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Field Trips

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






Lynn King shows students library collections.

May 14, 2003
Troy Howard Middle School
Belfast, Maine
100 Acres of Learning

Troy Howard Middle School
Seed Packet

October 15, 2002
Girls Talk
Old Town Public Library

January 23, 2003
Gardiner Middle School
Totally Cool Seniors
Senior Citizen History Project

March 13, 2003
School Area District #9
Farmington, Maine
Food Drive

April 15, 2003
Kennebec Montessori School
Fairfield, Maine
Food Drive for Kennebec Valley Humane Society

May 28, 2003
Dunn Elementary School
New Gloucester, Maine
Ronald McDonald House

June 12, 2003
Margaret Chase Smith School
Sanford, Maine

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.

FIELD TRIPS 2002-2003

During the 2002-2003 school year, the Margaret Chase Smith Library hosted nearly 1500 young people as part of 66 school and youth groups. The majority of these visitors were invited to tell about their service projects and were rewarded with donations to support their charitable causes. Since 1998, almost 250 groups from throughout the state of Maine and from preschool to high school have benefited from this program, receiving over $50,000 in assistance.

Over the past six years, the library staff has been repeatedly amazed by the breadth and depth of students' commitment to improving their schools, communities, and world and 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 care about the environment and all creatures great and small. They send aid to 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, and bring the skills of peer mediation and community building to Guatemala. They join student leadership, peer mediation, and alcohol awareness groups; Key and Service Clubs; and Civil Rights Teams. In short, they serve!

GROUPS

10/03/2002 Bloomfield School (Skowhegan)
10/03/2002 Carrabec High School (Anson)
10/07/2002 Ellsworth High School
10/15/2002 Girls Talk (Old Town)
10/22/2002 Chelsea Elementary School
10/25/2002 Bloomfield Elementary School

12/03/2002 Cascade Brook School (Farmington)
12/10/2002 Benton Elementary School
12/16/2002 Waterville Adult Education
12/17/2002 Bloomfield Elementary School
12/18/2002 Canaan Elementary School

01/08/2003 Lawrence High School (Fairfield)
01/13/2003 Carrabec High School
01/20/2003 Skowhegan Area Middle School
01/23/2003 Gardiner Middle School
01/27/2003 Norridgewock Central School
01/30/2003 Strong Elementary School

02/06/2003 Waterville High School
02/26/2003 Foster Applied Technology Center
02/27/2003 Nickerson School (Greenville)

03/03/2003 Messalonskee High School (Oakland)
03/06/2003 Athens Elementary School
03/13/2003 MSAD #9 (Farmington)
03/18/2003 Chop Point School (Woolwich)
03/20/2003 Skowhegan Adult Education
03/21/2003 Glenburn Elementary School
03/21/2003 Mt. Blue Middle School (Farmington)
03/24/2003 Maranacook School (Readfield)
03/25/2003 Clinton Elementary School
03/26/2003 Newport Elementary School
03/27/2003 Forest Hills High School (Jackman)

04/01/2003 Cornville Elementary School
04/08/2003 Skowhegan Recreation Department
04/10/2003 Erskine Academy (China)
04/11/2003 Morse High School (Bath)
04/14/2003 Dexter Regional High School
04/14/2003 Skowhegan Area Middle School
04/15/2003 Marti Stevens Center (Skowhegan)
04/15/2003 Kennebec Montessori School
04/16/2003 Longfellow School (Portland)

05/05/2003 Winslow High School
05/06/2003 Brownville Elementary School
05/06/2003 LaGrange Elementary School
05/08/2003 Bloomfield School (Skowhegan)
05/12/2003 Albert Hall School (Waterville)
05/13/2003 Albert Hall School (Waterville)
05/14/2003 Troy Howard Middle School (Belfast)
05/21/2003 Albert Hall School (Waterville)
05/22/2003 Phillips Elementary School
05/23/2003 Benton Elementary School
05/27/2003 Skowhegan Area Middle School
05/28/2003 Dunn School (New Gloucester)
05/30/2003 Empowering Maine Youth (Guilford)
05/30/2003 Skowhegan Area High School

06/02/2003 Atwood-Tapley School (Oakland)
06/03/2003 Benton Elementary School
06/03/2003 Skowhegan Area Middle School
06/04/2003 Garrett Schenck School (Anson)
06/04/2003 Greenville High School
06/05/2003 Glenburn Elementary School
06/09/2003 Winslow Junior High School
06/10/2003 Margaret C. Smith School (Sanford)
06/11/2003 Margaret C. Smith School (Skowhegan)
06/12/2003 Margaret C. Smith School (Sanford)
06/13/2003 Smithfield Elementary School

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