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April 25, 2006, at 4:45 p.m.
Hannaford Lecture Hall
USM Abromson Community Education Center
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George Mitchell was appointed to the United States Senate from Maine in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who had resigned to become Secretary of State. He served in the Senate for 15 years and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.

He also served as chairman of the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland. Under his leadership, the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom and the political parties of Northern Ireland agreed to the historic Good Friday peace accord that ended decades of conflict. Mitchell's leadership earned him worldwide praise, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the U.S. government, and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. In 2000 at the request of President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat, Mitchell served as chairman of an international fact finding committee on violence in the Middle East.

He has served as the Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company since March 2004 and is chairman of the law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP.

The colloquium is sponsored by the L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Endowed Chair in Accounting.

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USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer.

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