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Lewes/Dover & Ocean View OLFor adults 50+ • Serving Kent LIand Sussex Counties SPRING 2019 | JAN. 28–APR. 8

Learning for the fun of it!

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Spring 2019 Calendar

December 24–January 1 Offices closed for winter break

Wednesday, January 9 Lewes Open House, Walk-in Registration, Fred Thomas Building, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Thursday, January 10 Dover Open House, Walk-in Registration, Wyoming Church, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Thursday, January 17 Priority Registration Deadline, 2 p.m.

Monday, January 21 Martin Luther King Day, Office closed

Tuesday, January 22 Dover Instructor Orientation, Wyoming Church, 2–3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, January 23 Ocean View Instructor Orientation, Ocean View Town Hall, 10–11:30 a.m.

Thursday, January 24 Lewes Instructor/New Member Orientation, Fred Thomas Building, 10–10:30 a.m. coffee social; 10:30–11:30 a.m. orientation

Monday, January 28 First day of classes

Monday, February 18 Presidents Day, no classes

Tuesday, March 5 Second session begins

Friday, March 22 Air and Space Museum trip

Monday, April 8 Last day of classes

Tuesday, April 9 Dover End of Semester Luncheon

April 22–26 Office closed for spring break

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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Follow us!

at the University of Delaware in Lewes/Dover & Ocean View www.facebook.com/OLLIDover www.facebook.com/OLLILewes A program of the Division of Professional and Continuing Studies

Lewes/Ocean View Council Dover Council Contents Chair—Bill Sharkey Chair—Rosemary Engle Gifts ...... 17 Vice Chair—Peter Feeney Vice Chair—Patrick Weaver Guests...... 21 Secretary—Katherine Henn Secretary—Caroline Baxter Joe Bailey • Ronnie Grady Bob Comeau • Paul Collins How to Register ...... 7 Phyllis Handler • Susan McLaughlin Craig Haggerty • Sabatino Maglione Identification Badges ...... 7 Madelyn Wright Jane McGann • Karen Schaub Inclement Weather Policy ...... 14 Dover Committee Chairs Bud Zimmerman Joe Bailey—Community Relations Instructor Bios ...... 32 Lewes/Ocean View Rosemary Engle—Special Events Member Benefits...... 7 Committee Chairs Ronnie Grady—Course Development/ Membership ...... 7 Ruth Barnett—Library Scholarship Connie Benko—Social Phyllis Handler—Faculty Relations Refunds ...... 7 Peter Feeney—Long Range Planning Bob Heifetz—Finance Spring 2019 Courses ...... 8 Craig Haggerty—Community Relations Open—Member Relations Spring 2019 Madelyn Wright—Travel Lynn Kroesen—Catalog/ Course Schedule by Day ...... 5 Communications/Newsletter University Staff Spring 2019 Sabatino Maglione—Scholarship George Irvine, Interim Associate Vice Course Selection Form ...... 42 Jane McGann—Academic Affairs Provost, Professional and Continuing Spring 2019 Studies Karen Schaub—Finance Registration Form...... 41 Anna Moshier—Manager, Joan Sciorra—Travel Osher Learning Centers Spring 2019 Scholarship Application...... 40 Bud Zimmerman—Academic Affairs Renee Moy—Program Coordinator Diana Faison—Administrative Assistant Textbooks and Supplies...... 7 Lewes/Ocean View Academic Affairs Subcommittees Bill Ashmore—Instructional/ Travel...... 7 Tech Support—Ocean View Paul Collins—Health/Psychology/ University of Delaware Policies...... 7 Information Technology Wayne Kling—Instructional/ Tech Support—Dover Peter Feeney—Art John Lafferty—Instructional/ On the cover: Bill Fintel—Science/Math Tech Support—Lewes Artwork by Phil Fretz—History/International Studies Chet Poslusny—Instructional/ Sheila Exum, James McMahan—Economics/Finance Tech Support—Lewes OLLI instructor Paula Wood—Instructional/ Lee Mussoff—Humanities/Language Tech Support—Dover Jon Newsom—Performing Arts/Music Joe Zito—Instructional/ Carol West—Life Skills/Recreation Tech Support—Lewes

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware in Lewes, Dover & Ocean View Fred Thomas Building, 520 Dupont Ave., Lewes, DE 19958 • Phone: 302-645-4111 • Fax: 302-645-4112 • Email: [email protected] The advertising in this catalog subsidizes the cost of printing. The University of Delaware receives no profit from it, nor does the University endorse any of the products of the advertisers. The University of Delaware is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and Title IX institution. For the University’s complete non-discrimination statement, please visit www.udel.edu/home/legal-notices. CEP 6292 12/18

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OLLI LEWES, OCEAN VIEW AND DOVER Thirty years of lifelong learning in Kent and Sussex Counties

For thirty years, the University of • The Rehoboth Art League is a longtime, generous Delaware’s Osher Lifelong Learning OLLI partner, providing classroom studio space for Institute (OLLI) programs have many OLLI art classes. provided vital learning opportunities • In 2010, UD’s lifelong learning programs received a in Kent and Sussex Counties. $2 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation “Find broader horizons” was the and joined the national network of OLLI programs. program’s early motto and aptly • With the founding of UD’s OLLI Dover program, the illustrates the program’s story of Lewes/Ocean View and Dover programs have forged growth and impacts in southern a strong partnership. The programs’ combined mem- Delaware. Originally founded as bership opportunities allow Lewes, Ocean View and the Southern Delaware Academy Dover OLLI members to enroll in unlimited courses at of Lifelong Learning (SDALL) in 1989, the program was all of UD’s Kent and Sussex County OLLI locations. modeled on UD’s Wilmington-based lifelong learning Total OLLI membership in Kent and Sussex Counties program founded 10 years earlier. The Wilmington program • now exceeds one thousand, with 208 Dover members boasted attendees from as far away as Dover, Milford and and 817 Lewes/Ocean View members. Rehoboth, but by 1988 an enthusiastic 17-member steering committee formed to establish a dedicated program in Dr. Jim Broomall, UD’s longtime associate vice provost for southern Delaware. In 1989 with 59 founding members, the professional and continuing studies, has been a committed SDALL program offered its first courses in Milford, Delaware. champion of UD’s lifelong learning’s programs. “With modest beginnings the University’s Osher programs in In 1993, the program moved to Lewes, Delaware, beginning Kent and Sussex County have grown to over 1,000 members its long and productive history in the community. Some today, with courses now offered in Dover, Lewes, and highlights include: Ocean View to ensure that the Osher experience is • OLLI’s early Lewes-based locations have included accessible to Southern Delaware,” said Broomall. He added, UD’s Virden Center, the Biden Conference Center at “The program is an exemplar of the University’s tradition Cape Henlopen State Park, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church of and commitment to the land-grant university model.” and the Lewes Public Library. “I am continually inspired and excited to be a part of this • Longtime member and instructor Amelie Sloan offered vibrant program,” added Anna Moshier, current manager the first OLLI pottery class in 1990 and continues as a of UD’s OLLI programs in Kent and Sussex Counties. member today. “Through OLLI members, I am learning to age with grace • In 2003, the program began its longstanding relationship and dignity, benefiting from the knowledge, ideas and with Cape Henlopen School District, relocating to the camaraderie shared here at the OLLI program. I look Lewes School for 10 years. In 2013 and 2014, respectively, forward to expanding our horizons as we look toward the program moved to its current home in the school district’s OLLI’s future of continued growth and lifelong learning Fred Thomas Building and in Ocean View Town Hall. opportunities in Delaware.” 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 5

Congratulations! Thank you, OLLI, for many happy memories. May the future bring great success. Bill Sharkey

Congratulations on 30 years of lifelong learning in Lewes. Thank you to the staff, Anna and Renee John, Joe and Chet A special thanks to all the marvelous instructors that make OLLI-Lewes so great! Denise Bridgens and Paul Collins 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 6

Congratulations on your 30th anniversary And best wishes for continued success to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute From Rosemarie and Jerry Pillari

Happy 30th Anniversary Thank you Enthusiastically for enriching Thanks for the our lives for supporting opportunity for 30 years. OLLI’s next enrichment and Here’s to our friendship. bright future! horizon! Sue Claire Harper A grateful student— Lee Mussoff Jane McGann 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 7

Lewes Spring 2019 Course Schedule by Day January 28–April 8 (No classes February 18)

MONDAY IT116 Technology Devices— Pollisino (1) HX298 Halls of Montezuma—Ebenreiter(1) Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) SS173 Algebra— Bennett (1) SS126 Geology Rocks— Letcher (2) AA64 Painting Workshop— Chu et.al. * HE103 Yoga-Based Meditation—Gilbert(2) Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) RR24 Bridge II— K. Boboshko/Zampini* HX238 Electric Service— Rosenstein(2) RR36-1 Refresher Bridge—Cont’d SS94 Beachcombing— Lord/ IS47 Sunni vs. Shia— Shobe (2) HU313 Totally Tolle— Lavenia/Worsham Mansperger * SS174 Interm. Algebra— Bennett (2) RR32 Go 101— Macadam EC26 Financial Planning— Loftus (1) Period 4 (3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.) HE137-2 Strength and Fitness—Tkach (1) * + RR39 Mah Jongg Workshop—Cont’d * HX304 Great War— Proto (1) HU321 Mystery Writer— Collins (1) * + AA10 Beginning Basketry—Cont’d (1) * HX303 Sea and Civilization— Kirklin (2) SS169 Amazing Aircraft— Kaufman(2) * EC37 Good Finance Advice— Johnston(1) * Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) Period 3 (1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.) HE145 Essential Oils— Backes (1) * AA64 Painting Workshop—Cont’d * HU232 Reader’s Theatre— McGrath EC36 Charitable Planning— Reese (2) HE140 Meditation Support— Weber PA140 Beethoven to Gershwin— RR24 Bridge II—Cont’d * WEDNESDAY Newsom * + SS94 Beachcombing—Cont’d * Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) RR02 English Country Dance— Mason/ IS40 Foreign Trade— Mark (1) AA91 Osher Craft Circle— Beebe/ West HX291 The Vikings— Redden (2) McKinnon * RR36-2 Refresher Bridge—K. Boboshko/ Zampini * SS171 Unsolved Problems— Hoover (2) HE116 (Re)Learn: Continuation— C. Brown SS170 Ted Talks— Lord Period 3 (1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.) IS03 Great Decisions— S. Boboshko/ Stanford RR40-1 RV Lifestyle— Massey (1) * AA64 Painting Workshop—Cont’d * LS133 Writing Memoir— Tyson AA14 Stained Glass— Puch HE154 Tai Chi— Weber* (2) * LS159 Design and Build— DeFeo * LA21 French Cinema— Lynch Period 4 (3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.) SS56 Spring Birding— Fintels (2) * + SS155 Elements of Electricity— H. Henn (1) PA53 Chorus— R. Brown Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) RR34 Golf Fundamentals— Strub (2) PA78 Music Slow Jam— Hansen AA91 Osher Craft Circle—Cont’d * PA140 Beethoven to Gershwin—Cont’d* + Period 4 (3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.) LS159 Design and Build—Cont’d * RR36-2 Refresher Bridge—Cont’d* LS114 Hand Tools— Burkhart HX296 Other Moses— Forman * AA14 Stained Glass—Cont’d (2) * IT127 Apple Computers— Schulz (1) RR16 Mah Jongg— Criaris * IT126 Digital Photo— Schulz (2) * HE158 Meditative Approaches—LaTorre(2) FRIDAY SS56 Spring Birding—Cont’d (2) * + Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) TUESDAY SS132 Environmental Issues— Tyson (2) AA85 Beginner Pottery— Stickle * + Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) Period 3 (1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.) PA137 Soprano Recorder— Roberson HE99 (Re)Learn Intro.— C. Brown* RR16 Mah Jongg—Cont’d * AA115 Fundamentals of Drawing— LA17 Interm. Spanish— Crist * HX281-2 Hamilton—Pritchett Wescott(2) * LS155 Major Case— C. Sullivan LS152 Adv. Woodworking— DeFeo * EC34 Managing Taxes— Jeter (2) * HX180-1 Hoofs of Iron—Glick (1) AA53 Interm. Basketry— Stanhope (1) * EC35 Estate Planning— Jeter/ HX305 30 Years’ War— Proto (2) RR04 Walk Talk— Mansperger/ McCartney(2) * Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) S. Sullivan(2) * + HU121-1 Issues in Constitutional Law— HX242 Ellis Island Immigrants— Vega * Period 4 (3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.) Boyd (1) * HU314 The Wire— Ward HX297 Reformations with Boss— K. Henn LS129 AARP Driver Basic— Mollura (2) * HE137-1 Strength and Fitness—Tkach (1) * + LS152 Adv. Woodworking—Cont’d * LS130 AARP Driver Refresher— Mollura(2) * HE159 Incredible Health— Davis (1) RR16 Mah Jongg—Cont’d * Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) HU181 Ethics— Woodyard(1) AA53 Interm. Basketry—Cont’d (1) * AA85 Beginner Pottery—Cont’d * + RR04 Walk Talk—Cont’d (2) * + HU226-1 Short Story—Bradts (1) AA115 Fundamentals of Drawing— EC39-2 Market Manias—Lokken (2) * THURSDAY Cont’d (2) * LA22-2 You Talkin’ To Me—Bradts (2) Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) LS129 AARP Driver Basic—Cont’d (2) * PA136 Charles Gounod— Woodyard(2) AA191 Ready, Set, Write— Gregor LS130 AARP Driver Refresher—Cont’d (2) * Period 3 (1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.) LA26 Esperanto— Macadam Period 3 (1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.) RR39 Mah Jongg Workshop— K. Henn * RR36-1 Refresher Bridge— K. Boboshko/ HU263 Atom, Cosmos— Hemmick (2) * AA10 Beginning Basketry— Stanhope(1) * Zampini * LS129 AARP Driver Basic—Cont’d (2) *

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Ocean View Spring 2019 Course Schedule by Day January 28–April 8 (No classes February 18) Classes held at Ocean View Town Hall unless otherwise noted.

