I am soooo far behind in writing in my blog. And there is sooooo much to tell. But I wanted to post this newspaper article before the electronic version of it wasn't available anymore. Maggy teaches math education at UMF. She's in my department and is a phenomenal professor who contributes a lot to the community and the state. Her husband is Harry Wyckoff who is the subject of this newspaper article. I went to the Benefit Supper tonight. It's such a Maine thing to do and it's such an awesome thing to do. There were probably 40-50 cars when I got there at 6:30. It was packed inside the Town Office building. People of all ages and a LOT of volunteer firemen were in attendance. I found a table with university folks that I knew and joined them. We had a great time, though there was a somber feeling in the air as well. Harry wasn't there, but I did get to see Maggy. What a strong woman. I think she hugged every person who came.
I had a printout from Google maps with directions but it turns out, I went the wrong way on the very first road. But I still ended up in the right place! If I ever go back to Chesterville, I bet some of the signs that told me which way to go won't even be there. God takes very good of this "flatlander" (another name for 'a person from away' but specifically someone from the other 47 continental states) and He pulled another fast one tonight. On the way home, I figured out what I did wrong, but I still have no idea how I got there in the first place. But Lindsay . . . there were no U-turns!
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Supper to aid ill fireman
By Ann Bryant , Staff Writer
Monday, December 3, 2007
FARMINGTON - Harry Wyckoff has spent more than a quarter century as an active volunteer on the Chesterville Fire Department.
"He's watched others face trials and tribulations and how they handled those," his wife, Maggie, said Friday, "and has realized that it's not what happens to you but how you approach what is happening."
"A positive attitude is a gift," she said, speaking of her 65-year-old husband, who is undergoing cancer treatment and faces surgery in January.
The Chesterville Fire Department will support the fellow firefighter with a benefit spaghetti supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Chesterville Town Office on Dutch Gap Road, said Ed Hastings, a friend and member of the department.
With a magic that draws kids in, Wyckoff said of her husband, he enjoys children and has visited schools teaching youngsters through the Learn Not to Burn program.
The couple wrote and received a grant for funds to purchase a 14-foot fire prevention trailer that is used as part of the presentation, Hastings said.
The trailer, painted to look like a child's bedroom, uses stage smoke to simulate a fire. Wyckoff starts in the classroom, she said, teaching the children to get down and to touch the doors with the back of their hands to check for heat.
Then he takes them out to the trailer where he asks if they have a light on while they sleep. He then adjusts the lighting and starts the smoke, she said. The children can hear the smoke coming before the two smoke alarms. They then drop and crawl out to where there is a fake phone to dial 911. The phone is connected to an acting-dispatcher who asks the same questions they could expect from a real dispatcher: town, name, address and problem.
"It gives the children that edgy feeling of a first-hand experience," she said.
The trailer was used during fire prevention week in October, said Chief David Archer as he named several local schools that were visited this year.
"The trailer's available to other departments to use also," he said. "It's a great educational tool, and if it saves one child, then it's done its job."
Wyckoff has written several grants over the years, Hastings said, the most recent one received, a FEMA grant in 2004, brought several thousand dollars to the department to help purchase fire equipment such as air packs.
It's equipment that brought the department up to OSHA standards, Wyckoff added.
A retired self-employed carpenter, Wyckoff is often around to respond to fire calls, Hastings said. He is important to the fire department, especially so when the town's two fire departments merged in the late 1980s.
A little rivalry between the North Chesterville and Chesterville departments was buried when they built the new firehouse together, Wyckoff said.
"They're a wonderful group of people," she said, "and the department has brought in many young people as junior firefighters. Watching them learn and grow has been very edifying for him. He's a real mentor."
Wyckoff has also served as the department's treasurer for years, said Archer, who called him a good friend and his experience a valuable aid.
The Wyckoffs have two sons, one in Baltimore and one in Cape Cod, she said. She is employed at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Donations will be accepted at the supper, Hastings said, to help with expenses expected when the Wyckoffs travel to Boston in January for the surgery.
Wyckoff was undergoing treatment Friday and was unavailable for comment.
Retrieved Dec. 8, 2007 from http://www.sunjournal.com/story/241372-3/Franklin/Supper_to_aid_ill_fireman/#
As seen in Sun Journal newspaper, Lewiston, Maine
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
11/3/07 Early Bird Sale
I participated in this cultural phenomenon. Details to come!
