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Field Trips

Smithfield Elementary School
Margaret Chase Smith visits with students in 1987.





March 2008
Albert Hall School
Waterville


Lynn King shows students library collections.

May 15, 2008
Cottrell Elementary School
Monmouth
Note Cards Designed by Cottrell Students
June 2008
Winslow Junior High School

September 16, 2008
Mt. Blue Middle School
Farmington

December 12, 2008
Student Leadership Class
Lawrence High School
Fairfield

February 5, 2009
Boy Scout Troop 460
Fairfield

April 15, 2009
Williams Elementary School
Oakland

May 12, 2009
Canaan Elementary School

June 15, 2009
New Leadership Group
University of Maine at Orono

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
Mt. Blue Regional School District

"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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