Ridgewood Community School

Celebrating Over 69 Years of Continuing Education!

Spring 2019 Table of Contents

Contact Information...... 1 Our office is located in the 50 Plus Card...... 2 EDUCATION CENTER Day Tours...... 3 49 COTTAGE PLACE, SECOND FLOOR RIDGEWOOD Multi-Day Tours...... 5

Computer Literacy...... 9

Careers & the Workplace...... 10

Creative Arts...... 12

Culinary Arts...... 14

Dance & Movement...... 16 Telephone (201) 670-2777 Finance, Investments & the Law...... 17 Fax (201) 444-5565

Handcrafting...... 19 You can visit RCS online at: Health, Personal Growth & Wellness...... 22 www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us or send us email at Home & Real Estate...... 27 [email protected] Languages: English & World...... 27 Special Registration Hours: Leisure & Personal Time...... 29 In Person: Monday - Friday; 1 - 4pm Telephone: Monday - Friday; 1 - 4pm Liberal Arts & Music...... 31 We welcome your questions, Sports...... 34 ideas and comments.

Junior Edition...... 35

Faculty...... 38

General Information...... 43 Special thanks to RCS Painting Instructor Spring 2019 Calendar...... 43 Anne Winner for the use of the image titled “Pollination” on the cover. Anne’s Where We Are...... 44 classes can be found on page 13 Registration Information...... 45

1 General Information

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2 Day Tours

For all trips and tours, your reservations will be confirmed in writing by RCS approximately 2 weeks before the trip date. Withdrawals made in writing three (3) days prior to the tour will be accepted and your money refunded to you (minus $25 registration fee per ticket) provided we have a waiting list for that tour and your space can be resold. Tours run rain or shine.

Gulliver’s Gate, An Amazing World in Brooklyn Navy Yard, Dekalb Market, Miniature & Hamilton Park NEW! Pier 17 & South Street Seaport NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC This morning, we enter the largest, most intricate miniature (6 feet For over 160 years the Brooklyn Navy Yards were a leading naval to .8 inches scale model) wonderland in the world, Gulliver’s Gate. shipyard that built some of America’s most famous Naval ships, It is approximately 50,000 square feet in size. This exhibit features including the USS Maine and the USS Arizona. Today it is a thriving numerous cities, countries and several continents. A few include center to over 400 industrial and creative businesses. Our Brooklyn Niagara Falls, Jerusalem, India, China, Italy, Paris, NYC and New Navy Yard: Past, Present & Future guided tour offers an overview of England. With over 300 buildings, many that we will instantly this vast 300 acre property. We will learn how this yard has evolved recognize, and over 6,000 windows, the attention to detail is from its 1801 founding, survived major political and technological amazing. Even more amazing, the entire maze of dioramas, some eras, thrived through the Civil War and World War II and has 60 feet long, go from daytime to nighttime, so we may view the transitioned into a successful civilian industrial park. It’s a street lights, buildings, trains and taxi cabs light up in the dark. fascinating reflection into the past, and picture stops throughout After lunch in a nearby Irish pub we visit Hamilton Park in the tour make it an even more personal experience. Lunch is on Weehawken, New Jersey. This is where Alexander Hamilton was your own in Brooklyn’s vibrant DeKalb Market Hall, it is home to shot by Aaron Burr. Please choose one entrée per person at the over three dozen food vendors that offer a variety of cultural and time of registration, Fish & Chips, Bacon Cheeseburger, Chicken ethnic diversity reflective of the borough. It is one of the largest Caesar, Pasta Primavera, Grilled Salmon Filet or Irish Beef Stew. food and entertainment centers in New York City. Next, we visit the $145 newly renovated Pier 17 and South Street Seaport district. Time is 008-Saturday, March 30, 2019 provided to stroll the cobblestone streets, browse in its many Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner shops and stroll along the waterfront. $120 of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:30 AM and 003-Saturday, May 18, 2019 returns at approximately 4:00 PM. Cars may be parked in Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk. of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:00 AM and returns at approximately 5:15 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

Costuming The Crown Special Exhibit & Spring Time at Winterthur NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC We have all heard about or seen the award-winning TV show, The Crown. Join us for the opportunity to view a special exhibit: Costuming The Crown. It features 40 iconic costumes from the beloved Emmy® award- winning Netflix series. The series dramatizes the history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Costumes include Queen Elizabeth’s dazzling gold coronation robe and the simple sophistication of Princess Margaret’s wedding dress. In addition to many other items on display, there is a private lecture on this exhibit. This exhibit takes place in the incomparable Winterthur Museum and Gardens in the Brandywine River Valley. Set on a 1,000-acre estate are 60 acres of manicured gardens in the world class estate of Henry Francis du Pont. The gardens are among the most colorful in America and our tour takes place when these gardens should be the most colorful. A 20-minute narrated tram ride through the grounds and gardens highlight the splendor of spring. Our visit also includes a tour of portions of the magnificent, fully furnished, 175-room mansion. To allow us the most time to explore Winterthur, a lunch voucher is included for the estate’s cafeteria. $155 002-Saturday, May 4, 2019 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:00 AM and returns at approximately 7:30 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

3 Day Tours

45th Annual Macy’s Flower Show at NEW! Twilight/Evening Cruise of New York City NEW! Herald Square & Dylan’s Candy Bar Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC Our day begins with a visit to the lower Manhattan waterfront. We begin our day with a visit to Macy’s Department Store at Once known as the World Financial Center, after several billion Herald Square in NYC. Each spring Macy’s decorates its store dollars of renovations, it is known today as Brookfield Place. We with over 100,000 plants and flowers! It’s an annual floral arrive in time for a stroll along the Battery Park Esplanade and a fantasy display that few stores in the world can equal. Our visit visit to the 911 Memorial. Time is available for a light snack at includes a tour of the many floral displays and time to browse in Hudson Eats, a new and exciting food hall at Brookfield Place. We this world-famous landmark. With over 100 years in operation then make our way to Mulberry Street, in the heart of Little Italy, and known as the largest department store in the world, it’s an for an early included dinner. Next, we enjoy breathtaking views of unequaled opportunity to find many more items than our local The New York City Skyline, as we embark on a two-hour Circle Macy’s store has to offer. Remember to bring your Macy’s Line Twilight/Evening Cruise. Capture magical moments as the coupons. Time is provided to lunch and shop on your own. Next, sunlight fades onto the harbor of Manhattan and the twinkling of we head to Dylan’s Candy Bar, hailed as the largest candy store lights make the city skyline come alive. Highlights include: The in America. Created by Ralph Lauren’s daughter, her flagship Statue of Liberty and the spectacular skyline of Lower and store houses over 7,000 confections, an unparalleled selection Midtown Manhattan. $160 of candies and candy-related gifts from around the world. It is a 004-Thursday, May 23, 2019 museum of candy where each piece is literally curated like Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot precious art. $105 (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 11:30 001-Saturday, April 6, 2019 AM and returns at approximately 10:30 PM. Cars may be Departs Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own Linwood Ave. & Northern Parkway) at 9:30 AM and risk. returns at approximately 6:00 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

Guided Tour of The Cloisters NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC The European influence of two of the world-class attractions we visit is remarkable – it is like a day trip to Europe. We begin our day with a visit to The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s an architectural treasure featuring exceptional Middle Age architecture, works of art and charming outdoor gardens. Our docent led tour enhances our understanding of this fine collection of art and architecture from the Romanesque, Gothic and Medieval periods. An included lunch is in Tom’s Diner, made famous by the television show Seinfeld. Its exterior was used in the show, but interior shots were filmed in Los Angeles. However, it’s a fun place to visit, serves good food and is always a hit among Seinfeld fans. This afternoon we tour the magnificent Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, rated among the largest cathedrals in the world. Modeled after a 13th-Century French cathedral it measures over 600 feet in length and its vaulted ceiling soars 12 stories above its floor. Here we enjoy a tour featuring exceptional statuary, tapestries, stained glass windows and woodcarvings that adorn its ornate interior. Please choose one entrée per person at the time of registration: Triple Decker BLT, Reuben Sandwich, Fish and Chips, or Veggie Burger. $145 007-Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Ave. & Northern Parkway) at 8:15 AM and returns at approximately 5:15 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk

4 Day Tours

The New Statue of Liberty Museum NEW! Brooklyn Aquarium, Coney Island & NEW! and Ellis Island Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC This May a new Statue of Liberty Museum will be opening. The Our day begins with a drive to the scenic Jamaica Bay Wildlife museum consists of three gallery spaces. In its Immersive Theater Refuge, a 9,000-acre National Refuge, located just to the east of we view an introductory dramatic, multimedia experience with a Breezy Point, Rockaway Park and the Mill Basin. Here there is time virtual fly-through ascending the Statue that recreates interior stroll along paths that lead to breathtaking views of Jamaica Bay. In views and sounds. In the Engagement Gallery we explore what the visitor center there are interactive displays, a gift shop and took place in the warehouse where Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi various exhibits. We then continue south along a narrow sliver of created the Statue. A highlight in the Inspiration Gallery is an land on the south shore of Queens County and then make a stop at up-close view of Liberty’s most iconic symbol – her original torch the Floyd Bennett Field to view its historic naval air station. From – held high for nearly 100 years and replaced during its 1986 here we make our way along Sheepshead Bay on our way to an renovation. Our day begins with a visit to Liberty State Park, in included lunch in one of Coney Island’s most famous restaurants, New Jersey where we will board our ferry to Ellis Island. Here we Gargiulo’s (1907). This afternoon we are treated to a visit to the learn the story of how over twelve million immigrants entered this Brooklyn Aquarium at Coney Island. Here there is time to explore country through this famed gateway island. We enjoy “Monument the aquarium’s newest and largest exhibit: Ocean Wonders: Sharks, Access” passes at the statue and its outdoor pedestal where we go below the surface and meet sharks, rays, sea turtles, observation levels. We also visit the new museum. Lunch is on and more. Another highlight of our visit is a live interactive show your own in the park’s cafeteria. $115 (subject to weather and animal temperament) in their outdoor 005-Saturday, June 1, 2019 Aquatheater where sea lions and their trainers take center stage. Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot There are many other exhibits to enjoy at your leisure and time to (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:30 stroll along the world-famous Coney Island Boardwalk. $165 AM and returns at approximately 5:00 PM. Cars may be 006-Saturday, June 8, 2019 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:30 AM and risk. returns at approximately 5:00 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

Multi-Day Tours

The tours below are escorted by Group Tours, Inc. For a complete itinerary including the deposit schedules, refund information and final payment dates, please call the RCS office. Any refunds given will be less a $25 per person registration fee. Tours run rain or shine. Springtime in Charleston & Savannah Group Tours & Travel LLC There are few cities in America’s south that offer its visitors more than Charleston and Savannah. Both of these cities contain superb architecture, an abundance of restaurants, many historic attractions and numerous stores. This tour offers a unique blend of attractions along with free time to explore these cities at your own pace. Spring will be in full swing and the bright colors of the flowering plants will be astounding. We will tour magnificent plantations, exceptional gardens, outstanding homes and many other attractions. A visit to the charming town of Beaufort, where Forest Gump and 15 other movies were filmed, is a great addition to our itinerary. A drive on Hilton Head Island is always a pleasure, as is a stroll through its unique Harbor Town. In addition to a luncheon cruise in Savannah we also visit the elegant home of the founder of the Girl Scouts. In Charleston we stand on the site where the first shot in the Civil War was fired and visit Fort Sumter. Also included are carriage rides and riding tours in Charleston and Savannah. Combine all these activities with comfortable accommodations, and many included meals and it’s a tour not to be missed. Other highlights include: nonstop, roundtrip air from Newark Airport, three nights in the Embassy Suites in Charleston, three nights in the Doubletree Hotel in Savannah, manager’s reception each evening in Charleston, carriage rides in Charleston & Savannah, riding tours of Charleston, Savannah, Beaufort & Hilton Head, Magnolia Plantation House & Garden Tour, Audubon Swamp Tour, Boone Hall Plantation riding & house tour, luncheon river cruise in Savannah, Juliette Gordon Low House, free time to sightsee and browse in Charleston & Savannah, six breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners, tour escot and more. This tour requires a little more walking than some other tours. 014-April 25-May 1, 2019 Twin price: $2,995 per person & Single Price $3,850 per person. 5 Multi-Day Tours

Newfoundland, Icebergs, St. John’s & Mansions of Connecticut & Rose Garden NEW! Gander, The Home of Come from Away Festival NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC The Canadian Province of Newfoundland possesses a wealth This short but fun-filled two-day getaway includes three of beauty, history and fascinating places. The scheduling of exceptional mansions and a Rose Garden Festival. We visit the this tour coincides with the time when icebergs are most likely Mark Twain House, the home of one of the most famous authors to appear along the coastline of this province. We are treated America has ever produced. The Mark Twain Home is a to two different sightseeing cruises from two different magnificent nineteen-room, Victorian-style mansion. We also tour locations where we are the most likely to view icebergs. This The Harriet Beecher Stowe House. She is the famous author of incomparable tour includes four nights in one of the finest the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Her 1871 home, reflects hotels in the capital city of St. John’s and two nights in Stowe’s Victorian decorating choices and includes modern Gander, Newfoundland. The town of Gander is the place the galleries. Overnight accommodations are in a nearby Homewood Broadway smash hit, Come From Away takes place. The Suites. June is the season of roses and Elizabeth Park contains the beauty of the area around the picturesque town of Trinity is third largest rose garden in the United States. Time is provided to memorable as is the nearby rocky coastline and the stroll around the grounds. We visit the incomparable Hill-Stead lighthouse at Cape Bonavista. Our visit to the Signal Hill Museum, an outstanding 1901 Colonial Revival mansion. This Visitor Center includes the site of the first transatlantic 152-acre estate also contains a splendid rose garden and the wireless signal (1901) and Cape Spear, the easternmost point mansion contains an excellent collection of fine art, including in the contiguous US and Canada. Other highlights include: works by Manet, Degas, Monet, Whistler and Cassatt, This tour roundtrip air from Newark, North includes: one breakfast, two lunches, one dinner, tour escort and Atlantic Aviation Museum, city tour of more. St. Johns, Terra Nova National Park, 010-June 14-15, 2019 Johnson Geo Center, Twillingate, The Twin price: $495 per person & Single Price: $585 per Silent Witness Memorial, all breakfasts, person three lunches, three dinners, tour A deposit of $150 per person is required at time of escort and more. registration. 009-May 24-30, 2019 Twin price: $2,325 per person & Single Price: $2,825 per person

Alaska – America’s Last Frontier & Canada’s Yukon NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC This is a phenomenal land and sea cruise/tour that features many of the most spectacular parks, towns and areas of interest in the state of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory. We explore Alaska and Canada by cruise ship, motorcoach, boat, train and plane. The beauty of this area is compounded by the unique history associated with the many towns we visit. We view glaciers while we cruise the Inside Passage and on the land portion we view mountains and picturesque valleys in and around the towns of Whitehorse, Dawson City, Fraser, Fairbanks, Denali and Anchorage. Highlights include: round trip air, 11 day Holland America Yukon & Double Denali Cruise/Tour, one night in Vancouver’s four diamond Pan Pacific Hotel, three night Alaskan Inside Passage Cruise on Holland America’s Volendam, Tracy Arm Inlet, Juneau & Skagway, Fraser, Whitehorse & Dawson, Canada, Minto/Klondike Hwy, nonstop flight from Dawson to Fairbanks, train ride From Fairbanks to Anchorage Aboard The McKinley Explorer, two nights in Denali, Denali Tundra Wilderness Tour, Mt. McKinley, train ride from Denali to Anchorage aboard the McKinley Explorer, two nights in Anchorage, all transfers in Alaska & Canada, port taxes, air taxes, tour escort and more 015-June 18-30, 2019 Twin Price: $3,995 -$5,295 per person Single Price: $6,495 - $8,995 per person

6 Multi-Day Tours

The tours below are escorted by Group Tours, Inc. For a complete itinerary including the deposit schedules, refund information and final payment dates, please call the RCS office. Any refunds given will be less a $25 per person registration fee. Tours run rain or shine. Cleveland, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Pro Mount Rushmore & the Black Hills of Football Hall of Fame South Dakota NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC Cleveland is a vibrant city The Black Hills area of South Dakota is home to so many containing numerous restaurants, outstanding and nationally recognized attractions.This area also theaters, clubs, museums, stores boasts some of the oldest rock formations, fossils and Indian and a casino. This tour offers a settlements in North America. South Dakota is also a place where unique balance of visits to the wild buffalo and horses still roam. The beautiful Black Hills, attractions and time to explore this with numerous mountains, canyons and prairies are outstanding. city at your leisure. Did you know that Cleveland’s Rock and Roll The man-made works of Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Hall of Fame is within an hour’s drive from the Pro Football Hall Memorial express the determination of a dream. Badlands of Fame? We will visit both. Our accommodations for three nights National Park contains a stunning variety of landscapes and the are in the Hilton Cleveland, in the heart of the downtown. Be sure natural mountain sculpting of Devils Tower has to be seen to be to check out its 32nd floor bar that features beautiful views of the believed. Other highlights include: round trip air from Newark city and lake. On Saturday afternoon our luncheon cruise Airport, Buffalo Jeep Safari, Wildlife Safari, Journey Museum, riding includes views of the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie waterfront. tour of Rapid City, Wall Drug Store, Kevin Costner’s Tatanka, Black Our riding tour of the downtown will impress us with the unique Hills Mining Museum, Trial of Jack McCall Show in Deadwood, architecture of the area and the prestigious neighborhoods that Adams Memorial Museum, The Mammoth Site, Mount Rushmore feature palatial homes. An unexpected treat is a tour of the Outdoor Light Show, Roughlock Falls, riding tour of Sturgis, all exceptional Stan Hyett Hall & Gardens, a 64,000 square-foot breakfasts, four lunches, five dinners, tour escort and more. This Tudor Mansion (1915). It contains over 20,000 panes of glass, 23 tour is a photographer’s dream come true. fireplaces and 95% of the furnishings are original to the estate. 013-August 8-15, 2019 One morning we visit Cleveland’s Botanical Gardens, located in Twin price: $3,150 per person & Single Price: $3,825 the heart of the University of Cleveland’s Campus. Time is per person provided to stroll through its award-winning gardens and its fifty-million-dollar conservatory. Other highlights include: nonstop, roundtrip air from Newark, Terminal Tower, the Cleveland Arcade, three breakfasts, one lunch, one dinner, tour escort and more. 012-July 18-21, 2019 Twin price: $1,575 per person & Single Price: $1,925 per person

