Governor announces UMS nominees

    AUGUSTA — Governor John E. Baldacci recently announced nominations to the Boards of Trustees of the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System.
    Paul Mitchell and Victoria Murphy are being nominated for reappointment to the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. The governor is nominating Samuel Collins, Michelle Hood and Benjamin Goodman to the University for new appointments to the System’s Board of Trustees.     Collins is a resident of Caribou and has worked at S.W. Collins Company for 29 years. He serves as a director of the University of Maine Presque Isle Foundation, MMG Insurance Company and the Aroostook Federal Savings & Loan Association. He also served as co-chair of the Regional School Committee for school consolidation from 2007-09 and is a past Caribou School Board chair. Collins is a graduate of Saint Lawrence University.
    To the Maine Community College System Board of Trustees, Gov. Baldacci is nominating for reappointment Robert Clark, Dennis King and Cynthia Phinney. He is also nominating to the Board of Trustees Kenneth Hoeflick and Christopher McCormick.
    Clark of Fort Fairfield has served as executive director of the Northern Maine Development Commission for the past 20 years. He also has served in municipal government for the city of Caribou and the town of Fort Fairfield and one term on the Maine Community College System Board of Trustees. Clark is a graduate of Northern Maine Community College and Husson.