Starry, starry nights

UMaine Today, March/April 2005

Maynard Jordan believed that the sky’s the limit when it comes to education. The native of Little Cranberry Island started his collegiate teaching career at the University of Maine, his alma mater, in 1917. It lasted nearly four decades. Jordan taught mathematics, which was his area of study, and astronomy, which was his passion. To read more about the planetarium, click here.