'Early bird' sales aimed at early holiday shoppers
By BETTY JESPERSEN
Staff writer
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
11/01/2007
A good deal on a good deal. That promise is what brings out shoppers, often clad in pajamas, at 6 a.m. for Reny's annual Early Bird Sale on the first Saturday in November.
The 27-year tradition of giving customers 20 percent off between 6 and 9 a.m. has become the company's biggest sale day of the year, according to Reny's president, John Reny. And fellow merchants have jumped on board.
In Farmington, most downtown merchants will be open at 6 a.m. with special promotions, and many stores will have sales all day, according to the Downtown Farmington Business & Professional Association. The Farmington Reny's logged the fourth-highest Early Bird sales company-wide last year, according to manager Carol Robbins.
"Some people say they don't like to shop the Early Bird because they don't like crowds. But this is not your normal crowd," she said.
"Everyone is in a great mood. The staff loves it because the energy is incredible," she said. "But after three hours, we are exhausted."
Reny's is a chain of discount stores founded in 1949 with stores in Farmington, Madison, Pittsfield, Damariscotta, Bridgton, Gardiner, Dexter, Bath, Camden, Saco, Belfast, Ellsworth and Wells. They carry clothing, electronics, housewares, garden supplies, sheets and towels, and food.
"If you can't find it at Reny's, you don't need it," quips the company's Web site.
Robbins expects to arrive Saturday by 4:30 a.m. By 5, employees will be brewing coffee and setting out doughnuts -- offered free to shoppers. Doors open at 6 sharp.
"The larger stores have big sales on Black Friday -- the Friday after Thanksgiving. Rather than compete with them, this is our way of kicking off the Christmas shopping season," Robbins said.
Jeweler Ron Gelinas, owner of Mainestone Jewelry on Broadway, said hundreds of people are shopping downtown at 6 a.m. "They are having a ball. This is a great tradition."
He is offering a rare sale -- silver jewelry will be 20 percent off all day.
At Mickey's Hallmark, the sale is 30 percent off nearly everything between 6 and 7 a.m., 20 percent off from 7 to 8, and 10 percent off from 8 to 9, said manager Margaret Silkman. And for the first time, there will be 10 percent off Hallmark gift wrap and holiday cards all day.
"It is a lot of fun," she said.
Thousands of discount movie passes to the Narrow Gauge Cinema are sold by 9 a.m. by pajama-and-bathrobe clad theater owner John Moore.
John Reny said that when he thought up the idea 27 years ago to try the sale at the Bath branch, his father, Robert Reny, thought it was crazy to give 20 percent off of everything in the store.
"I told him, how bad can your sales be hurt in three hours?" John Reny said. "Then my father looked around that first day and saw the streets were filled with people.
"This gets us ahead of the big box stores. It helps the local merchants and the customers and it really works for the downtowns. It gives you a little edge and your customers a good deal," he said.
retrieved 11/6/07 from http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4428523.html
'Early bird' sales aimed at early holiday shoppers
By BETTY JESPERSEN
Staff writer
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
11/01/2007
A good deal on a good deal. That promise is what brings out shoppers, often clad in pajamas, at 6 a.m. for Reny's annual Early Bird Sale on the first Saturday in November.
The 27-year tradition of giving customers 20 percent off between 6 and 9 a.m. has become the company's biggest sale day of the year, according to Reny's president, John Reny. And fellow merchants have jumped on board.
In Farmington, most downtown merchants will be open at 6 a.m. with special promotions, and many stores will have sales all day, according to the Downtown Farmington Business & Professional Association. The Farmington Reny's logged the fourth-highest Early Bird sales company-wide last year, according to manager Carol Robbins.
"Some people say they don't like to shop the Early Bird because they don't like crowds. But this is not your normal crowd," she said.
"Everyone is in a great mood. The staff loves it because the energy is incredible," she said. "But after three hours, we are exhausted."
Reny's is a chain of discount stores founded in 1949 with stores in Farmington, Madison, Pittsfield, Damariscotta, Bridgton, Gardiner, Dexter, Bath, Camden, Saco, Belfast, Ellsworth and Wells. They carry clothing, electronics, housewares, garden supplies, sheets and towels, and food.
"If you can't find it at Reny's, you don't need it," quips the company's Web site.
Robbins expects to arrive Saturday by 4:30 a.m. By 5, employees will be brewing coffee and setting out doughnuts -- offered free to shoppers. Doors open at 6 sharp.
