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PROGRAM OFFERINGS 2018

SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER Around the World in Fewer than 80 Days! Special Events Lecturer: David Jones Around the World in Fewer than Artifactscontents at the Georgia Capitol . . . . . 16 Monday, October 1 80 Days! ...... i Auguste Rodin: Refl ecting Humanity . 4 5:00pm reception; 5:30pm program; Art Gallery Opening: Fran Th omas . . 22 Charles Lamar and the Slave-Trader’s 6:15pm reception continues Discovering Daufuskie Island ...... i Letter-Book ...... 4 Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church From Monet to Matisse ...... 16 Deadliest Catch ...... 20 50 Diamond Causeway Holiday Sing-Along ...... 23 Everyday Racism in America ...... 18 $15 for members; Introducing: Healthwise Fallen Empires of World War I ...... 5 free for visitors invited by members Movement and Stillness ...... 24 Fort King George ...... 15 Open House $25 TLC credit for members whose guests Sex and the Senior ...... 24 Gilded Age and Its Mansions ...... 2 become members on October 1 Travel Wellness ...... 25 Giorgio Vasari ...... 14 Yoga Studio ...... 25 Ivan Bailey This is the amazing story of and Elizabeth Bisland and their & His Savannah Ironwork ...... 21 race against each other and ’s fictional traveler, Phileas Fogg, to Travel King David ...... 14 circumnavigate the globe in fewer than 80 days in 1889-1890. Accomplished Jekyll Island: Enclave of Millionaires . . 3 Managing and Curating journalists and fierce competitors, theirs is a compelling story of amazing Louisisana Sojourn ...... 11 a Savannah Art Gallery ...... 23 adventures and misadventures in the days when traveling was unpredictable, Paris to Normandy ...... 9 Mary Shelley and Frankenstein ...... 15 dangerous, and all the more challenging for single young women. Pre-registration required Multi-Week Courses Massacre of Glen Coe ...... 5 Muckrakers: Wearing the Gilt Away . . 2 American South in Film (9) ...... 26 Newspaper Publishing in a New Age 20 Ancient Egyptian Art Power of Branding ...... 16 inauguRal Fall lECtuRE and lunCHEon and Architecture (9) ...... 13 Restoring the Berrien House ...... 15 Animals of the Scriptures (3) ...... 7 Resurgent Russia ...... 18 Contemporary Southern Authors (3) . . 8 Rethinking Savannah’s Image ...... 15 Fall of France, 1940 (8) ...... 9 DiscoveringLecturers: Jenny Hersch Daufuskie and Sallie Ann RobinsonIsland Robber Barons or Captains 12:00 noon on Wednesday, September 12 Financial Inequality in the U.S (3) . . . . 7 of Industry? ...... 2 Lunch buffet begins at 11:30am Gender Identity (3) ...... 8 Sea Level Rise in Coastal Georgia . . . 14 First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue Great War: On the Battlefi eld Th eordore Roosevelt and the $25 per person and Homefront (9) ...... 10 Conundrums of Success ...... 3 King Leopold’s Heart of Darkness (3) 6 U.S. Immigration ...... 19 Lying between Savannah and Hilton Head with its Louisiana in Fact and Fiction (9) . . . . 11 own isolated allure, Daufuskie Island seems like a Vanderbilts and Th eir Times ...... 3 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (9) 10 world away. Electricity came only in the 1950s, the first What Is a Wreckfi sh? ...... 5 telephone rang there in 1972, and even today the island is accessible only Russia Since the Revolution (8) . . . . . 13 Why is the Bible a Book? ...... 5 by water. In their new book, Jenny Hersch and Sallie Ann Robinson capture Russian Composers (9) ...... 12 Women of Th e Gilded Age ...... 2 the mystique of Daufuskie: home to Native Americans and enslaved people, Sea Turtles of the Georgia Coast (3) . . 6 Special Interests haven to pirates and Freedmen, military outpost, and today the enclave of Southwestern Native Americans (9) . . 12 a unique culture. Their extensive archival research, island-based interviews, U.S.-Israeli Relations (6) ...... 4 Art Studio ...... 23 and never-before-published photographs form the basis for this presenta- Book Club ...... 17 Plenary Lectures tion, complemented by a Daufuskie-inspired buffet menu including corn Foreign Language Conversation . . . . . 22 salad, seafood gumbo, and peach cobbler prepared by SCI’s executive chef Africa: Triumphs and Challenges . . . . 19 Local Vocals Choir ...... 23 David Pressley, in consultation with lecturer and cookbook author Sallie Ann America’s Opioid Epidemic ...... 19 Personal Computer & iPad Coaching 23 Robinson. Copies of the authors’ book will be available for sale at the event. Antifa and What it Means ...... 19 Writers’ Circle ...... 23 this program is sponsored by ambos Seafoods. Archeology of the Low Country . . . . 21 i Register online at www.seniorcitizensinc.org/tlc 1 Theodore Roosevelt and the Vanderbilts and Their Times America Conundrums of Excess Lecturer: Roger Smith Lecturer: Will Bryan 2:00pm on Monday, and the Gilded Age 2:00pm on Monday, November 5 November 12 2:00pm on Mondays, October 8 – November 12 Born into the privilege associ- Perhaps no other Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church • 50 Diamond Causeway ated with the American elite, surname is more Lecture series: $60 members; $120 visitors Theodore Roosevelt became an frequently and firmly Individual lectures: $10 members; $20 visitors unlikely antagonist to big business associated with the and a fitting punctuation mark at Gilded Age than that Robber Barons the end of the Gilded Age. Will of Vanderbilt. From or Captains of Industry? The Gilded Age and Its Mansions Bryan of Georgia State University the “Commodore” Lecturer: Byron Boyd Lecturer: Christopher Hendricks and Emory’s Bill and Carol Fox who founded the family fortune through 2:00pm on Monday, October 8 2:00pm on Monday, October 22 Center for Humanistic Inquiry water transportation to his progeny who at With the Gilded Age in recent With staggering reveals the paradox of TR, the different times safeguarded and then squan- memory and the U.S. gripped resources and “trust-busting” scion of wealth and dered millions, this lecture by The Learning by the Depression, Matthew highly skilled a moderating influence on an age Center’s director Roger Smith, captures this Josephson reflected grimly in 1934 and solicitous of indulgence. iconic family and its storied past. on many capitalists in his book, architects, The Robber Barons. Byron Boyd, magnates of retired American history teacher the Gilded Age lavished clav at Savannah Country Day School, island: en e of million huge sums on sumptuous homes – urban ekyll aires lays down the excesses of “robber j Holiday Getaway barons” alongside the innovation mansions in and fanciful and philanthropy of “captains of “cottages” in Newport and elsewhere – with to the Jewel of Georgia’s Golden Isles industry,” offering a mixed verdict twin goals: unprecedented luxury and conspic- December 9 through 11, 2018 on the era. uous consumption. History professor Chris Program leader and lecturer: Roger Smith Hendricks (GSU – Armstrong Campus) offers “All that Glitters”: a deliciously illustrated presentation on the Program price: $749 per person double occupancy (single supplement $250) Women of the architecture that symbolized the period. Jekyll Island’s rich history and architectural heritage converge in this Gilded Age The Muckrakers: Wearing the Gilt Away holiday-themed getaway. The Island’s storied past and its illustrious Lecturer: inhabitants – the Rockefeller family in particular – come to life through Anastatia Sims Lecturer: Rebecca Rolfes 2:00pm on Monday, October 29 thought-provoking lectures and fascinating visits to breathtaking 2:00pm on Monday, millionaires’ “cottages” in all their holiday finery. A perfect October 15 It wasn’t all mansions and millionaires. While combination of fine dining and learning, of site visits Confined by corsets and and leisure, makes this the perfect early-December