The applied experimental component is Aquaponics Club are immersed in the study sound and can be implemented virtually anywhere, huge,” she said, noting that the construction of of a field that is on the cusp of a new wave eliminating the need for (and the associated all iterations of UNE’s aquaponics system have poised to splash across the nation and the financial and environmental costs of) transporting been student-led. world with tremendous impact — economically food over long distances. and ecologically. From the engineering of the system, to deter- The concept of aquaponics fit right in with the mining the precise type and amount of food for While the concept [of aquaponics] University’s Edible Campus Initiative, conceived the fish, to ensuring that nutrients are chemically by Fox — an effort to produce fresh, local foods on available to the plants, students are involved has been around for a long time,” campus in the most sustainable manner possible. every step of the way. “It’s the ultimate STEM experience,” Gill noted. Fox explained, “it’s really just now Students interested in exploring aquaponics as part of this project undertook the task of They had the good fortune to receive guidance taking off like never before.  developing a small-scale aquaponics operation, from Tyler Gaudet, owner of Fluid Farms in using the waste of a few goldfish in a tank located Dresden, Maine, a thriving aquaponics business.  — Jeri Fox in the lobby of the Marine Science Center to grow Gaudet shared advice and enthusiasm with basil. The pump used to oxygenate the water students, allowing them to learn from his successes “While the concept [of aquaponics] has been was completely run by solar energy. as well as the mistakes he made along the way. around for a long time,” Fox explained, “it’s really just now taking off like never before.” A hybrid of UNE MAGAZINE 23

FEATURE STORYGaudet made multiple visits to UNE to counsel The handful of goldfish of the early prototype It’s marine science, it’s environmentalstudents in aquaponics practices and even has given way to 16 rainbow trout. While tilapiaprovided a formal internship experience for Nick is usually the default species for aquaponics science, it’s aquaculture — all theVespa, Aquaculture and Aquarium Science ’17, because, other than its need for warm water, it isover the past summer. generally fuss-free, UNE has opted for indigenous things that UNE excels in, and it trout obtained from a local hatchery. AccordingWith Simonowicz as the system engineer, to Gill, the use of trout instead of tilapia gives the dovetails perfectly with our healthMichael Galloway, Aquaculture and Aquarium students who work on the aquaponics systemScience and Marine Biology double major ’15, in an advantage. “If you can control the type of sciences orientation. This is thecharge of the fish, and Justin Andrews, Animal system that trout require,” said Gill, “you can goBehavior ’15, as the lead plant cultivator, the anywhere and do this.” production of healthy food that isAquaponics Club realized its goal of taking itsgoldfish experiment to new depths. As a result, the And going places — far and wide — is exactly fertilizer free.  — Jeri FoxMarine Science Center now has a room dedicated what involvement in aquaponics at UNE hasto aquaponics with a fully functioning system. led to for these students. After graduation, Jenn Implementing a successful aquaponics system buildings and on rooftops in Brooklyn goes to Perhaps even more amazing than UNE’s entire campus. There could be courses in the LaComfora, Environmental Science major, requires several different streams of knowledge. show that one can grow consumable products aquaponics system itself is the fact that it has politics of food, the chemistry of food andThe current operation has a 280 gallon capacity Aquaculture and Aquarium Science minor ’14, Students who acquire these proficiencies anywhere. “Aquaponics uses marginal space. It been entirely created outside of academic time. nutrition,” she mused.and recirculates water via a submersible pump. helped a family in Panama get its aquaponics become career-ready the moment after they conserves water, eliminates soil as a limiting A product of the hard work and determinationFish in a tank secrete waste into the tank’s water, business off the ground. She then traveled to graduate from UNE. “These are highly factor, and it actually allows for the production of the Aquaponics Club and its co-leaders Fox Much like the cycle of food to waste to foodwhich is then filtered to remove solid waste. The Hawaii with Daniel DeBiasi, Aquaculture transferable skills,” explained Fox. “Pulling of more food in less space,” Fox explained. and Gill, the system is, in Fox’s dreams, the again that is at the heart of aquaponics, theenriched water is then filtered again to break and Aquarium Science ’14, to set up an all of this together and making it work entails precursor to UNE’s dive into the localivore possibilities associated with it, according todown ammonia into nitrate before it flows into aquaculture farm. critical analysis and creativity” in addition to Fox and Gill are excited for this next chapter movement. She envisions a student workforce Fox, “are endless.”the grow bed where vegetables under LED understanding everything from tanks and pumps, of aquaponics at UNE. The University, they over the summer months, a farmers’ market and alighting utilize the nitrate-rich water to grow. According to Gill and Fox, it is no surprise that to the fiber optics of the energy-efficient lighting, feel, is uniquely positioned to contribute dining hall salad bar stocked with campus- CAPTIONEven the solid excrement does not go to waste, UNE students are creating major ripples in the to the delicate chemical balances of water, food significantly to the innovation in this field. grown vegetables. Aquaponics may be theas it is repurposed as fertilizer for the campus swelling field of aquaponics. “We’ve always and waste that require careful manipulation in “It’s marine science, it’s environmental science, biggest step in creating a truly Edible Campus. Above from left to right: Nick Vespa, Aquaculture andgarden. In the summer months, the vegetables expected the students to treat the system as if order to grow produce. it’s aquaculture — all the things that UNE Aquarium Science ’17, hard at work during his summerthat are grown in the grow bed, including it were their own business,” Gill shared. “There excels in,” Fox said, adding, “and it dovetails “I could see a Sustainable Food Production major internship at Fluid Farms in Dresden, Maine; Beans andbeans and lettuce, are transplanted. It is a were points along the way when we didn’t know The students are now learning one more skill perfectly with our health sciences orientation. in the future,” she says with great enthusiasm, lettuce sprout in the Marine Science Center’s aquaponicsremarkable system, especially considering that what to do. We took our best guess at it and as the aquaponics system gets revamped and This is the production of healthy food that is “with living learning labs that could be utilized room. Plans are underway to transform the room using ait was put together by students with spare parts, learned as we went.” That type of learning expanded to make better use of space. Edenworks, fertilizer free.” not just by marine science students but by the vertical aquaponics system to better utilize space.reclaimed tanks and previously broken lights. experience, he says, has proven invaluable. a Brooklyn, New York-based urban aquaponics company, is advising students on how to utilize the vertical space in the aquaponics room. Fox says that Edenworks’ success in constructing vertical aquaponics systems along the sides of24 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 25

