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Fall 2008 Study Groups in Tucson (September 8 - December 12, 2008)

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M O N D A Y S

THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC FROM 1829 TO 1960

Dick Bristol/Paul Scholl, Study Group Leaders
9/8-10/20
Mondays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: The study group will examine the history of one of America’s great contributions to world culture, the music known as Jazz. We will trace music of the years 1829 to the 1920 era of Broadway Musicals to blues, boogie woogie and swing. We will even throw in a little Bebop. You’ll discover why American popular music is now heard and enjoyed from Tokyo to Paris to Sydney to London.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

NEWS, CLUES & VIEWS

Ardis Niemann Noonan, Study Group Leader
9/22-12/8
Mondays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group is an open forum discussion group. The suggested topics each week will be offered by both the study group leader and members. The topics or issues will relate to politics, legal, medical and contemporary social issues. No homework or assigned reading is required. However, participants are expected to be informed and knowledgeable about issues which are prominent in the media.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

BUT IS IT ART?

Dolores Vaughn/Paul Scholl, Guest SGL/Sponsor
10/27-12/8
Mondays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will analyze an era within the history of art that, with the help of contemporary events, philosophies and ideas, launched the birth of modernity and changed the way we see the world. Starting in 1863 when Edouard Manet exhibited for the first time his “Breakfast in the Woods” at a Paris salon, this study group will work their way through a series of Movements from Impressionalism through Surrealism. You’ll explore what the artists were trying to communicate with each of these various artistic expressions.

About the Study Group Leader: Dolores Vaughn has a long-time interest in art. She served as a docent at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA for five years. She is the wife of OLLI member, John Vaughn.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Charles Peters, Study Group Leader
9/8-12/8
Mondays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: Three books will be covered in this study group. The Green House (405 p.) by Mario Vargas Llosa, who is an acclaimed novelist of Latin America; Chronicle of a Death Foretold (120 p.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is a Nobel Laureate in literature and a pioneer of the technique of Latin American “magical realism” in literature. The third book is Pedro Paramo (124 p.) by Juan Rulfo, one of the first of the “magical realism” novels of Latin American literature.

Note: This study group will not meet on 11/24.

Text: See Study Group Description; widely available both used and new at bookstores.
Other Costs: None

THE SIXTIES

Helen Cowles/Whitey Lightner, Study Group Leaders
9/8-12/8
Mondays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: Woodstock – Robert Kennedy – The Chicago Riots – Haight/Asbury – Moon Flight – Martin Luther King – Vietnam, etc. etc. Get wild and revisit the Sixties with us!

Text: Boom! By Tom Brokaw; available at amazon.com new and used from $4.72.
Other Costs: None

TOM JONES

Sue Peters, Study Group Leader
9/8-12/8
Mondays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will read and discuss Henry Fielding’s masterpiece Tom Jones. The adventuresome hero Tom, who is both thought-provoking and hilarious, has been called “a rascal itching to burst out.” Do you think such a rascal can be redeemed? Join us for some spirited discussion of this classic novel which has been entertaining readers for over 250 years. The study group leader is using the Norton Critical Edition, but any edition that you have should suffice. The reading assignments will average 50 pages per week.

Note: This study group will not meet on 11/24.

Text: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding; available online and at local bookstores.
Other Costs: None

GREAT PLAYS BY GREAT AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS

Sol Littman, Study Group Leader
9/8-12/8
Mondays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: America is rich in great plays and great playwrights. Of the many available, the study group leader has chosen nine writers who he thinks merit the title “great” and two or three of their plays that confirm their greatness: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and The Crucible; Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour and Little Foxes; Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf and Tiny Alice; Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire; Eugene O’Neil’s The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey Into Night; David Mamet’s Oleana and American Buffalo; Thornton Wilder’s Our Town; William Inge’s Bus Stop and Little Sheba; and Neil Simon’s A Thousand Clowns and I’m Not Rappaport.