retreat. constrained by Victorian the rich kept comfort- mores, women occupied able through the labor Program Highlights a realm all their own. of the masses on their • Concierge’s tour of the historic Stringent societal rules behalf, American writers Jekyll Island Club Hotel shined light on the imposed boundaries rarely crossed • Millionaires’ cottages, decorated by respectable women, who never- system’s abuses and the exploitation of the poor. for the holiday theless found brilliantly creative • The Rockefeller Experience means by which to fashion unique Journalist and managing existences. Anastatia Sims, history co-owner of imagination! publications, • Jekyll Island’s slave ship professor at Georgia Southern Rebecca Rolfes highlights the writers who Wanderer memorial University, is a scholar of the Gilded confronted society’s ills and sought lasting • Georgia Sea Turtle Center Age and biographer of Juliette change as the U.S. entered the twentieth Gordon Low. century. Charles Lamar and the addition to their beauty and strength. tist George Sedberry reviews wreckfish Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book This presentation by senior lecturer biology and management in the U.S. Lecturer: Jim Jordan Cynthia Costa of GSU’s Armstrong and the world, examining the status of SkidawaySkidaway Island Presbyterian Church 5:30pm on Monday, October 8 Campus chronicles the life of Rodin the fishery throughout its global range. 50 Diamond Causeway Reception begins at 5:00pm from a struggling youth to the most $15 for members; $20 for visitors; celebrated sculptor of his time. Why Is the Bible a Book? add $5 after October 1 Memory, Orality, and the Subject: History/Local Interest Massacre of Glen Coe Invention of Writing Lecturer: Emerson Thomas Lecturer: Daniel Pioske Historian and author Jim Jordan has 5:30pm on Monday, October 22 5:30pm on Monday, November 5 uncovered seventy lost letters by the Reception begins at 5:00pm Reception begins at 5:00pm notorious Savannahian Charles Lamar, $15 for members; $20 for visitors; $15 for members; $20 for visitors; infamous for his illegal importation add $5 after October 15 add $5 after October 29 of four hundred enslaved Africans to Subject: History Subject: Religion/History Georgia in 1858. Jordan’s book, The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, In 1692 Scottish Highlanders of the The Bible is fascinating in part because U.S.-Israeli Relations: the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the Clan MacDonald were murdered on it was written in an ancient world in A Seventy-Year Chronology African Slave Trade, traces the outrageous the order of the English King William which almost no one could read. This Instructor: Melinda Stein criminal life of Charles Lamar, sheds III. How could this happen? Civil war, lecture explores how the Bible came to 3:30-4:30pm on Mondays, light on the history of the slave trade, feuding clans, previous savage attacks exist and why it may have been written October 8 through November 12 and describes the Wanderer’s impact on on helpless civilians, and competing down at all. Georgia Southern University $40 for members; $80 for visitors; professor of philosophy and religious add $15 after October 1 the looming split in the Union. religious identities were factors leading to the Massacre of Glen Coe. Tom studies Dan Pioske retraces the history Subject: History Copies of The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book Thomas reveals how, even to this day, by which biblical stories transitioned will be available for sale at the program. Israel, a nation the size of New this historic atrocity is remembered in from memorized and oral traditions to, Jersey and home to seven million Scottish legend and song. in time, documents committed to writing by Hebrew scribes on scrolls. inhabitants, occupies a special place What Is a Wreckfish in U.S. foreign policy. In 1948, and Why Should I Care? Fallen Empires: The Downfall President Truman hastened to Lecturer: George Sedberry of Dynasties in World War I make America the first nation to Lecturer: Cheryl Ciucevich recognize Israel. In 2018, President 5:30pm on Monday, October 29 5:30pm on Monday, November 12 Trump moved the U.S. embassy Reception begins at 5:00pm Reception begins at 5:00pm from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In the $15 for members; $20 for visitors; add $5 after October 22 $15 for members; $20 for visitors; intervening decades, varying admin- add $5 after November 5 istrations have effected shifting Subject: Science Subject: History policies, each shaping America’s Auguste Rodin: When two relationship with the country Jesse exploratory The assassination of Russia’s impe- Helms called “America’s aircraft Reflecting Humanity Lecturer: Cynthia Costa vessels rial family resonates a century later, carrier in the Middle East.” This but the Romanovs were not the only 5:30pm on Monday, October 15 returned course examines this unique partner- dynasty to lose a crown after the Great Reception begins at 5:00pm to dock in ship, its effects on the region, and its 1987 with a War. In Austria-Hungary, it was the impact on relations between the U.S. $15 for members; $20 for visitors; add $5 after October 8 strange fish death of the Hapsburg heir, Archduke and other countries. Franz Ferdinand that launched the war. Subject: Art History that tasted A New York native, Melinda Stein has like grouper, a race began to market the In Germany, the Hohenzollerns were made her home in both Israel and the Auguste Rodin made sculpture a major deepwater fish, and catches soared to also forced off the throne. This lecture U.S. She has lived in Savannah since art form in the late nineteenth century more than 4 million pounds per year by Georgia Southern’s alumni affairs 1974. She has undertaken topics at TLC when painting had dominated academic by 1990. To prevent overfishing, biolo- associate director Cheryl Ciucevich that include the Bible and world reli- favor for two centuries. He focused on gists and fishermen worked together chronicles the fall of empires and gions, Judaism and the state of Israel. human experience and represented the to develop a scientific and economic discovers what has become of these flaws and weaknesses of his subjects, in basis for sustainability. Fisheries scien- formerly great families. 4 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 5 three-week courses at Bull Street Financial Inequality in America: three-WEEK Its History and Consequences courses Sea Turtles of the Georgia Coast Instructor: Robert Pawlicki at a Glance Instructor: Kris Williams Carroll 11:00am – 12:00pm on Tuesdays, October 9 through 23 Tuesdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm on Tuesdays, September 18 Subject: Social Sciences September 18 – through October 2 October 2 Subject: Science $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after October 2 11am – 12pm $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after September 11 Among the most reliably predic- Sea Turtles Kris Williams Carroll For thousands of years, sea turtles have served as important symbols in many tive factors of quality of life in any different cultures, yet within the last century, many populations have declined to society is the financial equality – or Thursdays, near extinction. This course discusses the cultural significance of sea turtles and inequality – of its citizens. This September 20 introduces the four species of sea turtles that nest along Georgia’s coast and the course details the history of wealth – October 4 important ecological roles they fill. The program also highlights current research inequality in the United States, 11am – 12pm discoveries and the success of local conservation projects. explores the ways in which finan- King Leopold cial inequality affects quality of Roger Smith Kris Williams Carroll is originally from and holds an M.A. in biology from life in this country and around the and Venessa Lott SUNY at Buffalo. She has been working with sea turtles since 1990, and in 1996 became globe, uncovers the reasons for which this one measure can be so Tuesdays, director of the Caretta Research Project (CRP) in Savannah. powerful, and finally proposed what Americans can do to influ- October 9 – 23 ence the disparity. 