NEWS IN BRIEFUNE HOSTS GERIATRICS JAMES SULIKOWSKI AND STUDENTS UNE ADVANCES VETERINARY UNE FINALIZES LAND SWAP DEAL UNE REPORTS LOWEST TUITION UNE AMASSES ACCOLADES FORCONFERENCE TO ADDRESS MAINE’S WORK TO CONSERVE ENDANGERED PHARMACY KNOWLEDGE IN MAINE WITH MAINE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD INCREASE IN 10-YEAR SPAN EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATIONAGING POPULATION SHARK SPECIES Students from UNE’s College of Pharmacy (COP) UNE and the Maine Army National Guard completed As colleges and universities face increasing scrutiny Since the beginning of 2015, UNE has earned moreTo enhance the conversation around geriatrics in Maine, To help manage and conserve the Porbeagle species participated in a Veterinary Pharmacy Compounding a land and building exchange that will benefit both over expensive tuition fees and lack of measurable than 16 notable top-rankings for delivering high valueUNE hosted the 25th Annual Maine Geriatrics Conference of sharks, James Sulikowki, Ph.D., professor and chair of Laboratory Day, during which they learned how to organizations. In the unique deal, UNE was granted returns on investment, the University of New England is through its successful education programs.in June. Hundreds of health practitioners came together the Department of Marine Sciences, and his laboratory formulate custom medications for pets. This event was ownership of the 65,000 foot Guard facility on Stevens reporting its lowest cost increase for undergraduates into nurture idea-sharing, spark educational inquiry and of undergraduate and graduate students are using part of a UNE elective course that aims to educate its Avenue, in exchange for 29 acres of land in Saco where more than 10 years. UNE’s most notable achievements include:develop care-strategies affecting older adults in all settings. satellite tags, a relatively new technology, to study the students in veterinary pharmacy — a specialty that only the National Guard can build a modern Readiness Center. physiological and behavioral ecology of these sharks a quarter of U.S. pharmacy schools offer. For the 2015–2016 academic year, tuition, fees, and • Best 380 Colleges — Princeton Review“This conference is about friends, new and existing, coming and their young, captured in the Gulf of Maine. University of New England President Danielle Ripich room and board for undergraduate students willtogether to advance optimal aging,” said Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Students worked with specialized equipment and materials said, “I credit both the Guard and the team at UNE with increase 2.0 percent. This is down from a 2.8 percent • Best Online Graduate Education Programs —Ph.D., professor and director of Geriatrics Education The Porbeagle (Lamna nasus) is a predatory, endothermic in UNE’s Hannaford Pharmacy Practice Lab, and were working through the process to come to a mutually increase last year and a 6.5 percent increase during U.S. News & World Reportand Research in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. shark that typically inhabits the upper pelagic zone from joined by specialty pharmacists from Apothecary By beneficial agreement. It’s a win-win: UNE will be able to the economic downturn in 2007. This lowest report of the surface to 200 meters deep. In the United States, this Design, PetScripts and community veterinarians to expand its presence at the Portland Campus and add increase is a result of UNE’s commitment to controlling • High Salary Potential for Graduating StudentsThe conference featured a wide array of workshops and shark is considered a species of concern and, like many other discuss the interconnectivity of their professions and how much needed space for programmatic growth, and the costs while enhancing the learning experience for in 2015 — Payscalespeakers, including special guest speaker Toni P. Miles, M.D., sharks, is in need of concentrated conservation actions. they can best serve animal patients. Guard will get the space it needs to do its work.” its students.Ph.D., director of the University of Georgia’s Gerontology • #1 Among Maine Universities and CollegesInstitute, whose talk was titled, “Integrating Policy and Sulikowski and his team are testing the hypothesis that This compounding lab and elective course, led by Cory It will take several months for the Guard to transition “UNE is exceeding expectations,” remarked President for Increasing Student Career Earnings — ThePhysiology Towards Optimal Hospital Discharge — We the Gulf of Maine region serves as a nursery ground for Theberge, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacy, aimed out of the Stevens Avenue facility and for UNE to Ripich. “We are firmly focused on providing our Brookings InstitutionCan Do it!” this species, which would mean that this habitat is to provide UNE graduates with an advantageous skill set transition in. students the greatest educational value. In all decisions critical for their conservation and ultimate survival. that not only distinguishes them from other job candidates that we make, we continue to emphasize high-quality, • Top Colleges of 2015 — ForbesThe conference was intended for anyone interested in but also serves the interests of millions of pets and their Above: Aerial view of UNE’s Portland Campus personalized education with a global appeal.”the field of aging, including nurses, nurse practitioners, Above: James Sulikowski, Alicia Brown, Nora Wells and Angela owners across the country. “Through our continually expanding repertoire of programphysicians, physician assistants, occupational therapists, Cicia prepare to tag a baby Porbeagle shark. Above: Students engage with a professor during a offerings, our global education opportunities and ourphysical therapists, substance abuse counselors, social “This elective… gave me the knowledge to effectively classroom lesson. interdisciplinary approaches to learning, we are constantlyworkers, mental health practitioners, certified nursing provide recommendations on medications for animals, striving to provide students with the most diverse andassistants and health professions students. the confidence to interact with veterinarians and the valuable educational experience possible,” says President resources to look up veterinary pharmacy information,” Danielle Ripich, Ph.D. “We are continually exploring newAbove: Students from UNE’s College of Osteopathic Medicine said Shannon Grady, COP ’16. ways to make sure our graduates have the best skills sowork with a patient. that they may benefit their communities in Maine, the Above: Cory Theberge instructs COP students on compounding United States and around the world.”26 UNE MAGAZINE medications for pets. 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NEWS IN BRIEFLOCAL FIFTH-GRADERS DIVE INTO UNE ANNOUNCES DENTAL SCHOOL UNE AND KEYBANK PARTNER UNE’S ANOUAR MAJID LECTURES AT UNE AWARDED NIH GRANT TO UNE ONE OF TOP THREE MAINESCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS AT UNE SCHOLARSHIP IN MEMORY OF DEAN TO COMBAT MAINE’S DENTAL THE CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION DEVELOP OPIOID DRUGS WITH SCHOOLS FOR HIGHEST STARTING JAMES B. HANLEY PROVIDER SHORTAGE DIMINISHED SIDE EFFECTS SALARY FOR GRADUATESMore than 200 local fifth-grade students from RSU Author, scholar and trailblazing educator Anouar21 converged on the University of New England’s The University of New England was deeply saddened UNE has partnered with KeyBank to take strategic steps Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs and UNE and Southern Research of Birmingham, Alabama, UNE ranks third for graduates earning the highest startingBiddeford Campus for the third-annual Julia Robinson by the death of James B. Hanley, D.M.D., dean of the toward building a robust dental workforce pipeline for Communications visited the shores of Chautauqua won a $4.5 million, five-year grant from the National salary, according to a newly published study by SmartAsset,Mathematics Festival. College of Dental Medicine, in late May following a Aroostook and Penobscot Counties, two geographic Lake in southwestern New York State to present a Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes a New York-based financial technology company that battle with cancer. With much love and respect for areas of specific oral health need. With a generous grant lecture, titled “Islam and the Problem of Monotheism,” of Health to develop opioid drugs for the treatment of uses data to provide answers to financial questions aboutThrough hands-on activities, students explored science, Hanley’s career accomplishments and warm friendship, of $160,000, KeyBank has made possible the Key to at the prestigious Chautauqua Institution. chronic pain, an issue that affects an estimated 100 million major life decisions.technology, engineering and math (STEM) with UNE his colleagues in the College of Dental Medicine have Oral Health program, an ambitious initiative with a Americans. These drugs are being developed to havefaculty and staff members, examining disciplines such as named an endowed scholarship fund in his honor. The long-term goal of encouraging select UNE dental The lecture, which took place in Chautauqua’s Hall of fewer adverse side effects. The study ranked schools based on tuition, student livingneuroscience, genetics, marine science and histology. James B. Hanley Dean’s Scholarship for Emerging graduates to practice in these underserved counties Philosophy, provided attendees of the Chautauqua costs (including room and board, books, supplies, Leaders will provide much-needed scholarship support upon graduation. Summer Schools with a deeper understanding of one of The research will be performed by a team of scientists at transportation and personal expenses), scholarship andThe purpose of this annual event, sponsored by the for dental students in perpetuity at UNE’s dental college. the world’s most controversial religions. the University of New England, including Edward Bilsky, grant offerings, retention rates and beginning job salaryAmerican Institute of Mathematics, is to “inspire UNE dental students selected for the program — known Ph.D., UNE vice-president for Research and Scholarship; after graduation.students to explore the richness and beauty of Hanley’s dedication to young scholars was reflected in as Key Oral Health Scholars — will participate in As the events of recent decades have underscored the Karen Houseknecht, Ph.D., UNE professor ofmathematics through activities that encourage his early support and advocacy for the creation of an targeted, community-based service learning projects importance of citizens, educators and policymakers pharmacology; and John Streicher, Ph.D., assistant Schools with the combined highest marks in thesecollaborative, creative problem-solving.” By participating, endowed dean’s scholarship for dental students not long while they are completing their clinical rotations. studying the cultural underpinnings of the gulf between professor of biomedical sciences. Subramaniam categories were named “best value schools” orUNE faculty and staff-members hope to help children after his arrival at UNE. He generously provided an Islam and the West, Majid has emerged as one of the Ananthan, Ph.D., principal research scientist in drug “institutions where you get the most bang for yourfoster early interests in math and science-related fields. early and substantial gift to launch the endowment, and Over the course of this three-year project, UNE’s world’s foremost thinkers in this area. In addition to discovery at Southern Research, will lead the effort. buck,” according to SmartAsset. UNE ranked among the he championed its growth by encouraging faculty and staff College of Dental Medicine will choose a total of 14 Key publishing books and articles on the topic, he has top five for the state of Maine.“UNE is proud to support the future generation of to make meaningful contributions of their own. to Oral Health Scholars by the end of 2016, with the first appeared on Bill Moyers Journal, NPR, Al-Jazeera, and “From our previous research, we have… made greatexperts in science and mathematics,” says Ed Bilsky, seven to be selected by December 2015. The University countless other national and international media channels strides toward developing drugs that provide pain relief President Ripich said, “The administration, faculty andPh.D., vice president for research and scholarship and Each annual award to a deserving student will projects that up to 2,700 patient visits will be provided to lend his expertise. while having greatly reduced side effects,” said Bilsky. staff at UNE have known for a long time the value thisfounding director of the Center for Excellence in the demonstrate Hanley’s belief in student leadership and annually by the scholars, delivering 4,000 to 5,000 oral “This new grant award from the National Institutes of college provides, not only in its education but in theNeurosciences at UNE. community service and his commitment to academic health care patient visits to underserved populations by Above: Anouar Majid speaks at a Center for Global Health is timely and critical for advancing the project kinds of good-paying jobs that students are finding after achievement in the field of oral health. the conclusion of the program on May 31, 2018. Humanities lecture. towards the goal of having a clinical drug candidate for they graduate. Now, we are seeing others who monitorAbove: Children enjoying the hands-on marine science activities treatment of acute and chronic pain.” the health of higher education share our story as well.”at the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival Above: James B. Hanley Above: Left to Right: President of the Maine Market of KeyBank Sterling Kozlowski, UNE President Danielle Ripich, and KeyBank Vice Above: Ed Bilsky at work in the lab with students Above: A student celebrates his accomplishments at the 2015 President of Community Development Banking Charlie Kennedy Commencement Ceremony.28 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 29

