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without paying the membership Help develop innovative, Mission fee. This introductory offer is not interesting, and compelling available to former students. learning experiences. Join a national movement of adult learners in West Virginia. The Lifelong Learning Program at Required To become an instructor, please Shepherd University is a volunteer contact Karen Rice, Director of member-driven program dedicated Textbooks Continuing Education and Lifelong to offering stimulating academic Learning at (304) 876-5135 or courses and activities to the Some of the courses require students to obtain books or [email protected]. community. material essential to the class. Four Season’s Bookstore is offering our Membership students a 15% discount on books. Parking Mention the Shepherd University
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receive a discount. (Does not apply If you are enrolled in the Shepherd Membership in Shepherd to texts needed for Great Books or University Lifelong Learning University’s Lifelong Learning Great Decisions courses.) Program and wish to park your Program is open to all mature vehicle on campus, it is necessary adults. We encourage you to to purchase a decal from the become a member today. Instructors Shepherd University Police Department. The purchased decal Membership Options: will permit you to park in specified Silver Member: Annual Fee is $85: DO YOU MISS TEACHING? The areas on campus while attending Includes the Brown Bag Luncheon Shepherd University Lifelong class. It is to be affixed on the Lectures and discounts on tours. Learning Program is looking for outside back window of your Enrollment fees apply. course instructors. The program is vehicle and is valid until August 1, an academic cooperative that 2017. Those vehicles parked on Gold Member $325: All-inclusive provides mature adults with campus without a decal may membership for one year. Includes opportunities for intellectual receive a parking ticket. To all enrollment fees, all lectures, development, cultural stimulation, purchase a decal, complete an discounts on tours, free parking and social interaction. Shepherd application (one per vehicle), bring decal for lots on East and West University’s Lifelong Learning it with your vehicle registration, Campus with access to shuttle bus, educational program is centered on driver’s license, and payment to free Scarborough Library card, and classes developed and taught by Shepherd University Police invitations to special events. volunteers who share their time Department, Moler Hall, 133 Spouses and domestic partners are and knowledge. Campus Hill Drive (West Campus), eligible to join for an additional during office hours. The cost is $35 Share your passion. $175. for the year. This will allow parking Inspire others to learn and in the following lots on campus: A- One-Time Trial Offer: For all new explore. Lot, King Street, F-Lot, G-Lot, H-Lot. participants that have not taken Interact and engage with peers The Pan Tran shuttle bus picks up any lifelong learning courses, you and community members. riders in the H- Lot between Dunlop are eligible to take classes for $99 and Printz Residence Halls, and G- per course for one semester FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Lot at the Frank Center adjacent to benefit of becoming better For further information regarding the Wellness Center and stops in acquainted with both instructors the Shepherd University Lifelong front of the Erma Ora Byrd Nursing and fellow class participants. If you Learning Program, please contact: Karen M. Rice Hall and the Student Center on the would like to volunteer to be a class Director of Continuing Education East Campus. assistant in one or more of your and Lifelong Learning classes, please contact Karen Rice Shepherd University If the University is on break, at 304-876-5135 or (304) 876-5135 holiday, it is after the hours of 5:00 [email protected]. Thank you [email protected] p.m., or a weekend, free parking is for volunteering! www.shepherd.edu/lifelonglearning available in many of the faculty/staff/student parking lots. Receive a 15% discount on books obtained through Four There are exceptions such as Seasons Bookstore in graduation or home football Information Shepherdstown. Mention the games. Lifelong Learning Program at Shepherd University. The Town of Shepherdstown offers free parking at any town parking Lifelong Learning classes will be cancelled if the University is For information about meter, in addition to the closed. Should an extreme instructors teaching courses handicapped designated weather emergency or power or this semester, visit us online at www.shepherd.edu/lifelonglearning spaces, for vehicles displaying a water failure warrant the closing of handicapped placard/or license offices and/or canceling or altering plates. the schedule of classes and events by the President, then public Interest Groups GET THE NEW PASSPORT APP ON notification will be made via YOUR SMART PHONE. Shepherd Web, switchboard, Rave Shepherdstown has made parking text-messaging system, and area Investment Club simpler. Download the free media. Radio and television Investing in the stock market can Passport Mobile Parking app at stations carrying emergency be intimidating - how to https://ppprk.com/park/ and announcements include: WEPM differentiate between the different receive parking alerts and extend (1340 AM), WKMZ (95.9 FM), WLTF types of securities, investing styles the amount of time on your meter (97.5 FM), WRNR (740 AM), and trading strategies, analyzing from your phone. Martinsburg; WMRE (1550 AM), market data, financials, and know WUSQ (102.5 FM), WFQX (99.3 when to act? For beginners, this FM), WKSI (98.3 FM), WINC (92.5 can be especially daunting. FM), Winchester; WDHC (1010 AM, Volunteers Financial planners and brokers are 92.9 FM), Berkeley Springs; WJEJ good sources of advice, but if you (1240 AM), WWMD (104.7 FM), are interested in learning about the WHAG-TV Ch. 25, Hagerstown; stock market and how to take The Shepherd University Lifelong West Virginia Public Radio; and control of your money, an WUSA-TV Ch. 9, Washington, D.C. Learning Program is looking for investment club may be worth Announcements of emergency volunteers to be class assistants. considering. Those individuals plans will also be available by Class assistants help the instructors interested in forming an calling 304-876-5000 or on the Web investment club, please contact to ensure that announcements are at www.shepherd.edu or by Terry Adams at 703-821-8155. made, attendance is taken and signing up for the Rave text- hand-outs are distributed. Class messaging notification system at assistants are essential to the www.shepherd.edu/university/rave/. smooth functioning of the Lifelong
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Knitting Group begins on October 8th with Richard “And I realized that I could Join other knitters for some relaxed Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at contribute my skills as a historian. time, connecting with others as we 12:00 p.m. Tickets are $23 for Looking at history forces us to be stitch our way through projects. seniors. For more information, honest with ourselves in ways we Bring any project to work on. contact Dotti Mozden at otherwise wouldn’t.” The New Expert help available too, though [email protected] Yorker has praised Strasser for this isn’t instruction, rather an “retrieving what history discards: opportunity to share with others Interest groups are an integral part the taken-for-granted minutiae of who enjoy knitting, learn from each of lifelong learning programs, everyday life.” “A White Historian other, help each other and just providing opportunities to learn Reads Black History,” will focus on enjoy our craft and good and socialize outside the classroom. lynching, race riots, and housing conversation. Not sure what to Types of groups could include segregation in the future. knit? Bring your yarn and we’ll help hiking, reading, sewing, dancing, Instructor: Susan Strasser, Ph.D. you find a project. Any questions? photography, to name a few. We Date: Wednesday, September 14 Call Susan Wolcott at 301.766.4543 would like to incorporate interest Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for or email [email protected]. groups in the Shepherd University Congressional History and Lifelong Learning Program. If you Education, Multipurpose Room Visit D.C. Interest Group would like to volunteer to facilitate Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM an interest group, please contact Cost: free Are you interested in exploring Karen Rice at 304-876-5135 or cultural activities in D.C. on a [email protected]. periodic basis? The Visit D.C. Confused About Medicare?
