Volume 14 Issue 5 May 2012 T H E O U T L O O K OLLI AT UCI INSIDE THIS ISSUE: HIGHLIGHTS TRIPPING WITH OLLI Tripping with OLLI 111 222 President’s Corner Board Minutes 333 Dudamel Conducts the LA Philharmonic OLLI Donors 444 OLLI Opportunities 555 SE 55 Disney Concert Hall May 27 9:30 –––6:00 PM Culture Corner 666 Mozart OLLI Spotlight 777 Summer Lite 888-8---9999 Soloist Soprano Kiera Duffy Special Events 111111 131313-13 ---14141414 Adagio and Fugue K 540 UCI Camput Events Exsultate Jubilate Posthorn Serenade K 320 JOIN OLLI AT UCI This performance will NOT be broadcast! Not an OLLI member? Join us for a 1:00 pre-performance lecture and a 2:00 matinee featuring the Here’s how to join. incomparable Gustavo Dudamel conducting Go to our website to the LA Philharmonic Orchestra performing enroll, request a cata- Mozart. log, or get more infor- Bring your lunch, or eat at one of the mation. several venues in or around the Disney www.extension.uci.edu/olli . Hall complex. There will be time to explore downtown $160/person, includes terrace before the lecture . level seating, transportation and MOCA admission. OLLI UCI Extension Reserve your seats by P.O. Box 6050 Irvine, CA 92616- contacting: 6050 UCI Extension Student Services (949) 824-5414 The Outlook, OLLI at UCI Page 2 THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER May is National Older Americans Month and the theme this year is never too old to play ; encouraging older Americans to stay engaged, active and involved in their own lives and in their communities.The joy in this time in our lives is that we actually have time for play as long as we haven’t forgotten how. OLLI members in particular are engaged, active and involved. We take intellectual stimulation very seri- ously and yet, we will have, and have had, many classes designed for laughter and play. Consider AH 106 – Comedy in Opera and Shakespeare on May 2 nd and 7 th . The recent Newport Back Bay bike ride was great fun, too. Please join us on Friday May 4 th for our Annual Meeting which will kick off Older Americans Month. In the spirit of play we’ll start with the ever popular ice cream social at 1p.m. at the Duck Club at the San Joaquin Marsh. This will be followed with a short business meeting and an informal thank you – celebration for all of our volunteers. Parking is limited so plan to carpool or… ride your bike! Happy spring, Pam McGovern, OLLI President May is Older Americans Month: 2012 - Never Too Old to Play When Older Americans Month was established in 1963, only 17 million living Americans had reached their 65th birthdays. About a third of older Americans lived in poverty and there were few programs to meet their needs. In April of 1963, President John F. Kennedy's meeting with the National Council of Senior Citizens served as a prelude to designating May as "Senior Citizens Month." Thanks to President Jimmy Carter's 1980 designation, what was once called Senior Citizens Month, is now called "Older Americans Month," and has become a tradition. Historically, Older Americans Month has been a time to acknowledge the contributions of past and cur- rent older persons to our country, in particular those who defended our country. A Few of the Past Older Americans Month Themes : • 1978 - Older Americans and the Family • 1986 - Plan on Living the Rest of Your Life • 1992 - Community Action Begins with You: Help Older Americans Help Themselves • 1995 - Aging: Generations of Experience • 1997 - Caregiving: Compassion in Action • 1998 - Living Longer, Growing Stronger in America • 2000 - In the New Century. The Future is Aging • 2003 - What We Do Makes A Difference. • 2011 - Older Americans: Connecting the Community • 2012 - Never Too Old to Play Volume 14 Issue 5 Page 3 OLLI BOARD MINUTES • The April 18, 2012, OLLI Board of Directors ment Director Leah Jordan's Report. The meeting was called to order by President Pam Nominating Committee met in February and McGovern at UCI Extension in Research Park. keeps connected by email about three open The minutes of March 2012 were approved. Board positions that are actively being pursued Pam announced that Donna Krebs has accepted through media and personal appeals. Jan El- the offer from the Board to go on the free trip to baum has agreed to serve as VP of Membership the Galapagos given to OLLI. Tanya Zabalegui , Services. Bob Deane has volunteered to assist the new UCI liaison, has offered to attend the OLLI with planning and assessment. Leah sug- OLLI National Convention in November. One gests a new job description for Member Ser- other member will also be sent. Tanya has sug- vices. The VP would oversee committees to en- gested an Open House at UCI to bring together hance the growth of membership, meet the needs faculty and UCI retirees with OLLI members. of current members and the development of re- • Sherri Nussbaum 's