Retired Lt. Gen. Walter F. Ulmer Jr., a Bangor native, has been chosen by Dickinson College and the U.S. Army War College to hold a new joint teaching chair in strategic leadership.

Next summer, Ulmer will begin his term holding the General of the Army Omar M. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership and will have offices at both institutions. Some of Ulmer’s military career includes command of three companies, a cavalry squadron, a separate brigade, an armored division in West Germany and an Army corps. Ulmer also has received awards for service, including the Silver Star and Bronze Star medals.

The Bradley Chair, named in memory of the World War II hero, is a visiting scholar who explores with students and faculty the nature of leadership and how it can be exercised best and most ethically in a world transformed by globalization, technology and cultural change. The chair is intended to enhance the study of leadership and to encourage civilian-military dialogue.

Elna Campbell-Wade has been elected to the board of the Warren Center for Communication and Learning in Bangor.

Campbell-Wade, of Bangor, is a human resources assistant for Maine Public Broadcasting. The Warren Center helps people with hearing and speech problems in Greater Bangor and is the largest hearing and speech center in the state.

Sean O’Brien of Glenburn, a first-year student at the University of Maine, is the 2001 University of Maine chess champion.

Conducted by the UMaine George Cunningham Chess Club, a tournament took place over a four-week period, from Oct. 18 to Nov. 8, in the Memorial Union on the UMaine campus. Twelve participants played a single one-hour round per week.

According to UMaine civil engineering professor Thomas Sandford, chess club adviser, the pairings were done using the Swiss system, in which participants with the same score after a round face off in the next round. This year, three participants finished with identical top scores after the final scheduled round. This forced a playoff in which the finalists played each other in 20-minute rounds to decide the championship.