Bangor High School (Bangor, Maine)
Encyclopedia
Bangor High School, a member of the Bangor School System, is a high school
in Bangor, Maine
. It has an enrollment of over 1400 students in grades 9-12.
In 2001-2002, BHS was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
. Its steel-framed
, yellow-brick replacement was built in 1913 on Harlow Street, just across from its earlier location, from designs by the Boston architects Peabody and Stearns
, who also designed the Bangor Public Library
next door. The high school moved into its present building on outer Broadway, designed by Bangor architect Eaton Tarbell, in the late 1960s.
, boys indoor track, boys swimming
and diving
, girls swimming and diving, and boys outdoor track. Fall sports at Bangor include football
(varsity, freshman), cheerleading
(V, JV), soccer (V, JV, F), field hockey
(V, JV), cross country
, and golf
. Winter sports include basketball (V, JV, F), pickleball (intramural), cheerleading (V, JV) , volleyball
(intramural), ice hockey
(V, JV), indoor track, swimming and diving, and skiing
. Spring sports include baseball, (State Champions 2006) (V, JV), softball
(V, JV, F), outdoor track, and tennis
.
. The Bangor High School newspaper was recognized in 2006 by Governor John Baldacci
. Bangor's math team is the largest in the country, with about 150 students participating on six different teams. Its top team, Bangor Red does very well; it has won the Eastern Maine Math League year-long competition annually since 1995. The Bangor math team has also won seven state championships (1995–1999, 2009-2010). Bangor also has a JETS team, which placed 2nd nationally in its division in 2005. Bangor's JROTC is not only one of the oldest in the nation, but is still exceptional today. It is known to sweep competitions held in the spring. Other clubs at Bangor High School include Amnesty International
, AIDS Committee, Art Club, Gay-Straight Alliance
, Shakespeare
Club, Chess
Team, Spanish
Club, French
Club, Latin
Club, Chorus
, Band
, Orchestra
, Fiddlers, Chamber Choir, Jazz
Choir, Yearbook
, Newspaper
(The RamPage), Mosaic (Literary magazine
), Academic Decathlon, Science Bowl
, Envirothon, S.E.E.D, A.F.S., Key Club
, Book Club, Bridge
Club, Student Congress
, Boys/Girls Dirigo State, Student Council
, Civil Rights Team, and QCC.
held concerts there while the University of Maine
's Collins Center for the Arts was being renovated. Graduation exercises for Beal College
also use the Peakes Auditorium.
The school year
runs from September to June. School days are 8:00 to 2:00. The day is split up into sixteen 'mods', or 20 minute blocks of time. There are five minutes between each class. Each class takes up 2 mods. Lab sciences take up 3 mods 2, 3, or 5 days a week, depending on the difficulty of the class.
The Maine Learning Result assessments were replaced by Bangor 'OnTrack' assessments, which appear as an endorsement on a student's transcript.
Although Bangor takes students from communities lacking a high school, about 2/3 of the students come from Bangor's two public middle schools: the William S. Cohen School and the James F. Doughty School, each of which enroll approximately 500 students.
, the goalie was identified as being a Bangor High student.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...
. It has an enrollment of over 1400 students in grades 9-12.
In 2001-2002, BHS was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
History
In 1911, the large wooden Bangor High building in Abbott Square burned down in the Great Fire of 1911Great Fire of 1911
The Great Fire of 1911 took place in Bangor, Maine. A small fire that started in a Downtown shed went out of control and destroyed hundreds of commercial and residential buildings.-History:It started in the afternoon of April 30, 1911 on Broad Street...
. Its steel-framed
Steel frame
Steel frame usually refers to a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal -beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame...
, yellow-brick replacement was built in 1913 on Harlow Street, just across from its earlier location, from designs by the Boston architects Peabody and Stearns
Peabody and Stearns
Peabody & Stearns was a premier architectural firm in the Eastern United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm consisted of Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns, Jr...
, who also designed the Bangor Public Library
Bangor Public Library
The Bangor Public Library is the public library serving Bangor, Maine. The library was first founded in 1830 as the Bangor Mechanic Association's private library. In 1873, several other associations' libraries combined with it to form the Bangor Mechanic Association Public Library. In 1883, former...
next door. The high school moved into its present building on outer Broadway, designed by Bangor architect Eaton Tarbell, in the late 1960s.
