November 2013 New to OLLI at USM? Check us out at www.usm.maine.edu/olli In this issue Important Dates . Page 4 Notes From Susan: OLLI is Growing. Page 2 Snow closings . Page 2 Advisory Board: Dick Sturgeon’s letter. Page 3 Downhill Skiers meeting. Page 3 Wrinkle In Time. Page 4 Senior Moments: OLLI members’ achievements. Page 5 Book Sale. Page 5 Save the Dates: OLLI Singers, Re- corder Ensemble, Line dancing, Reader’s Theater, Senior Players. Page 5 Walking Club: Yar- mouth and Free- port. Page 6 OLLI Lunch Out: Macaroni Grill. Page 6 Online Survey. Page 7 OLLI Lending Li- brary. Page 7 OLLI Photogra- phers Special In- terest Group. Page 7 Profile Crispin Bolese Teaching has long been close to Crispin Bolese’s heart “I love to teach,” is Crispin Bolese’s explanation of how he came to teach an OLLI course on Afri- can politics. Crispin’s credentials for the course can be traced to his university teaching in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he was a lecturer at the University of Kisangani. While there, he earned a B.A. in administrative and political science. He later taught at the Kigali Independent University in Rwanda. He did research in ad- ministrative science, taught introductory courses in political sci- ence, and guided students in their research on such topics as de- mocracy and ethnicity in Central Africa. The rising violence forced Crispin to flee with his wife and young child to Kenya and then to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001. There he was an assistant and substitute teacher in a Montessori school, where he taught French (his native language) and later monitored the computer lab for a school of budding geniuses. However, Crispin found Atlanta’s crime rate threatening and, like many other refugees, found his way in 2006 to Portland. Here, he sought to strengthen his background in political policy and management at USM’s Muskie School of Public Service. But first he had to improve his English, so he began taking courses in English as a Second Language. During that time, he spent more than four years as a direct support specialist at Good- will Industries, helping clients with developmental disabilities to get into the workforce, and maintaining documents needed for the state. Crispin got his M.A. in public service and management from the Muskie School in 2010. He also became involved in the study cen- ter at the Riverton Park housing development, aiding students from second grade to graduate school. “Students coming here as refu- continued on page 2
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November 2013
New to OLLI at USM? Check us out at www.usm.maine.edu/olli
In this issue
Important Dates. Page 4
Notes From Susan: OLLI is Growing. Page 2
Snow closings. Page 2
Advisory Board: Dick Sturgeon’s letter. Page 3
Downhill Skiers meeting. Page 3
Wrinkle In Time. Page 4
Senior Moments: OLLI members’ achievements. Page 5
Book Sale. Page 5 Save the Dates:
OLLI Singers, Re-corder Ensemble, Line dancing, Reader’s Theater, Senior Players. Page 5
Walking Club: Yar-mouth and Free-port. Page 6
OLLI Lunch Out: Macaroni Grill. Page 6
Online Survey. Page 7
OLLI Lending Li-brary. Page 7
OLLI Photogra-phers Special In-terest Group. Page 7
Profile Crispin Bolese
Teaching has long been close
to Crispin Bolese’s heart
“I love to teach,” is Crispin Bolese’s explanation
of how he came to teach an OLLI course on Afri-
can politics.
Crispin’s credentials for the course can be traced to his university
teaching in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he was a
lecturer at the University of Kisangani. While there, he earned a
B.A. in administrative and political science. He later taught at the
Kigali Independent University in Rwanda. He did research in ad-
ministrative science, taught introductory courses in political sci-
ence, and guided students in their research on such topics as de-
mocracy and ethnicity in Central Africa.
The rising violence forced Crispin to flee with his wife and
young child to Kenya and then to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001. There
he was an assistant and substitute teacher in a Montessori school,
where he taught French (his native language) and later monitored
the computer lab for a school of budding geniuses.
However, Crispin found Atlanta’s crime rate threatening and,
like many other refugees, found his way in 2006 to Portland. Here,
he sought to strengthen his background in political policy and
management at USM’s Muskie School of Public Service.
But first he had to improve his English, so he began taking
courses in English as a Second Language. During that time, he
spent more than four years as a direct support specialist at Good-
will Industries, helping clients with developmental disabilities to
get into the workforce, and maintaining documents needed for the
state.
Crispin got his M.A. in public service and management from the
Muskie School in 2010. He also became involved in the study cen-
ter at the Riverton Park housing development, aiding students from
second grade to graduate school. “Students coming here as refu-