{"id":41687,"date":"2011-04-05T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=41687"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:59","slug":"press-herald-treasure-millett-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/05\/press-herald-treasure-millett-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Herald profiles Maine &#039;treasure&#039; Sawin Millett &#039;59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em> profiles Sawin Millett &#8217;59, the commissioner of the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial   Services. Reporter Susan Cover starts her profile by noting that Millett, a Maine native, is an avid baseball fan who roots for the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Red Sox in the 1946 World Series. &#8220;I was so  impressed with the way Stan Musial not only performed on the field, but  conducted himself,&#8221; Millett tells Cover. &#8220;He was an absolute gentleman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So is Millett, writes Cover, who quotes Maine political leaders from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull_quote\">&#8220;Maine can only be better because of his  involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A career educator and educational administrator, Millett has also long served in the Legislature as a Republican from Waterford. Now, he is &#8220;the public face of [Maine&#8217;s] $6.1 billion, two-year budget,&#8221; Cover writes, &#8220;a  controversial proposal that has angered state workers and teachers  because of proposed pension reforms&#8230;. Through  it all, Millett has remained unflappable as he&#8217;s fielded questions from  lawmakers or taken criticism from affected groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During confirmation hearings, a representative of the Maine Association for Community Service Providers said that &#8220;Sawin is truly a treasure for the state, and we are delighted that he  has this opportunity to continue to contribute. Maine can only be better because of his  involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Millett credits his parents (both Howard&#8217;34 and Marguerite Millett &#8217;36 were Bates graduates) with instilling in him a sense of duty when it comes to public service. &#8220;I took a lot of my career-goal setting from my  dad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanted to get involved in town government. I wanted  to get involved in administration.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/a-maine-treasure-puts-face-on-budget_2011-03-20.html\"> View story from <em>The Portland Press Herald,<\/em> March 24, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Press Herald profiles Sawin Millett &#8217;59, the commissioner of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,30,195,220,11009],"tags":[11051,3906],"class_list":["post-41687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-civic-engagement","category-news-politics","category-service","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41687\/revisions\/93422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}