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Kaleidoscope Lifelong Learning at ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL 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 1 SPECIAL INTERESTS 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.
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