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Margaret Chase Smith created the
library in part to provide herself a forum for meeting with students. Through
her own example, she hoped to inspire young people to aspire
and to serve. To continue this important legacy, the Margaret Chase
Smith Library maintains a field trip fund to ensure that Maine school
children continue to learn the virtues of achievement and good citizenship.
While at the facility, students watch a twenty-minute video on Senator
Smith's life and tour her house, the museum, and the archives. Teachers
interested in bringing classes may request funds by contacting the library.
"Thank you for the opportunity you gave to our
students. I love what you do at the library and am very appreciative of your time and effort!"
Pauline Rodrigue, Volunteer Coordinator "What
a delightful visit our students had with you. I have participated in many
enrichment opportunities over the years, and none has been better planned and
run than yours. The messages you so clearly gave the children of higher
aspirations, anticipating the hurdles, and considering community service were
wonderful. All of this is in addition to the wonderful biography and
government lesson. What a fine field trip, indeed."
Lesley Fowler, Albert Hall School, Waterville, ME
FIELD
TRIPS During the
2008-2009 school year, the Margaret Chase Smith Library hosted thirteen
hundred young people from more than fifty school and youth organizations.
Most of these visitors were invited to tell about their service projects and
were rewarded with donations to support their charitable causes. Since 1997,
over five hundred groups from throughout the state of Maine and covering
preschool to college have benefited from this program, receiving over
$100,000 to make a difference in their schools, communities, state, nation,
and world. Over the
past decade, the library staff has been repeatedly amazed by the breadth and
depth of students' commitment to helping those in need because of poverty,
sickness, and disaster. It has affirmed for us that the vast majority of
young people are good kids willing to do good works. They organize food,
clothing, toy, and blood drives. They mentor the young and visit the old.
They are concerned about the environment and all creatures great and small.
They care about orphans in Romania, provide relief for refugees in Kosovo,
collect textbooks for students in Kenya, explore female empowerment in South
Africa, donate health and school supplies to the poor of Ecuador, bring the
skills of peer mediation and community building to Guatemala, and send aid to
tsunami victims in South Asia. They also join student leadership, peer
mediation, and alcohol awareness groups; service clubs; and Civil Rights
Teams. In short, they serve! GROUPS 09/16/2008 Mt. Blue Middle (Farmington) 10/29/2008 Winslow Elementary School 10/29/2008 Academy Hill School (Wilton) 10/30/2008 Winslow Elementary School 11/04/2008 Benton Elementary School 11/07/2008 Valley High School (Bingham) 12/03/2008 Chelsea Elementary School 12/08/2008 Clinton Elementary School 12/09/2008 Madison Area Memorial High School 12/12/2008 Lawrence High School (Fairfield) 01/08/2009 Erskine Academy 01/09/2009 Penobscot Christian School 01/23/2009 Benton Elementary School 02/05/2009 Boy Scout Troop 460 (Fairfield) 02/10/2009 Orrington Elementary School 03/09/2009 Albert Hall School (Waterville) 03/17/2009 Cascade Brook School (Farmington) 03/19/2009 Mt.View High School (Thorndike) 03/26/2009 Wagner Middle School (Winterport) 03/27/2009 Maranacook HS (Readfield) 04/02/2009 Benton Elementary School 04/03/2009 Athens Elementary School 04/14/2009 St. Michael School (Augusta) 04/15/2009 Williams Elementary (Oakland) 04/16/2009 Marti Stevens Ctr. (Skowhegan) 04/17/2009 Williams Elementary School 04/28/2009 Margaret Smith School (Skowhegan) 04/28/2009 Waterville High School 04/29/2009 Cascade Brook School 04/29/2009 Messalonskee High School
(Oakland) 04/30/2009 Clinton Elementary School 05/01/2009 Lagrange Elementary School 05/01/2009 Milo Elementary School 05/05/2009 Skowhegan Regional Vocational
Ctr. 05/06/2009 Forest Hills
School (Jackman) 05/06/2009 Waterville High School 05/07/2009 Tremont Consolidated School 05/12/2009 Canaan Elementary School 05/13/2009 Albion Elementary School 05/15/2009 Albert Hall School 05/18/2009 Mt. Merici School (Waterville) 05/21/2009 Winslow High School 05/22/2009 Benton Elementary School 05/27/2009 Margaret C. Smith School
(Sanford) 05/28/2009 Margaret Chase Smith School 05/29/2009 Senior College 06/03/2009 Dedham School 06/05/2009 Glenburn Elementary School 06/08/2009 Stockton Springs School 06/11/2009 Bloomfield Elementary (Skowhegan)
06/15/2009 Maine New
Leadership (UMO) 06/15/2009 Winslow Junior High School |
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