SPRING 2018 Kaleidoscope Lifelong Learning at ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL

5204 Roland Avenue• Baltimore, Maryland 21210• 410.323.5501• www.rpcs.org Welcome to Kaleidoscope Spring 2018!

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. - Ronald Reagan

Come and grow with us this spring! Kaleidoscope Lifelong Learning at Roland Park Country School is dedicated to providing opportunities to learn, discover, and explore. As we prepare for the spring semester to begin at RPCS, we encourage you to embark on a new learning adventure of your own. We are pleased to provide a wonderful array of offerings this semester, including new classes and trips, as well as returning favorites. Highlights include: Judy Pittenger’s Great Books Series on The French Realists and Trollope, lectures on the musical Hamilton, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes, author Col. John Fenzel sharing “A Green Beret’s Perspective”, as well as our Art Lectures focusing on Women in Art History, and day trips to the Philadelphia Flower Show, St. Michaels, and back for a second year, the Baltimore Food Tours. New this semester are more daytime class offerings. There truly is something for everyone!

Whether you’ve been a friend of ours for years or this is the first time you’re discovering our offerings,Kaleidoscope is open to all! We hope you will explore the catalog to find programs that speak to your interests, and share your experiences with family and friends. Remember to register online early so that you do not miss our most popular offerings. Registration will begin on February 1, 2018. Please look to the Compass tab at www.rpcs.org to find our digital catalog and online registration for all offerings.

Please contact our office at 410-323-5501 or by email at [email protected] with any questions or for assistance during the registration process. We look forward to welcoming you to campus this spring!

Kindest Regards,

Kristin Jarrell Quinlin Porter Director of Compass Programming Associate Director of Compass Programming

Head of School: Caroline Blatti Director of Compass Programming: Kristin Jarrell Associate Director of Compass Programming: Quinlin Porter

Kaleidoscope Advisory Board: Leigh Bolton, Christy Beers Carey, 1989, Alexa Corcoran, Paula Gore, Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981, Kathy Hudson,1967, Peggy Waxter Maher, 1951, Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958, Katrina McPherson, Libby Murphy, Honorary Alumna, Diane Shapiro, Michelle Sun Smith, 1989, Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948, Rhona Wendler, Louise White, 1955, Margot Bond Wittich, 1958, Dickie Wyskiel SPECIAL INTERESTS ...... 1 - 6 DAY TRIPS ...... 7 - 8 THEATER ...... 9 HEALTH, WELLNESS & DEVELOPMENT ...... 10 HISTORY & CULTURE ...... 11 - 13 CREATIVE PURSUITS ...... 14 - 15 SPECIAL INTERESTS

THE BEST OF HAMILTON: or hate the series; find it fascinating EXCERPTS FROM THE MUSICAL or exploitative; you probably have an opinion about Bond. Regardless Ellen Katz NEW of where you stand, there is no Thursday, May 10 & 17 question that a close study of the 24 7:00 - 8:30 PM $65 films produced by EON Productions In this class you will have the can teach us a lot about the growth ultimate “Hamilton Experience” with and development of cultural and Ellen Katz, renowned Broadway edu- filmmaking aesthetics since 1962. Join tainer. Ellen will present classes that will film critic and professor Christopher connect you to “Hamilton”, through Llewellyn Reed for this thought the history of Alexander’s life and provoking lecture. the creation of this powerful musical. You’ll see and hear videos and vibrant LEGACY 101: SHARING YOUR visuals with the amazing Lin Manuel STORIES Miranda and the feisty founding fathers Rich Polt (Washington, Jefferson, and Adams). NEW The passionate songs of the three Wednesday, April 25 Schuyler sisters, Hamilton’s wife Eliza, 6:30 - 8:00 PM $15 and his sultry mistress Maria Reynolds Each of us has a compelling personal will also be included. Ellen will speak to story grounded in our individual the multiracial cast who sing and dance experiences, passions, and goals. Our our history through a contemporary lives are adventure stories, filled with lens. Also she will provide the historical love and loss, challenges and rewards, content that describes the dramatic failures and successes. Like ripples in a battle of Yorktown, the early cabinet pond, we each leave an indelible mark meetings, the love affairs, and the dual on the people around us, and on future with Aaron Burr that ends the life of generations. However, for a variety of Alexander Hamilton. This course is reasons, most of us neglect to record a must for anyone interested in the our personal stories. We tell ourselves musical Hamilton! Get an in-depth we’ll do it next year, or that “people look at the life of Alexander Hamilton won’t be interested in what I have to and what inspired Lin Manuel Miranda say.” The irony is that we’re spending to write this historical musical! money on estate plans and wills, but we’re not safeguarding the essence of 00 - CINEMA: THE BOND LEGACY who we are. In this session, producer and communicator Rich Polt will teach Christopher Llewellyn Reed NEW you the basics of unpacking your own Monday, April 16 story, and techniques for capturing it 7:00 - 9:00 PM $40 as a gift to yourself and a legacy for “Bond. James Bond.” Thesethe future. Using examples from his words, uttered on movie screens for production company Acknowledge the first time in 1962’s Dr. No, have Media, attendees will be moved and since come to represent mystery, entertained, as they further clarify the adventure, intrigue, sex, glamour, and narratives within their own lives. much more, depending on who you are. They have also been a symbol of colonialism, sexism and racism, and other unfortunate “isms.” For a while, Sean Connery, the first actor to play the famed British spy, was one of the most famous celebrities on the planet. Over the past 55 years, the 007 franchise – the longest-running film series ever created – has evolved to fit changing times. Whether you like Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig; all of the above or none of the above; love the series