Interest Group proposes to travel Come learn the Medicare alphabet to Washington, D.C. primarily by of parts A, B, C, and D. Detailed MARC train on a weekday to Brown Bag descriptions will be discussed for experience cultural activities. each part, eligibility, and how it Initially the focus will be on visiting Luncheon Lectures applies to you or someone in your low or no cost exhibits at the many family. Handouts will also be museums in D.C. but could be A White Historian Reads available. expanded to plays and concerts Black History Instructor: Judith Marshall depending on interest and distance As a 15-year-old during the Civil Date: Wednesday, September 21 from transit. If interested, please Rights Movement, Susan Strasser Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for contact Steve Ayraud at picketed Woolworth’s in her Congressional History and [email protected]. hometown in support of the sit-ins Education, Multipurpose Room at lunch counters in the South, and Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM Opera Interest Group stood on the National Mall to hear Cost: free to public Do you enjoy listening to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Metropolitan Opera? Have you describe a dream that was hers, Making Sense of the Social ever wanted to try just a taste of too. Today, in response to the Security Process and live opera? Would you like to see murders at Emanuel African Getting the Most from opera live in HD without traveling Methodist Episcopal Church in to New York City or even Charleston, SC, and to Your Benefits Washington, D.C? Join this opera #BlackLivesMatter, Strasser seeks You will learn: interest group for matinee MET to use her skills as a prize-winning • How to make the Social Security opera performances in HD at the historian to address issues of process easier Majestic Theater at Gettysburg contemporary racism. Strasser, • How to determine your benefits College, Gettysburg, PA. This group Richards Professor of American • How to unscramble the alphabet will carpool to Gettysburg and back History Emerita at the University of soup of Social Security terms for these fabulous performances. Delaware, states “I asked myself • How Social Security and Medicare Dress is casual and great seats are what I could do to help confront are connected easily available. The first the ongoing crisis of racial violence • When to apply for retirement performance of the 2016-17 season and white supremacy in the U.S.” benefits FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Instructor: Judith Marshall non-profit partner of the national organization is nonexistent. Date: Wednesday, September 28 park, are helping to preserve this Thinking Outside the Girl Box raises Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for important natural resource. The pointed questions about how to Congressional History and C&O Canal Trust works to raise define effectiveness and success in Education, Multipurpose Room funds to preserve the Park for community-based programs and Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM future generations and to broaden provides practical insights for Cost: free to public support through programs that anyone working with youth. The highlight the Park’s historical, book tells the story of an innovative Women in a Frontier Army natural and cultural heritage and program determined to challenge Post and Western recreational opportunities. the small, disempowering "boxes" Instructor: Michael Mitchell girls and women are so often Expansion during the late Date: Wednesday, October 12 expected to live in. 1800s Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for Instructor: Linda Spatig This lecture will look at the role Congressional History and Date: Wednesday, October 19 women played in establishing the Education, Multipurpose Room Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for western frontier along the Santa Fe Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM Congressional History and Trail in the late 1800s specifically in Cost: $15; members – free Education, Multipurpose Room relationship to life on army posts Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM along the trail. Emphasis will be Girls Resiliency Project Cost: $15; members – free placed on the cultural norms during Thinking Outside the Girl Box (Ohio the Victorian era, and how women University Press, 2014) is a true Boosting Happiness: 3 overcame obstacles to help build the western United States. Their story about a remarkable youth Simple, Evidence-Based clothing, social values, daily chores, development program in rural West Methods Virginia. Based on twelve years of hardships, and points of views will be Research on psychological well- field research with adolescent girls- included in the discussion. being suggests that many -and adults who devoted their lives Instructor: Kathleen Corpus, Ph.D. individuals can achieve noticeable to working with them--Thinking Date: Wednesday, October 5 improvements in their levels of Outside the Girl Box reveals what is Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for positive emotion, including possible when young people are Congressional History and happiness, and decrease negative challenged to build on their Education, Multipurpose Room emotions as well. This presentation strengths, speak and be heard, and Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM will provide you with all the engage critically with their world. Cost: $15; members – free information you need to try three Co-authors Linda Spatig and Layne relatively simple exercises. If you Amerikaner trace the life of the C&O Canal – A National are willing to invest a bit of time Lincoln County Girls' Resiliency and emotional energy into these Park in Our Backyard Program (GRP), a grassroots, exercises, it is likely to pay off for Many people don't realize they community-based community non- you! It will also include information have the ninth-most visited profit aimed at helping girls identify about the research behind the National Park in the nation in their strengths, become active decision exercises, for those who are own backyard - the C&O Canal makers, and advocate for social interested, hands-on National Historical Park. Join C&O change. In the late 1990s and early demonstrations, and time for Canal Trust Board Chair Mike 2000s, the GRP flourished. Its discussion and questions. Mitchell to learn what makes this accomplishments were Instructor: Anne Murtagh, Ph.D. park so popular. Explore the history extraordinary: girls recorded CDs, Date: Wednesday, October 26 of the canal's construction, its role published poetry, conducted action Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for in the Civil War, and how it became research, opened a coffeehouse, Congressional History and a National Park. Mitchell will performed an original play, and Education, Multipurpose Room describe current-day challenges held political rallies at West Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM facing the C&O Canal National Virginia's State Capitol. The Cost: $15; members – free Historical Park in the wake of organization won national awards, budget cuts and how the activities and funding flowed in. Today, the of the C&O Canal Trust, the official FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Growing Up in Wartime spy plane. The secrecy surrounding Britain the site is the stuff of legend and raw meat for the conspiracy A lot has been written about World theorists among us. Names closely War II, but the social implications of associated with Area 51 by the cult the war and its impact on the media include Groom Lake, Nellis resident population of the country AFB, Nevada Test Site and, of is seldom discussed. War was course, Roswell (which, declared in September 1939 when I incidentally, is in New Mexico, was 5 years old in Britain. In nearly 1000 miles away). Testing of preparation for the outbreak of the then super-secret U-2 spy plane war, I was sent to live with my was purposely conducted in such a grandparents and two aunts in a way that observers could not remote village in Wales. I will identify it. Not surprisingly, then endeavor to outline the effects of many people saw “unidentified Wine & Dine in the wartime on all the aspects of flying objects”...literally. U-2 testing everyday life from transportation Community at 4 Local was but one of a series of “flying to rationing to growing food in Restaurants object” tests conducted in or allotments all over Britain. Nightly We are excited to offer an around the area, allegedly starting bombing raid by the Luftwaffe accessible, in-depth wine education with balloons. Subsequent test became a fact of life, and had an series, whilst also showcasing some programs—which might have effect on morale, both positive and of our community’s best included the SR-71 “blackbird,” and negative. Black marketers would restaurants. Each class will be in the F-117 stealth fighter—gave offer scarce goods under-the- the form of a guided wine dinner, continued life to the story. Joe counter and the use of private with the cuisine and pairings Markowitz—a CIA veteran who had vehicles was severely constrained focusing on a particular wine no personal association whatsoever due to petrol rationing. As a child, region. Our instructor, Konrad with any of the programs—will lead this was an exciting time, with Turnbull, has worked, a spirited discussion that will tell soldiers on maneuvers in the professionally, in all areas of the you less than you already think you countryside, aircraft identified in wine industry for years, from know about Area 51. But, you may the sky, and the arrival of the GIs consulting to importing boutique learn some interesting things about and their effect on local life. wines into the United States. conspiracy buffs, and why logic Instructor: Jim Bowen, D.V.M. Dinner 1: Bistro 112, Theme: alone cannot disabuse them of Date: Wednesday, November 2 French, Date: Thursday, September their beliefs. Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for 15th Instructor: Joe Markowitz, Ph.D. Congressional History and Dinner 2: Domestic, Theme: West Date: Wednesday, November 9 Education, Multipurpose Room Coast US, Date: Thursday, October Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM 13th Congressional History and Cost: $15; members – free Dinner 3: Town Run Brewing, Education, Multipurpose Room Theme: East Coast/Local, Date: Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM Thursday, November 10th Area 51 – The Ultimate Cost: $15; members – free Dinner 4: Alfredo’s Mediterranean
