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Email Sign-UpSusan Ferris - National Merit Award Winner
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Portland Branch President Susan Ferris receiving National Merit Award from ESU Chairman Dr. Paul Beresford-Hill at National ESU Conference in NYC, October 11, 2015
Page Scholar Amy Seymour presenting to our ESU meeting
Page Scholar Amy Seymour at the Settlemeir Center in Woodburn, OR. They take at risk preschoolers and get them used to structure so school isn't overwhelming.
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Evening meal with Page Scholar
Nial Pickering
From Liverpool, England as he talks to us about teaching science and the UK and how he is contrasting it with teaching science in the USA.
Evelyn Wrench Speaker Program - Nicholas Bennett JP
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Up Close and Personal with a Member of the British Parliament
22 April 2015 - 6:30 pm Parish Hall- St. Marks Church
In his lecture Mr. Bennett looks at the differences and similarities between the ways in which the US and
British political and governmental systems work, including recent innovations in Britain adopted from
US practice. Mr Bennett looks at the state of the 'Special Relationship' between the US and Britain in the
light of the Obama Administration's declaration of a 'Pacific Presidency', as well as the challenges facing
both countries in tackling government debt and in moving towards disengagement in Afghanistan.
Speaker Event - Sue Peabody
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On January 21, Dr. Sue Peabody, professor of history at Washington State University/Vancouver spoke to Portland, Oregon, ESU members and their guests about slavery in the French colonies. Dr. Peabody, also associate chair of the history department at WSU/Vancouver explained to her attentive audience that France had an active slave trade but nothing has been written about it. Her book revolves around the life of a man called Furcy who was enslaved in the Franch Colonies in the 1800's. The book she's writing while on sabbatical will be translated into French so French Nationals can realize this piece of their history.
The luncheon meeting was held at Ft. Vancouver's restaurant, The Grant House, located on the north side of the Columbia River in Washington State. U.S. President Ulysses Grant was stationed at Ft. Vancouver early in his military career.
Winter Holiday Gathering, December 2019
