The Bay de Noc Community College Model United Nations Club traveled to Boston for the 55th Annual Harvard National Model United Nations Conference, February 12-15, 2009.

1. Harvard National Model United Nations 2009 Bay de Noc Community College delegation representing The Federated States of Micronesia Clip art courtesy of Google images

2. BAY COLLEGE DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: First Committee: Disarmament and International Security (DISEC) Honorable Delegate Joe Wiltzius Honorable Delegate Darren Peterson Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural (SOCHUM) Honorable Delegate David Hopp World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Honorable Delegate Jim Shepard Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonization (SPECPOL) Honorable Delegate Kaylene Bigelow Sixth Committee: Legal Honorable Delegate Jen Stevenson World Health Organization (WHO) Honorable Delegate Amanda Syers HARVARD NATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS BOSTON, MA February 12-15, 2009 Clip art courtesy of http://www.hnmun.org

3. Opening ceremonies Kaylene Jim Darren Jen Amanda David Joe: Head Delegate

4. Exploring Boston

5. New England Holocaust Memorial Photo courtesy of http://www.nehm.com/ On our first night in Boston, we came across this. We were shocked to learn that each number on every panel, on every side, of these 6 columns, several stories high, represented a life lost in the Holocaust. Located on the Freedom Trail in Boston, the memorial is a powerful reminder of the meaning of freedom.

6. Visit to Cambridge! Taubman Building on Harvard Campus Clip art courtesy of http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/

7. Special thank you to Dr. Patterson for giving us such a wonderful tour of the Joan Shorenstein Center in the JFK School of Government! Photo courtesy of Google images www.shorensteincenter.org Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. His most recent book, The Vanishing Voter , looks at the causes and consequences of declining electoral participation. His book on the media’s political role, Out of Order , received the American Political Science Association Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. An earlier book, The Unseeing Eye , was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books on public opinion in the past half century. He also is author of Mass Media Election and two general American government texts: The American Democracy and We the People . Bio: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/thomas-patterson

8. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Park, outside the JFK School of Government on the Harvard Campus

10. Harvard Yard and Harvard Law School

11. Harvard University Science Center The Howard Aiken calculator “Harvard Mk 1” automatic calculator on display in lobby of the Science Center. Installed in 1944, it ran at Harvard for 14 years. The machine was 51 feet long, 8 ft high and weighed 5 tons. Three portions survive today; this piece, plus another in the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and the third is in IBM's historical collection. Source: http://www.oldcomputers.arcula.co.uk/hist4.htm Quick, let’s sneak into this classroom and pretend we are Harvard students, and Mrs. C is our “History of Science” Harvard professor! Tee hee!

12. Memorial Hall: honoring Harvard students who fought in the Civil War

14. Honorable delegates in session

15. Look! It’s the Old North Church, and Mrs. C finally sees the statue of Paul Revere!

16. One if by land, two if by sea “ The enduring fame of the Old North began on the evening of April 18, 1775, when the church sexton, Robert Newman , climbed the steeple and held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were marching to Lexington and Concord by sea and not by land. This fateful event ignited the American Revolution.” Source: http://www.oldnorth.com/history/index.htm

17. The grounds of the Old North Church

18. Memorial to fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, outside the Old North Church Yes, sadly, each one of those is an individual military dog tag, representing the men and women lost in these modern day wars. But don’t ask Mrs. C any simple questions here, unless you want a 20- minute, complicated lecture! 

19. Inside the Old North Church The students are sitting in a box pew owned by Paul Revere’s son’s family , while Professor Campbell points out that Theodore Roosevelt once sat in another box pew on December 29, 1912 Look! It’s the great, great, great, something great, ancestor of Bay Psychology professor Greg Cutler ! 

20. The New North Meeting House: No, that’s not the Old North Church!

21. Twin tourists!

22. Why is there a Cameroon sign above Mrs. C’s head? Who knows. But what a great chandelier in the Imperial Ballroom!

23. Ready for some Boston seafood- We were all tired and hungry! Clip art courtesy of h ttp://www.mccormickandschmicks.com/

24. Night out on the town!

25. Boston Park Plaza hotel theme: Swans. Seriously? Will David ever live it down? Clip art courtesy of http://www.bostonparkplaza.com/

26. Air Travel = hurry up, then wait! Logan International Airport

27. Catching up on a little C-SPAN coverage of committee hearings led by Congressman Stupak!

28. Leaving Moo-sachusetts!