14 March 2019
Mimi Edmunds, Classification Talk
14 March 2019
Buckets the Table: Bowl for Kid’s Sake
Speaker: Mimi Edmunds, Classification Talk
Excited to be a part of Rotary! Mimi came to Maine in 1986 and worked in film and photography, but moved to stay here 10 years ago. She is Baltimore born and raised and is an Oriole fan. She is an identical twin and her Father was in the navy. Mimi attended Bryn Mawr, then moved onto Bradford, then to University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she got interested into peace corps (liberal arts major) and traveled to Kenya. It was a transformative experience, she became a teacher in a developing country, and taught English as a second language. Upon her return to the states, Mimi attended graduate school in education and anthropology at Columbia . Margaret Mead was one of her teachers, and worked for her. Eventually, Mimi worked at CBS during grad school as a researcher for Walter Chronkite news, then stayed with CBS news, 1978-92. Later moved to CBS reports and then to 60 Minutes with Dan Rathers. Later worked with Ed Bradley, as a producer in Cambodia. After 12 years she joined Discovery and worked on a series called Archaelogy. She also worked for PBS in Arizona. Most importantly, Mimi adopted Eliza, born in Texas in 1991. After this she went to USC and taught journalism. Later left for Tucson 1999-2007 for PBS. Mimi has worked summers since 1986 for Maine 2006. She returned to the east coast, Boston, for personal reasons, later ran a film program for Maine Media. She also taught at Emerson College. Mimi is now in a creative writing program now, Midcoast chorus and CIFF.
Committees
New Rotarian joining us! Kate Dullea, Welcome!
Yachting Club, Thursday 21st, Let Tom Albertson know if you are interested
Tuesday 26th, International , hands across the sea project to discuss
Community: Habitat this Saturday, Special Olympics May 10th looking for volunteers
Vocational: new member on scholarship committee, Suzanne Scott!
Interact: lots of attendance! Encouraging!
Fellowship: Tiki time on Tues, 19th 1700, The Jack. Sunday brunch at Sea Dog in April!
Duck counting party 3500 ducks, discarded 868 ducks…no more sinkers, 206 lost a sea, need one more duck counting party…will be ordering more ducks, march 27th 1800 George and Jan…need volunteers!
Book club: getting a good size group, the Story Teller’s Secret is for next month! Now listed on the website!
Paul Harris fellow: Tim Dresser received his second!
Next Week’s Speaker: Club Assembly, strategic plan will be discussed, will get a copy emailed from George later today. Satellite club presentation.