Riley honored for lifetime of public service with UMaine Alumni Career Award

Riley honored for lifetime of public service with UMaine Alumni Career Award

ORONO — On Sunday afternoons, Trish Riley would sit at the kitchen table of a University of Maine professor’s home on Chapel Road, drafting recommendations for the campus Commission on the Status of Women. The professor, Connie Carlson, had become more than a teacher. “She was very important to me as a mentor and became a lifelong dear friend,” Riley said. At one early commission meeting, Riley watched as Carlson poured coffee for a room filled …