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University of Maine

ORONO – The University of Maine Army ROTC’s Black Bear Battalion will hold its Spring Commissioning ceremony at 4 p.m. Friday, May 11, at Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall, adjacent to the Maine Center for the Arts.

The ceremony will commission Jacob Flagg of Winterport; Winfield Swanton of Bangor; Heather Adams of Plymouth, Mass.; Christopher Byrnes of Enfield, Conn.; Mark Mancini of Avon, Conn.; and George Ouellette of Clinton into the United States Army as second lieutenants.

Maine Gov. John E. Baldacci and the Maine’s Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. John Libby, will be the distinguished guests at the ceremony.

Cadets will receive the oath of office from current or retired commissioned officers, some of whom are members of the candidates’ own families.

As part of the ceremony, the new second lieutenants will take part in the time-honored tradition of presenting a silver dollar to the first noncommissioned officer who renders them a salute.

The new officers will attend officer basic courses in the upcoming months and return to Maine to serve with the Maine Army National Guard or report to first duty stations in the active duty U.S. Army.