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A GREEN BERET’S THE STEM INSTITUTE AT PERSPECTIVE NEW ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL Col. John Fenzel (Retired, U.S. Army) NEW Wednesday, April 11 David Brock and Bill MacDonald 6:00 - 7:30 PM $15 Wednesdays, April 4, 11, 18, 25 As a retired senior Army Special 6:30 - 8:00 PM $100 Forces Officer (“Green Beret”) and Just what does all the recent author of three novels, John will share attention on the STEM fields mean his experiences from the West Wing of for our classrooms, our society, and the White House and the E-Ring of the our future? Learn what today’s RPCS Pentagon, to the many war zones he students are discovering in this three has operated in around the world. John week series of courses devoted to the will relate the power of humanity in the various ways the STEM disciplines face of searing conflict; of friendship in intersect and support each other, and the wake of crisis, and the enormous see first-hand (and hands-on!) why value of storytelling, its lost art, and STEM is going to change your world. the tremendous importance it holds for THE PHYSICS OF LIGHT future generations. What is color? It is not as simple John Fenzel is a retired senior Army Special Forces a question to answer as one might officer who has served on battlefields throughout expect. Come learn all about the world. He has served on the personal staff of the electromagnetic spectrum and why all Secretary of Defense, as a Special Assistant to the objects are fundamentally colorless: see Vice President, as a strategic planner for the Chief ordinary red and yellow folders become of Staff of the Army, and as a White House Fellow white and black right before your eyes! during the Clinton and Bush administrations. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LIGHT He commanded a Special Forces Battalion at Fort What is a pigment? How does the Bragg, North Carolina and an Army brigade at eye distinguish one wavelength of light Fort Knox, Kentucky. In the wake of the 9-11 from another? How does the brain attacks, he served as Staff Director for Tom Ridge create the perception of color? These in the Homeland Security Council. He was the are just a few of the questions we will principal architect of The Homeland Security explore about the human brain and Advisory System, our nation’s first public warning this sense we call “sight.” system for terrorist threats. He is the author of the critically acclaimed thriller, “The Lazarus THE GENETICS OF LIGHT Covenant”. Why are men more often color blind than women? Why don’t all In his 30 years of military service, John has served animals have color vision? How did in numerous command and staff positions around sight evolve? Come explore the genetics the world. During Operations Desert Shield and of how organisms of all shapes and sizes Desert Storm, he commanded a Special Forces became able to perceive the light waves “A-Team,” training, equipping and advising a that stream through our atmosphere Kuwaiti Battalion and accompanying them during and why only certain parts of the the liberation of Kuwait. He has commanded three electromagnetic spectrum are visible Special Forces companies, leading the first Army deployments to Pakistan and the Baltic States. In THE ENGINEERING OF LIGHT Bosnia, he commanded the special operations teams How do our computers and in the U.S. and British sectors, working closely televisions produce color images? How with the United Nations to secure the indictments can colored light be used to create 3D and convictions of those responsible for war crimes images? Why are some lasers dangerous in Srebrenica. He is the only active duty American while others are harmless? These are military officer to testify at The Hague in support the topics we will examine in this of the International Criminal Tribunal for the lesson as the concepts of the physics, Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). psychology, and genetics of light come John is a graduate of the Naval War College and together to make modern technologies the National War College. Born in Iowa and raised that employ color possible. outside Chicago, John lives with his wife and three children in Annapolis, Maryland.

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THE ANNE HEALY CHAIR OF About the Healy Lecture ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND The Anne Healy Chair of English LITERATURE LECTURE Language and Literature is the endowed James Blue Faculty Chair created to honor the late Anne Healy, Headmistress of Roland Thursday, March 22 Park Country School from 1950 to 7:00 PM 1975. The recipients of the Chair are ADMISSION IS FREE, RSVP REQUIRED experienced members of the School Join Senior faculty who demonstrate a love of Content and the discipline of English, exemplary Special Projects teaching skills, and a deep concern for Producer for the students as individuals. The Chair PBS NewsHour, is awarded annually by the Head of James Blue as he School after consultation with the shares his insight Board of Trustees. Each year a special and experiences day is set aside and a visiting author during a lecture delivers the Anne Healy Lecture. entitled, “The Character is in the Details Over 25 Years of Telling Stories NAVIGATING LIFE’S NEXT Around the World.” STEPS- PART ONE James Blue is a seasoned and award-winning PANEL DISCUSSION TOPIC: YOU AND television production executive. He is currently YOUR HOME senior content and special projects producer for Tuesday, April 17 NEW PBS NewsHour. In that role he produces projects 6:30 PM that extend the NewsHour brand across platforms. ADMISSION IS FREE James oversaw the streaming of NewsHour’s inauguration coverage on Twitter - with 6.8 Join us for Part One of our new million unique views - the most viewed streaming series focusing around life’s next steps. event ever on the platform. He is currently executive Our panel of experts will share their producing a new primetime program for PBS thoughts and insights. A question and “Brief But Spectacular”. An expansion of the most answer session followed by an informal successful show-closing segment on the broadcast meet and great will take place. Light into a standalone program. James previously served refreshments will be served. This as Washington Bureau Chief and White House program is designed for all ages. correspondent for ARISE News, a UK-based Part One- You and Your Home 24-hour news channel focused on Africa. James speakers will include the following: organized the channel’s Washington coverage, and Village at Home: The mission of as the channel’s director of special events oversaw Village at Home is to build a supportive the production and development of brand-defining community for all ages, with an initial broadcasts including coverage of Nelson Mandela’s focus on providing activities and funeral in South Africa. services for older adults so that they James is a graduate of Princeton University’s may have the practical means to live Woodrow Wilson School of Public and full lives in their homes. International Affairs. Prior to starting his own Next Step Baltimore: The mission firm he was a producer in the Koppel Group at at Next Step Baltimore is whether the Discovery Channel. Over the course of his moving, downsizing, organizing, career James’ work has won every major broadcast closing an estate, or staging a home journalism award including eight national Emmy for sale, there are a million decisions Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards, to be made. Our job is to provide the three George Foster Peabody Awards, two Overseas logistics and resources so you can make Press Club Awards, the Walter Cronkite Award for decisions that are right for you. Excellence in Television Political Journalism, and The Option Group: A Certified the NABJ Award for Overall Excellence. James Geriatric Care Manager (GCM) can was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award for help families navigate longevity by Young Journalists. conducting assessments, offering consultation, and providing recommendations for seniors or those with disabilities.

