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The Auburn Conservation Commission would like to send a huge shout-out of thanks to the more than 40 people who showed up April 24 to help clean up parks and neighborhoods in Auburn.
They gave several hours on a beautiful morning to help this community shine. They rolled up their sleeves, wrangled their pickers, thrashed through the pucker bushes and pulled out tons of items both small and large. The honking horns and words of encouragement from passersby reminded us how much people love Auburn and hope to see the community put its best foot forward.
The downside to work like this is seeing how thoughtless actions make hillsides and river banks unsightly and dangerous. Saturday’s trash haul included plastic cups and nip bottles, straws and takeout containers, and a seemingly infinite number of cigarette butts.
Lecturer Emerita in Writing Joyce H. Seligman died June 7, 2020, at age 75.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Joyce graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and City University of New York. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Maine and taught writing at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Wisconsin before joining Bates in 1981 as the founding director of the Writing Workshop, now Writing at Bates. She retired in 2008 as lecturer emerita in writing.
In her time at Bates, Joyce and her team worked with more than 13,000 students. Along the way, she created a comprehensive program of undergraduate writing instruction and designed faculty development programs to improve the teaching of writing across the curriculum. Her legacy is seen in how Bates prioritizes writing as a curricular focus throughout a student’s career.