Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter January OLLI Update

Mark Your Calendar This is what OLLI Members are saying about our new registration system: January "It was very easy. The Amazon website is my bench mark for user friendly. I found that the online registration and catalogs arriving OLLI site was comparable." Hugh Spitzer Lecture Series: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays "Your new system is great. It was easy to use and I had no problems." at the Katzen Center Ed Lynch 31 lottery

"Eureka! It works! Sure is faster and easier." February Barry Smoler 1 registration packets mailed

25 classes start "I do commend you on how easy it was to register on-line, bcause I'm not usually very good at it." Barbara Rollinson

Spring Registration The January Lecture Series

It's definitely winter, but if you are looking for a Our exciting January lecture series is being held sign of spring, it's in the mail: the OLLI at the Katzen Arts Center Tuesdays, catalogue for the spring semester. Catalogues Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10-11:45 am. were mailed last week and should reach you To see the lectures, link to: January lecture sometime this week. There will still be plenty series. This week FREE PARKING is again of time to register. The lottery is January 31. available in the Center. Thereafter parking will Remember also that the catalogue is now cost a nominal $1.50 an hour. Metered parking available on-line at www.OLLI-dc.org. And, if so is also available on Massachusetts Ave. inclined, you can register on line and pay by credit card. A substantial number of members We have several exciting speakers for the have already done so. remainder of our January Speakers Series and urge you to attend and bring friends who might be interested in the subjects and speakers. In Memoriam We sadly report that Martin Lapan, one of our Thursday, January 17 most popular study group leaders, died Elizabeth Smith Brownstein unexpectedly at his home in January. In recent Lincoln's Other White House: The Missing years Marty led Link in the Study of His Presidency classes on Thucycides In February, the Lincoln Summer White House - Peloponnesian War, the a cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers Home, revolutionary nature of the Old will open to the public. Ms Brownstein was Testament, and the Intellectual asked by the National Trust for Historic Origins of the American Preservation to use diaries, eyewitness Revolution but his knowledge accounts, and letters to describe the importance and wisdom was far deeper than any of the of this setting for President Lincoln. courses he led. We will greatly miss him.

Tuesday, January 23 Nan Aron Katzen Center Tour of Exhibits The Bush Administration and the Changing Face of Justice. Thurs.Jan 24 Nan Aron , President of the Alliance for 12:30 Justice, will show her new documentary, Please join us for a Supreme Injustice and will examine the impact docent led tour of the of the first full term of the Roberts Court and the Katzen Center's broad politicization of the judiciary. current exhibits. The Alliance for Justice is a national Email us at association of public interest and civil rights [email protected] if you plan to attend. To organizations learn more about the two exhibits visit the Katzen Center website.

Wednesday, January 23 Aviva Kempner Events Featuring OLLI Members Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg Aviva Kempner produces documentaries on Study group leader, Ruth Neubauer issues relating to Jewish resistance and the is inviting members to an opening of a Holocaust. She also made a film about Hank photography show featuring her photographs Greenberg. She is currently working on a film from around the world. Join about Gertrude Berg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, her for wine and hors d'oeuvres and will speak and show parts of this work in at The Grill Art Cafe, 1011 W. progress . 36th St., Baltimore, MD 410.366.2005. Thursday January 24 3-5 pm, Sunday, January Walter Smith, Executive Director of DC 27th. View more of her photos Appleseed on her website. Pro Bono Lawyers Making the District a Better Place Walter Smith is director of DC Appleseed Center Quick Links for Law and Justice, a nonprofit organization that has been working in the District for over a OLLI Website dozen years. The Center uses volunteer OLLI Lectures services of lawyers at major firms to investigate Today at American University OLLI Registration city problems, such as Cleaning Up the Anacostia River, reforming special education, addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis, and providing affordable housing for District Residents. The Center's pro bono lawyers recommend legislation and, as needed , litigate for changes.

Tuesday, January, 29 Ari Roth, Artistic Director of Theater J In These Fervid Years: Ten Years of Dramatic Encounters at Theater J Under Ari Roth's direction, Theater J is now one of the foremost Jewish theaters in the country. Ari Roth will read from a diary of highlights and heartbreaks of ten years of producing at Theater J.

Wednesday, January 30 Robert Zarr, MD Single Payer 101: Lifelong, Comprehensive Quality Health Care for Every American. Robert Zarr is a pediatrician with Unity Health Services in the District of Columbia. He also is DC Chapter president of the Physicians Committee for a National Health Program. Dr. Zarr will compare US health care with other developed countries and describe how a Single Payer System can assure coverage for everyone and eliminate waste in the health care system.

Thursday, January 31 John M. Ferren Justice Rutledge, the Supreme Court, and the War on Terror John Ferren was appointed to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. He retired from the Court to become Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia from 1997-1999. During his term as Corporation Counsel, Judge Ferren argued the case for District Home Rule. After serving as Corporation Council, Judge Ferren returned to the Court of Appeals as a Senior Judge. John Ferren's long-time interest in Wiley Rutledge is reflected in his biography of Rutledge, Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court.

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 202.895.4860 Email: [email protected] Website: www.OLLI-DC.org Ray Rasenberger, Board Chair / Anne Wallace, Executive Director / Lena Frumin, Program Coordinator / Barbara Johnson, Newsletter Editor Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter March 2008

Mark Your Calendar: March Letter from the Chair

We are off and 7 Board Meeting: 1pm, Church running with a record Spring semester enrollment 12 Study Group Representative (512 at this writing) Luncheon, noon, Capital Hall, Rm.111 spread over 49 courses. The fit between 14 Curriculum Committee: 1 pm, courses and applicants wasn't perfect - 8 of the Church 49 classes went to a lottery. The amazing part is that so many of you did find courses you 28 Study Group Leaders Luncheon: wanted to take. noon, Butler Board Room (6th floor), I say amazing because, although the Curriculum Mary Graydon Center Committee works hard at attracting Study Group Leaders, in the larger sense we don't determine our curriculum. Our Study Group Leaders bring it to us, one by one, course by INFORMATION FOR NEW course, old favorites and new ones (half of all MEMBERS courses this semester are new!) Somehow, semester after semester, the result is a broad

and balanced array of courses that delve into · Our Executive Director is Anne Wallace, and topics we want to explore. her assistant is Lena Frumin. Their office is in room 107 Capital Hall, on the Tenley Campus of The time SGLs spend with us in class is the American University, phone (202) 895-4860. visible sign of their commitment. What we don't There is also an OLLI office annex in the see is the time spent in church, on the lower level, where class folders preparing for those classes, the reading, the are kept. A phone is available in this office for planning, the juggling of personal time and the our members to use. concern that goes into every serious effort to get things right. The result is a curriculum that · Porscha Reid is in charge of arranging audio- is unexcelled in its breadth and depth by any visual equipment, chairs for lectures, coffee for other OLLI or similar organization. breaks and for generally maintaining the OLLI quarters which we lease from Temple Baptist On two occasions recently, the Open House Church. and the traditional pre-semester meeting of SGLs, I've heard the leaders · Name tags are available for all OLLI speak about their courses. Articulate and members.You will find them downstairs on the succinct, they bring our course catalogue alive, back table. New members have blue stickers making many of us wish we had more time to on their tags. Please wear the tag so members take more OLLI courses. can learn your name! So cheers for our SGLs. Without. them, there wouldn't be an "us" · We have a lost and found box in our Office Annex in the church. Items left in the building And now, a brief commercial: will be placed in the box for safekeeping. The office is locked every night and over the What about YOU as a Study Group Leader? weekend. As we grow in size and as SGLs retire, we have a constant -- and growing--need for new · A directory of OLLI members will be published people to fill the ranks. Our best source of soon. Every member is encouraged to take a SGLs has always been our own members. From copy home. Please notify us about any day one, peer learning has been our model. It corrections so we can put them in our data works because those who want to learn in base. retirement often have knowledge that will enrich the lives of others, knowledge they bring to · Please check your email. We send important OLLI from their vocation, avocation or personal information and notices of cancelled classes by area of interest. Yes, preparing to lead a course email and call those who don't have emails. involves work, but I can testify, and many others have said the same, that preparing a OLLI Authors course is the most satisfying learning experience there is.