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THE IMMORTAL SHERLOCK Italy’s greatest 19th and 20th-century HOLMES writers. Over 7 sessions we will read NEW four classic Sicilian novels that will help Greg Ruby us reflect on the peculiar character of Wednesday, May 9 the island, beginning with Giovanni 7:00 - 9:00 PM $40 Verga’s realist family drama The House Sherlock Holmes first appeared by the Medlar Tree, about the struggles of an impoverished family from a in 1887 in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. small fishing village on Sicily’s eastern By 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle coast, and moving on to Giuseppe di would pen 56 short stories and 4 Lampedusa’s The Leopard, which tracks novels featuring the detective and his the demise of the island’s aristocracy and chronicler, Dr. John Watson. Doyle Sicilians’ ambivalent response to the would publish other series such as The Unification of Italy. We will also read Lost World and the Brigadier Gerard Elio Vittorini’s modern masterpiece, Adventures, among others. Doyle would Conversations in Sicily, and Leonardo also become active in politics, criminal Sciascia’s mystery novella, The Day of justice and spiritualism in his later life. the Owl, one of the first literary works Who was the inspiration for the to examine the causes and effects of character of Sherlock Holmes? What the Mafia. Participants will come were some of his methodologies? What away having read four great novels life details are we able to glean about and gained a better understanding of Holmes and Watson from the stories? the place Goethe called “the key to The Guinness Book of World Records everything.” Sessions led by author and listed Holmes as the “most portrayed Italian translator Will Schutt. movie character” and he has appeared in thousands of stage productions, Please purchase: plays, pastiches, parodies and much The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga more. We’ll take a look at several of (University of California Press) these and also discuss some current The Leopard: A Novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa projects that will be coming in the near (Pantheon) future. Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini (New Holmes is such a cultural icon Directions Paperback) that many believe he was a real person The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (New and he still is getting letters mailed York Review Books Classics) to him everyday at 221b Baker Street in London. We’ll discuss “The Great WRITING POETRY Game” and the Sherlock Holmes fans Will Schutt who participate in it. NEW The presentation will be augmented Thursdays, April 5, 12, 26, May 3, with both audio and visual clips 10, 17, 24 6:30 - 8:00 PM $200 LITERARY SICILY Interested in writing poems? Eager NEW Will Schutt for feedback on your writing? Curious about contemporary poetry but a bit Friday, April 6, 13, 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25 baffled by it? In this workshop, writers 4:30 - 6:00 PM $200 of all levels will generate new work Separated from mainland Italy by based on short readings of modern a mere couple of miles and hovering and contemporary poetry. Think of it just above Africa, Sicily is often as a call-and-response workshop. In- considered a world apart, one that has class writing assignments will ask you been conquered and celebrated for not only to imitate stylistic features of centuries by North, South, East and other poems—rhyme, image, narrative, West. Its beautiful beaches make it a aborted narrative—but reflect upon paradise for tourists while its poverty their ideas and attempt to enlarge them. and political instability have made it We will pay attention to the shapes and a breeding ground for the Mafia. To sounds of these poems as well as to their the Normans and Moors it was the subjects and tones. Participants can hub of civilization. To Carthaginians expect to write several new poems and and modern Europeans, a battlefield. receive close feedback from peers and It is also the birthplace of some of the instructor in a supportive setting. 4 SPECIAL INTERESTS

THE FRENCH REALISTS: TROLLOPE: THE BARCHESTER BALZAC AND FLAUBERT CHRONICLES Judy Pittenger Judy Pittenger PROGRAM ONE: Tuesday, April 3,10,17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22 Mon., April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21 7:00 - 8:30 PM $185 4:30 - 6:00 PM In his Barchester Chronicles, PROGRAM TWO: Anthony Trollope creates the fictional Thurs., April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24 world of a provincial cathedral town 4:30 - 6:00 PM $185 and its surroundings in which the In Great Books we will consider whole of the human comedy is played French realism as demonstrated in the out along the lines of Balzac’s La novels of Honoré de Balzac and Gustav Comédie humaine. This is a world Flaubert. The realists were characterized peopled with English parsons and by their honest and uncompromising parishioners, titled aristocrats and presentation of reality, achieved by impoverished old pensioners, small an almost microscopically detailed town professionals and members description of the environment. We of Parliament, people whose lives will read one novel of Paris and one are filled with emotional dilemmas of the provinces, thus enabling us to and petty jealousies, ambitions and consider various elements of 19th desires. Trollope is interested in the century French society. Père Goriot by social forces that undergird human Balzac is a variation on the theme of interactions, especially the appetite for Shakespeare’s King Lear in which an power and prestige. His satire is gentle, aged father is rejected by his daughters. his humor easy-going as he condenses One of Balzac’s most powerful into delightful comedy the crisis of the characters, the energetic and demonic Victorian era: the need for reform. Vautrin, who dominates the novel, is Of the six Barchester novels we will based upon an actual French criminal. read three: the first two-The Warden Père Goriot forms part of Balzac’s and Barchester Towers—and the sixth, extended vision of French society in his The Last Chronicle of Barset, when the magnum opus collectively entitled La characters of the first two works return Comédie humaine. Our second novel, to center stage. The novels are filled Madame Bovary, is Gustav Flaubert’s with some of English literature’s most first novel and his masterpiece. memorable characters: the warden Flaubert was obsessive in his pursuit of of a cathedral almshouse, gentle Mr. stylistic perfection, and the novel had Harding, the soul of goodness who tremendous influence upon subsequent faces a moral testing; the ambitious, writers. Its central character, Emma odious, and slimy Obadiah Slope who Bovary, dreams of a sublime romantic sends shockwaves of unease through destiny but is defeated by mundane Barchester’s diocese as he works his reality. A story of provincial malaise and way into power; Mrs. Proudie, a adultery, the novel caused a sensation termagant of formidable proportions, because of its frankness and provoked her poor hen-pecked husband the a government lawsuit for immorality. Bishop riding perilously in her wake; Our study of these two giants of French Mr. Crawley a cold but good man who realism will also include a consideration faces an accusation of theft he cannot of mid-19th century France, from the disprove. Trollope treats his characters Bourbon Restoration to the era of with imagination and sympathy as they Louis Philippe, the Citizen King, and struggle with the moral ambiguities of Napoleon III, the people’s emperor. We everyday life. His characters’ follies are will consider the role of the Catholic a reflection of our own, and he makes Church in French life, the rise of the us laugh as well as think. middle class, the contrast between Paris The Warden. Penguin Classics. and the provinces, in fact all elements ISBN 978-0140432145 of the human comedy. Barchester Towers. Oxford World’s Classics. Père Goriot, Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 978-0199665860 ISBN 978-0393971668 The Last Chronicle of Barset. Oxford World’s Madame Bovary, Vintage Classics, Classics. ISBN 978-0199675999 ISBN 978-0679736363 NOTE: Please read The Warden before the first class. 5 SPECIAL INTERESTS