financial report was ap- lated programs and activities. In addition she proved. She announced that the budget may end suggests a new Board position--Director of the year with a $5-6,000 surplus. She said that Communication to coordinate brochures, press scheduling of off-site rented classroom locations and radio/TV releases, enhancing OLLI visibility should be done through Joan Fletcher . on campus, and maintaining a file of all pub- • Pat Linehan , VP of Administration, suggested lished materials. A motion to add this Board po- that one form of giving thanks to a presenter is to sition was approved. give a guest voucher to an OLLI class that inter- • Assessment and Planning Director Harry Levy ests the presenter. had no report. • VP of Programs Jessie Tromberg announced • Community Connections Director Julia Hume that fall classes are due May 1 with many inter- reported on the University Forum Spring series esting courses already submitted. There will be which will continue through the first week fewer Special Events than formerly sched- of June. She has filled 4 slots for the fall se- uled. Travel talks will continue with the Galapa- ries. The Summer 2012 OLLI Lite classes were gos in May and John Bush in June. They will presented. not continue through the summer. • Karen MacKenzie of the OLLI office reported • VP of Member Services Jnana Anderson an- that the donation letter was sent to members. The nounced that the planning of the Equinox Ex- office is investigating a new internet contract travaganza continues although the University with lower fees, wireless capabilities and better Hills Community Center venue is still being ne- download time. gotiated. • There was no Old Business. • Community Outreach/Funding Director Jerry • New Business-The Annual Meeting on May 4 Devries has continued to work with the OLLI from 1-2:45 at the Duck Club was discussed. It National Resource Center (NRC) to implement will feature an ice cream social, volunteer recog- plans for a Research Review Panel. He suggests nition and election of officers. The Leadership that the benefit of this will be to build relation- Planning Meeting was explained. Bob Deane ships among OLLIs in the network, the NRC, will lead four small focus groups employing the and researchers, enhancing awareness of the role Delphi technique. Meetings will occur on May of OLLI in various academic settings. Tanya has 16, May 31, June 13 and June 20. The last meet- provided Jerry with a list of UCI faculty that ing will be his report to the Board of the out- might be interested. come of the focus group discussion results. • Pam gave the absent Interim Volunteer Develop- • The next Board meeting will be May 16 at Re- search Park. Nila Kyser , Secretary The Outlook, OLLI at UCI Page 4 OLLI DONORS HONOR ROLL Ba sed on cumulative donations between July 2011 thru February 2012 Angels: Joann Burch Mike & Pam McGovern In memory of George Gerald & Veronica DeVries Hume Mike & Pat Fitzgerald Frank Emidio Puccilli Philip & Julia Gold Ann Summers Harry & Joan Levy Barbara Whelpton Frances & Richard Mandelsohn Ann & Don Williams Friends Melinda & Fred Luvisi 3 Anonymous Linda Lyle Muriel Asch Karen MacMiller Joe & Yolanda Bati In honor of OLLI and each & every Ron & Karen Madaras honorable member Peggy Maradudin In memory of George Hume Barbara Bertin Jack Miller Patty Carmichael Jeanette Mitsuhata Natalie Chaikin Rose Moldave Roger Cherniss Dr. Henry Nahoum In memory of George Hume Anne Colter Marci Novegrod Joe & Susan DeCarlo Joan Nowick In honor of Dr. Arthur S. Nowick Grace Deutsch In memory of Howard Deutsch Marc & Sherri Nussbaum Anne DeWitt In memory of George Hume Gary & Kristin Oberts Joan M. Donahue Nancy Rayl Toni & Rad Dwyer Barbara Regosin Sheila and Daniel Egdal In memory of George Hume Nicole & Jim Reynolds Sally Feng Adrienne Rosen Albert Finney George & Gail Rothman Judy & Jerry Florman In memory of George Hume Victor Rumbello In memory of George Hume Philip & Katie Friedel William Sagey Irving A. Glasser In memory of Sylvia Glasser Bertha Schuchat In memory of Augusta Bein Dick Gould In memory of George Hume Sally Schwartz In memory of George Hume Ruth Grant Terri Scott Naomi & John Gustafson Deborah & Stan Silverstein Ellen & Richard Huberman Harold Sorenson In memory of George Hume Julie Hume In memory of George Hume Mary Lou Sortais In memory of George Hume Gordon & Jean Marie Hunter Ann and Fred Stern Bobi Keenan Judy Strauss Judy Kelley In memory of George Hume Jean Taub Nancy Kingston Nancy B. Tepper Sharon Kirk Jane Werner Joan M. & Tom Kosuth Mary White Helen S. Krugman Molly White In memory of Liz Eddleman Kay Kurtz In memory of George Hume Hank & Linda Woods Stephen & Alexandra Layton Susan & Milton Legome Carol Lewis Associate Donor Patricia Linehan CeCe Sloan In honor of Gabby Giffords Martin & Mildred Litke In memory of David K.