"But I wouldn't know how to lead a course". I Aron, Joan. The Quest for Regional can hear you saying it now. Not an excuse. We Cooperation: A Study of the New York will show you how - in a short course taught by Metropolitan Regional Council. (Univ. of veterans who will stay with you as you prepare California Press, 1969); License to Kill? The your course and take your place in front of your Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the class. Give us a chance to show you. Shoreham Power Plant. (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1998). Of course, you will be making a big gift to the rest of us. But it can be a bigger gift to yourself! Bishop, Yvonne. Discrete Multivariate Call Anne Wallace, and tell her you're Analysis: Theory and interested. Practice. (M.I.T. Press, 1975; reprinted, Springer 2007, co-author). Before leaving this subject, I want to say a word about our Study Group Coddington, Mary. Seekers of the Healing Representatives. It takes two volunteers to Energy. (Destiny Books, 1978; reprinted, make the classroom experience work well. And Healing Arts Press, 1990). every semester 50 or more of you volunteer to Dinsmoor, Anastasia Norre (editor). The be Study Group Reps. It's a job that demands Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis, Vol.II: The more attention than time, but it has to be done. Classical Building. (Princeton, 2004); 2004 Study Group Representatives get little recipient of the Association of American recognition. At the end of the semester they Publishers prize. often lead the applause, seldom receive it. But Ernstthal, Henry L. Principles of Association we know, and I hope they know, that OLLI Management, 4th Edition. (American Society of depends on them. As I said at a recent Association Executives, 2001). meeting with them, the secret of OLLI's success lies in its large environmentally friendly Francis, Lesley Lee. Robert Frost: An source of energy-volunteers. Other than SGLs Adventure in Poetry, 1900-1918. Study Group Representatives are the major (Transaction Publishers, 2004). producers of that energy, along with all of our bell ringers...Cheers for all of you and, again, Heginbothom, Eleanor. Reading the Fascicles thanks! of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities. (Ohio State University Press, 2003); Reading AUTHORS, AUTHORS Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles in A Companion to Emily Dickinson. (Blackwell, Not long ago we put out a call for OLLI 2007). members to tell us about books they have

Heilprin, Marilyn. Crossings: A Life in Russia published. The result was a list of 50 volumes and Germany in the First Half of the Twentieth authored or coauthored by 22 members. They Century. (1996, co-author). are listed by author in an adjoining column of the Newsletter. What is surprising is not Klein, Marilyn W. (Mickey). Clues to American just the number of publications but the variety of Architecture. (Starrhill Press, 1986, co-author). subjects. Some are by study group leaders, but many are on subjects Lebow, Grace. Coping with Your Difficult Older far removed from the subjects they teach. Most Parent: A Guide for Stressed-Out Children. are by members who have not heretofore (Harper Collins, 1999, co-author). disclosed their literary lives. I have a feeling Lebow, Irwin. Theory and Design of Digital there are some interesting stories about how Machines. (McGraw-Hill, 1962, co-author); The some of these books came to be written. If so, Digital Connection: A Layman's Guide to the look for the stories behind the stories in future Information Age. (W. H. Freeman and Co., Newsletters. 1991); Information Highways and Byways: From COMMITTEE NEWS the Telegraph to the 21st Century. (IEEE Press, 1995); Understanding Digital Transmission and Our Nominations and Elections Committee (Bob Recording. (IEEE Press, 1998);Coping with Goodman, Chair, Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for Patricia Johnson, Vonn Quayle, Sid Steinitz Stressed-Out Children. (Harper Collins, 1999, and Selma Rosenthal) co-author). has been busy this last month and reports that, as required by the by-laws, it has come up with Lerdau, Enrique (translator). The Clown of six nominees for the four vacancies on the Barnow by Karl Emil Franzos. (University Press Board. If you want to run for the Board but have of the South, 2004). not been contacted by the Liebling, Herman I. U.S. Corporate Profitability Committee, you may file as a petition candidate and Capital Formation: Are Rates of Return but must have your petition and biographical information submitted by Sufficient? (Pergamon Press,1980); Capital March 28. Contact Bob Goodman Formation in the U.S. and the Means of its or Anne Wallace for further details. Financing: The Trend in Profitability of Nonfinancial Corporation. (U.S. Department of Investment Committee: If you saw the February the Treasury); American Capital Formation: Newsletter you know Problems and Solutions. (American Council on the Board has created a new Committee to Education). recommend investment policies for the OLLI Future Fund and other funds we Page, Bob. Management in the Engineering and hold in various accounts. The Construction Industry. (Texas A & M Press, Committee members have since been 1987). The Chain. (Castle Pacific Publishing). appointed. They are Judith Berson, Chair, Washington DC and Seattle 2001. The Vow. Bernard Young (formerly Chair of the Cohn Fund (Castle-Pacific Publishing, 2004). Committee), Carol Michalowski and Irwin Orlans, Barbara (Barbara Morton). In the Lebow, our current Treasurer. All have Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal substantial backgrounds in financial matters. Experimentation. (Oxford University Press, The rest of us will focus on providing 1993); The Human Use of Animals: Case enough funds, principally through the Future Studies in Ethical Choice. (Oxford University Fund, to make their job interesting. On that Press, 1998, co-author). subject, stay tuned.

Palmeter, David. Dispute Settlement in the --Ray Rasenberger World Trade Organization. (Cambridge University Press, 2004). The WTO as a Legal System: Essays on International Trade Law and The Spring Lecture Series Policy. (Cameron May, 2003, co-author).

Radin, Alex. Public Power - Private Life. Thanks to Don and Vonn Quayle, we have a (American Public Power Association, 2003). wonderful lecture series lined up for the Spring. The lectures will take place in the Temple Reeder, Carolyn. Historical Fiction for Young Baptist Church room 6 from 12:15-1:15 pm on People: Shades of Gray (1989), Grandpa's Tuesdays. Please consult the OLLI website Mountain (1991), Moonshiner's Son (1993), Across the Lines (1997), Foster's War (1998), lecture page for the schedule. Captain Kate (1999), Before the Creeks Ran Red (2003), The Secret Project Notebook (2005). Co-author, adult nonfiction published by Curriculum Planning The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: Shenandoah Heritage: The Story of the People The Curriculum Committee begins planning the Before the Park (1978), Shenandoah Secrets: fall semester in early March. The Committee is The Story of the Park's Hidden Past (1980), looking for input from members who are Shenandoah Vestiges: What the Mountain People Left Behind (1991). considering submitting a Study Group Proposal or suggesting a friend who would be interested Roberts, Jeanne. Shakespeare's English in joining OLLI as a member and Study Group Comedy: The Merry Wives of Windsor in Leader. Interested members should contact the Context. (University of Nebraska Press, 1979); appropriate committee chair to discuss ideas for The Shakespearean Wild: Geography, Genus, courses: and Gender. (University of Nebraska Press, 1991). Curriculum Committee Gloria Kreisman, Chair Schneider, Lew, a.k.a. Israel Lewis. What I Law, Politics and Government Will Do Now: Poetry and Some Prose. (Velvet Myrna Whitworth Duck, 2006). Psychology, Sociology, and Culture Sharlin, Harold. The Convergent Century: Elaine Kirk The Unification of Science in the Nineteenth Economics Century. (1966); The Making of the Electrical Gerry Padwe Age: From the Telegraph to Automation. Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Math (1961); Lord Kelvin: the Dynamic Victorian. Ed Goldin (1979, co-author); (editor) Business and its Music Environment: Essays for Thomas C. Cochran. JoAnn Udovich (1983). Art Sidney Steinitz Weaver, James H. The International Literature & Language Development Association: A New Approach to Gloria Kreisman Foreign Aid. ( Frederick A. Praeger, 1965); The History & Geography University and Revolution. (Prentice Hall, 1969, Sandra Levenbook co-author); (editor) Modern Political Economy: Philosophy Radical and Orthodox Views on Crucial Issues. Alice Bralove (Allyn and Bacon, 1973); Achieving Broad Based Sustainable Development: Governance, Environment, and Growth With Equity. The success of our OLLI comes directly from (Kumarian Press, 1997, co-author). the efforts of our members, so please join us in continuing to make OLLI an interesting and Wyss, Edith. The Myth of Apollo and Marsyas vibrant community. in the Art of the Italian Renaissance: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Images. (Associated University Presses, 1996). Quick Links

OLLI Website OLLI Lectures Wall Street Journal Article Excerpt Today at American University OLLI Registration "12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement" Feb.16 2008 Attendance Committment and Bernard Osher Changing your Registration Senior School Master If you sign up for a study group, please make Returning to school, in some fashion, is high on every effort to attend the sessions. Group many people's to-do lists in retirement. Bernard leaders work diligently to prepare your classes. Osher is helping to build the classrooms and programs you might enter. Many members are on waiting lists for classes, so please consider your registration a Mr. Osher helped his family start Golden West commitment for the entire semester. Financial Corp. in the 1960s and created a personal foundation in the 1970s. Today, he is pouring nearly $200 million into what has If you wish to change your registration in any become known as lifelong learning, or college- way--drop out of a study group, switch into based education for older adults. another group, or just add an additional class-- A native of Biddeford, Maine, Mr. Osher had his call the office 202.895.4860. first significant exposure to the practice in 2000 during a visit to the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco. "I came away very impressed," he says, Inclement Weather particularly with "the joy of learning" that he OLLI classes will witnessed. be cancelled all day Several months later, a trip to the Senior whenever the College at the University of Southern Maine in District and/or Portland sealed his interest. The Bernard Osher Montgomery Foundation made a $2.2 million gift to the Maine County Public program in 2001, allowing the university to School system expand its peer-taught courses and workshops announces school to more than 1,000 students ages 50 and older. closings or delayed Since then, the foundation has donated $73 openings. million to nearly 120 lifelong-learning institutes Members are urged on university campuses from Maine to Hawaii. to check with local radio and television stations Future grants will be used primarily to augment that broadcast bulletins for the schools. those programs.

