Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 10 : Fall 2011 | Page 77

Center has worked for 10 years to provide students with
the best in educational experiences and services. The
center brings a wide variety of educational programs
under one roof, giving local residents a chance to prepare
for college, earn their associate’s and bachelor’s degrees,
or take refresher courses. UMPI’s partners at the center
include University College, Northern Maine Community
College, Houlton/Hodgdon Adult Education, Carleton
Project, TRiO Upward Bound, and Maine Educational
Opportunity Center.

UMPI also celebrated its annual Homecoming
activities on Sept. 23-25. The
weekend-long event included the
President’s State of the University
Address; presentations to Leeann
Ward, ’04, as Educator of the Year,
and Dr. Bernard Grenway, ’95, as
recipient of the Distinguished Alumni
Award; an Alumni Brunch where the
classes of 2001, 1986, and 1961 were
honored; and the annual Hall of Fame
dinner where Evan Graves, ’03, Gail
Fitzmaurice, ’85, and Chris Smith,
’83, were inducted. As part of the
festivities, the band Too Far North –
which performed regularly in Presque
Isle from 1994 to 2008 and included
several UMPI alums – reunited to
deliver a Saturday night concert. Band
members included Melissa Hall, Sherri

Calhoun, Kevin Huston, Joel Hall, and Ben Lothrop.

More projects and events for Fall 2011 are
underway now, including Distinguished Lecture Series
visits from Dr. David Hart, Director of the Senator George
J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed
Research, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4, and Bob Crowley,
the former Physics teacher who won the reality TV show
Survivor: Gabon, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10.
To learn more about these and other exciting things
happening at UMPI, visit www.umpi.edu.

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