The Green Mountains of Vermont in the Summer Time Killington Grand Resort, Trapp Family Lodge and Ben & Jerry’s Factory Tour Group Tours & Travel LLC Let’s head to New England, into the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, as we are treated to three nights in the Killington Grand Resort Hotel. Our resort has received Trip Advisors Certificate of Excellence award and has attractive public areas, an outdoor pool, restaurant, lounge, spectacular scenery, walking paths and more. Highlights are many and our itinerary reads like a short list of some of the best places to visit in Vermont. On day two we take a guided tour of one of the largest operating granite quarries in the world. After lunch on your own in the charming town of Waterbury we are treated to a tour of the Ben & Jerry’s Factory. On day three, after time to browse in the resort town of Stowe we enjoy an included lunch in the Trapp Family Lodge, where the family from the Sound of Music made their home in America. Our visit also includes a tour of the lodge and time to explore this resort on your own. We also take an aerial tram to the summit of Killington Mountain. Other highlights include: Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, Vermont, Quechee Gorge, three breakfasts, two lunches, three dinners, tour escort and more. 011-July 11-14, 2019 Twin price: $1,015 per person & Single Price: $1,195 per person

7 Multi-Day Tours

Five Nights in Napa, California ~ Nine Yellowstone, Grand Tetons National Park & Sun Napa & Sonoma Wineries NEW! Valley, Idaho Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC The Napa and Sonoma Valleys are among the most famous and This tour features visits to two world-class national parks and a most visited wine regions in North America. In total, we will visit national monument. Each park boasts its own unique charm and nine wineries. This tour includes five nights in the charming town varied natural features. When combined, they represent a of Napa, California. Thereare also other exciting things that we remarkable experience that is almost impossible to equal. In will see and do on the tour that. A visit to Muir Woods National Yellowstone National Park, we will enjoy three days of touring, so Park is like a visit to a place of make-believe. In the city of San we will see most of the park. This iconic park is home to two thirds Francisco, we will visit the exceptional Disney Museum. There is of the world’s geysers and half of the world’s geothermal features. also a visit to the charming Bay Area community of Sausalito. It is also home to an unparalleled range of wildlife. The Grand Other highlights include: Nonstop, Round Trip Air from Newark Tetons are the youngest and steepest range of mountains in the Airport, five nights in the Embassy Suites in Napa, the Napa Rockies, yet they contain some of the oldest rocks on earth. Our Valley Wine Train, Gondola Ride at the Sterling Winery, Manager’s stay in the exceptional Sun Valley Lodge is one we will remember Reception each evening featuring wine, beer, mixed drinks & for years to come. During the Labor Day Weekend, we witness The snacks, all breakfasts, three lunches, one dinner, tour escort and Wagon Days Big Hitch Parade. This is the largest non-motorized more. parade in the Northwest, and it features nearly 100 museum 017-October 20-25, quality wagons, hitches, buggies and carriages. The scenery in 2019 Wyoming, Idaho and Montana is stunning. The majestic mountain Twin price: $3,315 peaks, picturesque canyon walls, whitewater rapids and tranquil per person & Single lakes we view will amaze you. Other highlights include: round trip Price: $4,145 per air from Newark Airport, three nights in the Four Diamond Sun person Valley Lodge, Craters of the Moon National Monument, the Continental Divide, Lake Yellowstone, Old Faithful Geyser, Mammoth Hot Springs, West Yellowstone, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, IMAX Movie on Yellowstone National Park, riding tour of Boise, Salmon River (River of No Return), time in Ketchum, Grizzly/Wolf Discovery Center, all breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners, tour escort and more. 016-August 29-September 7, 2019 Twin price: $3,895 per person & Single Price: $5,055 per person Highlights of Northern Delaware Nemours & Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Scenic Boat Cruise NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC Join us for an overnight excursion to Delaware, although at times on this trip you might think we are in Europe. This tour includes a visit to a mansion that is perhaps the finest example of a modified Louis XVI French chateau in North America. Located on a sprawling country estate is Nemours, the 102-room mansion of Alfred I. duPont. The opulence, grandeur and overwhelming elegance of this estate is astounding. Following an extraordinary estate tour, we are treated to a memorable lunch in one of America’s most elegant dining rooms. The Green Room in the Hotel duPont exemplifies the elegance and grandeur of the Gilded Age. It contains oak paneling, oak- beamed ceilings, gold chandeliers, richly textured draperies, Italian mosaics and original oil paintings. Our itinerary includes the charming community of New Castle, Delaware, a treasure trove of historic private homes and public buildings. Our lunch is in a 345-year-old building that now houses Jessop’s Tavern. There is also time to stroll New Castle’s cobblestone streets and visit The New Castle Court House (1732), where the Declaration of Independence was once read on the steps. In the afternoon we enjoy a scenic river cruise on a portion of the lower Delaware River and The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Highlights include Fort Delaware, Delaware State Park, Pea Patch Island, Augustine Wildlife Refuge and more. This evening, in the comfort of our hotel, enjoy a manager’s reception that includes a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. There is also a restaurant in our hotel if you would also like to enjoy dinner there on your own. Other highlights include: overnight accommodations in the Embassy Suites in Newark, Delaware, one breakfast, two lunches, tour escort and more. 018-October 3-4, 2019 Twin price: $435 per person & Single Price: $515 per person

8 Computer Literacy

On the following pages, you will find the RCS computer course offerings. Please adhere to the suggested levels and check the pre-requisites before registering for a course. Operating systems are Macintosh OS 10 and Windows.

Information about Level I Computer Classes: Level I includes basic courses for students who are novice computer users. Both PC courses (for IBM compatible computers) and Macintosh classes are offered. After completion of a Level I course, you may study word-processing, spreadsheets, the Internet, etc. which are offered in Level II. Intro. to Personal Computing Facebook 201 - Fine All Things Google and Windows 10 Tune Your Facebook Evelyn McKinnon Tomohiro Kubo Neil Valere Join us for an exploration of the free This is a beginning course for the first time Now that you have learned the basics of tools that Google has to offer. Become a better “Googler” as we learn tips and computer user/owner. If you have just Facebook, this follow-up class will help tricks for searching the web. Discover purchased a PC or laptop or just started you fine tune your Facebook experience. Learn how to tailor FB with your privacy the power of Gmail and Calendar for using one, chances are you have the new staying organized. Learn how to access Windows 10 platform on your machine. and security settings, customize your profile page, create, edit, and invite friends and use Google Apps – a suite of This course will show you everything you to your groups, send private messages, productivity tools for word processing, will need to know about using your new send money and much more. Facebook is slide presentations, spreadsheets and computer to its fullest capacity. The always evolving to make your experience more. This is a “hands on” course for course will focus on learning to use the safe and fun, so come out and learn what beginners, so chromebooks will be mouse, logging on and off of your new things FB has to offer. $30 available or you can bring your own computer, how to size windows, how to 165-Tues, Apr 2 7-9 pm laptop or chromebook. All participants create files and folders, how to explore RHS Rm 193 must have a Google email account set up before the first class to fully experience directories and programs, how to utilize One Session the class. Go to google.com/gmail and Windows system accessories and generally Intro to MS Office click on “create account.” $135 navigate through Windows. This course 164-Thurs 7-9 pm Jason Porod will provide you with the essential skills to RHS Rm 193 This course will give you an introduction move on to other courses. $190 3 Sessions Starts Mar 21 153-Mon 7-9:30 pm to the programs included in MS Office - Word, Excel and Power Point. One night BFMS Rm 114 will be spent on each program, with Using the Internet 4 Sessions Starts Mar 18 homework in between classes to try out Tomohiro Kubo what you have learned. This class will give This class will focus on security and safe Facebook 101 you a good idea of the basic functions of practices while using the internet. Topics Neil Valere each program and what you might be able will include: antivirus/anti-malware use, Are you wondering what everybody is to use them for. $135 internet browser safety tips, internet 166-Thurs 7-9 pm talking about? Want to know if Facebook browser extensions and add-ons (ads/ad RHS Rm 193 blockers and malware extensions), types is right for you before you jump in? 3 Sessions Starts May 2 Maybe you just want to see your of harmful programs and files that can grandkid’s pictures. And if you are Getting to know Your iPad infect your computer, account passwords already a Facebook user, are you using Tomihiro Kubo and safeguarding and home router/wifi America’s #1 social network correctly? This class covers all the basic operations security $30 We’ll explain the basics and answer all and functions of the iPad. We will explore 169-Tues, Apr 9 7-9 pm your questions. See how Facebook users basic navigation, what the various RHS Rm 193 easily connect with friends, brands, buttons do, new features in the current One Session photos, news, information, relatives, operating system, how to use features opportunities and more. $30 like Siri, how to download apps, and a lot 163-Tues, Mar 19 7-8:30 pm more. If you’ve just purchased a new iPad, RHS Rm 193 this is the class for you! $135 One Session 161-Tues 7-9 pm RHS Rm 193 3 Sessions Starts Apr 23

It is HIGHLY recommended that all students in computer classes have access to a computer in their home or office to practice what they have learned and reinforce the skills and concepts. 9 Computer Literacy

Information about Level II Computer Classes: Each of these courses requires a good understanding of the Windows operating system. None of them are intended for beginners. Please be guided by the requirements under each course heading to insure that your learning experience and that of your fellow students will be a rewarding one. If you are unsure of your level, our office staff will try and help you with your selection. Unfortunately, we cannot grant refunds or credits to students who sign themselves up for the wrong level

Selling on eBay Photoshop Workshop Rick Feingold Chuck Solomon Millions of people earn a part-time or full-time This workshop is an introduction to the Adobe Photoshop family of income on EBAY and you could, too. Learn from applications including Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop itself. We an EBAY PowerSeller how to sell successfully-- will also look at Lightroom which is Adobe’s latest image enhancement from start to finish. Topics include: How EBAY application. The class will consist of three consecutive sessions where works, safe trading, registering on EBAY, selecting students are encouraged to bring in some of their own images to correct and items to sell, learning the value of your items, enhance in addition to the images provided by the instructor. Topics will pricing your merchandise, writing a description, include a brief history of Photoshop, the ethical use of Photoshop, how to photos, using a PayPal account to process work with Jpegs and Raw files, editing, keywords, cropping, layers, opacity, payments, shipping your goods, EBAY and PayPal white balance, black and white conversions, hue and saturation, sharpening, fees, collecting payment, delivery confirmation, preparation for print and saving files in various formats. Students will work handling feedback, and more.This class is with Photoshop 6 on individual PC’s in one of the computer labs. $60 lecture/demo format. $60 154-Wed 7-9 pm 159-Tues, Apr 2 7-9 pm RHS Rm 193 RHS Rm 212 3 Sessions Starts Mar 27 One Session

Grammar Lion: A Grammar Refresher ***ONLINE COURSE*** Ellen Feld Everybody writes. Now, boost your knowledge of English grammar to write better. Gain new tools. Experience results. Write with new strength. Explore the basics of English grammar—like parts of speech and punctuation—and more advanced concepts—like syntax and wordiness. Comprehensive. Effective. Fun. Get lots of practice with quizzes and dynamic activities. Learn on your preferred schedule, from the comfort of your home, office, or favorite cafe. Wherever you are, your personal instructor will guide you. Technology essentials: internet access, email, computer (recommended over mobile device). Questions? Contact the instructor directly: [email protected]. Two options, same course content: Starts Mar 4 716-Go at your own pace to complete your course in 4 to 12 weeks. Tuition: $150 718-Get in the fast lane to complete your course in 14 days! Tuition: $89 Careers & The Workplace Are You LinkedIn? Fran Kelley LinkedIn has become the #1 recruiting site online. Even if you are not looking for a new job, your career will benefit from a strong LinkedIn profile. It can serve as passive advertising for you. You might be surprised at the opportunities that can come to you through LinkedIn. If you are looking for a job, LinkedIn can be leveraged to network with friends and colleagues and attract the attention of recruiters who use it (in some case, exclusively) to identify talent. So, if you don’t have a LinkedIn profile, or have one, but don’t really use it, this class is perfect for you. Fee includes a step-by-step guide to creating an optimized LinkedIn profile. We will go live online to the site during this class. $60 102-Wed, Apr 3 7:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 226 One Session

See page 31 & 32 for classes that can help to improve your writing & grammar.

See page 22 for Maker Space classes on 3D Printers. 10 Careers & The Workplace Public Speaking Interview Boot Camp Careers in Home Staging Sam Nutile Fran Kelley Mary Fitzgerald If you are reluctant to speak in front of an If you haven’t interviewed in a while, you Did you know that Entrepreneur Magazine audience or have a fear of public will be surprised to learn how much said that home staging is one of the best speaking, this is the perfect course for interviews have changed. This class will businesses to get into? This introductory you. It is unfortunate that many people prepare you for what to expect. Topics course serves as an in-depth overview of limit their careers and social abilities by covered will include: behavioral interview the opportunities facing the Home Staging being fearful of speaking in public. This questions, body language, eye contact, Industry and how the APSD home stager course is designed to limit these fears by elevator speech, individual vs panel can play a vital role in its growth. You will helping students understand that public interviews, and Skype and HireVue also learn some “Hands-on” strategies to speaking is a skill and like all skills, the interviews. As an added bonus, we will try staging on your own, to see if this is a techniques must be learned and practiced cover telephone screening interviews career or business that you would like to in order to do well. If you take this course, – the most common way interviews start explore in more detail. $50 you will develop a much deeper skill for today. Learn from a certified Human 119-Mon 7-9 pm public speaking. Your confidence will grow Resources Professional with extensive BFMS Cafeteria rapidly and you will have a great deal of corporate HR experience. $40 2 Sessions Mar 25 & Apr 1 fun meeting and learning from the other 107-Wed, Apr 10 7:30-9:30 pm students in the class. $75 RHS Rm 226 Home Staging 2…The Next 113-Mon 7:30-9 pm One Session Step BFMS Rm 122 Mary Fitzgerald 6 Sessions Starts Mar 11 So, You Want to Start Your Own Did you love the Careers in Home Staging Business…! class? Are you ready to jump into the Rescue Your Resume David Spiegel world with your new-found knowledge and & Cover Letter Do you dream of owning your own creativity? In this class we expand upon business? Do you wonder if you have the everything you learned in the first class Fran Kelley knowledge, courage and resources to and help you take the next step into the Today’s new job search includes key succeed as an entrepreneur? If these actual world of home staging. Discover words, search engine optimization (SEO), sound like the conversations that you are the difference between decorating and and applicant tracking systems (ATS). having with yourself, then this is the staging, get lots of “hands-on” practice What is a job seeker to do? Today’s workshop for you. In just 90 minutes we creating “scenes” and learn how to resume needs to address all of these will discuss what it means to be an arrange furniture to sell a house. Most components and more. This class will entrepreneur, what it takes to own a importantly, master our proprietary Home offer you the opportunity to develop or business and the steps you can take right Staging Consultation so that you can update your resume incorporating the away to move closer to that dream. By implement it right away and “make money latest job search trends.You will work with the end of the discussion you will have a on Monday!” If you loved what you a certified professional resume writer 5 point action plan that will lay the learned and accomplished in CIHS, who will critique your final draft. We will groundwork for your blueprint to success. imagine how clever and confident you will walk you through several job search Lots of people have a dream like yours. feel after 3 more nights of staging fun. e-notes that are needed to accompany Dreams are the stuff entrepreneurs are This is a great class for realtors who want your resume for maximum effectiveness made of, however dreaming alone is not their listings to stand out in the and to communicate your value to enough. The difference between you and marketplace. It is not necessary to have recruiters and hiring managers. $100 them is this course, designed to equip taken the CIHS previously, but if you take 115-Wed 7:30-9:30 pm you with the tools necessary to begin both classes this semester, you can take RHS Rm 226 turning your dream into a reality. $30 $25 off of the tuition for this course. $397 2 Sessions Mar 20 & 27 101-Thurs, Mar 28 7-8:30 pm 109-Mon 7-9 pm RHS Rm 202 BFMS Cafeteria One Session 3 Sessions Starts Apr 22

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Voice Overs…Now is YOUR Time Writing for Profit Such a Voice, James Seawood MT Schwartzman In what could be one of the most enlightening 2 hours you’ve There is nothing more thrilling for a writer than pitching an idea, ever spent, this class will show you how YOU could actually placing the story and getting a check. In this course, you will begin using your speaking voice for commercials, films, videos learn techniques that are proven to work, whether your goal is and more! Most people go about it the wrong way. In this writing for print media or selling stories on the internet. Classes class, you will learn about a unique, outside-the-box way to will cover how to come up with original ideas based on personal cash in on one of the most lucrative full or part-time careers experience or professional expertise, how to find the right outlet out there! This is a business that you can handle on your own for your story and how to write an effective story proposal. $75 terms, on your own turf, in your own time, and with practically 117-Thurs 7-9 pm no overhead! And NOW is the best time to make this happen as new companies are looking for new voices like never before. RHS Rm 234 This exciting and fun class could be the game changer you’ve 5 Sessions Starts Mar 14 been looking for! $42 104-Thurs, Mar 21 7-9 pm Art Licensing 101 RHS Rm 232 Lisa Fondo One Session This class is for artists and photographers looking for a way to gain artists recognition and generate income other than through the traditional gallery route. Learn the basics of licensing your work for stationary, home décor, prints, puzzles and more. What is required, how to find potential licensees, royalty rates and the realistic time frame required for your art to end up as products on a retail shelf will be discussed. $35 105-Thurs, Apr 4 7-9 pm RHS Rm 205 Creative Arts One Session

Watercolor for Beginners Watercolor for Beginners II Watercolor Painting-All Levels Thomas P. Valenti Thomas P. Valenti Joel Popadics Beginner watercolor simplified – a This course is designed for anyone with a Paint in a traditional, realistic way in this course for people of all ages. If you reasonably good understanding of how to watercolor class for artists of all levels. have never even held a brush, this is handle watercolor techniques. While Students will learn how to paint the course for you. All the mysteries “Watercolor for Beginners” focused landscapes, seascapes, marine and still and misconceptions of watercolor primarily on learning technique, level II life using a transparent approach to painting will be revealed and explained. will concentrate on using the medium to watercolor. A brief demonstration will be Students will be guided through the create effects from morning mist to given during each session. Topics will course and will learn everything they evening dusk; the way color changes take vary from tricky techniques to universal need to know in order to produce place from one season to another; and painting concepts. The balance of time beautiful paintings. The first evening is painting three-dimensional objects. will be spent on individual instruction. devoted to a discussion of materials Discussions and demonstrations provide Supply list available. $180 and how to fit them into the individual the student with unlimited information. 219-Thurs 2-5 pm student’s budget. Supplies will be Four colors will be added to the seven- Ridgewood Art Inst. East Studio discussed at first class. $130 color palette used in “Watercolor for 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 220-Wed 7-9 pm Beginners.” Supply list available. $130 RHS Rm 138 221-Tues 7-9 pm 9 Sessions Starts Mar 6 RHS Rm 198 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5

218-Thurs 12:30-2:30 pm Ed Center 2nd Fl, Conference Rm 9 Sessions Starts Mar7

201-Thurs 7-9 pm RHS Rm 194 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 Supply lists will be sent upon request (via email or fax) or they can be picked up at the RCS office. 12 Creative Arts