11am – 12pm King Leopold’s Heart of Darkness Financial Instructor: Roger Smith in cooperation with Venessa Lott Robert Pawlicki is a retired psychologist with degrees from the Inequality 11:00am – 12:00pm on Thursdays, September 20 through October 4 University of Hartford, the University of Missouri, and Toronto’s Robert Pawlicki Class meeting on September 27 extends until 1:15pm for a film and discussion. York University. He has held full professorships at the University of Thursdays, Subject: History/Literature Cincinnati College of Medicine and West Virginia University Medical Centers. His guest columns appear in the Savannah Morning News. October 11 – 25 $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after September 13 11am – 12pm Leopold II, King of the Belgians, took his place Animals of the Scriptures: A Biblical Menagerie Biblical Animals Linda Sacks among European imperial powers who claimed Instructor: Linda Sacks colonies worldwide. Leopold is known most noto- 11:00am – 12:00pm on Thursdays, October 11 through 25 Tuesdays, riously for the Congo Free State, a colony for his $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after October 4 October 30 – sole profit. Disregarding the Berlin Conference, Subject: Religion/History November 13 Leopold greedily exploited the land and merci- 11am – 12pm lessly mutilated and killed millions. This course The presence of animals in the Gender Identity consists of a lecture by Roger Smith with research Bible has long fascinated both Melanie Mirande scholars and lay readers. Are there from Venessa Lott, a documentary film with class Thursdays, discussion, and a review of Joseph Conrad’s short deeper meanings to the serpent in November 1 – 15 novel, Heart of Darkness. the Garden of Eden, Abraham’s 11am – 12pm ram caught in the thicket, the Southern Writers Text for this course: frogs of the Egyptian plagues, and Karen Neubauer Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (any edition) the big fish that swallowed Jonah? This course explores the ancient These courses Roger Smith is the founding director of The Learning and modern significance of these take place at Center of SCI, having previously served as a classroom teacher of American literature and and other animals, and how Judaism and Christianity came to Senior Citizens, Inc., French and as director of education at the Georgia Historical Society. think (often differently!) about what each creature represents. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah Venessa Lott earned a B.A. in sociology/psychology and spent most of her career in human Linda Sacks, MD is a retired neonatologist, a graduate of the University resources for a major insurance company. In her retirement, she became an early member of of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s College of Physicians The Learning Center and has served on its Advisory Council. She is also an active member and Surgeons. Her postgraduate studies were at Children’s Hospital of SCI’s Board of Directors. of Philadelphia. Studying the Bible in original Hebrew is one of her passions.

6 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 7 The Fall of France, 1940 three-week courses at Bull Street Instructor: Eugene Beirne Gender Identity: A Primer on Lives and Labels 12:30 – 1:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Instructor: Melanie Mirande September 18 through October 11 11:00am – 12:00pm on Tuesdays, October 30 through Subject: History November 13 $40 for members; $80 for visitors; $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after October 23 add $15 after September 11 Subject: Social Sciences In only six weeks, beginning in May 1940, LGBT…Q…A…N? The vocabulary is confusing, and the outnumbered Nazi invaders overcame gender pronouns bewildering. Traditionally, gender identities – Allied forces and placed France, Belgium, female or male – are assigned at birth based on a baby’s sexual characteristics. Now Luxembourg, and the Netherlands under groups and individuals are broadening these categories, describing gender not in their iron grip. The scene was set for binary terms but rather along a spectrum with numerous variations. This course German domination that would last until the D-Day invasion in 1944. The inter- discusses gender terms, illuminating definitions and equipping participants to be vening years meant shame and hardship for France: the fall of Paris, the insidious allies to the transgendered in an often hostile society. Vichy government, and the gathering shadows of the Holocaust and its victim- ization of French Jews. This eight-session course details military strategies, the Melanie Mirande researches in the realm of women and gender studies, gender equality, and excruciating stories of a conquered nation, and the saga of fascism versus freedom. gender identity both in the U.S. and around the world. She has taught at GSU’s Armstrong Campus and at The Learning Center. Eugene Beirne is a retired high school social studies teacher and school superintendent. He has had an interest in military history since he was in the tenth grade. He taught history Contemporary Southern Authors: courses for the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement in Utica, New York. Preserving Place in a Homogenized World Instructor: Karen Neubauer 11:00am – 12:00pm on Thursdays, November 1 through 15 Subject: Literature Journey of $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after October 25 Remembrance: Commemorating the 75th Today’s southern storytellers echo anniversary of d-day themes of Faulkner, Mitchell, O’Connor, and other literary May 26 through June 2, 2019 icons of this genre. This course Staterooms are extremely limited; examines the novels of the “new FROM THE D-DAY BEACHES reserve early! Contact Roger Smith TO THE LIBERATION OF PARIS south” and the authors who share for information and registration. their vision and experiences in mysteries, biographies, and This one-of-a-kind journey through history starts in historic Paris humorous adventures that keep and ends at Normandy’s D-Day beaches – the beginning of the end for Nazi readers glued to the pages of their creations. Writers such as Rick Bragg, Mark control of Europe – and features a great deal of French history in between! Childress, John Grisholm, George Dawes Green, Fannie Flagg, Lee Smith, and Roger Smith and Patti Lyons lead this tour on board the luxurious Jesmyn Ward populate this course which requires no reading, yet through lecture S.S. Joie de vivre where everything’s included: elegant staterooms, and film leaves participants eager to dive into its rich texts. local experts on all-inclusive shore excursions, and more. Karen Neubauer is from Iowa but has made her home in the South for decades. A career Highlights of the Journey travel professional who helped shape The Learning Center’s educational travel program, she • Paris – the City of Light that fell dark upon its 1940 fall to the Nazis • now works in her retirement for the Live Oak Public Library system. • Monet’s home and gardens at Giverny • • Medieval Rouen, site of the trial and execution of Joan of Arc • Be a Honor a favorite instructor, bring attention to a topic of • Bayeux, with its exquisite tapestry depicting William the Conqueror’s course special interest, and support TLC programs. Contact Roger conquest of Britain • sponsor! Smith at [email protected] or (912) 236-0363. • Normandy and its beaches, the site of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France •