MONDAY TUESDAY Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) HX299 Classical Antiquity— Stephanic (1) HE134 Yoga for Seniors— Wood RR28 Slower Lower DE— Sherlock *+ HU226-2 Short Story—Bradts (1) Period 2 (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) WEDNESDAY FRIDAY AA192 Basics of Oil Painting— Rioux (1) Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.) Period 2 (10:30 a.m.–Noon) EC39-1 Market Manias— Lokken (1) * IS38-1 Foreign Service— T. Thompson(1) RR37 Ocean View Walk— Sherlock (1) + LA22-1 You Talkin’ to Me—Bradts (2)

Dover Spring 2019 Course Schedule by Day January 28–April 8 (No classes February 18)

MONDAY Period 3 (1 p.m.–2:15 p.m.) THURSDAY Period 2 (10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.) AA185 Lace Knitting— Dunn Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:15 a.m.) HX301 Delawhere?— HE161 Thrive-50 Plus— P. Thompson Baxter AA114 Beginning Watercolor— Gibson HE155 Chronic Pain— Bakoru-Bakoko(1) * HU315 Trojan War— Christensen/ McLaughlin HU318 Kathryn Hughes— Jelich (1) HU311 Controversial Issues— L. Klepner/ EC21 Elder Law— Procino-Wells/ Schleifer(1) SS145 Climate Change— Grier-Reynolds(1) * Woodland(2) Lunchtime (Noon–12:45 p.m.) Period 4 (2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.) HX306 Orphan Train— Neaton (2) LS164 Coping With Life— Engle/Ayers(2) AA173 Open Studio— Dunn Period 2 (10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.) Period 3 (1 p.m.–2:15 p.m.) PA87 Theatre Appreciation— D. Roberts AA186 Impressionists’ Oil— Gibson HE155 Chronic Pain—Cont’d (1) * SS145 Climate Change— Cont’d(1) * HX302 Western Religions— Apgar HX307 Italian Renaissance— McLaughlin AA190 Basic Drawing— Exum (2) LS165 Break Free— D. Miller (1) HU319 Mel Brooks— Weaver* HX308 Baroque— McLaughlin (2) Period 3 (1 p.m.–2:15 p.m.) HU323 Letters of Note— P. Thompson HX280 World at War— Pritchett RR103 English Country Dance— McCabe WEDNESDAY HE160 Human Trafficking— RR104 Photography— Hazzard Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:15 a.m.) Bakoru-Bakoko(1) Period 4 (2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.) HU303 Genealogy— J. Roberts IT123 Basic Computer— Watkins(1) HU319 Mel Brooks—Cont’d * IS38-2 Foreign Service— T. Thompson(2) IT386 Computer Workshop— Watkins (2) PA139 Great Cover Songs— McLaughlin (1) Period 2 (10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.) HX281-1 Hamilton—Pritchett RR40-2 RV Lifestyle—Massey (2) TUESDAY AA189 Pine Cones— Cousens (1) Period 4 (2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.) Period 1 (9 a.m.–10:15 a.m.) HX180-2 Hoofs of Iron—Glick (1) RR105 Trivia Time— Pritchett HU316 Rabbit, Run— Heifetz (1) HU322 Falling Upward— J. Grady/ HU320 Tenderness of Hemingway— LA24 French Phonetics— Cataldi (2) Walston(1) Endo (1) Period 2 (10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.) AA188 Tole Painting— Cousens (2) PA116 Recorder Ensemble— Neild Lunchtime (Noon–12:45 p.m.) FRIDAY PA138 Opera— Christensen HU131 Lunch Time Story— Letavish Period 1 (9 a.m.–Noon) HU317 The Story— Walston(1) Period 3 (1 p.m.–2:15 p.m.) HU121-2 Issues in Constitutional Law— Boyd (2) * LA25 Chateaux— Olden-Marraffini (1) LS161 Recipe Tasting— R. Klepner/Pasek(1) LA23 Journey from Bordeaux— HE105 Seated Exercise— R. Klepner (2) Cataldi (2) HX300 Supremes— R. Grady (2)

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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware in Lewes/Dover & Ocean View

About OLLI apply. For details, visit olli.udel.edu/ Refund requests must be submitted The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute lewes/info. More information and in writing to the OLLI office. A $15 (OLLI) at the University of Delaware request forms are available in the processing charge will be deducted is a membership cooperative for OLLI office.) from all refund requests received adults 50+ to enjoy classes, teach, • Receive student discounts at various after the first day of classes. Mem- exchange ideas and travel together. venues/retailers. bership refunds cannot be trans- The program provides opportunities Some benefits require either a UD ferred to another semester. Refunds for intellectual development, cultural ID card (small fee) or a UDelNet ID will take up to six weeks to process. stimulation, personal growth and (@udel.edu email account). These Direct questions to the OLLI office. social interaction in an academic benefits are only available to full-year Textbooks, Supplies and cooperative run by its members, who members. Handouts volunteer their time and talents. In How to Register The catalog lists any textbooks or 2010, through an endowment from other supplies required for courses Register and pay online at the Bernard Osher Foundation, OLLI and any charge for handouts beyond www.olli.udel.edu/spring2019, by at UD joined a national network of the allocation provided each instructor. mail, or in-person at the OLLI office 122 other OLLI programs. Members are responsible for these (Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m.– costs. Membership 2 p.m.). If registering by mail or in person, be sure to complete the Membership is open to men and Travel Registration Form and return to the women age 50+ and to members’ OLLI sponsors trips to enhance our OLLI office at Osher Lifelong Learn- spouses or partners at any age. educational experience. Many are ing Institute, 520 Dupont Ave., Whether your formal education one-day trips associated with par- Lewes, DE 19958. Make checks ended early in life or includes ticular courses. Members have first payable to the University of advanced degrees, we welcome priority, and a surcharge is required Delaware. Priority registration dead- you. An interest in learning is all that of nonmembers. Direct questions line is January 17, 2019. is required. Registration forms are at about travel to the OLLI office. the back of this catalog and online. Identification Badges University of Delaware The membership fee is $175 for the Please wear your identification Policies spring semester. Partial scholarships badge at all times. Member and OLLI is a program of the Division of are available through the OLLI office. guest badges (and temporary Professional and Continuing Studies badges for those who forget) are Member Benefits of the University of Delaware. All available in the OLLI office. Guests, members must comply with Univer- • Register for as many classes as visitors and prospective members sity policies and procedures, includ- you like. who wish to become familiar with ing those that prohibit sexual • Participate in OLLI-sponsored trips. our program are welcome to visit on harassment and disruptive behavior. • Utilize on-site wireless internet a single day with permission from The University of Delaware reserves access. (Lewes and Ocean View) the instructor. the right to refuse for good and suffi- • Get student rates on software. cient reasons enrollment of any ap- • Use UD and Delaware Tech libraries Refunds plicant and/or member. Except for and online resources. Membership fees can be refunded specifically designated activities, in- • Audit University of Delaware credit for requests made before the end of dividuals or groups are not permitted courses. (Some restrictions and fees the second week of the semester. to conduct sales or solicitations.

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Spring 2019 Courses Carefully check the No classes February 18. day, time and location of your courses

AA53 INTERMEDIATE learn the basic techniques for BASKETRY creating beautiful, functional and decorative pottery. Please wear old Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. clothes and bring an apron. There is Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 a fee of $75 (payable to the Instructor: Elaine Stanhope AA10 BEGINNING Rehoboth Art League) that includes a Location: Fred Thomas Building BASKETRY 25-pound bag of clay as well as the Limited to 15 students. Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. glazing and firing of pieces. Each Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 This class is open to all who have participant must be a current Instructor: Elaine Stanhope woven at least five baskets. Baskets member of the Rehoboth Art League. Location: Fred Thomas Building woven in this class are on an Limited to 15 students. intermediate level. There is a charge AA91 OSHER CRAFT CIRCLE for each basket kit provided. This class is open to all who are Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–Noon Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 interested in basket weaving. AA64 PAINTING Anyone who has never woven a Instructors: Diana Beebe, basket or those who have woven up WORKSHOP Karen McKinnon to five baskets are welcome. Basket Mondays, 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Location: Fred Thomas Building kits are provided. There is a charge Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Limited to 20 students. Instructors: Robert Chu, Carol Halloran, for supplies needed to weave two This course is open to OLLI students Ellen Watkins baskets. who enjoy each other’s company as Location: Fred Thomas Building they work on their handicraft. This is Limited to 16 students. AA14 STAINED GLASS not an instructional course but a FUNDAMENTALS Join us for a cooperative workshop venue for creative handiworkers to Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. and gain knowledge from the share what they do best while sitting Dates: 4 Sessions, March 14–April 4 unique perspective of the artists, with genial folks. If you knit or Instructor: Paul Puch assisted by learning formal open critique session crochet and are looking for a Rodney Lau protocol. Students should bring their project, we can find you one that Location: Fred Thomas Building own supplies and lunch, and may will help a good cause! Join the Limited to 10 students. bring their own photographs and group as your schedule allows. reference material. Some floor Students will learn the “Tiffany” easels are available, but attendees AA114 BEGINNING method of stained glass. They will should bring their own setup. design a pattern, cut glass, grind, foil WATERCOLOR Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. and solder a project. Class is open to AA85 BEGINNER POTTERY beginners and advanced artists. The Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 instructor must approve all projects. Fridays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Instructor: Cade Gibson There will be a $20 lab fee to cover Dates: 6 Sessions, Feb. 1–March 8 Location: Wyoming Church the cost of materials. Closed-toe Instructor: Jeffrey Stickle Limited to 14 students. Location: Rehoboth Art League shoes are required. This class is designed for the Limited to 8 students. beginning art student. We will cover This class is for the first-time paper, brushes and other supplies. beginner pottery student who has Theoretical instruction covers color always wanted to try clay. A team of theory, framing, composition and instructors will be teaching hand other basic theories. building exclusively. Students will

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AA115 FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING Open House, Walk-in Registration Fridays, 9 a.m.–Noon OLLI Lewes and Dover Dates: 3 Sessions, March 8–March 22 Instructor: Phil Wescott Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 20 students. Held at the Fred Thomas Building, Lewes, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. This short course is intended for Thursday, January 10, 2019 beginning aspirational artists. Class meetings consist of brief lectures Held at Wyoming Church, Dover, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and demonstrations, followed by opportunities for students to OLLI members are invited to attend and bring a experiment with drawing materials prospective member. and subjects of interest to them. The classroom atmosphere is informal and supportive. Supply list will be required, but prior experience with many positive directions. Students provided prior to class. lace knitting is not necessary. will paint from a pattern and follow Students will need to provide their the instructor by watching and AA173 OPEN STUDIO— own supplies. through the use of a projector. This KNITTING class can be enjoyed by beginner H New! and intermediate painters. There is a Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. $15 fee to cover supplies. Students Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 AA186 IMPRESSIONISTS’ will need to supply their own Instructor: Kathleen Dunn OIL TECHNIQUES brushes and graphite paper. Location: Wyoming Church EXTENDED Limited to 10 students. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. H New! This class is for those who would like Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 help with a knitting project that Instructor: Cade Gibson AA189 PINE CONES AND needs completion or would like to Location: Wyoming Church HOLLY TOLE learn a new technique or are taking Limited to 10 students. PAINTING the Lace Knitting class and just want Students will learn to paint in oils Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. some extra time with and help from Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 the instructor. using the loose techniques and vivid colors of the impressionist artists. Instructor: Jacqueline Cousens Location: Wyoming Church New! They are expected to have some oil H painting experience prior to taking Limited to 8 students. AA185 AN INTRODUCTION this class. Students should bring Students will paint from a pattern TO LACE KNITTING paint, canvas and palette. This is a and follow the instructor by continuation of the fall course but is watching and from the use of a Tuesdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. not required to take the spring class. projector. This class is for beginner Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 and intermediate painters. Students Instructor: Kathleen Dunn H New! supply their own brushes and Location: Wyoming Church graphite paper. There is a $15 fee to Limited to 10 students. AA188 SPRING INTO TOLE cover additional supplies. In the course of knitting a small lace PAINTING scarf, participants will learn the Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. basics of lace knitting, chart reading, Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 lifelines, matching increases and Instructor: Jacqueline Cousens decreases, and blocking. This simple Location: Wyoming Church project, packed with learning, can Limited to 8 students. probably be done with yarn you have on hand. Basic knitting skills are A good foundation can lead you in

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H New! H New! AA190 BASIC DRAWING EC34 MANAGING TAXES IN Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. RETIREMENT Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 Information provided to Economics/ Friday, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Instructor: Sheila Exum Finance class participants is Date: 1 Session, March 8 Location: Wyoming Church informational only and should not be Instructor: Robert Jeter Limited to 12 students. construed as business, financial, Location: Fred Thomas Building investment, legal, regulatory, tax or Limited to 40 students. Learn how to compose with line, accounting advice. shape and tone in a class designed This course aims to review tax– to introduce you to the basics of EC21 ELDER LAW: PLAN planning items in retirement. Topics drawing. Using still-life setups, you TODAY TO PROTECT covered include required minimum will find out how to work with YOUR TOMORROW distributions, Social Security taxation perspective, positive and negative and planning strategies. shape, and texture. A great class for Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. beginners! Dates: 4 Sessions, March 7–March 28 New! Instructors: Michele Procino-Wells, H H New! Amber Woodland EC35 COMMON ESTATE Location: Wyoming Church PLANNING MISTAKES Limited to 30 students. AA191 READY, SET, WRITE— Friday, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Estate planning organizes your affairs TAKE 2 Date: 1 Session, March 15 to accomplish long-range goals for Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Instructors: Robert Jeter, yourself and your family. We will Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Deirdre McCartney explore the three stages of estate Instructor: Roz Gregor Location: Fred Thomas Building planning. We will clarify the role of a Location: Fred Thomas Building power of attorney, unravel the probate Limited to 70 students. Limited to 12 students. process, and explain the use of trusts This joint presentation focuses on the This is a continuation of the first to avoid probate. We will cover common mistakes and round of READY, SET, WRITE with personal property memorandums, misconceptions associated with more exercises and stories. Come jointly owned assets and appropriate estate planning. and play! If you have not taken the beneficiary designations. Finally, we first class but love to write, just be will explain the ethics surrounding New! prepared to be a little patient and asset protection planning. H your fellow writers will help you EC36 CHARITABLE through. EC26 ADVANCED PLANNING— FINANCIAL PLANNING TECHNIQUES AND H New! CONCEPTS APPLICATIONS Mondays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. AA192 LEARN THE BASICS Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 OF OIL PAINTING Dates: 2 Sessions, March 5–March 12 Instructor: Michael Loftus Instructor: Kenneth Reese Mondays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Location: Fred Thomas Building Location: Fred Thomas Building Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 Limited to 30 students. Limited to 30 students. Instructor: Judy Rioux The instructor will share his fact- Charitable gifting is a wonderful Location: Ocean View Town Hall based investment style deployed by way to impact the causes you care Limited to 6 students. many foundations and endowments. about. This course helps you We will look at and learn how to Students will learn the basics of oil maximize your gifts by identifying read directions of the charts and painting, brushes and how to start charitable gifting techniques and deploying to your portfolio. The and finish a simple painting of their then identifying the appropriate time own choosing. Students will need to instructor will also discuss up-to- date financial planning concepts, tax to use these vehicles from a tax provide their own small oil paint kit, changes and more. perspective. odorless solvent and a palette.

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New! H Instructor and New Member Orientation EC37 THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF Thursday, January 24, 2019 FINANCE ADVICE Held at Fred Thomas Building, 520 Dupont Ave., Lewes Tuesday, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Date: 1 Session, Feb. 26 10–10:30 a.m.—coffee social Instructor: Eric Johnston 10:30–11:30 a.m.—Orientation programs Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 30 students. All instructors and new members are encouraged to attend. Over the years the financial industry has gone through different phases in terms of what “financial advice” HE103 INTRODUCTION TO means. This class covers the changes YOGA–BASED the industry has gone through from MEDITATION the perspective of a financial Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. advisor with 25 years of experience. Information provided to Health/ Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 Psychology class participants is Instructor: Sandra Gilbert H New! informational only and should not be Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 12 students. EC39-1 MARKET MANIAS construed as advice. AND SPECULATIVE This meditation series is for those HE99 (RE)LEARN HOW BUBBLES who are new to meditation, those TO MOVE WITH out of practice, and those who have Monday, 10:45 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. FELDENKRAIS®— tried other styles in the past. The Date: 1 Session, Feb. 25 INTRODUCTION series is progressive. Each class Instructor: Jonathan Lokken Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. builds on the next so attendance at Location: Ocean View Town Hall the first three sessions is essential. Limited to 12 students. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 Instructor: Claire Brown There will be an optional group meditation in weeks four and five. EC39-2 MARKET MANIAS Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 12 students. The course includes lecture, AND SPECULATIVE instruction, meditation and discussion. BUBBLES Lie on the floor and make unfamiliar In each class, you will learn a simple movements. Get up and notice a Tuesday, 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. and effective meditation practice to difference in the way you move. No Date: 1 Session, March 26 try out in class and practice at home. experience needed. These lessons Instructor: Jonathan Lokken You will learn a tool to quiet your very reactivate infant learning skills to Location: Fred Thomas Building active mind. increase your ease in moving. Limited to 35 students. Gradual, incremental changes bring We will learn how to study economic long-term improvement; (re)learn data for a comprehensive analysis of with your body, not your head! Wear the market, identify key leading loose, comfortable clothing and economic indicators that help forecast bring a blanket or quilt. future recessions and the overall health of the economy, how emotions and mathematics intersect, and how not to get caught up in market manias and speculative bubbles. Learn the importance of asset allocation, diversification and risk tolerance in investing and what the “sequence of returns” means during retirement years.