Condolences

Dorothy Lundin, a devoted member for over 20 years, died this past September 15. Her late husband, Milton H. Shapiro, chaired the ILR in 1990. Her daughter writes: "My mother treasured her membership in your organization, both intellectually, for the challenging courses she took almost every term; and emotionally, because of the many valued friends she made." Her OLLI friends are encouraged by her family to share their remembrances of Dorothy on her Washington Post Legacy.com guestbook or write to her daughter, Priscilla, at [email protected].

Longtime member Michael Winston will be remembered at a Celebration of Life on Saturday, April 26 at 2 pm at the Chevy Chase Club.

OLLI would not be able to function without its many wonderful volunteers. Thanks to the following Thanks who have volunteered to be bell ringers this semester, keeping us running on time. (Thanks to Therese Rousseau for organizing this team of bell ringers and stepping in to help the office so graciously.)

Monday am: Barbara Rolllinson pm: Sandra Grant Tuesday am: Myra Barron pm: Lois Coon Wednesday am: David Palmeter pm: Don Quayle Thursday am: Mary Poole pm: Betsy White Friday am: Barbara Kerne

Thanks to the following who have volunteered to serve as Study Group Representatives (SGR) and to Sue Boley and Ange Hassinger who recruited them.

Susan Blacklow 101 Benjamin Okner 126 Sue Boley 131 James Newmyer 132 Tina Fried Heller 133 Lois Coon 139 Polly Lawrence 140 Samuel Lawrence 140 Mary Ferguson 151 Sandra Grant 191 Elaine Vande-Hei 215 Penelope English 216 Betsy White 320 Margherita Allardice 323 Nathaniel Preston 431 Edie Levine 443 Richard Haddad 444 Norma Fenves 445 Bob Muth 446 Marilyn Newton 447 Anne Mansfield 509 Mary Poole 541 Peggy Collier 549 Therese Rousseau 550 Fred Levison 551 Eleanor Heginbotham 552 Martha Horne 603 Barbara Scherer 620 Sorrell Caplan 669 Ruth Weisgall 681 Bruce Montgomery 682 Paul Williams 683 Marilynn Smith 684 Barbara Johnson 685 Diana Elkin 686 Vonn Quayle 687 Ed Cohn 736 Betsy Sterman 753 Lawrence McCarthy 760 Marguerite DeLaney 761 Edith Wyss 764 Myra Barron 767 Stanley Sadin 769 Kristin Ruckdeschel 770 Nancy Searles 771 Floralee Felsenthal 772 Mary Shoemaker 773 Mel Hurwitz 814

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 202.895.4860 Email: [email protected] Website: www.OLLI-DC.org Ray Rasenberger, Board Chair / Anne Wallace, Executive Director / Lena Frumin, Program Coordinator / Barbara Johnson, Newsletter Editor Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter April 2008

Mark Your Calendar Letter from the Chair

April 2008 1 Town Meeting: 12:15 pm, Church A. The OLLI Lottery 11 Board Meeting: 1 pm, Church 18 Curriculum Committee Meeting:1 pm, One big difference between Church state-sponsored lotteries and the OLLI lotteries for over- subscribed May 2008 classes is that some people like the state 2 Board Meeting: 1 pm, Church & Last Day of lotteries. No one seems to like our lotteries, Classes even the "winners." 7 Annual Meeting and Luncheon: noon, Mary Graydon Center There are some things we can do to reduce the number of classes that go to lottery and, as I will point out, we are The People of OLLI: doing them. But the prospect of eliminating all Irwin Lebow class lotteries seems remote. What we can do to be more helpful is to make sure everyone Irwin Lebow, the study group understands the rules. leader of Genesis I & II, surely seems to be a Renaissance It is pretty clear that is not true now. Your Board man. Just browse the index of is determined to correct that: to clarify lottery his book -- Information procedures Highways & Byways from the where necessary and to publish them in each Telegraph to the 21st Century; and note the rare course catalogue and wherever else necessary photographs that move across the decades, for full transparency. from Morse's 1837 telegraphic transmitter, to Marconi's short-wave radio in 1901, to ATT's What follows are the lottery rules as they now divestiture agreement in 1982. stand, including recent revisions. However, nothing is set in stone. Any comments on any Now, fast forward to the spring of 2008. Irwin is aspect of the lottery will be considered if settled deep in a comfortable sofa in his sun- submitted by members before the next Board filled home, awaiting questions. He's not the meeting on April 11. kind of guy one asks if there was something he wished he had done. Better to ask what he's The Current Lottery Rules doing now. The general rule is that every member who signs up for a course that is oversubscribed is Concerts with family and friends, reading, subject to the leading workshops at OLLI, cooking and lottery for that course. There are two, and only baking. Forty-odd years after leaving MIT, Irwin two, exceptions to that rule: still looks like a college professor. But don't be deceived. This telecommunications consultant 1) Those who lose out in a lottery are exempt wears many hats. And, as the family's baker-in- from the next lottery for the same course if not residence, it's often a white chef's toque. more than two semesters have elapsed since the course was last offered. "I started bread baking about 19 years ago. My wife taught me how to do it. I took off from 2) Those who are registering for only that course there and bake most of the bread that's eaten in and no others are exempt. the house." However, a recent Board decision His specialty: Challah. Pressed for details, as places a limit on the number of one-course though sharing secrets of state, he confides: "I lottery exemptions put rosemary in it." Pause. "Dry rosemary. It per class: not more than 30% of the available gives the bread additional flavor." places may be taken by the one-course exemption. If more than Stroking elegant professorial whiskers, he adds: 30% seek registration under the exemption, "Any good cook will take a recipe and modify they will be subject to a separate lottery with it." Eschewing desserts, however, he losers having the same automatic entry rights acknowledges, "My wife is an expert pastry next time as under exemption (1). chef." These two exemptions breed other imaginable But more than cooking is on the agenda. Listen issues -- some quite remote - which the Board closely as Irwin discusses telecommunications: has yet to address: Suppose the number of "The Internet is one of the greatest members who are exempt from the lottery accomplishments of the 20th century. E-mail exceeds the total allowable registrations for a was really the first application." class? Should those who avoid the lottery based on the one-course exemption be And, from his book, this statement: "So popular permitted to register later for other did e-mail become that it was not long before it courses in the same semester? And so on. became the tail that wagged the dog." Such questions will be dealt with by the Board at its next meeting... Irwin practiced telecommunications for many years, following his B.S and Ph.D. degrees in Reducing the Need for Lotteries Physics from M.I.T. This is what he taught at In considering such questions, the Board's OLLI for several years, before venturing into the objective is not to penalize anyone more than Bible, another lifelong love. necessary to enable us to stay within class size limits. In an ideal While Irwin extols Google's innovations, a world, all members could take any course they handsome oil painting on a nearby table draws wanted to. But there are attention. A bright red winner's ribbon flags the always necessary limits. One is classroom left corner. Subject: Irwin Lebow. Artist: Grace size, although this year we have been able to Lebow. It's the artist's first attempt at painting a finesse that restriction twice by using the portrait in oils. A French beret is rakishly Katzen Center recital hall for classes heavily angled on the subject's head; his eyes are bright oversubscribed. and curious. Another limiting factor is the nature of the class. Irwin says that the $109-billion-dollar Google If discussion is an important part of the class started out as an ordinary search engine. experience, size at some point becomes the Rhetorically, he asks: "There is so much enemy of that experience. Here again we have information, how do you find what you want? been able to work around the problem to some You go to a search engine. Google's searching extent by offering extra sections, as we do for process was so good that everyone began to the News in Context course. use it." Another approach is to make our curriculum Because of Google, he says, "People aren't even larger and more attractive in an effort to worried about Microsoft anymore. Google is at dilute demand for certain popular courses. This least its equal or has surpassed it, doing involves more intensive efforts to attract new something slightly different but still becoming an and popular Study Group Leaders. Those efforts enormously rich company in a short period of are underway, abetted, beginning next fall, with time. It's clearly a big rival to Microsoft. That's an SGL training course. Of course, more one example of how things can change. How a classes could require more classroom space, new giant can perhaps supplant an old giant." such as our satellite location on River Road or AU space in Capital Hall, but this potential As heady as this telecommunications talk is, problem appears to be manageable. once again, it's back to the kitchen for Irwin. The traditional braided Challah waits, enhanced, Nevertheless, for the foreseeable future we of course, with his "secret ingredient." Will "The have to assume there will be some lotteries Chef from Chevy Chase" share his recipe? each semester (eight classes out of 49 went to The next time you see him, ASK! lottery this Spring.) And as long as that is so, every member, veteran or first-timer, should be -"Jigs" McHugh fully aware of the lottery rules in advance.

Deadline for Comments Kudos for our Study Group To repeat: if you have any comments or Leaders suggestions about the rules, now is the time to say so. Send your comments before April 11 by These are some of the comments we email to: [email protected] or to me received in our interim feedback (r.rasenberger @verizon.net), or by mail to OLLI process: at 4400 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington Ms. Udovitch is a national treasure! 20016.