Sports
Bangor High School is known for its athletic teams. In 2009, The Varsity Football Team went 11-1 and the Rams won the Eastern Maine Championship. In 2007, Bangor High School earned state championships (Class A) in boys soccer, boys basketballBasketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, boys indoor track, boys swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
and diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, girls swimming and diving, and boys outdoor track. Fall sports at Bangor include football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
(varsity, freshman), cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
(V, JV), soccer (V, JV, F), field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
(V, JV), cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, and golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
. Winter sports include basketball (V, JV, F), pickleball (intramural), cheerleading (V, JV) , volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
(intramural), ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
(V, JV), indoor track, swimming and diving, and skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
. Spring sports include baseball, (State Champions 2006) (V, JV), softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
(V, JV, F), outdoor track, and tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
.
Activities
Bangor High offers a variety of activities. The speech and debate teams win various competitions across the state during the year and send students to nationals annually. Bangor has a large number of juniors and seniors in its chapter of the National Honor SocietyNational Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
. The Bangor High School newspaper was recognized in 2006 by Governor John Baldacci
John Baldacci
John Elias Baldacci is an American politician who served as the 73rd Governor of the U.S. state of Maine from 2003 until 2011. A Democrat, he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003....
. Bangor's math team is the largest in the country, with about 150 students participating on six different teams. Its top team, Bangor Red does very well; it has won the Eastern Maine Math League year-long competition annually since 1995. The Bangor math team has also won seven state championships (1995–1999, 2009-2010). Bangor also has a JETS team, which placed 2nd nationally in its division in 2005. Bangor's JROTC is not only one of the oldest in the nation, but is still exceptional today. It is known to sweep competitions held in the spring. Other clubs at Bangor High School include Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
, AIDS Committee, Art Club, Gay-Straight Alliance
Gay-straight alliance
Gay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...
, Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
Club, Chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Team, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
Club, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
Club, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
Club, Chorus
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
, Band
School band
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...
, Orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
, Fiddlers, Chamber Choir, Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
Choir, Yearbook
Yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
, Newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
(The RamPage), Mosaic (Literary magazine
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
), Academic Decathlon, Science Bowl
Science Bowl
Science Bowl is a high school and middle school academic competition, similar to Quiz Bowl, held in the United States. Two teams of four students each compete to answer various science-related questions. In order to determine which student has the right to answer the question, a buzzer system is...
, Envirothon, S.E.E.D, A.F.S., Key Club
Key Club
Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
, Book Club, Bridge
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
Club, Student Congress
Student Congress
Congressional Debate is a form of high school debate in the United States and Pakistan. The National Forensic League , National Catholic Forensic League , many national debate tournaments, State Forensic Associations, and the IEEE Pakistan Student Congress all offer Congressional Debate as an event...
, Boys/Girls Dirigo State, Student Council
Student council
Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
, Civil Rights Team, and QCC.
Miscellaneous
Peakes Auditorium is used by many groups around the city and state. Most notably, the Bangor Symphony OrchestraBangor Symphony Orchestra
The Bangor Symphony Orchestra is the oldest continually-operating community orchestra in the United States. It was founded in 1896 by Abbie N. Garland and Horace M. Pullen, its first director, and has not missed a season since....
held concerts there while the University of Maine
University of Maine
The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...
's Collins Center for the Arts was being renovated. Graduation exercises for Beal College
Beal College
Beal College is a small college located in Bangor, Maine, USA. Founded in 1891, the College was originally named Bangor Business College but was later named after its primary founder, Mary Beal. It was first located in downtown Bangor, before later moving to a larger facility in 1972...
also use the Peakes Auditorium.
The school year
Academic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
runs from September to June. School days are 8:00 to 2:00. The day is split up into sixteen 'mods', or 20 minute blocks of time. There are five minutes between each class. Each class takes up 2 mods. Lab sciences take up 3 mods 2, 3, or 5 days a week, depending on the difficulty of the class.
The Maine Learning Result assessments were replaced by Bangor 'OnTrack' assessments, which appear as an endorsement on a student's transcript.
Although Bangor takes students from communities lacking a high school, about 2/3 of the students come from Bangor's two public middle schools: the William S. Cohen School and the James F. Doughty School, each of which enroll approximately 500 students.