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HE105 SEATED EXERCISE HE137-1 STRENGTH AND HE145 ESSENTIAL OIL USE Wednesdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. FITNESS FOR SENIOR AND AROMA Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 CITIZENS THERAPY Instructor: Rita Klepner Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Dates: 4 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 19 Limited to 10 students. Instructor: Jim Tkach Instructor: Nina Backes This video-based activity includes Location: The Factory, 17543 Nassau Location: Fred Thomas Building stretches and lightweight Commons Blvd., Lewes Limited to 20 students. conditioning guided by a respected Limited to 8 students. Students will learn the safe and trainer who specializes in senior effective use of essential oils, how physical health. With gradually HE137-2 STRENGTH AND they can help with promoting a increased intensity, sessions target FITNESS FOR SENIOR healthy lifestyle, and the benefits of the hands, back, neck, arms and CITIZENS aromatherapy. This class also covers shoulders. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. how to make your home toxin-free Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 and the chemistry of oils and how HE116 (RE)LEARN HOW Instructor: Jim Tkach they work for all body systems. TO MOVE— Location: The Factory, 17543 Nassau CONTINUATION Commons Blvd., Lewes HE154 TAI CHI FOR HEALTH Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Limited to 8 students. Mondays, 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 Fitness evaluations will be completed Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Instructor: Claire Brown on all participants. Based on the Instructor: Marjorie Weber Location: Fred Thomas Building evaluation, a fitness program will be Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 12 students. developed. All participants will Limited to 10 students. This class is a continuation of HE99 receive instruction in warmup, Focusing on the basics of the tai chi and builds on that work. It is a exercises and flexibility training. The 24 form, yang style, for beginning continuing exploration for people class emphasizes the importance of students and students who are who would like to learn more from strength training for senior citizens familiar with the form, this class and about themselves and to and how to develop balance and teaches the form step-by-step continue enhancing movement. The strong bones. through demonstrations and lessons incorporate Feldenkrais®, practice. cortical field reeducation and HE140 MEDITATION integrated awareness. You must SUPPORT GROUP HE155 CHRONIC PAIN SELF have completed HE99 or another Mondays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. MANAGEMENT Feldenkrais® class to take this Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Mondays, 10:30 a.m.–2:15 p.m. course. Wear loose, comfortable Instructor: Marjorie Weber Dates: 6 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 11 clothing and bring a blanket or quilt. Location: Fred Thomas Building Instructor: Zoe Bakoru–Bakoko Limited to 10 students. Location: Wyoming Church HE134 YOGA FOR SENIORS Whether you are new to meditation Limited to 15 students. Mondays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. or already practicing, it can be a This course is for people, family Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 solitary discipline. This course is members and friends who suffer Instructor: Pat Wood intended to inspire by providing a with chronic pain, including arthritis, Location: Ocean View Town Hall place to discuss what masters say surgery or injury pain, neuropathy Limited to 20 students. about the benefits of meditation and (diabetes). Information and Classic yoga with modifications, share our own experiences. Each strategies for self-management are incorporating gentle postures and session will end with a half hour of provided. chair yoga if necessary. Emphasis on silent meditation. balance, building and maintaining muscle strength and breath. Bring a yoga mat and/or a blanket.

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New! H Instructor Orientation for OLLI Dover HE158 MEDITATIVE and OLLI Ocean View APPROACHES TO COPE WITH Tuesday, January 22, 2019 (for OLLI Dover) CHRONIC PAIN Held at Wyoming Church, 2–3:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (for OLLI Ocean View) Instructor: Mary Anne LaTorre Location: Fred Thomas Building Held at Ocean View Town Hall, 10–11:30 a.m. Limited to 15 students. All instructors are encouraged to attend. Have you ever wondered if there is something more you can do instead of just taking medication for your Human trafficking may not be what pain? This course provides some you think. We will cover where it is tools to help you learn to live more globally and locally, where it thrives, effectively with chronic pain and the many types of trafficking, who move beyond suffering. There will be the traffickers are, and where and meditation, guided imagery and how they operate. We will also breathing exercises as well as HX180-1 HOOFS OF IRON, discuss the victims, survivors and HEARTS OF STEEL journaling experiences to help you how you can help. Learn the “4Ps”: shift your relationship to the pain prevention, protection, prosecution Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. and make room for greater healing. and partnership. Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Instructor: Ray Glick H New! New! Location: Fred Thomas Building H Limited to 70 students. HE159 TOWARD HE161 THRIVE—50 PLUS INCREDIBLE HEALTH Mondays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. HX180-2 HOOFS OF IRON, Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 11–April 8 HEARTS OF STEEL Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Instructor: Patricia Thompson Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Instructor: Lynn Davis Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 30 students. Instructor: Ray Glick Limited to 15 students. Embrace “thrival.” Class will focus on Location: Wyoming Church Five sessions filled with information tips for well-being and use of positive Limited to 40 students. and fun facilitated by a registered speech to enhance mood and reduce During the Civil War, over three dietitian nutritionist. Focus is on stress. Explore strategies for relating million horses and mules went to enabling a healthy lifestyle through well to family, friends and even war and less than half came home. media presentation and discussion. strangers. Primary source is the book This course covers how each military Tastings and recipes shared at the Words Can Change Your Brain, a department of both armies, North conclusion of each session. There is bestseller with clear steps to promote and South, utilized these animals. a $3 charge to cover food. good dialogs, deep listening, collaboration and tension-prevention H New! in a world rife with stress. Co-authors: Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark HE160 HUMAN TRAFFICKING Waldman, neuro-researcher. ISBN: IN DELAWARE 9781594630903. Students should Thursdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. obtain a copy of the book and read Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 Part I before the first class. Instructor: Zoe Bakoru-Bakoko Location: Wyoming Church Limited to 20 students.

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HX281-1 HAMILTON: THE MAN Weather Closings AND THE MUSICAL Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Dover—When Wyoming Church closes, all classes are Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 canceled. Instructor: Dan Pritchett Lewes—When Cape Henlopen School District classes Location: Wyoming Church are canceled, OLLI classes are canceled. When the Limited to 50 students. school district has a delayed opening, OLLI activities will begin on time. HX281-2 HAMILTON: THE MAN Ocean View—When Indian River School District classes are canceled, AND THE MUSICAL OLLI classes are canceled. When the school district has a delayed Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. opening, OLLI activities will begin on time. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 For all other locations, contact the instructor. Instructor: Dan Pritchett Check for information: Location: Fred Thomas Building Phone: 302-645-4111 (recorded message) Limited to 70 students. Web: www.olli.udel.edu This class examines the remarkable TV: WBOC or www.wboc.com, weather closings life and public career of Alexander Even when OLLI is open, members should come to classes only if they Hamilton, until recent years the most personally judge it is safe to do so. forgotten of our Founding Fathers. His story will be brought to life and enriched by enjoying the words and HX238 THE HISTORY OF HX242 ELLIS ISLAND music of the current Broadway ELECTRIC SERVICE IMMIGRANTS sensation and discussing how it both IN AMERICA Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. illuminates and distorts history. Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Dates: 8 Sessions, Jan. 29–March 19 Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 Instructor: Jo-Ann Vega HX291 THE VIKINGS— Instructor: I. David Rosenstein Location: Fred Thomas Building AN INTRODUCTION Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 35 students. Mondays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Limited to 30 students. A time of transformative change, the Dates: 5 Sessions, March 11–April 8 The course closely follows the Industrial Revolution created an Instructor: Eileen Redden instructor’s book, Electrifying America: unquenchable need for low-skilled Location: Fred Thomas Building From Thomas Edison to Climate workers and opened the door to Limited to 45 students. Change. Purchasing the book is not increased immigration. Let’s look at During the Viking Age, the Vikings required. This is not a technical coming to America during a time terrorized Europe. They were also course. It describes the historical that parallels today. skilled boat builders, brave sailors evolution of the electric industry and cunning businessmen. Through from Edison to today and is for HX280 THE WORLD AT WAR lecture, discussion and film, we will anyone looking for more context Thursdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. begin with background on medieval around the issues we currently face Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 times and explore ways the Vikings regarding how we get our electricity Instructor: Dan Pritchett impacted the world we live in today. and where it comes from. Location: Wyoming Church Limited to 40 students. This class looks back at the greatest catastrophe in human history, World War II, by viewing and discussing an episode each week of the landmark British documentary series, The World at War.

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New! H Gift Certificates HX296 THE OTHER MOSES Gift certificates for memberships are available in the AND OTHER OLLI office. Memberships make thoughtful gifts for BOROUGHS retirements, birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. Gift Wednesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. certificates are nonrefundable. For details, visit Dates: 8 Sessions, Jan. 30–March 20 www.olli.udel.edu/gift-certificate. Instructor: Stuart Forman Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 70 students. New! appreciation and understanding of In this course, we discuss the history H these ancient civilizations through of New York with an emphasis on HX298 TO THE HALLS OF the study of their art through time. the other four boroughs (the Bronx, MONTEZUMA Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island) New! Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. H and the shaping of metropolitan Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 New York by Robert Moses. HX300 MEET THE SUPREMES Instructor: John Ebenreiter Wednesdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. New! Location: Fred Thomas Building Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 H Limited to 70 students. Facilitator: Ronnie Grady HX297 MANY This course examines the Mexican- Location: Wyoming Church REFORMATIONS American War from before its Limited to 20 students. WITH MY BOSS beginning to the signing of the Based on the book Notorious RBG by Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. We Wednesdays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, this will discuss the military Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 study looks at the life and career of engagements in the Mexican- Instructor: Katherine Henn Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court American War and its political Location: Fred Thomas Building justice. In addition, the facilitator will ramifications and also profile future Limited to 30 students. draw upon material from Sisters in presidents and Civil War generals Law by Linda Hirshman and Deep ideological roots weave who participated in the war. compare RBG’s legal philosophy on through the social, economic and the Supreme Court with that of political upheavals of Western New! Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. culture’s torturous 16th century tango H with governance. With my Kean HX299 THE ART OF HX301 DELAWHERE? University boss, Chris Bellitto, an CLASSICAL award-winning historian and ANTIQUITY: GREECE Tuesdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. frequent TV commentator, we will AND ROME Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 explore the crisis of authority that Instructor: Caroline Baxter Wednesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. challenged and changed Europe’s Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 power structures. Limited to 35 students. Instructor: Barbara Stephanic Location: Ocean View Town Hall Each week a speaker will present an Limited to 40 students. aspect of Delaware’s culture, history, environment, government and other This course examines the arts and topics related to the state. cultural development of the civilizations from classical antiquity, including Aegean civilizations, ancient Greece, the Etruscan people, and the Roman Empire. Material in the classroom is presented through slides, lectures and discussions. Students will develop a discerning

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HX302 EVOLUTION OF New! New! WESTERN H H RELIGIONS HX304 THE GREAT WAR— HX306 A BOOK CLUB: Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. AFTERMATH ORPHAN TRAIN Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Mondays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Instructor: Mike Apgar Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 Dates: 5 Sessions, March 7–April 4 Location: Wyoming Church Instructor: Ralph Proto Instructor: Barbara Neaton Limited to 40 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building Location: Wyoming Church Since the dawn of human time, Limited to 70 students. Limited to 20 students. people have been trying to curry We will explore how and why the The class reads and discusses the favor from and avoid the wrath of war ended the way it did. We will novel Orphan Train by Christina supernatural forces. After millennia of look at the numerous treaties Baker Kline (ISBN: 9780061950728). experience, all three of the great including the Versailles Treaty and We will also explore the history of monotheistic traditions and the the consequences of the war that the real orphan trains, a massive 75- cultures in which they exist evolved would result in economic hardship, year social experiment conducted by from common roots in the Middle political change and social upheaval, The Children’s Aid Society. East. This course attempts to ultimately resulting in World War II. investigate the history of the various HX307 ITALIAN threads that influenced and/or New! RENAISSANCE ART became woven into the religions H practiced in the West today. The HX305 THE 30 YEARS’ Mondays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 instructor has a lifelong interest, but WAR—THE no formal expertise, in this subject. Instructor: Art McLaughlin FORGOTTEN Location: Wyoming Church Participants are invited to bring and CALAMITY share their own knowledge and Limited to 30 students. Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. insights. This course covers paintings, Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 buildings and sculpture from the Instructor: Ralph Proto New! early Renaissance to Raphael H Location: Fred Thomas Building through the use of PowerPoint- Limited to 70 students. HX303 THE SEA AND assisted lectures. Discussion is CIVILIZATION The 30 Years’ War (1618–1648) was strongly encouraged. Mondays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. the most destructive conflict on the Dates: 5 Sessions, March 11–April 8 European continent until the Great H New! Instructor: Wayne Kirklin War with more than 8 million deaths. Location: Fred Thomas Building We will explore the causes, the HX308 BAROQUE AND Limited to 70 students. events of, and the long-range ROCOCO ART effects on Europe of this sometimes Our understanding of history tends Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. forgotten, influential and destructive to be very Eurocentric. We will look Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 conflict. at the evidence of pre-Columbian Instructor: Art McLaughlin ocean travel to see if this changes Location: Wyoming Church the way we view history. Limited to 30 students. The course primarily covers painting but will include sculpture and architecture in the international Baroque and Rococo styles. Artists covered include Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez, Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Tiepolo and others.

