Bangor Plastic & Hand Surgery, a cosmetic and reconstructive surgery practice, has hired Stephanie Dow as a certified medical assistant. She has seven years of experience in the medical industry and graduated magna cum laude from Beal College with Associate of Science degrees in medical administrative assisting and medical office management.

P. Andrews Nixon has retired as chairman and chief executive officer of Dead River Co. He joined Dead River in 1970, when its fuel oil business was limited to Washington and Aroostook counties and the company was managing a range of businesses from pulpwood harvesting to factory-built housing. In 1973, when Nixon became Dead River’s president, the company focused its operations on petroleum and forest products, which the company later evolved into its current properties division. The petroleum side of the business expanded to Waterville, Bangor, Rumford and Manchester, N.H. The company launched a Portland-based pilot program in 1981 and opened a cash-on-delivery operation in southern Maine’s major markets. Soon after, Dead River opened nine new offices in Bangor, Waterville, Augusta, Lewiston-Auburn, Brunswick, Biddeford, and Portsmouth and Nashua, N.H., on the same day. Today, Dead River operates in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Nixon will spend a portion of his retirement years on the Maine Board of Environmental Protection. In January 2007, Robert A. Moore was elected by the company’s board of directors as Dead River’s president and chief operating officer and reported to Nixon until his retirement. Moore is now the president and chief executive officer of Dead River’s petroleum and properties divisions.

University of Maine economist Jonathan Rubin has been selected for a leadership position in a national research committee that provides scientific and technological expertise to the worldwide transportation industry. Rubin, a professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Center and UMaine School of Economics, will chair the Committee on Transportation Energy of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies for a three-year term. A division of the National Research Council, the board is a private, nonprofit institution that provides expertise in science and technology to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. Its mission is to be a resource for transportation interests in modes that include highway, marine, rail, freight, aviation and public transportation.

Ralph Ferland, president and chief executive officer of EMMC Federal Credit Union in Bangor, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of Tricorp Federal Credit Union in Westbrook. Formed in 1975, Tricorp FCU provides financial and investment products and services to credit unions nationwide.