Hashtag Cafe (Charles Town), Theme:
In 2013, public media reported that Spanish, Date: Wednesday, the Central Intelligence Agency December 7th
(CIA) had officially acknowledged Special Events Time: 6:00 PM the secret US test site known as Cost: $50 per person for each
“Area 51”. The official reference— restaurant payable at the door in a document released under the Contact: Karen Rice at (304) 876-
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Lunch Social in the Dining 5135 to reserve a space. Reception Hall President’s following the event sponsored by the Shepherd University Meet fellow Lifelong Learning Foundation. members at the Dining Hall and Lecture Series bring a friend who might want to join the Lifelong Learning Program 2016 Nobel Prizes at Shepherd University. Enjoy a Finding Your Money Mind Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has special presentation by the campus Have you ever made money been honoring men and women dietitian, Jennifer Miller on Vitamin decisions you’ve regretted and then from all corners of the globe for D. For many reasons, people aren’t repeated the same mistake again? outstanding achievements in getting enough Vitamin D to stay Perhaps you are just one of those physics, chemistry, physiology or healthy. Learn what steps you can people who avoids talking about medicine, literature, and for work take to end the Vitamin D money altogether. We understand in peace. The foundations for the deficiency. You may choose from that decisions around money can prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred the salad bar, hot items line, or be uncomfortable altogether, Nobel wrote his last will, leaving create your own pizza or omelet. especially when you have to make much of his wealth to the Cost per person is $7.50 and them with loved ones. We each establishment of the Nobel Prize. includes beverages. have a dominant money mind that Members of our faculty will discuss Date: Monday, September 12 shapes our thinking every time we the importance of these Nobel Location: Shepherd Dining Hall make a financial decision. While Laureates’ works, the nature of the Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM each of us has some aspects of all prize in that discipline, the past Cost: $7.50 – pay at the door three – Fear, Commitment, recipients, and the impact it has on Happiness – we will revert to our the world – in layman’s terms. Shepherd University v. dominate money mind when faced Date: Monday, October 17 with important financial decisions. Location: Robert C. Byrd Center Glenville State College This interactive event will give you for Congressional History and Football Game a totally unique view on money and Education Join us for a tailgate party in the your relationship with money and Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM parking lot behind Ikenberry Hall important life relationships. We Cost: free to public; limited space and a Shepherd University football will conduct an engaging exercise available. Call Karen Rice, 304-876- game as the Rams take on Glenville that will fundamentally change the 5135 to reserve a space. Reception State College. ESPN will be way you interact with your advisor following the event sponsored by streaming this event live. and finances. You will leave the Shepherd University Date: Saturday, October 8 empowered and may be shocked or Foundation. Location: Parking Lot B, behind surprised at your partner’s choices Ikenberry Hall. and priorities. It will open up a new Time: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. tailgate; dialogue with your families. Please Tours 12:00 noon – football game join Rob Hoxton, Managing Director Cost: Tailgate $10; football tickets of United Capital for this are $25 for reserved seats; $10 at opportunity to change the way you the gate (no seat guaranteed) think about your finances forever. Call Karen Rice, 304-876-5135 to Bring your smart device with you participate. for the Find Your Money Mind exercise. Date: Thursday, September 22 Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Cost: free to public; limited space available. Call Karen Rice, 304-876-
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Frick Museum-Pittsburgh, PA Killer Heels: High Fashion at the Frick Killer Heels explores fashion’s most provocative accessory. From 18th- century silk slippers to the glamorous stilettos on today’s The Walters Art Museum Entler Hotel Tour & Lecture runways and red carpets, the Watch a Conservator at In 1983, the Historic exhibition looks at the high-heeled Work Shepherdstown Museum was shoe’s rich and varied history and founded to preserve and display Art conservators are experienced its enduring place in our popular artifacts, furniture, and historic professionals who receive extensive imagination. As fashion statement, documents that might otherwise training in fine arts, art history, and fetish object, instrument of power, have been lost. The first floor of chemistry. At the Walters Art and outlet of artistic expression for the museum holds the dining and Museum, conservators examine, both the designer and the wearer, sitting chambers. An invitation to a analyze, and treat the collections, throughout the ages the high- dinner at the Entler in honor of enhancing our understanding of art heeled shoe has gone through Colonel John Francis Hamtramck in and the people who created it. many shifts in style and symbolism. 1847 sets the tone. Upstairs there They also select the best materials Deadly sharp stilettos, is a room furnished as an old hotel and environments for preservation, architecturally inspired wedges and bedroom. It is in this bedroom that ensuring that the artwork survives platforms, and a number of artfully the hotel’s resident ghost, William for future generations. crafted shoes that defy Payton Smith, is said to sometimes Conservation began at the Walters categorization are featured among spend the night. Smith engaged in in 1934, making the museum's the selection of nearly 150 historic a duel in the summer of 1809 with conservation lab one of the oldest and contemporary heels on loan a friend and was mortally wounded in America. Today, there are four from designers, the renowned in the exchange of fire. He was departments—paintings; objects; Brooklyn Museum costume brought to the Entler Hotel and paper, rare books, and collection housed at the died of his wounds in a few hours. manuscripts; and science—which Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Come tour the Entler Hotel with are known for training young Bata Shoe Museum, and others. Eleanor Finn and hear these and professionals entering the field. Included among the many artists, other stories about the hotel. Conservators collaborate with designers, and fashion houses Date: Friday, September 23 curators, educators, and other staff represented in Killer Heels are: Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. on exhibitions, research, and Balenciaga, Manolo Blahnik, Cost: $15; free to members museum programs. They also Chanel, Christian Dior, Fendi, Bring your lunch. We’ll bring the provide expertise for national and Salvatore Ferragamo, Jean Paul drinks and dessert. international projects, such as Gaultier, Zaha Hadid, Iris van training Iraqi conservators and Herpen, X United Nude, Christian consulting on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Kentuck Knob Louboutin, Alexander McQueen, We will have a guided tour of the Prada, and Roger Vivier. Chalk Hill, PA Walters Art Museum Conservation Date: Thursday, September 1 Designed on a hexagonal module, Lab by one of the museum Time: 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Kentuck Knob is small one-story conservators to witness Cost: $129; $115 for members; Usonian house. Usonian, meaning conservation in action. There will includes transportation, museum affordable for the average also be time to explore the tour, and lunch American, was a signature design of museum. Lunch is included in this Frank Lloyd Wright. Both dramatic tour. and serene, the house, located just Date: Friday, September 9 below the crest of the hill, appears Time: 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. almost part of the mountain itself Cost: $129; $115 for members; and stands 2,050 feet above sea includes transportation, museum level. The fully functional kitchen is tour, and lunch FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES the architectural core of the home. Archivist Jody Brumage will lead largest formal French gardens in Its walls of stone not only anchor participants in a tour of the Byrd North America, a Chauffeur's the two wings of the house but Center Archives, describing the Garage housing a collection of they also rise to penetrate the work of the staff and interns as well vintage automobiles used on the horizontal line of the copper roof. as the history of the center on Estate, and nearly 200 acres of An open floor plan, cantilevered Shepherd’s campus. Visitors will scenic woodlands, meadows and overhangs and great expanses of have the opportunity to see the lawns. Alfred married Alicia, his glass effortlessly integrate the stacks where the center’s archival second wife, in 1907 and gave her inside with the outside. Stretching collections are housed and will see this spectacular new house that he to the east, just beyond the back rare documents and objects as they built for her on a 3,000-acre plot