ONCE UPON A CHINATOWN A TASTE OF THE MIDDLE EAST BALTIMORE FOOD TOUR Jessica Grosman, MS, RD, LDN NEW Sharon Reuter NEW Wednesday, April 11 Saturday, May 19 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM $45 3:30 - 6:30 PM $75 Take your Chinatown in taste buds on a Baltimore? Who trip to the Middle knew? In this East without ever tour, you will leaving Baltimore! enjoy delicious Experience the dim sum and vibrant flavors other delicacies of this ancient- while learning inspired cuisine through a creative lens about the once-bustling two-block area as you learn to make several recipes in the heart of downtown. Find out using fresh ingredients. Za’atar, the what happened to the vigorous Chinese traditional eastern Mediterranean spice community that once inhabited the area blend, will be the common thread that and discover what newer immigrants ties the dishes together. Participants have opened restaurants nearby. This will take home their own hand-made tour is truly an international eating jar of Za’atar and receive tastes and experience that may include Turkish, copies of all the delicious recipes that Peruvian or Ethiopian cuisine, in Jessica will demo. All recipes in this addition to Chinese. course are completely plant-based and gluten-free. NOTE: Walking tours are held rain or shine. Directions to be provided. Water and tea are included in the tour price.

TORTILLAS, TORTAS AND TAMALES BALTIMORE FOOD TOUR NEW Sharon Reuter Saturday, June 9 1:00 - 4:00 PM $75 Explore the eateries in Fells Point while learning about Mexican and Central American cuisine. Enjoy an informal afternoon by walking with a small group and stopping to savor tasty small plates. The Mexican, Honduran and Salvadorian food will be authentic and the experience will be unique. NOTE: Walking tours are held rain or shine. Directions to be provided. Water, sangria and coffee/tea are included in the tour price.

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WALKING PATHS OF ROLAND SPRING GARDEN TOUR PARK Kathy Hudson, 1967 and Dickie Wyskiel Judy Dobbs and Kathy Hudson, 1967 Thursday, May 31 Sunday, April 22 (Rain Date: Thursday, June 7) 2:00 - 4:00 PM $40 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM $100

On this popular seasonal Join us for an English garden tour adventure, you will discover and without leaving Baltimore. Designed explore the unique footpaths of the for Kaleidoscope by garden writer Roland Park community while learning Kathy Hudson, our spring garden about the history and architecture adventure features three outstanding of the neighborhood. In developing Baltimore County gardens, each with a this community in the late 1800s, the distinctly English influence. Although Roland Park Company incorporated never before featured by Kaleidoscope, into its plan a series of footpaths, they have been included on local and 18 in all, designed to expedite foot national garden tours, as well as in traffic between various sections of regional and national magazines. the neighborhood, especially in those The130-acre Halcyon Farm and where the terrain made it difficult to neighboring Halcyon House are build roads. Designed by Frederick owned by Stiles Colwill and Jonathan Law Olmsted, Jr., son of the famous Garugiulo. He and Garugiulo have landscape architect Frederick Law surrounded their rambling 18th- Olmsted, Sr., in collaboration with century house with broad lawns and Edward H. Bouton, general manager lush planting beds. Hidden behind of the Roland Park Company, the paths the house is a series of walled, terraced were part of a hierarchical system of gardens. Artistically designed and roads in front of houses, service lanes themed, some gardens are for topiary, in the rear, and footpaths that provided while others are for annuals or convenient ways to cross through the vegetables, hydrangeas or ornamental neighborhood in a natural setting. trees, each accented with an extensive Each path is named with a distinctly collection of unusual antiques. country ring: Squirrel, Hilltop, Laurel, The two horticulturally rich Ruxton Tulip; others are decidedly British: gardens have been more recently Audley End, Tintern, St. Margaret’s, developed. In the newest garden the Litchfield. original 1929 boxwood garden was NOTE: Meet at Roland Park Branch of incorporated into a 2003 redesign with stone walls and walkways, a lily pond, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 5108 topiaries and meticulously maintained, Roland Avenue. deep perennial borders. The other Ruxton garden is an “island paradise,” developed over 16 years by a self- described “plant nut” and her husband. Curvaceous island beds, filled with fine plants, trees and shrubbery, weave through an expansive lawn. With four seasons of interest, plant collections include Japanese maples, boxwoods, hydrangeas, and native plants, as well as magnolias and dogwoods. NOTE: Mini coach will depart from 5603 North Charles St. Lunch held at Green Spring Valley Hunt Club. 7 DAY TRIPS

PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW: ST. MICHAELS MARYLAND AND WONDERS OF THE WORLD THE CRAB CLAW RESTURANT Superior Tours Superior Tours NEW Wednesday, March 7 Sunday, July 15 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM $100 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM $135