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Gifts While we calculate membership fees to cover our operating costs, we always need additional and HU121-1 INTERESTING ISSUES upgraded audiovisual equipment, computers, IN CONSTITUTIONAL membership assistance, classroom teaching aids and LAW library materials. Many of those items are paid for from the Gift Fund. We are happy to receive your donation to the Gift Fund for a specific Friday, 9 a.m.–Noon use or, preferably, unrestricted so your council can direct it toward our Date: 1 Session, Feb. 1 greatest needs. In Lewes/Ocean View, gifts are also appreciated to Instructor: Mary Boyd support the Future Fund and the Kirilla Scholarship Fund. You can include Location: Fred Thomas Building a gift with your registration. For more information on how to make these Limited to 70 students. tax-deductible gifts, contact the OLLI office. HU121–2 INTERESTING ISSUES IN CONSTITUTIONAL HU181 ETHICS: WHAT’S THE HU226-2 SHORT STORY/ LAW RIGHT THING TO SHORT FILM: Friday, 9 a.m.–Noon DO? PART IV Date: 1 Session, March 29 Instructor: Mary Boyd Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Wednesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 Limited to 40 students. Instructor: Jon Woodyard Instructors: David Bradt, Lois Bradt Location: Fred Thomas Building Location: Ocean View Town Hall A macro and micro look at history, Limited to 30 students. Limited to 12 students. philosophy, political science and law as context to the U.S. Constitution. Using material from Michael Sandel, Participants will read stories by Selected readings, cases, opinion a Harvard Law professor, the course Richard Wright, John Updike, Ernest pieces, lectures and discussions first presents several philosophical Gaines, Sherwood Anderson and meant to expand and strengthen dilemmas using videos and then Hortense Calisher in preparation for one’s thinking and feeling about our discusses these issues as to their viewing and discussion of the filmed society and its governing documents. particulars and possible solutions. A adaptations. For anyone interested in opening background in the works of several new horizons of thought. philosophers is presented in order to HU232 READER’S THEATRE give students the chance to review Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. HU131 LUNCH TIME STORY other viewpoints on each issue as Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 well as gain a knowledge of TIME Instructor: Bette McGrath philosophical terms and logic. Location: Fred Thomas Building Wednesdays, Noon–12:45 p.m. Limited to 20 students. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 HU226-1 SHORT STORY/ Instructor: Sue Letavish SHORT FILM: Reader’s Theatre is a chance to Location: Wyoming Church PART IV release your hidden desire to be an Limited to 40 students. actor without memorizing all the Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. lines. Class members will assume How long has it been since someone Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 roles in a play, The Importance of read to you? Wasn’t it a wonderful Instructors: David Bradt, Lois Bradt Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde, and act experience? This semester you can Location: Fred Thomas Building together in a table read. Scenes may listen to the children’s novel, Bridge to Limited to 20 students. be replayed so more actors can Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. read. If time permits, and the class is Some shorter books may also be interested, we could view the film used. Bring your lunch. version, after our own performances of course.

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HU263 ATOM, COSMOS, HU311 CONTROVERSIAL Students should be aware that the GOD AND ISSUES language and situations are adult in nature. Class consists of viewing one CONSCIOUSNESS— Mondays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. episode a week followed by PART II Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 discussion. Friday, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Instructors: Larry Klepner, Erv Schleifer Date: 1 Session, March 8 Location: Wyoming Church Instructor: Douglas Hemmick Limited to 20 students. H New! Location: Fred Thomas Building Lively yet respectful discussions of HU315 TROJAN WAR— Limited to 40 students. topical political, social, economic THE ODYSSEY and health issues of current concern. This one-day seminar is addressed Tuesdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. to the relation between science and Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 religion in general, and particularly to H New! Instructors: George Christensen, the questions of a divine being and HU313 TOTALLY TOLLE Art McLaughlin the nature of human consciousness. Location: Wyoming Church Since the enlightenment era of Thursdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Limited to 25 students. Galileo and Newton, ideas of the Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 deity appear to have been on the Instructors: Joseph Lavenia, Continuation of Greek Mythology retreat, and modern advances in Toni Worsham survey course from the fall 2018 term. astronomy and physics make the Location: Fred Thomas Building Co-instructors will continue the story issue even more acute. We give a Limited to 20 students. starting from the prelude to the summary account of modern Trojan War up to Odysseus’ return to In addition to his two most popular astrophysics and compare this to the Ithaca, examining the way significant works, The Power of Now and A New philosophical issue of God’s works of art were inspired by these Earth, Eckhart Tolle shared his existence and notions of human classic tales. philosophy and wisdom in a wide consciousness. We will supplement array of other writings. In this course, last summer’s material with New! participants will discuss selected H concepts of moral code and human excerpts from these writings which life. Instructor’s lecture will be HU316 RABBIT, RUN— embody Tolle’s precepts. followed by guided period of A NOVEL BY JOHN discussion. UPDIKE H New! Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. HU303 GENEALOGY HU314 THE WIRE: Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 RESEARCH II A DISCUSSION OF Instructor: Bob Heifetz Location: Wyoming Church Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. SOCIETAL Limited to 35 students. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 PROGRAMS Instructor: John Roberts In this multi-semester course, you are Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Location: Wyoming Church invited to read and discuss the Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 Limited to 20 students. masterful Rabbit tetralogy, an Instructor: Richard Ward exploration of how we became the The course focuses on using internet Location: Fred Thomas Building nation we are. Each novel and resources to study family history and Limited to 40 students. semester will, to some degree, stand conduct research. Students will have The Wire, an HBO television series, on their own. Please be advised the option of exploring their family was created by David Simon, a these novels, like life, can be quite history in class using the techniques Baltimore Sun reporter and Ed Burns, shocking at times. Students will need discussed. We will explore both free a Baltimore Police Department a copy of Rabbit, Run (ISBN: 0449911659). and pay websites, and specific detective. Salon.com has described techniques to maximize their the show as “novelistic in structure, benefits will be discussed. with a greater depth of writing and plotting than other crime shows.” The Wire is an accurate explanation of inner city society and politics.

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New! H Volunteer Opportunities HU317 THE STORY: GETTING As an educational cooperative, members have the TO THE HEART OF opportunity to support OLLI’s mission through team GOD—PART II efforts and by serving as class leaders or instructors. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. The success of the program depends on engaged and Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 enthusiastic volunteers. Members are encouraged to offer Instructor: Carmen Walston new course ideas, serve as instructors and serve on teams or Location: Wyoming Church committees in support of the program. Active participation in the lifelong Limited to 12 students. learning program is an excellent way to develop new friendships and be a part of an exciting and dynamic learning community. Please sign up to The final act of God’s story, volunteer on the registration form. journeying through the second testament of the Christian Bible. Using the book, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and New! New! His People, class participants are H H encouraged to engage in a rigorous HU319 MEL BROOKS— HU321 MYSTERY WRITER discussion about God’s story and its THE MAN AND HIS JOHN D. application to 2019. FILMS MACDONALD Mondays, 1 p.m.– 3:45 p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. H New! Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 HU318 A BOOK CLUB: Instructor: Patrick Weaver Instructor: Paul Collins Location: Wyoming Church Location: The Moorings at Lewes KATHRYN HUGHES Limited to 25 students. Limited to 70 students. Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. A review of Mel Brooks’ often funny, John D. MacDonald authored 78 Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 satirical, off-color, non-“politically- books including 21 in the Travis Instructor: Elizabeth Jelich correct” films. Films contain adult McGee series. This year is the 100th Location: Wyoming Church content. anniversary of his birthdate. We will Limited to 40 students. look at some of his standalone Kathryn Hughes is a best-selling H New! books including The Executioners, British author. Participants will which was made into the movie discuss three of her novels, The Key, HU320 THE TENDERNESS OF “Cape Fear” and a couple of the The Letter and The Secret. Each HEMINGWAY IN Travis McGee books including member of the book club can A MOVEABLE FEAST Darker Than Amber. choose to read only one of her Thursdays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. books or all three. Members will Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 participate in triple jigsaw group Instructor: Russell Endo discussions where each book will Location: Wyoming Church be discussed individually and Limited to 20 students. comparisons made between the three. The Key (ISBN: 1472248848); Written tenderly and with the 360- The Letter (ISBN: 9781472229953); degree awareness and skill of an old The Secret (ISBN: 1472229991). man, from the serendipitous discovery of lost notebooks from when he was a young man, literally a starving writer in Paris during “the Lost Generation,” Hemingway earns his chops. Let’s listen to him.

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H New! H New! HU322 FALLING UPWARD IT126 THE LIFE OF A BY RICHARD ROHR DIGITAL PHOTO IN THE APPLE UNIVERSE Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. IT116 TECHNOLOGY Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 DEVICE ASSISTANCE Mondays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Instructors: John Grady, Dates: 5 sessions, March 11–April 8 Carmen Walston Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Instructor: Rainer Schulz Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 18 students. Instructor: Diana Pollisino Limited to 10 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building In the first half of life, we are Limited to 10 students. In this class you will get an overview naturally preoccupied with of Apple’s powerful image post establishing our identity. “Falling Trying to figure something out on processing and manipulation upward” offers a new paradigm for your device? Have questions about features. We will take portraits of understanding one of life’s mysteries: setting up different ring tones or ourselves and, weather permitting, how our failings can be the declining calls? Want to learn how some landscape pictures, and then foundations for our ongoing spiritual to sync your photos across your discuss how to make the most out of growth. Those who have fallen or devices? Want to learn how to find them. Next, we will organize the “gone down” are the only ones who answers to your technology pictures into albums and discuss understand “up.” Bring an open mind questions? Spend 45 minutes one- ways to find lost images. Finally, we and journey with us on this on-one with the instructor. If will make a calendar or printed interesting adventure through enrolled, the instructor will contact photo album out of images that you heartbreaks and disappointments to you to schedule your individual time. select. Students need to bring their spiritual joys that life has in store for Devices supported include iPad, own MacBook or MacBook Air and us. Students should purchase Falling iPhone, Kindle and laptop. Bring your have a digital camera (iPhone Upward: A Spirituality for the Two device to class. preferred, but not a requirement). Halves of Life (ISBN: 9780470907757). IT123 BASIC COMPUTER H New! HU323 LETTERS OF NOTE— SKILLS VOLUME 2 Thursdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. IT127 APPLE COMPUTERS Mondays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 FOR ADVANCED Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Instructor: Larry Watkins USERS Instructor: Patricia Thompson Location: Wyoming Church Mondays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Location: Wyoming Church Limited to 5 students. Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 Limited to 25 students. Are you having trouble figuring out Instructor: Rainer Schulz Location: Fred Thomas Building If you are a fan of history, biography the new electronic device you have Limited to 10 students. and riveting moments, join us for acquired? This class will help. We will Letters of Note—Vol. 2 by Shaun Usher. cover basic computer (and This class looks in more detail into Focusing on select correspondence in smartphone) management and the updated versions of Apple the engaging coffee table book, we usage, focusing on Microsoft and applications such as pages, will probe letters penned by the Google (including Android), but numbers, keynotes, etc. We will look famous, the infamous and the Apple-specific topics may be at what is new in MacOS Mojave unknown at key points in their lives included. Bring your portable devices and how to use it. We will discuss and times. Our talks will focus on and questions to class. iCloud as a storage option for content and context as connections photos, music and documents. as well as impact of the letters and Emphasis is given to computer the status of communication today. security including, but not limited to, Please purchase the book (ISBN: virus scanners, firewalls, VPN, public 9781452153834) and read the first 10 Wi-Fi access, etc. Students need to letters prior to initial class meeting. bring their own MacBook or MacBook Air.

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New! IS40 WHAT’S SO BAD H ABOUT FOREIGN IT128 COMPUTER Q & A TRADE? Mondays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Mondays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 IS03 GREAT DECISIONS Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 Instructor: Christopher Mark Instructor: Kerri Lussier Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Location: Fred Thomas Building Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 Limited to 30 students. Limited to 15 students. Instructors: Sergei Boboshko, This course is designed for the Lee Stanford The United States has been a trading beginner or more advanced student Location: Fred Thomas Building nation since its earliest days, yet to ask questions and get help with Limited to 28 students. Americans today are deeply divided about the benefits and challenges computer problems or concerns. It Seminar discussion of the international posed by foreign trade. Students helps develop skills used for affairs issues included in the required CANCELED completing the course will be everyday computer and cell phone Great Decisions textbook published by equipped to evaluate rival claims usage and answer lingering the American Foreign Policy Association. about the impact of trade on jobs, questions. Students will be Specific topics will be posted on the the pros and cons of international individually tutored. bulletin board. Seminar participants trade agreements, and the future of will be encouraged to volunteer to globalization. Lectures will provide IT386 COMPUTER USERS’ lead the discussion on topics of historical, political, and economic WORKSHOP particular interest. Participants must background and context, with time purchase the required textbook Thursdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. reserved at the end of each session through OLLI at a cost of $28. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 7–April 4 for questions and discussion. Instructor: Larry Watkins Location: Wyoming Church IS38-1 INTRODUCTION TO New! Limited to 5 students. THE U.S. FOREIGN H This workshop is an opportunity for SERVICE IS47 HOW SUNNI VS. computer users of all levels to get Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. SHIA RIVALRIES together and share experiences, Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 CREATE HAVOC IN troubleshoot problems and learn Instructor: Trudie Thompson MIDEAST new concepts in an informal Location: Ocean View Town Hall Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. environment. Course content will be Limited to 40 students. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 driven by the participants, so bring Instructor: David Shobe your portable computing devices, IS38-2 INTRODUCTION TO Location: Fred Thomas Building ideas, stories and especially questions. THE U.S. FOREIGN Limited to 70 students. SERVICE Shia Iran’s interventions in civil war in Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Lebanon, Syria and Yemen have led Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 some to speculate about Iran’s Instructor: Trudie Thompson desire to create a Russian-supported Guests Location: Wyoming Church Persian Shia Empire in the Middle Limited to 40 students. Guests, visitors and prospective East. Saudis representing Sunni Islam members who wish to become The course introduces functions of are trying to disrupt these endeavors familiar with our program are U.S. embassies, consulates and other with U.S. aid. The course presents welcome to visit on a single day. overseas missions. We will take a film and other studies illustrating the Please visit the OLLI office to brief look at the Washington agencies history and current manifestations of pick up an ID badge. that send personnel overseas, the the Sunni vs. Shia conflicts dividing Foreign Service structure and the U.S. Islam. role in international affairs. The focus is on the U.S. State Department, but other agencies will be discussed.

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H New! H New! LA22-1 YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? LA24 FRENCH Mondays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. PHONETICS—PART II LA17 INTERMEDIATE Dates: 5 Sessions, March 11–April 8 Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m. SPANISH Instructors: David Bradt, Lois Bradt Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 Location: Ocean View Town Hall Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Instructor: Alice Cataldi Limited to 12 students. Dates: 8 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 Location: Wyoming Church Instructor: Lona Crist Limited to 20 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building LA22-2 YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? Using a short story reader, Limited to 25 students. Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. participants will apply and practice No classes Feb. 12 and Feb. 19. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 the phonetics concepts learned in Instructors: David Bradt, Lois Bradt This course is a continuation of the the previous course. The book Location: Fred Thomas Building previous Intermediate Spanish-Part I Le Petit Nicolas by René Goscinny is Limited to 25 students. course presented last year. It is also required. No previous knowledge of appropriate for those with some Participants in this class will examine French is required. knowledge of basic Spanish who various aspects of the English wish to enhance their ability level in language. We will study the levels of reading and communication skills. This usage, including slang, jargon, course will stress the use of the target taboos and euphemisms; varieties of language in the classroom in order to English, including dialects and increase the students’ comfort level regionalisms; the many ways of listening and speaking in Spanish. playing with language; prejudice Required text: Spanish Made Simple by (race, class, sex, religion) in language; Eugene Jackson, revised by Judith propaganda and advertising; and Charmaline K. Nemthy (ISBN 978-0767915410). nonverbal communication. Activities and George Kirilla include lecture, readings, discussions Jr. Scholarship LA21 FRENCH CINEMA and videos. FOR The Charmaline K. and CONVERSATION— H New! George Kirilla Jr. Scholarship PART II Fund was established at the LA23 JOURNEY FROM Mondays, 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Osher Lifelong Learning BORDEAUX TO Institute at the University of Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 TOULOUSE Instructor: Lisa Lynch Delaware in Lewes by a Location: Fred Thomas Building Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. bequest from the Kirilla family. Limited to 15 students. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 The fund uses the income from Instructor: Alice Cataldi the bequest and voluntary This course is based on a book used Location: Wyoming Church contributions by members to by Tufts University, Cinema for French Limited to 20 students. Conversation by Anne-Christine Rice, provide partial scholarships to promote theme- and culture-based Participants will participate in a to students based on conversation in French on a variety of virtual journey from Bordeaux to the financial need in Lewes and classic French films including film noir. Perigord region of France. The Ocean View. Each chapter in the book is based on instructor will draw from her recent one film and includes vocabulary, travel through the region highlighting synopsis, key quotations and exercises the history, the famous wines and to promote vocabulary and grammar the unique cuisine of Aquitaine. advancement and practice. The films Prerequisite: Four semesters of are all in French but have English French or the equivalent. subtitles. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of French at an intermediate level.