8 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 9 Louisiana in Fact and Fiction nine-week courses at Bull Street Instructors: Roger Smith and Janet Stone nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil 10:30 – 11:30am on Wednesdays, September 19 through November 14 Instructor: Brian Martine Subject: History/Literature 10:30 – 11:30am on Wednesdays, $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 after September 12 September 19 through November 14 Subject: Philosophy Louisiana: more than a state, it’s a $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 state of mind. History and litera- after September 12 ture melt into images of bayous and bateaux, plantations and politics, What is “the good”? The array of elegance and evil. This course pairs responses to this question forms the biography and history with explo- core of western philosophy from rations of literary Louisiana: Kate Socrates onward. This course considers Chopin’s sultry life of Grand Isle; Nietzsche’s piercing and engaging young William Faulkner’s New critique of those responses in Beyond Orleans; Robert Penn Warren’s The Great War: On the Good and Evil, Battlefield and the fictional Huey Long; and Ernest J. Gaines’s depictions of race relations. Events and one of his most people – factual and fabricated – comprise this rich journey into Louisiana. Homefront influential works. Instructor: David Jones Deeply suspicious Roger Smith is a former American literature teacher who ended ten years in the high school 9:15 – 10:15am on Wednesdays, of dogmatism in all classroom to become museum educator at the Massie Heritage Center, director of education September 19 through November 14 its guises, Nietzsche at the Georgia Historical Society, and in 2006 founding director of The Learning Center. Subject: History sketches a way of Janet Stone earned her Ph.D. in history from Emory University and taught at $40 for members; $80 for visitors; thinking through add $15 after September 12 Armstrong State University for 32 years. In her retirement, she is a frequent instructor some of humanity’s and lecturer at The Learning Center, where her research and teaching interests take a This course takes a multi-dimen- oldest questions variety of directions. sional look at the many ways in insisting on accepting personal respon- which the First World War affected sibility for one’s conceptions of morality. The ideas found in this book reverberate life in the early twentieth century. Recent TLC courses by through every region of philosophy in In addition to following the political Janet Stone and Roger the 130 years since its publication. and military aspects of the war, the Louisiana Sojourn Smith highlight the course examines the effects on and Suggested text for this course: history and literature contributions of women, the role of Beyond Good and Evil by Frederick of Louisiana. TLC now journalism and propaganda, innova- Nietzsche (ISBN 9780679724650) offers an opportunity to tions in literature and the arts, the visit and its gruesome application of technology, Brian Martine is professor emeritus of environs to experience the the influence of anti-war move- philosophy at the University of Alabama legacy of the French and ments, and the failures of leadership in Huntsville. Having established the Exploring New Orleans and Nearby Plantations Spanish colonial periods that led to over 20 million deaths department, he chaired it for twenty years. March 11 through 15, 2019 and the complex history and laid the foundation for yet He served for ten years as director of the information and registration meeting of the antebellum South. another war. Humanities Center at UAH and led The 4:30pm on Wednesday, october 10 Striking remains of urban Metaphysical Society of America. He is the David Jones holds a Ph.D. in manage- wealth and plantation author of Individuals and Individuality, ment from Indiana University. During prosperity, alongside the Indeterminacy and Intelligibility. Sojourn Walking tours of historic New Orleans a long career in business and academe, neighborhoods, including the French cruel realities of enslaved he conducted leadership and organi- highlights Quarter people whose labors TLC acknowledges with gratitude zational development programs for Guided tours of historic house museums, made it all possible, Fortune 500 companies and served on the sponsorship of this course including the Hermann Grima House provide thoughtful reflec- eight university faculties. He teaches on by Jan Dorman and Diane Schmults. Visits to Louisiana plantations, tions on a particular time many topics at The Learning Center. including Laura and Whitney and place.

10 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 11 nine-week courses at Bull Street Sally Rountree Klein is a career educator, having Russia Since the Wednesday Russian Composers, served as both teacher and administrator in Revolution: Nicholas II NINE-WEEK courses Beyond Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, as well as to Vladimir Putin Instructor: Byron Boyd at a Glance Instructor: Warren Heilman Savannah Technical College where she was Dean of Wednesdays, Allied Health and Business Services. At The Learning 3:00 – 4:00pm on Wednesdays, 1:30 – 2:30pm on Wednesdays, September 19 through September 19 through September 14 through November 14 Center, she teaches a wide variety of subjects. November 14 November 14 Subject: Music Carol Hodges holds undergraduate and graduate There is no class meeting FIRST HOUR $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 after September 12 degrees in criminal justice, behavioral science and on November 7. 9:15 to 10:15am Russia has produced some of history’s disorders, and rehabilitation counseling. She has been Subject: History The Great War a lifelong student of indigenous peoples and their $40 for members; David Jones most gifted and memorable composers. The best known of these – Tchaikovsky spirituality, belief systems, and ritual practices. She is $80 for visitors; add $15 after September 12 SECOND HOUR and Stravinsky – too often eclipse a shaman and a Reiki master. 10:30 to 11:30am other significant figures such as Twentieth-century Russia is Louisiana in Fact Glinka, Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, bookended by Nicholas II, the and Fiction Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Glazunov, last tsar, and Vladimir Putin, Roger Smith Khachaturian, and Shostakovich. Even and Janet Stone another kind of absolutist leader if their names are unfamiliar, their of the Russian Federation. In Nietzsche: Beyond compositions are important. Indeed, a between lies the Soviet era, with Good and Evil number of their works are quite well Brian Martine its succession of leaders over- known. Brief biographical sketches quickly yield to a greater seeing the communist bloc of THIRD HOUR emphasis on analysis of tremendous music. eastern Europe and going nose- 1:30 to 2:30pm Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: to-nose with the West in waging Warren Heilman earned a B.M. in music education from Kent The Gift of the Nile Russian Composers State University and holds an M.S and Ed.S. from Georgia the Cold War. This eight-session Warren Heilman Instructor: Cynthia Costa course chronicles the events Southern. A retired school band director, he has been a musical 3:00 – 4:00pm on Wednesdays, September 19 Mysteries of director for Bay Street Theatre, Collective Face Performance and people comprising Russian Southwestern Native though November 14 history since the Revolution Americans Ensemble, Savannah Children’s Theatre, and Armstrong State Subject: Art History University. and points to elements of the Sally Rountree Klein $40 for members; $80 for visitors; Soviet/Russian story that serve and Carol Hodges Mysteries of