NEWS NEWS BY CURT SMYTHClockwise: Jack McDonald, UNE associate vice president and director of Athletics; Kevin Swallow, head coach of UNE’s Men’s Hockey NEW COACHES final United States College Hockey Online Joseph’s for the past seven seasons. He wasTeam; Rick Hayes, head coach of UNE’s Women’s Swimming Team. (USCHO.com) Division III Top 15 Poll. Swallow chosen GNAC Coach of the Year in 2012, and The University of New England welcomed two was recognized as the ECAC Northeast Coach under his guidance, the Monks have annually30 UNE MAGAZINE new head coaches to its ranks this year: Kevin of the Year for the second time in his career. earned College Swimming Coaches Association Swallow is now leading the Men’s Ice Hockey of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team, and Rick Hayes is head coach of the My goal is to continue, and Team honors. Women’s Swimming Team. grow upon, the years of success Prior to entering the collegiate ranks, Hayes Swallow was head coach at Nichols College was head coach of Boy’s Swimming at Deering in Dudley, Massachusetts, for the past three this program has had in both the High School (1998–2005), where his teams posted seasons. During his tenure at Nichols, he led the a collective record of 44-8-1 and captured three Bison to a 55-20-7 record (.713 winning percentage) classroom and the pool.  consecutive Class A state championships and consecutive Eastern College Athletic (2003, 2004, 2005). Conference (ECAC) Northeast championships.  — Rick Hayes Before his arrival in 2012, Nichols had posted an “It is an honor to come back to where I started aggregate record of 37-36-6 over a three-year period. “I am extremely excited to be taking over the my college coaching career 10 years ago. This University of New England Men’s Hockey opportunity presents a new set of challenges for The 2014–15 season was Swallow’s most successful program,” Swallow said. “The team is on the me, personally and professionally. My goal is to at Nichols, as he guided the Bison to a 21-4-3 verge of greatness, and with everything UNE continue, and grow upon, the years of success record and league title, a berth in the NCAA has to offer, I feel like the sky is the limit for this program has had in both the classroom Championship field, and the No. 14 spot in the the program. I plan to instill the same culture and the pool.” and philosophies we had at Nichols, and our The team is on the verge of student-athletes will be expected to strive for “Kevin and Rick both come to UNE with a excellence in all aspects of their lives.” demonstrated ability to run highly-successful greatness, and with everything programs and develop student-athletes,” Hayes, who served as assistant coach at UNE McDonald said. “We are fortunate to have UNE has to offer, I feel like the sky under Kate Roy from 2005 to 2007, coached 13 them aboard and look forward to their contri- All-New England selections and 16 Great butions to our department and the entire is the limit for the program.  Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) campus community.” All-Academic picks while head coach at Saint  — Kevin Swallow UNE MAGAZINE 31

NEWSNEW VARSITY SPORT: RUGBY HALL OF FAME one season due to injury, Flagg is the program’s Left to right: Rocco Ferranti; Taryn Flagg takes the ball down the field, with her teammate following close behind her. career leader in goals scored (51) and points (124).Women’s Rugby is the newest varsity sport The University of New England Varsity Club She was voted Commonwealth Coast Conferencecoming to UNE in Fall 2016. The Nor’easters inducted its 11th class in a ceremony held Rookie of the Year in 2006 and was a three-timerecently gained membership into the National September 18 at the Harold Alfond Forum on All-Conference selection.Collegiate Women’s Varsity Rugby Association the Biddeford Campus.(NCWVRA), which features such prestigious The 1993-94 Westbrook College Men’s Basketballinstitutions as Harvard University, Brown St. Francis College men’s basketball player Team posted a 30-5 record on its way to winningUniversity and Dartmouth College. The Rocco Ferranti ’70, and field hockey player the Mayflower Conference Championship andUniversity has an agreement in place to open Taryn Flagg ’10, were enshrined, along with earning a bid to the National Association ofits varsity schedule with a contest versus the 1993-94 Westbrook College Men’s Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) NationalDartmouth, and according to UNE Associate Basketball Team. Championship. The Wildcats were second inVice President and Director of Athletics Jack the nation in scoring offense, averaging anMcDonald, discussions are underway for facility Ferranti was a four-year varsity team member astounding 104.8 points per game. Two playersand infrastructure development, as well as the who ended his career with 1,079 points, a figure from that team — Paul Peterson and Dereksearch for a head coach. that ranks him in the record books among St. Vogel — are members of the UNE Hall of Francis, UNE and Westbrook College men’s Fame, as is Head Coach Jim Graffam.FIRST FOOTBALL basketball players. An All-Naismith Conference performer, Ferranti is the lone St. Francis College CAPTIONSCOMPETITIONS ANNOUNCED alum to have his jersey number retired. Above: Enthusiastic students cheer at a UNE basketball game.In August, UNE came to an agreement with the Flagg is the first UNE field hockey player to beUnited States Coast Guard Academy to play a inducted into the Hall of Fame. Despite missinghome-and-home series in 2018 and 2019. UNEwill face the Bears on Thursday, August 30, 2018,at Cadet Memorial Field in New London,Connecticut, in what will be the Nor’easters’first varsity contest, and the two teams will playin Biddeford the following season on Saturday,September 7, 2019. The Nor’easters plan to playan undetermined number of sub-varsity games in2017 prior to a full varsity slate of competitionbeginning in 2018. Planning for facilities andthe hiring of a head coach has already begun.32 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 33

CAPTIONS: ATHLETICS’ HALL OF FAME Background image: Members of the 1993–94 UNE MAGAZINE 35 Westbrook College Men’s Basketball Team. Bottom images from left to right: Special presentation to former St. Francis College Director of Athletics Jim Beaudry, and former Westbrook College Director of Athletics Jim Graffam (pictured with Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jack McDonald, middle); McDonald with inductee Taryn Flagg ’10, and her former Head Coach Joan Howard; McDonald with inductee Rocco Ferranti, SFC ’70.34 UNE MAGAZINE

CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT PLACECAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: PLACEA DAUGHTER’S GIFT IN HONOR OF HER MOTHERBY MARY TADDIA In a gesture of loyal devotion and love for her has received two awards from UNE, including In 1968, the building was retrofitted as a home educational activities and community members now long gone, Alumni Hall will continue to mother, Zareen Taj Mirza gave a generous Moving an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2006 and the for the humanities, where students took classes can participate in lectures and other events serve as an enduring place of learning thanks Forward campaign gift to aid the restoration of Deborah Morton Award in 2009. in art history, music, pottery and studio art. It open to the public. to Mirza and her meaningful gift. Alumni Hall, the University of New England’s was also used as a chapel, theater and a study oldest structure. Thanks to her contribution, in Philanthropy seems to be an inherited trait, as lounge for day students. As of June 1, 2015, the University has raised CAPTIONS honor of Josephine Hildreth “Dodie” Detmer, Mirza has also made contributions in support of more than $3.7 million for Alumni Hall, with Left page: Josephine Hildreth “Dodie” Detmer, HON ’06 HON ’06, Alumni Hall will once again be the UNE students and initiatives. Last year, she and When the $4.5 million renovation is complete the hopes of raising an additional $800,000 Above from left to right: Detmer with President Danielle central hub of UNE’s Portland Campus, providing her mother gave scholarship money to help in the spring of 2016, Alumni Hall will re-emerge before the end of the campaign on May 31, Ripich and fellow awardees at the 2009 Deborah Morton students with ample space to host academic students study abroad in Tangier, Morocco. as a welcoming, dynamic place for students, 2017. All alumni and friends will have an Award Ceremony; Rendering of what the fully-renovated events, alumni gatherings and public lectures. However, this joint gift was not the first Hildreth faculty and members of the UNE community. opportunity to contribute to the campaign Alumni Hall will look like upon completion. family contribution; Wing Lounge in Alexander President Danielle Ripich envisions that it prior to that time. Alumni Hall, formerly known as the “Seminary Hall was named for Mirza’s grandmother and will serve as the “living room” for the Portland ABOUT THE AUTHOR Building,” was constructed in 1834 to educate Detmer’s mother, Katherine Wing Hildreth, Campus, where students can relax in the Zareen Taj Mirza and Dodie Detmer are Mary Taddia is prospect research manager in the Office of Westbrook Seminary students and was renamed HA ’69. newly-furnished study lounge, faculty can host exemplars of kindness and generosity. Though Institutional Advancement. Mary is also pursuing an English in 1896 to recognize alumni who contributed the vestiges of life at Westbrook Seminary are degree at UNE. She lives in Portland. to its repair and renovation. Mirza’s thoughtful Alumni Hall has always played an integral contribution will ensure that her mother’s name role in student life at UNE. On June 9, 1834, lives in perpetuity through a space in the building the first Westbrook Seminary class was held in dedicated in her honor. the Seminary Building, with “males and females admitted to equal privileges.” In addition to Mirza’s interest in UNE was fostered by her religious studies, the school also offered secular mother’s dedication to the University. A retired courses. Students could enroll in one of four history teacher, author, community volunteer educational tracks: English, Scientific, Ladies’ and philanthropist, Detmer has been a major Classical and Preparatory, all of which were supporter and volunteer of the University for more held in Alumni Hall. than two decades. She is an honorary member of the Moving Forward Campaign Committee Toward the end of the 19th century, science and is also a former trustee of Westbrook College labs were built to accommodate chemistry, and the University of New England. Detmer physics and medical secretarial science courses.36 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 37

Nearly 400 UNE and St. Francis College ALUMNI WEEKEND alumni returned to campus for Alumni Weekend 2015. The Class of 1965 cele- UNE MAGAZINE 39 brated their 50th Reunion with a variety of special programs. Alumni Awards included Daniel Vaillancourt ’69, Alumni Achievement Award; Ben Hogan ’75, Alumni Service Award; Eric Cressey ’03, Young Alumni Award; and Dr. Gilbert “Doc” Samuel, Honorary Alumnus. Other activities included live music from Jim Gaudet ’70 and the Railroad Boys, a bounce house and KidFest program, a donor reception and many athletic events.38 UNE MAGAZINE

CAPTIONS: ALUMNI WEEKEND Page 38 UNE MAGAZINE 41 Tom Tunney ’65 receives a 50th Reunion certificate from President Ripich. Page 39 Background image: Class of 1965 celebrates its 50th Reunion in the St. Francis Plaza. Bottom images from left to right: The Class of 1985 celebrates its 30th Reunion; Mike Hogan ’75 accepts the Alumni Service Award from Amy Haile, senior director of Advancement Operations, on behalf of Ben Hogan ’75; John Moschella ’65 and Jim Beaudry. Page 40 Background image: Members of the Class of 2015 at their first Alumni Weekend. Bottom images from left to right: Young alumni check out the action in the Alfond Forum; Sara Capobianco ’14, with her dad Stephen Capobianco ’72; Men’s Lacrosse alumni. Page 29 Eric Cressey ’03 accepts the Young Alumni Award.40 UNE MAGAZINE

WESTBROOK COLLEGE/WESTBROOK JR. COLLEGE ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE UNE CLASS NOTES Please email your news and 1948 1954 fun chit-chatting and visiting already! New Jersey, was severely damaged by photos to [email protected], post on UNE We have even located some who were super storm Sandy, and we are in the Connect at www.alumni.une.edu, or Mary Jane Crabtree: “Anyone who Gwendolyn Leighton Grant: “I am with us only one year, but they are process of demolishing and rebuilding mail to the UNE Office of Alumni Advancement, remembers me, I just wanted to say enjoying retirement but not enjoying still ‘Brookies’ and we’re looking a new home.” 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, ME 04103. ‘hello’. I enjoy getting the various aging. These golden years! I turned 81 forward to meeting up at the reunion. messages and always look for anyone’s on June 20 and am doing okay. I hear If you see this message, email me at Polly Holcomb Pobuda: “In June of College of Osteopathic Medicine news name from the Class of ’48. I don’t from Helen Hilton sometimes who [email protected], and let’s 2014, I retired after working 30 years should be emailed to [email protected]. think Melville House is still there, but tells me about having lunch with Jodie start talking!” in the library at Canton High School in if it is, I say ‘hi’ to all my former and Kitty.” Canton, Connecticut. I have always CLASS housemates. I am currently living in 1965 enjoyed working with the students and Georgia (I would never have envisioned 1961 have been working as a district substitute CLASS NOTES EDITOR: AMY HAILE that!), but we do enjoy it, and all four of Katherine Ammon Delle Chiaie: “I am this year. Greetings to all!” PLEASE LIMIT SUBMISSIONS my children live here or visit often. So, Lynne Sutherland Byron: “Dan and happily retired and have been married to TO 75 WORDS OR LESS. hello to all, good health and joy from I were in St. Petersburg, Florida, in David for 44 years. I enjoy volunteering Thomas P. Tunny: “My wife, Alene, and SUBMISSIONS MAY BE EDITED now on.” October on business and got in good at Elder Services, specializing in Medicare I retired in June 2014 after serving FOR LENGTH AND CLARITY. with Betsy Ward Hatfield. We spent a counseling and spending time with my many years in international education. I 1951 couple of days getting caught up with grandchildren.” was head of school, and Alene, was a one another and had a fabulous dinner teacher and curriculum coordinator in Gloria LaMothe Reiske: “I am living in one night at Betsy’s daughter-in-law’s James M. Craig: “My wife, Fran, and seven different countries over a span Virginia near the beautiful Blue Ridge Thai restaurant with Betsy’s lovely I have been married for 49 years. of 20 years. Prior to our international Mountains. I have 13 grandchildren, one family. This spring while in Florida, we We have two sons, three grandchil- experience, I was a high school guidance great grandchild, and I am expecting helped Judy Maguire Shutowick and dren, ages 28, 15 and 6, and a great counselor and principal in New another in January. I have also authored Mike Shutowick celebrate their 50th granddaughter, age 3. I retired in Hampshire, and Alene was an elementary more than 50 business articles and wedding anniversary. It was a wonderful December 2013 as president of teacher in Montana. We met in Caracas, have a blog. I have a M.S.W. and am party with children, grandchildren and the American Institute of Marine Venezuela, and each brought two licensed in Virginia. I am retired now but many lovely friends. I was one of Judy’s Underwriters, a trade group children to our marriage. We now have 11 was a clinical specialist and supervisor bridesmaids, and we were all in atten- representing the U.S. ocean marine grandchildren. Our home is now in for many years. I love my lifestyle, dance. It was a great day!” insurance industry. During my Hamilton, Montana, where Alene was traveling and visiting my grandchildren. 10-year tenure as president, we born. Looking forward to seeing everyone I loved my time at Westbrook.” Bobbi Marchant Jennings: “Looking traveled extensively to Europe, at the 50th reunion in September!” for all Class of 1961 folks! Let’s start Asia, and within the U.S. I currently working on our 55th Reunion! I’m volunteer in both community and putting together a list of names, county organizations in various addresses, email, etc., and we’re having capacities. Our beach home in Lavallette,42 UNE MAGAZINE * Bolded dates signify reunion years UNE MAGAZINE 43

