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Schools

BSO group on the road

BANGOR – Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Know Your Orchestra brass quartet will visit 320 elementary and high school students in Eastport at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, for a day of workshops and performance.

Quartet members are Lori Wingo, trumpet; Jim Trembley, trombone; Bill Whitener, trumpet; and Ken Miller, French horn.

Workshops with students will include demonstrations of instruments, questions and answer time with musicians, and student participation in making music.

The day will culminate in a school assembly during which student members of the band will perform with the quartet.

Trumpet player Lori Wingo recently returned from a day of workshops in Jackman. She described her experience in a letter printed in the Bangor Daily News.

“The response to our presence at the school was overwhelming,” Wingo wrote. “The children were excited to have us perform for them. They were receptive, engaged and excited with the opportunity to see, hear and even try our instruments.”

The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Know Your Orchestra outreach program is designed so that teachers may choose from a menu of workshops geared for different age levels and abilities. Percussion, woodwind, brass and string ensembles also are available to visit students.

The Bangor Symphony Know Your Orchestra outreach is made possible by the support of the Davis Family Foundation, Maine Community Foundation, and the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation. The funding makes it possible for the Symphony to offer workshops for the nominal fee of $100 per day.

Call Diane Kern at 942-5555, or (800) 639-3221 for information or visit the Web at www.bangorsymphony.com.

Bangor Christian School

BANGOR – Creative writing requires students to be imaginative and to demonstrate their English skills. The Modern Woodmen creative writing essay contest offered Bangor Christian students the opportunity to develop their writing skills while providing an experience for personal and academic accomplishments.

This year’s topic was “If I Were a Superhero.” Students wrote about what it would be like to be an all-new comic book superhero.

School winners were Aimee Putnam, first place; Ashley Booker, second place; and Jonathan Reed, third place.

Colleges

Husson College

BANGOR – Festive campuswide improvements provided the backdrop Oct. 12 when Husson College held Homecoming activities. A major highlight was the ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony for the new W. Tom and Bonnie Sawyer Library in Peabody Hall.

A Sports Hall of Fame induction at the John W. Winkin Baseball Complex included inductees Alfred “Bunky” Dow, Mark Taylor, Decker Todd, Alan Zoccolillo, Dewey Martin and Christine Hunter.

The Alumni Hall of Fame induction at Dickerman Dining Commons honored inductees Peter Briggs of Presque Isle, owner of Aroostook Beverage Co.; Stephen Flanagan of Winter Park, Fla., senior vice president, investment group, Grubb & Ellis Co.; Brenda Castonguay of Raleigh, N.C., senior vice president, administrative services, Progress Energy Service Co.; Jeffrey Corey of Waterville, president of Day’s Jewelry stores; Robert Ronan of Hopkinton, Mass., Fidelity Investments; and nurse Donna Walker of Henniker, N.H., senior resource person, Concord Hospital.

The Nursing Alumni tea was held at the Richard E. Dyke Center for Family Business. Presidential tours of the campus also were a feature of Homecoming.

University of Miami

WASHINGTON – Aaron Morrell of Hampden accepted membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and will be honored during a campus ceremony this fall.

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is a national nonprofit honors organization. Founded in 1994, NSCS recognizes first- and second-year students who excel academically.

University of New England

BANGOR – First-year students from the Bangor area attending the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine participated Oct. 10 in the college’s annual White Coat Ceremony to recognize the transition students make from laypersons to those assuming the responsibilities of physicians.

Honored at a ceremony in Portland were Thomas Cassidy, son of Daniel and Dina Cassidy of Bangor; Frederick Nichols, son of Fred Nichols of Orrington and Laurie Kelly of New Haven, Conn; Nathaniel Stetson, son of John and Alanna Stetson of Bangor; Melissa Borden and David Rawcliffe.

Highlights of the ceremony included presentation of the white coats by members of the second-year class and remarks by Dr. Erik Steele, a Bangor emergency room physician and columnist for the Bangor Daily News.

The White Coat Ceremony was an idea conceived by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to create a psychological contract for professionalism and empathy in medicine. The first White Coat Ceremony took place in 1993 at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Since then, more than 100 other medical schools in the United States and abroad have initiated a similar ceremony.

The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine is the only osteopathic medical school in New England and is dedicated to the education of primary care physicians. The college has twice been ranked among the top 50 medical schools in the nation for primary care education by U.S. News & World Report, and has been further recognized for educational excellence in geriatric and rural medicine.