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Welcome to the September newsletter
Fall offerings from across the network pack this month's issue! Look at the Newsletter Menu immediately below to see what is on offer! You will find links connecting you to more information, class descriptions, registration buttons, and guides.
And last but not least, the Maine Senior College network wishes Penobscot Valley Senior College a Happy Twentieth Anniversary!
Anne Cardale
Program Director
Maine Senior College Network
Wikimedia Image:
Autumn Afternoon by László Mednyánszky
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What's Happening?
Link to MSCN News Page to see Senior College Promotions!
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Midcoast Senior College
Mainers and Healthcare: Are Telehealth Options for you?
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MIDCOAST SENIOR COLLEGE - ON-LINE COURSE:
Mainers and Healthcare: Are Telehealth Options for you?
Six FRIDAYS. 9:30-11:00 am - STARTS SEPTEMBER 16
Mainers delight in the rural environment of our beautiful state, but few understand the detrimental impact on our health including higher mortality rates, lower life expectancy, and less resiliency and recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Telehealth/telemedicine is today’s solution to eliminating the time/distance barrier between medical resources and the person in need. This course will explore the pros and cons of this change in the healthcare delivery system which puts a physician in your home and further empowers the patient to take control of their own health. Will it work for you?
Susan Goran practiced as a critical care nurse in a variety of roles for 45 years before retiring from acute care in 2017. Her practice included 8 years as the Director of a teleICU which provided remote care to 102 ICU patients in 9 Maine hospitals in 13 disparate ICUs. She has written a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and a book chapter on the Role of the Nurse in Telemedicine. Currently Susan is an Adjunct Faculty member for the UNE School of Nursing and Population Health. Currently, her 2022 e-textbook, Telemedicine: Care Beyond Touch is being used to integrate telemedicine into the nursing curriculum.
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OLLI at USM
Podcast Perspectives: How Green Is My Money?
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OLLI at USM Zoom Podcast Pop-up!
Wednesday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m.
With Star Pelsue
We will listen to a podcast together and then discuss our thoughts on the topic.
Making your finances work harder against climate change. Tom Heap speaks to Richard Curtis, British film director and architect of Comic Relief, about his Make My Money Matter campaign. This encourages everyone to find out where their pension money goes. He also speaks to the boss of a UK bank, Bevis Watts, and to the campaign director of switchit.green about how easy it is to move your bank account elsewhere. A special episode for anyone worried about what their money is - or isn't - doing to keep the planet green.
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OLLI Pop-Up Registration
Sign in first, then browse.
- When you are ready to register, sign in, then look for "Special Events."
- Click the date, not the title.
- When you find the pop-up you want to register for, click on the date below the title (not on the title itself).
- Now scroll down to find the "Add to the Cart" button.
Contact OLLI if you need assistance.
- OLLI Office Hours: Monday - Friday. 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Phone: 207-780-4406.
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E-mail: OLLI at USM
- Provide the following information:
- Name of your senior college
- Name of the virtual event you want to attend.
OLLI at USM Website
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OLLI at USM Sage Lecture Series | |
Join OLLI at USM as we explore new dimensions in life!
SAGE is an eight-week lecture series presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine. SAGE offers a dynamic approach to learning in history, science, the arts, and current events.
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Penobscot-Valley Senior College
Penobscot Valley Senior College invites you to join their 2022 Fall Classes
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PVSC invites MSCN members to join their Fall 2022 classes
• Courses are four-five-or six weeks long, and most begin the week of September 26, 2022.
• Three (3) in-person courses held in classrooms (these courses have limited numbers)
• One (1) Wildlife Habitat adventure course (limit of 20)
• Six (6) Zoom courses (listed below)
• All courses are $30.00 per person attending.
Click here to view our flyer -
Learn more about all classes and read instructor bios.
Six PVSC Zoom Classes:
The Wonderful World of Fungi
Instructor: Seanna Annis, Ph.D.