Southwestern add $15 after September 19 as guides to the future. FOURTH HOUR Native Americans: The art and architecture of ancient Egypt evokes 3:00 to 4:00pm History, Culture, and the beauty and mystery of one of the world’s Ancient Egypt in Art Spirituality earliest civilizations. This course introduces the and Architecture Instructors: Sally Rountree culture, religion, myths, and artistic practices of Klein and Carol Hodges Cynthia Costa three thousand years of Egyptian history, begin- Russia Since the 1:30 – 2:30pm on Wednesdays, September ning with the unification of Upper and Lower Revolution Egypt through Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms Byron Boyd 19 through November 14 Subject: Religion/History to Egypt’s annexation by the Roman Empire. These courses $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 after September 12 Temples, tombs, and pyramids take their place Byron Boyd earned his Ph.D. in take place at alongside religion, social structure, and politics in history from the University of North Senior Citizens, Inc., Who were the Native American desert and cliff dwellers? the age of Egyptian god-kings, all of which are Carolina. He served from 1982 3025 Bull Street, What were their origins, and why did they disappear, leaving highlighted in this fascinating course. on the history faculty of Savannah ancient settlements that still exist? Sally Klein and Carol Savannah Cynthia Costa is a senior lecturer of art history at Country Day School where he Hodges offer answers to these questions – while posing still the Armstrong Campus of GSU. She earned under- taught European and American others – as they recount an amazing journey to ancient ruins graduate degrees in painting at Joliet Junior College history. In his retirement, he teaches in Arizona and New Mexico. Studying the Hopi, Anasazi, and and SCAD, followed by a M.F.A. in art history from at GSU’s Armstrong Campus and Hohokam nations and climbing ancient cliff dwellings were SCAD. Her specialty is the art and architecture of at The Learning Center. not just the fulfillment of longtime dreams, they also form the ancient Egypt. basis of this course. Their experiences come to life through research, photos, and conversations with tribal artists and 12 elders. Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 13 Restoring the Berrien House Mary Shelley and Frankenstein lectures at Bull Street Lecturer: Andrew Berrien Jones after 200 Years Wednesday Sea Level Rise and 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 10 Lecturer: David Wheeler MIDDAY LECTURES the Georgia Coast Subject: History/Local Interest 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 24 at a Glance Lecturer: Clark Alexander Wednesdays, $7 for members; $14 for visitors; Subject: Literature 12:00 noon on Wednesday, add $3 after October 3 September 12 September 19 $7 for members; $14 for visitors; add $3 after October 17 through November 14 Subject: Science This lecture by Discovering $7 for members; Andrew Berrien Frankenstein did more than establish Daufuskie Island $14 for visitors; add $3 Jones explores the horror genre; it challenged gender Jenny Hersch and after September 12 his adventures roles, re-examined notions of creativity, Sallie Ann Robinson September 12 Director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Dr. Clark in restoring the and questioned faith in science First Presbyterian Alexander speaks on the effects of sea level rise, especially on 1791 Berrien and technology. Georgia Southern Church the coast of Georgia. An expert on coastal and barrier island House, one University (Armstrong Campus) litera- of Savannah’s ture professor David Wheeler examines Sea Level Rise geography and Quaternary sea level history, Dr. Alexander describes the past, present, and future of this important and oldest surviving these contexts, Clark Alexander grand residences. Jones, a direct descendant alongside the September 19 timely topic. of Revolutionary War Major John Berrien personalities –Mary Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari: Artist, Architect, (the first owner), explains the architectural and Percy Shelley, Linda McWhorter and Collector of Lives evolution of the house and shares stories Byron, Mary September 26 Lecturer: Linda McWhorter of its residents and their role in American Wollstonecraft, and King David 12:00 noon on Wednesday, September 26 history. He also addresses the challenges William Godwin Daniel Pioske Subject: Art History in restoring the house from architectural, – who shaped the October 3 $7 for members; $14 for visitors; historical, and practical perspectives. 1818 masterpiece. add $3 after June 13 Berrien House Exploring Fort King George Rethinking Savannah’s Andrew Berrien Jones In 1550 Giorgio Vasari published Lives Lecturer: Steve Smith Popular Image October 10 of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 17 Lecturer: Robin Williams Georgia’s Museum and Architects. A painter and architect Subject: History 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 31 William Eiland himself, Giorgio Vasari found greater fame as the writer of his $7 for members; $14 for visitors; Subject: History/Local Interest July 25 Lives, a two-volume work that founded the study of art history add $3 after October 10 $7 for members; $14 for visitors; Fort King George and defined how scholars see art today. This talk discusses add $3 after October 24 Steve Smith Vasari’s art and architecture in both Florence and Rome; it October 17 delves also into his Lives – its tales, true and false, from Giotto’s Much of what brings crowds of tour- O to Leonardo’s end. ists to Savannah is its quaint charm. Shelley’s Yet that sleepy aura belies a city Frankenstein King David: Current Debates whose three centuries of growth are David Wheeler and Controversies marked not by a backward-looking October 24 Lecturer: Daniel Pioske ethos but instead by innovation: social, Image of Savannah 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 3 architectural, and urbanistic. Robin Robin Williams Subject: Religion/History If Georgia is touted as the military buffer Williams, chair of SCAD’s Department October 31 $7 for members; $14 for visitors; established in 1733 between English of Architectural History, mines the Artifacts at the add $3 after September 26 South Carolina and Spanish Florida, then historical record to recast Savannah in Georgia Capitol Fort King George marks the front line of a new light. Gayl and Dick Glover David is the Bible’s most referred to that function. In operation between 1721 November 7 figure, but historically he remains largely and 1736, the Fort is the oldest English a mystery. This lecture explores debates Power of Branding fort remaining on Georgia’s coast, and and controversies surrounding the biblical the earliest bastion between rival colonial Jim Emery David, including his capital city of Jerusalem, the kingdom November 14 powers. Former director of Fort King he oversaw, and how the Bible portrays his rise to the throne. George Steve Smith shares the secrets of Georgia Southern University professor of religious studies Dan the Fort. Pioske shares his insights into the elusive King David. 14 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 15 lectures at Bull Street Georgia’s Capitol: An Artifactual Exploration Lecturer: Gayl and Dick Glover reading 12:00 noon on Wednesday, November 7 Subject: History The Potlikker Papers:

