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FARMINGTON - Three straight days of rain ended Saturday morning, just before the University of Maine at Farmington's 153rd commencement ceremony began inside the spacious Health and Fitness Center.Outside in the parking lot behind the UMF Olsen Student Center, a crew dried off, folded and stacked hundreds of brown chairs. Of the 463-member graduating class, the chairs were for the 403 who marched in the ceremony, and their entourage of friends and family, professors and officials.
The huge class of graduates was the largest in 15 years, spokeswoman Jennifer Eriksen said on Wednesday in Farmington.See the full content of this document
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Largest Class in 15 Years
During Saturday's welcome speech and presidential address, university President Theodora Kalikow said, "It is exciting to be unleashing so many well-prepared UMF...
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