Bangor High in pop culture
In the 1994 Disney film D2: The Mighty DucksD2: The Mighty Ducks
D2: The Mighty Ducks is the second film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy and the first theatrical sequel to The Mighty Ducks. It was produced by Avnet–Kerner Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and it was originally released on March 25, 1994...
, the goalie was identified as being a Bangor High student.
Notable alumni
- John F. AppletonJohn F. AppletonJohn Francis Appleton was a lawyer and Union colonel in the American Civil War from the state of Maine who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers.-Early life:...
(Civil WarAmerican Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
general) - Taber D. Bailey (President of the Maine SenateMaine SenateThe Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than...
) - John BaldacciJohn BaldacciJohn Elias Baldacci is an American politician who served as the 73rd Governor of the U.S. state of Maine from 2003 until 2011. A Democrat, he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003....
(Governor of MaineGovernor of MaineThe governor of Maine is the chief executive of the State of Maine. Before Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts and the governor of Massachusetts was chief executive....
) - Charlotte Blake BrownCharlotte Blake BrownCharlotte Blake Brown was one of the first female doctors to practice on the West Coast of the United States, and a co-founder of the San Francisco Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses. Born in Philadelphia, both her parents were from Brewer, Maine, and Charlotte was subsequently...
(early female physician) - Gene CarterGene CarterGene Carter is a United States federal judge.Born in Milbridge, Maine, Carter received a B.A. from the University of Maine in 1958 and an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1961. He was a law clerk to the Hon. J...
(Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial CourtMaine Supreme Judicial CourtThe Maine Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in Maine's judicial system. Known as the Law Court when sitting as an appellate court, it is composed of seven justices, who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Maine Senate...
; U.S. District Court Judge) - William S. Cohen (U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defence under President ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
) - Lennie P. Copeland (early female mathematics professor)
- Marcus DavisMarcus DavisMarcus Paul Davis , is an Irish-American mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a welterweight. He was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 2 on Spike TV. He holds notable wins over Chris Lytle, Paul Taylor, Jonathan Goulet, and Shonie Carter.-Boxing career:Marcus began boxing at 14...
(mixed martial artist) - William Hammatt DavisWilliam Hammatt DavisWilliam Hammatt Davis was the Chairman of the War Labor Board in the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt, where his job was keeping industrial peace between management and labor. He was also appointed US Economic Stabilizer in the last months of World War II, though Roosevelt's...
(Chairman of National War Labor BoardNational War Labor BoardThe National War Labor Board was a federal agency created in April 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson. It was composed of twelve representatives from business and labor, and co-chaired by Former President William Howard Taft. Its purpose was to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers in...
under President Roosevelt) - Henry Payson DowstHenry Payson DowstHenry Payson Dowst was an American novelist and short-story writer active in the early twentieth century. Born on December 15, 1876 in Bangor, Maine and educated at Bangor High School, Dowst was a graduate of the Harvard class of 1899, and lived briefly in Calais, Maine before becoming General...
(short story writer) - Fannie Pearson Hardy EckstormFannie Pearson Hardy EckstormFannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm was an American writer, ornithologist and folklorist. She was born on June 18, 1865 in Brewer, Maine, and attended Bangor High School and Smith College. She died in Brewer on December 31, 1946. She was the daughter on Manly Hardy, a noted fur trader.-References:...
(non-fiction writer) - Bettina GortonBettina GortonBettina Gorton, Lady Gorton was the American-born wife of John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia 1968-71.Bettina Edith Brown was born in Bangor, Maine, USA, in about 1915. Her father Arthur A. Brown was the president of an American bank in Cuba. He died when she was two years old and her...
(First Lady of AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) - Hannibal E. Hamlin (Maine Attorney General, President of the Maine SenateMaine SenateThe Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than...
, son of Vice President HamlinHannibal HamlinHannibal Hamlin was the 15th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War...
) - Robert N. Haskell (Governor of Maine)
- Earle M. Hillman (President of the Maine SenateMaine SenateThe Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than...
) - Carl Frederick HoldenCarl Frederick HoldenCarl Frederick Holden was an officer of the United States Navy who retired with the rank of Vice Admiral.Born in Bangor, Maine, Holden graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1917. He saw service in World War I on destroyers based in Queenstown, Ireland. Lieutenant Commander...
