Please plan to attend our Spring  Membership meeting scheduled for Saturday, April 5 at 1:00 PM.  This meeting will be held both in person in the Library Program Room at the Tolland Public Library, 21 Tolland Green, and it will be broadcast via Zoom.  1:00 is the business meeting and at 2:00 Mr. Saulniers will present about the French of New Bedford.   

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Topic: Spring Meeting

Time: Apr 5, 2025 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87133672508?pwd=kmfTxoQxYwtwY5O5BQeGkrVCszaWtM.1 

Meeting ID: 871 3367 2508

Passcode: 451358

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About Alfred Saulniers: Acushnet-born and raised, Alfred Saulniers left southeastern Massachusetts after graduation from high school. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He then worked successively for the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University. Saulniers had an extensive international career as an economist before returning to New Bedford in 2000. His long-term foreign residencies included Peru, Zaïre, Kenya, Morocco and Pakistan, countries where he taught and consulted. He also undertook short-term consultancies for: the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the British Department for International Development, the United States Agency for International Development and the United States Department of Agriculture.  After his return to New Bedford, Saulniers served as the lead writer for Spinner Publication’s two volumes of the Picture History of New Bedford.