Greetings –
NEW EIN WEB POSTINGS FOR NOVEMBER
Under MANAGING YOUR LLI
Elderhostel Research Project
Elderquest – Wheelock LLI, MA
OLLI Citizen Diplomats – Jacksonville,
FL
Summer trips – CCLIR, Woodburn,
OR
Afternoon Lectures – Lifelong
Learning Society, VA
OLLI Summer Courses – OLLI, ME
Personal and Public Policy –
OLLI-RU, NJ
Under LLI NEWS
LLI News for November
Under LLI CONGRATULATIONS
LLI Congratulations for November
LLI REGIONAL CONFERENCES
Here is a schedule of the LLI Regional Conferences that have been held
in the last few years. New England/East – 2007; MidWest –
2007; MidAtlantic - 2005; Southeast – 2005. As you can see it’s
time to begin organizing new conferences. LLIs interested in hosting
a conference should contact EIN via email to discuss. Please note that
there is $3000 of seed money available in both the New England/East
Region and the MidAtlantic Region for the next conference. LLIs in other
parts of the country are encouraged to think about hosting conferences
too. It’s a great way to meet other members, swap new ideas and
come away with renewed enthusiasm and creativity.
SATELLITE CAMPUSES
If your program has a satellite program on more than one campus, please
send EIN all the contact information (name, address, phone, fax, email,
web site) for that program too. That way, when people are looking for
convenient locations, they will see an updated list. It means more new
members for your program when we’ve got all your locations listed.
A LIFELONG LEARNER FOREVER
Once a lifelong learner, always a lifelong learner, no matter where
we are, is personified in the life of Ann Burdett of New York. Ann was
the Executive Director of the Mohawk Valley ILR in Utica for six years.
When she moved to New Paltz, New York she joined the LLI at SUNY New
Paltz. Now she is sits on the LLI Council and chairs the Special Events
Committee. She has also been asked to be part of the Long Range Planning
Committee. Ann is delighted with her involvement and has wonderful things
to say about her new program.
LIR ARCHIVE
Learning in Retirement, Inc. affiliated with the University of Georgia
has just established a Learning in Retirement Archive at UGA’s
Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. A request has gone out
to all members who might have early documents relating to the formation
of their program that could be donated for cataloging into the collection.
OMBUDSMAN
Learning in Retirement at Iona College in New York has an ombudsman,
a person appointed by their Board of Officers to investigate concerns
by members. The current ombudsman, Judy Feinberg, will then bring the
matter to the Board and report their answers to the concerned members.
They also have a “Suggestion” box on the table in the lobby
where members can deposit their written concerns. She can then bring
these concerns to the attention of the Board. The ombudsman is also
available for private talks by phone.
EMAIL BUDDIES
The Academy for Lifelong Learning at Empire College in Saratoga Springs,
New York has come up with a unique idea to help their members who do
not have email. Although 85% of their members have access to email there
are still some who do not. Since the program wants to make sure everyone
gets whatever is sent out, they are trying out the idea of “email
buddies.” Members with email would see that all the information
sent is given to their “buddy” who does not have email.
Interested members are asked to contact the program office so they can
be teamed up.
GRANDPARENTING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Lifelong Learning at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina is
offering its members a stimulating program entitled “Grandparenting
for the 21st Century.” Over 5 million grandparents
maintain the primary household for their grandchildren, and millions
more have an important hand in the care and welfare of their grandchildren.
Grandparenting well is not a piece of cake! Not in these times. Grandparents
today face a number of challenges in dealing with their grandchildren.
What do they have to know? How should they react and establish a beneficial
relationship with this younger generation? How does the relationship
with their grown children change and how do they make sure they’re
making good decisions? In these two highly interactive workshops, members
will explore some of the questions and look for some solutions together.
OLLI HEARD ON MAINE PUBLIC RADIO
Six members of the Beginning Violin Course at the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at the University of S. Maine in Portland made their
radio debut on Maine Public Radio this past spring. Excepts from their
performance at OLLI were recorded and aired on Maine Things Considered.
GRAND CENTRAL TOUR
In January members of the IRP in New York City will be treated to a
private tour of Grand Central Terminal, a magnificent Beaux Arts landmark.
Their guide will be architectural historian Francis Morrone, who explores
the connections among architecture, art, literature, urbanism, and social
history. Morrone, the author of three architectural guidebooks, writes
a weekly column on New York buildings and history for the New York Sun.
He also teaches courses in architectural history at New York University.
He is recipient of NYU’s “Excellence in Teaching Award.”
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS PLUS JONATHAN SWIFT’S SATIRE
Satire wielded by a master will introduce members of the L.I.F.E. program
at Mount Saint Mary’s College in New York to the elements that
create this humorous literary form. They will read “Gulliver’s
Travels” and “A Modest Proposal, and discuss the then and
now of historical, political and social foibles.
THE EVOLUTION OF HORSES
This past summer, the Learning Club at Winona State University in Minnesota
gave its members a chance to learn more about the Evolution of Horses.
Members studied fossil horses, their earliest ancestry in south Asia,
and how they crossed to North America thanks to a major global warming
55 million years ago. This course was paired with a visit to the Big
Valley Ranch to learn more about horses up close.
MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
The Adult Learning Institute at Columbia-Greene Community College in
Hudson, New York gave its members a chance to learn about magazine publishing.
The program included a basic overview of magazine publishing as a business.
