Theo Kalikow has been president of the University of Maine at Farmington since 1994. Before she finally arrived in Maine she was a professor of philosophy and a college administrator in Massachusetts, Colorado and New Hampshire. She loves rowing on Flying Pond in Mount Vernon, gardening, reading and staying in shape for life via sports, yoga and meditation.
She has been inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame and received the Maryann Hartman Award from the University of Maine at Orono and the Deborah Morton Award from the University of New England, all in recognition of her contributions to women's leadership development in Maine and across the country. She is an unrepentant feminist liberal with a strong streak of ornery individualism who has been disappointed in every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy. She hopes this will change before she dies. Recent columns by Theo Kalikow
OPINIONS SPECIAL PROJECTSHENRY DAVID THOREAU
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations. For more, click here.
SPECIAL REPORT: Hunger Series
"For I was hungry," a seven-part editorial series, documents the depth and breadth of hunger in Maine, from the dramatic increase in food pantries to the thousands of children who come to school hungry to the elderly with bare cupboards. For more, click here.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations.