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New! LS130 AARP SMART DRIVER H COURSE—REFRESHER LA25 CHATEAUX Friday, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. COUNTRY—THE Date: 1 Session, March 15 LOIRE VALLEY OF LS114 HAND TOOL BASICS Instructor: Andrew Mollura FRANCE Location: Fred Thomas Building Mondays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Limited to 30 students. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Instructor: Michael Burkhart This course is for people who have Instructor: Mary Jane Olden-Marraffini Location: Fred Thomas Building taken a driver safety course during Location: Wyoming Church Limited to 10 students. the five previous years. Participants Limited to 20 students. who successfully complete the Learn effective use of hand tools course receive a three-point credit Discover the Loire Valley’s art, history and how tools work. A combination from the DMV and an insurance and architecture as we continue our of lecture and hands-on instruction discount. Please bring your valid study of the different regions of provides a new appreciation for Delaware driver’s license and AARP France. Learn about Tours, the major everyday tools. We will also talk membership card. AARP members city of the area, and how the region about tool selection and purchase. are charged $15, and nonmembers went from a feudal battleground of This is a class for beginners and are charged $20. kings to a posh playground for the novices. Who knows? Maybe after aristocracy away from the bustling this course you will actually be able LS133 WRITING A MEMOIR capital. Prerequisite: Four semesters to fix stuff! of French or equivalent. Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. LS129 AARP SMART DRIVER Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 New! COURSE—BASIC Instructor: Rae Tyson H Location: Fred Thomas Building LA26 ESPERANTO: Friday, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Limited to 14 students. INTERNACIA LINGVO Date: 1 Session, March 8 Instructor: Andrew Mollura This new offering combines two Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Location: Fred Thomas Building popular OLLI memoir writing courses Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Limited to 30 students. from previous years. As a means of Instructor: Loch Ian Macadam preserving your personal legacy, Location: Fred Thomas Building This course is for people who have memoirs have become one of the Limited to 15 students. never taken a driver safety course or most popular forms of creative have taken a course more than five expression. But crafting a good Why a planned language? This isn’t years ago. A three-point credit from memoir can be a challenge. To guide Elvish or Klingon! Esperanto was the DMV and an insurance discount that journey, this course helps you designed to bridge national and are given for successful completion master and practice the art of cultural boundaries. Easy to learn, of the course. Please bring your valid writing a good, readable memoir. fully expressive, simply logical—it’s Delaware driver’s license and AARP also proven to be an effective membership card. AARP members facilitator for learning those difficult are charged $15, and nonmembers “natural” languages. Prove it for are charged $20. yourself and meet the world on the neutral bridge, Esperanto!

T’ai Chi Chih Lunch Enthusiasts T’ai Chi Chih enthusiasts meet Tuesdays 12:30-1 p.m. in the Fred Thomas Building throughout the year. Open to all members.

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LS152 ADVANCED thoroughly investigated to its logical New! WOODWORKING conclusion. We will discuss the H USING HAND TOOLS demands of community, LS164 WOMEN’S management and the media for a Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. prompt, fair and factual resolution. DISCUSSION Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 The course also touches on federal GROUP—COPING Instructor: Joe DeFeo forfeiture and seizure of assets, WITH LIFE Location: Fred Thomas Building polygraph issues and using hypnosis Mondays, Noon–12:45 p.m. Limited to 6 students. as a tool. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 4–April 1 This course teaches advanced Instructors: Robin Ayers, woodworking techniques and builds LS159 DESIGN AND BUILD A Rosemary Engle on the basic woodworking course. WOODWORKING Location: Wyoming Church The basic course is not a PROJECT Limited to 10 students. prerequisite, but some woodworking This group is a women’s support skills are required. The course Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–12:15 p.m. discussion group. Topics and issues includes how to hand cut rabbets, Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 will be determined by the group. dados and grooves, box joints, Instructor: Joe DeFeo Bring your lunch. dovetails, mortise and tenons, and Location: Fred Thomas Building more. Each class consists of a 30- Limited to 6 students. minute lecture followed by shop This is an advanced woodworking H New! time. Students need to bring safety class where students will use their LS165 BREAK FREE! glasses, a combination square, a set knowledge of woodworking to of bevel-edge chisels, a mallet, a design and build a project of their Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. –11:45 a.m. dovetail saw or back saw, marking choosing. The design process, Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 28 knife and marking gauge. There is a making a cutting list, a trip to buy Instructor: Douglass Miller $10 cost for supplies and lumber the lumber for the project, and Location: Wyoming Church used in class. assistance in the construction of the Limited to 15 students. project are covered. Prerequisites: Do you have a bucket list? Is it an LS155 MAJOR CASE Basic woodworking course and a ambitious one? Do you feel your INVESTIGATION: core set of hand tools. Projects could inner goals are obtainable and MANAGEMENT, be a tool chest, workbench, end realistic? If not, what is holding you TECHNIQUES AND table, etc. back? From The New York Times ANALYSIS bestseller list, The Flip Side: Break LS161 RECIPE TASTING AND Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. SCHMOOZING Back by Flip Flippen (ISBN: 978- Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 0446581325), learn what behaviors Wednesdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Instructor: Cornelius Sullivan can be holding you back and how to Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 30–Feb. 27 Location: Fred Thomas Building overcome them. Use fun quizzes to Instructors: Rita Klepner, Chet Pasek Limited to 24 students. test yourself, friends and family. Location: Wyoming Church Instructor will be the class This course introduces learners to the Limited to 15 students. management, techniques and moderator. Book is required. analysis of major case investigations, Wow your family and friends by including two actual cases learning unique recipes for various (homicide and large value insurance events such as holiday meals, a claim). The instructor will review how Caribbean brunch, game night and technology has significantly desserts. A proposed cook-off is improved investigative capabilities planned with general recipe sharing. and show that unlike TV and the movies, cases often take months and years to complete. Students will take part in interactive learner participation with the development of strategies so a case might be

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PA87 THEATRE reviews two of his most famous APPRECIATION IN operas, Faust and Roméo et Juliette. DELAWARE Some of his symphonies will be used to illustrate the romantic style of the Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. period as well as selections of his Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 PA53 CHORUS chamber music. The opera Faust is Instructor: Debra Roberts Thursdays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. said to have the most “hit songs” of Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 all the operas. Limited to 25 students. Instructor: Roo Brown Location: Fred Thomas Building This course is a cooperative learning H New! Limited to 60 students. experience. We will examine live theatre offerings performed during PA137 STEP 2 ON PLAYING Join the Elder Moments in song. the term by local professional and THE SOPRANO Sight-reading is preferred, but a community theatre companies. good ear and a smile are a must! RECORDER Readings of scripts, dramaturgical We sing four-to-six-part harmony, Fridays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. analysis and reviews of and our music ranges from folk tunes Dates: 10 Sessions, Feb. 1–April 5 performances attended will to Gershwin. All voice parts are Instructor: Nikki Roberson constitute the majority of the class welcome. Location: Fred Thomas Building activities. Limited to 10 students. PA78 TRADITIONAL MUSIC PA116 RECORDER Step 2 will be on improving your SLOW JAM ENSEMBLE tone. We touched on playing legato, Thursdays, 3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. andante, crescendo, decrescendo Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 and staccato. How do we play Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 Instructor: Oliver Hansen Renaissance, modern and jazz music Instructor: Carol Neild Location: Fred Thomas Building or different rhythms? Learning to Location: Wyoming Church Limited to 15 students. play is an endless journey, however Limited to 10 students. very enjoyable. Students must know Play folk, Celtic and old-time music Students continue their progress and how to play scale on a soprano in a no-stress environment. All skill increase their skill in playing the recorder and own a recorder. There levels welcome. All acoustic string recorder. Class covers folk music as is a $7 fee for music. instruments and other instruments, well as music of the Renaissance such as flute and penny whistle, are and Baroque periods. Prerequisite: New! welcomed. Stringed instrument H Students should have taken a past players should know basic chords in semester’s recorder class or have PA138 OPERA—IN ENGLISH! keys of G, D and C. Sight reading equivalent proficiency on the recorder. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. music is not a requirement. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 H New! Instructor: George Christensen Location: Wyoming Church PA136 CHARLES GOUNOD: Limited to 25 students. A FRENCH An overview of English-language ROMANTIC operatic composition, with particular Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. focus on works to be performed by Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 Opera Delaware in spring 2019: Instructor: Jon Woodyard Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang, Location: Fred Thomas Building Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan, Limited to 40 students. and Dead Man Walking by Jake Charles Gounod, a French composer, Heggie. wrote 12 operas and many sacred and secular songs, notable among these was the popular “Ave Maria” on a theme by J.S. Bach. This class

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New! RR16 MAH JONGG CLUB H Wednesdays, 12:45 p.m.–4 p.m. PA139 GREAT COVER Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 30–April 3 SONGS IN ROCK Instructor: Paulette Criaris AND ROLL Location: Fred Thomas Building RR02 ENGLISH COUNTRY Limited to 20 students. Mondays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. DANCE Students must know how to play Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–Mar. 4 Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. mah jongg. Time is set aside for Instructor: Art McLaughlin Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 those who enjoy the game to get Location: Wyoming Church Instructors: Ted Mason, Carol West together and play. Students must Limited to 25 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building obtain their own mah jongg official Videos and audios of great songs by Limited to 24 students. hands and rules card. the original artists followed by Come and enjoy the dance form covers of those songs by other America grew up with. It’s been fun wonderful artists are presented and RR24 BRIDGE II—PLAY OF for more than three centuries and it’s THE HAND discussed. We will start with Jimi easy to learn! If you can walk and Mondays, 9 a.m.–Noon Hendrix covering a folk rock song by smile, you can do this kind of dance. Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 Bob Dylan and end with all of Paul The caller will explain all the moves Instructors: Katherine Boboshko, McCartney’s covers of Elvis and walk you through the dance Eileen Zampini recordings. before it starts, then continue to Location: Fred Thomas Building prompt you as the dance goes on. Limited to 24 students. H New! Dances focus on the group, not the individual. We customarily change This course uses the American PA140 FROM BEETHOVEN partners after each dance, so we Contract Bridge League (ACBL) TO GERSHWIN— get to dance with lots of different teaching series of books by Audrey PART II people. We’re a friendly group! It’s Grant and updated by Betty Starzec. Thursdays, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. easy, and there’s the music! These materials reflect more modern Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 bidding methods. This is the Instructor: Jon Newsom RR04 WALK AND TALK “diamond” series titled Play of the Hand in the 21st Century. Topics Location: The Moorings at Lewes Wednesdays, 2 p.m.–4 p.m. include making a plan, developing Limited to 70 students. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 tricks (promotion, length, finesse), Listen to a range of European and Instructors: Joan Mansperger, eliminating losers (ruffing and American masterpieces. Discuss Sandra Sullivan discarding), managing the trump suit, them in their historical context, with Location: Off-site and Jacoby transfers. Materials will reference to art, literature and Limited to 40 students. be provided, but card donations are politics. Visual aids help us follow Enjoy lively exploratory walks of always welcome. Prerequisite: Basic musical structure and affective familiar and not so familiar local understanding of bidding and simple devices. In this continuation of the areas. Meet new and old friends conventions. fall course, we will add to previous along the way. Walks of up to two musical examples, music for motion miles include historical sites and trails pictures. RR28 DISCOVER SLOWER in southern Delaware or nearby LOWER DELAWARE Maryland. Participants will receive detailed information prior to course Tuesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. start date. Dates: 5 Sessions, April 16–May 14 Instructor: Maureen Sherlock Location: Off-site Limited to 20 students. Stroll through a few of southern Delaware’s delightful walking areas. Get to know other OLLI members while we explore nature and history

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south of the Indian River Bridge. We plan a diverse series of walking Thank you to our volunteer instructors! tours to appeal to different interests. We will meet at the different Did you know all OLLI instructors are volunteers? walking tour sites. The schedule and If you would like to share an interest with other directions will be distributed before members by becoming an instructor, contact the first session. Anna Moshier at [email protected].

RR32 GO 101: ORIENTAL RR36-1 REFRESHER BRIDGE RR37 OCEAN VIEW STRATEGY GAME CLASS—A.M. WINTER WALK Thursdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.–Noon Fridays, 10:30 a.m.–Noon Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Dates: 5 Sessions, Feb. 1–March 1 Instructor: Loch Ian Macadam Instructors: Katherine Boboshko, Instructor: Maureen Sherlock Location: Fred Thomas Building Eileen Zampini Location: Off-site Limited to 20 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 15 students. This ancient board game is Limited to 28 students. Winter weather in southern timelessly modern. It’s a game of Delaware can be variable. Between market share, rather than feudal RR36-2 REFRESHER BRIDGE weather extremes are days perfect warfare; simple in concept; CLASS—P.M. for walking. Weather permitting, join bottomless in tactical and strategic Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.–4 p.m. us for pleasant, easy walks on Friday depth. Learn the basics here, Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 mornings. We will plan scenic walks including history, culture, news and Instructors: Katherine Boboshko, on pavement, packed sand or resources. Come play and dive deep Eileen Zampini boardwalks within easy driving into Go! See www.usgo.org for more Location: Fred Thomas Building distance. The first session will meet information. Limited to 28 students. at the Ocean View Town Hall. The group will decide subsequent This course is a refresher on various RR34 GOLF FUNDAMENTALS meeting areas. FOR SENIORS subject requests from the fall 2018 classes. We will use the material Mondays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. based on the American Contract H New! Dates: 5 Sessions, March 11–April 8 Bridge League (ACBL) book series Instructor: Peter Strub RR39 MAH JONGG from Audrey Grant and updated by Location: Fred Thomas Building Betty Starzec. Class time includes BEGINNER AND Limited to 12 students. instruction and supportive play. ADVANCED PLAYER Students will learn how to execute Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of WORKSHOP the different types of golf shots bridge and conventions. Tuesdays, 1:15 p.m.–4 p.m. including putts, chips/pitches and the Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 29–April 2 full swing and how to grip clubs Instructor: Katherine Henn properly for these golf swings. Location: Fred Thomas Building Students will learn the fundamentals Limited to 20 students. through indoor classroom instruction Beginner lessons for the first 45 and short videos as well as outdoor minutes. Play starts after. We use practice and play. The last two National Mah Jongg League hands sessions will be held at Midway Par and rules with a 300-point “pie.” 3 in Lewes. There is a $15 charge Support, strategies and problem payable to Midway Par 3. Students solutions offered during play. League need golf clubs, rubber sole shoes news updates. Instructor has over and the ability to swing a golf club 20 years of experience. and stay balanced.

