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Date: 2008-06-09
Creator: Estelle A Lavoie
Access: Open access
Biographial Note
Estelle Lavoie was born in Lewiston, Maine, on November 23, 1949, and grew up there, the youngest of three children. Her father worked as a building contractor until his death in 1964, after which her mother worked part-time as a bank teller. Estelle attended Lewiston public schools and was graduated from Bates College (class of 1971), spending her junior year studying in Switzerland. At the end of 1972, she went to work for Governor Ken Curtis. By September of 1973, she had been hired as part of Senator Ed Muskie’s staff, working first as a caseworker and eventually as his legislative assistant. She attended law school at American University from 1978 to 1981 and transitioned to Senator Mitchell’s staff when he assumed Muskie’s Senate seat. She left Mitchell’s staff in the fall of 1983 and joined the law firm of Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios the following June. Her practice has evolved from health law to other political practice issues. She served on the Democratic State Committee from 1986 to 1990 and was a delegate to the 1988 National Convention.
Summary
Interview includes discussions of: meeting Senator Mitchell; Mitchell’s appointment to the Senate; Indian Land Claims Settlement case and its importance to the State of Maine; other colleagues on the Mitchell staff and their job responsibilities; Mitchell’s retention of Senator Muskie’s staff; leadership styles of Senators Muskie and Mitchell; conceptualizing and forming the George Mitchell Scholarship and Research Institute; and Mitchell’s strengths including: intelligence, compassion, gratitude, modesty, speaking ability, hard work, and dedication.
Date: 2010-03-11
Creator: Andrea C Maker
Access: Open access
Biographial Note
Andrea (Cianchette) Maker was born in 1956 in Waterville, Maine, and grew up in Pittsfield, Maine. She came from a large, politically active family of both Democrats and Republicans. Her family’s construction business, Cianbro, evolved and grew during her childhood. While in college in New Hampshire, Maker interned for Bill Cohen. She attended the University of Maine School of Law for two years, then completed her third year at American University in Washington, D.C. During her third year of law school she worked for Senator Mitchell in the mailroom, drafting responses to atypical letters. After law school, Maker became a lobbyist representing clients in the Maine legislature on a number of issues. At the time of this interview she served on the board of the Susan Curtis Foundation and worked at Martin’s Point Health Care.
Summary
Interview includes discussion of: family and educational background; Pittsfield, Maine; Cianchette Brothers construction company (Cianbro): Chuck, Bud, and Lunk; growing up in Pittsfield; her father’s (Chuck’s) political life and friendship with Mitchell; shadowing Mitchell in 1977; Paula Silsby; law school; working in the mailroom of George Mitchell’s office; Gayle Cory and Christine Williams; an anecdote about having Mitchell over for dinner; Maker’s uncles in politics, Carl, Ival, Peter, Norris and Kenneth Cianchette; interning for Bill Cohen and a comparison between working for Cohen and for Mitchell; working with Susan Collins and Mike Hastings while in Cohen’s office; and Mitchell’s career and legacy.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Xin Jiang
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Date: 1846-01-01
Creator: C.J. Noyes, cartographer
Access: Open access
- Cadastral map, with views of First Parish Church and Bowdoin College Chapel
Date: 1772-01-01
Access: Open access
- Cartouche: ... Plan ... of a Tract about Two Miles Wide Partly in Bowdoinham in the County of Lincoln Belonging to James Bowdoin Esqr... Manuscript map, hand colored; mss. affidavit by Nathaniel Thwing and John Merrill
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Alyssa Nicole Bommer
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
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Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Bridget Marjorie Patterson
Access: Embargoed
Date: 2007-07-01
Creator: Stephen M. Majercik
Access: Open access
- We describe appssat, an anytime probabilistic contingent planner based on zander, a probabilistic contingent planner that operates by converting the planning problem to a stochastic satisfiability (Ssat) problem and solving that problem instead [S.M. Majercik, M.L. Littman, Contingent planning under uncertainty via stochastic satisfiability, Artificial Intelligence 147 (2003) 119-162]. The values of some of the variables in an Ssat instance are probabilistically determined; appssat considers the most likely instantiations of these variables (the most probable situations facing the agent) and attempts to construct an approximation of the optimal plan that succeeds under those circumstances, improving that plan as time permits. Given more time, less likely instantiations/situations are considered and the plan is revised as necessary. In some cases, a plan constructed to address a relatively low percentage of possible situations will succeed for situations not explicitly considered as well, and may return an optimal or near-optimal plan. We describe experimental results showing that appssat can find suboptimal plans in cases in which zander is unable to find the optimal (or any) plan. Although the test problems are small, the anytime quality of appssat means that it has the potential to efficiently derive suboptimal plans in larger, time-critical domains in which zander might not have sufficient time to calculate any plan. We also suggest further work needed to bring appssat closer to attacking real-world problems. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Date: 2008-08-05
Creator: David G Lemoine
Access: Open access
Biographial Note
David George Lemoine was born on May 25, 1957, in Waterville, Maine. His mother, Margaret Marden Lemoine, grew up on a potato farm in Freedom, Maine, and his father, George Macalese Lemoine, was a native of Waterville and a veteran of the Korean War. David grew up in Waterville and was graduated from Waterville High School in 1975. He attended Colby College and earned a degree in government in 1979. He worked as an intern in Senator Muskie’s Washington, D.C. office until Muskie was appointed secretary of state in May of 1980. When George Mitchell was appointed to Muskie’s vacated Senate seat, Lemoine continued as a member of his staff. He worked on the 1982 U.S. Senate reelection campaign, focusing on the Voter Checklist Project in Maine. Later he attended the University of Maine Law School, graduating in 1988. He served three terms in the Maine state legislature representing Old Orchard Beach, and at the time of this interview was in his second term as state treasurer for the state of Maine.
Summary
Interview includes discussion of: Waterville, Maine; Colby College; 1974 Maine gubernatorial campaign; Senator Muskie’s Washington, D.C. office; working as a doorman in the Senate; Mitchell’s Senate appointment; the Voter Checklist Project; 1982 U.S. Senate campaign; Mitchell family gatherings in Waterville; Mitchell’s 1982 stump speech; a story similar to the “cow joke”; the state of Maine’s legislative and governing structure; and World Affairs Council of Maine’s International Leadership Award.