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USM Sampson Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Reception, Exhibition, and Conference October 4, 2007 USM's Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity is celebrating its 10th anniversary at 5:30 p.m., Monday, October 15, with a free reception and program featuring a performance by the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus, and an audio-visual tribute to Jean Byers Sampson. Presentation of the Center’s first "Catalyst for Change Award" will be made to Rabbi Harry Sky of Falmouth. The public is invited to this event, which takes place in USM’s Abromson Community Education Center on USM’s Portland campus. For more information about any of the 10th Anniversary events, call Director of Special Collections Susie R. Bock at 780-4269 or bocks@usm.maine.edu. Established by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees in 1997 and named in memory of Sampson, the Center's mission is to promote interest and knowledge about Maine's diverse cultural fabric. Sampson was a Lewiston resident who founded the first NAACP chapter in Maine and served as executive director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union and as chair of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. Three collections are housed in the Center: The African American Collection of Maine includes the personal collection of former state legislator and civil rights advocate Gerald E. Talbot; the Judaica Collection includes the family papers from Sumner and Rosalyne Bernstein, leaders in Maine's legal and civic communities; and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection, which includes the papers of activist Frannie Peabody and photographs by Annette Dragon. The Sampson Center will present a “Catalyst for Change Award” each October to honor an individual's commitment to diversity and human rights. Sky, a New Jersey native, became the rabbi at Portland’s Temple Beth El in 1961, a position he held for 28 years. Sky, a founding member of the Portland NAACP, worked to coordinate the Portland delegation’s participation in the 1963 March on Washington and also participated in the march on Selma, Alabama. He is the founder of USM's Senior College, the first school for older learners in the state, now known as the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Sampson Center’s Annual Exhibition, Monday, October 15-Friday, January 18 As part of the 10th anniversary celebration, the Sampson Center's annual exhibition, "Remember Me?' The Life and Legacy of Jean Byers Sampson," will focus on Sampson’s life. It will be on display in the Special Collections area on the 6th floor of USM's Glickman Family Library during library hours (http://library.usm.maine.edu/about/hours.html) from Monday, October 15 through Friday, January 18. Sampson Center 10th Anniversary Conference, Thursday, November 1 A 10th anniversary conference, "The Limits of Diversity: Disturbing Art Disturbing Spectators," will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, in the University Events Room of USM's Glickman Family Library, Portland. The conference is co-sponsored by USM's 2007-2008 Duclos Convocation on Academic Freedom. The public is invited to a panel discussion featuring Bates College Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Women and Gender Studies Erica Rand; artist Derek Jackson; USM student Daniel Chard; Sampson Center Scholar-in-Residence for the Judaica Collection Abraham Peck; and moderated by Sampson Center Scholar-in-Residence for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection Howard Solomon. Photo Captions: 1. http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0607releases/Sam2007_05.jpg 2. http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0607releases/Sam2007_10.jpg 3. http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0607releases/Sam2007_03.jpg 4. http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0607releases/Sam2007_08.jpg
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