Stimulation - Knowledge - Interaction - Fun

Annual General Meeting and

Potluck Supper

Monday, June 3^rd, 5:00 p.m.

Neighborhood House

Northeast Harbor



Please join us for this important and fun evening. This is your opportunity to learn a bit more about Acadia Senior College, elect new board members, and enjoy a potluck supper and conversation with ASC members and friends.

5:00 - Appetizers and Conversation

5:30 - Business Meeting and Elections

6:15 - Potluck Supper

For the potluck supper please bring:

• your own place setting (plate, utensils, glass)
• an appetizer, main dish, salad, side or dessert to share
• your favorite beverage

We look forward to seeing you there!  No RSVP is required.

Thank You Spring Instructors!

Our spring term has wrapped up and we want to thank our volunteer instructors for sharing their time, knowledge and ideas with us. Without them, we would not be a college!

We'll being taking a short break from classes over the summer, but you can look forward to 18 course offerings for the fall term. Watch for class announcements later in June. Fall registration opens on July 17th and classes begin August 26th.

2nd Annual Clunan Lecture

is on the Calendar!

Save September 19, 2024, at 5:30 PM at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor for another compelling lecture on world affairs honoring our founders, Dorothy and Jim Clunan.

Finding a speaker to live up to last year’s well-received presentation by Dr. Anne Clunan has been a challenge, and we are confident we have identified a winner. She is Anne Hall, US Ambassador to Lithuania in 2016-2019, a career foreign service officer like the Clunans, a native Mainer and our neighbor in Blue Hill. She has been deeply involved in European affairs and the negotiations and tensions over NATO expansion to the east. Among other senior diplomatic positions, she has been Director of the Office of Central European Affairs at the State Department where she managed US relations with Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lichtenstein, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

Please come and bring your houseguests!

Making Democracy Work Series

Save the dates

The Jesup Memorial Library, Acadia Senior College, and the League of Women Voters - Downeast are pleased to announce a short series of programs under the theme "Making Democracy Work." This series will feature prominent speakers addressing the challenges facing modern governance and proposing ways to enhance the democratic process.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld

Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Tuesday, July 16th, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Steven Levitsky

The David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University

Click for more information

Remembering

Moorhead "Mike" C. Kennedy Jr.

Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr., captive in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 93



Acadia Senior College is blessed to have had Mike Kennedy in our midst. Mike served as President of ASC 2010-2013 and taught several classes on the Middle East and Islam. Bill Dohmen, also a past ASC president, recalls that "at the first organizational meeting of the college in 2000, Mike was one of the first people to stand up and say 'I'll teach a course'. This got the ball rolling and really encouraged others to step up." He was a fine man and will be missed.

Read the New York Times Obituary

Read the Washington Post obituary

Reminder - Spring Appeal Continues

Our spring appeal is underway. We need your help to sustain ASC learning opportunities and continue to offer a broad range of courses, lecture topics, field trips, and social events. Membership fees and course tuition go a long way to support the college, but we still rely on contributions for about 1/3 of our annual budget.

You can donate online or if you prefer you may mail a check to

ASC, PO Box 475, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679. Would you consider becoming a monthly donor? This is a convenient way to donate a little at a time throughout the year. Also, remember you can also make a donation to honor or memorialize a special person at any time.

We truly count on your support!

Field Trip to Maine Maritime Academy

A couple of dozen ASC members were treated to a tour of the Maine Maritime Academy on a beautiful spring day. During the first part of the tour, members learned about the 103-year-old schooner Bowdoin heading to the Arctic for the summer. Following the discussion of the voyage with the captain, visitors toured the campus and learned about MMA's schools of Engineering, Management, Science, and Transportation. 

Watch a short video about last year's voyage of the Bowdoin.

Photos - Nat Fenton

Acadia Senior College

PO Box 475

Southwest Harbor, ME 04679

acadiaseniorcollege.org

learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org

207-288-9500