Submitted by Middlesex Community College
Middlesex Community College will host the fall opening session of the Middlesex Institute for Lifelong Education for Seniors (MILES) at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the Bedford Campus Center Café East, 591 Springs Road. The event is free and open to the public.
MCC’s MILES program offers stimulating, interactive daytime seminars and workshops – with no term papers, tests or grades – for active, older adults. This informational and entertaining opening session provides community members an opportunity to learn more about MILES and the courses being offered, and is a good opportunity to meet instructors and peers. Light refreshments will be served.
The MILES Opening Session will feature a keynote address by Ed Harding, of WCVB Channel 5. Harding is co-anchor for the NewsCener 5 early-evening and late newscasts.
Before joining WCVB, Harding was sports director and principle sports anchor for WISH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis. At WISH, he anchored and produced the 6 and 11 p.m. sportscasts, co-produced and reported the station’s annual “Indy 500” special, and was producer and host of “The Colts Today,” the NFL Indianapolis Colts coach’s show. For three years, he provided live reports and color commentary for Colts games on WIBC Radio. While in the Midwest, Harding won two Indiana Associated Press Awards and was named Best TV Sportscaster by Indianapolis Magazine.
A native of Newton, Harding graduated from Emerson College in Boston and now lives in Wellesley.
The fall session of MILES runs from Oct. 19 through Nov. 24 on the Bedford campus. The two-hour study groups meet from 2 to 4 p.m., in one-, two- or five-week sessions, and are facilitated by individuals with expertise in their field, including some MCC faculty and staff. The workshops and seminars focus on a variety of topics, including movies, nature, art, literature, technology, health and environmental issues, religion and history.
“The goal of MILES is two-fold,” said Marci Barnes, Director of Lifelong Learning. “The first is to enrich lifelong learning for active, older adults through our varied and interesting programming. The second goal is simply to provide personal enrichment and social interaction with like-minded members of the community.”
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