WESTBROOK COLLEGE/WESTBROOK JR. COLLEGE ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE UNE CLASS NOTES1967 John A. Deering: “I retired from the Cynthia Corkum Hart: “I got married 1975 practice for 30 years as a RDH in Rosanne Moody Peeling: “Last year’s Biddeford Campus and my dedicated methods as delineated above. To my U.S.P.O. in August 2012 after 36 years. on May 23, 2015, to James Hart. We the city. I also treat neurologically reunion was my 30th and, although I professors for demanding academic classmates and UNE alumni, you areNorman Beaupre’s newest book The Fallen I have been travelling to Maine, New have been exclusively together for 21 Paul Casey: “It just does not seem compromised patients at the Center didn’t attend, I was able to meet a couple focus and clinical expertise. One of the invited to experience the beauty and theDivina — Maria Callas. Hampshire and Utah quite a bit. I am (yes, 21) years and finally decided to possible that I was a St. Francis student for Discovery in Harris, New York. I am of ‘Brookies’ later that year. While selling first academicians and outstanding regenerative properties of the Caribbean still living in Winterport, Maine. I have make it legal. So my name has changed more than 40 years ago. I have wonderful an artist doing oil painting, graphics and photo cards at a craft fair in July, one of clinicians to be board certified in the Sea and tropical climate. There is ampleNorman Beaupre: “I am presently a seen Tom Brazier-Watson and Ron from Cynthia Corkum Masiero to memories of Fr. Ben, Fr. George and monotype, which I exhibit at various my customers was Sheila Taylor Jones ’60. specialty of cardiopulmonary was the space to vacation, room to organize aprofessor emeritus and have a new Berube at many SFC-UNE homecomings Cynthia Corkum Hart.” Jacques Downs, as well as many galleries and at the Salmagundi Club in It turns out, she lives in an area where I inspiring consummate professional small conference, offer post-graduatebook out, my 20th, called “The Fallen and am looking forward to the Class of others. I am recently retired from 38 New York City.” often visit relatives. In December, I Linda Crane, whose footsteps I followed classes and to stay in touch! Let’sDivina — Maria Callas.” 1967 SFC 50th reunion in September 1970 years of public school teaching. It was a participated in the 10-11-12-13-14 on my final clinical rotation at Hartford re-connect and continue to leave this 2017 on the Biddeford Campus. I’m wonderful career. I have two sons, Adam 1978 Volksmarsch, and one of the women I Hospital. So many years have passed, world better than we found it.”Ronald R. Berube: “I have been retired for not too far from Bar Harbor, so if you Fred Scheithe: “My wife Jeanne and I and Ryan, and two daughter-in-laws. I walked with was Elaine McFarland and Linda Crane is no longer with us.14 years and am a former probation officer are traveling the state, give me a call to have been retired from teaching middle spend summers working my small Bill Shailer: “I moved to Korea in May Johnson ’49 who attended her 65th What lives on is her resounding career 1988and social worker at the Dartmouth, hook up! See you in 2017 for the Class school for the past five years and are landscaping company, kayaking, hiking to reside in Seoul permanently with my reunion in 2014. Although they weren’t guidance to me, “focus and excel in oneMassachusetts House of Corrections. of 1967s 50th!” enjoying our new life together. I am and cycling. Winter leads me into skiing second wife, a native of Bucheon. I began in my class, it was fun spontaneously area of specialization.” From 1987, Mark Henschke, D.O., Pharm.D., wasI was a bachelor until the age of 60 still coaching middle school girls’ at Sunday River. Many days in paradise. teaching English as a second language meeting up with these alumni.” upon opening up Massabesic Health awarded the national “America’s Mostwhen I married. I have remained in 1968 basketball, and this winter will be I am married to Sandra Brown, who is a in 2009 following my retirement from Resources, P. A. in Waterboro, Maine, Compassionate Doctors” award for thecontact with former classmates Tom my 33rd year coaching!” LCSW in the Portland area. I love the architectural model field after a 1985 my niche was to provide geographically- fifth year. Henschke is a board certifiedBrazier-Watson, Jack Deering and Bill Leslie Davis: “After I graduated in getting the UNE newsletter and seeing 31-year career.” accessible, out-patient orthopaedic physician in both internal medicine andF. We have visited every August in 1968, I moved to New Mexico and JoAnn Jastrab Webb: “The big news how St. Francis has grown.” Aerial view of Simone’s current work location physical therapy to the teenage-adult medical management. HenschkeSaratoga, New York, since 1982.” worked as a layout artist for a family- for me is that I became a grandmother 1984 population that was motivated to regain maintains a hospital based practice in owned department store in El Paso, in 2014. My granddaughter, Eleanor M. Ben Hogan: “After 25 years as a Simone L. Palmer, P.T.:“2015!? This and retain optimal wellness. Aquatic York, Maine. He is a clinical assistantRonald A. Caouette: “I am married Texas. I married the next year and Colette Basham, will celebrate her first college and university administrator in Robert L. Boltuch: “I’m in a private year marks my 30th anniversary, physical therapy coupled with manual professor in internal medicine in thewith two grown children and two moved with my husband to Aurora, birthday on June 1. Needless to say, both public and private institutions in practice in family medicine and osteo- graduating from UNE’s College of the therapy, medical exercise training and Osteopathic Medicine program at thegrandchildren. I retired from public Colorado, for his teaching profession. she’s a complete delight, and I’m four different states, I retired in 2006. I pathic manipulative medicine in West Health Sciences with a bachelor’s electrotherapy has melded into a holistic University of New England in Biddeford,education in 1999 and was with the U.S. When we moved to Colorado, I worked relishing every moment with her! I still continue to be as active as I can in a variety Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, degree in physical therapy. I will always approach that accelerates the healing Maine. He is a local, regional and nationalPostal Service from 1999 to 2010.” in the same capacity for a furniture store love small town living in Vermont; of civic and community organizations Florida. I am also on the clinical faculty thank Sue Bemis, director of the program, process and results. In 2001, I relocated speaker on a multitude of medical and in Denver. We had three children after though I must admit, this past winter and commissions.” of NOVA Southwestern College of for accepting my application into the to a warmer climate in the American pharmaceutical related topics. He is a moving back to New Mexico, and we went on much too long!” Osteopathic Medicine. My son, second class of physical therapists on the Caribbean, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, resident of the seacoast and when not lived there until 1995, when we moved 1976 Andrew, is graduating with a D.O. from and became a partner in a beachfront working, he can usually be found to where I am now in Texas. The kids NOVA Southeastern and is starting an hotel, the ideal setting for promotion of surfing off the New England seacoast. are grown and I’m retired. I would LOVE Robin Jane Solvang: “I am a dental orthopedic residency in July at Largo health and wellness. Sand Castle on the to re-connect with some of my class!” hygienist and live in New York City. I Medical Center in Largo, Florida. Beach houses my present-day out-patient have a farm, upstate in the Catskill clinic where I utilize an outdoor solar- Mountains and have been in a family heated pool in addition to the treatment44 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 45

