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DOWNEAST
HERITAGE DAY BRINGS HISTORY ALIVE AT
THE UNIVERSITY
OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
Downeast
Heritage Day held on April 8, 2000 drew more 140 participants to the University
of Maine at Machias including teachers, students, professors, historically-minded
individuals in the community and members of local historical societies.
Dr. Andrew Mullen, assistant professor of education at UMM and project
coordinator, stated the program was designed to explore and
bring the
history of Downeast Maine alive.
The goals
of the program were to showcase exemplary local history projects, to inspire
new projects on local history and foster collaboration among parties with
an interest in
local history.
Participants
from local historical societies and local school children created various
projects
and exhibitions
and the Downeast Heritage Day steering committee presented the
following
awards:
Best Individual Project, Middle School:
Jessica Staggs, Whiting Village School (Pauline Cates, teacher)
Best Individual Project, High School
Sarah Gamertsfelder, Washington Academy (Kathy Grant, teacher)
Best Class
Project, Middle School: Tie:
Linda Renaud
and Stephanie Strongin, Alexander Elementary School
Heather
Erickson, Calais Middle School
Best Class Project, High School:
John Daley's Honors U.S. History, Narraguagus High School
Best Historical Society Exhibit:
Dennys River Historical Society, Ronald Windhorst, President
Best Collaborative
Project:
An exhibit
completed by Mrs. Batson's 3rd Grade, Calais Elementary School,
in conjunction
with Gayle Moholland and Kim Sermersheim of the UMM Calais
Center,
and Calais Senior Citizens
Judges for
the event were Kay Kimball, University of the Maine at Machias;
Carolyn
Johnson, Machiasport Historical Society; John Dudley,
Alexander-Crawford
Historical Society; and Fred Gralenski, Pembroke
Historical
Society.
For more
information about the Downeast Heritage Day please contact, Dr.
Andrew Mullen
at (207) 255-1345.
Jackie Ouellet and Jessie
Roach, from the Honors US History
Class at Narraguagus High
School, show off one of their award-winning
history quilts. The project
was initiated by their teacher, John Daley
FAMILY FUN DAY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
The First Annual Machias
Family Day will be held on Saturday, April 22, form 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the
University of Maine at
Machias. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Family events will include
relay races, an Easter egg hunt, a cakewalk, softball, and much, much,
more.
This will be fun for the
whole family. Sponsored by the Machias Recreation Department,
the University of Maine
at Machias, Professor Annie Stanger's "Programs in Leadership Class",
Sigma Chi Lambda and Epsilon
Sigma Alpha.
Bring your own picnic
lunch and enjoy it by the pond. Come out and have fun at the First
Annual
Machias Family Fun Day
on the grass lawn (across from Merrill Library) and on the soccer field
at the
University of Maine at
Machias.
UNIVERSITY
OF MAINE AT MACHIAS STUDENT RADIO STATION
PROPOSES
EXPANSION
If Approved, WUMM Would
Become 100-Watt Non-Profit Educational Community
Broadcasting Station.
Personnel at WUMM, the
radio voice of the University of Maine at Machias,envision the facility
becoming a self-supporting community radio station designed to meet cultural
and educational needs of the
Machias Bay area.
The UMM President's office
has approved a fund drive to raise $20,000 for engineering and construction
of a 100-watt licensed
facility. WUMM would continue to broadcast from a studio in Kimball Hall
on the Downeast campus, according to WUMM General Manager Reid D. Albee.
Albee, a senior in UMM's
behavioral science external degree program (BEXD), said WUMM Campus Radio
began in the spring of
1997 as a fledgling "leaky cable" broadcast station funded totally by student
activity fees. Telephone
lines feed the station's signal to small transmitters in Dorward and Sennett
residence halls and the
signal also may be picked up across the campus except in Powers Hall. The
signal
also extends in a one-mile
radius to parts of the general community around the
University of Maine at
Machias.
The station broadcasts
on 90.5 FM and 90.7 FM, with the latter presently offering the best off-campus
reception, the manager said.
An expanded 100-watt non-commercial
educational radio station, which would require a license from the
Federal Communications
Commission, would serve as a classroom for university courses, Albee said.
The
station also would offer
news programming, weather information and syndicated programs of interest
to
the academic community,
students and the general public and act as an affiliate for National Public
Radio
and as such, at times,
carry NPR and MPR programming.
Elements of the plan include
integration with UMM's Interdisciplinary Fine Arts degree program, paid
advertising, grant writing
and a fund drive program to cover expansion costs. The fund-raising effort
would
be led by Dr. David Rosen,
chairman of the Arts and Letters Division, and Albee, with any tax-deductible
contributions being accepted by the UMM Development Office.
Principals in the effort
to create a more powerful radio station are the station manager; Chrissy
Henry,
assistant manager; Peder
K. Moe, coordinator of student activities; and Rosen. In addition to the
four,
the Master Plan Committee
includes Eugene C. Nichols, associate professor of music; and Greg R. Henderson,
associate professor of art.
