Honorary Degree
Henry L. P. Schmelzer
President and CEO
Maine Community Foundation

Henry “Hank” Schmelzer, president and chief executive officer of the Maine Community Foundation, and the 2007 Business Leader of the Year, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws during the ceremony.

The Maine Community Foundation is a statewide foundation with assets of more than $200 million. Prior to entering the field of philanthropy, Mr. Schmelzer spent more than 20 years in law and in the financial services industry in Boston. He practiced corporate and securities law, becoming vice president and counsel for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Schmelzer moved from a career in the law to business management in the late 1980s and became president and CEO of New England Securities, a nationwide financial services firm. Mr. Schmelzer completed his financial services career in 1998 as president, CEO and trustee of New England Funds, an $8-billion mutual-fund group.

Mr. Schmelzer is a member of the boards of the Maine Sea Coast Mission, Common Good Ventures, Citizens Funds, and Maine Bank and Trust and is president of Mount Desert Island Historical Society. He is a member of the Maine Compact for Higher Education, a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a member of the Community Foundation Leadership Team, a member of the Public Policy Committee of the Council on Foundations, and a member of the board of advisors of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine, He also serves on Governor John Baldacci’s Commission for a Creative Economy. Earlier this year, Mainebiz selected him as the 2007 Business Leader of the Year.

Mr. Schmelzer was a captain in the United States Army in military intelligence and served in Vietnam. He graduated from the University of Maine and George Washington University Law School. In 1999, he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. In 2003, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of New England.

Honorary Degree
John W. Rowe
Chairman, President and CEO
Exelon Corporation

John W. Rowe is Thomas’ 2007 Commencement speaker. He will also receive an honorary Doctor of Science in Business Administration during the ceremony.

Mr. Rowe is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation—one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, with $15 billion in revenues. Forbes Magazine ranked Exelon as the number-one utility company in the United States for the second straight year in its 2005 list of “The World’s 2000 Leading Companies.” Mr. Rowe has led electric utilities since 1984, consecutively serving as CEO of Central Maine Power Company, the New England Electric System, and Unicom Corporation. He is also a lawyer and was general counsel of the Consolidated Rail Corporation and a partner in the firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale.

Mr. Rowe is a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company. He has previously served on the boards of UnumProvident, Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, Wisconsin Central Transportation Company and MidSouth Corporation. His civic and professional commitments emphasize historical education and diversity, and include serving as chairman of the Chicago Historical Society, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Institute of Technology, chairman of the Mies van der Rohe Society, and vice chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago. He is a member of the Boards of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, the Chicago Urban League, the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Edison Electric Institute, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Chicago Club and the visiting committees of the Oriental Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He has previously been chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, president of the USS Constitution Museum, and chairman of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable.

Mr. Rowe is also a member of the board of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, WiCell Research, and has received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He received the Founder’s Award for Business Leadership from the Union League of Philadelphia in 2005, a Civic Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 2004, the City Club of Chicago’s Citizen of the Year Award in 2002, the Corporate Leadership Award from the Spanish Coalition for Jobs in 2002, and the Anti-Defamation League’s World of Difference Award in 2000.

Mr. Rowe holds a bachelor’s and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin and its law school. He holds honorary doctorates from DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and Bryant College.

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