of terrace, is a breathtaking panorama learn about the lives and careers of land in Wilmington. He hired of the Youghiogheny River Gorge the members of Congress whose Carrere and Hastings, a prestigious and the beautiful Laurel Mountains papers are housed in the Center. New York architectural firm, to highlands that surround it. Dine at The tour will then focus on energy design the mansion in the late- Nemacolin Woodlands Resort for policy, specifically Congressman 18th-century French style that lunch. If time allows, we will stop Staggers, Sr.’s work to solve the Alicia adored. Alfred named the at Fort Necessity, the opening 1970s energy crisis and Senator estate Nemours, after the French battle site of the French and Indian Byrd’s efforts on the behalf of coal town that his great-great- War. miners, the industry, and navigating grandfather represented in the Date: Friday, September 30 its demise in the state of West French Estates General. While Time: 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Virginia. looking to the past and his Cost: $129; $115 for members; Date: Monday, October 10th ancestors for inspiration, Alfred includes transportation, tour, and Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. also ensured that his new home lunch Location: Robert C. Byrd Center was thoroughly modern by for Congressional History and incorporating the latest technology Education Lobby and many of his own inventions. Cost: Free Date: Tuesday, October 25 OR Time: 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Cost: $129; $115 for members; Date: Monday, October 17th lunch is included. Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Lobby Cost: Free Archives Tour of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and
Education Va. Museum of Fine Arts The Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Jasper Johns and Edvard Education is an archival research Munch: Love, Loss, and the facility located on the campus of Cycle of Life Shepherd University. Established in What is the connection between 2002, the center houses the papers Nemours Mansion & the work of Jasper Johns, one of of Senator Robert C. Byrd, America’s most renowned living Congressmen Harley O. Staggers, Garden, Wilmington, DE artists, and Edvard Munch, the Sr., and Harley O. Staggers, Jr., and Owned and developed by founder, Norwegian painter many consider the papers of Scot Faulkner, the Alfred I. duPont (1864-1935), to be the father of Expressionism? first Chief Administrative Officer of Nemours Estate comprises an A new exhibition that explores this the House of Representatives. exquisite, 77-room mansion, the question opens at VMFA in FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
November. Curated by John Dubrovnik. Tour the city featuring Cost: $2,895* per person double; Ravenal, Executive Director of the the harbor area, Franciscan $450 single supplement. Travelers deCordova Sculpture Park and Monastery and stately Baroque are required to purchase Shepherd Museum in Massachusetts and Cathedral. Later visit Old University provided travel former Lewis Family Curator of Dubrovnik which has been insurance. Modern and Contemporary Art at designated a UNESCO World VMFA, Jasper Johns and Edvard Heritage Site. Check into your Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of hotel and enjoy dinner with fellow Life presents more than 100 works travelers. Enjoy Day 6 at your by these two artists side by side to leisure exploring the treasures of highlight shared themes and the historic city of Dubrovnik on provide fascinating insight into the your own. An optional excursion is creative process. Enjoy lunch at available. On Day 7, travel the Amuse, the museum’s top coastal road along the sheer cliffs restaurant and one of Richmond’s that drop into the beautiful Adriatic best fine restaurants. Sea. Stop in the historic town of Date: Thursday, December 1 Trogir to see some of the medieval 6 Days in Costa Rica Time: 7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. buildings, churches and towers of Yoga anyone? Pura Vida Retreat Cost: $129; $115 for members; this enchanting city. Lunch will be and Spa is considered by some as lunch is included. on your own before continuing the Wellness & Yoga destination of north into Croatia’s beautiful choice outside the United States. countryside. Arrive later in Plitvice. Take part of a perfect balance of Enjoy dinner with your fellow mind, body and spirit in an oasis of travelers. Day 8, visit Plitvice Lakes beauty, tranquility and home-like National Park, the UNESCO World intimacy. Pamper your body and Heritage Site is a scenic soul while exploring the delights of wonderland of 16 interconnecting Costa Rica, a country which is lakes flanked by waterfalls and renowned for its beauty. Enjoy a primeval forest. Visit Korana Yoga retreat at Pura Vida Resort in Canyon to see the 230 feet high Alajuela, Costa Rica. falls and panoramic views. Embark Trip includes: on a scenic Plitvice Boat Excursion Round-trip airfare Croatia Explorer to better view the natural 5 nights’ lodging phenomenon’s of the park. Arrive Arrive in Zagreb and enjoy a 3 meals per day with a variety at your hotel in Zagreb later in the welcome dinner with fellow of vegetarian, or fish and day and enjoy a Farewell Dinner at travelers the first evening. Next chicken options a local restaurant. Following day, explore Zagreb on City Tour. 2 Yoga classes per day morning, transfer to the airport for Visit Upper Old Town and see St. Transfers to and from San Jose your flight home. Stephen’s Cathedral, St. Marks airport Tour includes: Church and Jelacic Square. Then Guided tour in the surrounding Roundtrip Airfare from Dulles travel to Zadar, the oldest Slavic hills of a coffee plantation International Air Taxes town on the Adriatic Sea, and tour Note: Additional half-day tours the city and Roman Forum. Enjoy 12 Meals (including 7 available at published rates. lunch on your own before travelling breakfasts & 5 dinners) Date: November 15 – 20, 2016 along the coast to Split. Next day, 7 nights – First Class Hotels Cost: *$1,850 per person based on tour Split and visit the Diocletian’s Professional Tour Director double occupancy; $2,250 per Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Motorcoach Transportation person based on single occupancy. Site built in the 3rd century. The Admissions per Itinerary Travelers are required to purchase remainder of the day is at your Baggage Handling Shepherd University provided leisure to explore Split. Day 5, drive Date: November 1-9, 2016 travel insurance. along the Dalmatian Coast to FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
*Rate subject to change based on following day you are at sea. Then airfare. you will cruise the Panama Canal during daylight. For fifty miles, the canal transects the exotic emerald jungles of Panama and gives one an appreciation of what a Herculean task it was to build this waterway between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. It opened just over 100 years ago in 1914. On day Malbec and More: A Wine 11, arrive at Cartagena, Colombia, a and Food Journey to beautiful Spanish-Colonial village Mendoza Argentina Panama Canal Cruise founded in 1533. A fortress wall surrounds the historic village’s Escape the bite of winter with this featuring 14 nights aboard pastel-colored architecture, quaint trip to “the land of sun and good the Norwegian Jewel streets and fine cathedrals, wine,” where it will be summer. Depart from Los Angeles, CA containing them like jewels. Stroll The itinerary will introduce you to aboard the Norwegian Jewel. First through the walled old town the unique conditions that produce stop is Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. (Cuidad Murallada), shop the Malbec and other Argentine wines, Spend the day on the tip of the Baja boutiques housed in what used to as well as to traditional and Peninsula. Cabo has a coastline be dungeons, and enjoy a jaunt contemporary Argentine cuisine. that’s ideal for kayak exploration, through history. Spend the last two Activities will include winery visits snorkeling, whale-watching and days at sea traveling to Miami, FL. to three different regions, wine fishing. Travel a day at sea and Trip includes roundtrip airfare from tastings, gourmet meals, a cooking arrive the next day at Acapulco, Washington, D.C.-area airport, 14 class, and excursions to central Mexico, once of Mexico’s oldest night cruise on the Norwegian market, and the Andes Mountains coastal tourist destinations. Shop, Jewel, all port charges, government and the base of Aconcagua, the swim, or simply take a siesta on the taxes, all meals onboard ship, ship highest mountain in the Western beach. Don’t miss the legendary La transfers, and baggage handling. Hemisphere. Group leader will be Quebrada cliff divers. Spend the Date: January 6-20, 2017 Ellen Hoffman, who until recently next day at sea then arrive in Cost: *$2,699 per person based on was the co-owner and operator of a Puerto Quetzal, Mexico. You can double occupancy for Inside Mendoza B and B and wine tour th venture out to Antigua to view 17 Stateroom; $700 single company (Amazing Mendoza century colonial facades and supplement. $3,099 per person Tours), and led the 2014 Lifelong Guatemalan history. The following based on double occupancy for Learning tour; with the support of day, arrive in Corinto, Nicaragua, an Ocean View Stateroom; $900 Mendoza Study Abroad. Tour island connected to the mainland single supplement. $3,699 per includes airfare, lodging with by bridges. Nicaragua is home to person based on double occupancy breakfast, transfers to and from the some of the world’s most beautiful for Ocean View with Balcony; Mendoza airport, private tour bus, beaches with white sand and clear $1,300 single supplement. professional tour director, and blue water. Visit the nearby city of Travelers are required to purchase several gourmet lunches and León to see the wonderful Shepherd University provided dinners. Limited reservations are