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I I OverlOCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBEeR 2012 VOLaUME 48, NUMf BER 2 What’s Inside THE FLORENCE AND JOHN OVERLEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT LAWRENCE CONCERT Computers Page 3 DUO L&L Events & Performances Page 2 Lionel Cottet, cello and Films Page 6 Louis Schwizgebel, piano For Teens Page 7 I Great Books Page 3 Sunday, December 16, 2:30 pm H-W PL Readers Page 5 The acclaimed Duo L&L was In the Gallery Page 7 recently admitted into the presti - Lectures & Courses Pages 3- 5 gious Artist Diploma program at The Juilliard School, where they will continue their artistic pursuits under WHAT’S NEW the tutelage of Emmanuel Ax, About Zinio Robert McDonald, and Joel Krosnick. Zinio is more than a mobile read - Lionel Cottet & Louis Schwizgebel were both born in Geneva in 1987, and met ing application. Zinio gives you digi - for the first time 10 years ago at the Swiss final of the Eurovision Contest in tal editions of the magazines you Lugano. Since that time, a strong friendship and artistic partnership began to devel - Migros Culture Percentage love, delivering the exact same op. In 2008, they were both awarded Soloist of the in material you get in print, plus exclu - Zurich and began to perform together extensively. In March 2011, their first CD was sive features like video, audio, and released, recorded live from a performance at the Great Hall of the Geneva live links,on your iPad, iPhone, desk - Conservatoire. They have since performed all over Europe in venues such as the Sommets Musicaux top, and laptop. Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Chopin Festival in Poland and the in Gstaad. OneClickdigital The current 2012 season has included their debut at Wigmore Hall in London and A collection of about 1,000 down - at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, as well as performances in Alice loadable Children’s and Young Adult Tully Hall and Merkin Hall in . audio titles. “A light and genial performance, full of sparkling details and with a dash of rapt reveries…” —The Strad ProQuest Historical Newspapers District residents may pick tickets beginning Wednesday, December 5, 10 am & 7 pm. — Newsday You can now access Newsday from GOLD CONCERT 1940 to the present. Underworld Productions MUZZY Opera The acclaimed MUZZY language From the Stage: learning courses created by the Underworld Productions British Broadcasting Corporation tar - sings Opera and get every child’s “window of oppor - tunity” years to learn a second or Musical Theatre I even a third language. Sunday, October 21, 2:30 pm Underworld Productions Opera brings four versatile and engaging singers, National Geographic Magazine pianist, and Artistic Director Gina Crusco to you from New York City to share oper - Featuring the complete archive of atic favorites as well as lighter fare from the American songbook, operetta, and the magazine to the mid-1990s. musical theater. Ms. Crusco will provide introductions and background to each Copiers exciting selection. UPO has been recognized for innovation and excellence by New copiers have been installed Musical America, , Opera News, and Early Music America . for public use. These copiers scan, “Music that is first rate and with performances which could be put in any of our and two make color copies. important opera houses.” —Richard Garmise, Opera L blog. District residents may pick tickets beginning Wednesday, October 3, 10 am & 7 pm.

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FEELIN’ GROOVY Allan Jaffe decade-long professional association with R&B crooner Luther Vandross Music of the 60s and 70s underscores Kroon’s reputation as one The Other American Songbook of the world’s most versatile and respected percussionists. Pete & Maura Kennedy District residents and Friends of the Library pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, October 10, 10 am & 7pm.

