UMPI Class of 2002 Bachelors in Recreation
Update by Samantha Richard, alumna
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“I have traveled the world and spent 7 years as the head of schools at a private school after teaching at the3 school for 3 years. I took time off from education to work in an acute care psych unit as a supervisor for 4 years before returning to education working for Portland public schools. (Samantha, left, is pictured with her sister and fellow UMPI Alum Sara Richard.) “