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COASTAL COMPASS BEARINGS
An e-Newsletter for Coastal Senior College Members
January 2013 (#69)
What’s in this Newsletter?
Everyone Loves CSC
Winter Classes
Ongoing CSC Groups
Events
Volunteer Opportunities
Share Your Class Stories
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
See What You’re Missing - Some
Comments About the Fall Courses
From the Instructors:
“It was an honor to teach in your program.”
“I felt really fortunate having such an excellent group who were
interested and engaged in discussions about [what] we were reading”
“As always, it was a pleasure to teach my … class. The students were
insightful and attentive and so enthusiastic”
“…the respect for and interest in the instructors [make] CSC such a
rewarding place to teach! I've been involved with similar organizations
(out of state) and I've got to say that CSC is the best (by far)!”
If you’ve been missing the Teaching experience AND with an
extremely motivated and interested audience…how can you beat these
recommendations! Join the CSC staff of instructors - come teach for
us! If you or someone you know is interested in being an instructor,
please contact BJ Frederick, Chair.
From the Students:
“Thanks for making this kind of course available”
“Top-notch instructors - lots of fun!”
“CSC is one of the pluses of this area”
[“Course] well-researched and excellently presented”
“Best two hours of the week!”
“A learning experience par excellence. Much appreciated.”
“I hate to have [the course] end.”
“All your classes are outstanding…rich and wonderful…thoughtprovoking, well presented”
“Thank you for all of the work that goes into your programs”
“We are so privileged to have you here”
Don’t procrastinate - sign up now; the classes are listed below and
more information is available on our website as well as in the Winter
Catalogue that was mailed in November.
Winter 2013 Classes
Classes will begin January 4; there are 13 courses and 4 on-going
groups for the Winter Session. You can register by calling 1-800-2861584. (You can thank BJ Frederick and the Curriculum Committee
for the breadth and depth of offerings.)
Note: Need-based scholarships both for membership and for class
registration are available. For information, please contact Dawn
Rinehart at 1-800-286-1584.
Courses in Knox County
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The Story of You (Journaling) Alice Dashiell
Thomaston
Interactive Study of Transportation Bill Dashiell/Bruce Stedman
Owl’s Head Transportation Museum
Poetry: Windows and Mirrors Ellen Goldsmith Cushing
Bach and the Best of the Rest of the Baroque
Marge Roberts Camden
Take Your Family History Research to the Next Level
Helen Shaw
Camden
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Application of Strategic Intelligence in the 21 Century
Tom McCarthy Rockland
Courses in Lincoln County
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Folk Architecture of the World Arnold Aho
Lunch with the Junior League David Atwater
Damariscotta
Damariscotta
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Could Japan Have Won? Charles Brockunier
Aristotle Meets Molecular Biology Ron Carroll
Maine’s Natural History
Joe Gray/John Weinrich
Creating a Cookbook Nathan Randall
Puzzles of Jesus’ Birth and Childhood
Byron Stuhlman
Damariscotta
Nobleboro
Damariscotta
Newcastle
Damariscotta
Ongoing CSC Groups
Join when you’re ready and be sure to call 1-800-286-1594 at URockland to confirm the meeting site and time. There is no class fee
for these classes, however you must be a member to participate. Look
for details in the Catalogue (Course Catalog and News) on the website.
CSC Coffee House Discussion
Writers’ Group
The Challenge of Change
Watch and Talk
Bill Newman
Marilyn Muth
Winslow Myers
BJ Frederick
Rockland
Camden
Damariscotta
Damariscotta
Events
“Writers Read” - Fall 2012
The third annual “Writers Read” featured six members of the ongoing
CSC Writers Group. Each presented one or more examples of their
prose and poetry, displaying “qualities of talent and diversity”
according to Group Leader, Marilyn Muth. The participants were:
Carol Luchetti: “Holding Court at Walmart” and “The Starlight
Express”; Ken Keoughan: “The Student Lamp”, “Moments of Ennui”,
and “The Red Sled”; Barbara Furey: “The Adventures of Norbert and
Storm” and “A Few Pet Peeves”; Peter Muth: “The Akin Shutter”;
Marilyn Muth: “On the Ice”; Norbert Nathanson:“Three Questions”.
Barbara and Norbert also read several of their poems.
This event was co-sponsored by Coastal Senior College and the
Camden Public Library, and held in the Library’s Picker Room on
December 3rd.
Have a yen to write or something you want to say? you’ll love
participating in this group! . The monthly meetings are always lively,
with valuable feedback and encouragement.
Special Events - Winter 2013
Knox County History Outreach
Working the Bay: Images and Objects from the Penobscot
Marine Museum
Two Wednesdays - January 23 and 30 - 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Watts Hall, Thomaston
Free to Everyone (Members, Non-members, Friends, Family)
This special offering is a cooperative effort between CSC and the
Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport. The sessions will feature some
of the Museum’s collection of historic photographs depicting Mid-Cost
Maine life from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bring guests to see what we offer and so they can discover (as we
have) the joys of learning and participating. Call 1-800-286-1594.
Concert: Midcoast Community Chorus
Peakes Auditorium, Bangor High School
Saturday January 12, 7 pm
Strom Auditorium, Camden Hills Regional High School
Sunday January 13, 4 pm
Come hear the Midcoast Community Chorus (145 multigenerational
singers including CSC members Charme Blaisdell, Susan St John,
Wendy Moxcey and Luci Bauer) perform “One Song at a Time”.
These concerts always sell out, so purchase tickets ASAP at the
Grasshopper Shop and Have II in Camden or at the Green Store in
Belfast. For more information see the website.
Volunteer Opportunities
For a few hours of volunteering each semester you get infinite
gratitude from students and instructors, committee chairs and
members, the board and everyone involved in making CSC what it is.
We especially need help in Knox County.
information.
Check the website for more
Are you technologically savvy? We need people to help in classes and
events, primarily with projecting movies, slideshows, PowerPoint, etc.,
and also to help us think about possible equipment purchases. If
you’re interested in this on-going challenge, please contact Peter
Lehman or Vic Hart.
Remember the paperboy - on a bike delivering the daily paper? Well
we could use someone who has fond memories of that activity,
especially in the Rockland area. The job would need to be done 3
times yearly - not daily! Can you help distribute catalogues to
libraries, museums, gyms, churches, stores, Senior Spectrum,
Chamber of Commerce and other public locations where seniors can
obtain them? Contact Peter Triolo.
Share Class Stories
Please share stories or anecdotes from your classes so others can
know what makes our CSC classes amazing, interesting and
worthwhile.
Thanks.
Pat Manning, compiler of the e-news.