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Welcome to Your December 2020 Issue! |
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To the members, instructors, and staff of the Maine Senior College Network.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for working so hard to switch senior college classes to the online Zoom format. Your creativity and drive are awe-inspiring! And a big cheer for everyone who started talking while they were still muted! Now it is time to break out the proverbial mince pies and Christmas pudding! Let's all join in statewide collective applause for all our online adventures during 2020!
All my best wishes for 2021.
Anne
Program Director
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Links to Maine Senior College Network News and Classes!
Acadia SC
Augusta SC
Belfast SC
Bridgton SC
Coastal SC
Downeast SC
Downeast SC thanks Sunrise SC for their support!
Gold LEAF Institute
Lewiston-Auburn SC
Midcoast SC
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Penobscot Valley SC
(Plus two courses!)
SAGE at UMPI
South Coast SC
St. John Valley SC
Sunrise SC
York County SC
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Take the Maine broadband speed test!
Help bring internet access to all Maine communities
The referendum to spend $15 million to update Maine's broadband will be allocating funds this upcoming year. Data is being collected to find out which areas should be addressed first. Though $15 million is a large sum, it is really only a drop in the bucket! It is estimated that $300 million is needed to bring broadband equality to Maine communities. Last year we found that the industry standard was a bit skewed. The companies that reported that they were covering a town were, in fact, only covering a few houses in that community. Generally, these homes were close to another area that was already receiving services. As a result, legislators were creating laws and dismissing certain locations because it appeared that they were already receiving broadband.
A new accurate map is being made. Please help by taking the speed test! It's quick and easy, and you can see the map, which is informative.
Get Up to Speed - How to Take the Maine Speed Test
Tired of complaining about your internet? Time to do something about it! Click on the following link! Maine Broadband Coalition is launching a statewide crowdsourced Speedtest! Take the test! Get your neighbors to take it too! Let's create a map of what's really happening in Maine. The more tests that are completed, the more useful it will be for communities, companies, and the state!
Submitted by Star Pelsue. OLLI at USM
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"The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty” by Leonard Lauder
Published by Harper Collins
Pages 433 Price 32.50
Reviewed by Pat Davidson Reef
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Estee Lauder
The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty" by Leonard Lauder is a new, warm, and candid memoir of a man responsible for a major American company's expansion, the Estee Lauder Cosmetic Company. It is a tribute to his family and reveals a deep respect for his mother, the matriarch in the family, who started the company in her kitchen in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1930s. Estee Lauder was a woman's liberationist before the movement arrived. She always was independent and a natural entrepreneur. Early in her company's development, she visited small hair shops, tactfully placing her goods in them, as she showed women how to use her make up. She always gave free examples of makeup, which encouraged women to come back and request her product. Estee's philosophy was to let her product speak for itself. It was for all ages, protected skin, and made women's faces glow.
Ambitious, tactful, and resilient, Estee pioneered getting her makeup brand into major high-end department stores across the nation: Saks, Gimbels, Bergdorf Goodman and Macy's, in New York, Neiman Marcus in Texas, Bonwit Teller in Massachusetts, and Bullocks in California.
The Estee Lauder Company started as a small family business, and many members of the Lauder family helped make it a success. However, it is Leonard Lauder, the oldest son, who expanded the company.
Leonard
The irony is while Leonard was always supportive of the company which his parents founded and worked as a teenager helping out, he wanted his own independence. In college at the University of Pennsylvania, Leonard created two film clubs that competed with each other. No one knew he founded both clubs. His philosophy was, own your competition. He took that concept later in business when he created Clinique and other brands that Estee Lauder owns.
The Navy Experience
Lauder was 3rd in a class of 750 students in his graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania, but he was rejected when he applied to Harvard Business school. While he was humbled, he was not defeated. He took plan B and joined the U.S. Navy Officers Training School, spending 3 and a half years in the Navy. Lauder said in his book, “The Navy taught me leadership.” He learned in the Navy that there is always someone else smarter and to learn from them no matter how smart you are. Later, when he went into business, he surrounded himself with brilliant people but knew that the buck always stopped with him in making decisions. One of the ships he served on was an aircraft carrier that carried 1000 men. He learned the importance of listening to people on the ground with practical experience, accountability, responsibility, and ingenuity in facing a crisis. Lauder stated “Listening “ was his greatest asset to success. He found out the needs of people whom he was working with and found ways to meet those needs both in the Navy and later in business.
The Listener
In 1946 when he came into the Estee Lauder Company, he "listened" to everyone respectfully, who had been there for years. But he came into the business as a U.S. Navy Officer, a leader, and decision-maker, not an errand boy.
He learned a great deal from his mother as he listened to her while in the same office talking to clients. His drive to develop and enlarge his family's business matched his drive for success in everything he did. He had many outstanding interests. One outside interest was collecting art. His first interest was collecting historic postcards of value, then posters for his dormitory, and eventually original works of art. He decided to focus on collecting his favorite style and created his collection around Cubism. Later in life, he donated his huge Cubism collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. However, he served on many museum boards over the years as a leader in the art world and was instrumental in the Whitney Museum's growth.
The Pink Ribbon
It is impressive that the Estee Lauder Company, under the leadership of Leonard Lauder, made a difference in the lives of people outside the cosmetic world. When Leonard's first wife, Evelyn, tragically got breast cancer, the company supported cancer research. It was Evelyn's idea to create a pink ribbon as a symbol of the disease in bringing about an awareness of all women to have mammograms and support research. Previously the public response to breast cancer was not to talk about it. It was a taboo subject. The Lauder family changed that attitude by talking about it and supporting it publicly.