Painting in Oils or Acrylics Painting Party – Van Gogh’s Sun- Digital Photography Anne Winner flowers Chuck Solomon Techniques of traditional painting are Britt Sikiric “Which of my photographs is my favorite? explored, in either oil or acrylic medium. Let’s have some fun and have a painting The one I’m going to take tomorrow,” Beginning and experienced painters are party ! Let’s think “outside of the box “and Imogene Cunningham. This course is welcome. Students will be encouraged to paint your interpretation of this bright and designed for the beginner to intermediate develop their own style and “voice” through cheerful classic. No experience is necessary student who wants to learn how to use their choice of subject matter. The formal just bring your fun attitude and your their digital cameras to take better elements of painting such as color theory pictures and understand how their camera imagination and let’s see what we can and structure are introduced. This is not a works. Participants will learn how to take “demonstration and copy” class, but one create together. Step-by-step instructions their cameras out of the automatic mode that encourages individual exploration of will be given so that you will have a and creatively choose shutter speeds, the painting process. Supply list available. beautiful end product no matter what your f-stops and ISO. We will learn how to get $140 skill level. All art supplies are provided. $45 the images off the digital card and onto a 208-Tues 12:30-2:30 pm 210-Wed, May 8 7-9 pm computer and even take a look at post 206-Tues 3-5 pm RHS Rm 198 processing in Photoshop. Attention will be Unitarian Society Fellowship Rm One Session paid to the different types of digital 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 cameras including DSLR’s and mirrorless Basic Photography cameras. Students will learn the rule of Painting in Oils Vincent Marchese thirds, selective focus, depth of field, Bill Brown This course is designed for the beginner as leading lines and shooting jpegs and raw. Beginners, as well as more experienced well as someone Proper lens choice for various scenarios painters, are welcome to study traditional with a little experience who would like a will also be discussed. Students will learn oil painting. Each class will have several still refresher. The course how to properly use flash and various life and floral set-ups. Landscape painting will cover all the basics of good picture portrait lighting techniques. We will also taking, including but not limited to F Stops will be taught and encouraged to those take a look at some of the work of famous and depth of field, shutter speeds and photographers whose images made a interested. Achieving an overall light and motion, composition and exposure. Smart atmospheric effect as revealed by nature is difference. There will be five classroom Phone photography will be briefly touched sessions and two field trips which will take emphasized. You will learn the principles of on as well. Attention will be given to each place on a mutually agreeable Saturday or painting and developing form. Instead of individual student with weekly critiques of Sunday morning. Students will get a just learning “how” to paint, you will learn assignments from topics as diverse as chance to show their work from the field “why” to use a particular color or tone. landscapes, portraits, children, trip and also from an independent project During each session an equal balance of architecture, abstracts, etc. in both color which will be discussed in class. $95 time is spent on individual instruction. and black and white. Students 212-Tues 7-8:30 pm Award winning artist, Diana K. Gibson, will will be encouraged to compile their best RHS Rm 215 assist the class if enrollment is sufficient. work into a portfolio. Students will have 5 Sessions plus 2 field trips the opportunity to display their Supply list available. Supply list available. Starts Mar 19 photographs in a group show featured at $130 the Paterson Museum, complete with a 203-Tues 7:30-9:30 pm reception for invited guests. One class will Ridgewood Art Inst. West Studio be a photo shoot 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 at Ringwood State Park, which will be RCS Gift Certificates make scheduled on a mutually convenient Saturday or Sunday afternoon. It is highly a great gift for that recommended that students purchase the hard-to-shop-for person! textbook (John Hedgecoe’s New Introductory Photography Course; ISBN 1-85732-836-1) which can be purchased online through Amazon or E-Bay. You can contact the Instructor with any questions Call (201) 670-2777 at 201-414-1337 or e-mail him at for more information. [email protected]. $95 211-Thurs 6:45-8:15 pm RHS Rm 214 8 Sessions Starts Mar 21

Students attending photography classes should be at least 16 years of age.

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Beginner/Intermediate Comedy Improvisation Acrylic Painting NEW! Drawing Alex Ishkanian for Beginners Rina Goldhagen Do you like to laugh? Do you like to make Britt Sikiric others laugh? If so, then come participate If you have always wanted to learn how Have you ever wanted to try painting but to draw, but have been frustrated with it in the wonderful world of comedy improvisation! Open to both beginners were afraid to? Acrylic paint is a great in the past, we urge you to try this class. and those with experience, the course medium for beginners because it is If your drawing skills are good but you provides you an outlet for creating relatively inexpensive, water-soluble, don’t know how to take it to the next characters and scenes - right on the spot! quick-drying, and forgiving. If you are not level, take this class. It is a real “how to” As you are guided to support your happy with an area you’ve painted, you can class that will give you the right comedic team in a truthful and organic let it dry and paint right over it in a matter foundation for successful drawing and way, you’ll see how “the funny” emerges of minutes. This class will let you explore will challenge you to achieve more than quite naturally. Our last session affords acrylic painting through your own you thought was possible. Students will you the opportunity to invite family and expressive and unique interpretation. It will learn basic drawing techniques chosen friends to see you shine in the comedy enable you to allow your inner artist to spotlight. Please be warned that this class to train their perceptions and enhance blossom. You will choose and create your their hand-eye coordination. They will has been accused of developing own piece or pieces of artwork. The teacher learn how to compose a drawing, imagination and creativity, fostering will gently guide you through the process of identify the range of values in the teamwork and spirit, and enhancing one’s painting on both a group and an individual objects they draw, use shading to give ability to think on one’s feet. Additionally, level. She will teach you basic skills their subjects volume, observe and draw it recently received a summons for making including composition, color, style “negative space” and much more. ordinary Thursdays feel like fabulous Fridays. So come join the hilarity before and more. $105 Planned projects include two still life this class is actually arrested! $130 217-Wed, 7-9 PM arrangements and a hand portrait. 202-Thurs 7-8:30 pm Students will pay a materials fee of $30 RHS Rm 198 RHS Rm 116 7 Sessions Starts Mar 6 to the instructor at the first class for art 8 Sessions Starts Mar 7 supplies. $115 209-Mon 7-9 pm BFMS Rm 106 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4

Culinary Arts

NEW! Pasta – An Italian Cuisine NEW! Simple Appetizers You Will Love Joseph Scillieri Joseph Scillieri Come join us for an exciting evening as you prepare homemade You will be the hit of the party when you present your guests with manicotti and homemade lasagna. We will also prepare a these mouth-watering appetizers. You will fully participate in the tomato sauce with meatballs and sausage. The lasagna will be preparation of artichoke spinach bites, cheese straws, eggplant/red layered with rich ricotta cheese and chopped meatballs and pepper appetizer, pepperoni Stromboli and sausage bread made sausage. The meal will be complimented with a specialty salad with homemade dough. A food fee of $25 is paid to the instructor and garlic bread. You will taste and enjoy everything that is at class. $30 prepared. A food fee of $25 is paid to the instructor at class $30 265-Tues, Apr 2 6:30-9:30 pm 264-Tues, Mar 26 6:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 148 RHS Rm 148 One Session One Session

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Spring Soups Dumplings: Asian and American NEW! Kim Hendrickson Versions With an emphasis on the season’s veggies and herbs, NEW! Kim Hendrickson this class will prepare 8 different soups that are lighter Don’t we all love dumplings; dumplings of any kind? In two nights, than traditional fall soup fare. Doesn’t everyone love soup? It is so the traditional fluffy bread/flour/cornmeal/potato varieties served easy and so nutritious. If Vietnamese Beef & Noodle Soup and in stews or under gravy will be demo-ed then prepared. Night two Spring Minestrone Verde with Pistachio Pesto interest you, come will focus on making Asian dumplings with a variety of fillings. and see what other recipes we will prepare and eat. Please bring to Some will be steamed, some pan fried for you to taste. A total of class: a kitchen towel, apron, chopping knife, and containers to eight different kinds will be tasted and prepared in these two take extra food home. Tuition includes food fee of $40. $90 nights. Please bring to class: a kitchen towel, apron, and 255-Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm containers to take extra food home. Tuition includes food fee of RHS Rm 148 $30. $80 2 Sessions March 13 & 14 259-Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm RHS Rm 148 2 Sessions Apr 10 & 11 Cast Iron One Pot Meals Kim Hendrickson NEW! Petit Fours Think merging the concept of the French Tartin (sweet/ Kim Hendrickson NEW! savory items cooked in a skillet with the crust on the When we think of Spring, we often think “afternoon top; inverted for beautiful presentation and flavor) with the ease of teas” or buffet lunches. The one item our grandmothers always a one pot skillet meal. In this class we will prepare eight different made for these events, especially to show off, were flavorful, very cast iron meals, using the flipped crust (polenta, pastry, potato) to small, fondant decorated cakes called petit fours. Nowadays we create a base to “hold” the pans contents. Each one will serve a see them sold for a lot of money - but once you know how to well-balanced meal for 4. Mushroom Marsala-Onion Tartin and make them, you can generate a lot of them easily. On the first Brussels Sprout Sausage Tartin are a few of the meals we will night, the cake and cake filling will be demo-ed and everyone will prepare. Cast iron seasoning and cleaning info will be included. prepare their own. On the second night we will learn how to make Please bring to class: a kitchen towel, apron, chopping knife, and and pour the fondant and make final decorations so everyone’s containers to take extra food home. Tuition includes food fee of petit fours are unique as well as tasty. Please bring to class: a $40. $90 kitchen towel, apron, chopping knife, and a baking sheet to take 256-Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm your cake home after the first class. Tuition includes food fee of RHS Rm 148 $20. $70 2 Sessions March 27 & 28 260-Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm RHS Rm 148 Rugelach Basics 2 Sessions Apr 24 & 25 Kim Hendrickson Scones & Clotted Cream NEW! These cream cheese pastry filled delights are costly to buy but very Kim Hendrickson easy to make if you know how. Kim will demo a basic recipe and A good scone is a wonderful thing. It needs to be crunchy on the while they are baking you will make a batch of your own. Please outside and flaky and tender on the inside, tasting buttery and bring to class: a kitchen towel, apron, and containers to take extra delicious. If you are tired of the “hockey-pucks” that are often sold food home. Tuition includes food fee of $15 $50 and want to see how very easy homemade ones are, this is the 257-Wed, Apr 3 7-10 pm class for you. Kim will demo the technique and while her scones RHS Rm 148 are baking each person will make their own. We always think of One Session scone’s pared with clotted cream, so Kim will demo how to make Gnocchi Simplified home-made clotted cream easily during night two. Plan on taking a NEW! Kim Hendrickson lot of cream home to eat with your scones you made the night We order this dish in restaurants because it is before. Please bring to class: a kitchen towel, apron, and something we don’t make at home. Laments like, “I can’t make containers to take extra food home. Tuition includes food fee of them fluffy.” or “It is too hard.” are common. This class will walk $20. $70 you through the pitfalls and their solutions. Kim will demonstrate 261-Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm RHS Rm 148 how to make fluffy, airy gnocchi and then you will make a batch 2 Sessions May 1 & 2 yourselves. We will test/eat them with a few quick sauces at the end of the evening. Please bring to class: a kitchen towel, apron, and containers to take extra food home. Tuition includes food fee of $15. $55 258-Thurs, Apr 4 7-10 pm RHS Rm 148 One Session

Students attending Kim Hendrickson’s classes should be at least 18 years of age. 15 Dance & Movement

Beginner Level Swing Dance Rhythm in Motion-Jazz/Tap Dance Lestat Lynn Needle & AOM Faculty Also known as the East Coast Swing, Jitterbug and Jive, this is Tap dance is an indigenous American art form. This hour the most famous American dance. Both triple and single long tap class will include a center floor warm-up, across the rhythms will be taught. Couples only. $150/couple floor rhythmic patterns and dance phrases. Each week will 310-Tues 7-8 pm culminate with a short dance focusing on tap technique and Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm understanding great Broadway composers such as Irving Berlin, 8 Sessions Starts Mar 5 Cole Porter, rag-time music and Broadway favorites. Tap shoes required. $160 Country/Western Partner Dancing 304-Thurs, for Beg/Inter. Students 10-11:30 am Lestat 10 Sessions Starts Mar 7 This 8-week course will cover some of the following dances: Art of Motion Studio, 17 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood Texas Two-Step, Country Swing, Cajun Waltz, ChaCha, and Texas-Style Polka. Dances covered are at the discretion of the Belly Dancing NEW! instructor and depend on the interest and ability of the class. Marina Bardash No line dances will be taught. Couples only $150/couple 312-Tues 8-9 pm Many experts say that Belly dancing is the oldest form of dance Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm with roots on all ancient cultures. Belly dancing is a low- 8 Sessions Starts Mar 5 impact, weight-bearing exercise, osteoporosis preventative and is suitable for all ages and fitness levels. The dance is enjoyed Ballroom Social Dancing and performed by women and men. The body benefits from Lestat undulating moves that lengthen the spinal column and This eight-week course will cover some of the following dances: strengthen the abdominal muscles in a gentle way. Sometimes Hustle (Disco), Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango and Swing. By the end of belly dancing is all the therapy you need! $135 the course, you will have the confidence to join your friends on 305-Mon 8:15-9:15 pm the dance floor. Dances covered are at the discretion of the Ridge Sch Cafeteria instructor and depend on the interest and ability of the class. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 Couples only. $150/couple 307-Wed 8-9 pm Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm English-American Historical Social Dancing 8 Sessions Starts Mar 6 (17th-19th Century) Steve Tichenor & Janice Wolk Ballroom Latin Dancing Join us to learn and practice some of the dances that were Lestat popular from the Playford era to the Victorian era in Europe This eight-week course will cover some of the following dances: and America. Have fun dancing some of the Regency era Samba, Mambo/Salsa, Rumba, Cha Cha and Merengue. Dances dances seen in movies made from the famous Jane Austen covered are at the discretion of the instructor and depend on books. All skill levels welcome. The instruction is informal the interest and ability of the class. Couples only. $150/couple 306-Wed 7-8 pm because the more experienced dancers will work along with the Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm less experienced ones. No costume or wardrobe required for 8 Sessions Starts Mar 6 these practice sessions. Upon registration, you will be given a comprehensive calendar for the year and you will be placed on Adult Ballet an email list that will keep you informed on any changes or updates. Cancellations could occur due to out-of-town re- AOM Faculty This ten week course will include an introduction to classical enactments involving some of the members and other school ballet technique. The hour-long class will begin at the barre and closings. There are usually no makeup sessions. The fee is for move to center floor exercises and across the floor work. the rest of the school year. $50 Emphasis will be placed on proper alignment, fundamentals of 300-Fridays 8-9:30 pm technique and musicality. Ballet slippers are required and dance Somerville Sch Basement Cafeteria attire is preferred. $160 Ongoing Starting Mar 8 For the True Beginner/Fundamentals of Ballet 317-Fri 12:15-1:30 pm 10 Sessions Starts Mar 8 For Intermediate/Advanced 320-Wed 10-11:30 am Register in 2 minutes using your Visa or Mastercard 10 Sessions Starts Mar 6 (201) 670-2777 https://register.communitypass.net For Intermediate/Advanced 321-Fri 10-11:30 am 10 Sessions Starts Mar 8 Art of Motion Studio, 17 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood 16 Dance & Movement

Pilates, Yoga & Floor Barre Lynn Needle & AOM Faculty These classes incorporate Eastern and Western philosophies to work the body in its entirety. Yoga, (eastern) integrates asanas, proper alignment, mental focus, breathing and flexibility as well as learning to stabilize and strengthen muscle groups. Western disciplines, such as Pilates and floor barre exercises seek to maximize understanding, endurance and toning of the body. Mat work designed by Joseph Pilates at the turn of the century emphasizes principles of opposition, lengthening of muscle groups and isolation of body parts. Classes vary from mat classes to ball class, which includes center floor work on a large Pilates stability ball. Therabands and yoga bricks are used as teaching tools. Mat work is eventually taught at the ballet barre and developed into standing work. Floor barre exercises include simple plies, leg extensions, hip and abdominal isolations as well as a back strengthening series. Classes focus on strengthening the body as an instrument. Please bring a yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing. Some classes may feature guest faculty from AOM and NYC. $160

For All Levels/General Fusion-Ball/Prop Modern Adult 303-Mon 9-10 am 313-Tues 9-10 am 324-Tues 10-11:30 am 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 10 Sessions Starts Mar 5 10 Sessions Starts Mar 5

Cardio/Hip Hop - All Levels Fusion-Ball/Pilates Core Restorative Yoga/Meditation 301-Fri 9-10 am 318-Thurs 9-10 am 302-Mon 7:30-8:30 pm 10 Sessions Starts Mar 8 10 Sessions Starts Mar 7 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4

Classes meet at Art of Motion Dance Studio, 17 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood.

