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Beginnings and Endings
Why Shoes?
Giving Back
Not so Totally Random
As it relates to us...
100
What year was Harold Alfond born and where?
What is 1914 and Swampscott, MA
100
How did Harold Alfond learn about the shoe factory that was for sale in Norridgewock?
What is from a hitchhiker
100
What sports team do the Alfonds still own part of to this day?
What is Boston Red Sox
100
What was Harold Alfond's wife's name?
What is Bibby
100
What year did the Harold Alfond Forum at UNE first open its doors?
What is 2012
200
What was the name of the first shoe company that Harold worked for?
What is Kesslen Shoe Company in Kennebunk, Maine
200
What was the name of the shoe factory that Harold Alfond bought in 1958?
What is Dexter Shoe
200
Name Harold Alfond's three favorite phrases?
What is "Don't tell me, show me", "Keep it Simple", and If you keep chopping wood, pretty soon there will be a pile"
200
In 1993, at age 79, Alfond sold Dexter Shoe to who?
What is Warren Buffet (for Berkshire Hathaway stock)
200
How many buildings on campus bear the Harold Alfond name?
What is 2
300
How many siblings did Harold Alfond have?
What is 5
300
What did the Dexter Shoe Stores look like?
What is a Log Cabin
300
What two areas did the Alfond's focus on with their giving?
What is health care and education
300
What is the capital of the US State Missouri
What is Jefferson City
300
What is the name of the road that the Forum is on according to the street sign?
What is Nor'easter Way
400
What day and year did Harold Alfond die?
What is November 16, 2007
400
What did Harold Alfond sell in order to come up with the money to buy Norrwock Shoe (his first shoe factory)
What is his car?
400
As a condition of the Alfond's giving, who did they require facilities be shared with?
What is the community at large as well as students, faculty and staff
400
What is the heaviest internal organ in the human body?
What is the liver
400
How many Varsity Sports teams play on surfaces inside the Forum?
What is 5
500
When did Harold Alfond declare he would retire?
What is "10 years after I'm dead"
500
At it's peak, how many pairs of shoes did Dexter Shoe manufacture in a day?
What is 36,000
500
What did Harold Alfond credit much of his success to?
What is the lessons learned from sports during his youth
500
While the recipient of 5 honorary degrees, Harold Alfond never attended what?
What is college?
500
How many miles of pipe are coiled inside the rinks cement floor to keep the ice frozen?
What is 12 miles