Senior College Lecture on Maine’s Future

As part of the Second Sunday Lecture series sponsored by USM’s Senior College, historian and political activist Merton Henry will discuss “Whither Maine in the First Decade of the 21st Century?" The lecture will be presented from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Sunday, December 10 in Luther Bonney Auditorium on USM’s Portland campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Henry, former president of the New England Bar Association and the Cumberland Bar Association and co-author of the book “History of Military Mobilization in the U.S. Army, 1775-1945,” will share his perspectives on the political, economic, educational and social climate of Maine in the upcoming decade.

A Maine native and graduate of Bowdoin College and George Washington University Law School, Henry was a founding partner of the Portland law firm Jensen Baird Gardner and Henry. A Republican Party activist since 1947, Henry attended five national conventions. He served as a member and chairman of the Portland School Committee from 1966-69 and was founder and first president of the Maine Association of School Board Attorneys. He was a member and chairman of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees, 1962-87; a member and chairman of the Maine Medical Center Board of Trustees, 1981-97; and has been active in a number of other civic and non-profit organizations. He served as co-chair of the Maine Commission on Governmental Reorganization in 1991 and as a member of the Maine Productivity Realization Task Force in 1995. He is married to the Honorable Harriet Putnam Henry, Maine's first woman judge.

For more information on this Senior College event, call 780-4406.