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The
Best Auction Evah!!! Guest Auctioneer
- Governor Angus King
It is a great honor to have former Maine
Governor, Angus King
as our Guest Auctioneer for The BEST
Auction EVAH 2007!!!
Angus S. King, Jr. served two terms as
an Independent Governor of Maine from
1995 to 2003. After leaving office, he
became a distinguished lecturer at
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and
annually teaches a semester-long
undergraduate course on leadership. He
also became employed at a law firm and a
consulting firm in Portland, Maine. He
is a graduate of Dartmouth College in
the class of 1966.
While in office, Governor King launched
an initiative to provide laptops for
every public middle school student in
the state of Maine. A first of its kind
in the nation. It met with considerable
resistance due to costs, but was enacted
by the Maine Legislature. On September
5, 2002 the state began the program with
a four-year, $37.2 million contract with
Apple Computer to equip all seventh- and
eighth-grade students and teachers in
the state with laptops. "I think we're
going to demonstrate the power of
one-to-one computer access that's going
to transform education," said Governor
Angus King in a Wired Magazine
interview. "The economic future will
belong to the technologically adept."
While ushering in the program, King
quipped "We've still got fish but we're
heavily into the chips," in reference to
the State of Maine's fishing industry
and the new laptop initiative.
Bowdoin Central School is taking
Governor King's concept one step further
and putting laptops in the hands of 3rd,
4th and 5th graders.
We would like to thank Governor King for
his tremendous support of this worthy
cause!
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Bowdoin Central School Auction
to Benefit the
Laptop Preservation Fund
