Kenneth Philbrick HAYES
Obituary

From: www.umass.edu/ umassmag/ archives/ 2001/ spring2001/ inmemoriamb.html

Kenneth Hayes ’69G, 65, a longtime University of Maine professor who also was active in Democratic politics died Tuesday. Kenneth Hayes, who lived in Veazie, left teaching in 1996 after suffering a heart attack. He had also been battling cancer. Hayes taught political science at the Orono campus for more than 30 years and was the author of three books on Maine politics. In the political sphere, he served a term in the State Senate and ran for Congress in 1988 in an unsuccessful bid to unseat one of his former students, Republican Olympia Snowe. Snowe, now in the U.S. Senate, said Hayes will be sorely missed. Another of his ex-students, Democratic U.S. Rep. John Baldacci, remembered Hayes as a professor, a mentor, a colleague, and a friend. A North Yarmouth native, Hayes received his bachelors' degree at Orono before earning a master's from Yale and a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was chairman of the Political Science Department from 1990 to 1994, was on the Faculty Senate from 1989 to 1992 and served a term as president of the University System faculty union. He was also active in the community, serving as chairman of the Veazie Town Council.

(Lewiston Sun-Journal 5/ 17/ 00)



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