Finance, Investments and The Law

How to Buy a Car at Dealer Cost IRA’s – How to Distribute Your Money and Avoid Rick Feingold the 50% Tax Penalties Stop being hassled when you shop for a car. Learn about Amy Harrison hidden incentives such as factory-to-dealer rebates and The IRA distribution law has changed. This revised course holdbacks that enable dealers to sell their vehicles at dealer teaches anyone who has an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), TSA or qualified invoice or less. Savvy consumers use the internet to force pension plan what MUST be done to plan for its distribution. If dealers to bid for their business when buying a car--you can, things are set up improperly, it can cost you needless and too. We will discuss how to find sources of FREE info on expensive taxes. You will learn everything you need to know in dealer invoice costs, how to make an offer, negotiating by order to make an informed decision. You will learn how to optimize your distribution and how to telephone and the internet, selling/trading in your present car, minimize income and estate taxes. We will also discuss and controlling the negotiations. Included is how to locate beneficiaries, spousal IRA rules and whether you should take professional buying services to represent you at the bargaining advantage of the new Roth IRAs. You will learn how to make table. $35 your IRA last a lifetime – or find out if it is more advantageous 370-Thurs, Apr 4 7-9 pm for you to move your money out quickly. If you are RHS Rm 212 contemplating retirement or are retired then this course is for One Session you! $30 364-Wed, Apr 10 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 208 One Session

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Medicare Made Clear Creating a Social Security, Estate & Tax Planning 50+ Harris R. Reinstein, 50+ Medicare and 50+ Michael A. Manna MBA, CLU, ChFC, AEP Long Term Care Strategy This course is designed to acquaint Are you turning 65? Are you leaving your Amy Harrison, CFP individuals with the value of a employer after age 65? Have you just Social Security reaches almost every professionally drawn will, the necessity of moved to the area? You may be wondering family and, at some point, will touch the a financial power of attorney and the key about your medicare health insurance. If lives of nearly all Americans. Knowing the provisions of a living will/medical power of so, this course if for you. We will discuss facts about Social Security, Medicare and attorney. Seniors are also often totally how medicare works, how you get long term care planning is a prerequisite unaware of taxes that may be due to the medicare, and what it costs. You will learn for making informed decisions that will fit state of NJ or the federal government on about parts A, B, C and D for New Jersey. into your overall retirement strategy. their death. Most elders believe that You will also learn what is not covered. We Topics covered will include: How much of estate taxes are being phased out and are will discuss when you can sign up and your current income might Social of no concern. In many cases this is true when you can change plans. You will leave Security replace? When should you begin - but, few know that New Jersey has an with all this information accompanied by taking benefits? How can working during inheritance tax that can be as high as 16% printed information from the government retirement affect your benefits? Will you and is NOT being phased out. This tax is with phone numbers to call and websites be taxed on your benefits and, if so, how imposed on the estates of people who to visit for more information included. $30 much? What does Medicare cover? Do I have no spouse or children and leave the 352-Wed, Apr 10 7-9 pm need a Medigap policy and why? What money to other family members or RHS Rm 234 are the local long-term care costs and friends. The estate tax law now gives most One Session how can I protect my spouse if I need people an opportunity to reduce or long-term care? There will be time for eliminate capital gains taxes. Methods to Trusts and Gifting questions. $30 per family reduce these taxes as well as the pros and Michael A. Manna 361-Thurs, Apr 25 7-9 pm cons of gifts and gift taxes will also be New Jersey is the number one most RHS Rm 208 discussed. $30 per family expensive state in which to die. It has the One Session 357-Thurs, Apr 25 7:30-9 pm highest death taxes of any state in the RHS Rm 213 country. New York runs a close second. One Session Coincidentally, there is a huge opportunity Retirement Boot Camp to save New Jersey and New York estate for Boomers Elder Law Amy Harrison, CFP taxes, in the right situation, by making Michael A. Manna 50+ Are you ready for a retirement that could gifts. This course is designed to help Seniors are often without basic legal last over 30 years? This 3-night individuals understand how they can documents that they need to control their workshop will help you answer the properly make gifts in order to save personal and financial lives as well as their questions that keep you up at night. significant taxes. $30 per family medical care. They are also often totally Topics will include: How do I create an 353-Thurs, May 2 7:30-9 pm ignorant of various government programs income stream once I no longer have a RHS Rm 206 that are available to pay for their home paycheck? Can I even retire or do I have One Session care, prescription drugs, and nursing to work part-time? Do I understand my home care. This course is designed to current investments, including my Little-Known Secrets acquaint individuals with the value of a 50+ 401(k)/403(b) and are they appropriate of Paying for College professionally drawn will, the necessity of for my goals?? Do I have the correct Hugo X. Carvajal, a financial power of attorney and the key amount and type of insurance? What The College Funding Coach provisions of a living will/medical power of estate planning documents should I This workshop will instruct parents on attorney. Eligibility for medicare, medicaid have? This seminar will be taught by a navigating the often confusing and and managed care programs will be CFP, a CPA an Estate Planning lawyer and anxiety producing prospect of paying for explored in detail. The drastic changes to a psychologist who will also address the college. During the workshop, we take medicaid rules (particularly the penalties emotional aspects of retiring. You will families through three distinct parts of for making gifts, the new five year look obtain the knowledge needed to address the college funding process: why and how back rule, grandfather provisions) brought your key areas of concern, how to to create a funding plan, qualifying for about by the Deficit Reduction Act of improve your financial outlook and how need based aid and the process and ideas 2005 will be discussed in detail. New to make better financial decisions as you for how to manage the costs and create Jersey’s excellent prescription drug approach and enter your retirement liquidity for those who will not qualify for program (PAAD) for seniors will also be years. Workbooks may be purchased for financial aid. $20 per family discussed. $30 per family an additional $20 paid to the instructor 363-Tues, Mar 19 7-9 pm 360-Thurs, Mar 21 7:30-9 pm at the first class. $50 per family RHS Rm 208 RHS Rm 213 367-Thurs 7-9 pm One Session One Session RHS Rm 208 3 Sessions Starts Mar 28

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Beginner/Intermediate Knitting Creating Fine Silver Jewelry for Beginners Emily Abramenko Terry Kovalcik In this class, you will learn the basic skills to knit just about This beginner’s workshop will explore the seemingly endless anything. Topics will include casting on, knit stitch, purl possibilities of creating silver jewelry with Precious Metal stitch, ribbing, increasing, decreasing and binding off. You will Clay. It will introduce you to the different types of PMC (lump, learn how to read a pattern and calculate your gauge. These sheet and paste) in an easy step-by-step format. Topics basic skills will prepare you to start a simple project and you’ll covered will include: working with the clay, creating forms, be on your way to a relaxing and enjoyable hobby. A knitting carving, molding, texturing, firing, oxidizing, and polishing. kit is recommended and is available from the instructor at the Participants will explore these techniques with an eye toward first class for $25. Enrollment is limited. Intermediates will finding their own voice and style through a choice of projects work at their own pace. $115 - pendants, hollow forms, decorative beads, constructed forms and earrings. PMC is a unique jewelry making material. 426-Wed 7-9 pm This user-friendly product is a malleable substance that is RHS Rm 139 composed of fine silver particles in an organic binder. It can 8 Sessions Starts Mar 6 be sculpted and manipulated like potter’s clay. After firing in Intermediate/Advanced Knitting a kiln, all that is left is your unique design in pure (.999) silver. Materials fee* is payable directly to instructor at class. Emily Abramenko *Depends on price of silver Please note: Precious Metal Clay Are you ready to start a sweater, a pair of socks, or any other (PMC) is based on the market price of silver which fluctuates daily. intimidating project? Bring your pattern and supplies and get Due to the continuing rise in the price of the silver, the price listed here help with the tricky bits. Our instructor will explain the parts may not accurately reflect the current price of the material. Prices may you need clarified, help you correct any mistakes you might end up being higher or lower. At the time of this printing, the cost of make and discuss advanced knitting concepts as time PMC materials for this class is approximately $92-$100. $160 permits. You can also just enjoy knitting individually alongside 411-Mon 6:30-9:30 pm other progressing knitters. $115 BFMS Art Rm 428-Mon 7-9 pm 8 Sessions Starts Mar 4 BFMS Library Creating Fine Silver Jewelry–Level Two 8 Sessions Starts Mar 11 Terry Kovalcik This is an intermediate level fine silver jewelry class. The Beginner/Intermediate Knitting prerequisite for this workshop is attendance at a prior class in Michelle Kupfer silver metal clay jewelry. If you have attended one of Terry’s In this class, you will learn the basic skills to knit just about introduction to silver jewelry classes or a metal clay class with anything. Topics will include another instructor, this class is for you. We’ll continue to casting on, knit stitch, purl explore the unique qualities of silver metal clay, while stitch, ribbing, increasing, constructing more complicated three-dimensional, hollow form decreasing and binding off. You elements. Learn how to combine your silver jewelry with a will learn how to read a pattern splash of color to finish your designs—work with UV resin, and calculate your gauge. These basic skills will prepare you polymer clay inlays, glass paints, or Aura 22. Each project will to start a simple project and you’ll be on your way to a be made more complex by combining many of the techniques relaxing and enjoyable hobby. A knitting kit is recommended learned in prior workshops with an aim to help bring your work to the next level. *Please note: Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is and is available from the instructor at the first class for $25. based on the market price of silver which fluctuates daily. Due to the Enrollment is limited. Intermediates will work at their own fluctuating price of the silver, the price listed here may not accurately pace. $130 reflect the current price of the material. Prices may end up being higher or 429-Tues 10-11:30 am lower. At the time of this printing, the cost of PMC materials for Ed Center 2nd Floor Conference Rm this class is approximately $96-$110. Aura 22 is an optional 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 cost and also fluctuates with market conditions. All participants are required to pay a $25 bench/kiln fee for consumable Intermediate Knitting Workshop materials, firing supplies and colorants, payable directly to the Michelle Kupfer instructor at the start of the session. $160 This workshop is for those knitters who already know the 412-Tues 6:30-9:30 pm basics like how to cast on, knit and purl. Students will have RHS Rm 138 the opportunity to work independently on their knitting 8 Sessions Starts Mar 5 projects, guided by the instructor, and with moral support from the fellow knitters. Bring a project of your choice. Enrollment is limited. $130 430-Tues 11:30 am-1 pm Ed Center 2nd Floor Conference Rm 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 (Due to space constraints, participants in classes held at the Education Center are asked to park in the metered lot.) 19 Handcrafting

Crochet for Beginners Sensational Stained Glass Bobbin Lace Making Adele Ellis Patty Vangieri, www.glassgallerynj.com Mayra Petretti Never picked up a hook? Come and learn If you ever wanted to learn the classic and Bobbin lace is an old type of handwork. A how to crochet - it’s easy and fun. In this beautiful craft of stained glass but had no few simple stitches lay the foundation for class you will learn the basic stitches, how idea where to start, this is the class for you. the most intricate lace. Even the simplest to read a pattern and how to make simple As a beginner, you will learn the patterns can be used for clothing, place afghans, scarves and granny squares. The fundamentals of laying out a pattern, using mats and wall hangings. Supply cost is $20. Tunisian stitch will also be taught and this tools, cutting glass, foiling and soldering $95 requires a special hook, called an afghan while creating a simple suncatcher. You will 405-Tues 7-9 pm hook. This hook will be available to then move on to a larger (up to approx. RHS Rm 191/291 purchase from the instructor and the cost 10”x15”) flat panel project of your choice. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 will be between $3-$10. Please bring a Please bring safety glasses and an apron or 404-Wed 9:45-11:45 am hook in size G or H and a ball of light work shirt to the first class. Additional Ed Center 2nd Floor, Conference Rm colored worsted weight yarn to the first cla supplies will be discussed the first night of 9 Sessions Starts Mar 6 ss. $95 class. Approximate cost of materials is $95. 407-Thurs 6-7:30 pm $160 Learn to Sew RHS Rm 138 424-Tues 6:30-9:30 pm Vivian Burns, www.soyoustudio.com 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 RHS Rm 194 In this class, students will learn how to 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 work with a commercial sewing pattern to Crochet is Fun create a garment or two (depending on Adele Ellis Stained Glass II your sewing ability and speed) from start Crochet is everywhere! Come and learn Patty Vangieri, www.glassgallerynj.com to finish. Please bring your sewing everything you need to know to make a This is an open workshop for those that machine and a Kwik Sew Pattern for a great gift for someone or something have already taken Stained Glass 1 and garment of your choosing. This garment special just for you. Learn how to make a would like to work independently, but in a must be for yourself. Fabric choice will be chain, new stitches, change yarn colors group environment. Branch out to new and much more. The class will include the discussed at the first class. Sewing projects such as lamps, a large flat panel, machines will be available for those who Tunisian stitch which requires a special cement stepping stones or 3-D pieces like do not have one. $115 hook, called an Afghan hook. This hook will jewelry boxes and candleholders – the 401-Mon 7-9 pm be available to purchase from the choice is yours! Material fee can range instructor ($3-$10). Please bring a hook in widely, depending on your choice of BFMS Cafeteria size G or H & a ball of light colored yarn. project and glass selection. Class size is 6 Sessions Starts Mar 4 Don’t forget to bring in your project (if you limited. $160 have one) to work on with the guidance of 425-Wed 6:30-9:30 pm Candle Making the instructor and encouragement of fellow RHS Rm 194 LaShonda Tyree crocheters. This class is for both beginning 9 Sessions Starts Mar 6 With candles being used in 7 out of 10 and continuing students. $95 households, there is no wonder why 400-Mon 7-9 pm The Art of Rubber Stamping everyone wants to learn how to make BFMS Parent Center/Library them. In this 2 hour hands on class Deirdre Mastrangelo 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 students will learn to craft custom candles Come join the fun! You’ll learn to make using soy and coconut waxes. Topics beautiful, hand-stamped cards using a 410-Thurs 7:30-9:30 pm covered will include: choosing the correct variety of techniques. No prior craft RHS Rm 138 wick, selecting appropriate candle experience is necessary to enjoy this class. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 containers, using colorants, safely making Supply fees are paid to the instructor at candles, picking the right wax, properly use the beginning of each class. fragrance, melting and pouring at the Series cost is $65, individual classes correct temperature and sourcing are $20 each. ingredients. A materials fee of $15 is 418-Rubber Stamping Series payable to the instructor at class. $30 Cards I $20 419-Tues, Apr 9 7-9 pm 413-Wed, Mar 20 Supply fee $13 RHS Rm 148 Cards II $20 One Session 416-Wed, Mar 27 Supply Fee $13 Cards III $20 408-Wed, Apr 3 Supply fee $13 Cards IV $20 422-Wed, Apr 10 Supply Fee $13

All Rubber Stamping classes will meet in RHS, Rm 191 from 7-9 pm. 20 Handcrafting Chalk Painting 101 Create Your Own Natural Skincare NEW! JoAnne Paul & Laura Rottino, Vintage Fusion LaShonda Tyree Restorations With over 16 years of experience making natural soaps and This is the perfect getting started class if you are new to painting cosmetics, La Shonda will teach and guide you on how to make or just need a refresher. This class includes 3 hour hands-on your body products or at least make you more aware of what you instruction using chalk painting methods and techniques. This are putting on your skin. Take control of what goes on your skin workshop will ensure that the students acquire a strong from head to toe. Over the course of three weeks, you will learn knowledge of how to use paints and brushes, stains. We will also the basics of how to make your own soap, lotion, body scrubs, review preparation of paint, custom color matching, finishing bath fizzies, bath salts, facial masks and bath teas in this techniques, antiquing, distressing, etc. We will also discuss ways hands-on DIY class. We will cover the theory behind each to enhance furniture with stencils, gilding waxes, etc. In addition, application and then put it into practice making each product we will discuss places to find great pieces and can provide color from raw natural skin loving ingredients such as coconut oil and consults for those with specific pieces in mind. All supplies for shea butter. A $40 material fee is payable to the instructor at the the make-and- take project are included in the fee. $90 first class. $75 402-Mon, Apr 1 6-9 pm 423-Tues 7-9 pm Vintage Fusion Restorations, RHS Rm 148 11 Paterson Ave, Midland Park, NJ 3 Sessions Starts Mar 5 One Session 403-Sat, Apr 27 12-3 pm You can make great gifts in our Vintage Fusion Restorations, 11 Paterson Ave, Midland Park, NJ handcrafting classes! One Session (Due to space constraints, participants in classes held at the Education Center are asked to park in the metered lot.)

Ridgewood Makerspace Athena Kornemann & Neil Valere Do you love to tinker, experiment, build, fix, take apart, investigate, invent, and/or craft? Then the Makerspace is for you! The space will be your workshop, craft room, or lab. It is your home away from home, where you can take classes or come to meet others with similar interests, or those who can help to expand your skill set and collaborate on new and exciting projects! You will have access to all of the machines, tools and technology we offer such as micro-controllers, 3D printers, power tools, woodshop equipment and more! Stand-alone classes will be offered for an additional fee (reduced fee for members) in topics such as: 3D Printing, Crafting for adults, Family Craft Night, Woodshop Basics and a Repair Café. If you are interested in participating, volunteering or learning more, please contact [email protected]. This program is made possible with a grant from Age Friendly Ridgewood and the support of the Ridgewood Education Foundation. Take advantage of the reduced prices while we are grant funded! $40 for a regular membership and $20 for seniors. Use of the woodshop requires an additional payment of $10, and students will need to pass a skills test.

Regular Membership $40 Wood Shop Pass $10 Adult Crafting Skills 409-Mon 6-9 pm 433-Mon 6-9 pm April 29, 7-8:30pm RHS Rm 198A RHS Rm 198A 440- Regular $20 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 441-Member $10 Senior Membership $20 Intro to 3-D Printing Woodshop Basics 434-Mon 6-9 pm March 18, 7-8:30 pm April 29, 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 198A 431-Regular $20 442-Regular $20 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 436-Members $10 444-Members $10 Family Craft Night Repair Café – April 8, 5-9 pm April 1, 7-8:30 pm Free to all participants 432-Adults $20 435-Children $10

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Hula-Hooping for Beginners Release Your Stress ~ Marina Bardash Introduction to Personal Clearing Techniques Hula-Hooping is a great way to strengthen, tone, and build Lois Kramer-Perez CHt. your whole body stamina. Working out with the hoola-hoop is Are you tired of carrying extra weight on your shoulders? Are you unique among all other exercises. It requires concentration in ready to finally learn how to release your stress? What if I told order to keep the hoop in rotation. You simply can’t have you that you could immediately find relief from the stresses of your mind elsewhere as you go through the abdominal and the environment we live in today? Are you ready to stop allowing aerobic workout. It is aerobic exercise but also relaxation at situations that you can’t control to control you? Learn simple the same time. The repetitive motion is very soothing to the personal clearing techniques and you will find that you are now nervous system. It is a fun workout for the body and the moving from victim to victor. Through breathing, visualization, anchoring and guidance, even the most active minds are mind. Bring your own hoop or buy a collapsible one from the surprised to find ease by clearing the self. The moment we begin instructor at the first class for $45. $135 changing our patterns through choice, we can respond to events 459-Mon 7:15-8:15pm over which we have no control. Each participant receives a Ridge Sch Cafeteria recording of the meditation portion for future relaxation. No 9 sessions Starts Mar 4 meditation experience is required. Bring a pillow to make your Beginner’s Running Program seat more comfy. $30 484-Wed, Mar 20 7-8:30 pm Linda, Ferraro, North Jersey Master’s Track and Field Club RHS Rm 232 Improve your fitness and train to run a 5K in this popular, One Session non-competitive 8- week program. No experience is required, new and returning runners are all welcome. We want you to experience Hypnosis for Weight Loss the joy of running and to make it a permanent lifestyle. Individuals A Healthy Mind For a Healthy Body will be coached by a certified USATF and RRCA running coach and Lois Kramer-Perez CHt supported on their journey by former graduate If you are ready to change your eating patterns and are tired of volunteers. You will receive weekly training feeling stuck, you know the time to act is now! It is always easier to schedules, regular e-mail communication and lose weight when we have a partner. What you may not realize is running “homework” that will help you to that your partner is already there waiting for instructions. Our best partner is our subconscious. Hypnosis is the perfect way to progress at your own pace and to be successful connect with our subconscious - enlisting that part of ourselves to in crossing the finish line. Enrollment fee also help. In this class you will experience a relaxing hypnosis session includes special guest experts (typically in using guided imagery and suggestions to support healthy eating to nutrition, running mechanics, and injury prevention), a t-shirt, race attain the results you desire. You will also learn self-hypnosis entry to the Ridgewood Memorial Day Run and a one- year techniques to support your new behavior. Each participant will membership to the North Jersey Masters Running Club. Please receive the recording of the class session for future use. $30 include your e-mail with registration. For more information go to 469-Wed, Apr 10 7-8:30 pm https://njmasters.com/beginner-program/ or e-mail c25k@ RHS Rm 232 njmasters.com. You may also call 201-540-9701. $90 One Session 464-Wed 9:30-10:45 am Say Hello and Know! Introduction to Face Ridgewood Duck Pond, 1133 East Ridgewood Avenue, Reading Techniques Ridgewood Lois Kramer-Perez, CHt. 8 Sessions Starts Mar 27 Learn your unique elemental style based your archetype: Thinker, Groundbreaker, Transformer, Supporter or Diplomat. Begin 465-Sat 9-10:15 am operating with your natural strengths through understanding and Glen Rock Duck Pond,149 Alan Ave, Glen Rock knowledge. Face Reading Techniques teach us how best to 8 Sessions Starts Mar 30 communicate by understanding not only our own inherent style Fun with Crystals but how to recognize that in others - in an instant! What would Lois Kramer-Perez CHt. you say if I told you that you could understand how to Do you find yourself drawn to crystals, rocks or sparkling things? communicate with anyone on their terms just looking at their face! Lois Kramer-Perez, CHt., Certified Feng Shui Practitioner, takes you Know the significance of ears, nose and mouth, size and shape. on a journey with crystals - from using them for meditation, and What do the eyebrows reveal? How about the ears? The shape of a manifestation to understanding about tumbled, raw, and faceted hairline and the lines on the face also tell a story. Learn these Face crystals and crystal clearing. Learn about Crystal Grids: What they Reading principles and you will never look at faces the same again! are and how to create them for various purposes. Each participant $35 will receive a special crystal plus a personal crystal message. $30 485-Wed, Apr 3 7-9 pm 479-Wed, Mar 27 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 232 RHS Rm 232 One Session One Session