Andy White is the best teacher I have ever B. Status of the Osher $1 Million Endowment had. He is so enthusiastic, learned, and I want to write another adjective, but I don't want to Some of our members appear to be under the miss his every sentence. impression that the Osher endowment is a grant to OLLI, making us millionaires overnight. Sorry! The World lost a fine actess when Helen It is, in fact, a grant to American University with (Schwartz) decided to teach, but I'm glad she a requirement that it be invested with a view did. toward long-term appreciation and that an appropriate share of the income from it be paid You (Leslie Frantz) bring great depth of out to OLLI in perpetuity. The endowment knowledge and a flair for superb teaching to the principal may not be spent by AU. This is the course. It's wonderful! way the Osher Foundation handles all endowment grants - the income goes to the How can a class that's "best" get "better", but it OLLI but the funds are invested by the does. (Willie Blacklow) University. In addition, the endowment grant is accompanied by a $50,000 grant for "OLLI (We also thank our members for an abundance project implementation and development" to of constructive feedback.) help cover the period before we begin to receive income from the endowment. Reminders

Town Meeting Since AU first got formal notification of these Join us at the Town Meeting this Tuesday, April grants, there have been numerous 1 at 12:15. conversations among ourselves and with Foundation officials concerning the precise wording of the grant agreements and the Curriculum agreement between OLLI and AU concerning Our curriculum committee has been working the manner in which the grants will be hard to recruit new and previous study group administered. This has taken far longer than leaders. Proposals are due to the office April expected, partly because it has been basically a 16. Please let the office know if you need a three-sided negotiation, because so many proposal form. different AU offices need to be involved, and because, unlike almost all other OLLIs, we are a Nomination and Elections separate corporate entity and not part of the We have a wonderful group of nominees for the University. OLLI Board next year. The slate will be mailed April 10, and absentee voting will begin at the I had hoped to be able to report that all this is Church from Monday, April 14 until Friday, April behind us. Most issues have been settled, but a 25. Those attending the Annual Meeting on few remain as of this writing. Because these May 7 may vote there. agreements will affect us in perpetuity, they must be right. When they are, and all is signed and sealed, you will see the news promptly in this space. Annual Meeting and Election

The Annual Meeting, election for board Meanwhile please stand by. members, and luncheon will be held on Wednesday, May 7 at noon at the --Ray Rasenberger Mary Graydon Center on AU's Campus. Please send us your name and a check for $30 by April 28, and we will reserve a place for you. Quick Links We will also have reservation forms available at OLLI Website the Church soon. OLLI Lectures Today at American University If you would like to join us at the meeting but OLLI Registration not eat (or pay), there will be a table available. We look forward to seeing you there.

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 202.895.4860 Email: [email protected] Website: www.OLLI-DC.org Ray Rasenberger, Board Chair / Anne Wallace, Executive Director / Lena Frumin, Program Coordinator / Barbara Johnson, Newsletter Editor Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter May 2008

Mark Your Calendar Letter from the Chair

May 2008 The Osher Endowment

7 Annual Meeting and Luncheon: noon, Mary I am happy to report that we Graydon Center have finally reached 7 Board Meeting: 1:45 pm, Church agreement with AU concerning the terms on which it will administer the $1 million June 2008 endowment granted to AU for the benefit of OLLI. The Osher Foundation's practice is to Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays: June have all funds for the benefit of an OLLI flow Lecture Series through a university, thus taking advantage of endowment programs already in place and August 2008 assuring that the income is actually spent, as Fall Catalogs Mailed and Posted on our Website the grant requires, "to support and grow" the OLLI. September2008 3 Lottery All this is quite understandable, and, for almost 4 Registrations Mailed all OLLIs, it does not present problems: they are 9 Open House: 1-2:45 pm, Church part of a university 16 Study Group Leader and Rep that makes all decisions regarding the OLLI. We Meeting: 10-11:45 am, Church are one of the rare OLLIs that are independent 24 First Day of Classes corporations. We value that independence and, 30 No classes: Rosh Hashanah while we recognize that some review by AU is reasonable to assure Osher funds are not being spent irresponsibly, we want to be sure no one October 2008 will veto expenditure decisions which the OLLI 9 No classes: Yom Kippur Board finds appropriate. This is particularly important because our arrangement with AU is The People of OLLI: perpetual and must be properly understood by future generations of AU officers. Joan McMillen The agreement finally reached - with the help of When asked why I took a class in Russian short AU President Kerwin - gives us that assurance. stories, I simply answered honestly, "Because Both AU and OLLI have now signed their Joan McMillen told me to!" So, who is this OLLI acceptance of the endowment on the terms cheerleader? specified by Osher, and the funds should be in AU's hands - and earning income for us - very Joan lives in the Brookdale section of soon. The two agreements (the endowment Bethesda. She has lived in grant and the AU - OLLI agreement) assure that the Washington area most of the Osher endowment will not bear any greater her life. The family moved proportion of overhead than the from Cincinnati when she rest of AU's endowment funds (and, in any was 11, and her father took a case, will bear no administrative costs other position with the Justice than investment and Department. Joan did her endowment management fees), that it will be undergraduate work in English at Catholic invested with the goal of long- term University and also received her M.S. in Library appreciation, that annual payout of endowment Science. Following her graduation, she worked earnings will be between 3 percent and 7 in the Library of Medicine at NIH and married percent, and that we will be treated under the Bob McMillen, a labor lawyer. In the early '70s same endowment spending and distribution they moved to California where Bob served as a policies as other units of the University. legal advisor to Cesar Chavez, and the couple Current AU policy calls for distribution of worked in his campaign to gain recognition for endowment income of 5 percent annually the migrant labor force. They later returned to calculated on the average value of the Washington where Bob continued his legal work endowment over the preceding three years. and Joan became an administrator in the Therefore, in calculating income for OLLI for the Medicine Department of the Uniform Services first year, the two preceding years of zero University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) endowment will be averaged in. After three where she worked with fascinating scientists years, we will be earning income on the full $1 and teachers from all parts of the world. million. We are, however, receiving a separate grant of $50,000 from the Osher Foundation to In 2004, considering retirement, Joan wanted help bridge this gap. to find something which would take her out of the house and enable her to meet new people I suspect that all this is far more than most and continue learning. When a friend told her OLLI members want to know about the Osher about OLLI, she became a member and has grants. But judging by questions I got at the been an enthusiastic supporter of OLLI ever recent Open House, some members are since. Joan particularly enjoys the history interested in the details. No one should have classes but praises the program for its wide unanswered questions. If you still want variety of offerings. She has been impressed answers, don't hesitate to email me. with the people and the classes at OLLl and is an enthusiastic cheerleader for the program. In The Lease at Temple Baptist Church addition to OLLI, Joan is an enthusiastic fan of As you probably know, the Board is thinking films,enjoys travel with friends, and loves ahead to the day when visiting her daughter and grandson in London. we will want to move to another facility. The --Lois Coon OLLI Future Fund was established with that in mind, and the Board has earmarked the recent Thanks $50,000 Osher grant for the Future Fund. If all goes well, future Boards will follow suit, perhaps Lecture Series adding a special fundraising program to increase Thanks to Don and Vonn Quayle for a wonderful the Fund more rapidly, until our OLLI has its Spring Lecture Series. We thank them also, in own endowment, one that will give us the advance, for organizing the June Lecture financial security we should have when it is time Series! Do come Tuesdays, Wednesdays and to build, buy or lease new space. But we would Thursdays mornings to the Katzen Center. The not look forward to moving next year and schedule is below and listed on our website. perhaps not for many years.

For the present, we believe our best course is to Gifts to OLLI extend our current lease - at an affordable cost - Thanks to Jeanne Talpers and Muriel Pear for for a substantial period and provide that the their gifts to OLLI in honor of Mickey Klein's lease can't be terminated during its life without birthday. Thanks to Irwin Lebow for donating adequate notice. Our present lease is not his class gift to OLLI. satisfactory in those respects. Meanwhile, we are focusing on other space options and will Administration Committee continue to do so as long as necessary. Thanks to Therese Rousseau and Earl Hall for We have been in the Temple Baptist Church for their help with mailings. We also very much many years. While it has some shortcomings, it appreciate the others who have assisted us with continues to serve our purposes reasonably recent mailings. well. We value our longstanding relationship with Pastor Moats, and he knows that. But in a Alert: New Class Next Semester recent letter to him, we made clear that we need a greater sense of security than our current Learn & Lead: How to Become a lease provides.

Study Group Leader His initial reaction has been positive. We hope Have you contemplated becoming a study group to be able to report soon on a new lease that leader? We are excited about the development gives us the security we must have without of a new course on study group leadership skills needlessly sacrificing flexibility in these times for those interested in becoming study group of growth and change. leaders, or experienced SGLs interested in sharing some of the wisdom they have gained, The Lottery or sharpening their skills. It will be a four- A brief report: At its last meeting the Board session class held on Friday afternoons (and discussed some of the lottery issues I covered may be taken in addition to three other in the last newsletter as well as various courses). suggestions on the subject made at the Town Meeting and submitted in writing. (We There will be opportunities to work with appreciate your comments.) The Board did not experienced study group leaders and receive reach any final conclusions and intends to feedback on leadership skills. resume the discussion at the next meeting.