"The larger stores have big sales on Black Friday -- the Friday after Thanksgiving. Rather than compete with them, this is our way of kicking off the Christmas shopping season," Robbins said.
Jeweler Ron Gelinas, owner of Mainestone Jewelry on Broadway, said hundreds of people are shopping downtown at 6 a.m. "They are having a ball. This is a great tradition."
He is offering a rare sale -- silver jewelry will be 20 percent off all day.
At Mickey's Hallmark, the sale is 30 percent off nearly everything between 6 and 7 a.m., 20 percent off from 7 to 8, and 10 percent off from 8 to 9, said manager Margaret Silkman. And for the first time, there will be 10 percent off Hallmark gift wrap and holiday cards all day.
"It is a lot of fun," she said.
Thousands of discount movie passes to the Narrow Gauge Cinema are sold by 9 a.m. by pajama-and-bathrobe clad theater owner John Moore.
John Reny said that when he thought up the idea 27 years ago to try the sale at the Bath branch, his father, Robert Reny, thought it was crazy to give 20 percent off of everything in the store.
"I told him, how bad can your sales be hurt in three hours?" John Reny said. "Then my father looked around that first day and saw the streets were filled with people.
"This gets us ahead of the big box stores. It helps the local merchants and the customers and it really works for the downtowns. It gives you a little edge and your customers a good deal," he said.
retrieved 11/6/07 from http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4428523.html
Friday, October 19, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
What a great community
Apparently one of the faculty walked by a local church this afternoon and then came back and sent the email below to all the faculty and staff on campus.
Children from the Farmington Children's School are selling delicious homemade donuts and hot apple cider in front of Old South Church to raise money to buy a guinea pig.
They will be there until about 2:25.
A Satisfied Customer
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Fwd: [staff list] UMF Receives Libra Grant to Help Develop Alpine Ski Team
Begin forwarded message:
From: "April Mulherin" <April.Mulherin@maine.edu>Date: October 11, 2007 4:01:34 PM EDTTo: <april.mulherin@maine.edu>Subject: [staff list] UMF Receives Libra Grant to Help Develop Alpine Ski TeamReply-To: "April Mulherin" <April.Mulherin@maine.edu>UMF Media Release for Immediate Release#R078-009CONTACT:UMF Assistant Director of Media Relations April Mulherin207-778-7081*** University of Maine at Farmington Receives Libra Grant to Help DevelopAlpine Ski Team ***FARMINGTON, MAINE (October 11, 2007)- University of Maine at FarmingtonDirector of Athletics, Fitness and Recreation Julie Davis is pleased toannounce that the university has received a grant from the Libra Foundationto help support the development of an Alpine ski team.The Libra Foundation is a Maine-based organization that has made significantcontributions to worthy initiatives throughout the state.UMF has enjoyed a successful student-led ski club in the past, which wassupported by student senate and the ski industries program and volunteercoach Harry Ricker. "The Libra grant, combined with funds from UMF'sStudent Senate, will allow us to launch the expansion from a student-ledclub sport to a more competitive ski team with increased infrastructure andadditional support for coaching," said Davis. "The program will beaccessible to all levels of skiers and will allow us to recruit studentathletes from New England and beyond."The ski team is currently undergoing dry-land training in anticipation ofthe upcoming season, which is scheduled to begin in December. The team willcompete in both Alpine and Nordic disciplines in the United StatesCollegiate Ski and Snowboard Association's Reynolds Division. The divisionwas established in 2006 by Ricker and named in honor of Tom Reynolds, UMFAthletics Hall of Fame inductee. Other institutions in the division includeUniversity of Maine at Orono, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Universityof Maine at Presque Isle, and the Bates College "B" team.According to Ron Bonnevie, UMF Ski Industries instructor, the ReynoldsDivision utilizes mountains in western Maine thereby reducing travel andproviding opportunities for other colleges to have access to the region."UMF's access to local ski areas is hard to beat. We have a great slalomhill 5 minutes from campus (Titcomb Mtn.) for day and night training, withSugarloaf, Saddleback, Black Mountain and Sunday River all less than anhour's drive," said Bonnevie. "It's about as good as it gets throughoutnorthern New England. These options provide UMF skiers with more quality onsnow training and flexible training times to coordinate with classschedules."Not only will the ski team have lifelong benefits for its student athletes,but it is expected to have positive impacts on the western Maine mountainregion as well. The importance of the economic vitality of the region wasrecognized by UMF in its final Libra grant proposal, which highlighted theuniversity's existing strong partnerships with the area's ski mountains andoutlined future opportunities to strengthen those relationships.The benefits of the ski team are too long to list according to LeighBreidenbach, director of the UMF Ski Industries program. "We are a snowsports ski state and this Libra grant says we value those activities andconsider it part of our heritage as Mainers," said Breidenbach. "At UMF,skiing is a passion as much as it is a sport. After graduation, the vastmajority of our skiers stay in Maine. They are lifelong skiers, guaranteed."# # #For more information, contact UMF Director of Athletics, Fitness andRecreation Julie Davis at 207-778-7264 or jadavis@maine.edu.===================================================================Thank you for sharing the good news at UMF, Maine's public liberal artscollege.Regards,April MulherinApril MulherinAssistant Director of Media RelationsUniversity of Maine at Farmington207-778-7081
Thursday, September 13, 2007
decorating office walls
So here's the famous diploma in its awesome frame. (Click here to read the posting about this.) I took 2 photos, one with flash and one without. In the one with flash, you can see the rich colors and that the gold is really shiny. In the other, you can see it without glare but also without good color. Maybe I'll be a better photographer in my next lifetime. Better yet, just come visit me in Maine and you can see it in person.
