Acadia Senior College

"The Acadia Senior College (ASC) has grown from a seed planted in Jim Clunan’s imagination in 1999 when he attended courses at the fledgling senior college which Rabbi Harry Sky had organized in Portland at the University of Southern Maine. Mentored by the Rabbi and challenged by his wife Dorothy to found a similar organization on MDI, Jim eagerly took up the gauntlet. Both Jim and Dorothy were recently retired from careers in the foreign service (American and British, respectively), and had been seeking an exciting new assignment. Jim placed notices in the Bar Harbor Times that meetings would be held on two evenings in February 2000 at the Somesville Fire Station; over 100 residents braved the wintry cold to attend, propose classes, and volunteer to organize the new college. The following month Acadia Senior College was named and officially founded" (Dohmen, Bill. "Acadia Senior College: A Brief History" at Acadia Senior College [ https://www.acadiaseniorcollege.org/history-and-organization : accessed 02 August 2023]).