--Ray Rasenberger

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Thanks to Don and Vonn Quayle for organizing this series. Tuesday, June 3 Stan Crock Why The Media Get It Wrong Stan Crock, a 30-year veteran of the journalism wars in Washington, takes you behind the scenes of some of the biggest stories in the post-Watergate era of journalism. He covered Whitewater, the Ford Explorer-Bridgestone flap, wars (stateside) in Afghanistan and Iraq, China, and the defense-industrial complex. On almost all of these topics, Crock's articles bucked the conventional wisdom. He'll explain why most of the media missed the story and how he managed to play it differently. Stan Crock is the Senior Editorial Director for Accenture, a global leader in business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing. Prior to that he was Business Week's chief diplomatic correspondent covering the State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council and defense companies.

Wednesday, June 4 OLLI World War II Memories Will Blacklow will moderate a discussion group among some of our World War II veterans. Join us to hear history and memories from our OLLI neighbors and friends, including: Warren Baum, Larry Berlin, John Carr, Seymour Goodman, Robert Hartland, Bob Kemelhor, Norman Lord, Bob Page, Lewis Schneider, and Harold Sharlin.

Thursday, June 5 Ed Goldin Einstein and God Born to secular, Jewish parents, Einstein responded positively to religious exposure in his youth. As a teenager, he discovered science and moved away from religious dogma. In the public spotlight in his thirties, he expressed quasi-deistic ideas about religion which drew strong reactions from some conservative religious quarters. Representatives of the faiths either condemned him or reinterpreted his beliefs to suit their own purposes. Einstein learned to be more careful about statements regarding religion, while holding true to his respect for Spinoza's God and his own personal concepts of a cosmic religion. He died, as he had lived, with the same respect and awe for the natural order of the universe that he possessed throughout his adult life. Edwin Goldin is a physicist and author of the book, Waves and Photons, dealing with light and Einstein's quanta. Ed holds a Ph.D. from Polytechnic University, and earned an A.A. in Fine Arts from Cooper Union. He presently teaches conceptual physics and astronomy at OLLI.

Tuesday, June 10 Dave Palmeter John Rawls: A Quest for Global Justice In The Law of Peoples, philosopher John Rawls sought to apply to global society the principles of justice he developed for a single society in A Theory of Justice. The result is an imaginative attempt to envisage global society as a "realistic utopia" that, in Rousseau's words, takes people "as they are" and views "laws as they might be." This lecture will describe Rawls's approach and will evaluate the criticisms that have been leveled against it. OLLI member David Palmeter practiced international law in Washington for 40 years.

Wed., June 11 Lynn J. Brantley & Reuben Gist Why Hunger is so Widespread in our Affluent Area Did you know that hunger is steadily increasing in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area? For over 28 years the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) has served as the largest public, nonprofit food and nutrition education resource in our community. Last year, the CAFB distributed 20 million pounds of food, including 6 million pounds of fresh produce, to over 700 partner agencies that, in turn, deal directly with recipients. Lyn Brantley, President and CEO and Reuben Gist, Director of Community Outreach, will explain CAFB's role in the struggle to end hunger.

Thursday, June 12 Bob Coe Lincoln's Depression, Fatalism and Religion Abraham Lincoln was severely depressed during his late 20s and early 30s when, on two occasions, friends feared he would commit suicide. Why did he suffer from depression and how did he alleviate the problem in middle age? Lincoln's religious views, which were controversial for some of his contemporaries, developed in unexpected ways during the Civil War. Bob Coe spent most of his career in the U.S. Foreign Service, primarily as an economist in developing countries. He has taught numerous courses at OLLI.

Tuesday, June 17 Robert E. Pierre Anacostia: It Feels Like Home, Faults and All Robert E. Pierre, Washington Post Staff Writer, recently moved to Anacostia, one of the parts of the city that many visitors never see. Originally from Louisiana, Pierre writes about some of the issues facing those who have the least in this gentrifying city. He will talk about the changes in Anacostia and other communities east of the Anacostia River, as well as other exciting changes in the District of Columbia. Robert E. Pierre has reported for the Post for 15 years.

Wednesday, June 18 Paul West A Report from the Campaign It's being called the most exciting election in a generation: the wide-open contests in both major parties, which produced unusually intense voter interest and are guaranteed to yield a change at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next January. But what sort of change? West will look at how the major party nominees match up, what issues will be key in the fall, and how the next president will change Washington, the country and America's future place in the world. Paul West is Washington bureau chief of The Baltimore Sun and the paper's national political correspondent. In addition to newspapers, his writings have appeared in The New Republic, Rolling Stone and Washingtonian magazines and he's appeared on NBC, PBS, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Fox News and other networks.

Thursday, June 19 David Wessel An Update on Today's Economy The US economy appears to be in recession as it struggles with the bursting of a housing bubble. What just happened? What next? What is the Fed up to? How are the presidential candidates responding? Pulitzer Prize winner David Wessel, is Economics Editor of The Wall Street Journal, and writes the "Capital" column, a weekly look at the economy and forces shaping living standards around the world. He also appears frequently on CNBC and National Public Radio.

Tuesday, June 24 Mark Stein How the States Were Divided The map of the United States has become so familiar to us that its state borders seem as much a part of nature as the mountains and rivers. But in fact these lines reflect the designs of people. They are, in effect, valuable reminders of the struggles that shaped this nation. Through the lens of state borders, Mark Stein will discuss how the American map is an extraordinary mural of how we came to be who we are today. Mark Stein's plays have been performed off-Broadway and at regional theaters throughout the U.S., in Canada and Europe. He wrote the screenplay for the film, Housesitter, as well the scripts for TV movies on CBS and NBC. He has taught playwriting and screenwriting and made his first foray into non-fiction with his recently published book, How the States Got Their Shapes.

Wednesday, June 25 Dorothy Schoeneman It's Not Too Late to Join the Peace Corps Hear about Dorothy Schoeneman's experience as a 64-year-old health educator in the Peace Corps from 1999 to 2001. Schoeneman taught health and sanitation at an elementary school and worked with women to improve nutrition in Mali, West Africa. She is now the 50+ recruiter for the Peace Corps Mid-Atlantic Regional Office.

Thursday, June 26 David Patterson World War I and The Roots of Peace Activism The roots of peace activism in the modern world developed from World War I. Among its far-reaching political and social consequences, Patterson describes the rise of a broad-based, transatlantic movement of private citizens, who protested the escalating European struggle and advanced proposals for neutral governments' mediation and for postwar reform. While men were involved, women led every phase of the movement. Patterson explores the various motivations pushing the American and European women toward peace activism. David S. Patterson has taught at Rice, Colgate, University of Maryland, and American University and was also a historian at the US Department of State.

OLLI does not endorse any of the viewpoints expressed by the speakers in its series.

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 202.895.4860 Email: [email protected] Website: www.OLLI-DC.org Ray Rasenberger, Board Chair / Anne Wallace, Executive Director / Lena Frumin, Program Coordinator / Barbara Johnson, Newsletter Editor Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter June/July 2008

Mark Your Calendar Letter from the New Chair

(slightly adapted from last month)

The OLLI Board for 2008-2009 -- June 2008 - Willie Blacklow, Bob Coe,Tina Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday: June Fried Heller, Irwin Lebow, Don Lecture Series, 10-11:45 am. Quayle, Carl Rappaport, and Helen Schwartz, with election winners: Ruth August 2008 Darmstadter, Ed Goldin, Ray Rasenberger, and Beverly Zweiben --- is eagerly looking forward to Fall Catalogs Mailed and Posted on our Website a stimulating new semester which begins on September 24. No, I am not wishing away the September2008 summer months; instead, I am just so excited 3 Lottery about our Fall schedule which has 64 classes 4 Registrations Mailed listed. (See the chart on our website for the 10 Open House: 1-2:50 pm, Church tentative schedule of classes, if you cannot 17 Study Group Leader and Rep read it below.) Meeting: 10-11:50 am, Church 24 First Day of Classes The additional facility at the River Road 30 No classes Unitarian Universalist Church is near completion. Four of our classes will be meeting October 2008 in this new handicap-accessible building on 9 No classes Monday mornings. We will again have a class at the Katzen Center, four or five in Capital Hall, and a new computer class in a computer lab on Thanks AU's main campus.

Lecture Series In order to facilitate more time for socializing, Thanks to Don and Vonn Quayle for a wonderful we have also added five minutes to the break Spring Lecture Series. We thank them also, in time, making classes go from 10 until 11:50 am advance, for organizing the June Lecture and 1 until 2:50 pm most afternoons. Series! Do come Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday mornings to the Katzen Center. The Classes may be over, but we do have an lecture schedule is listed on our website. exciting array of speakers for our June Lecture Please park on Level P3 of the Katzen Center, Series to be held in the Katzen Center. If you and pay $3 for parking when you enter the do not already have a copy, you can find the lecture. lecture series on our website. Thanks to Don and Vonn Quayle for arranging this series. Mailing Help Thanks to Jaleh Labib, Hope Bogorad, Connie I am looking forward to seeing many of you at Hirshon, Ange Belle Hassinger, and Marilyn the lectures during the month of June. I'll be Roman for helping with the mailing for the June wearing my name tag, so please stop to say lecture series. hello at break time.