They then discussed both magazine distribution and revenue models and
their impact on the journalistic process, as well as the pressures modern
reporters face. The presenter, the Managing Editor of Elite Traveler
Magazine, then took the group through the editorial process, step-by-step,
with handouts to unveil exactly what happens behind the scenes before
an article makes it to the printed page. A question and answer session
followed.
THE ROARING TWENTIES
The Learning in Retirement program at Iona College (LIRIC) in New York
is offering members a chance to learn all about the Roaring Twenties.
They will present an eight-part lecture series that delves into the
many aspects of this time period. Along with this lecture series, they
will present an eight-part film series: The Twenties in Film. The films,
all great works of that time period, depict some of the lives, themes
and issues of that time.
ABOUT ILEAD
Over this last year the ILEAD program at Dartmouth College in Hanover,
New Hampshire conducted a member survey, the results of which were printed
in their Winter/Spring 2007 newsletter. Here is the last section of
the survey results – Next Steps
The Curriculum Committee has been using survey input in guiding their
critical role for ILEAD’s success. Detailed analysis of survey
results will continue. In addition to the Membership Survey, a survey
of other Lifelong Learning Institutes has been initiated to better understand
their membership and organization, relationship to their college/university,
class location and space issues, financial information, and organization.
These results will provide valuable input to the long term planning
process for the College and ILEAD.
TREKKING HIGH UP
The Adult Learning Institute at Columbia Greene Community College in
Hudson, New York recently offered a program entitled Trekking
and Climbing in High, Cold Places. Their guest speaker for
this fascinating program has climbed all over the Globe including Antarctica,
South America, Central Asia, and Alaska.
TRANSITION TEAM
A Transition Team consisting of representatives from all aspects of
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of S. Maine
in Portland has been meeting regularly to address issues of change and
opportunity as they prepare to move the OLLI program, not only into
a new space, but into a new format. With the new building comes the
opportunity to offer classes 5, 6, or even 7 days a week. It also allows
them to offer classes in the evenings or weekends to accommodate those
who are still working. The new building will give the program meeting
and gathering space for life-minded people, to help them maintain their
OLLI community.
CELEBRATING CREATIVITY IN LATER LIFE
Watch your LLI mail for a brochure about this unique offering and think
about posting it in your common area where all members can read it.
Classical Pursuits will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this July
with its flagship program on the campus of the University of Toronto
devoted entirely to the crowning achievements of the likes of Rembrandt,
Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoyevsky, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Verdi.
About 200 adults from all over North America and beyond will come together
to explore late, great works of music, art and literature in small discussion
groups. Morning discussions are augmented by many informal talks; guided
walks; theatre, gallery and concert excursions; and an optional trip
to the famed Stratford Festival. Harry (Rick) Moody, director of academic
affairs at AARP will be scholar-in-residence for the week, helping us
to understand what it is about later life that so often leads to consummate
creativity. For more information go to www.classicalpursuits.com,
or call 1-877-633-2555.
SENIORWRITING
“Seniorwriting: A Brief Guide for Seniors Who Want to Write,”
by Marlys Marshall Styne is a slim manual for older adults who want
to record their valuable experiences and memories for themselves, their
families and posterity. Although many of the LLIs have excellent memoir
writing classes there are a few who might find this little book very
useful, especially if they are thinking about starting such a class.
For details on how to order the book please visit info@buybooksontheweb.com
or call toll-free 1-877-BUY BOOK.
NEW BOOKS FOR LLI COURSES
Thanks once again to the OMNILORE program at the University of California
Dominquez Hills for supplying this list from their newsletter.
The Future and Its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel describes
two kinds of people that she terms “dynamists” and “stasists.”
The dynamists embrace the future with the technological and social change
it brings; the stasists fear change and/or hang on to memories of an
imagined former “golden era.”
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History,
by Kati Marton consists of twelve biographiccal sketches of 20th century
presidents and their first ladies.
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There,
by David Brooks examines the rapid rise of a new group of leaders based
on a meritocracy of “genius and geniality.”
NEW WEB SITES FOR LLI COURSES
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NAGASAKI REPORT
On-the-scene reporting of Nagasaki, written in September, 1945 by American
George Weller, the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following
the U.S. atomic attack. Copies of these stories, originally censored
by U.S. occupation forces, were discovered after among Weller's effects
after his death in 2002. From the Mainichi Daily News, Japan.
TIMELINES
OF ART HISTORY: THE WORLD (BC/BCE)
This is an educational website which is dedicated to art history. Timelines
presents selected resources (web links) about the art and archaeology
of ancient civilizations, including: Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia, and
the Middle East. Timelines pages are organized by civilization and period.
Many of the linked sites include images.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE:
TRUMAN
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience
program about Harry S. Truman, the 33rd U.S. president. Features biographical
material, timeline, documents, and image gallery. Includes information
about domestic policy (such as civil
rights) and foreign policy (such as the decision to drop the atomic
bomb and the division of post-World War II Europe). Also includes a
teacher's guide and show transcript.
PARIS LIBÉRÉ!
This site was created in 1994 as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary
of the liberation of Paris 25 August 1944, near the end of World War
II. It features a timeline (in English and French) and images and information
about important individuals (such as Charles de Gaulle), the French
Forces of the Interior (FFI, a French resistance network), and related
information.
That’s all for this month.
Nancy Merz Nordstrom, M.Ed.
Elderhostel Institute Network
Nancy.merz-nordstrom@elderhostel.org
www.elderhostel.org/ein/intro.asp
617-457-5564
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps
me so much as running to my books.
They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
…Michel de Montaigne
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