PAUL F. MACRI ’70

PAUL F. MACRI, an attorney and founding member of the Maine Music Society, died Apr. 9, 2014, at age 65. He received his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law, where he was an editor of the Maine Law Review. After law school he clerked for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. For many years he was a partner in Berman and Simmons in Lewiston, Maine. He was a fellow of the Maine Bar Foundation, the Maine Board of Bar Examiners, the State Court Library Committee, and a trustee of the Androscoggin County Law Library. In 2005 he became only the third Maine lawyer to be inducted into the American Academy of Appellate Attorneys. For a number of years he wrote a legal column for the Sun Journal newspaper. Music was also his passion, and he sang with the Androscoggin Chorale as well as with the a cappella group Top Forty. Survivors include his wife, Joan McKenty Macri; his daughter, Anne Macri ’02; his son; one grandson; his mother and stepfather; two siblings; an aunt; several nieces, including Elena M. Schilder ’07; and a large extended family.