People
Stone Speaks To Honors Diploma Scholars
Sue Ann Gaitings, coordinator of the Honors Diploma Scholars at Brewer High School,
Brewer, ME. hosted Associate Professor Laurie Stone at an event to enrich the scholars'
academic curriculum. Stone spoke to a group of about 25 students and two faculty members in
February 2013 on the personal side of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan based on
her friendships with Japanese people directly and indirectly affected by the mega-disaster.
ABC/Fox News attended the presentation and interviewed Stone for the February 15th
evening news.
"Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me A Map..."
Professor of geography, Betsy Reese, caught the attention of 90 people at a presentation
she gave at the Wright Museum of WWII History in Wolfeboro, NH, on February 3, 2013.
Her speech focused on the compelling role women played in making maps during WWII,
when an increased need and demand for maps and charts drove the military to seek out
maps from dusty archives and libraries. A shortage of draftsmen caused the military
to look to women to fill mapmaking needs in order to help the Allies plan invasions,
establish bases and airstrips, and locate natural resources. Reese's presentation was an
offshoot of research she conducted for the "Schooner Bowdoin on the Greenland Patrol"
exhibit which she and Captain Peg Brandon, associate professor of marine transportation,
mounted at the Castine Historical Society in the summer of 2012.
The Wright Museum specializes in the care and exhibit of "artifacts illustrating the heroic
efforts of ordinary people living during the extraordinary times of WWII." Reese's lecture
was part of the museum's "Cabin Fever Winter Lecture Series" held
on Sunday afternoons. More information about the museum and its events can be found
at www.wrightmuseum.org.
16 MARINER 2013 - Issue 2

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