Join us as we partner with Superior On this unique day trip you will Tours and travel to the Philadelphia visit beautiful St. Michaels, Maryland. Flower Show. Don’t miss this annual Named one of the top 10 Best Small event held at the Pennsylvania Coastal Towns in America by USA Convention Center. Today, St. Michaels is a picturesque This year’s theme promises to be harbor on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. nothing short of spectacular! The St. Michaels is known for exceptional 2018 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, restaurants, from quaint romantic “Wonders of Water,” will celebrate the bistros to waterfront restaurants, beauty and life-sustaining interplay of serving fresh seafood including the best horticulture and water, showcasing the tasting crab cakes! For shoppers, you astounding plants that thrive in various will find an eclectic range of boutique environments, from exquisite orchids shops offering specialty foods, jewelry, and flowering vines to luminescent clothing, home decor and art galleries desert blooms. throughout the town. Make incredible memories at the You will start our day at the Crab world’s oldest and largest indoor Claw Restaurant (voted best crab cakes flower show, attracting more than by Southern Living Magazine in January 260,000 people annually. The Show 2010). Enjoy spectacular harbor views features large-scale gardens, elaborate from the air conditioned dining room landscapes, and over-the-top floral or watch the daily catch arrive on the creations. outdoor deck. You’ll enjoy the finest seafood served in the informal Eastern Trip includes: Shore style by folks that know seafood • Roundtrip transportation aboard best. Superior Tours luxury motor coach After lunch you are on your own • Continental breakfast en route to enjoy a bike ride, shop at the eclectic • Ticket to the Flower Show range of boutique shops offering • Departing at 8:00 AM from specialty foods, jewelry, clothing Pikesville (Greenspring Shopping and home decor as well as galleries Center) throughout the town, or visit Justine’s • Depart Philadelphia at 4:00 PM Ice Cream Parlour, where they have been scooping ice cream and selling shakes for over 25 years! Trip includes: • Roundtrip transportation aboard Superior Tours luxury motor coach • Drinks and snacks served on the bus • All you can eat, delicious crab feast at the Crab Claw Restaurant • Four hours to explore St. Michaels • Depart Greenspring Shopping Center at 10:00 AM • Depart St. Michaels at 5:00 PM 8 THEATER

WAITRESS AN AMERICAN IN PARIS RIGHT ORCHESTRA LEFT ORCHESTRA Hippodrome Hippodrome Friday, February 2 Friday, May 4 8:00 PM $85 8:00 PM $85 Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s Optional bus transportation provided beloved film,Waitress tells the story from RPCS campus departing at 7:00 PM of Jenna - a waitress and expert pie An American in Paris is the maker, Jenna dreams of a way out of new hit musical about an American her small town and loveless marriage. A soldier, a mysterious French girl and baking contest in a nearby county and an indomitable European city, each the town’s new doctor may offer her a yearning for a new beginning in the chance at a fresh start, while her fellow aftermath of war. Acclaimed director- waitresses offer their own recipes for choreographer and 2015 Tony Award- happiness. But Jenna must summon winner Christopher Wheldon brings the strength and courage to rebuild the magic and romance of Paris into her own life. Don’t miss this uplifting perfect harmony with Tony Award- musical celebrating friendship, winning orchestrations of unforgettable motherhood, and the magic of a well- works from George and Ira Gershwin made pie. in the four-time Tony Award-winning production that earned more awards BEST OF BALTIMORE THEATRE than any other musical in the 2014- Vincent Vizachero 2015 season! Lectures: Friday, March 23, April 6 6:30 - 8:30 PM PAW PATROL LIVE: THE GREAT PIRATE ADVENTURE Shows: Friday, April 20, 27, May 4, 18 8:00 PM $165 ORCHESTRA Experience an in-depth curated Hippodrome introduction to the best of Baltimore’s Saturday, May 12 2:00 PM vibrant theatre. We have selected four Sunday, May 13 10:00 AM $50 of the most exciting and captivating X barks the spot in the new plays being performed in Spring tour PAW Patrol Live! “The Great 2018 in Baltimore: your registration Pirate Adventure”! It’s Pirate Day in includes a ticket to all four shows plus Adventure Bay, and Mayor Goodway two nights of information about the is getting ready for a big celebration! vibrant history of Baltimore’s small But first, Ryder and his team of pirate professional theatres, the plays you’ll pups must rescue Cap’n Turbot from a be seeing, and much more. Theater mysterious cavern. When they do, they aficionado Vincent Vizachero will do also discover a secret pirate treasure the research and legwork, uncovering map! The PAW Patrol set out over land the best productions as they are in and sea to find the treasure for Mayor development, and present you with a Goodway’s celebration before Mayor great way to discover the best of what Humdinger finds it first! The pups will Baltimore theatre has to offer. Vincent need all paws on deck for this pirate studied theatre at the College of adventure, including some help from William and Mary in Virginia, and has the newest pup … Tracker! worked at theaters including the Santa Fe Opera and Jacob’s Pillow Dance NOTE: Everyone in attendance requires Festival. a ticket for entry. No transportation NOTE: Lectures will be held at is available for either show. Roland Park Country School. Show information and directions will be provided prior to the show. Show dates may change due to unforeseen circumstances.

