One to One Computing
Former Maine Governor Angus S. King, Jr. was born in Alexandria, Virginia. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he received his LLB from the University of Virginia Law School in 1969.
King served as a legislative assistant to Senator William Hathaway before entering into private practice in Brunswick. From there, he became Vice President of the Swift River-Hafslund Company which developed alternative energy (hydro and biomass) projects in New England. He then founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc. which designed, installed, and operated large-scale electrical energy conservation projects at commercial and industrial facilities throughout south-central Maine.
Angus King was elected Governor of the State of Maine as an Independent in 1994, where he served for 8 years. During his tenure as governor, King focused on economic development and job creation, education, mental health services, corrections, land conservation and environmental protection, and improvements in service delivery by state government. As governor, he led the nationally recognized project to provide all Maine middle school students and teachers with laptop computers with a goal of making Maine people the best educated and most digitally literate society on earth.
Since leaving office, King has been employed as a Distinguished Lecturer at Bowdoin College and as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He continues his vocation as a lawyer with Bernstein, Shur of Portland, Maine and also works with Leaders, LLC, a Portland-based mergers and acquisitions firm. He serves on a variety of corporate and non-profit boards, including The Nature Conservancy, The Maine Learning Technology Foundation, Lee Auto Group, W.P. Stewart & Co., and Hancock Lumber/Hancock Land Companies.
One to One computers seems like an impossible dream. But I think that it did in Maine too. Governor King did a nice job of telling not just the things that went well, but the things that didn't quite worked as planned. I think that the biggest benefit was the equalizing effect among students.
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