WESTBROOK COLLEGE/WESTBROOK JR. COLLEGE ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE UNE CLASS NOTES1989 Eric Uhrik and his office staff featured in the New 1990 1993 serves the state of Maine to help Kahl Goldfarb PT, DPT, OCS, OMT, chiropractics, acupuncture and massage. I have also co-authored and assisted Jersey monthly magazine, Top Doctor. Left to Back: prevent suicide through awareness CSCS: “I am a board certified orthopedic We emphasize treating professional in chapters of books in the orthopedicMike Dorcik: “I have been chief Erica Dallas, PA, Eric Uhrik, D.O., Namrata Jani, RN Susan P. Raschal: “I was involved in Dianne L. Nelder: “I married Karen and education.” clinical specialist, with a post graduate athletes and focus on helping save and sports performance world andmedical officer at Coastal Family Left to front: Meredith Fink, Jaclyn Fink, Maureen establishing Covenant Allergy & Asthma Krzywda in June of 2013. We love doctoral degree in orthopedics and a careers with a specialization on pitchers have presented on topics such as backHealth Center along the Mississippi Uhrik, RN Care in 2009 after working 11 years traveling the world together. Recent 1997 and 1998 manual therapy residency with spinal (I have treated multiple young, MVP pain vs. pelvic dysfunction, plyometricsGulf Coast for the past year and a half. at Asthma Immunology & Allergy vacations have included Sedona, emphasis. I am also head physical therapist and all-star pitchers who were thought for the elite athlete, injury preventionThis includes 10 clinics serving more Eric Uhrik: “In 2013 and 2014, I was Associates. Shortly after a journey Arizona, with a trip to the Southern Kristin Edgerton ’98 and Joshua for the San Diego Padres (Major League to have career-ending injuries). We and performance enhancement forthan 7,000 patient visits a month in our named one of the ‘Top Docs’ in with breast cancer in 2001, I began Rim of the Grand Canyon, Costa Rica, Graham ’97: “We got married in Baseball) and am an adjunct professor have also treated many high-profile the older athlete, differential diagnosisFederally Qualified Health Center neurology in New Jersey. I am also incorporating prayer into the practice. Ireland and Puerto Rico. I was hired in Connecticut surrounded by family at San Diego State University in the professional football players. of the cervical spine vs. the shoulder,(FQHC).” chairman in neurology at RWJ-Rahway CAAC was established to honor God May 2015 as the director of Head Start and great friends, many who are also Doctor of Physical Therapy Program orthopedic evaluation for nurseRussell A. Schilling: “I am still living Hospital and medical director of the and optimally care for patients with (for Oxford and Franklin counties) and UNE alums!!” (teaching musculoskeletal therapeutics). In 2005, after a four-year doctoral practitioners and running biomechanicsthe dream on the Eastern Shore of Stroke Center at Raritan Bay. My office prayer and state-of-the-art allergy and Children’s Services at Community program, and after passing the national for injury prevention.”Maryland, sailing a lot, and working staff and I are included in this photograph immunology care. We plan to make Concepts, Inc. We live in Lewiston I am in the process of collaborating with orthopedic practical exam, written examalongside my wife Janet in her 1799 along with a write-up, which appeared changes in our practice this year — and love being a part of this growing and assisting UCSD and NASA on a and doctoral dissertation, I received a 2000vintage Bed and Breakfast in St. in the New Jersey monthly magazine possibly expanding and adding a artsy city.” project to decrease the incidence of post-graduate doctoral degree from theMichael. I have been practicing family Top Doctor in November 2014 and the nutritionist, etc. We have also had an spinal disc herniations in astronauts who world-renowned Ola Grimsby Institute. Miklos “Mik” Oyler, M.Ed.: recentlymedicine as a founding member of summer of 2015.” acupuncturist in our practice since 2012. 1995 return back to earth after prolonged I am a doctor of physical therapy, a started as the new director of theRiver Family Physicians in Easton and Our twin sons graduated from high school periods of microgravity in space. board certified orthopedic clinical Wediko Summer Program. Part of ahave been visiting camp in Waterford, in May 2015 and will pursue Asian Studies Annmarie Gallagher: “I am a certified specialist (only 3 percent of physical continuum of mental health andMaine, every summer without fail!” in Ohio and Engineering in Tennessee. registered nurse and am currently I am also the sole owner and CEO of therapists in the country have achieved educational programs offered by Kelly and I will celebrate 22 years of employed at Hematology Oncology Water & Sports Physical Therapy Inc., this specialty), a nationally certified Wediko Children’s Services, the Wediko marriage. I was one of 10 local physicians Associates of Cape Cod in Falmouth, with eight state-of-the-art, fully- strength and conditioning specialist, and Summer Program is a 45-day therapeutic chosen as Doctor of the Day in 2015. Massachusetts.” integrated physical therapy and I attained advanced work as an ortho- residential program serving boys and wellness clinics that incorporate physical paedic manual therapist. I am certified girls with emotional and behavioral 1991 James R. Meikle, M.S.W.: “I am 75- therapy, strength and conditioning, as a selective functional movement difficulties. Mik comes to Wediko with years-old and I retired more than 10 assessment (SFMA) specialist, and I Laura T. Cloukey, D.O. : “I am currently years ago. I have spent most of that specialize in advanced manual therapy employed as an internal medicine time volunteering as either a foster techniques, biomechanical evaluations physician at the Villages Health in grandparent in the local elementary and spinal dysfunctions. I have also Villages, Florida. I was recently named schools or as a hospice volunteer. I taken advanced course work in Dynamic medical director of the Villages Health have just come out of retirement and Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) Pinellas Care Center, managing six have renewed my LMSW license. I will and Postural Respiration Institute (PRI) physicians, one nurse practitioner and be working for the JD Foundation that with an emphasis on athletic performance. more than 30 support staff members.”46 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 47

WESTBROOK COLLEGE/WESTBROOK JR. COLLEGE ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE UNE CLASS NOTESa passion for empowering youth, license. I enjoyed working and gaining Jon M. Duhaime ’09, ’13: “I have gone 2008 and 2011 2011 2013 2015dedication to facilitating healthy staff experience in a busy level I trauma back to school to become a familyculture and a history of strengthening center for several years. There, I met nurse practitioner and will graduate Valerie M. Henault ’08, D.P.T. ’11, and Kellie Ann Goudreau rides horseback in the Sangre Tauhid Bhuiyan: recently presented Barbara Fortier: “I am proud to STAY ON TOPclinical programming. my husband Ronnie in 2012, and we from Regis College in May 2016.” Shawn T. Erikson, D.P.T. ’11: “We were de Cristo Mountains. research, “Efficacy and Safety of announce that I have a new position in OF UNE NEWS were married in Hawaii on February married on a Casco Bay cruise in Octreotide for Management of Post the College of Graduate and Professional2002 12, 2014. Last summer, we moved to 2009 and 2010 Portland, Maine. We met in graduate Kellie Ann Goudreau, PA: “Born and Cardiac Surgery Chylothorax in Studies at UNE: I am the program From Maine to Morocco Texas, and I now work at a pediatric school in the same Physical Therapy raised in the state of Maine, my husband, Children: 11 year Single Center manager for the Science Prerequisites at www.une.edu/newsDavid Tausevich RN, M.S.N., CCRN, hospital in the emergency room. Amy Davis: “Michael Campinell ’10 class at the University of New England. Christopher McCann, and two wonderful Experience,” at the second International for Health Professions, an online and follow UNE onCRNA: “I am a clinical nurse Recently, I adopted my husband’s and I graduated from Vermont Law Luckily, we ended up working together children, Aubrey and Avery, and I now Conference of Saudi Commission for post-baccalaureate program designedanesthetist in the Department of daughter Elyanna, who is 8, and we are School on May 16, 2015. We both at the library for a work-study job, and call Taos, New Mexico, home. After Health Specialties Conference at the to assist students in meeting prerequisite and @unetweetsAnesthesiology & Critical Care at hoping to expand our family soon. We received our Juris Doctor, magna cum while at the library we found ourselves graduating from UNE, we moved to the Burj Rafal Hotel Kimpinski in Riyadh, requirements for professional programsthe University of Massachusetts love living in Texas and all the things laude. Michael received a master’s doing more talking than working or southwest to fulfill a desire to work on Saudi Arabia. within the health fields. I started thisMemorial Medical Center in that we get to do and experience here. degree in environmental law and policy, studying. Fast-forward to 2011 when behalf of underserved communities. new endeavor in May 2015 and amWorcester, Massachusetts.” We are planning on building a house cum laude, and a certificate in land use we both earned our doctorate degrees, We have served on behalf of the Indian Andrew Landis, M.H.A., M.P.H.: has looking forward to the opportunity to next year and settling down in the law, while I received a general practice then joined a travel therapy company. Health Service since graduation, first been appointed to the position of chief make this one of the best science2005 Dallas-Fort Worth area.” program certificate. Michael is sitting for We moved to Texas, New Mexico, then for Northern Navajo Medical Center in financial officer for UCLA Health prerequisite programs in the country.” the New Hampshire and Massachusetts northern and central California. We Shiprock, New Mexico, and now for the System, Department of AnesthesiologyCaroline Bright: “Since 2009, I have 2009 bar exams this month, and I am sitting for decided to make the 3000 mile drive Taos-Picuris Indian Health Center. We and Perioperative Medicine. Landis willbeen developing and running the the VT bar exam. We both served on the up to Alaska without jobs or a place to still own a home in Biddeford, Maine, oversee the financial operations for theHealing Trek program for youth and Steven Boughton: received a $50,000 Undergraduate Student Government live. A week after we got to Anchorage, and will forever call it our ‘home,’ but department with annual revenue infamilies at The Patrick Dempsey grant from the Small Business Association while at UNE and carried our passion for we camped in a state park and for now we are taking in the beauty, excess of $100 million. The DepartmentCenter for Cancer Hope & Healing in (SBA) through its Growth Accelerator student government to VLS where we showered at a gym while job searching. rich and diverse culture and histories of Anesthesiology and PerioperativeLewiston, Maine. This summer, my Fund competition for his company, served on the Student Bar Association A week after that, we both had permanent of the Southwest. Medicine has 225 anesthesiologists,partner Jeff and I are buying our first Great Turning Advisors. The news was all three years. Above is a photo of us jobs. Alaska worked her magic, and including residents, fellows andhome together in North Yarmouth, announced by the SBA at the first White on graduation day.” we’ve been here ever since. researchers, 20 certified registeredMaine. I’m looking forward to our House Demo Day on August 4, 2015. nurse anesthetists and 40 support staff.10-year class reunion this September!”Megan Graichen-Keffer: “Things aregoing well for me and my family. AfterUNE, I moved back to Illinois in 2006to be closer to family, and I furtheredmy education by obtaining my RN48 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 49

