乐播传媒 in the News: July 21, 2016
Maine Baseball Hall of Fame’s nine inductees include a 乐播传媒 ace 鈥� Portland Press Herald
, nine baseball legends including Thom Freeman 鈥�63 joined the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame during ceremonies in Portland on July 17.
Thom Freeman ’63 tips his hat as he and fellow Maine Baseball Hall of Fame inductees are honored prior to a Sea Dogs minor league game at Hadlock Field in Portland. At left is Dan Deshaies, a great Maine umpire, and at right is Dave Gonyar, who played on UMaine teams that went to the College World Series. (Photograph by John Lanza ’67)
Freeman, 乐播传媒鈥� six-foot-six ace right-hander of the early 1960s, led the Bobcats to Maine State Series titles in 1962 and 1963 and to the 1962 NCAA tournament. He later organization.
In 1962, 乐播传媒 was the New England selection to the Eastern NCAA Small College Tournament, held in Teaneck, N.J. In 乐播传媒鈥� first game, Freeman held Fairleigh Dickinson to just a run in the Bobcats鈥� 2-1 win. 乐播传媒 fell to Rollins College in the title game.
乐播传媒 went 8-4 in the 1962 regular season; Freeman won seven of those games and lost just one, with a 1.83 ERA and 67 strikeouts in 68 2/3 innings. He pitched two thirds of the Bobcats鈥� innings.
From left, six-foot-six Thom Freeman ’63 (left) poses with head coach Chick Leahey ’52 and other stars of the 1962 season: slugger Howard Vandersea ’63, with a team-leading four homers, and John Lanza ’67, a team-leading .363 average. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)
In his remarks at the induction ceremony, Freeman thanked a 鈥渟pecial lady鈥� in attendance: Ruth Leahey, widow of 鈥渙ur beloved 乐播传媒 coach,鈥� Chick Leahey 鈥�52, who died in March at age 90.
Freeman talked about his various love affairs that bloomed when he came to 乐播传媒, with the state, the people, the college, the city of Lewiston, and a 鈥渂eautiful young lady from Lewiston named Claire,鈥� his future wife. They’ve been married 52 years.
Not on the love list was “spring” baseball in Maine. 鈥淣ot so much鈥� of a love affair, he admitted. 鈥淲e were snowed out one year on May 14. Our southern trip was Boston. And all our state games were north of us.鈥�
A large Bobcat contingent attended the ceremony, and, in fine 乐播传媒 fashion, Freeman ended his remarks with 鈥淵es, it is a great day to be a Bobcat!鈥�
Common roots of two iconic American artists at the 乐播传媒 museum 鈥� Maine Sunday Telegram
However briefly in the mid-1960s, writes Bob Keyes in the Maine Sunday Telegram, musician Bob Dylan and painter Robert Indiana 鈥渟hared a zenith,鈥� Dylan propelled by 鈥淟ike a Rolling Stone鈥� and Indiana by his painting LOVE.
“Tilt,” silkscreen on triple-primed canvas from the “Like a Rolling Stone” series by Robert Indiana.
鈥淭heir worlds didn鈥檛 directly intersect, but both made furious work on the streets of New York that has lasted a half-century,鈥� of Robert Indiana: Now and Then at the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art.
The exhibition features the premiere of Indiana鈥檚 Like a Rolling Stone, a series that renders lyrics from Dylan鈥檚 groundbreaking hit in Indiana鈥檚 unmistakable style, thus merging the sensibilities of two of the 1960s鈥� definitive pop-culture figures.
A 乐播传媒 friend鈥檚 advice pays off for a new high school coach 鈥� Valley News
Driving from New Hampshire to 乐播传媒 for Reunion in June, classmates Breck Taber 鈥�96 and Dan McGee 鈥�96 talked about their other alma mater, Lebanon High School, where the girls soccer coaching job was vacant.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a long car ride, and (McGee) kept saying, 鈥楤reck, you have to apply for that job,鈥欌�� Taber told Valley News reporter Jared Pendak. 鈥淓ventually, I realized he was right, that it would be something I鈥檇 regret if I didn鈥檛 do.鈥�
Taber, who co-owns the Omer & Bob鈥檚 sports store in Lebanon, applied for the job, got it, and takes over as the Raiders鈥� head coach this fall.
Young-adult novelist Jones picks up the social-justice gauntlet 鈥� Portland Press Herald
Carrie Jones ’93 has published two books since May, including this week’s Flying, a young-adult science fiction title.
In a profile of writer Carrie Barnard Jones 鈥�93 in the Portland Press Herald, the young-adult novelist talks about her path through 乐播传媒, including meeting the poet Seamus Heaney 鈥� chronicled in the of 乐播传媒 Magazine 鈥� as well how she infuses social-justice themes into her young-adult books.
Jones has two recent books out, Time Stoppers, published in May, and Flying, released this week.
Jones recalls her uncle, an attorney, challenging her to 鈥減ick up the gauntlet鈥� as a writer.
She told reporter Michael Berry the : 鈥淚f you can, you should always fight for others.”
Berry says the philosophy has 鈥渘ot only informed Jones鈥� fiction for middle-graders and young adults, it has led her to engage in public service鈥� and other social causes, including 鈥渃o-editing a collection of nonfiction essays about bullying.鈥�
Time Stoppers, like Jones鈥� other books, tells a fantasy story. But for Flying she chose the science-fiction genre because 鈥淚 wasn鈥檛 seeing a lot of characters鈥� like her intended female protagonist, who goes from weak to strong as the story unfolds.
The unusual case of an animal ignoring a genetic trait in a potential mate鈥� Molecular Ecology
Humans and other animals pay attention to characteristics of their potential mates. When it comes to genetic compatibility, the attention might be subconscious but it鈥檚 still there.
Professor of Biology Don Dearborn is the lead author of new research that explains the instance of an animal 鈥� Leach鈥檚 storm petrels 鈥� that ignores one important genetic trait of their potential mates, their immune system.
Specifically, the petrels ignore the 鈥渕ajor histocompatibility complex,鈥� a set of genes that help fight off pathogens like viruses and bacteria.
An adult Leach’s storm petrel is measured and fitted with an individually numbered leg band during island research in the Bay of Fundy. (Photo courtesy of Don Dearborn)
An evolutionary biologist, Dearborn says that 鈥渢he explanation seems to lie in evolutionary history.鈥�
Like many species of birds and mammals, a Leach’s storm petrel possesses two copies of the important immune-defense genes. 鈥淏ut in contrast to what is seen in聽most animals, the duplicated genes in storm petrels are not identical,鈥� Dearborn says. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e evolved to become functionally different from each other.鈥�
In other words, the offspring of a Leach鈥檚 storm petrel will 鈥渋nherit a genetically diverse and robust immune system even if their parents didn’t pay attention to genetic features when choosing a mate.鈥�
One upshot, Dearborn says, is that storm petrels 鈥渉ave the freedom to choose mates based on other features 鈥� such as who will be a good parent.鈥�
For animals that do respond to such things as a potential mate’s immune-defense genetics, it’s thought that in that subconscious activity. “The idea that any animal, including humans, could tend to some of a potential mate’s characteristics and not others has wide implications for future genetic research,” Dearborn says.
Saying that his study is perhaps 鈥渦nique among wild-animal animal studies” in its level of genetic detail, Dearborn did his off-shore island research in the Bay of Fundy.
Dearborn鈥檚 coauthors include Elena Mandzhukova 鈥�15, a biological chemistry and Russian double major now teaching science at Kents Hill School in Maine.