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Arthritis, Balance and Fall Prevention Exercise Meditation - Beyond Mindfulness Program Dharmachakra Buddhist Center Mary Lee Costello We would all like to become more centered and peaceful. Does arthritis pain or fear of falling prevent you from participating Mindfulness is essential; it is used and developed through in the normal activities of daily living? You’ll be surprised to learn meditation. But meditation shows us that mindfulness is just the that this class, with an emphasis on flexibility and balance, also beginning to discovering lasting inner peace. Go beyond incorporates all the recommended movements from the Arthritis indfulness. Learn to meditate. All are welcome. No prior Foundation. Using popular music from many decades and easy eperience necessary. $80 motions, makes the class totally fun! It will uplift your spirits and 476-Tues 7:30-9 pm enliven your muscles. This informative class will help those with RHS Rm 116 rheumatic or musculoskeletal arthritis enjoy a more active 4 Sessions Starts Mar 19 lifestyle while improving overall health. We also target range of motion, muscular strength/endurance, cardio endurance, Zumba Gold Beginners – neurobics and relaxation techniques. Class will include some Toning arthritis inspired Tai Chi exercises. A guided meditation is Mary Lee Costello conducted at the conclusion of each class. Participants are Why include weight-bearing activity with an already unique, offered both seated and/or standing options. In this group stimulating calorie-burning Zumba class? Besides the step-by-step exercise class you will also use light weights, rubber resistance instruction using every muscle in your body, you will learn how to bands, flexible balls and more, while smiling to the music. After a build bone density and strength by working against gravity to class or two, you will be inspired and feel better. Please wear improve tone, balance and endurance. The lightweight toning supportive footwear and bring water and a set of 1 lb. hand-held sticks are a cross between hand-held weights and maracas and are weights (optional). Instructor will provide the additional assistive optional for the class. Whether you choose to use the lightweight equipment. After a few classes you should notice a reduction in toning sticks or just your own resistance, you will experience an pain and stiffness, notice increased flexibility and develop effective, low-impact approach that utilizes not only the lower strategies to improve balance, confidence and feel like a new body with activities such as walking and dancing, but also upper you! $130 body resistance training that works your shoulders, back and arms. 481-Wed 6-7 pm The class is very similar to the Gold Beginners class, but is BFMS Rm 135 designed in a circuit training format to balance the cardio and 9 Sessions Starts Mar 6 strength training for maximum “exercise in disguise” results. The music selection is always the student’s favorite part of the class Zumba Gold Beginners – for Adults of ALL and the choreography fuses many genres such as merengue, salsa, Ages reggaeton, cumbia, bachata, tango, flamenco, dancehall, kizomba, Mary Lee Costello pop, rock & roll and fun themes. The instructor provides props Do you love music? Would you like to dance without feeling and laughter to help burn the calories. The class is taught with self-conscious? Lose yourself in the most influential movement modifications to raise or lower the heart rate so that adults of ALL in the fitness industry and find yourself…in shape. Safely and ages on the journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle can successfully effectively tone your body and burn calories in this beginner participate and benefit. The weights cost about $20 and are class, while dancing to Latin and International music including available to purchase from the instructor at class. Enhance your Merengue, Salsa, Cha-Cha, Cumbia, Belly Dance, Flamenco, Pop, workout and strengthen your muscles and bones. Contact Rock ‘n’ Roll, Bachata, Tango, Samba, Bhangra and theme instructor for more info or with any questions at (201) 661-0365 or classics. This class in designed to emphasize the basics, taught [email protected]. $115 step-by-step to achieve confidence, perfect for those who are 453-Thurs 7-8 pm new to fitness or are returning after a long time, who may not be BFMS Rm 135 able to keep up in a high-energy class; or who have limitations 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 that need to be addressed with modifications. Please wear comfortable work-out clothing and flat soled sneakers (not running shoes) and bring water and a small towel. The smiles, laughter and props are on Mary Lee. The party is about to begin – she will be waiting for you! Contact instructor for more info or with questions (201) 661-0365 or [email protected]. $115 471-Tues 6:30-7:30 pm BFMS Rm 135 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5

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Three Steps to Long-lasting Pain Relief Intro to Qi Gong – Movement, Meditation, Self- Tyler Ardizzone Massage and Breath-work to Improve Health Do you have chronic pain? Isn’t it so confusing? Your doctor, and Energy physical therapist, and surgeon all seem to be saying different Karen Livanos-Centauro things and nothing is providing long-lasting pain relief. The Learn about the Ancient Chinese practice of Qi (Chi) Gong (Kung). reason why nothing is working is because chronic pain is a Qi Gong is a system of exercises, meditations and breath-work complex issue with many different causes that are unique to the practices, combined to improve & harmonize the flow of “qi” (life person that is in pain. Two people can have the same pain for force energy) within the body. Qi Gong is easy to learn, non- the same period of time with the same amount of joint damage, strenuous and doesn’t require a lot of room to be performed. Qi but the same approach will not work for both of them. During Gong can increase your physical strength and flexibility, enhance this course, we will make the complex topic of pain into a simple mental function, and aid in the reduction of stress. During the and reversible issue. We will do this by understanding the reason two classes, you will be introduced to several medical Qi Gong why the body creates pain, learning how to relieve your aches forms of slow, flowing movements, meditation, self-massage, and and pains, and exploring how you can continue the progress on breath sequences to help improve your health and energy levels. your own. $30 Wear comfortable clothing and sneakers to partake in gentle Qi 477-Thurs, Mar 28 7-9 pm Gong exercises which can be done standing or sitting. Please also RHS Rm 205 bring water and eat lightly before class. $60 One Session 478-Wed 7-8:30 Inflamed! Are you tired of being tired? RHS Rm 212 Rena Esposito, LMT, CHC 3 Sessions Starts Mar 20 NEW! Do you know that inflammation in the body is the Gentle Yoga basis of all diseases? Come and learn steps to take Joan Tarrant to reduce inflammation and bring back optimal health and This course will be a gentle yoga class with a special emphasis on energy. Understand how you can reduce inflammation with the problems of people with arthritis or other joint/ mobility issues. simple steps utilizing nutrition, supplementation and lifestyle The goal will be for participants to become more flexible and changes which will help manage or prevent many diseases and prevent them from experiencing a loss of function in body parts. illness and increase your energy. $30 They will also experience an alleviation of pain. The class will 455-Thurs, Apr 4 7-8:30 pm consist of a series of yoga asanas (poses), which have been RHS Rm 202 modified and adapted to the participants’ needs. Chairs will be One Session used for people who have difficulty using the floor. Pranayama (breathing exercises) will be incorporated into the class, to reduce Introduction to Astrology stress and ease pain. This class is not appropriate for pregnant Dawn Dittmar women. Please bring a mat or towel to class. There will also be a Did you ever wonder what the guided meditation in every class. $130 ancient people did before the 456-Thurs 10-11am invention of the television? They Unitarian Society Fellowship Room waited until nightfall, studied the 8 Sessions Starts Mar 14 moon, the stars and the planets Yoga for Deep Relaxation and began to realize that when Mary Ann Gebhardt Hermes Trismegistus said “As The practice of yoga quiets the mind and releases tension while above so below,” he wasn’t developing strength and flexibility in the body. Sessions will include fooling. Astrology is still the breath work, posture practice, meditation and relaxation. This ultimate reality show. Whether you’re new to astrology or a class is designed specifically for the novice. Students should dress returning student, take that next step, go “Dancing with the in comfortable, layered clothing and bring a yoga mat and large Stars” and discover what the stars and planets might be towel or blanket. This class blends yoga and ayurveda. $100 saying to you! A practical approach is emphasized for use as 482-Wed 7:30-8:30 pm a springboard to future study. A $5 materials fee is payable Orchard Sch Cafetorium to the instructor at class. $110 8 Sessions Starts Mar 6 458-Wed 7-9 pm RHS Rm 230 8 Sessions Starts Mar 13

24 Health, Personal Growth & Wellness Why Weight American Heart Association Heartsaver NEW! CPR/AED Course NEW! A Weight Loss Support Group Richard Van Der Wall David Spiegel Heartsaver CPR/AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that Why Weight is a personal growth weight loss support group teaches CPR for adults, children and infants, AED use and how to designed to provide a safe, supportive and nurturing environment relieve choking in adults, children and infants. This course teaches for individuals dealing with weight issues. In this group we will skills with the AHA research-proven practice-while-watching explore the keys to unlocking the doors to the secrets of leading technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, a happier, healthier life as well as how to deal with the challenges provide feedback, and guide the student’s learning of skills. This of weight issues on a daily basis. $90 course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who need 451-Mon 7-8 pm a course completion card for CRP for job requirements or just for BFMS Rm 110 personal reasons. Upon completion of the course, students will 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 be issued a CPR certification card valid for 2 years. $85 473-Thurs, Apr 25 6:30-9:30 pm Confused About Food and Nutrition? RHS Rm 215 NEW! Learn Fact from Fiction One Session Rena Esposito, LMT, CHC Are turmeric, coconut oil and fermented foods good for you? What American Heart Association Heartsaver First is the difference between GMO and organic? Should I eat gluten? Aid NEW What about dairy products? We’ll discuss healthy foods and Richard Van Der Wall superfoods and help you differentiate fact from fiction. Learn what Heartsaver First Aid is a video-based, instructor-led course foods are good for increased energy, healthy aging and weight loss that teaches students critical skills to respond to and NEW! as we separate fact from fiction. $30 manage an emergency in the first few minutes until 457-Thurs, Apr 11 7-8:30 pm emergency medical services arrives. Students learn duties and RHS Rm 202 responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical One Session emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, Natural Ways to Care for Your Health Using including external bleeding, broken bones, sprains, bites and Essential Oils stings. This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who need a course completion card for First Aid for job Sharon M. Wolbert requirements or just for personal reasons. Upon completion of This is an interactive lecture with a hands-on “Make and Take” the course, students will be issued a First Aid certification card component, where participants will each select an essential oil valid for 2 years. $85 and make a remedy to take home with them. Topics covered will 474- Thurs, May 2 6:30-9:30 pm include: what essential oils are, where they come from and how RHS Rm 215 they are sourced to insure that they are pure and effective. One Session Participants will get a chance to experience different essential oils, learn what they are used for, and the different methods of American Heart Association Heartsaver application. Included in the materials fee, each participant will CPR/AED & First Aid Course select an oil to help with a particular health problem (for instance Richard Van Der Wall NEW! diffi-culty sleeping, fighting off colds, or decreasing headaches), This course is a blended learning course that combines the two individual courses at a cost savings. See the individual and make a roller bottle to take home with them for their use. course descriptions for curriculum information and details. $140 Educational hand-outs will be given and there will be time for 475-Thurs 6:30-9:30 pm questions to be answered. A materials fee of $12 is payable to RHS Rm 215 the instructor at class. $30 2 Sessions Apr 25 & May 2 472-Thurs, Mar 28 7-9 pm RHS Rm 215 One Session

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Singing Bowls for Acu-Yoga Zen Stretch and Healing & Relaxation Mary Ann Gebhardt Meditation Mary Ann Gebhardt & Joan Tarrant Acupressure is an ancient NEW! Aliza Rosen Singing bowls are used in yoga, music healing art that dates back A stretch class is like a therapy, and sound healing. They are to China more than 5,000 good massage that lasts also played to signal the beginning and years ago and has been shown to affect for days. This class the end of silent meditation. Like a bell, the body by way of meridians (energy starts with a the tone is produced by striking the pathways) located throughout the thorough and easy to side of the bowl with a wooden mallet. body. The benefits of gentle yoga learn stretch routine that anyone can do By running the mallet around the bowl movements are known to improve and finishes with a modern meditation - only with slight pressure - a pure tone balance, strength and flexibility. that relaxes the mind and clears mental will eventually rise. When this happens, Acu-Yoga is a way to combine the two anguish. The specific stretches are for the bowl is said to sing. Tibetan singing into one practice. The class will the meridians or energy pathways of bowls vibrate and produce a deep explore art of pressing on pertinent the body. The benefits are improved relaxation, the singing bowls are also acupressure points while maintaining a respiratory function, better digestion, used in combination with other healing yoga pose. Tibetan Singing Bowls will blood circulation, improved immune practices, such as meditation and deep be played during relaxation. Bring a system, loosening the joints and it breathing. This class will be deeply yoga mat and a blanket to class. $30 improves the mind-body connection. relaxing, starting with gentle yoga 486-Mon, Mar 25 7-8:15 pm Get in touch with your body, release stretches, followed by listening to the BFMS Rm 135 stress and unwind your mind with an healing tones of the bowls. More One Session easy stretch class. No fitness or information about the bowls will be flexibility is required. Wear comfortable discussed. Mary Ann & Joan will have clothes. Bring a yoga mat. This class is over 50 singing bowls. Bring a yoga for all levels. $115 mat and a blanket. $30 467-Wed 7-8 pm 462-Mon, Apr 1 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 116 BFMS Rm 135 6 Sessions Starts Mar 20 One Session

Jazzercise Rose Pasek, Instructor/Franchise Owner & Staff • www.jazzercise.com • [email protected] Jazzercise is the world’s #1 dance-fitness program. Through a unique collaboration, participants will enjoy UNLIMITED CLASSES for nine weeks, thats over 110 opportunities to work out! No previous dance experience is required and no matter what your fitness level, you will see results while you have fun. In Jazzercise you will find all ages, shapes, sizes and fitness levels. In other words, you’ll see people just like you. Instructors will demonstrate both challenging movements and low-impact variations. Each 60-minute class offers a blend of jazz dance and exercise choreographed to today’s music. Easy to follow, fun choreography includes a gentle warm-up, 30-minute aerobic workout, muscle toning and strengthening segment with weights, and a stretch finale. These classes are on-going and are for students of all levels. Wear loose, comfortable clothing (i.e. bike shorts, regular shorts, and jazz pants with a workout top or t-shirt) and cross-training athletic shoes. Bring a towel or exercise mat and a non-breakable water bottle with a lid. Please arrive 15 minutes early to your first session. Come as often as you like. Schedule is subject to change. Check website for updates. 452-Mar 4 - May 18 $129 for unlimited classes SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT 9 am 9 am 9 am 9 am 8 am 4 pm 6 pm 7 pm 6 pm 7 pm

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Working with an Architect on Downsizing Made Easy How to Gain Closet Clarity an Addition, Alteration or New Lisa Sammataro, Zahavi & Schwartz House Project KW Village Square Realty Is your closet a mess? Did you recently Donald Rubin Are you considering downsizing to a clean it out, and now find you want to Working with an architect to plan and smaller home, a senior-living community totally re-structure it so it’s more prepare for an alteration/ addition or a or moving across the country? Are you efficient and easier to find things in your new house project is a straightforward overwhelmed by your accumulated wardrobe. Learn how to create/maximize and logical process and can be a very possessions or just don’t know how to space in your closet, and then get the comfortable and enjoyable experience. make your home more appealing to best recommendations for how to This course will take you through the today’s younger buyers? Come and learn continue to care for the clothing stored steps involved to realize a successful the most profitable de-cluttering, in there. We can help you reduce your project. Some of the topics discussed will organizing and staging tricks that will stress in the morning, give you an be finding an architect, planning the reduce the stress of your move and net organization system that works for you, project, preparing the construction you more money. $30 and help you lengthen the life of your drawings and specifications, zoning and 505-Thurs, Mar 21 7-8:30 pm clothing. $40 zoning variances and the construction RHS Rm 213 509-Wed, Apr 10 7-8:30 pm phase. Examples of drawing and other One Session RHS Rm 240 illustrative materials will help to clarify The Capsule Wardrobe: Learn One Session the process. $30 How to Purge and Build a 508-Wed, Mar 20 7:30-9:30 pm Minimalist Wardrobe RHS Rm 215 Zahavi & Schwartz One Session Are you tired of looking in your closet and Buying Your First Home thinking you have nothing to wear? Do you feel overwhelmed with the amount of Lisa Sammataro, Register in 2 minutes using your things you have, but are still never able to KW Village Square Realty Visa or Mastercard find anything to wear? Learn how to purge Buying your first home doesn’t have to (201) 670-2777 https://tinyurl.com/ items from your closet, take inventory, and be daunting. In this class you will learn organization/tracking tricks on how to y9g5khze about financing options, common rookie maintain your closet/wardrobe after. financing mistakes, how to choose the Learn the essentials of how to build a right community for you, and how the capsule wardrobe at any price point. In home-buying process works. Learn the this class we will review quality standards, secrets that will make your home search why quantity is not always the best way to fruitful and fun. $30 shop, and the essential basic items, that 511-Thurs, Mar 28 7-8:30 pm work with any personal style, and create RHS Rm 213 the perfect wardrobe. $40 One Session 512-Wed, Apr 3 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 240 One Session Languages

Sign Language I ESL - English as a Second Language Carl Andreasen Catherine Chriss Learn the fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL). Students are Students will develop basic communication skills in English. introduced to spelling, grammar, exchanging personal information and The students will be tested at the first class to determine level talking about family, friends and activities. This course is designed for and confirm placement in the group. This class is not for those with little or no knowledge of ASL. $125 beginners and students must be able to read English. Text

571-Thurs 7-8:30 pm book will be discussed at first class and the cost may range RHS Rm 217 from $15-$30. $235 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 552 - Tues & Thurs 9:30 - 11 am Education Center 2nd Floor, Small Conference Rm 14 Sessions Starts Mar 5