IN MEMORIAMIN MEMORIAM1938 1947 1951 1961 1965 1970 2011 FriendsPhyllis Jenness Jackson Eleanor R. Didio Lois (Scott Ambrose) Richard Joan Lescarboura Trischetta John A. Coffin Lawrence P. Abbott Matthew H. LaForest John F. Biter, Sr.Westbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College St. Francis College St. Francis College College of Arts and Sciences St. Francis College Sociology andJuly 3, 2015 July 8, 2015 May 22, 2015 May 26, 2013 April 9, 2006 August 22, 2014 June 19, 2015 Political Science Professor September 6, 20151945 Winifred Ward McCarthy 1955 1963 William F. Maywalt 1972 2015 Westbrook Junior College St. Francis College James DickinsonAvis Bearse Simmons August 30, 2015 Patricia Ann Jordan Mary McNiff Manion October 26, 2010 James Duffy Stephen M. Scrivener President, Westbrook CollegeWestbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College St. Francis College UNE: College of Arts and Sciences June 17, 2015May 16, 2015 1948 May 29, 2015 July 28, 2015 Peter J. Plaszczenski, USAF (Ret) July 18, 2015 December 25, 2014 St. Francis College Pamela Marshall FloodBarbara Sanderson Wells Sally Browne Jones 1960 November 8, 2010 1975 2017 Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences,Westbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College College of Graduate and ProfessionalSeptember 9, 2015 June 6, 2015 Patricia Duffy Ricci 1967 M. Ben Hogan Samuel Henry Pennington Studies Westbrook Junior College St. Francis College UNE: College of Arts and Sciences September 4, 20151946 1949 December 7, 2014 Janet W. Burrus September 25, 2015 August 3, 2015 Westbrook Junior College Louise Bailey HamGeneva Frank Ashworth Norma Smith Beal Penelope Smith Andrea May 23, 2015 1976 Friend/possible bequest to UNE inWestbrook College Westbrook Junior College Westbrook Junior College honor of her daughter Brenda FossAugust 27, 2015 June 19, 2015 DOD unknown Hugh J. Fritz Gay Hadden Watson MacDonald ’80 St. Francis College Westbrook College February 20, 2015 1950 Roger N. Painchaud January 23, 2006 July 20, 2015 St. Francis College Bettsanne Norris Holmes, HON ’02 Janet Powers Murphy February 28, 2013 Deborah Morton Society Inductee ’94 Westbrook Junior College June 8, 2015 June 20, 2015 William B. Jordan, Jr. Westbrook College History Professor July 11, 201550 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 51

IN MEMORIAM: WILMA PARKER REDMANRemembering JAMES DICKINSON BY ANGELA COULOMBE AND JEN PORTO When James F. “Jim” Dickinson took on the on-going passion for this Art Gallery is evident He also worked hard to ensure that the cost of Healy for the many years of devoted service CAPTIONS role of president at Westbrook College in 1970, in the planned gift he bequeathed for art tuition and fees wouldn’t continue to climb as a and inspiration she brought to the Westbrook he brought an energy, optimism and thirst for acquisitions that will continue to grow and result of inflation, helping to secure $70,000 in community. This scholarship will be awarded Left page: James Dickinson addressing alumni at the 2013 positive change that transformed the school, enhance UNE’s existing collections. new scholarship funds for students. annually to one or more outstanding University of Westbrook Junior College Reunion. positioning it for a wealth of success that is still New England undergraduate liberal arts students felt today. His passing on June 17, 2015, saddened Dickinson quickly built a rapport with everyone The admiration and respect he held for students who demonstrate academic achievement, Above top to bottom: Dickinson with students at Westbrook the University of New England community and he came in contact with, cultivating close during his tenure was mutual; this was most exceptional character and financial need. College; Dickinson with Myron Hager, dean of Admissions all who knew him. Dickinson was 96-years-old. friendships with his colleagues, including evident upon his departure from Westbrook for Westbrook College. Westbrook College icons Dorothy M. Healy, College in 1977, when the student body dedicated “Jim was a long and loyal supporter of Westbrook Dickinson’s education began at Colgate HA ’58, and Sean Richard F. Bond, HA ’80. the yearbook to him. “Like the immortal Don College and, subsequently, of UNE. Just before he University. After graduating in 1939, he went He stayed highly involved with the student Quixote, he is the gentle good knight, assuring died, he shared with us that he was tremendously on to earn a master’s degree in french from body throughout his seven years, asking for their us that chivalry is still alive and that caring for impressed with the growth and progress of Middlebury College in 1940 before obtaining input about policies and addressing issues that others is as precious as a smile,” they wrote. UNE,” reflected Bill Chance, vice president his Ph.D. from New York University in 1950. In concerned him. Commonly referred to as “Dr. D,” “Other men dream dreams. He surprises us by of Institutional Advancement. “We will miss addition to serving as Colgate University’s first he took pride in knowing the names of all 500 making the impossible dream possible.” his unwavering support of the University and administrative vice president, he also instructed students on campus. our students, which will continue through his courses in french and spanish there for 14 years This dedication to students stayed with Dickinson generous commitment to scholarships.” before coming to Maine. “His way with people, particularly among throughout his life, and in his estate plans, he hundreds of students… has won for Westbrook contributed gifts for two scholarship funds at Dickinson enjoyed life to its fullest with a smile Upon arriving at Westbrook College, formerly a reputation as a college that cares,” commented UNE. The first gift significantly increased the on his face, a twinkle in his eye and a story known as Westbrook Seminary, Dickinson College Trustee Chairman Carleton G. Lane. Dr. James F. and Catherine Rich Dickinson ready to tell. He touched the hearts of many wasted no time before advancing the College Endowed Scholarship, which is given annually to and was a beloved inspiration to his family and with new initiatives. His first mission involved As the years moved forward, the quality of a returning student who has achieved academic many friends. His legacy lives on at UNE through moving the library into a church at the edge of Westbrook College academic programs continually excellence and whose character and qualities of his generous gifts that will benefit the University campus, and he propelled the fine arts program improved under Dickinson’s leadership. While student leadership reflect an enjoyment of life and its students for years to come. forward with the addition of a new Art Gallery, other colleges faced dwindling enrollment and and people. which continues to bring imaginative and increased debt, Dickinson expanded the College thought-provoking exhibitions to students, at a gradual pace, increasing career education Dickinson’s second gift established the Dorothy faculty, staff and community members. His programs that kept enrollment numbers stable. M. Healy Endowed Scholarship, honoring52 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 53

Community members joined UNE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES faculty, staff and students at UNE’s sixth annual George and Barbara Bush UNE MAGAZINE 55 Distinguished Lecture, presented by Nancy Gibbs, managing editor of TIME magazine, and Michael Duffy, deputy managing editor. The lecture, titled “The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity,” discussed the partnerships and rivalries shared by the last 13 United States presidents. During their presentation, Gibbs and Duffy shared rare photographs of former presidents working together, explaining that the nation’s leaders often solicited advice from one another when faced with difficult issues. Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara were both in attendance, prompting Gibbs to note what a unique and special moment it was to be in the presence of such a prominent figure in America’s history.54 UNE MAGAZINE

