Husson College now a university

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Publication: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME

Date: 2008-10-13 00:00:00

BANGOR - A 90-year-old local businessman who went from peddling trinkets on horseback as a child to owning a successful insurance agency took part in a ceremony Saturday afternoon that officially transformed Husson College into Husson University.

Woodrow Cross, founder of the insurance agency that bears his name, graduated from the Maine School of Commerce in 1938. The school was renamed Husson College in 1947 and moved from Park Street in downtown Bangor to its current location in 1969.

"Husson has meant a great deal to the Cross Agency," ...

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