And now, here's the context in which the diploma hangs. This is the wall on the south side of my office. It has room for a little more expansion, but I'm waiting to see what's appropriate and what new stuff might come along. I'll probably take the tam (the blue velvet, 6-sided hat with tassel) down so I don't stretch it out and it doesn't get too dusty or get faded (the west sun shines in my office and has already faded some stuff after only 9 months).
And here's the west wall. The window is to the right. The north wall is the bookcase that was in the "before and after" photos. (Click here to see the blog entry about "before and after".)
And now, here's the context in which the diploma hangs. This is the wall on the south side of my office. It has room for a little more expansion, but I'm waiting to see what's appropriate and what new stuff might come along. I'll probably take the tam (the blue velvet, 6-sided hat with tassel) down so I don't stretch it out and it doesn't get too dusty or get faded (the west sun shines in my office and has already faded some stuff after only 9 months).
And here's the west wall. The window is to the right. The north wall is the bookcase that was in the "before and after" photos. (Click here to see the blog entry about "before and after".)
9/8/2007 Recycling Day!
It's Saturday morning and it's time to take our recycling to the dump. Err, I mean the recycling center. Ooops, no, it's "The Transfer Station." Semantics.
So all the stuff is loaded in the car.
It's actually not very far. First thing....we run into someone we know: the president of UMF! Yep, everybody recycles in this town (or at least they should). Gotta admit, I miss the days in Richardson where you put everything (yes, you can mix plastic, glass, tin, colored and clear, etc.) in a blue plastic bag and put it out in the alley on Tuesday mornings for the garbage men to pick up. But it reminds me of the old days before blue bags in Richardson when I used to take my stuff down to R.E.A.L.--the Richardson Environmental Action League. It was a non-profit group that started recycling LONG before it was popular or trendy. When I loaded it up in my car to take it down there, I had to sort glass by colors and separate out everything like here.
I'm not sure what the difference is between "high grade" paper and mixed paper. Well, I actually guessed that mixed was everything that wasn't high grade. I asked a fellow recycler and he said he thought that high grade was anything not glossy. Sounds good. Also sounds safe to just put everything in mixed. Maybe someone next time will know.
Hmmmm. #2 clear and #2 colored. I never had to sort the plastics like that before. But I can handle it. Too bad, though, that #2 is the only plastic they take. We have a lot of other plastics that aren't #2. Should I save them up and take them back to Texas with me in December? ;-)
So all the stuff is loaded in the car.
It's actually not very far. First thing....we run into someone we know: the president of UMF! Yep, everybody recycles in this town (or at least they should). Gotta admit, I miss the days in Richardson where you put everything (yes, you can mix plastic, glass, tin, colored and clear, etc.) in a blue plastic bag and put it out in the alley on Tuesday mornings for the garbage men to pick up. But it reminds me of the old days before blue bags in Richardson when I used to take my stuff down to R.E.A.L.--the Richardson Environmental Action League. It was a non-profit group that started recycling LONG before it was popular or trendy. When I loaded it up in my car to take it down there, I had to sort glass by colors and separate out everything like here.