BEHIND THE SCENES AT UNEBEHIND THE SCENES AT UNEUNE WELCOMES THREE NEW MEMBERS TO BOARD OF TRUSTEESBY JEN PORTO The University of New England welcomed “I have a great respect for the University of institutions, and to the folks who have University of Maine Law School and has served and time with UNE at a critical time in the three new members to its board of trustees New England from both a personal and academic been instrumental in a positive way to them. as a panelist and speaker at seminars regarding University’s growth and development,” says earlier this year: Mary Herman, Gary Locarno perspective,” says Herman. “As the parent of a Accordingly, when I was asked to serve on the intellectual property and entertainment law, UNE President Danielle Ripich. “I value their and Gloria Pinza. student who graduated from UNE, I know board, I was honored and obligated to do so. I entrepreneurship and multimedia projects. guidance and look forward to working with first-hand that the educational environment is hope my involvement will assist the University’s them as we move forward.” Mary Herman, founder and principal of forward-thinking, innovative and open-minded. administration and president in continuing Pinza commented, “Under the leadership Mary J. Herman Consulting, has worked as a I am deeply honored to serve on the UNE board their successful stewardship and leadership.” of President Ripich, the University of New The full list of University of New England public policy consultant, lobbyist and volunteer of trustees. I applaud President Danielle Ripich’s England has flourished and is now turning board of trustee members is available online at in the health care, social services, non-profit, leadership in educating the next round of health I believe everyone has an obligation heads nationally with some of its programs www.une.edu/president/trustees. education and governmental sectors through- care professionals in Maine.” and approaches. In my work with business all out her career. She has extensive experience as to give back to those institutions, around the state and the region, I know that CAPTIONS a board member for a variety of non-profit George Locarno is the owner of GML Associates, higher education is an extremely important organizations including the Augusta Family a financial trust and estate wealth advisory firm and to the folks who have been issue for Maine and all of New England. UNE is Left page: Mary Herman Violence Project, the Development Committee located in Boston. Prior to establishing his own a great example of providing access and Above: Gloria Pinza of the Maine Women’s Fund and the Maine business, he was employed as a CPA at Deloitte instrumental in a positive way to opportunity to its students, and I am very Children’s Alliance. & Touche, where he led and supervised the excited to have a chance to work with President company’s entire New England tax practice. them [...] I hope my involvement will Ripich and the other board members to help Herman’s demonstrations of exceptional civil UNE continue its mission to provide students and social leadership earned her a Deborah Locarno graduated from UNE precursor St. assist the University’s administration with the best possible learning experience.” Morton Award from UNE in 1999, the Liz Francis College and went on to pursue his J.D. Crandall Spirit Award from the Maine Women’s from New England Law. His wife, Jayne Enos, is and president in continuing their Pinza is a current board member of Maine & Lobby in 2014, and last year she received the a vice president at IDG Investment Corporation Company and has been listed in The Best Merle Nelson Women Making a Difference in Framingham, Massachusetts. successful stewardship and Lawyers of America for Intellectual Property Award from the Maine Centers for Women, Law from 2007–2015. She received a B.A. from Work and Community (WWC). She holds a “UNE provided me with an opportunity to enjoy leadership.  — George Locarno the University of California, Los Angeles, and nursing degree from the University of Maine long-lasting friendships, memorable experiences a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Augusta and is married to Maine Senator and and an education that matriculated to other Gloria Pinza is an intellectual property attorney former Maine Governor Angus S. King, Jr. studies and my career,” said Locarno. “I believe and the managing partner of Pierce Atwood LLP. “These highly accomplished individuals have everyone has an obligation to give back to those Prior to joining Pierce Atwood, Pinza spent six generously agreed to share their expertise years as a partner at Weissman Wolff, a California entertainment firm that she co-founded in 1987. She is a former adjunct professor at the56 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 57

UNE PORTRAITUNE PORTRAITERIC CRESSEY: KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARKBY JEN PORTO “Anything for UNE!” — That was the enthusiastic at college, I learned about nutrition and started routes you can pursue in the exercise science served as strong referral sources for us. Business response from Eric Cressey, a 2003 graduate from healing, and that’s when I developed a passion field, this was an important realization; I nar- has mostly grown from word-of-mouth.” UNE’s Exercise Science and Sports and Fitness for this field. I still had the entrepreneurial rowed my options prior to graduate school, Management programs*, when asked to be spirit and interest in business, but I thought it where I realized coaching was for me.” And it certainly has grown. He established interviewed for a portrait. would be better to be at home in Maine.” Cressey Sports Performance (cresseysportsper- Consumed by an intense desire to learn as much formance.com) in 2007 at a location in Hudson, There certainly is no shortage of enthusiasm Turning his sights to schools in Maine, UNE’s as he could about the strength and conditioning Massachusetts. Today, 85 percent of his clients relaxing as he sits; instead, he’s busy penning when it comes to Cressey. Since graduating, beautiful coastal location and flexible programs industry, Cressey spent a great deal of time are baseball players, including members from books, articles and speeches about a variety of he’s been busy funneling all of his energy into ultimately caught his interest. “UNE offered an speaking with faculty members who nurtured all 30 Major League Baseball organizations who health topics. He currently has five published building his business, Cressey Sports Performance, Exercise Science curriculum as well as a Sports his passion, challenging him to think outside the travel to train with him during the off-season. books, four DVD sets that have been sold globally from the ground up. With a laundry list of and Fitness Management program, and the box, participate in independent studies and to In 2014, his business expanded when he opened and has written more than 500 articles, appearing accomplishments under his belt, including versatility allowed me to attack things from two never settle. “The biggest things I took away a second location in Jupiter, Florida. But Cressey in national outlets such as Men’s Health, ESPN being a published author, setting powerlifting different angles,” Cressey recalled. from UNE were the ability to be challenged, the hasn’t limited his skill to just baseball players — and Triathlete Magazine, to name a few. records and training major league baseball ability to learn and the importance of getting he trains a diverse demographic of individuals, players, Cressey clearly took his education at While Cressey’s classes at UNE provided him outside of your comfort zone,” he explained. from youth athletes, to Olympians, to It’s been a jam-packed 12 years for Cressey, and UNE and ran with it — literally. with an educational foundation, he credits the 80-year-old adults. he’s showing no signs of slowing down any time faculty members he learned from and the Fueled by this, Cressey went on to graduate soon. Thanks to this UNE graduate’s bounty of Based on his credentials, some might think internship experiences he held for helping school at the University of Connecticut where Never one to sit on the sidelines, Cressey also energy and an endless thirst for learning, the that a career in sports performance was always shape his direction. While attending UNE, he he began working with athletes and conducting practices what he preaches to his clients in the future is looking mighty bright for Eric Cressey part of Cressey’s plan. In actuality, a series of spent several years working at a local gym in research. After earning a master’s degree in gym as a competitive powerlifter. He is consistent and the clients he serves. unfortunate events served as the catalyst for his Kennebunk, gaining hands-on experience in a kinesiology with a concentration in exercise in his abilities, ranked among the Powerlifting career path. Although he aimed to pursue an fitness environment. He also completed an science, he started building his professional USA Top 100, holding state, national and world * UNE now offers majors in Sports and Recreation entrepreneurial path since high school, he was internship at a health care facility in Southern reputation by working with young baseball records. His level of fitness allows him to work Management, and Applied Exercise Science. recruited to play college soccer at a school in Maine where he realized that clinical exercise players. As his clients experienced exceptional out alongside his athletes, pushing their limits Boston where he intended to major in accounting. physiology was not the route he wanted to results, people began to take note of Cressey’s skill. without compromising their health in the process. CAPTIONS However, those plans were derailed after Cressey pursue. “In addition to acquiring a ton of useful “Many of them went on to play division-one fell victim to health problems that led to his new skills, I also realized that internships can baseball, and I started getting phone calls,” Cressey Although he is known for being an active Left page: Eric Cressey poses inside Cressey hospitalization. “I wasn’t in a position to play help you to determine what you don’t want to explained. “High school players went to college, individual, Cressey does find time to sit down Sports Performance. soccer anymore,” he recalled. “In my first year do,” he reflected. “Given that there are several then they eventually became pros, and they occasionally. Of course, he isn’t kicking back and Above: Cressey works one-on-one with an athletic client.58 UNE MAGAZINE UNE MAGAZINE 59