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Schools

Brewer High School

BREWER – Brewer High School offers educational lectures each month. Lectures deal with school and health issues.

The series begins Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the student services conference room at Brewer High School. Lectures are set for 6-6:40 p.m., “Bullying and Harassment,” presented by Carrie Moring of Rape Response Services; and 6:45-7:30 p.m., “Osteoporosis,” presented by Dr. Gary Ross of Sunbury Primary Care.

Call Shelley Drillen at 989-3760 or 989-4140 for information.

Carmel Elementary School

CARMEL – A free developmental screening by Child Development Services-Penobscot County will be held with SAD 23, Carmel, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, at the Carmel Elementary School. The screening is for all 3- and 4-year-old children as well as 5-year-olds not yet eligible for kindergarten.

To schedule an appointment, call 947-8493, Ext. 10 or 17.

Orono Adult Education

ORONO – Orono Adult Education classes begin the week of Sept. 22. Courses available are English as a second language, basic reading and math skills program and GED prep classes.

Diploma classes are biology, English, math, orientation seminar and U.S. history.

Vocational courses are career counseling, sign language for beginners and advanced beginners, woodworking I and II, and Windows 98.

Personal enrichment classes are ballroom dance for beginners and advanced beginners; basics of family and business communication; basic astrology; basket weaving; certified nurse assistant course; hunter safety; introduction to Tellington T-touch for companion animals; investing; memory, aging and Alzheimer’s disease seminar; personal tarot; quilting, SAT prep, Saturday story time and family reading festival; substitute teacher preparation and travel writing workshop.

To register for classes, stop by the Adult Education office at Orono High School, Room 103; call the office at 866-4119; or mail registration to Orono Adult and Community Education, 14 Goodridge Road, Orono 04473.

Colleges

New England School of Communications

BANGOR – The New England School of Communications has enrolled 234 students this semester. An affiliate of Husson College, the school is beginning its 22nd academic year. The school started in 1982 with 23 students. To learn more about the school, call 941-7176.

Upward Bound

ORONO – All Upward Bound alumni, friends and families are invited to participate in the University of Maine Upward Bound Reunion in conjunction with the UM Friends and Family Weekend. The event will feature a pizza party and an afternoon of history, social time and sharing.

For information, call Linda Ives at (800) 581-2522.

University of Maine

BANGOR – University of Maine System Chancellor Joseph W. Westphal has announced the appointment of Dr. Elsa Nunez as vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. Nunez is responsible for overseeing and coordinating systemwide activities in academic affairs and student services, working directly with officers across the University System.

“Dr. Nunez brings a wide range of experience in large public institutions as well as small private independent colleges and universities,” said Westphal. “She possesses great strengths in key areas of importance to Maine’s public universities.”

Nunez brings a background in academic affairs and higher education to her new post. She served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass.; vice president for academic affairs at Wheelock College in Boston; university dean for academic affairs and vice chancellor for student affairs at the City University of New York, and associate dean of faculty at the College of Staten Island in New York.

Nunez has served as an American Council on Education Fellow in academic administration at the College of Staten Island and as a Hispanic Leadership Fellow in academic administration for the New Jersey Department of Higher Education.

She is the author of “Pursuing Diversity,” published in 1992, and has published articles about affirmative action, diversity, Hispanics in higher education, cultural differences in education and retention.

Nunez received a bachelor’s degree from Montclair State College in Upper Montclair, N.J.; a master’s degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey; and a degree in linguistics from Rutgers University in Camden, N.J. She served as a high school teacher before her higher education career. She will live in Bangor.

Nunez succeeds Dr. James H. Breece of Orono, who had served as vice chancellor on a fixed-length appointment since August 2000.

Breece, an economist who serves on the state’s Revenue Forecasting Commission, has been appointed executive director of planning and policy analysis for the University of Maine System. Breece is responsible for conducting research and analysis, and making recommendations on issues of higher education policy.

ORONO – The University of Maine chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon has received a prestigious award from the fraternity’s national organization.

The UMaine chapter is one of 36 nationwide to receive the Buchanan Cup, presented every two years to chapters for excellence in all areas of operation. There are 260 Sigma Phi Epsilon chapters at colleges and universities in the United States. The award was presented last month at the fraternity’s conclave in San Antonio, Texas.

Talk on male violence

ORONO – Myrian Miedzian, a nationally known researcher and author with expertise on issues of gender and violence, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the University of Maine’s Donald P. Corbett Business Building.

The author of “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence,” Miedzian has lectured on ways to change the socialization of boys to decrease violence. The title of her UMaine talk is “Real Men, Wimps and National Security.” The talk will explore mainstream assumptions about gender, politics, foreign policy and warfare.

A reception and book signing will follow the talk. Miedzian’s visit to UMaine is sponsored by the Peace Studies Program, Cooperative Extension and Safe Campus Project.