Most of the study group attendees will undoubtedly have seen most of these plays at some point, so it will not be necessary for participants to re-read all the plays shown above, but it will be necessary to be willing to play (read only) small scenes from each of the plays. The study group leader is making arrangements to have various professors and students from the UofA Drama Department to join in discussions; also possibly recruiting members of the some of the local drama groups to join this study group from time to time to play bit parts and add to the discussion.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

T U E S D A Y S

THE MYSTERY OF TIME

Glenn Bacon/Lu Rudolph, Study Group Leaders
9/9-12/9
Tuesdays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: We all know what “time” is, right? Or do we? In About Time, award winning physicist and science writer Paul Davies examines the deep mysteries of time, explores the consequences of Einstein’s relativity theory, and reports on the latest theories at the forefront of research. Michio Kaku says “It’s about time somebody wrote the definitive history of time and man’s efforts to tease apart its delicious paradoxes. I can think of no one better to write this history than Paul Davies, who has set the standard for writing in clear, lucid, yet always witty and entertaining style. Einstein himself would be pleased.” There is no mathematics, but the concepts are mind bending, so if you are willing to furrow your brow and stretch your brain, then join us for a journey into a truly fascinating area of physics, biology, psychology and philosophy.

Text: About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies, Simon & Shuster, 1996
Other Costs: None

NEW WORLD COMING: AMERICA IN THE 1920’s

Vernon Bryan/Fred Ebeling/Don Phillips, Study Group Leaders
9/9-12/9
Tuesdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: The 1920’s were the dawn of modern America. The 20’s have a clear beginning at World War I and the battle for the League of Nations, and end with the stock market crash of 1929; resulting in the change in political direction. Much of what we consider contemporary actually began in the Twenties – advertising, jazz, psychiatry, motels and magazines, just to name a few. The decade marks a second industrial revolution for coal, and steam is replaced by electricity and petroleum that powers the utilities and appliances that are quickly developed. It is in the Twenties that the auto, radio, movies, airplanes and birth control bring about changes in American culture. Changes that continue to affect us today. By the end of the Twenties, it was clear that a New World was coming!

Text: While there is no text required for this study group, New World Coming by Nathan Miller (2003) is an excellent resource and is highly recommended; available from amazon.com.
Other Costs: Minimal cost for copied material.

GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

John Kaminski, Study Group Leader
10/14-12/2
Tuesdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: In this seven week study group we will read fourteen 19th Century writers including Hawthorne and Charlotte Gilman. The last half of the 19th Century saw the emergence of major women writers. They will be well represented in this study group. Many of these writers are well known and their stories are often anthologized. The study group leader covered some of these in a group five years ago; he believes that they will be enjoyed again. Two authors will be discussed each week. No reports are required.

Text: Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway, edited by Corinne Demas, published by Barnes & Noble Classics; available at Barnes & Noble @ $7.95.
Other Costs: $2 for copied material.

A SHORT HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

Vernon Bryan, Study Group Leader
10/28-12/9
Tuesdays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: Leader-guided reading and discussion of Stephen Tomkin’s book, A Short History of Christianity, 2005. This book is by far the best and most readable SHORT, yet comprehensive and reliably historically accurate summary of this long and complicated topic ever read by this study group leader, and he has read quite a few over the years. This study group will be led and approached from a historical accuracy, as opposed to a church mythology, perspective. Participants are expected to read the assigned book and share their observations and thoughts with the group.

About the Study Group Leader: Vern is a retired educational publishing executive who has spent the last few years leading various history and religion study groups at OLLI and serving on the Curriculum Committee.

Text: A Short History of Christianity by Stephen Tomkins, published in 2006 by Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI; available in paperback edition. Although it will not be a required text, the study group leader would like to note that, Martin Marty, one of, if not the, leading American church historians, has just published his new book, The Christian World in Random Houses’ Modern Library Series. Even though Vern has not finished yet, he can still recommend it as a second source for those who have a deeper interest in the topic.

