Community members are invited to a three-part program series exploring classical virtues and civic responsibilities with former Oregon Teacher of the Year Lois MacMillan called “Civic Behavior from Yesterday — For Today” from 5:30–7 pm the first three Tuesdays in January at the Grants Pass branch of Josephine Community Library, 200 NW C Street.
Drawing from Jeffrey Rosen’s The Pursuit of Happiness and Richard Haas’ The Bill of Obligations, participants will examine values like temperance, humility, and justice, and the common good. Open to teens and adults, this program blends history and civic engagement to inspire personal and community well-being.
Schedule is as follows:
Temperance, Humility, Sincerity | Tuesday, January 7
Industry, Resolution, Moderation | Tuesday, January 14
Tranquility, Silence, Justice | Tuesday, January 21
This program is offered at no charge and open to the public. A library card is not needed to participate and registration is not required.
Lois MacMillan teaches American and World History at Grants Pass High School. After earning her National Board Certification in Early Adolescence-Social Studies, MacMillan won Oregon’s 2006 History Teacher of the Year award. She serves on the National Council of History Education and has participated in fellowships with Monticello, Ford’s Theatre, James Madison, and the Pulitzer Center. In 2018 she won Grammy Museum’s Jane Ortner Award for incorporating music in the non-music classroom. In the fall of 2018, she took a one-year sabbatical in New York City where she worked with Title I high school teachers and students in fourteen cities around the country on Founding Era curriculum, culminating in their attendance to the Broadway show, Hamilton.
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