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Members of the Academy for Learning in Retirement in
Saratoga Springs, New York took part in an ALR Summer Theater Workshop.
This first ever summer program was a great opportunity for the thespian
hiding inside members to come out. Conducted by a trained actor it was
aimed toward creating a collaborative piece through improvisation, visualization
and the stores these evoke.
The People and Books program at the Adult Learning Institute
at Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, New York recently read
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve. The group all agreed
that the author is among the best of the novelists writing today.
This fall, members of the Center for Learning in Retirement
at Rock Valley College in Illinois will be studying the Rise and
Fall of the British Raj. They will explore the factors, events
and people who shaped both the rise and fall of the British Empire in
India.
Members of the Explorers Lifelong Learning Institute
at Salem State College in Massachusetts recently studied The General
and the Rise of the Common Man: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1824-1836.
This course provided a critical evaluation of Jackson by focusing on
how his actions and politics affected the life of the ordinary person
during his eight years in the president’s office. The course began
with the contested election of 1824.
Members of the Institute for Continuing Learning at
Young Harris College in Georgia recently studied A Survey of Medieval
Europe. The course included the fall of Rome in 476 in the West,
the Byzantine Empire’s continuation of the classical tradition,
the early Germans concentrating upon the Carolingians, the Viking threat,
feudalism and manorialism, the Crusades, the commercial revival, and
intellectual developments making way for the Renaissance.
This fall, the Learning in Retirement program at Waukesha
County Technical College in Wisconsin is offering members a chance to
study Musical Memories: 100 Years of Popular Songs. Guided
by a husband and wife team of leaders, participants will study a century
of fabulous American music – outstanding composers, vocalists,
hoofers, Hollywood and Broadway musicals, radio shows and the big bands.
Members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at
George Mason University in Virginia recently studies Moliere’s
Elegant Ridicule. In five sessions they explored Moliere’s
comic genius, his life and his times. They also read in detail four
of his plays in English translations by poet Richard Wilbur.
Members of the Rose Institute for Life Long Learning
at the Menorah Park Center in Beachwood, Ohio recently studied Shakespeare
on the Operatic Stage. The course reviewed a number of operas that
are based on plays by Shakespeare including “Othello,” “The
Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Falstaff,” Romeo and Juliet,”
and “Beatrice and Benedict.”
Members of the Senior Academy at the University of
South Florida, Sarasota took a course this past winter entitled Joy
of Science. The world of science was explored in this course covering
the basic ideas of physical, biological, earth and space sciences and
technology.
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July 23, 2008
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