Other Costs: None

EARLY MANNED SPACE FLIGHTS & RELATED SPACE TOPICS

Bob Mercer, Study Group Leader
9/9-12/9
Tuesdays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will use space technology history, personal experiences and antidotes of others with whom the study group leader has worked. Such topics as project and program objectives for assessing man’s capabilities to operate in space up through meeting all the objectives for landing and returning crews from the moon (i.e., Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo) and even a little of the first US space station (i.e., the Skylab program and early Shuttle flights) will be discussed. The study group leader will touch on details as NACA-to-NASA’s formation, crew selections and training, flight operations, overviews of vehicle key design features, many side stories on important successful and not-so-successful flight incidents, trivia that past students seemed to like, a number of both earth-orbital and lunar-orbital flight experiments and studies, and the challenges of program management, public affairs, etc.

In addition, several unmanned space programs will be covered briefly, such as Corona, the earliest US satellite reconnaissance program, and a presentation on the latest information surrounding the Roswell incident concerning the alleged crash of alien spacecraft, as well as other space topics of interest to the group will be covered and discussed.

About the Study Group Leader: Bob Mercer is an Aerospace Research Physicist with over 50 years experience in design and development of scientific aerospace experiments as well as in development, modification, flight testing, operational evaluation and utilization of aircraft, manned and unmanned spacecraft for research and technology. For the most recent 12 years, Bob has been heavily involved in spacecraft systems engineering with emphasis on payload and sensor integration, test, calibration and data acquisition, both on the ground and on-orbit. He is a retired Colonel in the USAFR with 30 years service, half on active duty including considerable experience in technical intelligence.

Text: None; however, a bibliography will be provided for those interested as well as recommendations on many internet sites for those wishing to delve deeper into course subjects.
Other Costs: None

Healthcare Reform – Is it Possible?

Don & Mary Schlichtmann, Study Group Leaders
9/9-10/21
Tuesdays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will provide an overview of how healthcare is financed (in the U.S.), what drives the costs and the impact of healthcare costs on the general economy. Potential models of reform will be presented and contrasted with various systems found in other countries. The most likely models to survive the U.S. political process will be analyzed in depth. The goal of the study group will be to make everyone more informed and able to understand what the ’08 presidential candidates will be presenting.

About the Study Group Leaders: Don Schlichtmann’s professional career consisted of 32 years of diverse and progressively responsible roles in the healthcare industry, including government, health plans and medical group practices in such places as the Washington Medical Group Alliance as Executive Director, and Administrator and CEO of Skagit Valley Medical Center in Mt. Vernon, WA.

Mary Schlichtmann is an experienced health care professional with 19 years of hospital financial management, medical group administration and managed care contracting in such areas as Director of Provider Contracting and Relations at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, OR and Administrator at the Multi-Care Medical Group in Tacoma, WA.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

POWER: Energy – Nukes – Oil – Money

Jim Totman, Study Group Leader
9/30-10/21
Tuesdays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will consist of four separate topics, one per week, and their effects on the U.S. and world economics and international security.

  • Energy: Enough for all or critical shortages? A look at oil, natural gas, nuclear power, alternate energy sources, who controls the resources, how long will they last and other problems will be reviewed and discussed.
  • Sovereign Wealth Funds: Recent increases in oil prices, other natural resources and major shifts in international trade have created huge amounts of money for Saudi Arabia, Russia, Norway, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, China and other states. What will they do with these funds and what will the impact be on the U.S. economy and the dollar?
  • China’s Quest for Resources and Commodities: What is this doing to international trade, security and the environment?
  • Nuclear Proliferation: Weapons and energy. Treaties are expiring or being ignored, the threat of terrorists acquiring nuclear material remains largely unchecked. Can the number of weapons and amounts of radioactive material be reduced or at least controlled? What happens if the Middle East, Africa and numerous Asian states contribute to the spread of nuclear weapons and materials?

These four topics will be covered, roughly one per week, beginning September 30th and ending October 21st on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm (note non-standard study group start and end dates). Open enrollment, lecture and discussion, no student reports, no text, minimal costs only for handouts and classroom materials.

Text: None
Other Costs: Minimal for handouts.

