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For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact the Office of the Dean and Campus Director at 207.255.1210.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the commencement ceremony, two food trucks, East Coast BBQ and Freshies Wood Fired Pizza, will be available on the mall for lunch purchases, along with seating for graduates and their guests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bayleigh Alley of Jonesport, Maine and Gabriel Rocca of New Milford, Connecticut are the 2024 UMaine Machias valedictorian and salutatorian. Alley is an education major concentrating in elementary education with a minor in social studies, and Rocca is an integrative biology major with a minor in botany.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2024 commencement address will be delivered by Kyle Pepperman, a 2009 UMaine Machias marine biology graduate with a minor in chemistry. 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