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2001
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COLUMBIA FALLS NATIVE ACCEPTED
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ANTIOCH NEW ENGLAND GRADUATE SCHOOL
Marilyn Ortega to Graduate in
May from UMM
Marilyn Ortega’s long-range goal is to establish
a professional career in multicultural counseling. The first
step will be completed in May when the Washington
County native graduates from UMM with a bachelor
of arts degree in behavioral science.
In the fall, Ortega will be off to Keene, New
Hampshire where she has been accepted at Antioch New England
Graduate School. The next course of studies
for the 23-year-old who graduated from Narraguagus High School
in 1996 will be in the field of clinical psychology.
Her foundation for the graduate school program was established firmly at
UMM where Ortega selected the psychology concentration, one of three options
for
students enrolled in the behavioral science
major. The others are human services and
behavioral physiology.
Ortega enrolled at UMM as a full-time student
in the fall of 1997 after a year out of the classroom. She has
been a dean’s list student several times during
her undergraduate career. This month, she enrolled in
ART 214, Life is Art, an intensive overseas
study of the cultural heritage of Italy.
Dr. Cindy J. Speaker, associate professor of
psychology, has been Ortega’s adviser at UMM.
Marilyn is the daughter of Mary and Bonifacio
Ortega of Columbia Falls. Her only sibling, an older brother,
Guy, is enrolled in cosmetology studies in Bangor.
The UMM student lives at home on the Tibbettstown Road,
an area of Columbia Falls near the center of
the Maine wild blueberry industry. Formative experiences in the
summer have included a lot of interaction with
Latino and Native American cultures represented by families
engaged in the harvest, she said.
The behavioral science major at UMM is designed
to develop a critical understanding of human beings,
their institutions and the subcultures in which
they live. The major includes coursework from the fields of
anthropology, biology, history, philosophy,
psychology and sociology, as well as in instruction in statistics
and research methods to help the student master
the experimental methods used in the
behavioral sciences.
For more information about the behavioral science
major and other foundation courses of study for
future careers,
contact UMM, 9 O’Brien Ave., Machias 04654 or
call the admissions office at (888) 468-6866 or 255-1318.
The UMM Web site may be visited at www.umm.maine.edu.
UMM TO HOLD ANNUAL SENIOR BANQUET ON MAY 11
Dorothy A. Johnson, President of the University of Maine at Machias Alumni Association is pleased to announce that the annual Senior Banquet will be held in Kilburn Commons, on Friday, May 11, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. President John H. Joseph will welcome seniors and their guests to a President’s reception at 6:00 p.m. in Portside.
The guest speaker for the evening will be Dennis H. Brown, a 1981 graduate of the University of Maine at Machias and current President/CEO of Calais Federal Savings and Loan Association. Brown graduated from UMM with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and is a graduate of the Northern New England School of Banking.
Professionally, Brown has served as Vice President of the Sun Belt Federal Savings Bank in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; an Investigations Specialist with the Resolution Trust Corporation/FDIC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a Supervisory Analyst with the Office of Thrift Supervision in Dallas, Texas; and as the Executive Vice President for the Calais Federal Savings and Loan Association in Calais.
As a volunteer, Brown has served as a Calais City Councilor; is currently the chairman of the Calais Regional Chamber of Commerce; and is a past president of the Calais Lions Club. He also serves as a member of the Washington County Technical College Advisory Board and is a Trustee of the Calais Regional Hospital.
The Senior Banquet is sponsored by the UMM Alumni
Association and is to honor all graduating seniors. Family, friends, alumni,
faculty and staff are also invited to attend the Senior Banquet. For more
information or to reserve tickets, please contact Barbie Holmes at 255-1312.
90TH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT PREPARATION
AT UMM
Graduating Seniors to Receive
Degrees May 12 at Reynolds Athletic Center
The 90th annual commencement at UMM will be
held at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 12, in the Reynolds Athletic
Center. The commencement speaker will be Roger
Director. Director is an author, television writer and
producer. Director has twice been nominated
for Emmy Awards as a writer and producer for such television
shows as "Hill Street Blues" and "Moonlighting".
He has also been co-executive producer/writer on the
television series "Mad About You," starring
Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt, and the HBO half-hour comedy
"Arliss". He is the author of the novel
"A Place to Fall," published by Villard (1996) and has recently
completed his second novel, "The Crackerjack."
Director is a 1971 graduate of Haverford College
and received his M.A. in English Literature from
Columbia University in 1973.
A reception will conclude the event and will
be held in the lobby of the Center for Lifelong Learning and
adjacent lawn areas.
Events leading up to commencement festivities will be held as follows:
Friday, May 11:
Marching rehearsal for graduating students, 3 p.m., Reynolds Center.
Reception, 6 p.m., Portside, Kimball Hall.
Senior Banquet, 7 p.m., Kilburn Commons. The banquet is sponsored by the UMM Alumni Association.Saturday, May 12:
Brunch, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Kilburn Commons. Open to seniors and families, faculty and staff.
