This membership covers June 1st 2023 to May 31st 2024.  SSC Members must have a valid membership entry on your file to enjoy the full benifits of our - Summer-Fall 2023, Winter-Spring 2024 programs. You should select your 2023- 2024 membership as part of registering for your first class in this new year.  If you need to apply for a scholarship to cover your membership fees, this is done using a separate application which is located on the SSC website.  Your request must be reviewed and processed by the Scholarship committee before registering for any classes.

Sunrise Senior College wishes to thank you for your tax exempt donation.  Your generosity enables us to continue providing the programs and activities that are so vital to our community.  In accordance with IRS regulations, we acknowledge that no goods or services were received in exchange for this gift.  Please save this email for your tax records.  

Thank you.

Susan O'Clair 

Treasurer, Sunrise Senior College   

Sunrise Senior College wishes to thank you for your tax exempt donation.  Your generosity enables us to continue providing the programs and activities that are so vital to our community.  In accordance with IRS regulations, we acknowledge that no goods or services were received in exchange for this gift.  Please save this email for your tax records.  

Thank you.

Susan O'Clair 

Treasurer, Sunrise Senior College   

Sunrise Senior College wishes to thank you for your tax exempt donation.  Your generosity enables us to continue providing the programs and activities that are so vital to our community.  In accordance with IRS regulations, we acknowledge that no goods or services were received in exchange for this gift.  Please save this email for your tax records.  

Thank you.

Susan O'Clair 

Treasurer, Sunrise Senior College   

Sunrise Senior College wishes to thank you for your tax exempt donation.  Your generosity enables us to continue providing the programs and activities that are so vital to our community.  In accordance with IRS regulations, we acknowledge that no goods or services were received in exchange for this gift.  Please save this email for your tax records.  

Thank you.

Susan O'Clair 

Treasurer, Sunrise Senior College

Discussions for this class will cover the different styles and forms of poetry and where creativity and inspiration come from. Les will lead us in looking at various subjects, expressions, ways to convey feelings and emotions to the readers, how to “play with words”. The class will examine poems from the book “From a Far Corner” and students will be asked to write a poem for one of their sessions.

Instructor:  Les Simon is a published author and poet. He runs the Porter Poets, a writing group of dedicated poets who meet on Zoom and/or in the Porter Memorial Library in Machias on the last Friday of each month. He has been an active member of the group for some ten years.

Class Information:  This is a hybrid class - held in-person in UM@M’s room SCI 102 and via Zoom.

All facilities at the University of Maine at Machias (UM@M) are fully handicap compliant.  The facilities used by Sunrise Senior College (SSC) at the college have ramps, elevators and handicap accessible bathrooms.  Our offsite functions and activities have various limitations and restrictions and may not be fully handicap accessible.  SSC will endeavor to identify limitations at these to you in advance.

Book recommended for this class:

     Title:  From the Far Corner: An Anthology of Poetry from the Easternmost Reaches of Maine (available at Porter Memorial Library)   

     Author: Various poets from the Porter Poets writing group

     ISBN: 9780989426381

                                              IMPORTANT:  See Below

This class is available to all current Maine Senior College (MSCN) Members. The general public not wishing to join Sunrise Senior College at this time may attend this class for a $20.00 fee.

Sunrise Senior College (SSC) is a membership-based organization. Our SSC members receive special benefits as current members when they register for this course. Any member of another MSCN college is also able to enjoy this course, but may occur some additional charges. If you are a member of the general public, you can take this course but will have to pay additional fees associated with being a non-member. For any attendee that is not a current member of Sunrise Senior College, the materials required for the course are your responsibility. When checking out, please carefully read and answer the questions asked associated with this specific course so that you are charged appropriately for this class. Failure to do this may result in your being cancelled from the course. We hope you enjoy this offering.

This is a limited enrollment 6-week course in which your instructor will carefully explain the rationale and principles behind each bidding sequence and the play guidelines used in the game to help you acquire the skills needed to be a successful bridge player.