cathedral, monuments and colonial travel insurance. available for this trip. Call Karen buildings as well as the ruins of Rice, (304) 876-5135 or León Viejo, one of the oldest [email protected] to reserve Spanish settlements in the your spot. Americas. Then sail to Puntarenas, Date: February 7-17, 2017 Costa Rica, located on the Pacific Cost: $4,150; $600 single Coast and see native wildlife supplement. Price does not ranging from scarlet macaws to the include reciprocity fee of $160 jaguar. Puntarenas is the perfect (approx.) charged by Argentina. place to enjoy fresh seafood. The FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Travelers are required to purchase motorcoach transportation, Later enjoy a Moselle River Cruise Shepherd University provided admissions per itinerary, taking in views of the hilltop travel insurance. sightseeing per itinerary, baggage Reichsburg Castle before return to handling and hotel transfers. Valkenburg. Day eight, travel to Date: March 19-25, 2017 Luxembourg, Europe’s smallest Cost: $2,150 per person based on independent nation. Visit the double occupancy with booking village of Clervaux. On the return discount; $650 single supplement. visit, stop in Bastogne, site of famous WWII Battle of the Bulge. Visit the Bastogne Historical Center, a museum dedicated to the battle. New Orleans & Cajun Also see the Mardasson Liberty Country Gardens & Memorial dedicated to the 19,000 Mansions Americans who lost their lives Arrive in New Orleans for a three- during the Battle of the Bulge. night stay in the French Quarter. Holland & the Heart of Enjoy a farewell dinner this Tour the St. Louis Cathedral, Europe Explorer featuring evening. Day nine, transfer to the Bourbon Street, and the French Amsterdam, Bruges & 7 nights airport for your flight home. Trip Marketplace. Take a cruise on the in one hotel includes roundtrip airfare from Steamboat Natchez on the Arrive in Amsterdam and transfer Dulles, 7 nights lodging at Parkhotel Mississippi River. Enjoy dinner at to Valkenburg. Enjoy the windmills Valkenburg, 10 meals, professional the Court of Two Sisters. On day & Wooden Shoe factory en route. tour director, motorcoach three, tour New Orleans City. Visit Enjoy a Welcome Dinner this transportation, admissions per the Garden District and Longue Vue evening. On day three, pass itinerary, comprehensive Gardens & House, a National through the Duke’s Forest of sightseeing, and baggage handling. Historic Landmark. This evening, Germany to the medieval town of Date: March 22-30, 2017 enjoy dinner at the famous New Monschau. Continue to Belgium. Cost: $2,895* per person based on Orleans School of Cooking. Day Visit the Henri Chapelle U.S. double occupancy with booking four, travel to Baton Rouge. View Cemetery where many WWII discount; $475 single supplement. the Art Deco architecture of the American soldiers are laid to rest. Travelers are required to purchase New State Capital Building. Visit the Then, visit Maastricht, the oldest Shepherd University provided Louisiana State Museum, then drive town in the Netherlands, founded travel insurance. to Natchez, Mississippi. Enjoy a 2,000 years ago by the Romans. *Extra charge for RT Air out of BWI southern experience with an Day four, visit Bruges, the “Venice or DCA. Antebellum Mansion Dinner. Next of the North.” Enjoy a Bruges City day, tour the Natchez area and visit Tour and Canal Cruise. Day five, another Antebellum Mansion. In enjoy Valkenburg at your leisure. the afternoon, enjoy a Bayou An optional tour is available this Cruise. Day six, explore Cajun day. Day six, travel to Amsterdam. Country with a visit to the Jean Enjoy an Amsterdam City Tour and Lafitte Cultural Center. Visit a Canal Cruise. Visit a diamond Vermillionville, a bayou town cutting workshop then enjoy time restored to 18th & 19th century at your leisure to explore Dam California Rail Discovery vision of Cajun & Creole Society. Square on your own. Day seven is featuring San Francisco, Lake Travel to Avery Island for a Tabasco at leisure in Valkenburg. An Tahoe & the Napa Valley Wine Factory tour. Enjoy dinner that optional tour to Cochem & the Train evening at Pont Breaux’s. Depart Moselle Wine Valley is available. Arrive in San Francisco and transfer for home on day seven. Trip You can participate in a wine to your hotel. Enjoy a Welcome includes airfare, 6 nights lodging in tasting, wander the city on foot, Dinner that evening with fellow First Class hotels, 10 meals, shop or enjoy lunch at a restaurant travelers. Day two, enjoy a San professional tour director, with views of the Moselle River. Francisco City Tour and Bay Cruise. FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure. Journey features four museums Day three, enjoy the morning at including the Sioux Indian Museum. leisure or join an option excursion Stop at Black Hills Gold Factory. to Muir Woods to view the This evening, enjoy a special Redwood trees. Cross the Golden South Dakota Adventure farewell dinner at the K-Bar S Gate Bridge to visit the city of Featuring Mt. Rushmore & 6 Ranch in the Black Hills just outside Sausalito. Then, drive to Nights in Rapid City Keystone. After dinner, view Mt. Sacramento and visit Old Town Arrive in Rapid City and enjoy a Rushmore at night illuminated in a Sacramento and the California Welcome Dinner with your new light. Day seven, travel home State Railroad Museum. Day four, traveling companions. Next day, from Rapid City. Trip includes travel to Napa Valley and board the visit Mt. Rushmore. Then continue round-trip airfare, 6 nights lodging Napa Valley Wine Train. Enjoy a onto the Crazy Horse Memorial. in Rapid City, 10 meals, wine tasting and lunch onboard the Visit Custer State Park, famous as a professional tour director, restored Pullman rail car. Visit the wildlife preserve featuring a herd of motorcoach transportation, historic town of Napa to shop, 1,500 free roaming buffalo. sightseeing per itinerary, and sample food & wine and explore on Experience a thrilling Buffalo Jeep baggage handling. your own. Later, travel back to Safari in search of some of the Date: June 18-24, 2017 Sacramento. On day five, board an herd. Enjoy dinner at the famous Cost: $2,325 per person based on Amtrak Train for a Sierra Nevada State Game Lodge, built in 1920 double occupancy with booking Rail Journey through the mountains and listed on the national register discount; $675 single supplement. to Lake Tahoe. Disembark the train of historic places. Day three, in Truckee and board the journey into Wyoming to visit motorcoach to Lake Tahoe where Devil’s Tower National Monument. you will spend the next two Head east into South Dakota to visit evenings. On day six, travel historic Deadwood, the 1876 rough through historic Carson City en and tumble gold camp and route to Virginia City, site of the gambling town. Later, drive Comstock Lode and once the through Spearfish Canyon, a scenic Nova Scotia & the richest place in the world. Enjoy a drive in the Black Hills. Day four, Canadian Maritimes Lake Tahoe Paddlewheeler Cruise visit the Black Hills Wild Horse Arrive in Halifax and meet your tour with views of Emerald Bay and the Sanctuary, an endless prairie where director. Transfer to your hotel for surrounding Sierra Nevada hundreds of wild mustangs roam a two night stay. Day two, enjoy a Mountains. Afterwards, enjoy a free. Return to Rapid City to enjoy Halifax City tour featuring Bedford farewell dinner at a popular local the remainder of your day at your Basin, the Public Gardens, St. restaurant. On day seven, transfer leisure. Day five, drive through Mary’s University, Point Pleasant to the Sacramento airport and Badlands National Park located Park and the Citadel, a large star- return home. Trip includes round- between the White and Cheyenne shaped masonry fort built to trip airfare, 6 nights lodging in First Rivers. Later, explore the unusual protect the city. Then visit Peggy’s Class hotels, 9 meals, motorcoach and well-known Wall Drug Store, Cove, famous for its rock shore and transportation, admissions per famous for its “Free Ice Water.” In lighthouse. Tonight, meet fellow itinerary, sightseeing per itinerary, the afternoon, visit Fort Hays travelers for a Welcome Dinner baggage handling and hotel Dances with Wolves Movie Set to hosted by your tour director. Day transfers. see some of the original buildings three, travel to Cape Breton Island. Date: April 19-25, 2017 used in the Oscar winning film. This Enjoy a scenic drive around Bras Cost: $2,495 per person based on evening, enjoy a Chuckwagon D’or Lake to the lakeside resort double occupancy with booking Supper & Cowboy Show. Day six, town of Baddeck. Visit the discount; $750 single supplement. drive to Hill City to explore Main Alexander Graham Bell National
Street and board the 1880 Train for Museum. Day four, journey along
a rail journey. Then visit The the Cabot Trail, one of the most Journey Museum which traces the spectacular highways in North geology of the Black Hills. The America, explored by Englishman FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