NCJW/Peninsula Section Zimmerman Community Fund Dorothy Fields: The $50-Dollar-a Night Girl With Charlotte Sanders Davidson AFTERNOON MUSIC & Herb Davidson I AND LECTURE Sunday, October 28, 2 pm From Piano Ragtime to Charlotte Sanders Davidson and Herb New Ragtime Guitar Davidson bring to life in story and song, The Kennedys the background and lyrics of Dorothy with Allan Jaffe, Fields, the most famous woman libret - Folk Rock and More! musician and lecturer tist-lyricist of the Great American Pete and Maura Kennedy I I Thursday, October 18, 1 pm Songbook. Combining live performance Thursday, December 6, 7:30 pm New Ragtime Guitar is a meeting and audience participation with a This amazing duo will delight and between the elegant, sophisticated multi-media presentation which amaze you. Pete Kennedy is a guitarist piano ragtime of the early twentieth includes slides, film and video clips, extraordinaire. His CD Guitarslinger has century and the rhythmic, bluesy guitar Charlotte and Herb will transport you a dazzling range of guitar master - ragtime of the 1930s and later. Jaffe's from “Sunny Side of the Street”, I pieces, original compositions, and more presentation explores the musical and Can’t Give You Anything But Love”, that you don’t expect a guitar to be social origins of piano ragtime, focusing “The Way You Look Tonight” to the able to attempt. Maura Kennedy, a on the music of Scott Joplin, Joseph inspired creation of “Annie Get Your guitarist in her own right, delivers Lamb and James Scott, among others. Gun” and “Sweet Charity”. clear, beautiful vocals. Pete produced He then introduces the audience to the District residents may pick up tickets beginning and performed with Caroline Doctorow music of three great ragtime guitarists, Wednesday, October 17, 10 am & 7 pm. Non- on her newest CD I Carry My Own, residents who are members of NCJW, Peninsula Arthur "Blind" Blake, Mississippi John Section, may reserve a ticket by calling NCJW songs by Mary McCaslin, a stunning Hurt, and the Reverend Gary Davis, office; 342 Central Avenue, Lawrence, NY. album, receiving rave reviews. showing how these artists incorporated Tele: 516-569-3660, 9 am – 4 pm, Monday to Thursday. District residents and Friends of the Library techniques from piano ragtime into may pick up tickets for both shows beginning their own particular form of acoustic Tuesday, October 23, 10 am & 7 pm. blues. Steven Kroon Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Ì F Highlights in Jazz Mostly Motown New Date! Steven Kroon Latin Jazz With Rhonda Denet & Company I Sextet: Latin, Brazilian, and Thursday, March 14, 7:30 pm Afro-Cuban Jazz A review of I classic R&B and Thursday, October 25, 7:30 pm Soul of the 60s Steven Kroon, congas & percussion, songs by Etta Igor Atalita, piano, Ruben Rodriguez, James, Aretha bass, Bryan Carrott, vibrphone, Craig Franklin, Gladys Rivera, sax, Diego Lopez, drums. Knight & the Pips, Steven Kroon worked with such Martha & the diverse artists as Diana Krall, Kenny G, Vandellas, Dusty Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, The Springfield, sung and performed by the Temptations, Bill Cosby, Ron Carter, magnificent Rhonda Denet! Spyro Gyra, . His two ÌF 2 Indicates a Friends of the Library program. EVENTS COMPUTERS AUTHOR VISIT

COMPUTER CLASSES AND Elinor Lipman OTHER DEVICES District residents may register for all courses beginning Thursday, October 4, 10 am. Each ses - sion is 2 hrs.

Librettist-lyricist Dorothy Fields at work. Ì F Plaza Theatrical Productions, Inc . “I Ought To Be in Pictures ” By Neil Simon Introduction to Computers I I I Sunday, December 2, 2:30 pm Wednesday, October 24, 10 am ELINOR LIPMAN Herb Tucker, a Hollywood screen - Introduction to Computers II writer, has been out of his daughter I Tweet Land Wednesday, October 31, 10 am Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby of Liberty: arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones For the computer novice, this class Irreverent Rhymes from the Dad the one night that Stephanie, who will get you started. Learn the basics Political Circus does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. right from beginning: turning the com - I d Wednesday, October 17, 2 pm Stephanie is there the next morning puter on, using the edesktop, working ll Now, the best of these small gems is with the mouse, eopening and closing when Libby decides she needs to tell c n collected in Tweet Land Of Liberty , her story face-to-face. programs, undearstanding Windows, get - c which delightfully documents the latest District residents and Friends of the Library ting out of trouble, and turning the breaking polls, promises, and political may pick up tickets beginning Tuesday, computer off. In the second session, November 13, 10 am & 7 pm. learn how to work with text, files, and skirmishes of the election season circus. basic word processing skills. Told by many of her readers that United Choral Society she’s their first news source each day, I Lipman approaches her daily chore Sunday, December 9, 2 pm All about the iPad New Date! with both a sense of fun and purpose, I This all-volunteer chorus brings Wednesday, November 14, 7 pm pouring over each line to create artful, beautiful music and beautiful voices to Learn all about Apple’s hottest gad - humorous, and meaningful, rhyming the