Um Benefactor Warmly Recalls Growing Up in Farmington

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Anne and Dick Collins love their native Maine - she grew up in Farmington and he's from Aroostook County - and that's part of the reason they pledged $6 million to their alma mater at UMO this week.

"Maine grounds you. It grounds you for whatever you want to do with your life. It's just stayed with us no matter where we've been in the world," Anne said in a telephone interview from their summer home in the coastal community of Northport late Thursday night.

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Um Benefactor Warmly Recalls Growing Up in Farmington

She and her husband had just returned there from the ceremony announcing the gift to create the Richard R. and Anne A. Collins Center for the Arts at the Orono campus.

Anne was born in Belfast, but most of h...

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