John Cabot in the late 15th century. itinerary, comprehensive Take a picture of Montagne Ste- Along the way, stop in Margaree sightseeing, and baggage handling. Victoire which inspired many of Harbor and visit the scenic city of Date: July 12-20, 2017 Cezanne’s paintings. Enjoy a wine Cheticamp, known for its hook Cost: $2,795 per person based on tasting from a local vineyard of the rugs. Then visit Cape Breton double occupancy with booking region before returning to Nice. Highlands National Park where discount; $950 single supplement. Day six, travel to the principality of deep-walled canyons, sandy Travelers are required to purchase Monaco to the most famous district beaches and majestic cliffs are Shepherd University provided of Monte Carlo, site of the well- found. Day five, depart Cape Breton travel insurance. known casino and center of crossing the Canso Strait. Board a international social life. Enjoy a ferry a travel to Prince Edward Monte Carlo area tour including the Island (PEI), also crossing the 19th-century Romanesque Northumberland Strait which Cathedral, site of Princess Grace’s separates Nova Scotia and New tomb. Then visit the famous Casino Brunswick from PEI. Arrive in Monte Carlo. Tonight, enjoy dinner Charlottetown for a two-night stay. at a local restaurant in Nice with Enjoy a lobster dinner tonight with French Riviera Explorer your fellow travelers. Day seven, fellow travelers. Day six, enjoy a featuring Monte Carlo, Cannes enjoy a full day to explore Nice on Prince Edward Island tour. Visit the your own. Or take an optional tour & 7 nights in hotel in Nice College of Piping to learn about and visit Eze, a medieval French Fly to Nice, France and meet your traditional Celtic music. Later, village with craft shops and tour director. Transfer to hotel and travel through Prince Edward Island excellent views of the enjoy a welcome dinner with your National Park. Visit Cavendish to Mediterranean coast. The fellow travelers. Day three, enjoy a tour the Green Gables Farmhouse excursion also features St. Jean-Cap Nice City tour featuring the Chagall & Museum, setting of the novel, Ferrat, one of the three major Museum, then visit the beautiful Anne of Green Gables. Day seven, capes of The French Riviera. Visit Notre Dame Church, the largest depart PEI and cross the the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, church in Nice. Explore the Nice Confederation Bridge into New built by the wealthy French Flower Market. Then depart for Brunswick. Arrive at Oak Island socialite in the early 1900’s. Day Grasse, the perfume capital of the Resort and enjoy a two-night stay. eight, travel to Antibes, Cannes, world. Explore the town on your Day eight, visit the Grand Pre and St. Tropez. Antibes is a own. Later visit the Fragonard National Historical Site to learn quintessential Mediterranean town Perfume Factory to observe the art about Acadian history and culture. and favorite of resident artists of of perfume-making. Return to Nice Acadian exiles were the forefathers the last centuries with its narrow and enjoy the evening on your own. of Louisiana’s Cajun people. Visit cobblestone streets and unique Day four, travel to Ventimiglia, Italy Halls Harbor, an authentic fishing atmosphere. Next travel to to explore the massive street village, on the Bay of Fundy. Later, Cannes, the seaside town market or wander the cobbled visit the seafaring town of considered to be one of the social streets on your own. Continue to Lunenburg featuring a colorful hubs of Europe. It is the site of the San Remo, the capital of the Italian waterfront, narrow streets and famous Cannes Film Festival, held Riviera. Enjoy the old town of La captivating architecture. The Old in May each year. Later, travel to Pigna, which is characterized by Town is a UNESCO world heritage St. Tropez, an internationally perched houses, steep streets, site. Tonight, join your tour director known seaside resort. Join your covered alleys, and little squares – and fellow travelers for a farewell fellow travelers this evening for a a glimpse of medieval times. Return dinner. Day nine, transfer to the Farewell Dinner. Day nine, transfer to Nice for an evening at leisure. airport in Halifax for your journey to the airport for your flight home. Day five, enjoy a day of leisure in home. Trip includes roundtrip Trip includes roundtrip airfare, 7 Nice to relax or visit a museum. Or airfare from Dulles, 8 nights nights lodging, 10 meals, take in an optional excursion to Aix- lodging, 12 meals, professional tour professional tour director, en-Provence, a Celtic-Ligurian director, motorcoach motorcoach transportation, capital dating to the 3rd century BC. transportation, admissions per admissions per itinerary, Visit artist Paul Cezanne’s studio. FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES comprehensive sightseeing, and stop at the famous Blue Grotto. sightseeing per itinerary, baggage baggage handling. Enjoy the remainder of the day at handling and hotel transfers. Date: October 31-November 8, leisure and have dinner on your Date: November 7-15, 2017 2017 own. Day 5, take a high speed ferry Cost: $3,295 per person based on Cost: $2,895 per person based on from Malta to Sicily. Upon arrival, double occupancy with booking double occupancy with booking travel to Siracusa, located on discount; $450 single supplement. discount; $475 single supplement. Sicily’s Ionian Coast. Founded in Travelers are required to purchase Travelers are required to purchase 734 BC and built on an ancient Shepherd University provided Shepherd University provided Corinthian Greek settlement, your travel insurance. travel insurance. visit includes the Greek Theater & Roman Amphitheater. Later arrive in Taormina Area for a two-night stay and enjoy dinner with your Courses fellow travelers. Day 6, enjoy a walking tour of Taormina, a medieval town nestled on the slope of Monte Tauro with sweeping ISIS views of the bays below and Mt. This course will discuss the creation Malta & Sicily Explorer Etna. View the Greek Theatre, and achievements of the Radical featuring 3 nights in Malta & 4 dating to the 3rd century BC, and Sunni terrorist organization that th governs Western Iraq, parts of Syria nights in Sicily the 13 century Cathedral. Enjoy and Libya, and other African Arrive in Malta, meet your tour the afternoon in Taormina at your Countries. ISIS (also known as ISIL director and transfer to your hotel. leisure. An optional excursion to and Daesh) was responsible for the Enjoy a welcome dinner this Mt. Etna, Europe’s tallest active slaughter in Paris and the slaughter evening with your fellow travelers. volcano, is available. Day 7, travel of British tourists on the Beach in Day 3, enjoy a Valletta City tour, to Agrigento and visit the Valley of Tunisia. The group inspired the founded by the Order of the the Temples, a UNESCO World attack at Christmas time in San Knights of St. John. Visit the Heritage Site, and one of the Bernardino. Over a hundred Cathedral of St. John and the Palace largest and most important Americans have left the US to fight of the Grand Masters. Later, take a archaeological sites in the world. for ISIS. Several thousand Harbor Cruise of the two natural Enjoy touring the magnificent ruins Europeans and central Asians have harbors surrounding the city of of the seven Doric Temples which joined ISIS. Why? What is ISIS’ Valletta. Later arrive in Mdina, a still maintain their architectural attraction? fortified city dating back to the 9th grandeur and tradition. Continue Instructor: Fred Turco century and founded by the Arabs. to Sicily’s cultural, economic and Date: Mondays, September 12, 19, Enjoy an evening at leisure. Day 4, touristic capital, Palermo, and 26, October 3, 10, 17 travel to the southern part of the check-in for a two-night stay. Location: Erma Ora Byrd Hall, island stopping at Marsaxlokk, the Dinner is on your own. Day 8, Room 109 most picturesque fishing village in enjoy a Palermo City tour featuring Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM Malta. Later visit the underground Piazza Pretoria, Piazza Bellini, the Cost: free gold member; $60 silver cave of Ghar Dalam which served Palermo Cathedral and a visit to the member; $99 first-time student as the abode of the first Neolithic Teatro Massimo. Enjoy the settlers of these islands about remainder of the day at leisure in 6,000 years ago. Then visit the this city rich in history, culture, art, The Next President’s Neolithic temples of Hagar Qim, music and food. Tonight, enjoy a Energy Policy and YOU farewell dinner with your fellow some of the oldest human-made This course will be especially timely travelers. Trip includes round-trip structures in the world dating to because the newly elected airfare, 7- nights lodging, 10 meals, 300 B.C. Reminiscent of President will probably ask your professional tour director, Stonehenge, the temples are built advice about the nation’s energy motorcoach transportation, of limestone rock. Before returning policy. Why would POTUS ask admissions per itinerary, to the Valletta area, make a photo advice from a Mountaineer? FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Because West Virginia is a historic travel, and a desire to write about Tour the town, like you’ve never coal state, after all, and now a part his/her experiences should take seen before, through the of the big natural gas play— this course. Travel writing has its backstreets. Dana Mitchell has Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian glamorous moments, but it’s thoroughly researched the history Basin. Of course, this bounty has a mostly hard work. Subsidized trips and background of each story she dirty face: black lung, mine safety, are hard to come by; writers can tells. You will be entertained, and now a water supply threatened expect to incur expenses, especially informed and have fun in this five- by hydraulic fracturing—a.k.a. airfare. Today’s reality: approach week course, guaranteed! “fracking”. Maybe nuclear is this as a hobby at first, not a way to Instructor: Dana Mitchell better…but not in my backyard earn a living. Date: Tuesdays, September 13, 20, (NIMBY). Perhaps decorate the Instructor: Dale Leatherman 27, October 4, 11 Blue Ridge with wind turbines? Or, Date: Mondays, September 26, Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for solar and batteries and Teslas? It’s October 3, 10 Legislative Studies, Room 164 complicated but you’ll want to be Location: Wellness Center, Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ready for that phone call from 1600 Conference Room Cost: free gold member; $60 silver Pennsylvania Avenue. I think you’ll Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM member; $99 first-time student find answers to these questions— Cost: free gold member; $30 silver and more questions, too, in a book member; $49 first-time student Creative Writing by Richard A. Muller entitled This course will combine the Energy for Future Presidents. It’s Café