I'm not sure what the difference is between "high grade" paper and mixed paper. Well, I actually guessed that mixed was everything that wasn't high grade. I asked a fellow recycler and he said he thought that high grade was anything not glossy. Sounds good. Also sounds safe to just put everything in mixed. Maybe someone next time will know.
Hmmmm. #2 clear and #2 colored. I never had to sort the plastics like that before. But I can handle it. Too bad, though, that #2 is the only plastic they take. We have a lot of other plastics that aren't #2. Should I save them up and take them back to Texas with me in December? ;-)
Mary and her birthday loot
As I was leaving today, I ran into Mary on her way to her car. Look at all the beautiful flowers that she got for her birthday!
(That's Heidi's arm holding the photos on the right.)
(That's Heidi's arm holding the photos on the right.)
9/7/2007 another new window
I could only leave Mary's birthday window up for one day, so that night I took down her birthday cake and made the window that I had planned all along for my return. You can see why it took so long. Cutting out all those tiny harbors in the Maine coastline was pretty tricky. It's times like this that make me wish I were in Colorado.
9/6/2007 look what's coming....
Yup. It's that frost in August that did it. Everywhere you look, there are patches of orange, red, and yellow starting to show up in the trees. It's going to be autumn before we know it!
9/6/2007 Mary's Double Birthday Present
The window. This is a long story. It started as one little joke and now it's a tradition. I'm going to have to go backwards and blog about the early ones now because I can see it's going to be an on-going entry into the blog now. I'm thinking this is not so much my life with the Mainiacs, but their life with me! Oh well. :-)
So, last semester in February or March or so, when the semester was still new and life in the new building was still new (remember, the Education Center opened in January and I got to be the first one to occupy my office space), Kristin walks into my office and tries to get me to look out my window. I do, and there's Mary in her window across the way, flashing her lights on and off. We had been joking about having each other's windows as our "view" but now she's sending Morse code messages to me.
Well, this is too fun. I immediately find a website with the Morse code alphabet on it and print it out and put it in Mary's box so that next time she flashes her lights at me, she can at least be sending me an intelligible message. Then a few days later, Kristin takes me down to "Everyone's Resource Depot"--a cute little shop in the basement of the Education Center that has all the stuff that teachers try to save because they might be able to use them in their classroom: Styrofoam meat trays, miscellaneous pens and pencils, corks, fabric squares, carpet samples, . . . you know the stuff. The whole Farmington community contributes to it and anyone can come and shop there. For less than $2, I bought long paint sticks, sheets of red and yellow card stock, and other supplies. I went back to my office and made a pair of semaphore flags and printed off the directions for the semaphore alphabet. I wrapped it all up in brown paper and string and Allen, one of our great custodians, to let me in and leave it on her desk. The next day, she's standing at her window sending semaphore messages. Wow. That works REALLY well. This goes on for several weeks and then it's time for me to interview for the 3 year position. When I got the call at 7pm that night from the dean saying I got the job, something inspired me to write "I G O T I T !"--one letter per piece of paper--and tape it up in my window so Mary would know. It was a big joke and lots of fun and other people noticed it and stopped in to congratulate me. Mary and Heidi (Mary's next door neighbor who saw the window sign before Mary and told her about it) even put "Congratulations" signs in their windows. A few days later, I took my sign down and then Mary came and scolded me for not putting something else up in my window. Didn't I know it was part of my new job now to keep her entertained by putting new signs up in my window?!
And that's how it all began.
I will definitely go back and find the photos of the other windows and put them here in the blog. On my last day of the spring semester before I left for Texas for the summer, I put up a window display that basically said, "Gone back to Texas". Mary hated that window. When I got back, she bugged me every time she saw me to take it down. I had a new window planned, but didn't have time to get to it. Then I found out it was going to be Mary's birthday and that night, I made a different new window.
So here's Mary's double birthday present:
One part of the present is that I made a window just in honor of her birthday. The other part of the present is that I finally took down the window that she hated so much.
So, last semester in February or March or so, when the semester was still new and life in the new building was still new (remember, the Education Center opened in January and I got to be the first one to occupy my office space), Kristin walks into my office and tries to get me to look out my window. I do, and there's Mary in her window across the way, flashing her lights on and off. We had been joking about having each other's windows as our "view" but now she's sending Morse code messages to me.
