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ThursdayMay 9, 2013 |
Trustee Chair Emeritus E. Robert Kinney ’39, corporate and civic leader with ‘good, gutsy Maine business sense,’ dies at 96Kinney was a model corporate leader, a former CEO of General Mills who “always ready with a helping hand.” |
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TuesdayDecember 2, 2008 |
Robert Kinney '39 awarded Mays Medal at Benjamin Bates Society meetingE. Robert Kinney ’39, LL.D. ’85, has been awarded Bates’ highest alumni honor, the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, for distinguished service to the College and to the larger community worldwide. Kinney, a former CEO of General Mills, received the honor from the Alumni Council Nov. 8 in Minneapolis, at the third gathering of the Benjamin Bates Society, philanthropists who have given $1 million or more in lifetime gifts to the College. |