Society Discussion formats of lecture and workshop to available new or used in paper, or Group introduce students to the joys of Kindle. Buy or borrow it, read it, Designed to foster a more robust creative writing. Focusing primarily and come discuss it with Dr. civil society, more cohesive and on the short story and novel, Markowitz and your class- interactive communities, greater students will learn about character mates. Even if the President media literacy and a more informed development, plot, theme and doesn’t call, you’ll enjoy it and and engaged public through “coffee dialogue, and gain experience with you’ll be the best-informed person shop” conversations about in-class writing exercises as well as at your next cocktail party or PTA contemporary social and political a longer writing project at home. meeting. issues. By engaging in a meaningful The workshop format will allow Instructor: Joe Markowitz, Ph.D. exchange of ideas and perspectives, students to have their work Date: Mondays, September 12, 19, these conversations can enliven the critiqued by classmates and to 26, October 3, 10, 17 core of democracy and empower practice reading their own work to Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for communities and individuals. an audience, all in a supportive Congressional History and Facilitators: Mike Austin and Art environment. To illustrate key Education, Room 164 Wineburg points, excerpts from published Time: 1:30 – 3:00 PM Date: Tuesdays, September 13 – works will also be discussed in Cost: free gold member; $60 silver December 13 class. During one of the classes, a member; $99 first-time student Location: Student Center, Rumsey National Book Award winner in Required Text: Energy for Future Room young adult fiction, Han Nolan, will Presidents by Richard A. Muller Time: 8:30 – 10:00 AM share some of her experiences on
Cost: Free to public; Shepherd the road to becoming a much- Writing about Travel students welcome published novelist. Experiences Instructor: Lee Doty This course will cover different Exploring Shepherdstown’s Date: Tuesdays, September 13, 20, forms of travel writing, how to craft Mysteries 27, October 4, 11, 18 a basic travel story, how to build a Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for Learn about the forgotten history, portfolio of clips, how to query Legislative Studies, Room 164 unrequited love and murder, editors, how to generate Time: 1:30 - 3:00 PM frontier days, Civil War lore, life interesting story ideas, and how to Cost: free gold member; $60 silver along the Potomac River, gather story material. Anyone with member; $99 first-time student mysterious legends, and, of course, solid writing skills, an interest in Limit of 15 students ghostly tales in Shepherdstown. FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Film Series at the Robert C. the Party” features exclusive the Monroe Doctrine, the moving Byrd Center for interviews with former President of Native Peoples and the Civil War Bill Clinton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Al among several other topics. Congressional History and From, Tom Brokaw, Paul Begala, Instructor: John Splaine, Ph.D. Education Haley Barbour, Dick Gephardt, and Session I The Robert C. Byrd Center for many others. In 2012, California Date: Wednesdays, September 14, Congressional History and amended its "Three Strikes" law — 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19 Education and Shepherd one of the harshest criminal Location: Erma Ora Byrd Hall, University’s Lifelong Learning sentencing policies in the country. Room 112 Program will co-sponsor another The passage of Proposition 36 Time: 8:15 – 9:45 AM monthly film series beginning in marked the first time in U.S. history Cost: free to gold member; $60 September 2016. The series will that citizens voted to shorten silver member; $99 first-time include iconic, socially, and sentences of those currently student historically relevant films and incarcerated. Within days, the Limit of 12 students in this section documentaries and feature post- reintegration of thousands of film discussions. Advanced "lifers" was underway. “The Session II registration is required for each Return” examines this Date: Wednesdays, September 14, film screening. We will show "We unprecedented reform through the 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19 the People: The Market Basket eyes of those on the front lines — Location: Erma Ora Byrd Hall, Effect" in September, “Crashing the prisoners suddenly freed, families Room 112 Party” in October, and “The turned upside down, reentry Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM Return” in November. “We the providers helping navigate complex Cost: free to gold member; $60 People: The Market Basket Effect" transitions and attorneys and silver member; $99 first-time traces the events that led 25,000 judges wrestling with an untested student employees and 2 million customers law. At a moment of reckoning on Limit of 12 students in this section across New England to stand mass incarceration, what can behind embattled CEO Arthur T. California's experiment teach the Die Weisse Rose Demoulas and wrest control of a nation? For more information, Die Weisse Rose, by Sophie multibillion dollar grocery empire contact Jody Brumage at Scholl, is truly profound yet easy to from an activist board of directors [email protected]. read and an opportunity to refresh led by Artie T.’s cousin, Arthur S. Date: Wednesdays, September 7, your German skills on a very Demoulas. Can regular people band October 5, November 16 simplified level, but also providing together to alter the balance of Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for for great discussions. Written by power in a major corporation, or is Congressional History and their surviving sister, this the case of Market Basket a Education Auditorium biographical book of Hans and fairytale victory? With the very Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM Sophie Scholl, young medical survival of the Democratic Party on Cost: free to the public students in München who gave the line after the three worst their lives, helps us to answer the presidential landslides in American Presidents, First Ladies, questions: "How could the history, a then-little-known and Vice Presidents (Part 1) Germans not have known and why Governor Bill Clinton and a band of In part 1 of this course, we will didn’t they do more to stop Hitler?” insurgents at the Democratic discuss the administrations of six Join Rita Nieman, a native German, Leadership Council started a presidents: Washington, Jefferson, who has taught German for over 40 revolution. Challenging the sacred Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and years both at the High School and cows of the Democratic Lincoln along with the first ladies, University level, to discover one establishment and facing the and vice presidents of the families struggles during this country's most popular Republican respective administrations. dreadful era of history. We will be president, they fought to reshape Discussions will include the focusing on the individual courage their party and retake the White creation of government, the and the cost to family and House in 1992. Based on Al From’s Louisiana Purchase, the War of friends. Be reassured, we will help 2013 book, The New Democrats 1812, the Missouri Compromise, you to think and speak in German, and the Return to Power, “Crashing FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES sometimes, it may be “Denglish”, the Bush administration after 9/11, independent branches of but we will refresh your German and that at least one of them government. But it is the adoption memory bank! Book cost will be directly engaged in the of and commitment to the Rule of under $30.00. waterboarding of highly “valued” Law that guarantees a fair and just Instructor: Rita Nieman detainees. Virtually all psych- judiciary. The Rule of Law Date: Wednesdays, September 14, ologists agree that these methods mandates that society be ruled “by 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19 amounted to torture, and thus run laws, not men” and that these laws Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for completely counter to our ethics must be fair and reasonable. Congressional History and code (to say nothing of the Geneva Indeed, “No person is above the Education, Room 164 Convention). Further, and perhaps law” and the administration of the Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM even more disturbing for law curries no favorites. Examples Cost: free to gold member; $60 psychologists, were the well- abound that prove these principles, silver member; $99 first-time publicized revelations of an and there are also examples that Required Text: Die Weisse Rose by “Independent Review” violate them. A small sample of Sophie Scholl commissioned by the American each will be featured in the two Psychological Association lectures. The discussion of the Rule Internet, Social Media and (APA). This review, completed by of Law will begin with the Golden Security David Hoffman, a former Federal Age of Ancient Greece (Pericles), Prosecutor, investigated charges and highlight the Magna Carta and This course will cover that APA had colluded with other significant milestones in its communicating using the internet national security agencies to allow development and application. The (Social Networking [Facebook, for psychologists to be active in tour of the development will follow Pintrest, Instagram, etc.], VoIP, Bush administration interrogation the contemporary efforts of the instant messaging, applications programs without violating the U.S. to export the Rule of Law to such as Skype, etc.); Internet, ethics code to which all other countries -- to encourage and computer, and mobile phone psychologists must adhere. enhance the human rights in security issues; and photograph Hoffman’s report came to a foreign countries and the practice handling (sharing, printing number of very serious and there of fair and just commercial applications such as Snapfish, disturbing conclusions, resulting in practices. Important historical storing). the firing of the head of the APA events in U.S. history highlighting Instructor: Tom Lewis Ethics Office, the early resignations the importance and virtue of, as Date: Wednesdays, September 14, of top leaders (including the well as challenges to, the Rule of 21, 28, October 5 CEO), and sent one of the largest Law will be featured. We will Location: Scarborough Library, professional organizations in the conclude by analyzing the Room 307 country into chaotic spasms of applicability of the Rule of Law to Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. finger pointing, anger, loss of current issues such as GITMO, Cost: free gold member; $60 silver membership, and ongoing turmoil Hillary Clinton’s treatment of her member; $99 first-time student from which it has yet to recover. emails during her tenure as