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RR104 FUNDAMENTALS OF How are courses assigned? PHOTOGRAPHY Mondays, 1 p.m.– 2:15 p.m. Classes are assigned by a computer-based allocation Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 process. All registrations—whether online, in-person or Instructor: Roger Hazzard mailed—received by the January 17 priority registration Location: Wyoming Church deadline will be included in the allocation pool. When Limited to 15 students. demand exceeds availability in popular courses, the allocation process takes into account a variety of factors, including the In this class you will learn the basics priority you’ve assigned to the class and whether or not you’ve taken the of your camera and how to get the class before. Registrations received after January 17 will be processed on pictures you want. Topics include a first-come, first-served basis, subject to class availability. camera equipment, lenses and focal length, shutter speed, apertures, natural and artificial light, composition and as our DVD teacher New! RR103 ENGLISH COUNTRY H DANCING Joel Sartore says, “Seeing Well.” RR40-1 RECREATION Mondays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. RR105 TRIVIA TIME VEHICLE (RV) Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 LIFESTYLE Instructor: Jackie McCabe Thursdays, 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Location: Wyoming Church Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Limited to 24 students. Instructor: Dan Pritchett Dates: 2 Sessions, Jan. 31–Feb. 7 Location: Wyoming Church Instructor: Cort Massey The dance form America grew up Limited to 20 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building with for more than three centuries. If Limited to 30 students. you can walk and smile, you can do Get together with people who enjoy this kind of dance. The caller will the challenge of playing trivia RR40-2 RECREATION explain all the moves and walk you games. Bring a set of trivia cards if VEHICLE (RV) through the dance before it starts, you have them. LIFESTYLE then will continue to prompt you as the dance goes on. It’s NOT to be Thursdays, 1 p.m.–2:15 p.m. missed! Dates: 2 Sessions, March 7–March 14 Instructor: Cort Massey Location: Wyoming Church Limited to 15 students. Ever wondered about the RVing lifestyle, the pros and cons of the different RV types, general operations, maintenance and the on-the-road adventure opportunities? Two-week course will provide a humorous and factual overview of these topics from personal experiences. Format will include slide and video presentations with handouts and open discussions for questions and sharing.

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Summer 2019 June 3–28 (Lewes) • July 8–August 1 (Dover) SS56 SPRING FIELD Summer 2019 is shaping up to be an exciting and full semester. BIRDING Many new courses will be offered in addition to courses Wednesdays, 8 a.m.–11 a.m. continued or repeated from the spring 2019 semester. Dates: 5 Sessions, April 24–May 22 Instructors: Bill Fintel, Sally Fintel Location: Off-site unbiased science-based look at an Limited to 15 students. SS126 GEOLOGY ROCKS! Thursdays, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. array of emerging environment- and This class focuses on spring Dates: 5 Sessions, March 7–April 4 health-related issues affecting migration in Delaware. We plan to Instructor: Gary Letcher Delaware and the nation. cover bird migration patterns, key Location: Fred Thomas Building visual ID and bird songs of migrant Limited to 25 students. SS145 RESPONDING TO and resident birds. We will utilize CLIMATE CHANGE outdoor pavilions as classrooms, We pass through many landscapes Tuesdays, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. especially for learning bird songs. No as we travel through Delaware and Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 previous experience is required. We beyond. This course gives Instructor: Rick Grier-Reynolds will visit excellent local birding areas, participants a basic and practical Location: Wyoming Church such as Cape Henlopen State Park understanding of the geologic Limited to 10 students. and Prime Hook National Wildlife constituents and processes that form Refuge. Prerequisite: Binoculars and the landscape, with emphasis on the This course is based on the the ability to walk about one mile on Mid-Atlantic region. There will be assumption that man’s involvement level ground. plenty of hands-on study with rocks, in climate change is proven science. minerals and fossils, along with It uses a variety of films, speakers SS94 BEACHCOMBING 101 photos, videos and even music, to and experiential materials as class give participants a real feel for the participants identify its impacts and Mondays, 9 a.m.–12:15 p.m. rocky world around us. There may then design both prescriptive macro Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 28–April 8 be a field trip to the Delaware policies and individual responses. It Instructors: Tom Lord, Joan Mansperger Mineralogical Society show in will be a non-lecture, student Location: Fred Thomas Building Wilmington, Delaware. centered learning experience, with Limited to 20 students. short readings for each session. This Directly next to two coastal zones SS132 CONTEMPORARY unit is part of the larger Designing a rich in marine life, Delaware is a ENVIRONMENTAL Sustainable Future series offered by beachcomber’s paradise. Each day, ISSUES the teacher. Students will need curious artifacts tumble onto the Drawdown by Paul Hawken (ISBN: Wednesdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. beaches along Delaware’s shore in 9780143130444). There is an Dates: 5 Sessions, March 6–April 3 the form of bones, shells, casts, additional fee of $4 for handouts. molds and relics. Items collected on Instructor: Rae Tyson our beaches have served humankind Location: Fred Thomas Building as currency, tools, agriculture, Limited to 15 students. musical instruments, art and The arrival of a new administration personal adornment. The pastime is in Washington has signaled a best performed after ocean storms different approach to environmental or following high or low tides. Join a protection. This course looks at how hearty group of beachcombers as the Trump administration’s regulatory we scour the area’s beaches. Class approach will impact climate will begin at the Fred Thomas change, energy exploration, air and Building each week and then move water quality and other key issues. to the beach. This course takes an objective,

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SS155 ELEMENTS OF New! New! ELECTRICITY H H Mondays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. SS170 TED TALKS SS173 ALGEBRA FOR Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 28–March 4 Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. BEGINNERS Instructor: Howard Henn Dates: 10 Sessions, Jan. 31–April 4 Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. Location: Fred Thomas Building Instructor: Tom Lord Dates: 5 Sessions, Jan. 29–Feb. 26 Limited to 5 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building Instructor: Patty Bennett This one-on-one course explores the Limited to 25 students. Location: Fred Thomas Building energy we call electricity. Learn the TED Talks are recognized as insights Limited to 20 students. differences between alternating worth sharing. Topics covered are Got a bad rap in high school? Lousy current and direct current. We will current in nature, scope and teachers who were not good cover Ohm’s law and other motivation. The weekly topics explainers? Well my specialty is electronic issues; discuss power include such subjects as aging, teaching those not very good at distribution and losses; and learn the biodiversity, bullying, fear, healthful math. If you want to learn algebra relationships of direct current diets, the human organism, HIV, basics, take this class. Bring paper between computers, radios, gender equality and eating habits. and pencil to class. And an open television and other electronic Researchers knowledgeable in the mind! equipment. If enrolled, the instructor topics give the presentations. This is will contact you to schedule your a video-based class with discussion. New! individual time. H H New! SS174 INTERMEDIATE H New! ALGEBRA TOPICS SS171 UNSOLVED Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. SS169 AMAZING PROBLEMS II AIRCRAFT IV Dates: 5 Sessions, March 5–April 2 Mondays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Instructor: Patty Bennett Thursdays, 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Dates: 5 Sessions, March 11–April 8 Location: Fred Thomas Building Dates: 6 Sessions, March 7–April 11 Instructor: Dean Hoover Limited to 20 students. Instructor: Gil Kaufman Location: Fred Thomas Building For those folks ready to solve Location: Fred Thomas Building Limited to 20 students. Limited to 70 students. equations with three or more steps, This course is similar to the course, solve simultaneous equations in two Six-part update and expansion of Challenging Mathematical Problems, and three variables, and factor various elements of Amazing Aircraft offered during the fall semester in quadratics. If there is time, graphing I-III, including segments on that we will explore several unsolved will also be included. pioneering aircraft, innovators and problems in mathematics. Each pilots, WWII aircraft, the future of problem will start with no commercial and military aircraft, assumptions about background or space planes, and the spacecraft for previous experience. Course is travel to and from Mars. “friendly” for a general academic. Come enjoy!

Save the date! Friday, March 22, 2019 Trip to Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C.

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Dover Thursday Speaker Series Noon–12:45 p.m. Join us on Thursdays to listen to and interact with interesting speakers who discuss a wide array of topics. Free and open to the public! Bring a friend!

JANUARY 31 FEBRUARY 28 MARCH 21 Jan Miller, Sandy Hook Promise Larry Klepner, retired planner, Chris Hall, project coordinator for A program to teach children and Delaware Department of Division of Historical and adults how to cultivate friendship in Transportation Cultural Affairs school as a way to counter bullying Funny Road Signs The Man and His Machines: and potential violence. Exploring the role of Delaware MARCH 7 native Eldridge Reeves Johnson in FEBRUARY 7 Opera Delaware 2019 season transforming sound recordings from P.J. Welch, travel consultant a scientific novelty into our daily lives. Opera Delaware singers and staff Off the Beaten Track: The Nooks will discuss and demonstrate MARCH 28 and Crannies of Italy. Discover why samples of three works featured in Doug Miller Italy is so diverse with treasures in the 2019 Spring Festival. out-of-the-way places. They are “Dead Man Walking” Spanish Civil War: Causes, Combatants, and Role in the FEBRUARY 14 by Jake Heggie, “Trial by Jury” by Gilbert and Sullivan and Build-Up to WWII Don Blakey, educator and former “Scalia/Ginsburg” by Derrick Wang. Delaware legislative representative APRIL 4 Defining Events in African-American MARCH 14 Bernie Sarnoski life in Delaware. Ukrainian Easter Traditions: Patrick Ryan Ukrainian Easter eggs, part of an FEBRUARY 21 Irish history: The real life of St. Patrick ancient tradition of decorating Dr. William Flayhart, retired from free man to slave to bishop eggshells with elaborate geometric professor, Delaware State University of Ireland. patterns and pictures. The Early Christian Church in Asia Minor Schedule is subject to change. Attendance is free and open to the public on a space-available basis.

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Thank you to our Spring 2019 volunteer instructors!

Mike Apgar is a retired geologist Patty Bennett received her A.B. Psychology. She completed a who enjoys sharing our epic story degree in mathematics from Mount Feldenkrais professional training with the help of pictures and film. His Holyoke College. She was a high program and has been certified by interests include history, science and school math teacher for 20 years the Feldenkrais Guild of North religion. (HX302) and a math tutor for 50 years. She is America. She taught at Esalen an active member of the Rehoboth Institute in Big Sur, California, and Robin Ayers holds a B.A.S. in Beach Writers Guild and Mother now has a private practice in Milton. psychology from the University of Goose for Read Aloud Delaware. (HE99, HE116) Delaware. She was a special (SS173, SS174) education teacher by day and a Roo Brown is a Smith College social worker by night. She also Katherine Boboshko is a retired graduate. Roo retired in 1995 from a worked as a mental clinician. (LS164) registered nurse and, for 45 years, a singing and acting career in New bridge lover. She taught beginning York. She is a vocal arranger, Nina Backes has a degree in bridge (1999-2001) and has been an composer, entertainer and tenor in business administration. She has OLLI bridge instructor since fall 2016. St. Peter’s Church Choir. She leads been using and teaching safe She is a mother of three and a the Mixed Blessings singing group essential oil use for over three years. grandmother of six. (RR24, RR36) and received the 2000 American A She has attended multiple training Cappella Alliance’s Pan Award for sessions for various ways to use Sergei Boboshko holds a B.A. in her major involvement in a cappella essential oils and why and how they European history from Queens music. She also led the Lewes work for all body systems to College (CUNY) in New York. He was Chorus at The Moorings. (PA53) promote health and wellness. (HE145) a banker for over 30 years, principally with The Chase Michael Burkhart was a physics Zoe Bakoru-Bakoko was born and Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan major at the U.S. Naval Academy, a raised in Uganda. She worked as a Chase) in New York, and had various Marine aviator and an emergency nurse and later with Doctors Without assignments overseas. (IS03) room doctor. He has had a Borders. She is a public health fascination with tools since age 5, educator for diabetes self- Mary Boyd is an attorney and with particular interest in why they management and clinical disease for teacher of U.S. constitutional and work. Mostly self-taught, he has the Delaware Division of Public education law. Her background become an avid woodworker and Health. (HE155, HE160) includes business, finance and organic gardener. Mike has taught historic preservation. (HU121) hand tool basics at OLLI for four Caroline Baxter is a retired financial years. (LS114) officer for the state of Delaware’s David and Lois Bradt are lifelong park system with the Department of learners. David received a B.A. from Alice Cataldi’s first language of Natural Resources and Environmental Binghamton University and a Ph.D. literacy is French. She has taught Control. She is a lifelong Delaware from Washington State University. French on a variety of levels and is resident and local history buff. Lois earned a B.S. from Indiana the recipient of teaching and (HX301) University and a master’s degree advocacy awards. The French from Southern New Hampshire government recognized her Diana Beebe is a lifelong educator. University. Both have extensive contributions to the French culture She has been stitching and sewing experience as teachers, writers and and language by naming her a since she was a child. She loves editors in the U.S. and abroad. Chevalier, Knight, in the Academic repurposing clothes from the thrift (HU226, LA22) Palms. (LA23, LA24) shop or taking bits and pieces of old and new fabric and making them Claire Brown has a B.A. from the George Christensen received a B.A. into something fun to wear. (AA91) University of Chicago and an M.A. from the University of Hawaii and an from the Institute of Transpersonal M.A. from the University of Delaware.

