JOHN L. MARTIN

STATE DF MAINE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SPEAKER'S OFFICE
AUGUSTA, MAINE E 04333

January 10, 1978

The University of Maine
at Fort Kent Centennial Committee

Dear Committee Members:

It gives me great pleasure to take this opportunity to offer the University of Maine at Fort Kent and everyone associated with it my sincerest congratulations on this historic occasion.

From modest beginnings as the Madawaska Training School in 1878, to its present status as a University offering five degree granting programs, the University of Maine at Fort Kent has offered a quality education to the young men and women of the St. John Valley.

To us, the University of Maine at Fort Kent is more than a school. It is a center of learning and culture for our people of all ages as it blends the rich traditions and values of our heritage with the best that modern education has to offer. In this sense the University of Maine at Fort Kent is unique both in what it stands for as an institution and what it offers in opportunity to the people of our region and our State.

This is why I am proud of our University and its achievements and why I sincerely believe that what we have to offer here will insure as much progress in the next one hundred years as we have seen in the past century.

With best wishes,

John L. Martin
Speaker of the House

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