DIXFIELD – Members of Dirigo High School’s Promising Futures team recently attended the Summer Institute on “Planning for Whole School Change” at Bowdoin College. This ambitious project is sponsored by the Great Maine Schools Project at the Mitchell Institute and the Southern Maine Partnership.
Schools invited to the institute had received grants of varying amounts from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Attending from Dirigo were Dan Hart, Dianna Dority, Shirley Austin, Brad Conant and Kevin O’Reilly.
The three days were divided into team-planning and presentation times. Each team created an action plan to share with the school community.
WMSC plans two August events
BETHEL – Western Mountain Senior College has planned two events for members this summer.
The first is an evening at Deertrees in Harrison on Thursday, Aug. 7. The play is “Doctor Cook’s Garden,” a dramatic thriller about “the happiest, healthiest village” in Vermont. Cost for the evening, including the bus ride, is $16. People who plan to attend can contact Steve at swight@sundayriverinn.com or leave a message at 824-2410.
On Thursday, Aug. 14, is a Fern Walk. Rain date will be Thursday, Aug. 21. Jackie Cressy will lead a group hike to identify ferns native to the area. The cost of the walk from 1 to 4 p.m. will be $5, which includes a small booklet on fern identification.
People can call Jackie at 824-0508 and leave a message. Burt deFrees is looking for a few more people to take part in an autumn theatrical reading. The choice of play (drama or comedy) will be determined by the number of interested participants. People can mail their interest to Western Mountain Senior College, P.O. Box 1305, Bethel, ME 04217 or mail the questionnaire, which was recently sent out, to Burt.
History professor to speak in Bethel
BETHEL – Professor Allan R. Whitmore, chairman of the History Department at the University of Southern Maine, will be the featured speaker at the 12th annual Hall Memorial Lecture, said Historical Society Executive Director Stanley R. Howe. This is the first event of the 23rd annual Sudbury Canada Days. It will be Friday, Aug. 8, at the Dr. Moses Mason House beginning at 7:30 p.m. Whitmore’s topic will be “Ellsworth’s George Washington Madox (1821-1882) and This Down East Democrat’s Surprising Linkage of Know-Nothing Nativism to Radical Feminism and Marxism.”
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