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He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and public schools. She has taught became the basis of a jazz completed 23 years of active duty, beginning Spanish and composition by Sumi Tonooka that retiring as a lieutenant commander. conversational Spanish for OLLI over appeared on PBS. (HU320) George worked for 10 years as an the past several years. Her passion R.N. for hospice AIDS patients. (HU315, for acquisition of world language Rosemary Engle has a master’s PA138) and culture is evident in her teaching degree in psychology and worked as style and relaxed classroom both a senior social worker and a Robert Chu has a background in atmosphere. (LA17) psychiatric social worker. Her image formation applications in experience includes working in the engineering and marketing, from Lynn Davis is a registered dietitian/ mental health community and a aerospace to industrial photography. licensed dietitian nutritionist with psychiatric hospital. Most of her His hobbies include painting and special interest in optimizing the career centered on victim advocacy digital imaging, which complement health of those over 55 years young. within the attorney general’s office. his globetrotting adventures. (AA64) She currently consults on healthy fine She is a certified domestic violence dining and food service sanitation. counselor. (LS164) Paul Collins was born in Richmond, (HE159) Virginia, and spent most of his career Sheila Exum has a B.S. in in New Jersey. He holds two master’s Joe DeFeo, M.D. is a retired Navy art/business from Delaware State degrees from Rutgers University and surgeon with 40-plus years of University and an M.S. in homeland a bachelor’s from Virginia woodworking experience. He held security from Wilmington University. Commonwealth University. He retired positions as a clinical assistant Sheila has displayed her artwork in in 2010 as chief technology officer of professor of surgery at Temple numerous galleries while donating a computer system integration University Hospital and clinical art for silent auctions and continues company. He has been active with professor of surgery at Florida State to create artwork on commission. the Lewes Historical Society and University and University of Florida. (AA190) racing sailboats with the Lewes He has won numerous teaching Yacht Club. (HU321) awards in surgery as well as giving Bill and Sally Fintel have been avid personal instruction in woodworking birders for 40 years and currently Jackie Cousens grew up in East to all skill levels. (LS152, LS159) lead birding field trips for many Orange, New Jersey, and now lives organizations, including the Sussex in Camden, Delaware, with her Kathleen Dunn is a retired home Bird Club, Prime Hook National husband and children. She retired economics, computer science, Wildlife Refuge and OLLI. Bill also from working for the Emergency Red technology and aerospace presents programs on many aspects Cross after 15 years. She started tole education teacher. She has been a of birds and birding and maintains painting in 2008, with animals and knitter since her college days and, the following birding blog primarily figures being her favorite projects. when she is not traveling, is working for this class: (AA188, AA189) toward her Hand Knitting Master http://billfintel.blogspot.com/. (SS56) Paulette Criaris received a B.S. from Certificate. (AA173, AA185) Wagner College and M.S. from Stuart Forman is an ex-New Yorker College of Staten Island in John Ebenreiter, after retiring as an interested in the history of the city elementary education. She worked accountant in industry for 47 years, including that of the other four in the New York City public schools became a Brandywine Battlefield boroughs. (HX296) for 17 years and established an early docent. His passionate interest in elementary school-based computer history prompted him to write Bye, Cade Gibson decided to pursue her program. Paulette obtained an A.S. in George, Blazing a New Nation: U.S. lifelong passion for drawing and computer science and worked in the War of Independence. (HX298) painting after retirement. Within a Bell system retiring as a senior few years, she was selling her software engineer. (RR16) Russ Endo trained in poetry with paintings. Cade teaches because Etheridge Knight in the Free People’s she wants to share her passion for Lona Crist is a retired Spanish Poetry Workshop of Philadelphia painting with others. (AA114, AA186) language and literature teacher from (Etheridge called him “Little Brother”). Montgomery County, Maryland, Endo’s first poem, Susumu, My Name, Sandra Gilbert has been teaching

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Svaroopa® yoga for over 12 years history from Trinity College and an (HU316) and is a certified Svaroopa® yoga M.Ed. from Harvard University. He is a teacher. She is also a certified former distinguished teacher and Douglas Hemmick holds a Ph.D. and Svaroopa® Vidya meditation history/social science department an M.S. from Rutgers University. teacher and group leader trained chair at the Wilmington Friends Douglas has had a keen interest in under the leadership of Swami School in Wilmington, Delaware. He quantum physics for over 25 years Nirmalananda at Svaroopa® Vidya is currently a consultant and site and has performed original research Ashram in Pennsylvania. Sandy visitor for the International into the refutation of Conway and shares her enthusiasm and personal Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Kochen’s “free will” theorem. He is the experience of the transformative (SS145) principal author of the 2011 book, power of Svaroopa® yoga and now Bell’s Theorem and Quantum Realism. Svaroopa® meditation in her Carol Halloran is a retired R.N. She Doug is now working on a second teachings. (HE103) enjoys working on pencil sketch book with the same co-author and portraits and taking photography writing a monthly column on Ray Glick has been a decades-long classes. Carol now paints mostly stargazing and amateur astronomy. student of the Civil War and landscapes in oil from her photos. (HU263) American West. His teaching She has been with OLLI in Lewes objectives are to fully present the since 2004. (AA64) Howard Henn has a master’s degree facts on the topics he brings to his in electrical engineering from classes. (HX180) Oliver Hansen is a retired educator Columbia University and a B.S. from having worked as a science teacher, the New Jersey Institute of John Grady earned a law degree training developer in industry and Technology. He has been a control from Georgetown University Law dean of learning technologies at systems engineer and a project Center in 1969. He has practiced law Prince George’s Community College, manager for the Exxon Corporation for 47 years throughout Delaware Maryland. He enjoys playing folk and in refining operations. He tutored state courts as well as federal courts Celtic music on the banjo and displaced homemakers at the Morris in Pennsylvania and Delaware. hammered dulcimer. (PA78) County Women’s Center in Microsoft (HU322) Office for over 10 years. (SS155) Roger Hazzard received a B.A. in Ronnie Grady grew up in political science and an M.A. in Katherine Henn taught graduate Wilmington, Delaware. She psychology. He taught high school and undergraduate courses in graduated from Notre Dame of social studies for 30 years, philosophy, religion, medical ethics Maryland University in Baltimore and psychology and human development and history. She earned her B.A., received her master’s in social work at Delaware Technical Community summa cum laude from Seton Hall from the University of Maryland. She College, and general psychology for University, her M.A. from College of worked as a social worker and the University of Delaware. A self- St. Elizabeth and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. bereavement counselor for described “enthusiastic amateur” from Drew University. (HX297, RR39) Delaware Hospice for 27 years. photographer, he thinks that (HX300) photography is fun and hopes to Dean Hoover taught mathematics convey that in his course. (RR104) at Alfred University for 34 years and Roz Gregor has been fascinated by is now retired. He has enjoyed storytelling for as long as she can Bob Heifetz received a B.A. in teaching courses covering the entire remember. She taught writing at English/education and an M.A. from undergraduate math curriculum, Cooper Union Continuing Education Queens College. He taught high including topics like mathematical in New York City and colleges in school English in New York for five modeling, nonlinear dynamical New Jersey, and ran a writing years and in Connecticut for 25 systems and chaos. Dean has kept workshop for 10 years at Barnes & years; the American literature honors bees in the past and now cares for Noble in Greenwich Village, New program for over 20 years; and an observation hive at The Moorings. York. She loves to see people English electives such as creative (SS171) astonished by what they can do! writing. Bob has participated in (AA191) numerous poetry and book groups and taught the Bible as literature to Rick Grier-Reynolds holds a B.A. in church and synagogue adult groups.

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Elizabeth Jelich is a graduate of Larry Klepner received his University. He is the author of A Wesley College and the University of bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Paddler’s Guide to the Delaware River Delaware where she earned her University in political science-urban and Waterfalls of the Mid-Atlantic bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Her planning. He is retired from DELDOT. States. Gary has been an deep Delaware roots enabled her to (HU311) enthusiastic rock hound all his life. become a charter member of a (SS126) local chapter of the Daughters of the Rita Klepner moved to Delaware in American Colonists. During her 31 1969. She taught kindergarten in New Michael Loftus brings 20-plus years years of teaching, her passion was Jersey and Delaware. She also of experience in the financial world. to instill in her students a lifelong love worked as a preschool teacher and After running several multibillion- of history. Her teaching mission was trainer at the Dover Air Force Base dollar financial services companies, to construct a classroom where Child Development Center. She is a he left to start his own wealth history came alive. (HU318) member of the National Association management firm in 2010, Loftus of Retired Federal Employees. (HE105, Wealth Strategies. While making the Robert Jeter is a certified financial LS161) switch, he learned from his clients planner who specializes in working that they are not looking for the with new and existing retirees Mary Anne LaTorre is an R.N. with typical mantra of buy and hold (Wall around Sussex County. (EC34, EC35) an M.A. in psychiatric nursing and Street), after experiencing downturns training in acupressure, reiki in 2000 and 2008. Because of this, Eric Johnston is a certified financial (Japanese method for stress he learned and has deployed a planner who has worked as a reduction and relaxation) and rules-based investment philosophy, financial advisor for 25 years and homeopathy. For the past 20 years, coupled with reading the charts. has been an instructor for the she has had a private counseling (EC26) Delaware Financial Literacy Institute, practice that consolidated these Delaware Technical Community approaches integrating Jonathan Lokken is the owner and College, and the state of Maryland psychotherapy with various wellness managing principal of Lokken pre-retirement program over the last and stress management techniques. Investment Group, LLC, an six years. (EC37) Semiretired, she is currently focused independent, fee-only, wealth on teaching these holistic skills in a management firm in Lewes, Gil Kaufman has more than 50 wide range of settings. (HE158) Delaware. Jon has been years of experience in materials professionally managing client research management with Alcoa, Joseph Lavenia received his M.B.A. investments since 1997. Prior to Atlantic Richfield, and the Aluminum from Fairleigh Dickinson University starting Lokken Investment Group in Association, focused on the use of and his B.A. from Rutgers University. 2008, Jon was vice president and aluminum alloys in military and He has studied personal development, branch manager for Merrill Lynch in commercial aircraft, and spacecraft, metaphysical/spiritual teachings, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Jon with areas of specialization including and contributed to and influenced holds the Certified Investment design for fracture and fatigue the content of two books, What You Management Analyst (CIMA®) resistance. He has published more Think is What You Get and Integrity is certification from the University of than 125 articles, and seven books. Everything. (HU313) Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and (SS169) is a graduate of Carleton College. Sue Letavish’s enjoyment of sharing (EC39) Wayne Kirklin is a graduate of the children’s literature stems from her University of Delaware, holds an delight in reading books to her own Tom Lord has taught college-level M.B.A. from New York University, and children and grandchildren. science courses for over 40 years. He is a chartered financial analyst. After Portraying “the Reading Gypsy,” she holds a doctoral degree in biology a quarter of a century in the has read to local preschool classes. from Rutgers University and has financial services industry, he spent Before retirement, she was a speech written several science articles in about the same amount of time as a therapist. (HU131) juried journals. The National college professor at a small Ohio Association of Biology Teachers university where he taught Gary Letcher studied earth sciences honored Tom with the outstanding economics, finance and geography. at the University of Maryland and biology researcher/instructor award, (HX303) geography at Johns Hopkins and he was presented with the

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distinguished professorship in briefings on China for the president Karen McKinnon graduated with an teaching honors from Indiana of the United States and senior U.S. R.N. degree from Yale-New Haven University of Pennsylvania. (SS94, policymakers. (IS40) Medical Center. Karen worked for 43 SS170) years, from OB/GYN to neonatal ICU Ted Mason holds a bachelor’s to general pediatrics. She has been Lisa Lynch has taught French degree in humanities and a degree a student at OLLI and has taught cinema and advanced placement from Colgate Rochester Crozer since 2011. She held a department courses at Montgomery County Theological Seminary (M.Div.). He chair position from 2013 to 2015. Public Schools and Berlitz Language works at the Sussex YMCA teaching Karen enjoys passing time knitting, School in Paris and the State aquatic classes. Ted holds an cross-stitching, reading, cooking and Department in Washington, D.C., and instructor’s certificate from the visiting grandbabies. (AA91) has extensive experience in adult American Arthritis Foundation. He is language learning. She currently a coach for Delaware 50+ for its “A Art McLaughlin holds an A.S. in teaches a beginning French class at Matter of Balance” program. (RR02) respiratory care; B.A.s in political Delaware Technical Community science and art history; an M.A. in art College, Georgetown campus. (LA21) Cort Massey is a retired Navy history from the University of healthcare and public health Delaware, and an M.S. in community Loch Ian Macadam graduated from administrator who has traveled health administration. He is the college with a bug for the game of extensively. His first RVing experience author of six college textbooks on Go. This remained merely casual was a two-month cross-country trip medical subjects. (HX307, HX308, through years of messing in a VW Campmobile in 1975. Over HU315, PA139) (professionally) with computers. the subsequent years, the lessons Eventually, and against his better learned about the RVing lifestyle Douglass Miller taught fifth-grade judgment, he Googled the game. He include often humorous adventures science, social studies and math for has yet to recover. He met his match, in a pop-up, travel trailer, Class A the Caesar Rodney School District. learning foreign languages, until a and Class C vehicles. (RR40) He holds a B.S. in elementary Spanish professor introduced him to education, a certificate in Esperanto. It clicked! Esperanto is to Jackie McCabe teaches music at accounting from Delaware Technical French and German what the The Little School at Kids Cottage in Community College, and a Level 7 recorder is to violin and oboe. Learn Dover and leads story times at the certification in avionics maintenance. the basics on an easy instrument Dover Public Library. She dances, His specialties are history and first! (LS26, RR32) calls and plays in the band of the aviation, baseball statistics and tree Dover English Country Dancers. classification. (LS165) Joan Mansperger holds a B.A. in Jackie has a graphic design degree biology and an M.B.A., and she is from the University of Delaware. Andrew Mollura managed an enjoying a busy retirement in Lewes Jackie and her husband, Mike, have electric utility’s security and after a career in human resources. been performing English Country investigative duties after retiring She has taught OLLI courses on Dance together for over 20 years. from the Pennsylvania State Police. reducing your carbon footprint, (RR103) He also owned a private investigation weather and native trees. (RR04, company. Andy holds B.A. and M.B.A. SS94) Deirdre McCartney is an attorney at degrees from the University of Sergovic, Carmean, Weidman, Pittsburgh and Saint Francis Christopher Mark holds an M.P.A. McCartney & Owens, P.A. (EC35) University, respectively. (LS129, LS130) from Princeton University and a B.A. from Oberlin College. He served as Bette McGrath, originally from the Barbara Neaton graduated from assistant U.S. treasury representative Bronx, New York, moved to Milton, in Paris, France; as a member of the Western Maryland College with a Delaware, in 2014. She taught English B.A. in sociology. She co-owned and U.S. delegation to the Multilateral and science in a Bronx middle school Trade Negotiations in Geneva, operated her own businesses in for 30 years. OLLI classes have Dover for 35 years. She is an avid Switzerland; and as a senior analyst become a wonderful part of her life in the CIA, where he was responsible reader and student of history. here, so becoming an instructor (HX306) for preparing assessments and seemed like a good idea. (HU232)

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Carol Neild, a retired teacher, has of Delaware. Dan held a teaching worldwide. Oil painting is her been active in music since childhood, position in the Capital School District, favorite medium and people are her singing and playing several where he taught American history favorite subject. She teaches acrylic instruments. About 30 years ago, she for 34 years. (HX280, HX281, RR105) painting and drawing as well. became involved with early music, (AA192) attended various recorder Michele Procino-Wells holds a B.A. workshops and is a founding from Penn State University, a J.D. Nikki Roberson graduated from Villa member of the Holly Consort. (PA116) from Widener University School of Julie College in Baltimore. She retired Law and a graduate master of laws after 20 years in the banking Jon Newsom graduated with music degree in taxation from Villanova industry. In high school, she studied degrees from Columbia College University School of Law. (EC21) voice for three years and played the (1963) and Princeton University (1965). piano and trumpet. She sang with He retired after 38 years of service Ralph Proto earned his B.A. in the Harford Choral Society before as chief of the music division, Library political science with minors in moving to Lewes. She taught herself of Congress. Jon has taught at OLLI history and sociology and a master’s the Irish penny/tin whistle and since 2008. He and his spouse were degree in education/social studies recorder to keep her little brain cells born and bred in New York City. from Southern Connecticut State active and her arthritic hands nimble. (PA140) University. He taught for 35 years at (PA137) Notre Dame High School. Ralph is a Mary Jane Olden-Marraffini is a member of several professional Debra Roberts is a retired college retired teacher with a B.A. in French organizations for teachers and counselor who spent the last 27 from Douglass College (Rutgers administrators and was a basketball years of her career at Delaware University), an M.Ed. in elementary and track coach. (HX304, HX305) Technical Community College. She education from Wilmington College, enjoys attending theatre productions and certification from the University Paul Puch holds a B.A. from St. and hopes to share her enthusiasm of Delaware as a library/media Francis University and an M.A. from with the class. (PA87) specialist. She is an avowed Middlebury College. He taught Francophile who has worked at the Spanish and Latin at the secondary John Roberts is a 35-year resident headquarters of several French level for Montgomery County Public of Dover. He retired from Playtex companies in the U.S. (LA25) Schools in Maryland for 31 years. Products (Energizer) in 2008. John (AA14) has an interest in researching family Chet Pasek and his wife retired and genealogy and history and has moved to Dover in 2013. Chet has a Eileen Redden received her B.A. and acquired extensive research skills degree from Bloomsburg State M.Ed. degrees from the University of using internet resources. (HU303) University. He enjoys reading (history Delaware. She taught social studies mostly), playing pickleball and at Lake Forest High School and then I. David Rosenstein received his cooking/eating, though not served as a guidance counselor. She engineering and law degrees from necessarily in that order. (LS161) has an avid interest in history, the University of Cincinnati. For 20 particularly European history. (HX291) years, he represented electric users Diana Pollisino has worked in in opposition to rate increases at information technology for over 20 Kenneth Reese is a Penn State state regulatory agencies. When the years in various roles for a large graduate with concentrations in electric industry transitioned from financial firm. Diana holds a B.S. in political science and business regulation to competition, David left elementary education, a master’s in administration. Ken has also earned private practice to work as general counseling, and is a certified a myriad of planning designations counsel for Conectiv Energy, LLC in information systems auditor (CISA). and is currently working through his Delaware, and then for Essential (IT116) master’s in financial planning. (EC36) Power, LLC in New Jersey. (HX238)