library. get. In this class, you will get an intro - verses. Tickets may be picked up beginning duction to the hardware, learn how to “I am proud to have met syllabic Wednesday, November 28, 10 am. access the Internet and your email, challenges like ‘Blagojevich, Callista, Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library. understand the settings, use the app’s Tiffany’s, and to have rhymed and learn how to get new ones, down - ‘Santorum’ in a believable context ÌF GREAT BOOKS load eBooks and audiobooks, discover with ‘Purim”, notes Lipman. DISCUSSION GROUP many tips and tricks, and much more. A SAMPLE: Bring your iPad and your questions or 6/18 2012 - 2013 come to listen. Romney’s bus is painted quaint, I Tuesdays at 7:30 pm Its symbols won’t bring 1 complaint: Dr. Allen Lanner and the Great Books Presentations: Introduction Silos! Lighthouse! Art naïve. It’s 1950s Mittbelieve. discussion group continues reading to Keynote (iPad) New Date! full-length works of great authors. I Elinor Lipman is the author of nine Wednesday, November 28, 7 pm novels. Her essays have appeared in October 30 Use your iPad to give exciting pre - The New York Times “Modern Love” Forster, E.M. sentations with Apple’s Keynote, an and “Writers on Writing” columns, Howard’s End app’ that can be used as an aid in giv - and in The Boston Globe and The ISBN 048642454-5 * ing speeches and presentations. Learn Washington Post . Her next novel, The December 4 the basics of creating a slideshow View from Penthouse B, and an essay Roth, Philip including saving, editing, formatting, collection, I Can’t Complain, will be Patrimony: A True Story adding multimedia objects, animation published in May 2013. She held the Simon and Schuster effects, and much more. Bring your 2011-2012 Elizabeth Drew Chair in *Dover Publications, 31 E. 2nd St, Mineola, iPad or just come and listen. Keynote is Creative Writing at . NY 11501-3582. Fax or credit card orders: available in the iPad App Store for 516-294-9758. Tele: 516-241-5438. $9.99. Co-Sponsored by Friends of the Library 3 LECTURES & COURSES Ì Seated Aerobics F ‘Forever Free’: Lincoln, Wednesdays at 11 am Civil War and the American I October 3,10; November 28; March to Emancipation December 5, 12, 19; January 2, with James Coll 9,16, 23, 30; February 6, 13, 20, Adjunct associate professor of 27; March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013. American and Constitutional History, All classes are choreographed to Nassau Community College, and enjoyable music. This is a complete Detective, NYPD workout from head to toe. Wear com - I Tuesday, December 18, 1 pm fortable clothes. It is expected that all Last year, 2011, was the 150th participants are in good health and phys - George Bellows , Dempsey and Firpo, 1924 ically able to engage in light exercise. anniversary of the Civil War. Few events in American history have been (1882-1925) as consequential in defining American NY Council on the Humanities George Bellows Metropolitan Museum of Art identity as the Civil War. This discus - sion will focus on President Abraham Presidential Power November 15, 2012- February 18, 2013 Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation as With Frank Sorrentino I I Tuesday, November 20, 1 pm well as wartime legislative develop - Thursday, October 11, 1 pm At the time of his death at age 42, ments dealing with the ‘peculiar insti - In this lecture the power of the George Bellows was regarded as one of tution’. We will also explore the subse - American Presidency will be examined. America’s greatest artists. George quent policy for Reconstruction of the Tracing the Presidency from its begin - Bellows excelled in baseball at Ohio South that resulted in nothing short of ning as envisioned by the framers State University but his illustrations for a revolution in American constitutional of the Constitution as the leader the student yearbook hinted at an artis - theory. of their new political system, Mr. tic calling. After turning down an offer (Note: The film, Sorrentino will continue the analysis as from a Major League Baseball Club, Lincoln , will be to how the changing world and Bellows moved to New York City to study released in America's role in it has impacted the with Robert Henri, one of America’s November 2012, office of the Presidency. most influential art teachers. He became directed by This program, which is free and open to the public, is made possible through the support of associated with the generation of artists Steven Spielberg, the New York Council for the Humanities. of the Ashcan school. Bellows was also a written by Doris talented lithographer. Kearns Goodwin, ART LECTURES screenplay by Tony Kushner, starring Bernini, Sculpting in Clay Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sally Field, with Thomas Germano Tommy Lee Jones, and Daniel Day- Metropolitan Museum of Art Johannes Vermeer and Lewis as Lincoln.) October 3, 2012- January 6, 2013 the Art of Holland I ÌF The Palazzo e Scuderie Tuesday, December 11, 1 pm Lecture and Author Visit del Quirinale, Rome To visualize life size or colossal mar - The Churches in Europe and ble sculptures, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, October 2012- January 2013 the Missing 10,000 Jewish I the great Roman Baroque sculptor, Tuesday, October 16, 1 pm conceived his ideas