Alert: New Class Next Semester --Selma Rosenthal

Study Group Leadership

Have you considered becoming a study group OLLI Eyes the Universe leader? (Or becoming a better study group Telescope leader?) This Fall we are offering a new, four- OLLI has just session class to give participants the acquired an ETX confidence and skills to be successful study Meade Backpack group leaders, and to give veteran SGLs the Observatory, opportunity to polish their styles. The topics sporting a covered will include gathering resources, computer-guided, organizing a syllabus, and sharpening reflecting presentation skills. The class is limited to 8 telescope, pre- participants; those not selected will have the programmed for observing 1500 different sky opportunity to join a subsequent class. The objects covering artificial satellites, our class will be held September 9, 11, 16 and 18 planetary system, stars, galaxies, nebulae and from 10-11:50 am at the Temple Baptist Church more. We hope to use it in conjunction with astronomy course offerings. It is designed, also, "Honorary Degree" Awarded to to accept a 64T-adapter for connection to a Jenny Pierson by Ray Rasenberger 35mm camera for both sky and terrestrial photography. at Annual Meeting

Poem to Jennifer M. Pierson on the Occasion of POET WANTED her "retirement" Jenny Pierson, our poetry workshop leader, is retiring after 12 years. Her class of aspiring Twelve years ago poets is distraught you landed like a songbird from the sky to help and is urgently seeking someone to take her us make our own songs. place. If you know of any published poets who It wouldn't be easy, as you soon might be willing to rescue our discovered, but you, being you, carried on. would-be poets, please let us know at the OLLI "Read 100 poems for every one you write" was office. Everything about the job is negotiable your favorite (and forgotten) repeat. except the pay which consists entirely of the So every semester you assigned us new satisfaction of helping senior fledglings spread reading to take us where true poets dwell -- their wings. avant garde to Iliad, love them or hate them, we read them and grew. References: Path Among Stones, a book of Then you listened benignly as we read poems from prior classes published by OLLI the poems we had written, fortified by your last year. candy machine at the break, and kind words only for all. You took our poems home between classes to read and write your suggestions: a Board of Directors better phrase here, a new line break there, & Committee Chairs missing commas, strange words were o.k. (But watch those apostrophes!) And always OLLI Board of Directors somewhere in that scribble, treasured words of Chair: Selma Rosenthal* encouragement. Vice Chair: Don Quayle* And then each semester making books Secretary: Beverly Zweiben* of our poems - a labor of love unearned. Treasurer: Bob Coe* But how you managed to do the rest of Members: William Blacklow, Ruth your life we never understood: teaching at GW, Darmstadter, Ed Goldin, Tina Fried Heller*, Irwin grandchildren in town, husband Stuart and that Lebow, Carl Rappaport, Ray Rasenberger, Helen famous dog; you steadily writing poems of your Schwartz own, the tarot cards (Yes!), volunteer all -- nighters at Walter Reed soothing soldiers and * Executive Committee families, still smiling next morning in class. Time to move on we must sadly Committee Chairs acknowledge - "herbal medicine doctor" so Administration: Jaleh Labib fitting. But to your students Audit: Ed Stelzer and OLLI you'll always be our Budget/Finance: Bob Coe

Catalog Editors: DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Gloria Kreisman & Barbara Johnson

Cohn Fund: Bernard Young

Curriculum: Gloria Kreisman Facilities: Harold Schneiberg Fall Catalogs Hospitality: Consuelo Hirshon Investment: Judith Berson The Fall catalogs will be sent around the last Lectures: week in July. Please e-mail us your August Beverly Zweiben and Ruth Darmstadter addresses if different from the one we have on Membership & Publicity: file. Remember--we have online registration Jack Chamberlain & Helen Schwartz also. Newsletter: Barbara Johnson Personnel: Mary Bullock Study Group Rep. Coordinators: Computer Class this Fall Sue Boley and Ange Hassinger We are delighted to be offering a computer Technology: class this fall through American University's Helen Schwartz and Irwin Lebow Anderson Computer Lab. Two experienced OLLI computer users have taken on the challenge of organizing a computer 101 class for our group. Look for it in the catalog! NOCHE FLAMENCA

Quick Links This exciting group of flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists has been making news OLLI Website lately, with performances in New York and OLLI Lectures Washington this summer. We thought you would Today at American University like to know that the artistic director, Martin OLLI Registration Santangelo, and primary dancer, Soledad Barrio are Ed Goldin's son and daughter-in-law.

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Selma Rosenthal, Board Chair / Anne Wallace, Executive Director

Lena Frumin, Program Manager / Barbara Johnson, Newsletter Editor Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter October 2008

Mark Your Calendar Letter from the Chair

Congratulations, Members--Here we are starting our 27th year at October 2008 OLLI, and we are off to a great 3 Board Meeting (1pm TBC) beginning. 7 First Tuesday Lecture 8 Study Group Reps and Bell Ringer Luncheon We have 58 exciting classes, 580 members (a (noon, Capital Hall Auditorium) record) and 80 new members. Thanks to the 9 No Classes Curriculum Committee for recruiting such 13-17 Food Drive interesting new SGLs and,of course, we are 17 First Curriculum Com. Mtg for Spring 2009 (1 delighted to have our veteran SGLs returning. PM TBC) 23 Health Care Reform Lecture We are trying to broaden our relationships with 28 Town Meeting (12:15 PM TBC) other organizations in the Washington area. (12-12:50 TBC) 31 Study Group Leader Luncheon (noon, Mary As a result of a the wonderful presentation by Graydon Center) the Capital Area Food Bank in the June Lecture Series, we are sponsoring a Food Drive during OLLI Lecture Series the week of October 13-17. Please bring canned or boxed goods to contribute. There will be boxes in room 6 which will be picked up by Our lecture series is online at our website, Friday the 17th. Please read Jeanne Talpers www.olli-dc.org. Press the button for OLLI and Sue Boley's article about hunger in Lecture Series. Please join us for an Washington DC in this newsletter. See also the interesting series. Thanks to Barbara Rollinson list below of the Food Drive "Top Ten." and Beverly Zweiben for organizing the lectures. Additionally, we are pleased to be offering a class at Iona Senior Services (at 42nd & Food For Thought Albemarle Streets) and are looking at additional ways to collaborate with them. Did you Know?

--Selma Rosenthal 1. In the DC Metropolitan area, at any time, 633,000 out of 2,500,000 people are at risk of hunger. Of those 633,000, 200,000 are children. Condolences 2. A family of four with an annual income of $80,000 pays the following: We mourn the loss of longtime OLLI member William Gasperow. a. $30,000 for housing (average rent on a three- bedroom apartment) b. $20,000 for child care (average daily cost of licensed care for two children) Curriculum Committee c. $6,300 for health care (per person) The Curriculum Committee will begin its d. $18,000 for transportation (two cars, car planning for the Spring Semester shortly. notes, insurance, fuel, maintenance, parking, Committee members are interested in transportation, etc.) recommendations for Study Group Leaders. If you are interested in leading a group or want to Total: $74,000 recommend someone you think would be a good leader, call one of the committee members This covers only the four major expenses, listed below. leaving less than $6,000 for food, utilities, clothing, taxes, medicine, etc. Curiculum Committee Gloria Kreisman, Chair 3. Nearly one in four families served by food banks owns their own homes. Law, Politics & Government Myrna Whitworth These astounding facts stunned OLLI members who attended the June lecture by Lynn Brantley, Psychology, Sociology & Culture President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Elaine Kirk Bank, and Reuben Gist, Director of Advocacy and Community Outreach. Natural Sciences Ed Goldin and Barbara Searle Currently, the Capital Area Food Bank provides 20 million pounds of food to over 700 agencies Music: Alan Frey in the region. But as Ms. Brantley and Mr. Gist Art: Sidney Steinitz emphasized, hunger is the tip of the iceberg. Unemployment, underemployment, illiteracy, Literature lack of job skills, inadequate health care, and Gloria Kreisman child care are some other major concerns. History and Geography The 700 recipient agencies include homeless Sandra Levenbook shelters, food pantries, soup kitchens, child and adult day care facilities, senior centers, low- Philosophy income housing developments, faith-based Alice Bralove and David Palmeter organizations, medical clinics, and vocational training service centers. By providing food to We are looking for someone to fill the these agencies, the food bank enables them to Economics position on the committee. fund their specific programs rather than allocate Suggestions? money to food.

