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2015 Alumni Association Honorees
The UMFK Alumni Association honored three individuals who have made an impact on the campus and in their community at the annual Alumni and Friends Banquet on September 19.
Allen Craft, Class of 1980
Allen Craft received the 2015 Outstanding Alumnus honor based upon his extraordinary academic and extracurricular contribu- tions while an undergraduate student at UMFK and for his years of commitment and contributions to our country. The association also recognized his many personal and professional achievements.
This year’s recipient graduated from UMFK, summa cum laude, with a bach- elor of university studies degree in 1980. After working a year in the ‘real world’;
to earn his way, he continued his studies at the University of Georgia, graduating in 1983 with his master of arts in the area of urban and economic geography.
After Georgia, Craft joined the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst, cover- ing a range of accounts in the Middle East, Africa, and beyond from 1983 to 1994. During this time, his only custom- ers were the President and the cabinet secretaries. His expertise and experience led him to become a manager in 1994, which he did until his first of many field assignments in 1998.
Thereafter, he served on every conti- nent, except Antarctica, filling positions in CIA headquarters as well as foreign and domestic posts. For example, from 1998 to 2001, he worked in East Asia, reporting directly as adviser to the U.S. ambassa- dor in the region’s most critical financial capital. He returned to Washington
early in September 2001 expecting to
reenter analytic ranks, but 9/11 inter- rupted that path. As the Global War on Terrorism expanded, his duties morphed across all conflict zones from the eastern Mediterranean to South Asia.
From 2005 to 2007, for the first time in his career, he became the chief civil- ian adviser to U.S. military command- ers, initially the commander of the U.S. Transportation Command and his staff directors.
From 2007 to 2009, he was the depu- ty chief of station for analysis and concur- rently the senior U.S. intelligence adviser to the chief of mission, director of USAID, and commander of the International Security Assistance Forces, all of whom focused on the diplomatic and combat fights against global jihad centered in South Asia.
He retired from active service in 2010. In 2011, he answered the call to renew his service; that continues today.
During his career, he received
several medals and awards, includ-
ing fourteen Exceptional Performance Awards; three Meritorious Unit Citations; two Certificates of Merit; two War-
Zone Service Awards; the Intelligence Commendation Medal; the Intelligence Career Medal; and Manager of the Year.
In all his travels, Craft circled the globe more than fifteen times in service to the nation.
Past Outstanding Alumni Recipients
J. Darrell Ouellette Donald Raymond
Daniel Labrie
Col. Ronald A. Berube Donald Levesque
William Wark
Beurmond Banville
Hilda Berube-Leudenburg Claudette O’Connell Burnette Bowker
Patricia Dow
Rev. David Raymond *George Roy, Jr.
Anne Roy
Geraldine Chasse
Dr. William Breton
Dr. Joyce Baker Hedlund Norman Fournier
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