by making small, Children from the Holocaust Ground was broken for The Palazzo preliminary clay models. These models With Dr. Moshe Avital del Quirinale in 1574, following the and drawings give the first traces of I Thursday, December 13, 1 pm order of Pope Gregory XIII, to establish the thought process that evolved into a papal summer residence. The the most famous statuary seen through - Dr Avital was born in Bilke, a village Quirinale is one of the Seven Hills of out the city of Rome today. on the eastern part of the former Rome and the site of profound, succes - Czechoslovakia called Ruthenia, now Ukraine. During the Holocaust, he sive history traced back to pre-Roman Gallery Talk New Date! times. The Quirinale first opened its was imprisoned in Ghetto Berhhovo With Phyllis & Victor Merriam doors to the public for Rome’s Jubilee (Beregszas in Hungary). From there he I and has since held many important Thursday, January 3, 1 pm and his family were transported to many notorious camps, ending in exhibitions. Professor Germano will dis - Join artists Phyllis and Victor Buchenwald, Germany. The US Third cuss the history and the many exhibits Merriam for an informal talk on their Army liberated him on April 11, 1945. in the past 12 years, focusing on the art and how they work. Dr. Avital is the author of several books upcoming Vermeer exhibit. View their work in the H-WPL on the Holocaust. Gallery beginning October 5, 2012. 4 L & C H-WPL READERS

Tax Forum A Monthly Book Discussion Group with Donald X. Clavin, I Mondays at 1 pm Receiver of Taxes District residents may reserve copies of the books well in advance of the discus - I Tuesday, November 13, 1 pm sions. Review packets are available at the Information Desk. Mr. Clavin will explain tax exemp - tions, payment options, dates, times, and locations to pay your taxes (mobile tax and satellite offices), our new EZ pay drive through service, and how to challenge your assessment.

The List by Martin Fletcher ÌF Discussion leader: Edna Ritzenberg A Tour of the Solar I Monday, October 15 System It is London 1945, but the war has not ended for Jews like Edith and Georg, a With Dr. Peter Brancacio young Austrian couple, awaiting their first child. Each day brings news of the death I Tuesday, November 20, 7:30 pm or possible survival of a relative. Veteran war correspondent Martin Fletcher uses his reporter skills in his first Over the past two decades, novel to investigate a painful, somewhat forgotten, chapter in British history. This astronomers have made remarkable is a thrilling story of postwar sabotage and the lives of the survivors of the discoveries about the planets and their Holocaust. satellites, using unmanned spacecraft “Veteran NBC correspondent Fletcher’s engrossing first novel, loosely based on his and the Hubble Space Telescope. This parent’s story, captures a neglected piece of postwar history . . . .” —Kirkus Reviews lecture will present a visual tour of the bodies that populate our solar system and summarize what we have learned How It All Began by Penelope Lively about them. Discussion leader: Candace Plotsker-Herman I Dr. Brancacio has a PhD in astro - Monday, November 12 physics from NYU. He taught courses in Charlotte Rainsford, a retired school teacher, is mugged on a London street, los - physics and astronomy at Brooklyn ing her handbag and leaving her injured. The repercussions of this single event College and retired in 1998 as Professor affect the lives of friends, acquaintances, strangers, and those who have never Emeritus in Physics. heard of the mugging. “Lively delivers her story about these intertwined lives with faultless dexterity, sly AARP Driver Improvement humor, keen insight, and deft economy. VERDICT Lively’s 12th novel is a feel-good masterpiece that will delight faithful fans as well as those new to the work of this Call 516 374-1967 x 231 for informa - consummate storyteller.” tion about our on-going defensive —Joyce Townsend, Library Journal. driving classes. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake BOARD OF TRUSTEES by Anna Quindlen Benjamin A. Eilbott, President Discussion leader: Ellen Getreu Shari H. Braverman, Vice President I David A. Adler Monday, December 17 Donald A. Davidson A delightful memoir from Pulitizer prize winner Anna Quindlen, the NY Times Frank Zaret, Treasurer columnist of the much loved and read column, A Short Guide to a Happy Life. “ . . .Like having an older, wiser sister or favorite aunt over for a cup of tea, Susan O. de S ciora, Director Quindlen’s latest book is full of the counsel and ruminations many of us wish we could Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs learn young. . . In her sincere and amusing style, the author reflects on feminism, raising her children, marriage, and menopause.” —Kirkus Reviews 5 FILMS Sherlock Holmes: THE BIG SCREEN A Game of Shadows They w ere great films when we saw I Wednesday, October 10, 2 & 7 pm them in a movie house in the days before DVD/VCR players. Somehow it’s Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Directed by Guy Ritchie, PG-13, 129 minutes just not the same on our televisions, Sherlock Holmes and sidekick, no matter how big they are! Join us for Dr. Watson, join forces to outwit and the big screen experience. bring down their fiercest adversary— Professor Moriarity!

