Brunswick, MAINE – During a visit to bluShift Aerospace in Brunswick today, Governor Janet Mills highlighted the importance of the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan’s investment in innovation to spur economic growth as Maine recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNE recognizes achievements of four Maine women with Deborah Morton Awards
The University of New England is pleased to announce the four newest members of the Deborah Morton Society. The award recognizes Maine women distinguished by their careers and public service, or whose leadership in civic, cultural, or social causes has been exceptional.
The 2020-2021 awardees are Linda Cross Godfrey, president of Atlantic Leadership Center; Nancy Grant, advancement officer of Portland Trails; Susan Hammond, executive director of Four Directions Development Corporation; and Janet Mills, governor of Maine.
The award celebrates the memory of UNE’s own distinguished Deborah Morton of Round Pond, Maine, valedictorian of the Class of 1879 of Westbrook Seminary, the forerunner of Westbrook College, which merged with the University of New England in 1996. After graduating, Morton served as a longtime faculty member at the seminary as a teacher, lecturer, reformer, and advocate for equal rights o
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HASLETT – On March 16, 1962, 93 U.S. Army soldiers and 11 crew members aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 went missing over the Pacific Ocean during the early years of the Vietnam War.
What happened to Flight 739 and its exact mission are still unknown and that uncertainty has barred the men from recognition on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
But 59 years after Flight 739 disappeared, a granite monument erected on balsam fir tip land in Columbia Falls, Maine, gave them overdue recognition.
Sgt. Melvin Lewis Hatt, an Army Ranger from Lansing, was among the soldiers on the flight. His daughter, Donna Ellis Cornell, drove from Haslett to Columbia Falls at the invitation of Wreaths Across America for the May 15 unveiling.
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