Monday, 1:30 – 3:30 PM
September 26, Oct. 3, 17, 24, 31, November 7 (6 weeks)
*No class on October 10
The Art of “Photographic Seeing”
Instructor: Matthew Smolinsky
Tuesday,10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
September 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, November 1 (6 weeks)
The American Song Book
Instructor: Bob Tredwell
Tuesday, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
September 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, November 1 (6 weeks)
Scandinavian Immigration to the United States, 1850-1950
Instructor: Gregory Gaines
Thursday, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Oct. 13, 20, 27, November 3 (4-weeks) Zoom course
Traditions and Innovations in Native American Literature: How Storytelling Informs the Written Word
Instructor: Margo Lukens
Friday, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
September 30, Oct. 7, 21, 28, November 4 (5 weeks)
*No class on October 14
Maine State Government: How Things Get Done
Instructor: Matt Dunlap Matt
FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
September 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4 (6 weeks)
Ready to register?
Follow these two steps!
Step one
Members of other Maine Senior Colleges may email Sheila your name, email, phone number, and your Senior College. With this information, the PVSC membership fee can be adjusted.
Step two
You will then be able to register online or mail in the form with a check without paying for the membership for any courses with open seats, and please note, as with other colleges, the first choice is given to our college members.
Happy Twentieth Anniversary to PVSC!
Penobscot Valley SC
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
by Maritess Sulcer
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UMA Senior College Registration Begins September 7 for MSCN-affiliated members! | |
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University of Maine at Augusta Senior College invites you to join them!
Click here to see UMASC's Fall 2022 classes
Information about UMASC classes:
- Our fall programs will include in-person, Zoom, and hybrid offerings.
- The session runs from September 19 to November 18.
- UMASC classes and lectures are free to anyone paying dues with an MSCN-associated senior college.
- If you select the lecture series, you may attend as many of the lectures as you please.
- Each week, prior to the lecture, you will receive an email with your Zoom invitation.
- You may attend in person or on Zoom.
- Since classes are free, students will be responsible for purchasing any books and/or materials required for a class.
How to Register for UMASC Classes
Click here to open the registration guide sheet
UMASC Website
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Autumn by Arkhip Kuindzhi
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Midcoast Senior College has a new look website! | |
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Visit the new look MSC website!
And don't miss the Midcoast SC Open Courses Bulletin!
(Registration is now open to all MSCN members.)
Click on the orange button below for more information.
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Senior College at Belfast invites you to join them! | |
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Please visit the Senior College at Belfast's online course catalog to see all their classes.
The classes listed below are available through Zoom, and the links will provide more information and an easy-to-use registration button!
Hybrid Class - In person and on Zoom
Bob Dylan and the Path to a Nobel Prize for Literature
with Peter Reilly
$37 - Sep 15 - Oct 27th, 2022, Thu from 9:30 - 11:30 am
Hybrid Class - In person and on Zoom
Walt Whitman: Time of war, Times of peace
with John McClenahen
$37 - Sep 15 - Oct 27th, 2022, Thu from 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Online Zoom Classes
Online Dating for Mature Beginners
with Dr Wendy C Kasten
$24 - Oct 3 - 4th, 2022, Mon - Tue from 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Conversations with Plato on Life and Society
with Arlin Larson
$37 - Oct 4 - Nov 8, 2022,Tue from 9:30 - 11:00 am
Magical Mystery Tour of the British Isles
with Nancy Perkins
$37 - Oct 5 - Nov 9, 2022, Wed for six weeks from 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Senior College at Belfast website
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Autumn Landscape by Louis Meynell
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Coastal Senior College classes are open to sister senior college members! |  | |
Click on the links to go to Coastal's Online catalog. Each link takes you directly to the class where you will see a class description, instructor bio, and the class registration button!
Exoplanets and Aliens
Instructor: Ted Williams
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 10:00 AM until Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 12:00 PM
Painting Fall Landscapes in Watercolor
Instructor: Cynthia Dias
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 10:00 AM until Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12:00 PM
History-Herstory: Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland
Instructors: Maryanne and John Ward
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 1:30 PM until Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 3:00 PM
Lucrece and Lear: Lasting Themes and Images of Shakespearean Tragedy
Instructor: Joseph Coté
Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 10:00 AM until Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 12:00 PM
Seeing Ourselves: Why do we feel this way about that?
