In this issue: working to help heal Maine's First Nation people, student opens groundbreaking recovery center, learning to become an accomplished leader in South Africa, and more.
 
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  Leadership students  
A unique leadership project in South Africa
 
As part of a leadership project, University of Southern Maine (USM) students journeyed to Montagu, South Africa — located about two hours from the continent's southern tip — for a memorable five-day class to help sharpen who they are and how to become leaders.
 
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  Joe McLaughlin  
Graduate students work with Wabanaki tribes
 
Joe McLaughlin and Dorice Timko — graduate students in the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Program — talk about their work on poverty, drug addiction, and history with members of Maine's First Nation people, the Wabanaki tribes in Washington County.
 
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  Andrew Kiezulas  
1st-in-Maine center for students in recovery
 
Chemistry major and incoming senior Andrew Kiezulas is one of the driving forces behind the Recovery Oriented Campus Center (ROCC) that aims help recovering students complete their degrees and encourage others in recovery to enroll in classes.
 
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  Shelby Watts, Noel Neptune, and Leah Dell  
Firsts for USM students at national symposium
 
Athletic Training students Leah Dell and Shelby Watts recently attended the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) annual meeting and symposium, becoming the first USM students ever to compete in the NATA National Quiz Bowl and the first to sit on NATA's Student Leadership Committee.
 
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