Bridge is the card game of more millions of people than any other played in the English-speaking countries and throughout the world. Once you learn the foundational rules, you’ll have the skills needed to enjoy playing bridge with the new friends you’ll make. So, if you’ve always wanted to learn now’s your chance!

Instructor:  Greg Campbell has been playing Bridge for fun off and on since 1964. He currently coordinates the Bridge Bums, a spin-off of a prior SSC Introduction to Bridge class, that play on Monday afternoons at St. Aidan's undercroft.

Class Information:  This is an in-person class being held at St. Aidan’s Church undercroft in Machias, ME.  

The undercroft of St. Aidan’s is handicap accessible however the bathrooms are not fully handicap compliant.

                                     !!! IMPORTANT !!!

The following material is required for the class.   At this time, it is too late for SSC to order the book.  If you wish to take this class you must purchase the book yourself.

          Title: Modern Bridge: Bidding and Play of the Hand

          Author: Rick Hartley

          ISBN: 9781496129826

                                    IMPORTANT:  See Below

This class is available to all current Maine Senior College (MSCN) Members. The general public not wishing to join Sunrise Senior College at this time may attend this class for a $20.00 fee.

Sunrise Senior College (SSC) is a membership-based organization. Our SSC members receive special benefits as current members when they register for this course. Any member of another MSCN college is also able to enjoy this course, but may occur some additional charges. If you are a member of the general public, you can take this course but will have to pay additional fees associated with being a non-member. For any attendee that is not a current member of Sunrise Senior College, the materials required for the course are your responsibility. When checking out, please carefully read and answer the questions asked associated with this specific course so that you are charged appropriately for this class. Failure to do this may result in your being cancelled from the course. We hope you enjoy this offering.

The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s often-forgotten masterpiece.  A mixture of comedy, tragedy, and romance, it asks difficult questions about love, friendship, marriage, suffering, and redemption.  We will work our way through the play both by careful reading of the text and by considering its relationship to Christian martyrs.  In other words, we’ll make comparisons to the lives of early martyrs, using a few short readings and some works of art.  No, The Winter’s Tale does not seem to have anything to do with faith - Or does it??????

Instructor:  Dr. Gerard NeCastro was a professor of English and Humanities in Maine for twenty-two years, teaching everything from Composition and Creative Writing to World Literature and Shakespeare. His signature class was Introduction to Humanities, which worked back and forth between literature and visual arts.  His favorite classes were with the Sunrise Senior College scholars.  He has since moved to West Virginia, where he has been Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English.

Class Information:  This is a hybrid class - held in-person in UM@M’s room SCI 102 and via Zoom.

Please note - there will be no class on October 9th (Indigenous Peoples Day). The class will be extended to October 23rd to account for this.

All facilities at the University of Maine at Machias (UM@M) are fully handicap compliant.  The facilities used by Sunrise Senior College (SSC) at the college have ramps, elevators and handicap accessible bathrooms.  Our offsite functions and activities have various limitations and restrictions and may not be fully handicap accessible.  SSC will endeavor to identify limitations at these to you in advance.

                                              !!! IMPORTANT !!!

The following material is required for the class.   At this time, it is too late for SSC to order the book.  If you wish to take this class you must purchase the book yourself.

     Title: The Winter's Tale

     Author: William Shakespeare

     ISBN: 9781982122508

                                               IMPORTANT:  See Below

This class is available to all current Maine Senior College (MSCN) Members. The general public not wishing to join Sunrise Senior College at this time may attend this class for a $20.00 fee.

Sunrise Senior College (SSC) is a membership-based organization. Our SSC members receive special benefits as current members when they register for this course. Any member of another MSCN college is also able to enjoy this course, but may occur some additional charges. If you are a member of the general public, you can take this course but will have to pay additional fees associated with being a non-member. For any attendee that is not a current member of Sunrise Senior College, the materials required for the course are your responsibility. When checking out, please carefully read and answer the questions asked associated with this specific course so that you are charged appropriately for this class. Failure to do this may result in your being cancelled from the course. We hope you enjoy this offering.