All who attended the lecture were moved, and Bell Ringers many expressed interest in volunteer Thanks also to these Bell Ringers, who will opportunities. help keep us running on time, and to Jaleh

Labib, who recruited them. Anyone desiring to know more about the Capital MONDAY Area Food Bank can check the website AM Hanne Careher www.CapitalAreaFoodBank.org and/or contact PM Bob Hausman Claudia Morris at (202)536-5377 or TUESDAY [email protected] to join a group tour of AM Ed Goldin the facility. PM Frances Pelzman WEDNESDAY --Sue Boley and Jeanne Talpers AM Joe Lowenstein PM Linda Miller (Most sadly, Reuben Gist died suddenly last THURSDAY month.) AM Peter Wolfe PM Stanley Asrael FRIDAY AM Jim Nix Study Group Representatives Thanks to our terrific group of Study Group Representatives First Graduates and to Ange Hassinger and Phyllis Homes for organizing them. Our first class of Study Group Class Number/Study Group Rep. Leaders 101 Susan Blacklow "graduated" this 102 Amelie Burgunder September. All 103 Barbara Kerne agreed that the 104 Stanley Asrael five sessions 106 Sid Booth were very valuable and helped new and 123 Victoria Danos "seasoned" study group leaders feel more 123 Donald Quayle confident in leading a group. We plan to offer 129 Samuel Lawrence this course again in the Spring, so consider 138 Phillip Schwartz whether you might be interested in joining up 139 Lois Coon next time. 142 Robert Bullock 152 Chapin Carpenter 154 Jacqueline Birn OLLI at IONA Senior Services 155 Polly Lawrence Many of you will note that our poetry class this 211 Kenneth Guenther semester is being held at 213 Yvonne Bishop IONA Senior Services at 218 Gina Guglielmo 4125 Albemarle St NW. 220 Carol Bird Ravenal IONA has been providing a 223 Ange Hassinger continuum of information, 224 Mary Shoemaker education, counseling, and care to seasoned 304 Robin Hutchinson adults and their families since 1975. They have 319 Phillip Schwartz developed a new initiative to promote wellness 448 Edie Levine through the arts. To do that, IONA has opened 449 Helen Schwartz a gallery and will host three resident artists 450 Marilyn Newton annually and offer many art workshops and 451 Harold Talisman events free of charge. Mike Shaffer, a 452 Gerry Padwe Maryland artist, is currently showing at the 453 Stanley Sadin IONA Gallery. You can meet the artist October 454 Judith Berson 16 from 5-8 pm. Email Patricia Dubroof, IONA 455 Vonn Quayle Gallery Director ([email protected]), to be 509 Victoria Danos placed on the mailing list or if you are interested 536 Alice Bralove in becoming a future Artist in Residence at 544 Sue Boley IONA Gallery. Phone 202.966.1055 or 548 Natalie Mulitz www.IONA.org. IONA is fully handicapped 553 Anna Boyd accessible. 556 Alan Frey 603 Martha Horne 669 Sorrell Caplan Quick Links 689 Amelie Burgunder 690 Sol Gnatt OLLI Website 691 Sarel Kromer OLLI Lectures 692 Dolores Kirby Today at American University 693 Barbara Johnson OLLI Registration 694 Mary Bullock 695 Anne Mansfield Handicapped Parking Spots 696 Peter Richardson 697 Linda Miller Please reserve the handicapped 698 Gloria Kreisman parking spots in the church parking 707 Sue Boley 714 Fred Levison lot for those who really need them, 726 Kathleen Jeschke and make sure your permit is 727 Mary Shoemaker prominently displayed. 761 Lawrence McCarthy 771 Sidney Steinitz 774 Phyllis Homes Special Lecture: October 23 776 Harold Schneiberg Al Hirsch will 777 Ruth Weisgall Health Care Reform Plans 815 Jacqui Gallagher be discussing Obama vs. McCain's plans for 816 Bruce Douglas Health Care Reform in a special lecture from 12- 12:50 on Thursday, October 23 in room 6 of the Temple Baptist Church.

CIVIL WAR TRIP

Wednesday, Nov. 5. This year the Civil War Bus trip will be venturing forth to Gettysburg accompanied by acclaimed historian Ed Bearrs and experiencing Day One of the battle. Please join them. Pick up a sign up sheet at the TBC or call Chris Bradley at 301.718.4583 if you have questions. The cost is $50 and the group will be leaving at 7:45 am and returning at 6 pm.

Food Drive "Top Ten"

1. Canned Protein (tuna, chicken, salmon, peanut butter)

2. Canned Fruit (applesauce, peaches, pears, pineapple)

3. 100% Fruit Juice (all sizes including juice boxes)

4. Canned Vegetables (mixed, green beans, corn)

5. Soups (beef stew, chili, chicken noodle, turkey rice)

6. Cereal (Cheerios, Cornflakes, Grape Nuts, Raisin Bran)

7. Easy & Ready Meals (macaroni & cheese, pasta bowls, canned pasta)

8. Healthy Snacks (raisins, dried fruit, nuts, cereal bars)

9. Hygiene Products (bar soap, toothpaste, shampoo)

10. Paper Products (paper towels, toilet paper, diapers, facial tissue, paper plates & cups,

plastic forks & spoons)

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 202.895.4860 Email: [email protected] Website: www.OLLI-DC.org Selma Rosenthal, Board Chair / Anne Wallace, Executive Director / Lena Frumin, Program Manager / Barbara Johnson, Newsletter Editor Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter November 2008

Special Lecture on Letter from the Chair the Economy and Seniors When it's time for me to write my monthly column, I try to think of an eye-catching sentence to start John Peterson, CFP, with. This month I have two "winners". and OLLI SGL, will be talking on Thursday, First: OLLI was cited in the Friday, 10/17 November 13, from 12- Washington Post Weekend section which noted 12:50 at the Temple "Seniors luck out big time at AU". Baptist Church. He will talk about the wild Second: OLLI members filled seven huge cartons with donations to the market and how it Capital Area Food Bank. The Food Bank gratefully said that our affects seniors and contributions amounted to 847 pounds of food. They are able to provide their pensions. one meal for each pound. A heartfelt thanks to all who contributed.

November It's hard to believe, but very soon forms will be available so each of us 7: Board Meeting (1 pm can respond to an invitation to the annual Holiday Party. The big TBC) change this year is our new official "ballot box" which will be set out on the back table in room 6 for your responses. We owe a debt of thanks 13: Special Lecture on to Pat Johnson for this gift. See below for more information on the Seniors and the Economy luncheon. (12-12:50 TBC)

Have a Happy Turkey Day! 19: Spring Proposals Due

21: Final Curric. Com. --Selma Rosenthal Meeting (1 pm TBC) Nominations Committee 26-28: NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Break for the OLLI Board of Directors

New The Board of Directors will appoint a Nominations and Elections Publications Committee by early November and charge them with the task of selecting six nominees for four vacancies on the Board for the 2009 Helen Schwartz election. The Board consists of 12 members elected for three-year ecstatically announces terms, four members being elected each year.

The Committee will make its selections in accordance with the OLLI Policies and Procedures, completely independent of the current Board, in consultation with one another and with emphasis on the background and experience of each potential nominee. that her Members who would like to volunteer either themselves or a colleague first as a possible candidate may submit a special form to the Committee. Forms will be posted on the bulletin board, and copies are available in the office.

The names of the Nomination Committee members will be posted before Thanksgiving. The elections will be held at the Annual Meeting in May. Photos and biographical data of all candidates will be posted in early published fiction, a April and mailed to every member prior to elections. short story entitled On the Sixth Night of The People of OLLI Hanukah, is now available in the holiday Sandra Levenbook: Teacher and Traveler crime anthology, Dying in a Winter Wonderland, When Sandra Levenbook was an illiterate four- with profits from sales going to the US Marine year-old in her native Bologna, Italy, she lined up Corps' Toys for Tots her dolls and began teaching them to read. She charity. Helen's story is pursued her teaching dream to the University of one of 13 stories about Florence where she got a degree in English literature and, since then, Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and the Yule has taught in classrooms around the world. traditions of the ancient Scots.Contact After marrying a British biochemist, Leo Levenbook, she found herself, [email protected] in 1950, "going from Cambridge, England, to Cambridge, Mass." The for more information. next year, they transferred to Philadelphia where Sandra taught at a Book of Essays Friends school. When another transfer brought them to Montgomery

A new book called County, she decided to get a Master's degree from the University of Literary Maryland in Middle Eastern Studies, feeling that her Italian accent was Criticism inappropriate for teaching English. With the new degree, she began as Dream teaching in the social science departments of the County school Analysis: Essays system. In all this, she was supported by her husband who realized that on his "wife goes berserk if she does not teach." Renaissance and

Modern Writers, by And teach she did. In 1967 she had a grant to study in Egypt. Although OLLI SGL Jeanne Addison Roberts has the grant had to be postponed a year because of the Seven Days War, been published. It she was able in 1968 to visit Egypt, a country she loves. An assignment features essays on of her husband's in 1975 led her again to Egypt where she taught at the Shakespeare and other Girl's College of the University. While her husband was based in Chile in Renaissance writers. Contact Jeanne for the late 60s the she taught at the Colejio Americano in Santiago, Chile. more information and an order form. While based in Chile, the family traveled to the nearby countries and [email protected] then decided to drive back to the US so they could visit all the Latin New Poetry Book American countries. Determined not to plan ahead, they discovered in Mexico that a large convention had booked all the major hotels. Trusting Sandra's Spanish skills, they found beds at a small, clean hotel After ten years of on an out-of-the way street. The next morning at breakfast her husband, work in the poetry who had been unable to sleep because he heard doors opening and study closing all night, announced, "I think we spent the night in a brothel." group at OLLI led Although she has visited Russia and all of the major European by Jennifer countries, she prefers the intellectual stimulation in non-Western Pierson, Marilyn countries and treasures her adventures in Jordan, Syria, Israel, Greece, Heilprin has published a Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, and book of her verse. "The Thailand. Danger of Flowers" uses the natural world and the author's At OLLI, the tall, slender, elegantly dressed Italian has combined her experience of painting travel experiences with her love of teaching and has led many study to craft poems of loss groups, including courses on the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Russian and renewal. Copies are available through Literature, and foreign policy. Currently she is teaching "Imperial [email protected]. Russia," a survey course of Russian history through Bloody Sunday of January 1905. Let us know...

