Event to Celebrate the Life Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — The Maine Christian Association, the ecumenical campus ministry for the University of Maine community, will celebrate the life of Dorothy Clarke Wilson on Sunday, May 2 from 2-4 p.m. at the Wilson Center on the UMaine Campus. The event is scheduled for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wilson, a prolific writer who was known for her commitment to peace and social justice. She died in 2003, shortly before her 99th birthday.
The Wilson Protestant Student Center, where the Sunday event will be held, is named for Dorothy Clarke Wilson’s husband, Rev. Elwin L. Wilson, who was the Maine Christian Association’s first chaplain, from 1950-55. He died in 1992 at the age of 93.
The Wilsons met when they were students at Bates College. They maintained strong ties to UMaine and the Wilson Center for more than four decades after the ministry took them to other assignments around Maine. Dorothy Clark Wilson’s writing included religious plays, biographies and novels, including “The Prince of Egypt, the story of Moses.
Sunday’s event will feature beverages and food, including a birthday cake. The Wilson Center is at 67 College Ave. The phone number there is 866-4227.