Well, this is too fun. I immediately find a website with the Morse code alphabet on it and print it out and put it in Mary's box so that next time she flashes her lights at me, she can at least be sending me an intelligible message. Then a few days later, Kristin takes me down to "Everyone's Resource Depot"--a cute little shop in the basement of the Education Center that has all the stuff that teachers try to save because they might be able to use them in their classroom: Styrofoam meat trays, miscellaneous pens and pencils, corks, fabric squares, carpet samples, . . . you know the stuff. The whole Farmington community contributes to it and anyone can come and shop there. For less than $2, I bought long paint sticks, sheets of red and yellow card stock, and other supplies. I went back to my office and made a pair of semaphore flags and printed off the directions for the semaphore alphabet. I wrapped it all up in brown paper and string and Allen, one of our great custodians, to let me in and leave it on her desk. The next day, she's standing at her window sending semaphore messages. Wow. That works REALLY well. This goes on for several weeks and then it's time for me to interview for the 3 year position. When I got the call at 7pm that night from the dean saying I got the job, something inspired me to write "I G O T I T !"--one letter per piece of paper--and tape it up in my window so Mary would know. It was a big joke and lots of fun and other people noticed it and stopped in to congratulate me. Mary and Heidi (Mary's next door neighbor who saw the window sign before Mary and told her about it) even put "Congratulations" signs in their windows. A few days later, I took my sign down and then Mary came and scolded me for not putting something else up in my window. Didn't I know it was part of my new job now to keep her entertained by putting new signs up in my window?!
And that's how it all began.
I will definitely go back and find the photos of the other windows and put them here in the blog. On my last day of the spring semester before I left for Texas for the summer, I put up a window display that basically said, "Gone back to Texas". Mary hated that window. When I got back, she bugged me every time she saw me to take it down. I had a new window planned, but didn't have time to get to it. Then I found out it was going to be Mary's birthday and that night, I made a different new window.
So here's Mary's double birthday present:
One part of the present is that I made a window just in honor of her birthday. The other part of the present is that I finally took down the window that she hated so much.
dogs at play
MRM came home one night and found this in the den:
That's the chandelier with a dog toy hanging from it. It has a little kite tail on it and it's meant to sail through the air, but who knew the dogs could throw it so hard and so high that it would get all the way up there?!
That's the chandelier with a dog toy hanging from it. It has a little kite tail on it and it's meant to sail through the air, but who knew the dogs could throw it so hard and so high that it would get all the way up there?!
9/4/2007 new student orientation
On the same day as convocation, we have our official new student orientation. They've actually been here for 4 days of orientation already, but today is the department and advisor meetings. Everyone declares a major as freshmen or you can pick "Liberal Arts Undeclared." You can always change it, but they like to get you into a network and get you started on a track to help you get out in 4 years with a degree.
Here are orientation staff members helping new students find the right building to go to for their major:
The Secondary/Middle Education Department had their meeting in Lincoln Hall which is in Roberts Learning Center. Here are all the new students:
And here are the peer advisors. For each concentration (science, math, English, social studies), there is current student who is an upperclassman who works with new students to answer questions, help plan the 4 year schedule, etc.
Here are orientation staff members helping new students find the right building to go to for their major:
The Secondary/Middle Education Department had their meeting in Lincoln Hall which is in Roberts Learning Center. Here are all the new students:
And here are the peer advisors. For each concentration (science, math, English, social studies), there is current student who is an upperclassman who works with new students to answer questions, help plan the 4 year schedule, etc.
9/4/2007 Convocation
It's the formal kick-off to the new academic year! Here at UMF, convocation is for new students and faculty. I don't think there's a place on campus (or in town) that can hold the whole student body and all the faculty, so just new students come. The faculty formally process in, there are speeches, and then everyone feels scholarly and we go on our way.
Here are the faculty gathering in "The Landing," a room in the lower level of the student union building.
Then, we formally process out of the building, down High Street, and into the Dearborn Gymnasium where the new students are all seated in folding chairs on the gymnasium floor. The procession is led by a bagpiper!
Afterwards, I had Kristin take my photo outside my office wearing my nifty new regalia.
Here are the faculty gathering in "The Landing," a room in the lower level of the student union building.
Then, we formally process out of the building, down High Street, and into the Dearborn Gymnasium where the new students are all seated in folding chairs on the gymnasium floor. The procession is led by a bagpiper!
Afterwards, I had Kristin take my photo outside my office wearing my nifty new regalia.
farther than Texas
Someone is V E R Y far away from home.
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