Mayim Bialik Footnote I Wednesday, October 24, SPECIAL FILM 2 & 7 pm NCJW ADVOCACY Starring Lior Ashkenazi, Shlomo Bar-Aba, Directed by Joseph Cedar, PG, 103 min., Women Unchained Hebrew with subtitles A Film by Beverly Siegel and Leta Lenik The National Center for Jewish Film Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father 60 minutes; documentary and son, as well as rival professors in Speaker: Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg I Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence Talmudic Studies. When both men Sunday, November 18, 2 pm learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his Narrated by role-model-of-every work, their complicated relationship Lawrence of Arabia New Date! Jewish-girl-growing-up-in the-80s, I reaches a new level. Wednesday, February 13 , 1:30 pm Mayim Bialik (Blossom, The Big Bang Starring Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Theory) , this profound documentary Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, The Avengers Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, I explores the struggle of agunot Wednesday, November 14, (Hebrew for ‘chained’) women whose Jack Hawkins 7 pm only Directed by David Lean, music by Maurice husbands refuse to grant them a Jewish Jarre, London Philharmonic Orchestra Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, divorce, or a get. Fighting to gain their 1962, Rated PG, 216 min. Mark Ruffalo freedom, the film presents a tasteful, Directed by Joss Whedon, PG-13, 143 min. This historical epic film covers the humorous, yet powerful message. Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings Allies’ mideastern campaign during Mayim Bialik is best known for her together a team of super humans, to be WWI as seen through the eyes of the portrayal of the young Bette Midler in known as The Avengers, to help save perplexing, charismatic T.E. Lawrence 1989’s film “Beaches” and went on to the Earth from Loki and his army. The (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935). star in the popular sitcom “Blossom” Avengers were a team of super heroes Screenwriters Robert Bolt and Michael from 1990-1994. Bialik holds a Ph.D. in that appeared in Marvel comic books. Wilson used T.E. Lawrence’s own self- Neuroscience, has two young children, published memoir, The Seven Pillars of is the spokesperson for the Holistic Wisdom, as their principal source, Moonrise Kingdom Moms Network and currently appears as I creating composites of some of the Wednesday, December 5, Amy Farrah Fowler on “The Big Bang characters. 7 pm only Theory.” The movie took two years to make Starring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Rabbi Ginsburg is the spiritual leader and was shot in Spain, Jordan and Frances McDormand of Congregation Sons of Israel in Morocco. It ended up costing $13 mil - Directed by Wes Anderson, PG-13, 94 min. Woodmere, NY. A past president of the lion and won 7 Academy Awards, A pair of young lovers flee their New Long Island Board of Rabbis and the including Best Picture and Best England town. A local search party is founder and past national president of Director. The film is timeless and beau - formed and fans out in the area to find the Union for Traditional Judaism, he is tifully shot and the story at times strik - them. known as a community activist ingly relevant to the current situation on behalf of Israel, Soviet Jewry, among the Arab nations and the Middle To Rome with Love and intra/interfaith cooperation. His I East. Wednesday, December 12, essays have appeared in Newsday, A bust of T.E. Lawrence is in a crypt 2 pm only The Christian Science Monitor, The at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Mourners at Starring Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Jerusalem Report, among others. his funeral included Winston and Jesse Eisenberg District residents may pick up tickets beginning Clementine Churchill and E.M. Forster. Directed by Woody Allen, R, 112 min. Wednesday, November 7, 10 am & 7 pm. Non- A story of the lives of visitors and residents who are members of NCJW, Peninsula Please note time of film presentations. residents of Rome and the romances, Section, may