$7 for members; $14 for visitors; add $3 after October 31 A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge Our Georgia Capitol building and grounds are teeming with ISBN 9781524736194 Discussion leader: Carol Morse memorials and mementos, art and artifacts – all with stories to 1:00 – 2:00pm on Tuesday, September 25 tell, sometimes unintentionally. Gayl and Dick Glover, longtime Subject: History members of The Learning Center, dig beneath historical marker text and the standard self-guided tour to find some intriguing calls this author and his lively work Georgia history hidden in plain sight. “a powerful and provocative voice for southern food.” John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance The Power of Branding at Ole Miss, links factors ranging from the Civil Rights Lecturer: Jim Emery Movement to current-day immigration patterns to the 12:00 noon on Wednesday, November 14 South’s rich food culture. Subject: Society/Culture $7 for members; $14 for visitors; add $3 after November 7 What the Qur’an Meant and Why It Matters by Garry Wills Fueled by an impressive career of marketing and branding ISBN 9781101981030 some of the world’s most successful companies, Jim Emery Discussion leader: Jim Gibson offers this fascinating presentation on the power of the 1:00 – 2:00pm on Tuesday, October 30 brand. Recounting stories from Coca-Cola and other high-profile clients, Emery Subject: Religion explains brand recognition and value, revealing how brands make commerce work. Garry Wills (Why I Am a Catholic and What Jesus Meant) turns his attention to Islam, admitting that he’d never before studied the Qur’an and offering an interesting and informative examination. He addresses Western ignorance of the text and raises issues about Islam’s relationship with Lecture and Telfair Museum Tour itself and the world. Lecturer: Cynthia Costa 1:00 – 3:45pm on Friday, October 5 Absalom’s Daughters by Suzanne Feldman Subject: Art History ISBN 9781627794541 Program fee: $25 for members; $50 for Discussion leader: Karen Neubauer visitors; add $10 after September 28 1:00 – 2:00pm on Thursday, November 29 Subject: Fiction The French Impressionists rebelled against academic classicism in the late This debut novel by a bright new talent introduces nineteenth century and ushered in half sisters Cassie and Judith, one white and one the modern era in art. These artists black, in 1950s Mississippi. Their journey together in focused on scenes of modern life and a broken-down car channels both William Faulkner studied nature while discarding two and Toni Morrison, as each young woman articulates millennia of artificial idealism. Works and enacts her own dreams for the future. by Impressionists such as Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, and Morisot reflect a unique sensitivity to real-life surroundings and subjects and establish the Book Club meetings take place at The Learning Center, 3025 Bull Street. foundation for later avant-garde movements. Programs are free of charge to members and $10 per session for visitors. Cynthia Costa is a senior lecturer of art history at the Armstrong Campus of GSU. Advance registration is recommended. She earned undergraduate degrees in painting at Joliet Junior College and SCAD, followed by a M.F.A. in art history from SCAD.

16 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 17 Triumphs and Challenges U.S. Immigration: on the African Continent A World Perspective Presenter: Benn Bongang The Learning Center Resurgent Russia: Its Effects on the Former Presenter: José de Arimateia da Cruz newsworthy 9:15 – 10:15am on Tuesday, October 16 9:15 – 10:15am on Tuesday, November 13 doesn’t shy away from Soviet Bloc, the Western Alliance, and the U.S. Presenter: Jacek Lubecki $10 for TLC and SCWA members; $10 for TLC and SCWA members; $15 for challenging topics that $15 for visitors; add $3 after October 9 visitors; add $3 after November 6 9:15 – 10:15am on Tuesday, September 18 expand horizons, stretch $10 for TLC and SCWA members; $15 for visitors; Native Cameroonian and political Families were separated under the imaginations, and invite add $3 after September 12 science professor at Savannah State protocol of zero tolerance, and the University Benn Bongang highlights specter of a wall along the southern differences of opinion. The signature of Russia under Vladimir Putin includes the African success stories: coopera- border of the U.S. is still a desire of invasion of Ukraine and occupation of Crimea, the backing TLC proudly introduces tion between Ethiopia and Eritrea, President Trump. How do these and of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and interference in the elec- Newsworthy, a series a new and less corrupt president in other factors on the U.S. immigration tions of the U.S. and its European allies. Is Russia merely a South Africa, and renewed stability in front affect the ability or the desire of addressing current “regional” power, as former President Barack Obama once Ghana, Rwanda, and Côte d’Ivoire. Dr. would-be immigrants to come to this suggested, or rather a events, both interna- Bongang also discusses the ongoing country? José de Arimateia da Cruz, resurgent nation that tional and domestic. threat of Boko Haram in Nigeria political science professor at Georgia should sound alarms in and Cameroon, along with a brewing Southern University’s Armstrong TLC brings this series into Europe and in the U.S.? Cameroonian civil war. These matters Campus, discusses the patterns. regular programming, Dr. Jacek Lubecki is a and more form the basis for this wide- providing a place where professor in Department ranging presentation. Antifa and What It Means of Political Science and the community comes Presenter: Barry Balleck International Studies America’s Opioid Epidemic 9:15 – 10:15am on Thursday, together to discover at Georgia Southern Presenter: Steve Acuff November 15 what’s newsworthy at University in Statesboro. 9:15 – 10:15am on Thursday, October 18 $10 for members; $15 for visitors; add $3 after November 8 home and abroad. $10 for members; $15 for visitors; Everyday Racism in America: add $3 after October 11 A Community Conversation Demonstrations in Charlottesville and Presenter: Hon. Lisa Goldwire Colbert elsewhere have brought the so-called “alt 9:00 – 10:30am on Thursday, September 20 right” into the national spotlight. On Location: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. the left, the counterpart anti-fascist or Free to the community “Antifa” movement operates in a shadowy fashion, employing aggressive and some- The Learning Center is Starbucks closed for racial sensitivity training. Roseanne times violent tactics in response to what proud to collaborate with Barr was fired for racist social media posts. Black Lives it views as a too-far right agenda in the Savannah Council Matter remains a politically-charged national move- American politics and practices. Georgia on World Affairs ment. Do these facts point to societal progress or expose Southern University political science to create programs a nation still unequipped to address its problems with professor Barry Balleck reveals the secre- that examine important race? The Honorable Lisa Goldwire Colbert, Chatham Unprecedented spikes in opioid-related tive origins of Antifa and details why and deaths have staggered health and events, people, and issues County Juvenile Court Judge, joins TLC’s audience for a how it functions. police departments in the U.S. Forensic on the world stage. screening of “Everyday Racism in America,” the May 2018 MSNBC televised odonatologist Steve Acuff examines the Members of both forum. She offers epidemic’s historical context, societal organizations may register comments and factors leading to drug abuse, dynamics at member price for the interpretation along of addiction, legal versus medical three international affairs remedies, and comparisons between the programs. the way and then leads a community U.S. and other nations in managing the These programs take place crisis. Dr. Acuff ’s presentation features a at Senior Citizens, Inc., conversation about “everyday racism in visit from the police department’s canine 3025 Bull Street, Savannah unit. Audience members are asked to unless otherwise noted America.” leave prescription medications at home.