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ZUMBA the Vedas, Buddhism, Vipassana and Jewish Meditation techniques to help Sylvia Botts you be more calm and relaxed in your Monday, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, daily life and to view the world with 14, 21 heightened clarity and awareness. The 4:00 - 5:00 PM $150 by-product of a regular meditation In this class you will take the practice is true happiness! “work” out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves PERSONALITY TYPES AND for an interval-style, calorie-burning PERFORMANCE dance fitness party. Once the Latin and Colleen Sabatino World rhythms take over, you’ll see NEW why Zumba® Fitness classes are often Wednesday, March 7 called exercise in disguise. Benefits of 6:30 - 8:30 PM $60 this program include: a total workout, By understanding ourselves better, combining all elements of fitness – we unlock our innate synergies and cardio, muscle conditioning, balance, potential. This experiential workshop flexibility, and boosted energy. Each uses the insights gained from the Zumba® class is designed to bring classic personality assessment, Myers- people together to sweat it on! All Briggs Type Indicator, coupled with ability levels welcome. engaging activities to yield powerful new insights about individual STRONG BY ZUMBA performance. Participants learn about Sylvia Botts all four dichotomies and sixteen type preferences provided through Wednesday, April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, interactive problem-solving, exercises, 9, 16, 23 and discussion. Participants experience 4:00 - 5:00 PM $150 “personality in action” through fun In this class, music and moves sync challenges, learn their individual type in a way that pushes you past your preferences, and craft strategies for perceived limits, to reach your fitness improving their performance. goals faster. STRONG by Zumba™ NOTE: Fee includes materials costs combines high intensity interval for the assessment and guide to be training with the science of Synced completed prior to the workshop. Music Motivation. Using your own body weight, you will improve muscular endurance, tone, and definition. The FINANCIAL PLANNING: ARE YOU high intensity intervals will get your PREPARED FOR YOUR FURTURE? body burning calories long after your Kathy Armstrong and Elizabeth Paal, 2005 workout. All ability levels welcomed. Certifed Financial Planner and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor MEDITATION FOR HAPPINESS Wednesday, April 18 Susan Weis- Bohlen 7:00 - 8:30 PM $15 Monday, April 16, 23, 30, May 7 Instructors are generously donating 6:30 - 8:00 PM $125 their fee for this program to RPCS. Just as we want to choose the Planning for your future should healthiest foods for our body, we can be exciting! To ensure that your goals learn how to choose the healthiest are attainable you need the right tools thoughts for our minds. In this for your finances. In this workshop, program you will explore the time- we will give you the tools to build tested meditation techniques that teach your financial roadmap. There are you how to gently and easily work many components to your finances with your mind to let go of negativity, that you need to combine in order to constant chatter, and anything that isn’t come up with a plan that will work serving you. Peace of mind, a deep sense for you. To name a few - cash flow, of ease, and satisfaction with the way debt management, risk management, things are is attainable now. Learn how investments, retirement and education to make friends with your own mind. planning. Possessing the tools is the Susan draws from her experiences of first step to a new financially savvy you! 10 HISTORY & CULTURE

MARYLAND HISTORICAL of music clubs like the Tuesday Club, SOCIETY: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Florestan Society, and H. L. Mencken’s LECTURE SERIES Saturday Night Club, as well as lasting institutions such as the Peabody Two lectures below are held at: Institute and the Baltimore Symphony Maryland Historical Society Orchestra. He will also discuss the wide 201 West Monument Street range of music created and performed Baltimore, MD 21201 by Maryland’s African American musicians along Pennsylvania Avenue www.mdhs.org in racially segregated Baltimore, from jazz to symphonic works. Cocktails: 6:00 PM Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30 PM LOST BALTIMORE LANDMARKS Reception: 7:30 - 8:30 PM GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN TEN RESTURANTS THAT Wayne Schaumburg CHANGED AMERICA Tuesday, April 24 7:00 - 8:30 PM $40 Paul Freedman, Ph.D., Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University Join Baltimore historian and educator Wayne R. Schaumburg for an Thursday, March 8 $60 illustrated program that looks at famous From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Baltimore buildings which no longer Chez Panisse, food historian Paul stand in “Charm City.” Baltimore like Freedman will present a daring and many other large cities has undergone original history of dining out in major changes to it physical appearance America as told through ten legendary in the last 65 years. Some of these restaurants. Combining a historian’s lost landmarks still resonate with rigor with a foodie’s palate, he will our collective memory McCormick reveal how the history of our restaurants Company, Ford’s Theater, the Pimlico reflects nothing less than the history of Racetrack clubhouse, O’Neill’s America itself. Whether charting the Department Store, and Haussner’s rise of our love affair with Chinese Restaurant. Others may be forgotten food through San Francisco’s fabled but still have great stories worth telling: The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Oriole Park, Shellhases Restaurant, the Italian food through Mamma Leone’s, Tower Building, the Fava Building, or chronicling the rise and fall of French and Monetebllo mansion. The class haute cuisine through Henri Soulé’s Le will also examine the reasons why Pavillon, Freedman uses each restaurant buildings have been lost. Baltimore’s to tell a wider story of race and class, approach to demolition has been immigration, and assimilation. similar to other U.S. cities. In the past, obsolete buildings have been razed. MUSICAL MARYLAND: Redevelopment is another factor, A HISTORY OF SONG AND Charles Center and Inner Harbor PERFORMANCE FROM THE COLONIAL serving as well-known examples. PERIOD TO THE AGE OF RADIO In some cases, Baltimore buildings have been the unlucky victims of fire David Hildebrand, Ph.D., Director, The especially in 1904, and then there is Colonial Music Institute just plain stupidity as in the demolition Thursday, April 5 $60 of the 19th century Druid Hill Park bandstand for additional parking space From the drinking songs of near the zoo. Finally we will look at colonial Annapolis, the liturgical music how old buildings are being recycled of Baltimore’s Zion Lutheran Church, through adaptive reuse rather than and the work songs of the tobacco being razed. So, join us as we look at fields to the exuberant marches of “old Baltimore” gone but definitely not late nineteenth-century Baltimore forgotten. Orioles festivals, and the triumphs of the Baltimore Opera Society, David Hildebrand will shed light on more than 300 years of Maryland’s music history. His work touches on the development 11 HISTORY & CULTURE

