Edmund R. Folsom

Review of The Maine Campus

My wife and I graduated from UMaine, Orono, in 197...

My wife and I graduated from UMaine, Orono, in 1979 and UMaine Law in 1984. As a criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor, I can tell you that some of the best criminal defense lawyers and prosecutors in this State went to UMaine. A number of judges went there, too, including the Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Two of my high school classmates graduated UMaine and are M.D.'s; another is a dentist. My older daughter graduated UMaine in 2013 and is thriving in Chicago. My younger daughter graduates from UMaine this year and will begin veterinary school at Tufts in August. For me, it was a wonderful school where I met lifelong friends and got a fine education. No, I don't suppose it coddles you, and my daughters had a couple of jerk profs along the way, but life does not coddle us, and jerks abound in the world outside academia, so I don't believe those reflections of reality are all bad. College of my heart always...