Graduation lineup, 1 p.m., Torrey Hall. Graduating students will march across the campus to the commencement in Reynolds Athletic Center.
WAYNE MARTIN PUPPETS
Wayne Martin Puppets delighted children and adults
in the last
Stagefront: The Arts Downeast Performance at
UMM
SENIOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS SHOW ANNOUNCED
The Grand Opening of the Senior Visual and Performing
Arts Show will be on Friday, May 4, 2001 at the
UMM Art Galleries and in selected performance
areas. The Visual Art Show will open in the Galleries at
6:00 p.m. and the Performances will take place
at 7:00 p.m..
For more information contact Bernie Vinzani
at 255-1279.
SPRING CONCERTS SCHEDULED
The UMM Music Department, under the direction
of Gene Nichols, will be offering three spring concerts;
all are at 7:00 p.m. in the PAC.
Optional donations in lieu of admission fees
will be accepted.
Monday, April 30, the Chamber Ensemble and Town Band will perform.
Tuesday, May 1, the UMM/Community Chorale will
sing John Stainer's The Crucifixion,
plus other selections. Jane Hinson is the Chorale
accompanist.
Wednesday, May 2 showcases the Pop Band, which
this semester features the
Parker family--Jeanne, John and Ian--and the
Intermedia Improvisation Group,
a cornerstone of UMM's Interdisciplinary Fine
Artsdegree program.
For more information contact Nichols at 255-1229.
RELAY FOR LIFE
The Unobskey School is hosting a team for the
annual Relay for Life for the Cancer fund. We would
like to extend the invitation to any within
the UMM community to come and join us on May 18-19.
The event is an 18 hour relay on the campus
of WCTC. Some of us will be camping out, while others
will be part of the opening event and then walk
their required half an hour and go home.
This event is in it's 3rd year and is great
fun for all involved. There is free food and entertainment all
night and each team member gets a t-shirt.
Each team has a theme and dresses up and decorates their
camp-site with the theme in mind.
Our theme is:
Peace, Love and a Cure for Cancer.
Costumes will involve tie-dyed, flowers, bell-bottom
pants etc.
There are ways to participate beyond joining
us as a team member.
You can:
1. Donate money directly to any team-member or to me.
2. Buy a candle in Honor of someone who has survived Cancer or in Memory of someone who has died from cancer. These are $5.00.
3 . Buy ticket for $1.00 on a queen size quilt we are raffling off.
POET-BLUESMAN DICK LOURIE IN MACHIAS MAY 2
Poetry and blues meet at the crossroads May 2
in a Machias performance by Somerville, Massachusetts,
poet and blues musician Dick Lourie.
Lourie is the author of three volumes of poetry,
including in 1998 "Ghost Radio," now in its fourth printing.
Last year he released a CD, "Ghost Radio Blues,"
that turns his poems into collaborations with an
assortment of skilled blues band musicians.
On the recording, Lourie speaks the poems himself and
contributes tenor saxophone solos.
Appearing Wednesday, May 2, at 6 p.m. in Portside,
Kimball Hall, UMM, Lourie will perform as a solo
artist, using instrumental tracks from his CD
as he speaks the poems live and plays the sax. Of a recent
solo appearance in New York City, Poetry Project
director Ed Friedman said, "On a cold January night at
the Project, Dick Lourie rocked and charmed.
His honking and smooth rhythm-and-blues tenor sax provided
a perfect counterpoint to the astute and sweet
remembrances in
his poems - a terrific evening."
Lourie is a founding and continuing editor of
Hanging Loose literary magazine, now in its thirty-fourth year,
and of Hanging Loose Press, soon to publish
its hundredth title. His verse has appeared in such magazines
as Chicago Review, Sun, Exquisite Corpse, Massachusetts
Review, and Ms. His poem "Forgiving Our Fathers"
was read as the moving climax to the popular
independent film "Smoke Signals."
The late Denise Levertov wrote of Dick Lourie's
poetry: "[It] has never failed to give me a keen sense of his
integrity and individuality. His sturdy syllabic
prosody provides a natural framework for his quintessentially
American themes..." Novelist Alison Lurie has
observed that Lourie's poems "are like sudden, dramatic
snapshots of true feeling and memory"
Notwithstanding the central role of words and
writing in his life, Lourie is also an active musician. He plays
tenor sax with three small Boston-area bands:
the Blue Suede Boppers (1950s rock and roll); the G-Clefs
(five-part doo-wop); and Six of One (blues,
R&B, soul, funk). Lourie also performs regularly with
Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers, a nationally-known
blues band. Members of these groups can
be heard on "Ghost Radio Blues."
Dick Lourie's appearance at UMM is sponsored
by Araby, the English Club.
Admission to the May 2 performance is free to
the public.
Direct any questions about the Lourie visit
to Professor Gerard NeCastro at telephone 255-1293.
From Wayne Lobley
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