W E D N E S D A Y S

HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME

Jesse Frey, Study Group Leader
9/10-12/10
Wednesdays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: The subject is Rome and its empire from 1200 B.C. to 476 A.D. Topics include: origins, mythical and factual; expansion, first in Italy then to the extent of the empire; organization, social and political; economics, agricultural and mercantile; achievements in engineering, architecture, literature and art; internal strife, civil war and slave revolts; good leaders, bad leaders, Golden Age and decadence; Pax Romana, decline and fall. We will investigate familiar topics many of us would like to know more about: Etruscans, Punic Wars, Spartacus, Julius Caesar, Conquest of Gaul, Antony and Cleopatra, Augustus, Invasion of Britain, Gladiatorial Games, Christianity, Barbarians and Collapse.

Study group organization is chronological in that consecutive periods are summarized for 15 or 20 minutes at the beginning of each session. Organization is thematic in that all of the topics mentioned above, and more, will be addressed. Participants are invited to research and report on anything relevant. Documentary film will be used.

Text: None; however, every student is encouraged to read at least one book and, if so inclined, report on it.
Other Costs: None

WRITING YOUR MEMOIRS

Marilyn Brucks/Elaine Resnick, Study Group Leaders
9/10-12/10
Wednesdays @ 9:00 am
Enrollment Limited to 16

Study Group Description: Come join us and write your memoirs. Let your grandchildren know what “life was like back then”. Spend a couple of hours with us for memory time…

Text: None
Other Costs: None

THE TIME OF OUR SINGING

Anita Blake, Study Group Leader
9/10-11/26
Wednesdays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will read and discuss the eighth novel of Richard Powers, a young American writer who won the National Book Award in 2007. The Time of Our Singing (2003, 631 pages) will be the basis of reading and group discussion. Race relations, intermarriage, intergenerational understanding, music appreciation, etc. are explored in story form. Participants will come to love the characters, a German Jew scientist who immigrates to the U.S., the love of his life – a black singer, Joseph, Jonah and Ruth.

Text: The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers; available at amazon.com @ apx. $7.00.
Other Costs: None

AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENTS

Don & Reta Olsen, Study Group Leaders
9/10-10/22
Wednesdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group is based on the listing published by US News and World Report. The group will discuss what makes a President ineffectual – why is he on the ‘Worst’ list? Do we agree? Disagreements – polite of course – are welcomed, as are presentations by members of the group. Printouts will be supplied to the members and some videos will also be shown. A list of available library books will be sent to participants before the semester begins. The Presidents to be studied are: Buchanan, Harding, A. Johnson, Pierce, Fillmore, Tyler, Grant, Hoover, Nixon and Taylor. In the interest of time, both ours and history’s, the last few Presidents will not be discussed. Darn!

Text: None
Other Costs: $3 for copied material.

OCEAN ECOLOGY

Karen Tyner, Study Group Leader
10/29-12/10
Wednesdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: Members will be a vital participant in the creation of this study group. Using the list below, members will define their own ocean related topic. Each session two or more classmates will give their 15- to 30-minute customized presentation. Topics for reports relate to the week’s theme. Two or more people may share a topic if they wish.

Weeks one through seven will follow this board outline: (1) Oceans; defined and described physically, (2) Behavior of oceans; tides and currents, (3) Ocean zones; the abyss, the benthos, coastlines, littoral, pelagic, (4) Weather; climate and oceans, (5) Ocean life; flora, sea mammals and fishes, (6) Uh oh; pollution and the oceans and (7) additional class picked topics and reports.

About the Study Group Leader: Karen is a retired New York high school librarian and advisor to the Scuba club. She has an abiding love for “anything ocean”. She is relatively new to OLLI and this will be her first attempt as a Study Group Leader. Way to go Karen!

Text: None; however, the Pima libraries have many books on oceanography in Section 551.46, and still more including many videos by searching ‘ocean’ as subject. View the library online at: tppl.org. The Internet also has a plethora of information.
Other Costs: $2 for handouts.

THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Cathy Davin, Study Group Leader
10/29-12/10
Wednesdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: The English Patient by Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje (originally from Sri Lanka) won the Canadian Governor General’s Award and the Commonwealth’s Booker Prize. What a wonderful book to read and discuss in an OLLI study group. This is a complex, multi-layered novel that may be enjoyed by readers on many different levels. The story unfolds in an Italian villa towards the closing moments of World War II, as the Canadian army is moving north up the Italian peninsula. The dazzling visual images created by Ondaatje’s writing reveal his skill as a poet. The story is one of mystery, exploration, internal and external landscapes, love and obsession. Anthony Minghella made it into a successful film in 1996.

Reading weekly assignments and class discussion will be expected from participants in the study group. Optional presentations are welcomed (topics to be suggested).

Text: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; available in paperback (1993) at amazon.com for $11.00, used for $1.00.
Other Costs: Minimal cost for copied material.

MUSIC THAT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME

Paul Scholl, Study Group Leader
10/29-12/10
Wednesdays @ 11:15 am
Enrollment Limited to 15

Study Group Description: Only within the last 100 years can music, composed and performed for royalty and the wealthy, be listened to and appreciated by anyone at any time. Music is a PURE experience. While most of us just let music “wash over us” just a little background information can make the experience more interesting and enjoyable. Selected half-hour presentations from “Great Courses on Tape,” How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Professor Robert Greenberg will begin each study group session. Group members, using material provided by the study group leader, will be asked to make very short (3- to 5-minute) summary reports. All the remaining time will be spent listening to full length examples of the selections discussed by Professor Greenberg.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

SHORT SUBJECTS & SHORT COURSES

Various Study Group Leaders
9/10-12/10
Wednesdays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollments

‘Short Subject’ Study Group Description: A variety of short subjects will be presented by study group leaders and/or guest study group leaders sponsored by an OLLI member. These usually consist of a one-day session, 2 hours in length.*

‘Short Course’ Study Group Description: A variety of short courses will be presented by study group leaders and/or guest study group leaders sponsored by an OLLI member. The intent is to provide a venue for members to offer courses of 2 to 4 weeks duration, on topics too lengthy for “Short Subjects” but too short for conventional 7- to 14-week study groups.*

*Email notifications to membership and printed schedules and sign-ups will be posted on the OLLI Bulletin boards at the facility prior to the study group offering (usually 1-2 weeks before scheduled date). So that the study group leader may make adequate preparations, members are asked to sign up after receiving notification for each study group they would like to attend.

Text: TBA, if any
Other Costs: TBA, if any

T H U R S D A Y S

The Story of English

Carol Magee/Helen Cowles, Study Group Leaders
10/16-12/11
Thursdays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: The MacNeil-Lehrer Productions/BBC 1986 PBS mini-series, “The Story of English” forms the backbone of this study group exploring the origins, development and infinite varieties of our ‘mother tongue.’ In addition, group members will be asked to contribute reports on many other aspects of the language, such as slang, dialects, regional accents, words and phrases borrowed from other languages, dictionaries, language humor, etc.

Text: None
Other Costs: Minimal costs for copied material.

FRED HARVEY & THE ‘HARVEY GIRLS’

Bob & Carole Fleming, Study Group Leaders
10/30-12/11
Thursdays @ 9:00 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: Early train travel in the west was very uncomfortable and could be hazardous to your health. Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls provided tasty meals, with excellent service, and clean, comfortable accommodations in the hotels, inns and resorts along the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe. Mary Colter, Harvey’s architect, designed many of the grand places that are still used today. Study group participants will learn about this early western history through story, song and film.

Text: None
Other Costs: None

PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS – THE PANAMA CANAL

Ernie & Marsha Cohen, Study Group Leaders
9/11-10/23
Thursdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: From its opening in 1914 to today, the Panama Canal has served almost one million ships. Did you know it actually runs north to south, not east to west? Did you know that the first serious attempt to build it brought down a major European government? Did you know that 27,500 works died in the construction of the canal? And that Teddy Roosevelt had to create a country before he could successfully build the canal? Come learn about this fantastic engineering achievement and its impact on world trade on French, American and Latin American history.