reserve a ticket by calling NCJW Some films are offered only in the office; 342 Central Avenue, Lawrence, NY. adventures, and the predicaments they Tele: 516-569-3660, 9 am – 4 pm, Monday to evening at 7 pm or the afternoon have. Thursday. at 2 pm. 6 FOR TEENS IN THE GALLERY SAT PREP AND STRATEGY Michael Binder, Your College COURSES Navigator, is one of the premier col - lege-consulting firms on Long Island. He Math Portion is a noted speaker and author, appear - ing at over 40 libraries & high schools, With Dr. Keith Harrow I in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Wednesday, October 3 District residents may sign up NOW for SAT Prep 7 – 8:30 pm and New Rules lecture at the Information Desk. Dr. Harrow is a professor and Graduate Deputy Chairman of the Dept. College Essays Made Easy of Computer and Information Science With Ellen Karcinell at Brooklyn College. I Thursday, November 1 7 pm – 8 pm Writing Portion Ellen Karcinell will take the mystery With Ellen Karcinell out of the college application process. I Thursday, October 4 For over 20 years, Ellen has successful - 7 – 8:30 pm ly helped students with the Common Untitled, 2011 by Phyllis and Victor Merriam Ms. Karcinell has a BA in teaching Application and its Supplements; those Transformation: English and MA from NYU with a con - Applications not covered by the centration in grammar. Ellen has been Common App and Resumes. Her unique Phyllis & Victor Merriam helping students crack the SATs with technique for essay writing will simplify October 5, 2012 – January 7, 2013 the entire process and give the student tips and tricks for more than 15 years. I Reception: October 23, 7-8:30 pm a winning package geared for first I choice college acceptance. Gallery Talk: Tuesday, October 30, 1 pm The New Rules of College Refreshments will be served. The Merriams combine digital and Admissions District residents may register at the Information Desk beginning Thursday, traditional printing methods to produce What every college-bound student October 18, 10 am. monoprints and limited editions. Their and parent need to know! choices of paper, transfer technique, I Thursday, October 18, 6:45 pm College Finance: How to and image manipulation offer an avenue for reinterpretation that invite Applications rates are up and Beat the High Cost of the viewer to explore the border admissions rates are down! It is one College New Date! between visual perception and personal thing to be an exceptional high school experience. student and another thing to be an out - With Barry Fox, Financial Aid Counselor standing college candidate. This 1½ I hour session for parents, high school Tuesday, January 15, 7 pm IN THE BOEHM ROOM sophomores, juniors, and seniors will Congress extended the low interest New York in the 1930s: The cover: what colleges are looking for in rates on student loans as part of a their decision making, what can I do transportation bill this summer. There Photography of Max Drucker now to stand out in high school, how to have been many changes in the finan - October 23 – December 20, 2012 I determine the ‘best fit’ reach, and cial aid process as college costs contin - Reception: November 1, 7-8:30 pm affording college: how to maximize ue to escalate. Filling out the FAFSA Sally Ann Drucker, professor of your scholarship and financial aid and other topics and updates on finan - English, has curated an exhibit of the potential. cial aid will be covered. work of her father Max Drucker (1909- 2003). Mr. Drucker was a founding member of the NY Photo League, an In Case of Weather Ì F GREAT DECISIONS 2013 organization devoted to documenting Emergency the social issues of the Depression. We urge you to call 374-1667 dur - Foreign Policy Association With Prof. Stanislao G. Pugliese, ing a weather emergency before Hofstra University leaving for the library. All informa - I tion regarding closings and delayed Tuesday, December 4, 10 am openings will be posted on this taped Registration begins for the 2013 announcement. Please note that if series. the Hewlett-Woodmere UFSD is When registering, participants must closed, the library will not open purchase a copy of the required reading booklet. before 1 pm.