AN EYE ON ITALY the country of Montenegro, the harbor city of Kotor, and the town of Budva. John Butler Tuesday, March 27 PACIFIC WAR FOR THE 7:00 - 8:30 PM $35 JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE: Viva Italia! Come and enjoy an PART 1 amazing picture show that takes you Bob Mullauer to the historical, religious, artistic, nautical, and romantic country of Italy. Wednesday, April 18, 25, May 2, 9 The lecture will include information 7:00 - 9:00 PM $100 about Rome and its many landmarks There were many causes of the Asia- such as: the Coliseum, St. Peter’s Pacific War that raged from 1931 to Basilica, Vatican City, the Spanish steps, 1945. Our first class will start with the the Isle of Capri and its mysterious Blue peace conference at Versailles in 1919 Grotto, Sorrento and Assisi the home of and the division of the spoils from the St. Francis, and Pompeii, the southern Great War. It will end on December 6, Italian town preserved by volcanic ash 1941 as the Japanese aircraft carriers from Mt. Vesuvius’s volcanic eruption. and their escorts near the launching The World famous city of Venice point for the attack on Pearl Harbor. will also be included featuring an Class two will cover the origins of the intricate network of over 400 bridges Pearl Harbor plan as well as the attack joining picturesque islands, on- itself. Three chronicles the Japanese the-water homes, and the famous conquest of the Pacific from December gondoliers. The lecture will conclude 1941 through April of 1942. The course with pictures from Verona to see ends with the battles of the Coral Sea Romeo and Juliet’s famed balcony, (May 7 and 8) and Midway (June 4 the Lake District, the colorful Italian to 6, 1942). Why would this country Riviera city of Portofino, and the city want to take on the United States and of Florence. Also included is the 3rd the British Empire? How did they so largest cathedral in the world, Santa easily win control of a large part of the Maria Del Fiore. earth’s surface and just as suddenly have the door to further conquest shut on AN EYE ON CROATIA AND them? We will attempt to answer these MONTENEGRO and other questions from the Japanese John Butler viewpoint. Wednesday, May 16 MYTHS AND LEGENDS FROM 7:00 - 8:00 PM $35 ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA, Come see this exciting and EGYPT, GREECE, AND ROME beautiful presentation that showcases two coastal countries of the former Butch Darrell Yugoslavia – Croatia and Montenegro! Wednesday, May 16, 23, 30 Croatia – the size of West Virginia – is 6:30 - 8:00 PM $70 a land conquered by many through the In this series of lectures you will centuries, all of whom left their mark. learn about myths, legends, and stories This lecture visits Zadar, a walled from Early Man and Mesopotamia, city that dates back to Roman times Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. that is home to the world’s only sea You will be fascinated to see that organ and many Christian relics. Next, myths arrived independently in far beautiful Dubrovnik, the city called distant places, but are so much alike. the Pearl of the Adriatic Sea, with its We will consider various stories of stunning aqua waters and fortress creation, the formation of the human walls around the old city used in the race, and the role in human affairs of Game of Thrones and Star Wars. Next such gods and goddesses as Amun-Ra, is Split, Croatia’s second largest city Isis, Osiris, Horus, Marduk, Ishtar, where a retired Roman legionnaire Zeus, Aphrodite, and Athena. We will built a palace still seen today. Pictures also consider the lives of Gilgamesh, will include; Padna, the saltworks in Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Nin, and the small resort island of Trogir. The lecture will conclude with

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ART LECTURE: THE ESTROGEN this revealing mini series that seeks EFFECT: WOMEN IN ART HISTORY to explain the hidden layers beneath famous works of art. Ann Wiker Friday, April 13 ART LECTURE MINI SERIES: 1:00 - 3:00 PM $40 CRIME OF THE ART Louise Élisabeth Ann Wiker Vigée Le Brun was a French Thursday, May 24 & 31 painter, and is 1:00 - 3:00 PM $70 recognized as the The US most important Department of female painter of Justice currently the 18th century. ranks art crime as Berthe Morisot the third-largest was described as one of “les trois criminal enterprise grandes dames” of Impressionism in the world. The alongside Marie Bracquemond and increase in international art transactions Mary Cassatt. Marisol Escobar, Grace has helped create a booming market for Hartigan, Alice Neel, and Gabriele stolen and fraudulent art, and major Munter are lesser known female artists US arts institutions still struggle with and yet they each influenced the repatriation of stolen or looted objects launching of new art styles. Female in their collections. This mini series artists have been involved in making will explore the darker side of the art art in most times and places. Many art world: thefts, forgeries, vandalism, art forms dominated by women have been scams, and even historic confrontations historically dismissed as craft, instead between artists. of being considered fine art. Join Ann Wiker, Director of Arts Exposure Inc., “DO WE NEED A NEW for a discussion on some famous female CONSTITUTION?” artists and their contributions to the Joel Grossman direction of art history. NEW Monday, May 7 ART LECTURE MINI SERIES: 7:00 - 8:30 PM $35 BENEATH THE SURFACE- HIDDEN The U.S. LAYERS OF FAMOUS ARTWORK Constitution, after 230 years, is Ann Wiker the oldest written Thursday, May 3 & 10 Constitution in the 1:00 - 3:00 PM $70 world. Is it time for Why has da Congress to call a Vinci’s Mona new convention to Lisa remained revise it and bring an immensely it up to date? Join Joel Grossman, popular painting Professor of Political Science Emeritus over the years? and Academy Professor at Johns Why is the figure Hopkins University, as he shares his in Edvard Munch’s insight on this topic. famous painting screaming? What caused Picasso’s Blue Period? Why did Salvador Dali repeat the dripping clock image in his paintings? Throughout history artists have used their artwork to communicate meanings and feelings. They’ve included symbols and compositional designs as a language sometimes not obvious upon first viewing. Rumors and legends have emerged around certain masterpieces. All this and more will be explored in 13 CREATIVE PURSUITS

