OLLI at BCC Presents 'The End of WWII and the Creation of the Post-war Global System'

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College (OLLI at BCC) Distinguished Speakers Series presents "The End of WWII and the Creation of the Post-war Global System" with Professor Warren Kimball on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 2:30 p.m.

The talk will be held at BCC's main campus, located at 1350 West Street, Pittsfield.

Tickets are $10 for the general public and free for OLLI at BCC members, WIC/ EBT/ConnectorCare Card holders, and students, staff and faculty of BCC, MCLA and Williams College. To register, visit https://berkshireolli.org/event-6827923.

Kimball's talk and discussion focuses on how Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin thought about and shaped the postwar world — a history that lasted for some 75 years and may be crumbling right now.

According to a press release:

Professor Warren Kimball is the author of "Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War (1997)," "The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991)," and books on the Morgenthau Plan for Germany and the origins of Lend-Lease. He edited "Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence" (three volumes, 1984) and has authored more than 50 essays on Churchill, Roosevelt and the era of the Second World War. Kimball is an academic adviser to the Churchill Centre and senior editor for the Churchill journal, "Finest Hour." He chaired and served on the State Department Historical Advisory Committee (1990-2003) and chaired the Secretary of State's Review Panel on the Historical Office Issues (2008-09).

Currently, Kimball is writing an institutional history of the US Tennis Association and is the USTA historian. He is the Robert Treat Professor of History (emeritus) from Rutgers University, where he taught for 32 years, and was Pitt Professor at Cambridge University (1987-88) and Visiting Distinguished Professor at The Citadel (2002-04). An OLLI at BCC member, Kimball lives on Seabrook Island in South Carolina and in the Berkshires.

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North Berkshire Educational Study Updating Communities

By Breanna Steele & Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:20AM / Thursday, September 24, 2026

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The steering committee for a regional study on secondary education is getting the word out to participating communities and asking for input.

Members of the North Berkshire Educational Sustainability Study spoke to the Cheshire Board of Selectmen last week and to the North Adams City Council on Tuesday.

The goal of the study is to focus on Grades 6 through 12 to understand current conditions across districts, hear people on their educational priorities, analyze strengths, opportunities, and challenges, and identify opportunities for future collaboration.

Steering Committee Chair Erin Milne, also a member of the Hoosac Valley Regional School Committee, introduced the study and why it was needed.

"We've been talking for decades about how the Northern Berkshire school communities can better collaborate with one another, rather than necessarily duplicating services," she told he Cheshire board. "And over time, it's become more and more of a pressing issue as our enrollment has been going down, but costs have been going up."

Hoosac Valley, North Adams, Mount Greylock Regional, Clarksburg, Savoy and Florida are participating in the study. A combination of declining population and rising costs are putting pressure on the districts, but the study will also look at educational opportunities that could come from collaboration.

In North Adams, Superintendent of Schools Timothy Callahan noted that "the reality is that in the North Adams Public Schools, our graduating class is now closer to what Lenox used to have as a graduating class 20 years ago ... So those are the realities, and what can we sustain, and what are the educational opportunities for our young people? Those are the questions that we're asking."

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