LEWISTON — Elizabeth Peavey, a Portland-based writer, performer and educator, and Anne Cardale, program director for the Maine Senior College Network, will be the presenters at the Senior College at University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College Food for Thought luncheon on Friday, Feb. 10. This session, “We Zoom — How About You?” will demonstrate how […]
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Cheever talks archiving Maine records at Food for Thought
LEWISTON — State of Maine Archivist Dave Cheever was the presenter at the Dec. 9 Food for Thought session at the Senior College of University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The title of his presentation was “How 1-01-0 and 2020 Lead to Maine 2.0.” Cheever discussed the numerous challenges faced when being charged with creating systems […]
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USM president to staff, students: ‘We need you’
LEWISTON — One day before Dr. Glenn Cummings will be inaugurated the 13th president of the University of Southern Maine, a major university event with academic regalia, Cummings came to Lewiston to talk about the vital role higher education has for workers. A former state legislator and University of Maine at Augusta president, Cummings’ message […]
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Seniors use Zoom to take courses at Senior College
LEWISTON — Students at the Senior College at University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College are part of a pilot program using Zoom, a videoconferencing application similar to Skype, for the Online Memoir Writing Class, sponsored by the Maine Senior College Network in cooperation with USM in Portland. The students are able to see and hear […]
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Geologist sheds light on ‘Androscoggin esker’
BETHEL — “Earth is a crazy, changing, chaotic place,” environmentalist and teacher Bob Elliott told an audience Thursday night at the McLaughlin Auditorium at Gould Academy. His lecture, courtesy of the Western Mountains Senior College, was on the “whale’s back” gravel ridge, or “ancestral Androscoggin esker” that rises from the ground and trails from Aziscohos […]
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Keynote speaker announced for 14th Amendment forum
AUBURN — Charlie Plummer will serve as keynote speaker in “The Fourteenth Amendment in American Life” public forum series in the Androscoggin Community Room at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St. Plummer is an instructor at the University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn Senior College. On Tuesday, June 7, he will present the “Philosophy of […]
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Lewiston library hosts Franco folk dancing ‘prom’
LEWISTON — The calls were fast, the dancing happy. “Pass your partner, give them a wink!” “To the left, to the left and all the way back! I want them to hear you in Quebec!” With fiddlers, an accordion and Cindy Larock as teacher, caller and spoon player, the Lewiston Public Library on Saturday hosted a […]
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Native Iranian to speak at Senior College luncheon
LEWISTON — Parivash Rohani of Auburn will be the featured speaker at the USM Lewiston-Auburn Senior College “Food for Thought” luncheon, to be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 13. Her topic is “Glimpses of Iran.” She will narrate a Power Point presentation of photos of Iran and Iranian art. The public is cordially […]
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Make ’em laugh: Final exam day at LAC’s Senior College improv comedy class
LEWISTON — They planned a funeral for Aunt Rose. They doled out wisdom. On being a thief, one word offered up at a time: “Theft. Is. A. Very. Rewarding. Endeavor.” And they retold the story of the “Three Little Pigs”: Mary Derosier was an evil Sunday school teacher. Bob Gardner was George Washington. Go. “Once upon […]
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Second season of senior college’s “Brown Bag Series” to kick off Sept. 20
BETHEL — The Western Mountains Senior College is kicking off its second season of the Brown Bag Lunch Series from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, at the Bethel Inn Resort, following a successful inaugural season in April. College President Nancy Davis said that the Brown Bag Series was created in an effort to […]