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Students are asked to purchase the text listed under each description and bring it to the first class. Texts range from $16-$40. Please contact the RCS office for more complete text information. If there is nothing listed under the description, no text is required. Intro to Japanese Culture Intermediate Conversational Italian French III and Language Angela Maniaci Isabelle LeLuc Yasuko Hansen For returning students and new students who have This is a conversational class that will cover Class will teach you basics including daily been introduced to Italian whether in an academic various topics such as current affairs, culture, expressions, pronunciation, questions, or lifestyle capacity (e.g. Italian family background sociology, history, etc. This is a class for counting and culture. $135 or the workplace). It is recommended that new advanced students and it requires a high level of students participate in telephone/email evaluation 573-Tues 7-8:30 pm oral French and French conversation. $135 with teacher before registering. Please provide RHS Rm 216 558-Mon 7-9 pm email address. $125 BFMS Rm 126 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 569-Tues 7:30-9 pm Text: Genki I: Elementary 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 (Used is Suggested) RHS Rm 213 Text will be discussed at class 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 Japanese II Text: Italian Made Simple Beginning Irish Akemi Thompson Advanced Conversational Italian Bob Burke This class is for those who have already taken a Designed to develop the basic skills of listening, Angela Maniaci beginner course or have some knowledge. $135 speaking and writing Irish. Will include brief We will continue to focus on building vocabulary 574-Tues 7-8:30 pm discussion of history, customs and culture. $130 and strengthening conversational skills. We will 575-Mon 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 202 continue to cover Italian history, culture and 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 BFMS Rm 108 traditions. One segment will be based on 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 Text will be discussed at first class. ‘Conoscere l’Italia’ with excerpts from the textbook “Oggi In Italia.” It is recommended German I Irish II that new students participate in telephone Bob Burke Irene Fortunato evaluation with teacher before registering. $135 This is for those who have already taken a Learn to read, write and carry on basic 572-Wed 7-8:30 pm beginner course or have some knowledge. $140 conversations in German. $140 RHS Rm 213 576-Mon 8:30-10 pm 563-Tues 7-8:30 pm 9 Sessions Starts Mar 6 BFMS Rm 108 RHS Rm 248 Text: Read & Think in Italian by the Editors 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 of Italy Magazine Text will be discussed at first class. Spanish I French I Julian Garcia Russian I Alain & Martine Chahine An easy approach to learning the basics with Irene Fortunato For the beginning student. Students will learn proper pronunciation and structure. $110 everyday expressions which may be helpful Learn to read, write and carry on basic 577-Tues 7-8:30 pm when traveling to a French speaking country. We conversations in Russian. $140 RHS Rm 226 564-Tues 8:30-10 pm will cover greetings, salutations and basic conversations. $115 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 RHS Rm 248 Text: Spanish Made Simple 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 556-Wed 7-8:30 pm Text will be discussed at first class. RHS Rm 216 Spanish II 9 Sessions Starts Mar 6 Julian Garica Italian I Text: Panorama De La Langue: This class is for those who have already taken a Angela Maniaci Francaise Niveau Level 1 beginner course or have some knowledge. $125 For beginners who want to be introduced to Italian French II 578-Tues 8:30-10 pm in order to develop listening and speaking skills in RHS Rm 226 basic situations such as meeting and greeting Alain & Martine Chahine 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 people with greater ease when in Italy or with For students who already have a basic Italians in your lives. Some history on culture and knowledge of French. Students will learn about Text: Spanish Made Simple traditions will be introduced. $110 conjugating verbs in the present tense along 568-Tues 6-7:30 pm with nouns in order to create short sentences to RHS Rm 213 use in conversation. Real life situations like 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 ordering food will be discussed. $125 Text: Italian Made Simple 557-Thurs 7:30-9 pm RHS Rm 216 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 Text: Panorama De La Langue: Francaise Niveau Level 2

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Pre-Intermediate Bridge NEW! Bridge Deadly Defense NEW! NEW! Instructor: Amy Nellissen, The Instructor: Amy Nellissen, The Bridge Introduction to Mah Jongg Bridge Table Table Barney Gallassio Here’s your chance to learn the Do you make the most of your high This class will teach you how to play Mah Stayman, Blackwood and Jacoby cards when you defend? Tune up your Jongg. It is aimed at beginners with little transfer conventions considered de opening leads. Learn to work with your to no experience in the game. There will rigueur for social bridge players. Stay partner to take more tricks as a be no more than 8 participants in the after class to practice with your new defender. class so you will get individual and bridge friends. Tuition is $200 if paid by Mar 29 hands-on instruction. By the end of the Tuition is $200 if paid by Mar 29 and $215 after Mar 29. 5th class (each one is 2 hours long) you and $215 after Mar 29. 658-Mon 10 am – 12 noon will be able to play the game with 654-Thurs 1:30-3:30 pm Westside Presbyterian Church, confidence. You will receive the current Westside Presbyterian Church, DePhillips Hall, 6 Monroe St year’s official Mah Jongg card ($9 fee for DePhillips Hall,6 Monroe St Ridgewood this card is payable to the instructor at Ridgewood 8 Sessions Starts Apr 8 the first class). This is a wonderful game 8 Sessions Starts Apr 11 that is both challenging and fun. Come learn this exciting game with us! $120 660-Thurs 7-9 pm RHS Rm 230 4 Sessions Starts Mar 21

Hiking in Harriman State Park Hiking in the Local Mountains Harold Petzold Harold Petzold Come and enjoy three progressive, scenic hikes in bucolic Enjoy interesting hikes with an experienced hike leader. Actual Harriman State Park. Specific hikes will be chosen by instructor hikes will be chosen by the instructor (based on group ability) and based on group ability. Please dress in weather-appropriate will be in the Highlands/ Harriman area with locations in Sterling outdoor clothing and hiking boots. Bring rain/ wind gear, 1 to 2 Forest and Norvin Green. Please wear weather appropriate quarts of water, snacks and a lunch. Hikes are on Sundays from 9 clothing and dress in layers. You must wear hiking boots and bring am – 2 pm. Group will meet at the Copper Tree Mall in Oakland 1-2 quarts of water and a snack. Hikes will take place on three at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $60 Sundays from 9 am-2 pm. Group will meet at the Copper Tree 669-Sun 9 am-2 pm Mall in Oakland at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $60 3 Sessions Mar 24, Apr 7, Apr 21 663-Sun 9 am-2 pm 3 sessions Mar 17, Mar 31, Apr 14 Outdoor Navigation Harold Petzold Hiking the Appalachian Trail If you have always wanted to understand how to read an outdoor Harold Petzold map and use a compass for finding your way in the woods, this is Enjoy the day hiking along the Appalachian Trail. We will travel on the course for you. Learn to interpret terrain, estimate distances, the “AT” along the Bearfort Ridge between Route 17A and the New negotiate obstacles and follow bearings. Students are advised to York State Border and from the top of Mount Peter to the New dress appropriately in long pants and shirts and sturdy boots. York/New Jersey border. This is a through hike (starts and ends in Compass and instructional materials will be provided by instructor different locations) along a portion of the Appalachian Trail. Bring for in-class use. Bring rain gear, lunch, snacks and 2 - 3 quarts of sturdy hiking boots, weather appropriate clothing, snacks and water. Group will meet at the Copper Tree Mail in Oakland at the lunch, a minimum or 2 quarts of water, rain/wind gear and personal back end of the Staples parking lot. $50 first aid items. Group will meet at 8:30 am the Copper Tree Mall in 668-Sat, Apr 6 9 am – 1 pm Oakland at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $40 665-Sat, Apr 27 9 am – 1 pm 655-Sun, May 5 9 am – 2 pm One Session One Session

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Nature Walk Travel Practically with Style Harold Petzold Zahavi & Schwartz “Shinrin-yoku” can be defined as taking in the forest atmosphere Do you always over pack? Is your suitcase typically overweight? Do or forest bathing. Closely linked with the human evolutionary you wonder how people always look so stylish and relaxed on process, it is a walk in nature, for its therapeutic effects. Those who vacation? This class will teach you the best practices for compact spend time in the woods experience lower levels of cortisol (which packing, how to only pack a carry-on, what items to pack for a induces stress), a lower pulse rate, lower blood pressure and stylish adventure and nine reasons why it’s okay to over pack if healthier blood sugar levels. It has now become a recognized you are organized about it. After this class, you will always be relaxation and/or stress management activity in Japan. Join us as prepared and will look great while you travel. Join mother-daughter we unwind and enjoy the natural beauty of our areas forests. stylists, Zahava & Orly for a fun night to learn how to figure out Please wear weather appropriate clothing and dress in layers. You what to pack for where you are going. $40 must wear hiking boots and bring 1-2 quarts of water and a snack. 651-Wed, Mar 20 7-8:30 pm Group will meet at the Copper Tree Mall in Oakland at the back RHS Rm 240 end of the Staples parking lot. $30 One Session 652-Sat, Apr 13 9 am-12 noon One Session Personal Style at Any Age for Every BODY Zahavi & Schwartz Collectible Automobiles as a Passion Ever wonder how your neighbor always looks effortless and chic all Bob Austin, Burton Hall, and Fred Hammond at once? Ever want to be adventurous, but back out because Whether you own a collectible car or not, this series of 9 sessions you’re worried what people will think? Take the time to work with a is for anyone who enjoys special interest automobiles as a hobby personal stylist to get the equation to great personal style. You will or a passion. This course will explore the world of special interest learn the five components of a great outfit and step into style with cars…cars you do not need but would love to own. While the the ask a stylist section of the class. For ask a stylist, bring 1 to 2 emphasis will be on the decades from 1940 to 1979, this does not items of clothing or accessories to find out if you should keep it, fix mean that older classics and newer cars will be ignored. The class it, or get rid of it. Learn how to break all the rules and look good will begin with an assessment targeted to identifying the car or doing it. $40 family of cars that best suits each class member’s interest and abilities, Drawing upon the considerable experience of the 671-Wed Mar 27 7-8:30 pm instructors, as well as guest speakers, and class members RHS Rm 240 themselves, each class will afford a journey through aspects of the One Session collectible car hobby including: what car suits you, guidance on buying a collectible car, sources of valuable car related information and presentations focusing on the automobiles of specific decades. Other topics will include appraising, financing, insuring and registering, electronic communities and more. $110 656-Thurs 7:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 248 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7 Coastal Navigation United States Coast Guard The topics covered in this class will include: the tools of navigation, the use of nautical charts, chart symbology, aids to navigation like GPS and chart plotters, avoiding hazards and using landmarks. We will also cover boating publications and boating apps. Additional topics will include tides, winds and current, using the radio in an emergency situation and how to operate under limited visibility and adverse conditions. $100 653-Tues 7:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 292 7 Sessions Starts Mar 5

30 Leisure & Personal Time How to Succeed in the Online Dating World Life on Wheels: Vacation or Live in a Motor Michelle Frankel Home This class will focus on the five most important tips on how to win Steve Fowls while not getting frustrated or exhausted using online dating tools. From a humorous (but informative) standpoint, learn how We will also cover the differentiation between traditional online a motor home can replace a beach, lake, or mountain home dating sites and modern dating Apps. We will discuss what photos or better yet, replace them all. This class presents an overview of are winners, how to write your “about you” profile and how to lifestyles available to those who would like to see the USA ensure your algorithms are optimized for success. Finally, we will at one’s own pace in a house on wheels. The instructor and go over how to write emails that get responses! $30 his wife own a motorhome and reside in it 2 to 4 months per year. 657-Tues,Apr 2 7-9 pm $30 per family RHS Rm 205 670-Wed, May 1 7-8:30 pm One Session RHS Rm 205 Fun with Crystals One Session Lois Kramer Perez CHt. Do you find yourself drawn to crystals, rocks or sparkling things? Lois Kramer-Perez, CHt., certified Feng Shui Practitioner, takes you on a journey with crystals - from using them for meditation, and manifestation to understanding about tumbled, raw, and faceted crystals and crystal clearing. Each participant will receive a special crystal plus a personal crystal message. $30 479-Wed, Mar 27 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 232 One Session

Liberal Arts, Music & General Studies Beginning Guitar Intermediate Guitar Cyndi Avedon Cyndi Avedon Enjoy playing this versatile instrument. Folk, classic rock, For those who know basic chords and would like to improve country and contemporary songs will be taught along with their skills and meet other players. Guitars may be rented by basic chords, strums, blues & rock bass patterns and scales. calling the instructor at (201) 391-2073. A materials fee of $2 Guitars may be rented by calling the instructor at is payable to the instructor at the first class. Ukuleles (201) 391-2073. A materials fee of $2 is payable to the welcome! $130 instructor at the first class. Ukuleles welcome! $115 717-Mon 8:30-9:30 pm 715-Mon 7:30-8:30 pm BFMS Rm 115 BFMS Rm 115 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4

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Writing for Profit Just Write An Evening with MT Schwartzman Gwendolen Gross Strunk & White There is nothing more thrilling for a If you have been meaning to write M.T. Schwartzman writer than pitching an idea, selling the more, but just can’t get started, come You probably remember Strunk & White story, seeing it in print or posted on the to weekly writing practice sessions from high school or college, but do you internet, and getting a check. Find out designed for all levels of writers. We’ll know who the authors were? Come join from a pro how to tell stories based on review the fundamentals of writing freelance writer and Strunk & White practice (including keeping your pen your personal experience or aficionado M.T. Schwartzman as we moving and you’re free to write the learn all about their famous book “The professional experience. Classes will world’s worst junk) and then get right to cover how to come up with original Elements of Style.” From the history it. There will be several stimulating behind Strunk & White to its most ideas, how to find the right outlet for writing topics each session, discussions enduring lessons on grammar and your story, and how to write a story of craft and writing process and a punctuation, this is an evening that’s proposal. $75 chance (but not a requirement) to read sure to be fun and informative. Bring 117-Thurs 7-9 pm the fresh work aloud. You’ll go home your copy of “The Elements of Style” RHS Rm 234 each week with ideas for where to (4th Edition recommended) and go 5 Sessions Starts Mar 14 continue. Perfect for jump-starting a home a better writer! $30 work-in-progress or generating new 672-Thurs, May 2 7-9 pm material. Please bring a notebook and RHS Rm 234 pens or pencils. For both new and One Session continuing students. $150 659-Mon 1-2:30 pm Ed Center 2nd Floor Conference Rm 6 Sessions Starts Mar 4

Joy of Singing The Glenn Miller Band – Music Eugene Papay that Inspired the Troops NEW! Do you find yourself always singing a Rick Feingold tune in the shower? Well, come out of Glenn Miller was America’s RCS Gift that shower and share your talent with best-selling recording artist from 1939 to Certificates other like-minded singers. Join this fun 1943, leading one of the best known big class to explore singing with and for bands. Residing with his family at the other people like you. Solo singing is Cotswold Mansion in Tenafly, NJ his band part of the course. This is not just a played many dates in New Jersey and sing-a-long. Along the way you will pick New York. Once World War II began he up some hints on better vocal production gave up a lucrative stateside career and through correct breathing, good phrasing toured Europe with his band entertaining and an even sound. The teacher will the troops. The program combines a provide live accompaniment to enhance lecture with movie clips of Jimmy Stewart make a great the songs. $105 in The Glenn Miller Story. $25 gift for that 714-Mon 7:30-9 pm 664-Thurs, Apr 25 7-9 pm BFMS Rm 101 RHS Rm 212 hard-to-shop-for 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 One Session person! Call (201) 670-2777 for more information.

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Art Talks NEW! China: Teaching, Traveling and Traditions Roger Davidoff Michele Gordon Seven presentations, each on a great artist as selected by Many Westerners have strong and often negative images of China popular vote! Please join us as we explore the lives and and the Chinese. Michele spent two years teaching English in rural masterpieces of Raphael, Breugel, Rubens, Ingres, Manet, Degas China and can provide a realistic image of life in China. Using slides and Warhol. Their achievements in Western Art will be highlighted and materials brought back with her, she will discuss life in the and presented in selected examples, as we experience and classroom and on the road, as well as the customs and culture of examine their styles and breakthroughs. $125 this fascinating country. Students taking this course will gain a 701-Thurs 7:30-8:45 pm deeper understanding of life in China and the Chinese. It will help RHS Rm 240 to demystify this mystifying country, and to break the stereotypical 7 Sessions Starts Mar 14 image that we, as Americans, often have of the Chinese. Students will learn about the traditions and customs, to understand symbols, Musictalks: The Art of Small colors, ceremonies and mannerisms. They will also learn about the NEW! educational system and life as a teacher and student. For those Roger Davidoff working with Chinese students in the US, it will be helpful to Ever wonder why certain composers were successful in understand their background to help with their adjustment to composing their masterpieces in LESS time, not more? How come Chopin could do it and Mahler couldn’t? Join us for seven studying in the US. $60 per family presentations, filled with masterpieces by a wide variety of great 702-Tues 7-9 pm composers who kept it short, brief, and to the point! We will hear RHS Rm 206 and discuss selected musical pieces that are famous for being 3 Sessions Starts Mar 26 succinct, saying just exactly what their creators wished, without going on and on … (with apologies to Mahler, we will hear none Grammar Lion: A Grammar Refresher of his music during this course!). $125 ***ONLINE COURSE*** 661-Tues 7:30-8:45 pm Ellen Feld RHS Rm 240 Everybody writes. Now, boost your knowledge of English grammar 7 Sessions Starts Mar 12 to write better. Gain new tools. Experience results. Write with new strength. Explore the basics of English grammar—like parts of speech and punctuation—and more advanced concepts—like The Miracle Mets of 1969 – 50th syntax and wordiness. Comprehensive. Effective. Fun. Get lots of Anniversary NEW! practice with quizzes and dynamic activities. Learn on your Rick Feingold preferred schedule, from the comfort of your home, office, or An Amazin’ year it was! Join us as we share memories and stories favorite cafe. Wherever you are, your personal instructor will guide of the 1960s Mets from their 1962 humble beginnings as the you. Technology essentials: internet access, email, computer worst team in baseball to their triumphant 1969 season as World (recommended over mobile device). Questions? Contact the Champions. Featured are Amazin’ Manager Casey Stengel, Hall instructor directly: [email protected]. of Famer Tom (Terrific) Seaver, World Series MVP Donn Two options, same course content: Clendonon, and fan favorite Tug McGraw + the broadcast team of Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy. The teacher is a Start Date : Mar 4 life-long Mets fan. $25 716-Go at your own pace to complete your course in 670-Wed, Apr 24 7-9 pm 4 to 12 weeks. Tuition: $150 RHS Rm 212 718-Get in the fast lane to complete your course in One Session 14 days! Tuition: $89

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Volleyball (Co-Ed) Power Volleyball League Bob Livingstone Bob Livingstone, Men and women have an opportunity to have fun, exercise, socialize and keep in www.ridgewoodvolleyball.com shape. All classes are co-educational. Both skill levels have a warm up skill drill Here is an exciting opportunity for in the beginning of each class. After the start of the classes, instructors may competitive, co-ed teams to play one recommend class changes to keep groups ability-compatible. $85 another. There are two nights available, Tuesday & Thursday. Each night has a BEG/INTERM 9 -10:30 pm round robin schedule followed by 898-Mon Starts Mar 4 playoffs. Each team must field a co-ed 899-Wed Starts Mar 6 roster at all times. Interested teams or 9 Sessions RHS-Gym #1 single players looking to possibly join an existing team can e-mail Bob at ADVANCED 9-10:30 pm [email protected] or stop by either night 900-Mon Starts Mar 4 for further information. 901-Wed Starts Mar 6 League starts Apr 2 9 Sessions RHS-Gym #1 Fee is $550 per team.

