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Log inNOTABLE DEATHS OF 2007: Harold Alfond, whose legacy lives on
NOTABLE DEATHS OF 2007: Harold Alfond, whose legacy lives on
by Outspoken on Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:34 am
NOTABLE DEATHS OF 2007: Harold Alfond, whose legacy lives on with gifts
Others who died this year: Civic leader 'P.D.' Merrill, musician Bill Chinnock and state Rep. Abigail Holman.
By GLENN ADAMS
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA — Maine lost a generous patron whose gifts touched thousands of lives across the state when shoe business founder Harold Alfond died Nov. 16.
His foundation had given more than $100 million to charitable causes including the University of Maine, college and community athletic centers, and a cancer treatment center in Augusta.
Less than a month after Alfond's death at age 93, his foundation was still giving, offering every child born in Maine a $500 college-savings nest egg.
The philanthropist is notable on the list of Mainers and others who had close association with the state who died in 2007. Among some of the others:
-- Maine Lighthouse Museum founder Kenneth Black, known as "Mr. Lighthouse" to enthusiasts, died Jan. 28 in Rockport at age 82. Black was widely credited with being one of the founders of the lighthouse preservation movement in the U.S. while he was serving in the Coast Guard.
-- Phyllis Ames Cox, the 93-year-old widow of Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor fired by President Nixon for refusing to curtail his Watergate investigation, died Feb. 6 at her South Brooksville home.
-- Businessman and civic leader Paul D. "P.D." Merrill, 62, longtime trustee of the University of New England who in 1982 developed one of the only privately owned cargo terminals on the East Coast, died Feb. 11 after suffering a heart attack. Merrill lived in Yarmouth.
-- Jim Veno, one of the great golfers in Maine history, died Feb. 21 from a heart attack in Portland. Veno, who was 64, was one of only four golfers to have won both the Maine Amateur and the Maine Open golf tournaments, and was the only one to have won the Maine Amateur, the Maine Open and the Maine schoolboy title in the same year, 1962.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=159254&ac=PHnws
Others who died this year: Civic leader 'P.D.' Merrill, musician Bill Chinnock and state Rep. Abigail Holman.
By GLENN ADAMS
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA — Maine lost a generous patron whose gifts touched thousands of lives across the state when shoe business founder Harold Alfond died Nov. 16.
His foundation had given more than $100 million to charitable causes including the University of Maine, college and community athletic centers, and a cancer treatment center in Augusta.
Less than a month after Alfond's death at age 93, his foundation was still giving, offering every child born in Maine a $500 college-savings nest egg.
The philanthropist is notable on the list of Mainers and others who had close association with the state who died in 2007. Among some of the others:
-- Maine Lighthouse Museum founder Kenneth Black, known as "Mr. Lighthouse" to enthusiasts, died Jan. 28 in Rockport at age 82. Black was widely credited with being one of the founders of the lighthouse preservation movement in the U.S. while he was serving in the Coast Guard.
-- Phyllis Ames Cox, the 93-year-old widow of Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor fired by President Nixon for refusing to curtail his Watergate investigation, died Feb. 6 at her South Brooksville home.
-- Businessman and civic leader Paul D. "P.D." Merrill, 62, longtime trustee of the University of New England who in 1982 developed one of the only privately owned cargo terminals on the East Coast, died Feb. 11 after suffering a heart attack. Merrill lived in Yarmouth.
-- Jim Veno, one of the great golfers in Maine history, died Feb. 21 from a heart attack in Portland. Veno, who was 64, was one of only four golfers to have won both the Maine Amateur and the Maine Open golf tournaments, and was the only one to have won the Maine Amateur, the Maine Open and the Maine schoolboy title in the same year, 1962.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=159254&ac=PHnws
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