18 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 19 Thursdays The Deadliest Catch Archeology of the Lowcountry: Presenter: William Davies An Introduction 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, September 20 Presenter: Mary Socci Subject: Science 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, $10 for members; $15 for visitors; October 18 add $3 after September 13 Subject: Science/Local Interest $10 for members; $15 for visitors; Some put to sea add $3 after October 11 for pleasure, some for gain. Alaska- Palmetto Bluff, just a short distance Complex fyiprofessions, away from Savannah in Bluffton, based sailor William Davies South Carolina, is a treasure trove of artistic pursuits, offers first-hand archaeological evidence of the past. Dr. Mary Socci, Palmetto Bluff and just plain lines accounts of archaeologist, explains how she and other scientists in her field excavate square-rigged sites and shares the artifacts that provide insights into history. of work: this fall’s sailing ships, tug boats, private For the Love of Art FYIs encompass yachts, and cruise Presenter: Leslie Lovell individuals – past ships. He tells tales of oil exploration, commercial fishing, 2:00 – 4:30pm on Thursday, November 15 environmental research, and simply messing about in Subject: Art/Local Interest and present – small boats, explaining how life at sea is different – or $15 for members; $20 for visitors; similar – to life ashore. add $5 after November 8 and how they The New Program fee includes the presentation at TLC make a living. Age of and a reception immediately following at Roots Newspaper Up Gallery. These programs Publishing Leslie Lovell is the owner, manager, and take place at Ivan Bailey: chief curator of art at Savannah’s Roots Up Senior Citizens, Inc., Savannah’s Iron Man Gallery. Her presentation explores the varied 3025 Bull Street, Presenter: Kathy Ledvina incarnations of primitive and emerging art Savannah 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, and encompasses a wide aesthetic of media, November 1 all with an eye toward collecting. This final Subject: History/Local Interest FYI of the season culminates in a private $10 for members; $15 for visitors; gallery reception and tour at Roots Up Presenter: Louise Phelps add $3 after October 25 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, October 4 Gallery, 412 Whitaker Street. Subject: Society/Culture Historic preservation authority $10 for members; $15 for visitors; Kathy Ledvina examines the add $3 after September 27 interesting life and remarkable work of Savannah’s own Ivan It’s no secret that traditional newspapers struggle Bailey, who in a long and creative in today’s digital world. Lou Phelps, editor of career gave Savannah some of its the Savannah Business Journal, explains the chal- most beautiful and artistic iron lenges and opportunities in news publishing work and whose masterpieces today and describes what her publication has still grace the Historic Landmark done to remain viable in a changing marketplace. District.

20 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 21 The Local Vocals: The Learning Center’s Choir Director: Kay Deffley 1:00 – 2:00pm Thursdays, September 6 through December 6 special interests $25 for members; $50 for visitors Through the Eyes of the Artist: Unforgettable songs, yesterday’s hits, and melodies that seem to go on forever: this is the fare at weekly gatherings of The Learning Center’s choir, The Local Vocals. Paintings by Fran Thomas The benefits of choral music are unsurprising and numerous: connectedness to Fall Exhibition at The Learning Center likeminded people, continued independence and engagement, even expanded lung 3025 Bull Street capacity and alertness! All are welcome regardless of musical background. Opening Reception: 5:30 – 7:00pm Holiday Sing-Along Led by The Local Vocals Monday, September 17 Thursday, December 13, 5:00 – 6:30pm | Free to everyone Exhibit runs September 17 through December 14 The Local Vocals hosts a lively, informal sing-along at SCI. Fran Thomas holds a B.F.A. from Auburn The line-up features favorite holiday tunes. Absolutely no University. She studied color with Henry Hensche training or experience is needed to take part in the fun. at the Provincetown School of Art for five All are invited to enjoy rousing music and delicious summers, and while living in Atlanta studied with refreshments in this celebration of the season. Constantine, Roman, and Mark Chatov. She has Since the age of fifteen, Kay Deffley has served as a singer, worked independently in Italy, painting en plein pianist, organist, flautist, and accompanist and director to church air, and has attended classes at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond. She is choirs. Since moving to Savannah in 2011, she has been an an early and avid supporter of The Learning Center of SCI and has taught a organist and pianist at Asbury Memorial Methodist Church. number of painting courses and workshops. Writers’ Circle Foreign Language Conversation Circles Lance Levens is an Facilitator: Lance Levens award-winning Hone your foreign language skills with these informal conversation circles, free to 2:30 – 4:00pm on Fridays throughout the fall writer of short fiction, members of The Learning Center. All are invited to participate, no matter their Free for members; $10 per session for visitors novels, poetry, and proficiency level. Even novices may attend, although conversation circles are not The writing group meets weekly to develop narrative, essays. He is the intended to be beginning language classes. Facilitators keep the conversation going explore technique, critique each others’ work, and grow author of three novels: with discussion topics, reading materials, and grammar and vocabulary as writers. Participants are encouraged to bring copies of A Kaddish for explanations. Groups meet in TLC’s Club Room at Bull Street. their writing in sufficient quantities for group reading and Inhuman Steadman, German Spanish French Italian Tietam, Cain, and Bill Mataxas Claudia González Vic Carpenter Vic Carpenter reaction. For the sake of continuity, writers should commit to regular weekly attendance, notifying the facilitator of Mr. Hooks. 3:00 – 4:00pm 2:00 – 3:00pm 3:00 – 4:00pm 2:30 – 4:00pm anticipated absences. Tuesdays Thursdays Thursdays Fridays Personal Computer and iPad Coaching Advanced Beginning German 30-minute sessions $15 for members; Instructor: Vic Carpenter 60-minute sessions $30 for members 2:00 – 3:00pm on Tuesdays, September 18 through November 13 Subject: Foreign Language If you’ve ever wished for a personal coach to $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 after September 28 answer questions about your computer or iPad, The Learning Center has just the solution. This course begins with a review of most of the contents of the first two courses, Whether you need assistance with a new conversing with the vocabulary already mastered. It proceeds toward the goal of computer, or you are an experienced user seeking fluid conversation on a variety of subjects. The material is aimed at the level of additional tips and techniques, we can help. To advanced beginner/intermediate, supplemented by videos and images. schedule a session, contact Debbie Hornsby at Vic Carpenter earned a Ph.D. in German language and literature from the University of [email protected] or (912) 236-0363 x146. Pennsylvania and taught at the university level in New York, , and Georgia. In his retirement, he leads a number of TLC’s foreign language conversation circles. 