Send us information When not teaching or traveling, she serves as a docent at the Kreeger about your publication or book so we can share it Museum, reads 19th-Century English Literature, listens to the music of with others. that period, or visits her daughter and two grandchildren in Quito, Ecuador. Inclement Weather Policy

If Montgomery County or --Jaqueline D. Gallagher DC schools experience delays or cancellation, OLLI classes are Laura de Schrenk cancelled. Watch your tv/radio/internet. (For those who missed this... Laura taught at OLLI for 24 years.)

The news of Laura de Schrenk's dying only added a degree of sadness to our sense of loss during her absence these last years. She left her devoted students aware that no matter which the philosopher we studied, the importance was in the right questions, not in finding answers. She looked to us for interesting comments and attitudes. We were aware of her political activity in Mexico, but it was never a subject of her courses. She died June 30.

--Donn Block

Holiday Party Dec. 16: All members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and their guests are cordially invited Holiday Party to a Holiday Luncheon.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Social Hour 12:00 (with cash bar)

Luncheon at 12:30

Kenwood Golf and Country Club 5601 River Road Bethesda, Maryland

$30 per person

Please return RSVPs and checks to the Church or OLLI office by Tuesday, December 9 Make checks payable to OLLI

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December Letter from the Chair

5: Board Meeting (1 pm As the hours of daylight grow shorter and the TBC) and last day of temperature hovers around freezing, we "OLLIites" Mon., Wed., and Fri. are approaching the end of a wonderful semester. classes. Besides great literature, science, and history

9: Last Tues. Lecture. classes, and discussion groups relating to current topics, there were field trips to such places as 11: Last day of Tues. and Gettysburg, PA, the Sackler Gallery, and the Thurs. classes. National Gallery.

16: Holiday Party (noon, The December 16th Holiday Party at noon at the Kenwood Country Club Kenwood Country Club, on River Road will give us the opportunity to preview Elizabeth Smith 5601 River Road). Brownstein's performance lecture where she will be talking, in January, about Abraham Lincoln's Life in Music. There is a lucite box for your Thanks reservation and check on the back table in Room 6. Hope to see you at the party! Many thanks to Barbara Rollinson, November brought our country an opportunity to turn over a new leaf in Hope Bogorad, and the history books. Coincidentally, three of our spring semester SGLs are Beverly Zweiben for offering courses on where we are coming from as a nation, focusing on coordinating a wonderful issues related to the Constitution. More to follow in the January and varied Fall Lecture newsletter. Series. --Selma Rosenthal Thanks to Ange Hassinger and Phyllis January Lecture Series Homes for organizing a dedicated group of We have a terrific lecture series booked for January. Starting with study group William Kristol, founder and editor of the Weekly Standard on representatives. January 6th, and ending with esteemed AU law professor Herman Schwartz on the 29th. Lectures will take place Tuesdays, We appreciate Jaleh Labib's organizing a Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10-11:45 am. Location of the team of envelope lectures will be determined very soon. More information will be stuffers and bell ringers. available on our website, www.olli-dc.org. Please call us and we will mail you a copy of the brochure if you do not have computer Too much thanks cannot be given to access. Gloria Kreisman, chair of the Curriculum Nominations Committee Committee. She approaches OLLI with for the OLLI Board of Directors commitment, humor, and grace. The Board of Directors has appointed the following members to the Nominating Committee: Ruth Darmstadter, Tina Fried Heller, Barbara Barbara Johnson is a Kerne, Larry McCarthy and Jim Newmyer. patient and careful editor, who keeps us To run for the board it is necessary to be a member of OLLI, to have honest and concise. given prior service to OLLI, and to submit appropriate background We also thank her information (passport-sized photo and brief biographical information). profusely. Board Nominees should have skills appropriate to the needs of the board (including organizational, financial, leadership skills). Members Thanks to SGL, Dave who would like to volunteer either themselves or a colleague as a Palmeter for donating possible candidate should contact one of the above nominating his class gift to the committee members; however, the slate is completely at the discretion OLLI Future Fund. of the nominating committee. Anyone who wishes to run, but is not chosen by the Nominating Committee, must submit a petition to the Computer Class office. Nomination petition forms are posted on the bulletin board at the Helper Temple Baptist Church, and copies are available in the office. Please submit the petition, photo, and biographical information by March 13,

We are seeking an 2009 to the office. assistant for the Computers 101 class The elections will be held at the Annual Meeting in May. Photos and on Wednesday biographical data of all candidates will be posted in early April and afternoons in the mailed to every member prior to the elections. Spring. Any one interested in sharing The People of OLLI their skills? Please Sol and Naomi Glass contact the OLLI office.

Let us know... The home of Naomi and Sol Glass, in Chevy

Send us information Chase, DC is crammed with shoulder-high about your publication or shelves of CDs and books. The walls display book so we can share it hangings and lithographs that the couple began collecting as a way of with others. personalizing their often furnished quarters as they moved from college Keep our Membership through graduate school, explains Naomi, the practical one. The Healthy overflowing shelves also reflect the Glasses' intense interest in If you're coughing, if academics and the arts. you're sneezy,

If you're feverish or In 1948,as an undergraduate at CCNY, Sol discovered ballet. queasy, Purchasing a 10 cent student ticket and paying another 10 cents for subway fare, he attended his first performance, watching Balanchine's We wish you well; we fledgling New York City Ballet in a program that included a piece of think it best, music he loved, Stravinsky's "Firebird." After André Eglevsky made his That you stay home entrance with a shoulder-high leap from offstage, the budding physicist and get some rest. was hooked. He soon inspired his fellow Brooklynite Naomi to become a balletomane. Both are irate at current performance prices, feeling that Your classmates, on "shutting out poor people from art is not right!" the senior side,

Would be sincerely The Glasses both went to Cleveland for graduate degrees, she for an gratified. MS in Experimental Psychology and he for a PhD in Physics. In 1953, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, where Sol was fulfilling his military --Barbara Johnson, Gloria Kreisman commitment, his company commander cited him for a disciplinary action just short of court martial. His offence: arriving late because he Inclement Weather had walked the five miles to the base after his daily ride forgot to tell Sol Policy he was unavailable that day. Immediately afterward, Naomi and Sol If Montgomery County or learned to drive and bought a car. DC schools experience delays or cancellation, OLLI classes are Sol's National Science Foundation/National Research grant brought cancelled all day. Watch them to the National Bureau of Standards here in Washington, a city your tv/radio/Internet. whose cultural attractions they prize. Shortly thereafter, Howard University expanded its graduate physics department and invited Sol, already an adjunct professor there, and three of his National Bureau of Standards colleagues to join the department. He spent the rest of his career there.

Naomi spent those years raising their three sons, sometimes taking them to her League of Women Voters meetings. When the boys were old enough for her to work full-time, her League and math backgrounds landed Naomi a job in the DC tax office. Within six weeks she became its budget officer and then the director's special assistant.

In 1991 they retired and by Spring 1992, were at OLLI taking John Bass's course on the Belle Époque. John persuaded Sol to teach a course on the science of that golden period, an era that included the advances made by Curie, Freud, Einstein, and Rutherford.

The Glasses treasure OLLI because it exposes them to courses they couldn't take in college. For Naomi this has included the Civil War, ballet, literature, and history. While Sol was teaching, Naomi found a different way to contribute to OLLI. She served as Chair of the OLLI Board, as well as being a member of the Board and of the Curriculum Committee.

Sol has continued his physics teaching (15 courses so far) at OLLI. He thrives on challenging his new students, a mix of neophytes and those with strong science backgrounds. "They are all bright, and all want to be there," so he makes sure that the math is kept to a minimum and is explained clearly. But, his eyes twinkling, he admits that he "sometimes throws some math in just for fun."

Judith Berson, one of his student fans, describes Sol's contagious enthusiasm: "He's like a 20-year-old. He's never lost his love of his subject, and his grin lights up the room, and this makes him a wonderful teacher." The retired physicist was asked if he missed not having lab equipment to experiment with. "Oh, no. I'm a theoretical physicist. That means in theory, I'm a physicist, and all I need is a desk and a waste basket."

When asked what they would like to see in OLLI's future, Sol expressed the wish that its riches could be shared by people who cannot go up and down stairs.

--Jaqueline D. Gallagher

Holiday Party Dec. 16: Holiday All members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and their guests are cordially invited Party to a Holiday Luncheon.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Social Hour 12:00 (with cash bar)

Luncheon at 12:30

Kenwood Golf and Country Club 5601 River Road Bethesda, Maryland

$30 per person

Please return RSVPs and checks to the Church or OLLI office by Tuesday, December 9 Make checks payable to OLLI

------cut here and return Names:______

Enclosed amount for ______reservation(s) at $30 ______

Please consider me for a complimentary ticket_____