'Press Herald' announces Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as UNE’s commencement speaker

On May 8, 2015, the Portland Press Herald announced that Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, will give the keynote address at UNE’s commencement ceremony at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Saturday, May 16, at 10 a.m.

The granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, as noted in the article, "has been active in the fields of philanthropy, public policy, politics, the arts and higher education."

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