Text: The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough; available in paperback at amazon.com for under $10.00.
Other Costs: None

OVERTURE TO WAR AND PEACE

Ken Greenfield/Jim Totman/Jean Slawny, Study Group Leaders
10/30-12/11
Thursdays @ 11:15 am
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: This study group will provide the historical, political, cultural and geographical background for the reading and discussion of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Study of the novel itself will be in the Spring 2009 semester.

NOTE: It is strongly recommended that all participants who intend to study the novel have the recommended version of the book, a new and highly acclaimed translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, October 2007; available @ $18 used or $24.95 hardcover from amazon.com.

Text: The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy, edited by Donna Tussing Orwin; available new/used from amazon.com.
Other Costs: Minimal, for printed handouts, DVD rental, etc.

THURSDAY FILM DISCUSSION GROUP

Ruth Zales/Judy Kidder, Study Group Leaders
9/11-12/11
Thursdays @ 1:30 pm
Open Enrollment

Study Group Description: The Film Discussion Group will meet on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. The group will choose films, view them in a local theater or in the classroom, and then discuss them. If appropriate, other video or documentary materials will be used. The group will also have flexibility to revise the meeting schedule as it chooses.

Study group members will be asked to participate in the film selection, view the film and participate in the discussions. Study group members will also be asked to “take turns” in leading the discussions.

The third Thursday of each month will be available for outside speakers on a variety of topics relating to the movie industry and its component artistic and business elements.

Note: Members can sign up for both the Book and Film Discussion Groups because their schedules will be flexible and coordinated.

Text: None
Other Costs: Costs associated if theatrical films are selected.

THURSDAY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Linda French/Lynn Bagley, Study Group Leaders
9/11-12/11
Thursdays @ 1:30 pm
Enrollment Limited to 25

Study Group Description: The Book Discussion Group will meet once a month (September 11, October 2, November 6 and December 4). The books selected are: Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls, A Bend in the River by V.J. Naipaul and Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis. All study group members will be asked to read the books and participate in the discussions. Study group members will also be asked to “take turns” in leading the discussions.

Ahab’s Wife is about the wife of Captain Ahab in Melville’s Moby Dick and is an uplifting story of her spiritual journey. Glass Castle tells of a childhood with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. A Bend in the River is a novel about the early days of Zaire’s independence after colonial rule as the Belgian Congo. Founding Brothers is an illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic – John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington.

Note: Members can sign up for both the Book and Film Discussion Groups because their schedules will be flexible and coordinated.

Text: As shown in Study Group Description.
Other Costs: None

F R I D A Y S

COMPUTER LEARNING – BASIC TASKS

Loring Green/OLLI Computer Team, Study Group Leaders
10/24-12/12 Weeks
Fridays @ 9:00 am
Enrollment Limited to 20

Study Group Description: This study group will be an introductory “hands on” computer learning class. The lab has no Macintosh instruction available, so the study group will focus on tasks using Windows operating system and Microsoft Office Suite 2003. The first 3 sessions will be devoted to the use of a flash drive, Microsoft Outlook (email) and the common Windows tasks like select, copy, cut, paste, file management and other essential skills. Then the group will do OLLI research on the computer using Internet Explorer and Google and later transfer, organize, improve and email digital pictures will be done. The group will also cover crisis management and computer security.

The instructor will lead task demonstrations and practice, while roving OLLI assistants help participants at the computer workstations. These sessions are designed for basic computer users, the pace will be slow, and there will be plenty of support. That said, there will be many useful tips for students who “get along”, but want to upgrade their skills. There will be time reserved for “Frequently Asked Questions” with review and discussion at the end.

Each student will need to bring a flash drive to the first session. More flash drive information will be provided to the enrolled students.

Please Note: This study group will meet at the UA Computer Lab at University Services Bldg. (our previous location), 3rd floor; parking available in Main Gate Garage or elsewhere at participants expense. There will be 7 two-hour sessions beginning October 24 and ending December 12, with no session the week of Thanksgiving.

Text: None
Other Costs: A modest lab fee will be collected prior to the first class to help cover the rental cost of the facility.