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OCTOBER 30 • Tuesday 6 • Thursday ÌF Great Books 7:30 pm F Feelin’Groovy: The Kennedys * 7:30 pm 3 • Wednesday 31 • Wednesday 9 • Sunday Residents pick up tickets for 10/21 Computer II* (Cancelled) 10 am – 12 noon F United Choral Society* 2 pm Underworld Productions Opera 10 am & 7 pm 11 • Tuesday Seated Aerobics 11 am NOVEMBER Art Lecture: Bernini 1 pm SAT Math* 7 pm 12 • Wednesday 1 • Thursday 4 • Thursday Seated Aerobics 11 am College Essays* 7 pm Registration for all computer Film: To Rome with Love 2 pm only courses begins 10 am Art Reception 7 pm 13 • Thursday SAT Writing* 7 pm 7 • Wednesday ÌF Dr. Moshe Avital 1 pm 10 • Wednesday Residents pick up tickets for 11/18 NCJW 16 • Sunday Residents & Friends of the Library pick up tickets Advocacy film: Women Unchained 10 am & 7 pm Lawrence Foundation Concert: for 10/25 Highlights in Jazz, 10 am & 7 pm 12 • Monday Duo L & L * 2:30 pm Seated Aerobics 11 am HWPL Readers: How It All Began 1 pm Film: Sherlock Holmes: 17 • Monday 13 • Tuesday, A Game of Shadows 2 & 7 pm HWPL Readers: Lots of Candles, Residents & Friends of the Library pick up Plenty of Cake 1 pm 11 • Thursday tickets for 12/2 Plaza’s I Ought to be NYCH: Presidential Power 1 pm in Pictures, 10 am & 7 pm 18 • Tuesday ÌF Lincoln with James Coll 1 pm 15 • Monday Donald X. Clavin, Receiver of Taxes 1 pm HWPL Readers: The List 1 pm 14 • Wednesday 19 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am 16 • Tuesday Art Lecture: Vermeer 1 pm Film: The Avengers 7 pm only All About the iPad* 7 pm 17 • Wednesday NEW DATES AUTHOR VISIT: Elinor Lipman 2 pm 18 • Sunday Residents pick up tickets for 10/28 NCJW Advocacy film: Women Unchained* 2 pm Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 NCJW Dorothy Fields 10 am & 7 pm 20 • Tuesday Gallery Talk: Phyllis and Victor Merriam 1 pm 18 • Thursday Art Lecture: George Bellows 1 pm Tuesday, January 15, 2013 ÌF Residents register for 11/1 Solar System 7:30 pm College Finance with Barry Fox 7 pm College Applications 10 am 27 • Tuesday League of Women Voters 1 pm Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2013 Afternoon Music & Lecture: Ragtime 28 • Wednesday The Big Screen film: Lawrence of Arabia 1:30 pm with Allan Jaffee 1 pm Pick up tickets for 12/9 New Rules for College* 6:45 pm Thursday, March 14, 2013 United Choral Society 10 am & 7 pm F Feelin’ Groovy: Mostly Motown * 7:30 pm 21 • Sunday Seated Aerobics 11 am Gold Concert: Underworld Presentations on the iPad* 7 pm Productions Opera* 2:30 pm BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS 23 • Tuesday -DECEMBER Monday, November 12 7:45 pm Residents & Friends of the Library Monday, December 10 7:45 pm pick up tickets for 11/8 & 12/6 2 • Sunday Feelin’Groovy shows 10 am & 7 pm ÌF Plaza’s I Ought To Be in Pictures * 2:30 pm Art Reception 7 pm 4 • Tuesday SCHEDULE CHANGES 24 • Wednesday Registration begins for Wednesday, November 21 9 am – 6 pm Computer 1* 10 am – 12 noon Great Decisions 2013 10 am Thursday, November 22 CLOSED Film: Footnote 2 & 7 pm ÌF Great Books 7:30 pm Monday, December 24 9 am – 1 pm 25 • Thursday 5 • Wednesday Tuesday, December 25 CLOSED ÌF Highlights in Jazz * 7:30 pm Residents pick up tickets for Sunday, December 30 CLOSED 28 • Sunday Lawrence Foundation, Duo L & L 10 am & 7 pm Seated Aerobics 11 am NCJW Dorothy Fields “The $50-dollar Monday, December 31 9 am – 1 pm Film: Moonrise Kingdom 7 pm only a Night Girl” * 2 pm Tuesday, January 1 CLOSED

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