(U.S. Navy admiral) - Blanche Willis HowardBlanche Willis HowardBlanche Willis Howard was a best-selling American novelist who lived most of her productive years in southern Germany. Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, and a graduate of Bangor High School, her family were among the earliest settlers of that community...
(novelist) - Matt KinneyMatt KinneyMatthew John Kinney is an American professional baseball pitcher in the San Francisco Giants organization. He spent with the Saitama Seibu Lions of Japan's Pacific League. Kinney is a graduate of Bangor High School....
(Major League BaseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
player) - Wayne MaunderWayne MaunderWayne E. Maunder is a retired actor, originally from Canada, who starred in three American television series between 1967 and 1974.-Three television series:...
(television actor) - John R. McKernan (Governor of MaineGovernor of MaineThe governor of Maine is the chief executive of the State of Maine. Before Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts and the governor of Massachusetts was chief executive....
) - Mary McSkimmon (President of the National Education AssociationNational Education AssociationThe National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...
) - Hiram Francis Mills (engineer, and founder of the Lawrence Experiment StationLawrence Experiment StationThe Lawrence Experiment Station, now known as the Senator William X. Wall Experiment Station, was the world's first trial station for drinking water purification and sewage treatment...
, where drinking water was first purified) - Mameve MedwedMameve MedwedMameve Medwed is an American novelist. Born in Bangor, Maine, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her books include How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Host Family, and Of Men and Their Mothers....
(novelist) - Edward P. Murray (Associate Justice of Maine Supreme Judicial CourtMaine Supreme Judicial CourtThe Maine Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in Maine's judicial system. Known as the Law Court when sitting as an appellate court, it is composed of seven justices, who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Maine Senate...
) - David Richard PorterDavid Richard PorterDavid Richard Porter was a major figure in the Young Men's Christian Association during the height of the organization's popularity and influence on American high school and college campuses...
(Maine's first Rhodes Scholar) - Jonathan "Gabby" Price (head college football coach)
- Abraham M. Rudman (Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial CourtMaine Supreme Judicial CourtThe Maine Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in Maine's judicial system. Known as the Law Court when sitting as an appellate court, it is composed of seven justices, who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Maine Senate...
) - P. David Searles (Deputy Director of the Peace CorpsPeace CorpsThe Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
and Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
) - Mark Shedd (School Superintendent of Philadelphia; Connecticut Commissioner of Education)
- Gerald TalbotGerald TalbotGerald E. Talbot is a former state legislator in Maine. In 1972, Talbot became the first African American member of the Maine House of Representatives when he was elected to represent part of Portland, Maine as a Democrat. He was a member of the legislature until 1978. In 1980, Governor Joseph...
(Maine's first African American state legislator) - Dwinel F. Thompson (professor of descriptive geometry, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteStephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
) - Walter F. UlmerWalter F. Ulmer-Military career:Born in Bangor, Maine, Walter Ulmer graduated from West Point in the Class of 1952. Commissioned a second lieutenant of Armor, he commanded companies in the 56th Amphibious Tank and Tractor Battalion in Korea, the 6th Tank Battalion, 24th Infantry Division in Japan, and the 325th...
(Lt. Gen.) (Commandant of Cadets at West Point) - Artemus E. WeatherbeeArtemus E. WeatherbeeArtemus E. Weatherbee is a former American Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the Asian Development Bank with the rank of Ambassador.Weatherbee was born in Bangor, Maine and attended Bangor High School...
, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Director of the Asian Development BankAsian Development BankThe Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
with rank of ambassador - Charles Huntington WhitmanCharles Huntington WhitmanCharles Huntington Whitman was the Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers University for 26 years and a noted scholar of Edmund Spenser and early English verse....
(professor of English literatureEnglish literatureEnglish literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
at Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
) - Donald Norton YatesDonald Norton YatesDonald Norton Yates was the US Army Air Force officer who helped select June 6, 1944 as the date for D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, in his capacity as chief meteorologist on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff...
(U.S. Air Force general) - Elmer P. YatesElmer P. YatesElmer P. Yates was a Major General in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who saw service in the Vietnam War. He was the younger brother of Air Force Lt. General Donald Norton Yates....
(U.S. Army general) - Edwin Young, dean at the University of Wisconsin and President of the University of MaineUniversity of MaineThe University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...