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NANTUCKET BASKETS FASHION AND FINE ART Leslie Goldsmith Ann Wiker NEW Mondays, April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14 Thursday, March 1 6:00 - 8:30 PM $125/ Materials Fee $90 4:30 - 6:30 PM $40 Bridget Riley was an Op Art painter in the 1950s who was insulted when her paintings were re-interpreted as textile designs. Campbell’s Soup offered a special edition Andy Warhol dress shortly after his Campbell’s Soup paintings became famous. There have been many connections between the worlds of fashion and fine art through the years. This class will take a closer In this class you will learn or look at those connections and ana- perfect the art of Nantucket basket lyze the impact on current artists and weaving. Baskets 101 students will trends. leave class with an 8” round Nantucket basket with a handle woven using rattan weaver and reed staves. Baskets IPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY 101 and 102 students will be mentored Meg Fairfax Fielding by the Guild, a group of experienced weavers who meet one night a week Thursdays, April 12 & 19 to weave baskets, exchange ideas, and 6:30 - 8:00 PM $60 share weaving experiences. 102/Guild It’s so simple to take pictures with will select baskets to work on, such as the camera on your iPhone, but are round, oval, nests, trays, and purses. you getting the best photograph that You are encouraged to bring projects you can? These two classes will take and weaving issues to the Guild for you through several simple editing assistance. programs, including the one on your NOTE: Guild materials fee is based on phone, and show you how to make project selection. your pictures even better. During the first class, we will focus on how what NANTUCKET BRACELETS makes a good photograph, how to take it, how to share it, and how to Leslie Goldsmith use iPhone editing features. During Wednesdays, May 2 & 9 our second class, we will learn about 6:00 - 8:30 PM $75/Materials Fee $75 photography apps and their features. NOTE: To participate in this program, you will need an iPhone 6 or higher with the most recent operating system installed. Required apps to install before the first class: The Nantucket Lightship Basket Instagram (free), Camera+ ($2.99) traditional weave is used to create a beautifully woven reed bracelet with and Snapseed (free). cherry endcaps. These bracelets have become extraordinarily popular on the island and, like the baskets, sell for hundreds of dollars. In this program you will learn the art of weaving wearable art! NOTE: Kit includes metal cuff, three preformed staves, weaver and cherry endcaps.

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EASIER PIPING FOR HOW TO PLAY MAH JONGG DECORATOR PILLOWS Iris Pressman Janet Waters NEW Tuesday, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5 Saturday, March 10 4:30 - 6:30 PM $160 9:00 - 12:00 $50 In this course you will learn how Piping can add pizazz to sofa to play Mah Jongg, which originated pillows. If you ever tried creating a in China. Similar to the card game pillow with piping, you have probably Rummy, Mah Jongg is a game of skill, experienced some level of frustration strategy and luck. The game uses small which resulted in a pillow you didn’t rectangular tiles stamped with symbols, really like. numbers and characters. The object of This workshop offers an “easier” the game is to be the first to assemble and more successful way to create combinations of these tiles into specific your own one-of-a-kind piped pillow. patterns that make up a hand. You Participants should know basic assemble combinations by picking machine sewing techniques and be and discarding tiles. Instructor Iris familiar with their sewing machine. Pressman has been playing this game Class will receive a short supply list for over 15 years and has taught many prior to the workshop. Participants will people how to play. She will provide the need to bring their sewing machines. Mah Jongg League’s card and helpful handouts. This class is geared toward SCRAPBOOKING beginners. NEW Bev Edwards Tues, March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 24, May 1 6:30 - 8:00 PM $125/Materials Fee $25 Do you have a box full of photographs that you haven’t pulled out in years? Memorabilia from a trip collecting dust in the closet? Digital photos you have never printed? It’s time to unearth these precious memories and present them in a format for all to enjoy through the art of scrapbooking. Experience the wonders and delights of this unique craft while creating a memory book that will become a well- loved family treasure. You will learn how to design original, imaginative pages for a scrapbook of your own, deciding whether you would like to focus on a particular theme, such as travel, family, holidays, children, pets or special events. Innovative scrapbooking tools, such as fancy scissors, punches, stickers, die cuts and other embellishments make this activity loads of fun. The instructor will teach some special techniques for eye- catching pages, allowing plenty of time to experiment with the tools provided. Beginners through experienced scrappers and everyone in-between are welcome. Bring a friend or gain some new ones as you make memories together! NOTE: Materials Fee includes a Scrapbook and other embellishments. Please bring pictures to the first class.

15 REGISTRATION Registrations will be processed through our online database starting February 1, 2018. Please note that if you have registered for a program after Spring 2017, the same username and password can be used. Since class sizes are limited, prompt registration is recommended. Full payment is required at the time of registration. Please visit rpcs.org/compass to complete registration. CLASS LOCATIONS All programs are held on the RPCS campus, unless otherwise noted. Please enter through the Harris Center main entrance, which is near the flag pole. Room assignments for programs will be posted in the Harris Center on the first meeting of class. Please sign in on arrival at the reception desk. PARKING Free parking is available in the RPCS well-lit parking lot and on streets surrounding the campus. Please note, however, that numbered parking spots on campus are reserved for empolyees use only Monday through Friday 7:30 AM until 4:30 PM. After 4:30 PM, you may choose any space. Handicapped parking spaces are marked. REFUNDS AND FEES A full refund will be made when a program is cancelled by RPCS, unless otherwise noted. Refunds will be given for cancellations up to two weeks before the beginning of the program. There will be no refunds for cancellations within two weeks of the start of the program. Please note that some programs may have special cancellation policies. CANCELLATIONS RPCS reserves the right to cancel or adjust any program that does not meet the minimum designated enrollment. Programs will be postponed or cancelled whenever RPCS closes early or closes for the day for inclement weather. Programs will be held when the school opens late. When feasible, an alternate date will be scheduled for the cancelled class. Please be sure to call the School at 410-323-5501 for information regarding all program changes. NOTE: RPCS does not follow the same closing policies as the Baltimore City Schools Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Baltimore, MD Roland Park Country School Permit No. 3621 5204 Roland Avenue Baltimore, MD 21210 410.323.5501 Visit us on the Web at www.rpcs.org/compass

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