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2008 Newsletters Combined 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.
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