Philanthropy
Among other philanthropic interests that the Lauder family made for the general public was donating a larger and safer public playground in Central Park. As the American company became international, Leonard and Ronald Lauder, his brother, donated an educational institute at the University of Pennsylvania involving a two-year program for business administration combining foreign languages. Leonard found out in expanding the Estee Lauder business to Europe, it was necessary to know other countries' languages. For the next generation, the Lauders provided a way to meet international businessmen's needs by providing both business background and training in foreign languages to meet the needs of international commerce.
This is an amazing book that tells of the growth of an American company that has become internationally known and has made a lasting impact on our society.
Judy Glickman
The most interesting chapter in the book, for me, is his discussion of his second marriage. As a widower of 81, he had the courage to fall in love with a Maine photographer named Judy Glickman, who comes from Cape Elizabeth. Many people know her in Maine because she has had many exhibits of her photography on Holocaust sites throughout museums in the state and the nation. She and her first husband, Al Glickman, who died of Parkinson's disease, donated the University of Southern Maine's Library on the Portland campus, among other philanthropic contributions to the state, including 5 million dollars to the Portland Museum of Art. Leonard Lauder's courage in pursuing love and happiness with Judy Glickman as the two senior citizens explored life together is magnificent and inspiring. It is the best chapter in the book. I recommend this book to everyone who wants a lift this winter about a successful family who faced great losses, turned defeats into successes, and made a better world for all to live in.
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Thank You, Senior College Network Instructors! |
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Bass Harbor Head Light, Mount Desert Island, ME |
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Thank You Acadia SC Instructors!
Submitted by Janice Kenyon
Image: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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1906 Postcard Capitol Building in 1906, Augusta, ME
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Thank You UMASC Instructors!
The University of Maine at Augusta Senior College
Submitted by Ann Sullivan
Image: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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S.S. Peter and Paul Church, Lewiston, ME |
Thank you, Instructors!
Lewiston-Auburn Senior College
Mary Jane Beardsley - "Beginning ZOOM"
Michael Everett - "European Art in the Early Seventeenth Century"
Rey Buono - "Juliet: An Actor Prepares & Hamlet: Deep Dive"
Ariela Zucker - "Drawing with Light: Part II"
Alan Elze - "Executive Order 9066" & "Radical American History"
Mark Silber - "Fables Do Come True - Fairy Tales and National Character"
Paul Drowns - "You Really ARE What You Eat! (or what you eat eats)"
Jennifer Doughty - "Meet the Romantics"
Lin Wright - "Using Familysearch.org" & "Using RootsMagic" & "Genetic Genealogy"
Kathryn Vezina - "Making a Difference"
Bill Frayer - "TED Talk Discussion Group" & "Living as an Expat in Mexico"
Jean Potuchek - "Aging, Health and Happiness" & "Addressing Climate Change"
Lila Hutchins - "Ageism in Healthcare: Thesis Presentation!"
Hugh Keene - "Physics Concepts and Conundrums"
Kay Campbell - "Self-Publishing Basics"
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Trolleys in Monument Square, Portland, Maine |
Thank you, OLLI Instructors!
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
The Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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The Healthy Living for ME Network invites you to join them for their 2021 offerings!
The Healthy Living for ME Network invites you to join us for our 2021 offerings which include but are not limited to Living Well with Diabetes, Better Health NOW with Diabetes Toolkit, Living Well with Chronic Pain, Better Health NOW with Pain Toolkit, Living Well for Better Health, Better Health NOW, and more.
Living Well with Diabetes
Living Well with Diabetes (and Better Health NOW with Diabetes Toolkit) was designed for people with type 2 diabetes to learn a variety of day-to-day self-management skills to actively manage their diabetes. We welcome people with diabetes, people who are pre-diabetic, and their supports. This program is run by peer leaders who understand just how challenging it can be to make our own health and wellness a priority. Throughout this six-session series that has been proven to promote health and prevent disease, you’ll learn how to boost your energy, improve mood, and decrease fatigue. This workshop helps empower adults to address and better manage their health issues by increasing self-efficacy, improving knowledge, developing positive behavior change, and improved self-management. Topics such as testing your blood sugar, menu planning, stress management, treating low blood sugar, strategies for sick days are covered, plus so much more!
Required materials:
The following handouts* are provided at no cost by Healthy Living for ME
- Text - Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions*
- Audio CD - Relaxation for the Mind and Body, Pathways to Healing*
Living Well with Chronic Pain
Living Well with Chronic Pain (and Better Health NOW with Pain Toolkit) is ideal for people who are experiencing a wide range of chronic, non-cancer related pain conditions. Participants in this class learn practical tools to help develop self-management skills and develop positive behavior change. Other topics include debunking myths, using your mind to manage symptoms, and healthy eating. This program is run by peer leaders who understand just how challenging it can be to make our own health and wellness a priority. Throughout this six-session series that has been proven to promote health and prevent disease, you’ll learn how to boost your energy, improve mood and decrease fatigue.
Required materials:
The following handouts* are provided at no cost by Healthy Living for ME
- Text - Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain*
- Audio CD - Relaxation for the Mind and Body, Pathways to Healing*
Living Well for Better Health
Living Well for Better Health (and Better Health NOW) was designed for people who may have chronic health conditions like arthritis, heart disease, asthma, Lyme disease, or COPD. This free, evidence-based workshop helps empower adults to address and better manage their health issues by increasing self-efficacy, improving knowledge, developing positive behavior change, and improved self-management. This program is run by peer leaders who understand just how challenging it can be to make our own health and wellness a priority. Throughout this six-session series that has been proven to promote health and prevent disease, you’ll learn how to boost your energy, improve mood, and decrease fatigue.
Required materials:
The following handouts are provided at no cost by Healthy Living for ME
- Text - Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions*
- Audio CD - Relaxation for the Mind and Body, Pathways to Healing*
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