2010 Schedule of Speakers
Date: The 2009-10 schedule is completed. Check in August for the September 2010 - May 2011 schedule of speakers.
(Click here for descriptions of past lectures.)
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; Lecture 12-1:00. Email learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org or call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
Description: See individual events for description
Ron Bancroft
Date: May 28, 2010
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; Lecture 12-1:00. Email learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org or call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
Description:
Ron Bancroft will speak on: Maine's Gubernatorial Candidates and the Challenges They Face. Ron is a strategy consultant, based in Portland, who advises companies across the U.S. and in Europe. He also writes a weekly Op Ed column for the Portland Press Herald on Maine and national issues.
Ron has long been involved in education reform in Maine as a member of the Maine Coalition for Excellence in Education, the Maine Compact for Higher Education, and the Great Schools Partnership.
A Maine native, Ron grew up in Cape Elizabeth. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Dr. Robert Pinsky
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; Lecture 12-1:00. Call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
Description:type description here
Dr. Charles Burger: Health Reform from a Clinical Perspective
Date: March 26, 2010
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; Lecture 12-1:00. Call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
Description: Dr. Charles Burger graduated from Case-Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio, and did his residency in Internal Medicine both in Cleveland and Duke Medical Center.
He came to Maine in 1971 to join an innovative practice in Hampden. Dr. Burger has had a long interest in the use of computers in medicine and has gained national recognition for his work on improving systems of care and the integration of computer technology in primary care. His passion is continuous improvement to get better results for patients. Along the way, he has developed a particular interest in caring for problems of the spine and musculoskeletal system.
Other interests include reading, biking, movies and family.
Fred Benson - Lobbyists: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Date: February 26, 2010
Location: Birch Bay Village Inn
Time: Lunch 11:30; Lecture 12-1:00. Call the ASC office 288-9500 for reservations!
Description: President Obama won't allow them to serve in his administration; the media portrays
them as cigar-chomping, Gucci-clad, money-hungry sycophants; and members of congress rail against their practices while remaining wed to their contributions. Who are these lobbyists, under what mandate do they operate, and is what they do a net positive for our democracy?
Fred Benson, a political columnist and former Washington and International Affairs vice president for Weyerhaeuser Company, will address these questions and present his candid assessment of lobbying – the good, the bad, and the ugly – based on his thirty plus years in Washington while serving in both government and corporate positions.