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UMaine News - Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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Independence Day is UMaine Day at Bangor Raceway |
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Bangor Raceway will host its traditional
"University of Maine Day" on July 4th and will feature
retrained racehorses from the UMaine program. Each of the
post parades will be marshaled by two UMares who are
retired racehorses in the retraining program at UMaine.
The five-year-old BEST OF PLANS who raced at Scarborough
but couldn't post competitive times has gone through the
retraining program and is now owned, as of July 1st and
ridden by Rebecca Powers. She is a junior equine business
management major and the current president of the UMaine
Equestrian Team. She also serves as the Assistant Race
Secretary at Bangor Raceway and is working on a Track
Management Internship at the raceway this summer and
fall. |
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Hudson Museum Artifacts Cited in Newsletter |
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The Maine Historical Society in Portland
included in its summer newsletter an article about Native
American art from the Hudson Museum collections, which
were included in an exhibit at the society from February
through May and for a series of workshops for
Portland-area teachers and third- and fourth-grade
students. The exhibit, “Gifts from Gluskabe: Maine Indian
Artforms,” introduced students to Wabanaki art, crafts
and lore. It also helped Southern Maine schools attain
compliance with LD291, a state law that requires schools
in Maine to incorporate Wabanaki studies into classroom
curricula. The Maine Historical Society says Southern
Maine has relatively few Native American resources
available to its schools. |
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Johnston Interviewed by Reporters in Korea |
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Kim Johnston, UMaine's senior associate
director of admission, spoke to reporters from the
Korea Economic Daily, The Chosunilbo Daily, and the Maeil
Business Newspaper among others during a recent
conference in Seoul, South Korea. Johnston, president of
the National Association for College Admission
Counseling, was in Seoul for a conference sponsored by
the Korean Council for University Education. With a
colleague from UC-Berkeley, she made a presentation on
How U.S. Institutions of Higher Education Select
Undergraduate Students. |
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