Kali Lightfoot

Rachel Morin and Cindy Boyd led the Lewiston-Auburn Senior College members on a June excursion trip to the Colby Museum of Art in Waterville. The museum has acquired a superb private collection donated by Peter and Paula Lunder of Waterville, totaling over 500 pieces. In order to house this collection, the museum undertook extensive renovations and also built on an addition making it the largest museum in the State of Maine! Judging from the responses received everyone was impressed with the museum and felt it was a cultural gem for the State of Maine and our vacationing visitors.

Fifty members of SSC convened at Kilburn Commonson at the UMM campus for luncheon and their annual meeting on June 21st, celebrating 12 years of success, attesting to the mission of SSC:  to provide intellectual stimulation, practical knowledge, social interaction and fun to people ages 50 and up.

Our agenda included election of five board members as three board members leave and are replaced and two return to the board.

Outgoing Treasurer, Margaret Gardner displaying the framed
Sunrise print she received as a gift.

Outgoing Larry Finnegan (Membership and Enrollment), Margaret Gardner (longtime Treasurer), and Joan Miller (Chair of the Special Programs Committee) received gifts, of framed photos of sunrises in Washington County, courtesy of Hoz Hosley, a local photographer and member of SSC.

 All nominees were approved and are now members of the board.  Anne Archie, a retired forest service, wild life biologist and avid birder replaces Joan Miller as Chair of Special Programs Committee.  Margaret James comes from Massachusetts where she owned on-line businesses, will be our secretary.  Jacqueline O'Clair is our new Membership and Enrollment person.  She has recently retired to this area after working as an Information Engineer, designing and developing systems for an insurance agency.  Catherine Prince, another information technologist will be assuming the role of data management for SSC.  She hails from Maryland, originally.  And Marilyn Saffer is elected for her second three year term.  She functions on the Volunteer Committee and the Special Programs Committee. Another big change was that Naida Pennell, our UMM Liaison will no longer serve in that role.  Naida received a gift of fine jewelry for her loyal support of our group over the years.   She will be greatly missed! Amy Lentz, special assistant to the President will be assuming Naida's role.  We appreciate that Amy will add this work to her duties and tasks that she already performs at UMM.

We mourn other losses of long time members, Tracy Smith (one of the original board members), Ozias Bridgman also an early board member and educator), and Gary Haase, a more recent board member and SSC instructor.  In Gary's memory we have a scholarship fund for those who wish to attend SSC but are financially unable to do so. The meeting was interspersed with announcements of winners of various drawings, and ended with Our Board Chair, Gail Peters, commenting, "There have been many changes this year at SSC and at UMM.  Change is never easy, but it is a reminder that we should never take anything for granted.  Just because it was there yesterday is no guarantee for tomorrow without all of us doing our part.  Whenever you have the opportunity, be sure to tell everyone you meet how important the University of Maine at Machias and Sunrise Senior College are to your quality of life.  Just imagine how ordinary life would be without the opportunities afforded by the university and senior college!"

 submitted by -Joan Miller, Sunrise

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