22 Register online at www.seniorcitizens-inc.org 23 Travel Wellness: From the Ritz to Backpacking Presenter: Barbara Phillips Thehealthwise Learning Center Sex and the Senior 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, November 29 Presenter: Pamela Gaudry proudly launches $10 for members; $15 for visitors; add $3 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, September 27 after November 22 Healthwise, $10 for members; $15 for visitors; add $3 after September 20 a monthly series of Whether the Yoga Studio Sessions Anyone who believes that journey is first Instructors: Kate Doran explorations into a life sexual activity and fulfill- class or strictly 4:15 – 5:00pm on Tuesdays well lived. Resisting ment need naturally decline budgeted, the throughout the fall and Trudy after age 60 has obviously tips and tricks Herod 4:15 - 5:00pm on the stereotypes that Thursdays throughout the fall never met Dr. Pamela on traveling and too often stand in Gaudry. Her frank, graphic, There is no yoga on staying healthy November 6 and 22, for “senior” health and unvarnished presenta- come straight from the expert: Dr. Barbara tion addresses ongoing sexual urges, healthy and responsible December 25, and January 1. Phillips. In addition to her MD degree, Subject: Health/Wellness programs, TLC reaches sexual activity, and creative ways to explore uncharted sexual Dr. Phillips holds a master’s degree in territory. Perhaps most remarkably, Dr. Gaudry keeps people Free of charge to members; out instead for presen- public health and certification from the $10 per session for visitors feeling young! tations and experts International Society of Travel Medicine. She serves as a travel medicine doctor for Participants of all levels are who have the sophis- Movement and Stillness: Two Powerful Tools for medical missions and travels extensively in invited to take part in these ticated and engaged Aging Well environments both luxurious and austere. sessions reserved for mature Presenter: Kate Doran Her talk offers a template for use in prepa- adults. Participants begin adult in mind. Having seated in a chair with conscious 2:00 – 3:00pm on Thursday, ration for all types of healthy travels. a life well lived means October 25 breathing and stretching, exercising the mind $10 for members; $15 for followed by standing to visitors; add $3 after October 18 The Learning Center’s continue building strength, but also paying Partnerships flexibility, and balance. At the attention to the body. It’s no secret that exercise makes people healthier. Sitting still end of class, participants are has its own set of benefits, especially when the mind is trained guided on to the floor for some Here’s how! Armstrong Campus of to acknowledge the body’s need for stillness. This presentation Georgia Southern University final stretching and strength- by Kate Doran, owner of Spry Mind+Body and Savannah Power ening postures. Participants get Caretta Research Project Yoga, explores the twin concepts of movement and stillness and down on the floor once, and offers concrete ways to use both to create a healthy lifestyle. Emory University’s Bill and Carol Fox get up again, with the aid of a Center for Humanistic Inquiry chair, at the end of class. Georgia Humanities Council Kate Doran began practicing Make time for the things you love Massie Heritage Center yoga in 1998 to balance her career Roots Up Gallery SAGE Private Services can help with care- in the software industry. She Savannah Business Journal has been studying and teaching giving so you can enjoy the good things in life. Savannah College of Art and Design yoga since 2005. She owns Spry • Home-delivered meals Savannah Council on World Affairs Mind+Body and Savannah Power Yoga, located in Sandfly. • Nursing and personal care Savannah State University • Homemaking Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Trudy Herod traded a painting for yoga lessons in 2004 and Statesboro Campus of Georgia continued practicing yoga from Southern University Talk with our that point. She began teaching SAGE Advisor Telfair Museums yoga in 2011; she also works as a at 912.236.0363 Senior Citizens, Inc. dietician.

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First name______Last name______Friday Film Course cinema Address______Landscapes of the American South in Film Instructor: Rebecca Rowden City, State, ZIP______11:00am – 12:00noon on Fridays, September 21 through November 16 Telephone number______Films are screened at 9:00am on each class day. E-mail address______Subject: Film Studies   $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 after Member Visitor September 14  September 12 Inaugural Fall Lecture and Luncheon ____ $25 Pine scrub forests in Florida, geothermal springs in Georgia, mountain hollows in  Kentucky, and other insular communities comprise the backdrops for films set in October 1 Open House Lecture and Reception ____ $15 the American South. Film topics include FDR’s struggle with polio, a family in the Prospective member(s)______path of a hurricane, a collegiate debate coach at a southern historically black college in the 1930s, a boy inspired to change his life upon witnessing Sputnik 1, a comedy PROGRAM BUNDLES contrasting personalities of New Yorkers with reserved southern townspeople, and  6 Monday lectures at Skidaway ____ $90 members ____ $120 visitors more. These films are an invitation to travel the backroads and join in a discussion  of heart-warming, inspiring stories. 6 Gilded Age lectures at Skidaway ____ $60 members ____ $120 visitors  Becky Rowden, retired attorney and longtime film class member, guides the film class. 9 Wednesday midday lectures ____ $63 members ____ $126 visitors Films for this course:  I am ordering ____ lunches at $7 each for a total of $______Beasts of the Southern Wild | 2012 Coal Miner’s Daughter | 1980 NEW lunch menu from the SAGE Kitchen! (97 minutes)** (125 minutes)* Warm Springs | 2005 (120 minutes) A Lesson Before Dying | 1999  Sept 19|Roasted Turkey Wrap  Sept 26|Ham & Gouda  Oct 3|Tuna Salad on Greens October Sky | 1999 (108 minutes) (101 minutes)  Oct 10|Chicken Salad Sandwich  Oct 17|The Greek Salad  Oct 24|Roast Beef & Cheddar The Great Debaters | 2007 My Cousin Vinny | 1992 (120 minutes)  Oct 31|Salmon Caesar Salad  Nov 7|Café Club Wrap  Nov 14|The Chatham Salad (124 minutes)* The Grass Harp | 1995 (107 minutes) Lunch orders must be received one week prior to the lunch date. Cross Creek | 1983 (120 minutes)* Register early for best pricing. Additional fees apply one week prior to program date. *Class meeting starts shortly after 11:00am **Class meeting starts shortly before 11:00am Name of individual program(s) Program fee

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______Membership in The Learning Center of SCI For only $75 per person per year, so many educational possibilities ______are available to people ages 55 and over in the Savannah community: • Significant discounts on courses and lectures at The Learning Center ______• Free weekly Foreign Language Conversation Circles in German, French, Italian, and Spanish • Free weekly yoga studio sessions with certified instructors ______• Free weekly Writers’ Circle and Art Studio sessions • Free monthly Book Club meetings ______• Coffee and conversation five days a week in the SCI Club Room

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