Fencing for Children Gr 1-5 Fencing for Children Gr 6-12 Fencing for Adults Maksim Zaitsev Maksim Zaitsev Maksim Zaitsev This class is designed to introduce This class is designed to introduce This class is designed to introduce students to the exciting sport of students to the exciting sport of adults to the exciting sport of fencing. Often called a physical game fencing. Often called a physical game fencing. Often called a physical game of chess, fencing develops endurance, of chess, fencing develops endurance, of chess, fencing develops endurance, coordination, agility, poise and balance. coordination, agility, poise and balance. coordination, agility, poise and balance. In addition to the physical aspect, it also In addition to the physical aspect, it also In addition to the physical aspect, it also develops concentration and problem develops concentration and problem develops concentration and problem solving skills. This class will include solving skills. This class will include solving skills. This class will include warm-up games, footwork, agility and warm-up games, footwork, agility and warm-up games, footwork, agility and coordination development, fencing coordination development, fencing coordination development, fencing instruction, bouts and fencing games. All instruction, bouts and fencing games. All instruction, and bouts. The featured necessary equipment is provided. $150 necessary equipment is provided. $150 sword is the Epee. All necessary 855-Mon 4:30-5:30 pm 853-Mon 5:30-6:30 pm equipment is provided. $150 The Arena 859 Route 17, Paramus The Arena 859 Route 17, Paramus 852-Mon 6:30-7:30 pm 7 Sessions Starts Mar 4 7 Sessions Starts Mar 4 The Arena 859 Route 17, Paramus 7 Sessions Starts Mar 4 *An additional fee of $10 is to be paid to the instructor for insurance with USFA.

Golf – The Full Swing Basketball RCS Instructor John DiCostanzo This class covers the entire full-swing. Bring a 7-iron to the Full court basketball played for the fun of it. Participants first class. Students will be responsible for driving range golf should bring a white shirt and a dark shirt to all classes. ball fees. Golf ball fees depend on the size of the bucket the $60/one night; $115/two nights student chooses. $110 850-Tues 9-10:30 pm 860-Wed 7-8:30 pm BFMS Gym Location TBA 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 5 Sessions Starts Apr 3 851-Thurs 9-10:30 pm BFMS Gym 9 Sessions Starts Mar 7

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Encore Music Studio: Private Instrumental Lessons Gary Fink - Coordinator Through this program, you can study with an actively performing professional musician from the tri-state area – at an AFFORDABLE price! Lessons will give the opportunity for students of all ages to study an instrument. Please call for information regarding children in 3rd grade or younger. Lesson times will be arranged after school and in the evenings. Following registration, the instructor will contact students and a lesson time will be scheduled. The following instruments are offered this semester:

BRASS: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Baritone Horn; WOODWIND: Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone; PERCUSSION and STRINGS: Viola, Violin, Cello and Bass as well as Piano, Guitar, Jazz Improvisation, Music Theory and Voice. Lessons are 14 weeks or 7 weeks.

NOTE: When the artist/teacher cancels a lesson, that lesson will be rescheduled. Students may reschedule 2 lessons within the term. Most lessons are held at BFMS or GWMS. For further program information, contact Gary Fink between 10:30 am-1:30 pm at (201) 262-2237.

945 14 weeks, 30 min. lesson $470 945-7 7 weeks, 30 min. lesson $252 946 14 weeks, 45 min. lesson $638 Lessons start week 946-7 7 weeks, 45 min. lesson $378 947 14 weeks, 60 min. lesson $830 of February 4. 947-7 7 weeks, 60 min. lesson $504

If you register for a full 14 week session before Feb 8, you will receive an Early Bird discount of $25. When registering, please indicate instrument.

Learn to Sew Vivian Burns, www.soyoustudio.com In this class students will learn how to work with a commercial sewing pattern and a real sewing machine. All materials and the sewing machines will be supplied. Students will learn to sew a pair of pajama bottoms, a tote bag and simple skirt. For students in grades 3-7. $90 960-Mon 5-6:30 pm BFMS Cafeteria 6 Sessions Starts Mar 4

RCS also sponsors the Ridgewood High School Behind-the-Wheel Driver Education Program. For more information, contact the Program Coordinator Ron Knott at (201) 670-2700 x 20648.

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Fun With Art I Co-Ed Volleyball Clinic Ann Monton for Middle School Students Explore the fundamentals of art with step-by-step drawings that Bob Livingstone & Jaime Marzocchi include landscapes, cartoons, animals and many more Volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S. One of favorites. Enjoy working with the mediums of soft chalk the main reasons for its popularity is that you can have fun doing pastels, watercolors and paint. This class is a wonderful it almost anywhere – your backyard, on the beach or in a gym. introduction that will continue to enrich a child’s love for the Having the right techniques and skills will make the game more arts. A materials fee of $15 is payable to the instructor at the fun to play. Join us in this co-ed clinic/ workshop where we will first class. Assistant instructor John Monton will join the class if work on some of the basic skills, play lots of games and have fun. enrollment is sufficient. $105 This is for both boys and girls at any level of play. $80 — Grades K-3 — — Grades 5-8 — 951-Mon 4-5 pm 948-Mon 7:30-9 pm Somerville Sch Art Room RHS Gym #1 8 Sessions Starts Mar 4 9 Sessions Starts Mar 25 Fun with Art II Ann Monton Suzuki Violin Instruction Explore a more advanced level of the arts. Subjects such as Louise Butler landscapes, seascapes, sunsets, still life and animals may be Children learn to play using the Suzuki method. They can learn at drawn. We will paint with acrylic paint on canvas board and a very early age and find that playing an instrument can be fun. may enjoy other mediums as well. A materials fee of $15 is Classes are small (maximum 6 children) and each student receives payable to the instructor at the first class. Assistant instructor individual attention. Classes are 40-minutes and will be scheduled John Monton will join the class if enrol lment is sufficient. to begin between 3:30 and 5:30 pm. Parent attendance is Students may take both classes as they offer completely required at all lessons. Students must call Mrs. Butler directly for different lessons. $105 placement and scheduling prior to registering - (201) 652-1192. — Grades 3-9 — Beginners are being accepted this semester. $105 952-Mon 5-6 pm 949-Mon 3:30-6:15 pm Somerville Sch Art Room Somerville School Music Rm 8 Sessions Starts Mar 4 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 950-Thurs 3:30-6:15 pm Advanced Acrylic Painting Travell School Music Rm Ann Monton 10 Sessions Starts Mar 7 An advanced class for students who enjoy art. We will explore and develop painting skills. Individual and group instruction will be provided. Subjects such as flowers, landscapes, seascapes, sunsets, still life and animals will be provided. Students will be provided with canvas, acrylic paint and brushes. A materials fee of $25 is payable to the instructor at the first class. $135 — Grades 3-11 — 954-Thurs 5-6:30 pm Somerville Sch Art Room 8 Sessions Starts Mar 7

Girls High School Volleyball Bob Livingstone & Mauricio Garcia This clinic is designed for all levels of high school players who are looking to improve their level of play. Students will benefit from intensive drills, instruction and competition. We will emphasize a high level of individual skill development, which will include serving, jump serving, passing, setting, hitting, blocking and defense. $80 959-Wed 7:30-9 pm RHS Gym #1 9 Sessions Starts Mar 20

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RCS SAT Prep John Eichmann, English RCS Instructor, Mathematics The SAT has changed and this course will update you on those changes.This course will help to clarify the purpose, structure and use of the SAT test and will provide instructional material to develop the necessary skills in math and English. Math includes a brief review of arithmetic, algebra I, and geometry, with emphasis on intuitive solutions to problems and test-taking skills. English will stress techniques in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and types of reasoning, with an emphasis on how to complete the new essay portion of the exam. Additional test-taking and preparatory strategies will be discussed. Students will take sample tests, then we will grade them and go over strategies to improve their score. Students must purchase text prior to the first class. Please call the RCS office for title of current text. $150/one subject; $275/both subjects — ENGLISH — — MATH — 943-Tues 6:30-8 pm 944-Wed 6:30-8 pm 6 Sessions Starts Mar 5 6 Sessions Starts Mar 6 RHS Rm 217 RHS Rm 217

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37 Faculty Emily Abramenko, is an experienced knitter who has taught in educate as many parents as possible about the “Little Known a knitting store and loves to help her friends learn to knit Secrets of Paying for College” without going broke and disrupting their retirement plans. Carl Andreasen, has 20 years of experience teaching sign language. Alain Chahine,is a native French speaker and is married to a French speaker. He has constant contact with France. His Tyler Ardizzone is a licensed bodywork therapist and personal professional background is in International Logistics and Supply trainer with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science. He and he currently teaches that subject at Union County College as specializes in using NeuroMuscular Reprogramming, evidence- an adjunct professor. based movement therapy, and simple lifestyle modifications to relieve chronic pain. Pain relief is a simple process that does Martine Chahine, was born and raised in the Loire Valley of not require any miracle methods or magic pills. Chronic pain is France. She has a bachelor’s degree in French History. She has relieved when we address the many aspects that contribute to been teaching French to adults for more than 15 years. your pain and implement a pain-free lifestyle plan that is Mary-Lee Costello, is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of specialized for your needs. Technology in Apparel Design. She is certified both by AFAA as a group exercise instructor and by Zumba Fitness LLC as an Bob Austin, is the owner of Robert Austin Brand & instructor for Basic Levels, Gold, Toning and Zumba Kids and is Communications. Before starting his consulting practice, he CPR/AED certified. She brings Zumba joy to local schools, Relay was Global VP Corp Comm for Volvo Financial Services, for for Life, senior centers and developmentally disabled adults. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, and was Director of Marketing Communications for Volvo. Roger Davidoff, is a graduate of The Philadelphia College of Art / University of The Arts with a minor in Art History. He holds a Cyndi Avedon, BFA from Northwestern University, over BFA in Graphic Design; he has owned his own design consultant 35 years of experience teaching guitar to adults and children. firm since 1991. He founded an Art Appreciation Program for public school elementary students, and continues to give Phil Azzolino, President of Group Tours & Travel LLC has been lectures and museum tours at most NYC museums. In addition to escorting tours since 1984. During his 34 year career he has his comprehensive knowledge of Western Art History, he has also written and escorted over two thousand group tours studied Musicology at NYU’s Graduate School of Music, throughout most of North America and six continents. An specializing in Austrian / German music from 1750 through 1900. added advantage that Group Tours provides on most multi-day Dharmachakra Buddist Center, is a Buddhist meditation tours, is that Donna, Phil’s wife, also accompanies the group. center in northern NJ. They are dedicated to helping you find They are a perfect husband and wife team with dynamic happiness from within your own heart and real solutions to personalities and they provide additional personal attention to your problems through Budda’s advice. all passengers. John DiCostanzo, MA in Dental Technology, owns a dental Marina Bardash, is an experienced Yoga, Dance and Hula- laboratory in Bergenfield. He plays basketball as a form of Hooping Instructor. exercise. He has been playing for over six years. William Brown, artist, teacher and apprentice to John Osborne Dawn Dittmar, began studying astrology at her grandmother’s for several years. knee when she was 9 years old. She has also studied with Zoltan Mason and Jeri London. She continues to study at the Bob Burke, has been a student of the Irish Language for almost National Center for Geocosmic Research and the Astrological 30 years & has been teaching adults for the past 6 years. Society of Princeton. She has been teaching Basic Astrology to Adults at the Brookdale Community College since 2014. Vivian Burns, has been sewing since she was 8 years old. She John Eichmann, BS, certified NJ teacher, SAT preparation worked in the fashion business for 20 years as a buyer/designer specialist. before she began So You Studio in 2005. Vivian teaches sewing in after school programs, adult schools and for private Adele Ellis, was born in England. She learned to knit and students. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Berkeley College. crochet at school in domestic science. She returned to crocheting when her daugther was a brownie and a girl scout. Louise Butler, instrumental music teacher and performer in She enjoys the challenge of reading and learning new stitches. orchestras in the area. Rena Esposito, LMT, CHC, integrative health coach, owner of Hugo X. Carvajal, has been in the financial services industry Whole Body Balancing. www.BalancedWellnessSolutions.com since graduating from Boston University in 2008. He has always Rick Feingold, has more than 25 years of Community School had the passion to educate the small business owners in the teaching experience. He holds the designation of eBay community and families about the simple habits of saving for Education Specialist and has worked as a Performing Arts their financial future. Joining The College Funding Coach® as a Marketing Director and in marketing luxury automobiles. BA, in Regional Director in northern New Jersey has been a perfect History Rutgers University, MBA, Penn State University. His transition to educate parents on the many anxieties that come travel writing has been published in the Boston Herald and along with figuring out how to pay for college. His hope is to Christian Science Monitor. He has taught consumers how to get the best deals for over 25 years. 38 Faculty

Ellen Feld, has been an online grammar instructor for over 15 Rina Goldhagen, is a resourceful and imaginative Artist and years, with more than 40,000 students enrolled in her courses. teaching professional, having more than 20 years of experience. She holds a master’s degree in writing from the Johns Hopkins She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with an University and has taught college courses online and in the emphasis in watercolor, and in addition to being proficient in traditional classroom, including creative writing, developmental many other mediums, she is an excellent communicator. She writing, and English composition. Ellen has worked as a established the Art of Excellence Studio in 2004 as a private newspaper reporter and copy chief, personal essayist, website instruction studio for select clientele. In addition, she has reviewer, and writing coach crafted a 9-week Beginning Drawing class for the Adult Community School in Ridgewood in which she lays the Linda Ferraro, is a certified running coach and competitive foundation for successful drawing and challenges students runner who loves sharing her passion for the sport. She has to achieve more than they thought possible. been running for over 20 years and competes in every race distance from 5k’s up to the marathon. Michele Gordon spent two years as an English teacher in China through the British Peace Corps program called Voluntary Gary Fink, is the Director of Jazz and Percussion at Ridgewood Service Overseas. She taught at Zhaotong Teacher’s College in High School. He attended Eastman School of Music and William a small, rural town in the southwestern Yunnan Province. She Paterson Univ. He has an active schedule as a freelance also traveled throughout China. Michele has been teaching ESL percussionist and studio instructor. for many years and is currently teaching and managing the Mary Fitzgerald, APSD Certified Home Stager and Certified American English Program at New Jersey City University. She Home Stager Trainer. ASP Staged Homes Professional and formerly worked in various positions at Harvard University, licensed real estate associate. where she received a master’s degree in education. Lisa Fondo, is the owner of Persistence of Vision, LLC an Gwendolen Gross, an award-winning instructor and novelist, art-licensing agency established in 1990. The agency is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including Field represents artists and photographers. Ms. Fondo is also a Guide, Getting Out, The Other Mother, and The Orphan Sister. journalist who writes about licensed art and home décor Gwendolen’s newest novel, When She Was Gone (Simon & industry trends. Schuster, 2013) explores the disappearance of a teenager and the shadows and secrets of suburban life. She holds an BA from Irene Fortunato, experienced foreign language instructor. Has Oberlin college and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her taught in schools and adult education for over 20 years. website is www.gwendolengross.com. Russian native who visits the country often. Burton Hall, Burton Hall & Associates, LLC , has served the Steve Fowls, BA in Psychology, Political Science and Sociology, automobile industry since 1977 as a creative resource retired co-owner of Medical Equipment Sales & Marketing benefitting from considerable experience in the premium end of Company. He is a former professional photographer who now the business. His list of clients includes Audi, BMW, General shoots digital photos as a hobby. Motors, Ferrari, Ford, Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedez-Benz, Porsche, Michelle Frankel is a Certified Professional Matchmaker, Peugeot, Toyota and Volvo. Dating Coach and Founder of NYCity Matchmaking and New Fred Hammond, has over 25 years as a Public Relations Jersey Matchmaking. Our team focuses on personalized executive and automotive consultant and over 40 years in the matchmaking, strategic date coaching and online dating automotive industry with some of the most respected assistance. The majority of our clients are in NYC, NJ & CT, marquees on the premium and performance end of the however we have clients as far as Mexico and Israel. In addition automotive spectrum. to our presence in NYC, we have expanded in North Jersey with our office in downtown Ridgewood, NJ. Our clients are both Yasuko Hansen, has been an art student at Parsons School of men and women ranging in age from 24 to 70. Prior to joining Art and an art teacher in Japan. She taught at the Japanese the matchmaking industry, Michelle was a practicing attorney School in New Jersey for 16 years. She currently teaches at the and marketing executive. Michelle and her team love to assist High School Diplomats Program at Princeton University. singles so reach out for a one-on-one consultation. Amy Harrison, is a Certified Financial Planner and a Julian Garcia has almost 20 years of experience as a language Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. She specializes in wealth instructor and he speaks several different languages. He management strategies including retirement, estate, divorce, currently teaches adults at RCS and at Berlitz and education planning. Mary Ann Gebhardt, has been studying yoga for 25 years, is a Marize Helmy, Esq. graduated from Fordham University prior registered member of the Yoga Alliance 500 hours, and is a to attending Law School at SUNY Buffalo. She focused her Chopra Certified Instructor. She creates a non-competitive studies and clinical experience on various aspects of Family environment integrating movement and breathing. Mary Ann Law. Outside of academics, she dedicated her time to traveled to Nepal where she trekked and brought back beautiful philanthropic nonprofit organizations. She has worked for Tibetan Singing Bowls. Michael A. Manna & Associates, P.C. since 2006, prior to attending law school and is currently an Associate Attorney, practicing in the areas of Estate Planning, Elder Law, Real Estate, Guardianships and Estate Litigation.