The current mission of
the radio station is to provide information and entertainment over the
FM stereo system and the World Wide Web. The station is available to all
academic disciplines on the UMM campus, and also accepts student DJ's from
Machias Memorial High School, Washington Academy and members of the Machias
area community. The focus, according to Albee, is to become a non-profit
educational broadcasting facility,
with key connections to
the Greater Machias Community.
Albee said the expansion
already has the support of the UMM Student Senate, which pledged $5,000
to
the effort on February
16. In addition, donations totaling $150 have been received from two members
of
the faculty and a student.
Programming is eclectic
in nature, the manager said, and reflects the diverse interests of the
campus community. Currently, WUMM is on the air from 10 a.m. to midnight
weekdays and around the clock on weekends,
he said.
WUMM was designed and
built at an initial cost of $9,000. The station began broadcasting from
its present studio during the spring semester of 1997. Recently a
server was acquired to link the station to the
World Wide Web.
The radio station is always
seeking assistance from college and high school students, as well as volunteers
from the community, Albee
said.
Information about the radio
station is available from the station manager at 255-1371,
the Student Activities
office at 255-1245,
or at the facility's Web
site: http://www.umm.maine.edu/student.center/html/WUMM.htm.
The station has regular
meetings on Wednesday's at 11:30 p.m. at Science 109.
All are invited to attend.
Anyone wishing to contribute to this effort can contact the station manager
SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT TO BE PRESENTED APRIL 27 THROUGH APRIL 30 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
The University of Maine
at Machias Theatre will present Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by
Assistant Professor of
Theatre and Speech, Lee M. Rose on April 27 through April 30.
Performances will be in
the Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday nights,
April 27 and 28.
Matinee performances will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, April 29
and 30.
UMM Theatre's Twelfth Night
will use Shakespeare's original text as it is performed in modern dress
with contemporary music, video and computer technology. The play is about
love and lust, mistaken identity,
and excessive behavior.
This is a Twelfth Night like none you've ever seen, not for the 1990's,
but for the new millennium.
The cast includes, Kenne
Hoffman, George Spelvin, Joe Bennett, Sue Lentovich, Norman Nelson,
Jason Stark, Jessica Beagan,
Graham Foster, Matt Byard, Deb Elz Hammond, Mike Bagley, Barbara Skidgel,
Jamie Elwell, Sara Mara,
Vanessa Reed, and Tami-Lyn Heffner. The production crew is composed
of
students from UMM Theatre's
Play Production class, headed up by Production Stage Manager Vlado Gareski,
and features the Set and
Costume designs of UMM Visual Arts major Amy Smith.
Many of the performers
and production crewmembers are students in the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary
Fine Arts academic program
at the University of Maine at Machias. The program is filled with independent
study possibilities and
is catching the attention of new students. Built around standard general
core courses,
the program ensures that
students have a solid background in reading, writing,
speaking and thinking.
Additional courses in
the Fine Arts core allow students to experience all areas of the arts as
they prepare for
more intensive work in
their chosen field. As a senior project, students might write and produce
a play;
design, write and publish
a book; record a disk of their own music, mount a gallery exhibit of their
art, or
extend their creativity
to the next level.
Dr. David Rosen, chair
of UMM's Division of Arts and Letters, observed that the degree program
provides
"a rich arts program within
a liberal arts framework."
Today the Bachelor of
Arts in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts is a program particularly appealing
to creative
students. The program
is crafted to develop a student's creative side, allowing them to become
good at
what they like best, and
have a world of possibilities when they graduate.
Information about the Bachelor
of Arts in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts may be obtained by calling the
Admissions Office toll
free at 1-888-468-6866 or by visiting UMM's Web site at www.umm.maine.edu.
UMM Theatre and Stage Front,
as part of an ongoing outreach program, will schedule a number of school
matinees at the special price of $2 per student. The school matinees
are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, April 24 and April 25 at 10:00 a.m.
and Wednesday, April 26 at 1:00 p.m. Please call Stage Front at
255-1384 to arrange for
tickets to these special student shows.
Tickets for Twelfth Night
will be available at the door.
Prices are $5 for adults,
$3 for seniors; students; and children.
UNSOLD tickets are always
FREE to UMM students five minutes before curtain.
For more information call
255-1391.
SPRING
WRITERS SERIES CONTINUES AT THE
UNIVERSITY
OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
Thursday, April 20,
2000 6:00 p.m. in the O'Brien House
John Ronan of Gloucester,
Massachussetts
A poet and author of several
collections of poetry, including The Catching Self, and The Curable Corpse.
Monday, April 24,
2000 6:00 p.m. in Portside, Kimball Hall
Robert Froese of Harrington
A novelist and author
of The Hour of Blue.
Tuesday, April 25,
2000 6:00 p.m. in the Clipper Lounge of Sennett Hall
Paul Nelson of Machiasport
An author of several volumes
of poetry, including The Hard Shapes of Paradise, Days Off, and Average
Nights.
A reception will follow
each of the readings.
For more information,
please contact Gerard NeCastro, Assistant Professor of English, at 255-1293.
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