Two new summer camps at the DNA EpiCenter for children ages five-eight will benefit from the DNA EpiCenter Scholar Convocation on Thursday, June 11 at 7 pm.
Proceeds from the convocation will help launch the camp programs: Little Engineers, Technologists, and Scientists Explore! and Analytical Biology & Chemistry Science in the Lab.
Being recognized at the convocation are: Frank Maletz, MD, New London Orthopedic Surgeon being advanced on the Board to Trustee Emeritus; Tony Hoover, PhD, Senior Vice President and Director, Pfizer Global Research/New London; Debra Pasquale, President and Founding Executive Director, CT United for Research Excellence; Joe Courtney, US Representative 2nd District; and Rob Simmons, former US Representative 2nd District. For reservations or more information, call 860.442.0391.
Otis Library is proud to announce Beverly Gage as this year’s guest author for its 6th Annual Evening with an Author Gala. (l-r) This year’s Evening with an Author committee, Dianne Kent, Lori Danis, Millie Shapiro, Jane Seder, Colleen Freeman, Joanne Friedman, Jill Graboski, Lottie Scott, Andrea Kaiser, Jennifer Rummel and Martin Shapiro, is hard at work to make this evening an informative and entertaining night out. (Not pictured: Joy Leary). Evening with an Author will be held on Friday, June 5th at the Spa at Norwich Inn. The evening features a cocktail reception, spectacular silent auction, amazing dinner, keynote address and book signing. Tickets are $125 per person. Reservations may be made by contacting event chair, Millie Shapiro at 860.887.7236.
This region of ours has much to offer both tourists and local residents. We have magnificent tourism attractions, hotels and inns, restaurants, museums, galleries and theaters. This region also features 10 institutions of higher learning (Conn College, Eastern Connecticut State University, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Mitchell College, Mystic Seaport, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Groton, Three Rivers Community-Technical College, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, UConn, Avery Point and University of New Haven, Southeastern Graduate Center) that provide undergraduate and graduate programs in this region. All provide learning opportunities for learners of all ages.
Students are recruited from all over the world to be educated in this beautiful region along the Southeastern CT and Southern RI shoreline. Mitchell College, a small liberal arts institution in New London, is proud to have students from 27 states and three foreign countries enrolled this past semester.
The large corporations, small businesses and non profits in Southeastern CT and Southern RI all need more and more qualified and educated employees. These institutions of higher learning, including Mitchell College, educate the future workforce and contribute to the vibrant economy this region experiences. We also employ local people and fuel local business. The combined strength of this educational engine also makes our region attractive in recruiting faculty, staff and employees.
I invite you, our neighbors, to celebrate the educational opportunities right here in Southeastern CT and Southern RI!
For the 21st year, a group of volunteer American Heart Association instructors boarded the Fisher’s Island Ferry on April 17th out of New London. The instructors travelled to the K-12 Fisher’s Island School to instruct CPR and defibrillator use to students and staff. This annual event is orchestrated by George Fargo, Mystic, a retired Electric Boat Fire Fighter/Inspector and Emergency Medical Service Instructor. This year’s group of instructors included Gerrie Richards, Charles Maxon, Chery Gilot, Keith Richards, Ken Fargo and Catherine Fargo. Catherine, 17, Griswold High School Senior, is the newest instructor to the group.
Norwich Public Schools BRIDGES Program Staff, and students from Uncas and Moriarty Schools, were among the first to examine the autograph book kept by Frances Manwaring Caulkins and an album of pressed “Sea-Mosses” that was presented to Ms. Caulkins in 1860.
The two books will remain on display at the Leffingwell House Museum, Norwich, throughout the Norwich 350th Anniversary Celebration.
Ms. Caulkins (1795-1869) was a prolific writer centering literary attention on two radically different areas of concern: the religious education of young people and local history.
Ms. Caulkins is well known for writing The History of Norwich, Connecticut, from Its Settlement in 1660 to January, 1845.
Two new summer camps at the DNA EpiCenter for children ages five-eight will benefit from the DNA EpiCenter Scholar Convocation on Thursday, June 11 at 7 pm.