Dan Pritchett received a B.S. in Judy Rioux lives in Milton, Delaware. Erv Schleifer is a graduate of social studies education from She has been drawing her whole life Brandeis University, Columbia Concord College and an M.A. in and painting during a good portion University Business School and American history from the University of it. She has sold paintings Brooklyn Law School. (HU311)

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Rainer Schulz holds a master’s Barbara Stephanic has a Ph.D. in Patricia “Pat” Thompson has spent degree in computer science from the American studies from the University most of her career teaching English University of Erlangen, Germany. He of Maryland specializing in American and journalism on the secondary taught undergraduate classes in art. She has taught art history and college levels. She enjoys college and spent his entire career classes at Georgetown University, blending insights from three areas— as a programmer, system American University, Parsons School her background in literature and administrator and support engineer of Design in New York, and the freelance writing, current work in life for a large medical device College of Southern Maryland where and holistic wellness coaching, and manufacturer. (IT126, IT127) she was on the faculty for 20 years. travels (Asia, Europe and North Africa (HX299) plus much regional and domestic Maureen Sherlock earned a B.S. in exploring). She holds advanced geology and biology at City College Jeffrey Stickle is a local Rehoboth degrees in English, counseling and of New York and an M.S. in geology Beach potter who has been administration and is a certified life at the University of California, throwing since 2009. He is the coach. (HE161, HU323) Berkeley. She spent her professional pottery studio coordinator at the Rehoboth Art League’s pottery studio career with the U.S. Geological Trudie Thompson spent nine years and school. He currently sells his Survey in Menlo Park, California, and on active duty as an Army officer in work through the Rehoboth Art Washington, D.C./Reston, Virginia. military intelligence and 24 years as League Gallery and various craft She has organized and led field trips a foreign service officer with the U.S. shows. (AA85) to geologic and historic sites Department of State. She served in throughout her career. (RR28, RR37) Peter Strub worked in new product Germany, Botswana, Korea, Australia, development, marketing, and college Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. In David Shobe entered the U.S. teaching and research. He has been 2016, she moved into her childhood Foreign Service with posts in Asia, successfully playing competitive golf summer home on Silver Lake just Europe and the Middle East after since the 1980s. He began teaching outside Rehoboth Beach. (IS38) completing graduate studies in golf in 2004. Peter has qualified for international relations at the the past five DSGA Senior Amateur Jim Tkach is a certified personal University of Chicago. While a championship tournaments. He trainer, a certified senior training political officer at the U.S. Embassy in recently scored a four under par, 67, specialist, and a former strength Baghdad, he traveled on at the Rookery South course. (RR34) coach for sports medicine at Lehigh assignments throughout Iraq, Iran, Valley College and Lehigh University. Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Cornelius Sullivan served 22 years He retired after 35 years of teaching He has previously lectured on various as the commanding officer of a and coaching football. (HE137) conflicts in the Middle East. (IS47) detective division and 24 years in the insurance industry investigating and Rae Tyson, a writer for over 40 Lee Stanford is a retired attorney supervising major cases. A number years, currently reports for several with a B.A. in history and a J.D. from of cases resulted in broad media local and regional newspapers. One Rutgers University with a lifelong coverage including a novel and of his short stories was recently interest in history and current movie. His experience in these published by Cat & Mouse Press. geopolitical issues. (IS03) industries developed his skills in how to identify questionable claims and Tyson is co-founder of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and his Elaine Stanhope holds a B.S. from conduct proper investigations to their logical conclusion. (LS155) environmental coverage has Husson College in business appeared in newspapers, education. She taught at the Sandra Sullivan is a retired high magazines, books and online secondary level in Maine, school teacher and coach with 36 publications. Rae is a former science Massachusetts, Maryland and years of experience. She has an M.S. teacher and an adjunct faculty Virginia, and was a daycare director in special education and an M.A. in member at the State University of for Kinder Care Learning Centers. counseling. She is an avid educator New York and the University of She retired from Hughes in data who continues to enjoy learning the Maryland. He has been teaching at management. Elaine enjoys weaving history and natural surroundings of OLLI since 2014. (LS133, SS132) all types of baskets. (AA10, AA53) this wonderful area. (RR04)

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Jo-Ann Vega, a student of history, Playtex after 28 years of service. He and psychology. Jon is a trained has 30 years’ experience training is active in the Boy Scouts and Lions classical musician having performed managers to be more effective Club. (HU319) with many orchestras in the Mid- leaders and managers, and Atlantic region. (HU181, PA136) facilitating team building in all Marjorie Weber is a retired business sectors. Her program applies that writer, a member of OLLI and the Toni Worsham holds a Ph.D. in knowledge to historical leaders. Rehoboth Beach Writer’s Guild, and English. An educator for 40 years, (HX242) secretary of the Lewes Senior Center Toni taught elementary through board of directors. She is passionate graduate school levels. She has done Carmen Walston is a retired New about writing, Tai Chi and extensive research in cognitive York City high school principal meditation. (HE140, HE154) studies and thinking improvement administrator and English teacher. techniques. During her years as a Since retirement, Carmen earned her Phil Wescott is a practicing Lewes nun and thereafter, Toni has studied doctorate in ministry from New York artist and retired University of spiritual teachings and focused Theological Seminary. Carmen and Delaware communication professor. exclusively on offering classes on her husband, Rev. Joe, retired pastor, He is also a former senior healthcare spiritual growth since 2006. (HU313) relocated to Delaware in 2015. executive, both in the global (HU317, HU322) pharmaceutical industry and at the Eileen Zampini has a B.S. in Christiana Care Health System. information system management Richard Ward graduated from (AA115) from Widener University in Adelphi University as a history major. Wilmington, Delaware. She has He was a United States Secret Carol West discovered the joys of played bridge for over 40 years and Service (USSS) agent for 25 years English Country Dance through enjoys the game and the OLLI social working both criminal cases and beloved OLLI mentors and has gathering. Eileen has been an OLLI protective assignments. He served as expanded dance classes and events bridge instructor since spring 2015. chief of security at the United to the Dover OLLI and beyond. An (RR24, RR36) Nations for three years and then avid music lover, she plays violin and worked at Citibank running the hand bells with St. Matthews by the International Credit Card Fraud Sea in Fenwick Island. Carol taught investigations division. (HU314) high school math in Maryland for 25 years. (RR02) Ellen Watkins has painted for over 30 years. She learned her craft Pat Wood studied yoga in India and through years of classes at Fairfax continues to teach and take yoga Adult Education and Corcoran Art training. She has been the co- School. (AA64) partner of Bethany Beach Yoga for 20 years. (HE134) Larry Watkins is a retired software design engineer with over 30 years Amber Woodland holds a B.A. from of experience in the design of Flagler College and a J.D. from embedded computer systems. Since Regent University School of Law. retirement, he has done volunteer (EC21) work with Owls Head Transportation Museum, FIRST Robotics, and the Jon Woodyard is a graduate of the Delaware HCA. (IT123, IT386) University of Iowa (B.A.), University of Hawaii (M.Ed.), and the United States Patrick Weaver, born in 1942 in International University (Ph.D.). He has Hagerstown, Maryland, graduated taught courses at OLLI for several from Dover High School and served years primarily in philosophy, science in the U.S. Navy. He earned degrees and music. With a background in from Delaware State University and behavioral science, he has Wilmington College and retired from concentrated on philosophical issues

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Spring 2019 Scholarship Application

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The scholarship process works as follows: • Provide the information requested below. • Send this form, together with your completed Spring 2019 Registration Form and Spring 2019 Course Selection Form, to the office by January 10. • Do not send a check at this time. • The chairperson of the scholarship committee will contact you. Together you will agree on an appropriate scholarship amount for your individual case. • The agreed upon payment must be received no later than January 17, in order to participate in the priority lottery. • Tuition assistance is not available for full-year registration. • Be assured that this entire process is confidential.

Please complete the following information:

NAME ______

ADDRESS______

CITY______STATE ______ZIP CODE ______

PHONE ______EMAIL ADDRESS ______

SIGNATURE ______DATE ______

Your application must be received no later than January 10, 2019. Mail to: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Fred Thomas Building, 520 Dupont Avenue, Lewes, DE 19958.

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Spring 2019 Registration Form REGISTRATION IS EASY! Simply complete this form and return it to: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Primary Location: Lewes Ocean View Dover Fred Thomas Building, 520 DuPont Ave. Ⅲ Ⅲ Ⅲ Lewes DE 19958 PLEASE CLEARLY FILL IN ALL INFORMATION OR register … NAME (please print) ______IN PERSON Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. EMAIL ______OLLI Office, Room 109, Fred Thomas Bldg. ONLINE ADDRESS ______www.olli.udel.edu/dover www.olli.udel.edu/lewes CITY ______STATE______ZIP CODE______LATE REGISTRATIONS Registration forms received after TELEPHONE (home)______(cell) ______January 17 will be processed on a space-available basis. DATE OF BIRTH______If you do not want your address, phone number and email address published in a member directory, please check here: Ⅲ RACE/ETHNICITY(Optional): Please indicate how you identify yourself. Ⅲ American Indian or Alaska Native Ⅲ Asian Ⅲ Black or African American Ⅲ Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Ⅲ White Are you Hispanic/Latino? Ⅲ Yes Ⅲ No IN CASE OF EMERGENCY OR ILLNESS CALL: NAME ______RELATIONSHIP______TELEPHONE/CELL______I AM ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN: Ⅲ Teaching a course Ⅲ Serving on a committee Ⅲ Volunteering in the office Ⅲ Fundraising Ⅲ My hobbies include______EDUCATION: Ⅲ H.S. Ⅲ Two-year College, A.A. Ⅲ B.A., B.S., R.N. Ⅲ M.A., M.S. Ⅲ Ph.D., M.D., J.D., Ed.D. MEMBERSHIP DUES: Ⅲ New Member Ⅲ Returning Member Ⅲ $______$175 Spring 2019 semester Ⅲ Paid for full year Ⅲ $______Donation to Ⅲ Gift Fund Ⅲ Kirilla Scholarship Fund (Lewes only) Ⅲ Future Fund (Lewes only) Ⅲ $______TOTAL (Make check(s) payable to “University of Delaware.”) Check #______Credit Card: Ⅲ American Express Ⅲ Discover Ⅲ MasterCard Ⅲ Visa Amount: $______Credit Card No.:______- ______- ______- ______Exp. date:______Print Name: ______Authorized Signature Required:______

NEW MEMBERS: HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT OLLI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE? Ⅲ Newspaper article Ⅲ Friend Ⅲ Library display Ⅲ Radio ad Ⅲ TV Ⅲ Internet Ⅲ Other______By submitting this form, I agree to hold the University of Delaware, its Trustees, officers, employees and agents harmless for any claims of personal injury or damage arising out of my association with the program or presence on the University campus or any other location where classes are offered or as a participant of any program-sponsored trip. I agree that information provided in class is intended to be informational only and should not be construed or relied upon as advice. I authorize the University of Delaware to record or photograph my image and/or voice, and I hereby give the University of Delaware the absolute and irrevocable right and permission, with respect to the video, social media and/or photographs that they have taken of me or in which I may be included with others. To copyright the same in their own name or any other name they may choose. To use, re-use, publish and re-publish the same, in whole or in part, individually or in conjunction with other photographs, in any medium and for any purpose whatsoever, including (but not by way of limitation) illustration, promotion and advertising and trade and to use my name in connection therewith if they so choose. I hereby release and discharge the University of Delaware from any and all claims and demands arising out of, or in connection with, the use of the photographs, including any and all claims for libel. This authorization and release shall also ensure to the benefit of the legal representatives, licensees and assigns of the University of Delaware as well as the person(s) for whom they took the photographs, video or posted social media. I am over the age of eighteen. I have read the foregoing and I fully understand the contents thereof. SIGNATURE REQUIRED______DATE OF REGISTRATION ______OLLI Office Phone: 302-645-4111 Email: [email protected] 41 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 44

Spring 2019 Course Selection Form Carefully check the day, time and location of your courses Please choose your courses in order of priority.

Course Code Course Title Day/Time Location (Lewes, Dover, Ocean View)

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Please use your priorities wisely! Sign up only for those courses you intend to take—and DO NOT sign up for multiple courses in the same time slot. The smaller the class limit, the greater the likelihood of waiting lists. Note: If you were waitlisted for a course during the previous semester, you receive preference this semester if (1) the identical course is offered again and (2) you indicate the course as your Priority 1.

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OLLI is for adults Give the gift of 50+ lifelong learning! Share the love of learning with friends and family

If you already enjoy the social and educational benefits of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Delaware, consider sharing the love of lifelong learning with friends and family. With several locations throughout Delaware, there is a program near everyone for educational, cultural and personal enrichment opportunities. Spread the word or consider an OLLI gift certificate for retirements, birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. Gift certificates are available for each location and can be purchased online at www.olli.udel.edu/gift-certificate or by emailing or calling:

LEWES— DOVER— Fred Thomas Bldg. Wyoming Church 520 Dupont Ave. 216 Wyoming Mill Rd. [email protected] [email protected] 302-645-4111 302-645-4111

OCEAN VIEW— WILMINGTON— Town Hall & Community Ctr. Arsht Hall 32 West Ave. 2700 Pennsylvania Ave. [email protected] [email protected] 302-645-4111 302-573-4486

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Nonprofit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 26 Newark, DE Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware in Lewes/Dover/Ocean View Fred Thomas Building 520 Dupont Avenue Lewes, Delaware 19958

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Go ahead—you deserve it Meet others with similar interests and discover that learning is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. Arrange to meet a member, take a tour or join our mailing list.

www.olli.udel.edu LOCATIONS

Ⅲ Fred Thomas Building Ⅲ Wyoming Church Ⅲ Ocean View Town Hall & Community Ctr. 520 Dupont Avenue, Lewes, DE 19958 216 Wyoming Mill Road, Dover, DE 19904 32 West Avenue, Ocean View, DE 19970 302-645-4111 302-645-4111 302-645-4111