Instructor: Joel Shapiro
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 9:30 AM until Thursday, October 20, 2022, 11:30 AM
Editing Techniques: How to Cut and Prune Your Writing
Instructor: Caroline Janover
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 10:00 AM until Thursday, October 20, 2022, 11:30 AM
The "Lost Generation" in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises
Instructor: Michelle Miller
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 1:30 PM until Thursday, October 27, 2022, 3:00 PM
Visit the Coastal Senior College website
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Fall Class Catalogs - 2022 | | |
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Save the date!
November 1 @ 9:30 a.m.
OLLI at USM Sage present:
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OLLI at USM Sage Lecture scheduled for November 1 | |
Where Do We Stand? A Report from the Climate Battle
BILL MCKIBBEN - Author, Educator, Activist, Founder of The Third Act
A global grassroots climate campaign, a movement for people over the age of 60 because now is our time.
Note this is the final lecture in the OLLI at USM Sage lecture series.
Click on the orange button to register!
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News from other organizations | AARP: Looking for a Scam Prevention Speaker for Your Senior College? | |
AARP's team of volunteer fraud fighters is eager to work with local organizations to raise awareness and offer resources. If you are ready to request a speaker click here.
People of all ages are taken advantage of through scams and fraud every day, and according to the Federal Trade Commission, over six million Americans reported being a victim in the last year alone. We need to work together to slow the growth of that number and equip people with the necessary resources to better spot a scam so they can avoid becoming the next victim.
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Daniel Silva
Published by Harper Collins 2022
Pages 428 Price $29.99
Reviewed by Pat Davidson Reef
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Professional art restorer and retired Chief of the Israeli Intelligence Service, Gabriel Allon, lives quietly with his wife Chiara and two children in Venice, Italy, in Daniel Silva’s new book titled ”Portrait of an Unknown Woman.”
An old friend, London art dealer Julien Isherwood, reaches out to him for help in authenticating a mystery around an artwork that Isherwood sold to an American gallery in New York for a million pounds. The work is now being challenged as a possible forgery. Isherwood wants his name cleared of selling a forgery to a New York art gallery and does not want to be sued.
This book has a riveting plot focusing on the international art world. It includes the following topics: the pursuit of collecting art, restoration of old works, forgeries, and the ethics of art dealers.
Although the work is fiction, it feels real with insights into what could actually happen. The characters are believable. The places described are well-known locations all over the world. The dialogue is fast. The importance of the background and history of a work of art is brought out, not only is the date it was created and signed, but where it comes from, its physical condition plus who has owned it in the past, and how many times it has been sold.
As the story unfolds, Julian Isherwood agrees to meet a woman named Madame Berenger, a widow, at a French cafe to discuss the value of a painting her husband had given her thirty years ago. She never arrives at the cafe. Isherwood leaves, somewhat miffed at waiting for her to appear until he hears she has been killed in a tragic car accident. On his way back to the hotel Isherwood almost gets killed himself in a narrow street. That is when he contacts his old friend, Gabriel Allon, to ask for help in finding out what is going on.
Gabriel is retired but agrees to help his friend, and the search begins. The investigation covers many different European countries as well as a leading American art gallery in New York. Realizing there is more than one painting of this work, attention turns to identifying the artist who is making the forgeries and finding out which gallery is distributing them. An exciting part of the novel is hearing Gabriel negotiating with a gallery owner to buy a copy of a work of art while not letting the gallery owner know that he realizes it is a forgery. This is like observing a smooth card game between people known for their refinement, but who can be as ruthless as a motorcycle gang protecting their turf.
This book is amazing with its tension-filled scenes involving the art world. Art forgeries do exist, and Gabriel knows because he is an art restorer, as well as an expert in international spy mysteries. However, his great passion in life is art.
If you think the international art industry is the height of culture, read this book, and you will discover there are many fascinating things going on behind the scenes in the art world! When it comes to money and forgeries, anything can happen in this fictional novel. However, the authenticity of a gallery and the artists it represents carry important weight in collecting art inside the book or out of it.
Another element in the book of great interest is international travel. Gabriel travels all over the world in search of helping his friend find out about a mysterious work of art. His travels take him to beautiful landmarks in Paris and Italy. The description of people and locations pull you right into the story, not only in Paris, Italy, and New York but right into the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. I recommend it highly.
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