Celebrating are (from left, front row) Will White, Fred Sanchez, Devon Cyr, Bobby Syvanthong, Rosevelt Smith Jr. Some of his colleagues were questioned about the tournament funds, which proved embarrassing to him, he said Members of the University of Maine at Fort Kent men’s basketball team pose with a young fan after a win against the Machias Clippers at the UMFK Sport Center on Friday, Feb. The current UMFK budget does not provide funding for athletes to attend playoff games, although he suspects that will change, Bird said.

But the decision came too late to save the final basketball game. īird filed a grievance with the Universities of Maine Professional Staff Association branch of the Maine Education Association - a union for university staff - over the incident and said he was ultimately provided clearance to travel without the booster shot. “There was actually a mother that was flying in from California to see her son’s last game but had to cancel the trip and obviously didn’t see the game because we didn’t go.”. “Because she wanted to hold a personal grudge and prove a point, she took it out on the students, which is so wrong,” Bird said. Hedeen not only prevented him from traveling to Fisher College in Boston to coach the game, which was the last-ever college basketball game for three senior student athletes, but also refused to allow another coach to take his place at the match-up, Bird said. He worked with Sims Metal Management UK Limited as the Managing Director from 1995 to 2009.“I was being coerced into getting the booster shot by the president among others at the University or threatened that I would not be traveling,” Bird said. From 2010 to 2016, Tom was the Managing Director of Van Dalen UK Limited and Mettalis Recycling Limited. From 2016 to 2017, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Metal Recycling. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Company.

He also completed the Senior Executive Finance Programme in Templeton College Oxford University. Tom obtained a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Business Administration in Plymouth University. He has more than 35 years of extensive experience in the field of metal recycling and will help the Company to unify its activities serving customers to become more circular and sustainable in their supply. William Thomas Bird (“Tom”) is the President of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the only global recycling industry federation, and a trusted expert for global trading of recycled raw materials, and connecting world markets.

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