Instructor: Marty Amerikaner, Secretary of State (use of private Interrogations, Ph.D. and personal server), and Donald Psychologists, & Ethics: Date: Thursdays, September 15, 22, Trump’s accusing a Federal Judge, The Scandal That Has Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for who ruled against him and the Congressional History and defunct Trump University, of Rocked the World of Education, Multipurpose Room prejudice because he was “a Psychology Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Mexican.” Does Clinton receive Over the last year and a half, the Cost: free gold member; $30 silver preferential treatment and does world of psychology—as well as member; $49 first-time student Trump honor the principles many people in the country at underlying the Rule of Law? large—have been shocked to learn The Rule of Law Instructor: Art Wineburg that two psychologists were prime The U.S. Constitution created the Date: Thursdays, September 29, architects of the “enhanced judiciary as one of the three October 6 interrogation” program utilized by FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for of equality, progress, and Dickinson, and Hawthorne not only Congressional History and individualism. Significantly, this challenged the orthodoxy of their Education, Multipurpose Room period experienced the increased times but continue to engage and Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. publication of writings by both delight readers of the 21st century Cost: free gold member; $30 silver women and men as well as African with their ideas and expression. member; $49 first-time student American and Native American Instructor: Sara Smith authors in a variety of forms: Date: Thursdays, September 15, 22, Intro to Basic Lamp Repair fiction, poetry, essays, tracts, 29, October 6, 13, 20 and Creative Lamp Making oratory, songs, slave narratives, Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for and accounts of exploration, You’ve found the perfect lamp for Congressional History and adventure, and meditation. that spot and enjoyed it for years Education, Room 164 “American Originals” will focus on and now it’s not working. But Time: 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. the selected short stories of you’re not ready to toss it. This is a Cost: free gold member; $60 silver Nathanial Hawthorne (1804-64) step-by-step/hands-on basic lamp member; $99 first-time student and poetry of Emily Dickinson repair course. Whether you're a (1830-86) and Walt Whitman (1819 Do-it-Yourselfer or struggling with Practical Economics -92), as well as the historic forces the can opener, this course is for Economics is the social science that that shape their lives and you! The following week, you can studies the production, imagination. Early 19th century assemble the most talked about distribution, and consumption of writers and critics thought of object in your home. Even the goods and services. It can also be traditional poetry as the most creatively challenged will enjoy this defined a few different ways: the exalted literary expression. electrifying course in lamp making! study of scarcity, how people use However, some American poets We will be taking everyday objects resources, or decision-making. began to see poetic expression as around the house and making them Economics often involves topics like organic rather than rigidly confined into one-of-a-kind lamps. All that is wealth, finance, recessions, and to preconceived rules or forms. required is a good imagination and banking, leading to the Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman- a sense of humor! All supplies are misconception that economics is all -- one a recluse with a dissenting included. Course limited to 15. about money and the stock market. imagination, the other an Instructor: Judi Lomax However, it’s a much broader exuberant voice for democracy--- Date: Thursdays, October 13, 20 discipline that helps us understand were uniquely independent figures Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for historical trends, interpret today’s who not only challenged tradition Congressional History and headlines, and make predictions for but through their writings Education, Multipurpose Room coming decades. This course is a reinvented American poetry. Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. basic course in practical economics Similarly, as the short prose tale Cost: free gold member; $30 silver and will review the history of gained popularity, a group of member; $49 first-time student growth in our country versus other writers consciously began to countries, business structure, and articulate the concept of the short antitrust laws. We will discuss the American Originals: tale as a self-contained individual upcoming presidential campaign work. According to Edgar Allen Dickinson, Hawthorne, and and the candidates proposed Poe, this form belonged in the Whitman economic policies. And we will talk “loftiest region of art” and was best The Romantic Period in American about the influence of trends over exemplified by the “genius” of literature (1830-65) marked a rich time, i.e. credit cards, electronics Nathanial Hawthorne. By exploring flowering of American thought and and technology. the themes of alienation, isolation creativity. Having achieved political Instructor: Brom Watkins and guilt through allegory and independence, the young nation Date: Thursdays, September 15, 22, symbolism, Hawthorne expanded wanted literary independence from 29, October 6, 13, 20 the scope of short fiction beyond England as well. Transcendentalists Location: Robert C. Byrd Center for the boundaries of the familiar and others called for a “genius” Congressional History and historical anecdotes, Indian lore who would create a literature Education, Room 165 and ghost stories of the era. The infused with the democratic ideals Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. originality and genius of Whitman, FALL 2016 LIFELONG LEARNING SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Cost: free gold member; $60 silver Location: Erma Ora Byrd Hall, Steve French member; $99 first-time student Room 109 Kathryn Henry, Ph.D. Time: 6:00 – 9:00 PM Becki Jones, Ph.D. Retirement Planning Today For CEUs, contact Sue Kennedy* Learn how to: manage investment Lifelong Learning Office at Nancy Kilmon, Ed.D.* (304) 876-5135 risks, use new tax laws to your Cris Kinsella* advantage, make informed John Landolt, Ph.D. decisions about your company Many thanks to our Tom Lewis retirement plan, and adjust your Shepherd University Frances Lynch* estate plan to function properly Lifelong Learning Program under the new laws. Money is only Judith Marshall one aspect of retirement planning. Volunteer Course Carla McAdams This course blends financial Instructors, Lecturers, Class Peggy McKowen education with life planning to help Assistants, and Advisory Joshua Midgett you build wealth, align your money Franklin Moore Board with your values, and achieve your Rita Nieman Our hats are off to those retirement lifestyle goals. The goal Laura Robertson, Ph.D. individuals who have generously is to provide high-quality, generic Carolyn Rodis donated their time and talent in education without any mention of Chris Sedlock* specific financial products or 2016 to the Shepherd University J. Edward Slonaker services. Couples may attend Lifelong Learning Program. R. Grant Smith together for a single registration Please join me in thanking them. Ray Smock, Ph.D. fee. Class sizes are limited so register today. Pam Splaine, Ph.D.* Michael Austin Instructor: J. Edward Slonaker Jim Surkamp Session I Stephen Ayraud* Fred Turco Date: Saturday, October 15 & 22 David Borchard, Ph.D. Shawn Walker Location: Martinsburg Center, Chiquita Howard-Bostic, Ph.D. Art Wineburg Room 213 Jody Brumage Jay Wyatt, Ph.D. Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jenny Childs Jack Young* Cost: $49 Heidi Dobish, Ph.D.* Lisa Younis* Patricia Donohoe Jerry Zimmerman, Ph.D. Session II Erdem Ergin, Ph.D.* Date: Thursday, October 27 & Doug Estepp *denotes Advisory Committee member November 3 Ken Fehlauer Lifelong Learning Program Weekly Schedule – September 12 – October 21
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 8:00 President’s, First :30 Café Society Ladies, and Vice 9:00 Student Center, Presidents (8:15 – Retirement :30 Rumsey Room 9:45) EOB, 112 Planning Today, 10:00 ISIS President’s, First Interrogations, Martinsburg :30 EOB, 109 Ghosts & Families Ladies, and Vice Psychologists, & Center, Room 11:00 of Presidents EOB, 112 Ethics, Byrd CCHE, 213 Shepherdstown Multipurpose :30 Byrd CCHE, 164 Room Rule of Law Byrd CCHE, Multipurpose Room Basic Lamp Repair Byrd CCHE, Multipurpose Room 12:00 :30 Brown Bag 1:00 Luncheon Lectures :30 The Next Creative Writing Byrd CCHE, American President’s Byrd CCHE, 164 Multipurpose Room Originals: Energy Policy Dickinson, and YOU Hawthorne, and Byrd CCHE, Whitman 164 Byrd CCHE, 164 2:00 Die Weisse Rose
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