39 Faculty Kim Hendrickson is author of the Tastefully Small™ cookbook Lestat, is a former Fred Astaire Dance instructor. He has over series, winner of two Florida Publisher’s Association gold 20 years experience as a Ballroom Dancing Master in New medals. She has catered for the New York Metropolitan Opera, Jersey, New York and California. the Penguin Repertory Theatre, The Bizarre Food Show, and Slangman’s World. She is a regular presenter at the World Tea Karen Livanos-Centauro is a RYT200 Yoga Teacher and has Expo, John Campbell Folk School, and at culinary events been teaching yoga since 2007. She has completed a Medical throughout the New York area. Kim teaches that good food is Qi Gong Training as a “The Healer Within” ™ Practice Leader. more than good taste; it’s the fun and joy of creating something Karen is also a Reiki II Practitioner and a Gate Energy Facilitator. beautiful and sharing it with others. She has been working with energy and healing modalities for Alex Ishkanian, has loved acting since his grade school days. over 20 years. A graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as Robert Livingstone, teacher/player and coordinator of well as Drew University’s theatre program, he went on to be a volleyball teams and league. young adult member of The First All Children’s Theater performing at The Kennedy Center. More recently, he has been Angela Maniaci, is an experienced Italian Language instructor seen in LINE as a member of the historic NYC 13th Street who has worked with area language schools for many years. Repertory Company. Locally, he has worked with The Bergen County Players in both plays and musicals. He is a member of Michael A. Manna, is an honors graduate from Boston College Creative Interventions, an educational improvisation ensemble. and Boston College Law School. His is a member of the National His continuous studies in acting, improvisation, and singing Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and is admitted to practice in have included work with Beryl Smith Durham, Barbara Feller, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts as well as before the Michael Barbary, HB Studios, and The Magnet Theater. He has Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Manna is a licensed authored many children’s musicals that tour schools through provider of mandatory continuing education for certified public the United States. accountants, certified life underwriters, certified financial Fran Kelley, MA, CPRW, SPHR, JCTC, SHRM-ScP, is a Certified planners and social workers. Mr. Manna has also served as a Professional Resume Writer and Job & Career Transition Coach faculty member of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal and has extensive corporate Human Resources and Education, not for profit organization dedicated to the Outplacement experience. Fran is a nationally published author continuing education of attorneys. and President of The Resume Works in Waldwick, NJ. Vincent T. Marchese, is a native of Paterson, NJ. He graduated Terry Kovalcik, has over 30 years of dedication to creative from Ramapo College of NJ with a BA in Cultural Anthropology. work in art. He received a Fine Arts degree in drawing and He has also taught history and photography for many years. His painting. Terry currently works as a freelance illustrator with an studio is located across from the Great Falls of the Passaic River emphasis on the children’s market. He discovered PMC in 1999 and he was involved with the redevelopment of the Historic and has been hooked ever since. He received Guild Certification in 2000 to teach others about PMC and became a District. Senior Certification Instructor in 2005. www.TerryKovalcik.com Jaime Marzocchi, RHS Volleyball Coach, Wellness Instructor. Lois Kramer-Perez C.Ht,,CHt., Intuitive Practitioner and Deirdre Mastrangelo, BS, Fordham Univ., MS Stevens Educator, Graduate of F.I.T, The Feng Shui Alliance School, Institute of Technology, is a demonstrator for Stampin’ Up! and Institute of Hypnotherapy and Wellness Institute. Lois certified a lifetime crafter. in Feng Shui and Hypnosis, and is a Board Member of International Feng Shui Guild. Lois is the go to expert when Evelyn McKinnon, has been teaching English at the GW you’re finally ready to receive passionate relationships, a Middle School since 2006. She has an MA in Teaching from peaceful home, and a life you love. She puts her 10+ years of William Paterson University. She is an avid user of technology feng shui energy clearing to work for realtors, divorcees, to enhance and streamline many areas of life. business owners, and moms running a busy household, to put them in the driver’s seat with their relationships and spaces. Ann Monton, NJ certified Art Teacher. You may have seen her guest appearances on the Dr. Joy Show and Family Today with Maria Mirkovitch. Lois is a sought after John Monton, has an art degree from Marymount speaker, expert, contributing author Breakthrough Results; and Manhattan College. creator of popular programs such as “Clearing Meditation Circle” and the “Feng Shui Jumpstart”. Lynn Needle, dancer, choreographer and master teacher. Tomohiro Kubo, is an experienced adult education instructor Amy Nellissen, is an ABTA Master Teacher – the highest level who works for a public school information technology department recognized by the American Bridge Teachers’ Association. She is an ACBL-accredited teacher and a Silver Life Master. Michelle Kupfer, has been knitting for 20 years. She has experience teaching both adults and children. Samuel A. Nutile, BS from Fairleigh Dickinson University, graduate work at Northeastern University and Public Speaking Training at Rutgers University. Former Vice President and

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Company Officer of a large public company. Extensive public Lisa Sammataro, is a Realtor Sales Associate and founding speaking engagements monthly to the Board of Directors, Partner at Keller Williams Village Square Realty in Ridgewood, taught company sponsored motivational sessions and was a New Jersey, specializing in residential properties with an guest speaker at trade show expositions. Currently a Lector at emphasis on downsizers and first-time home buyers. Lisa is a Our Lady of Mercy Church in Park Ridge. three-time recipient of the Five Star Professional award, an Eugene Papay, music teacher in Bergenfield for 30 years, honor held by fewer than 2% of real estate professionals, and musical director and accompanist for several regional opera achieved the NJ Realtors Circle of Excellence Award in 2014 and companies, organist, soloist and choir director, vocal coach and 2015. She holds the Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES), a accompanist. Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE) and Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) designations. For more information, Rose Pasek, is a certified jazzercise instructor and franchise visit http://BergenCountyHomeSearch.net. owner. MT Schwartzman, has been a full-time freelance writer JoAnne Paul & Laura Rottino are the owners of Vintage covering the travel industry for more than 25 years. During that Fusion Restorations in Midland Park. They are experienced time he has sold over 700 articles to magazines and websites in artists, designers, and teachers of custom painted furniture the US, Canada, England, Finland and Australia. He has nearly Mayra Petretti, has been working with Bobbin Lace for almost 20 years experience teaching adult education. 20 years. She has completed the assessment program from the Lace Guild (UK ). She teaches privately and also at the Joseph Scillieri, has a BA in Business Administration from Metropolitan Chapter’s Lace Day. She demonstrates lace WPU, and a Certificate of Culinary Arts from Bergen Community making at various festivals and historical homes. College. He has over 13 years’ experience in the food service industry and is an experienced adult education instructor. Harold C. Petzold, Licensed New York State Outdoor Guide. He has been leading hikes for more than 10 years. James Seawood is a New York based voice talent and teacher. He has brought his signature sound to commercials for a Joel Popadics’, paintings have been exhibited in solo and myriad of brands and organizations including Nike, Army West group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United Point, The City of Charlotte, Cholula Hot Sauce and MGM Las States. In addition, his work is in public and private art collections including the United Methodist Church, Ridgewood Vegas Casino. and the University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro. Mr. Britt Sikiric, graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Popadics is the recipient of numerous national awards. He is degree in Fine Arts/Painting. She has been an art instructor for an elected member of five art organizations and a signature children and adults for over 20 years. She has also done member of the American Watercolor Society. He has been scenic design for local theater companies, been a visual featured many times in AMERICAN ARTIST and THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINES. Mr. Popadics is a Past-President of the New merchandiser for various companies and did prop and scenic Jersey Watercolor Society. He is the education director and an design for the children’s television show “Steampipe Alley”. instructor at the Ridgewood Art Institute. He received a BFA Chuck Solomon, has been photographing sports, action and from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. To view his lifestyle for the past thirty-five years. A former staff photographer, watercolors on-line visit: http://www.watercolorpop.com as well as a current contributor, at Sports Illustrated; his Jason Porod has been a teaching in the Ridgewood Public photographs have appeared on the cover of that magazine more School district since 1999. He taught grades 3-5 at Willard than forty times. He is currently based in the New York/New Elementary School for 17 years, and is now teaching Math, Jersey area. Equally proficient at shooting action as well as Environmental Science, and STEM classes at both district portraits and picture stories, he is also the photographer and middle schools. Jason holds a Master of Science in Educational author of a series of children’s books. Chuck has received Technology degree and served for many years as a teacher numerous awards for his photographs including placement in technology coach. the prestigious POY competition and he has had an image Harris R. Reinstein, MBA, CLU, ChFC, has been assisting named by Sports Illustrated as one of the 100 greatest sports senior investors for over 20 years. He is a Registered photographs of all time. He was recently profiled in Adorama’s Investment Advisor with SagePoint Financial, Inc. prestigious Meet a Pro series. One of his pictures was also selected by TIME as one of the greatest World Series images in Aliza Rosen, Ohashiatsu Acupressure Therapist, LMT, Licensed history. Always a firm believer in the power and lasting impact Medical Diagnostic Sonographer (ARDMS), Licensed Massage of the still image; he has spent a good deal of his career and Bodywork Therapist, CPR certified and a member of the attempting to make memorable pictures American Bodywork and Massage Professionals. Aliza is an advanced graduate of the Ohashi Institute- studied with Master David Spiegel is a graduate of Trenton State University, a Wataru Ohashi. 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He is also a Historic English/American Social Dance with Steve Tichenor member of New Jersey Militia Heard’s Brigade, a Revolutionary- through the Ridgewood Community School for over 7 years. She War era re-enactment group, in which he has served in every serves as Secretary/Public Relations Liaison for the North River capacity from NCO to Unit Commander. He also makes special Historical Dancers, a historic dance troupe. Janice is also a appearances to public school classes speaking to students member of New Jersey Militia Heard’s Brigade, a Revolutionary regarding the Revolutionary War and 18th Century re-enacting. War re-enactment group, and of the American Friends of Tichenor’s interest in history is personal - both his maternal Lafayette, a historic and patriotic organization dedicated to the and paternal ancestors settled in New England in the early memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Aside from living history, 1600s. other hobbies include art and art history. 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He is have taken this knowledge and been perfecting our Closet listed in “Who’s Who in American Art” and ‘Who’s Who in Rehab & Style Transformations, to teach our method to the America.” His work was featured in the January 2007 issue of community, to help more people gain clarity, define their style, “The American Artist” magazine. The artist’s work is in private and get more organized. We look to empower men and women collections throughout the United States and abroad. To see through their wardrobe, so they always feel comfortable and Valenti’s work, resume and biography, go to his official website able to take on any challenge set before them. www.thomasvalenti.com. Maksim Zaitsev, has 27 years of fencing experience, Patricia Vangieri has been the owner of The Glass Gallery specializing in Epee. He started fencing at age of 9 in 1988 in Stained Glass Studio in Nutley, NJ for 24 years. She is an Tallinn, Estonia. 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He is highly Medeo Fencing Club, NJ 2011-2012, Ridge High School, NJ proficient in training and evaluation of emergency service (Women Epee Squad Champions, 2012) 2011-2012, Columbia qualifications within the state of New Jersey, criminal justice High School (State Champions for many years), Dana Hall High computer operations, and community affairs coupled with School, MA (Head Coach) 2004-2006 & Boston Fencing Club, incident command systems. Richard has been a certified CPR MA 2001-2004. Instructor through the American Heart Association for the past 10 years. Anne Winner, certified teacher and artist who has exhibited her work in a variety of media.

42 General Information You Should Know

The RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL offers to all citizens and taxpayers of Ridgewood, as well as residents of nearby communities, the opportunity to continue their education and pursue special interests. The school is administered through the office of the Superintendent of Schools and assisted by the RCS Advisory Council. Ridgewood residents who would like to be considered for the Council should contact Shelly Stanton, Coordinator.

RCS is an equal educational opportunity organization. It affirms its responsibility to ensure all students and all employees equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, ancestry, national origin, and social or economic status.

RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION ADVISORY COUNCIL Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D, Superintendent of Schools Board of Ed. Representative Antoinette Kelly, Lou Gallo-Mann Business Administrator/Board Secretary Lynn Larson Shelly Stanton, Coordinator, RCS Linda McNamara Anna Thomas-Candrilli, Registrar, RCS Susanne D. Ziskis

Schedule of Classes

Monday Tuesday Mar 4,11,18,25 Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 Apr 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Apr 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Ma 6, (13) May 7, (14))

Wednesday Thursday Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec 5, (12) Dec 6, 13, (20)

Friday Saturday Mar 8, 15, 22, 29 Mar 9, 16, 23, 30 Apr 5, 12, 19, 26 Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 My 3, 10, (17) May 4, 11, (18)

X - No classes on that date/schools closed Good Friday and Passover begins – April 19 Spring Recess – April 15-19 ( ) - Make-up date for canceled classes. Please note that these dates are pre-scheduled make-ups for the 9-week session. If your class is less than 9 weeks, the first available date after the end of your class will be used as the make-up date.

43 Where We Are

The RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL business office is located at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood. Most of our classes, however, are held in various schools & other facilities in Ridgewood. A few are held in other communities. Please check the course description of your particular course for the location of your class. All course descriptions give the location of the class. Below is a map of Ridgewood showing the Ridgewood locations only. If you need directions to your class in Ridgewood or any other location, please do not hesitate to call us (670-2777) and we will be happy to direct you.

CLASS LOCATIONS

Ridgewood Schools Other Locations in Ridgewood 1. RHS - (Ridgewood High School) 11. Christ Church - 105 Cottage Place 627 E. Ridgewood Avenue 12. Ridgewood Public Library - 125 N. Maple Avenue 2. BFMS - (Benjamin Franklin Middle School) 13. Paramus Reformed Church - 660 E. Glen Avenue 335 N. Van Dien Avenue 14. Graydon Pool Parking Lot - Linwood Ave & Northern Pky 3. GWMS - (George Washington Middle School) 15. Ridgewood Art Institute - 12 E. Glen Avenue 155 Washington Place 16. The Stable - 259 N. Maple Avenue 4. Glen - 865 E. Glen Avenue 17. Education Center - 49 Cottage Place 5. Hawes - 531 Stevens Avenue 18. American Red Cross - 74 Godwin Avenue 6. Orchard - 230 Demarest Street 19. Unitarian Society - 113 Cottage Place 7. Ridge - 325 W. Ridgewood Avenue 20. Art of Motion Studios - 17 Chestnut Street 8. Somerville - 45 S. Pleasant Avenue 9. Travell - 340 Bogert Avenue 10. Willard - 601 Morningside Road

Directions to all schools and other locations are now available on the RCS website www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us

44 Registration/Cancellation Information

1. No acknowledgements are sent. You should report to your class unless notified to the contrary. You have 5 easy ways to sign up: 2. Registration fee ($25 per person per course) is included in the tuition fee. It is not refundable for 1. MAIL IT NOW! DON’T WAIT! ~~~~ any reason (unless the course is canceled by RCS or ~~~~ Fill in registration form and mail it with check, money ~~~~ RCS institutes a schedule change). ~~~~ order or charge information to: 49 Cottage Pl., Ridgewood, 3. Tuition must accompany registration. Registrations NJ 07450. You can mail your registration as soon as you are processed in the order they are received. receive your brochure. 4. Refunds & Withdrawals: • If RCS cancels your course, you will receive a full 2. WALK IN Starting Jan 28 refund. In-person registration at 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood: • If you want to withdraw from a class before it Mon through Fri 1-4 pm begins, you must submit your request in writing to RCS THREE FULL BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO WALK IN AFTER CLASSES BEGIN THE FIRST CLASS MEETING (not counting You may register at BFMS and RHS between the hours of the day of class). You will receive a refund (less 7-9:30 pm Mon thru Thurs if there is still space in the class. the $25 registration fee). This policy differs for After classes start, RCS registration hours are trips and tours. Please see those pages for details. 1-4 pm, Monday - Friday. • If you withdraw from the class after the first session, no refund or credit will be given. If you want to withdrawal or miss a class due to personal 3. PHONE CHARGE ONLY reasons, illness, injury, negligence or an oversight Phone Number: (201) 670-2777 of your own, no refund or credit will be given. Starting Jan 28 • If you find a course does not meet your legitimate (Visa and Mastercard accepted) expectations, we ask that you send a written Hours: Mon through Fri, 1-4 pm request to us as soon as the course is finished After classes start, RCS registration hours are 1-4 pm, and complete a course evaluation. We will issue Monday - Friday. you a tuition credit for another RCS course. • Refunds are processed in 3-4 weeks. 4. FAX IT CHARGE ONLY 5. Any class is subject to cancellation (up to start date Fax Number: (201) 444-5565 of class) if registration is not sufficient. Students will Starting Jan 28 be notified by telephone. Please register early!! Visa and Mastercard 24 HOURS A DAY 6. Special Needs: Most Ridgewood schools are Fax the form. In order for your registration to be barrier-free. RCS will make your class accessible to properly processed, it must include all information on you. If you have special needs, please alert RCS upon registration form on next page. registration. Advance notice of 2 weeks must be given. 7. Book & Supply Fees: These are additional costs and are due at the first class. 5. ON-LINE 8. School Closings: RCS is closed whenever the https://tinyurl.com/y9g5khze Ridgewood schools are closed (see calendar on Starting Jan 28 page 47). Closings due to inclement weather are Visa and Mastercard 24 HOURS A DAY announced on the central office answering machine at Complete and secure online registration for all classes 201-670-2700 or on the RCS office answering machine is now available through Community Pass. To begin, use at (201) 670-2777 between 6:30 and 8 am and will the signup link above and create a Community Pass remain there throughout the day. Emergency closing account. Once this is done you will have access to all information is also available on the Ridgewood website the events and activities within Capturepoint.com. www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us and on television news FOX 5, NBC 4, ABC 7 and Channel 12. If storms develop during the day, please call the RCS office at (201) 670-2777 after 3 pm for cancellation information. 9. Please check your calendar prior to registering. Refunds will not be given for personal scheduling conflicts or double-booked classes. Each class description contains the class location at the 10. Transfers made at the discretion of the bottom of the listing. Please see map on page 44. RCS office.

45 To Register

Follow the easy instructions on the facing page. Make check or money order payable to: RCS SPRING 2019 bk# RCS Cash o Education Center, 49 Cottage Place Check o Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Check # ______Use one card per course print per student. Name ______Forms may be duplicated. LAST FIRST Address ______

Town ______Zip ______

Registrations are not confirmed. Home Ph# ______Cell Ph#______Please report to your class unless Course title ______Course # ______notified to the contrary. Day/Date______Time ______Place/Rm:______Fee $______

Visa or MC # ______RCS courses are open Email:______CVV:______Exp. Date _______to all persons * regardless of Make check or money order payable to: RCS SPRING 2019 residence. Unless bk# RCS Cash o Education Center, 49 Cottage Place Check o otherwise stated, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Check # ______print students must be at Name ______least 14 years old LAST FIRST and in high school. Address ______Town ______Zip ______

*Except for those classes listed Home Ph# ______Cell Ph#______

under the junior edition section, Course title ______Course # ______

RCS classes are intended for Day/Date______Time ______Place/Rm:______Fee $______

adults. Students ages 14-18 Visa or MC # ______

may attend upon request, but Email:______CVV:______Exp. Date _______some classes are not suitable for children. Please call the RCS office Make check or money order payable to: RCS SPRING 2019 for more information. bk# RCS Cash o Education Center, 49 Cottage Place Check o Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Check # ______print Name ______Please do not wait until the LAST FIRST last minute to register. Address ______If there is insufficient Town ______Zip ______

enrollment for a course, Home Ph# ______Cell Ph#______it will be canceled. Course title ______Course # ______AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Day/Date______Time ______Place/Rm:______Fee $______- REGISTER EARLY!! Visa or MC # ______Email:______CVV:______Exp. Date _______

46 RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL Non-profit Org Ridgewood Board of Education U.S. POSTAGE Education Center, 49 Cottage Place PAID Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Paramus, NJ Permit No. 877 (201) 670-2777

POSTAL PATRON

5 easy ways to register: PHONE: (201) 670-2777

WALK-IN: 49 Cottage Place, 2nd Floor Lobby

MAIL: 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ 07450

FAX: (201) 444-5565

ONLINE: https://tinyurl.com/y9g5khze

SEE INSIDE BACK COVER FOR REGISTRATION HOURS!