FALL 2021 COURSE CATALOG Table of Contents

Message from the Director 1

About the Lifelong Learning Center 2

Member Benefits 3

Membership 4

Involvement and Additional Information 5

Donate 6

Fall 2021 Course Listings 7

LLC Calendar 21

Campus Map 24 FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Lifelong Learners,

The first day of Fall classes, September 14, can’t come fast enough! I’m so looking forward to welcoming you back to the LLC house for a full semester of classes. About MSU Texas I’m grateful we were able to connect via Zoom for 14 months during 2020-2021, but it was a mere shadow of Midwestern State University the hum of conversation, smell of fresh coffee, and peals (MSU Texas) is located in of laughter that warm the house (and my soul) when we Wichita Falls, Texas, midway gather together. between Oklahoma City and the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Thanks to the efforts of the Curriculum Committee, MSU’s 255-acre campus is David Hartman, and Lisa Van Meter, we have an nestled among the city’s outstanding slate of classes for you this semester, presented by a talented and engaging cadre of teachers. residential area, and comprises Class topics are as diverse as you’ve become accustomed 70 buildings, numerous playing to – war, science, beauty, art, spiders, health, history, fields, and an outdoor religion, poverty, nature, cannabis, photography, and recreational facility near community, to name a few. Our Wednesday afternoon Sikes Like. special events continue with funny movies and stand-up comedy to keep the mood light. Founded in 1922 as Wichita Falls Junior College, MSU Texas has Our motto at the Lifelong Learning Center is “I am still grown into a four-year liberal learning” and that permeates everything we do. As we arts university with more than learn what delights our members, we strive to fulfill 6,000 students. Those attending those wishes and make the Lifelong Learning Center a MSU choose from 45 welcoming and comfortable community for you. If you undergraduate majors and have ideas or suggestions, please let me know. Also, as 27 graduate programs. MSU we look to continue learning in future semesters, please students represent 44 states, let me know of any topics you’d like to learn about in and 54 foreign countries. upcoming classes or speakers you think would connect with LLC members. In addition to the quality education students receive at Thank you for being part of MSU’s Lifelong Learning MSU Texas, they also have Center. We hope the LLC enriches your life as much as opportunities to participate you enrich ours here at MSU. On behalf of all of us at the in various undergraduate LLC, welcome to our new members and welcome back to research activities and study our returning members! We’re so glad you’re here! abroad programs, complete internships, and engage in the Dr. Kathy Zuckweiler campus and local communities Dean, McAda Graduate School and through 100 student Director, Adult & Professional Education organizations offered to enrich the college experience. 1 Lifelong Learning Center at MSU Texas

Midwestern State University’s Lifelong Learning Center is a member-driven community of learners dedicated to inspiring and enriching the minds and spirits of Texomans over the age of 50.

Learners from all backgrounds and education levels are welcome to be members of the Lifelong Learning Center. Our classes are instructed by qualified individuals in our community as well as current and retired MSU Texas faculty. These CONTACT US noncredit classes are divided into two academic PHONE terms (fall/spring) and explore topics in a wide 940-397-4814 range of fields. EMAIL [email protected] The Lifelong Learning Center is not only about taking classes. It’s also about developing a ADDRESS community of older adults who want to socialize 2527 Hampstead Lane and discuss intellectual topics with peers outside Wichita Falls, Texas 76308 of the classroom. We are incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful home that MSU has provided LLC HOURS for us at 2527 Hampstead Lane where our Tuesday-Thursday members can gather. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Under the guidance of President Suzanne Shipley, we strive to build a thriving community of lifelong learners.

REGISTER ONLINE

msutexas.edu/lifelong- learning-center

Equal Opportunity Employer/Americans with Disabilities Act - Midwestern State University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity educational institution and employer. Its students are selected and/ or assigned without regard to their race, age, color, gender, religion, national origin, or disability consistent with Titles IV, VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Titles IV and IX of the Higher Education Act as amended by Executive Order 11375, Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 PL-93-112, and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. MEMBER BENEFITS

Bruce & Graciela Redwine Student Wellness Center

As an LLC member, you are eligible to enroll in a paid membership to the MSU Student Wellness Center.

Moffett Library

Access Moffett Library through TexShare. Obtain a TexShare card from your local public library for use at Moffett or pay a $25 access fee.

MSU Bookstore

Get a 10% discount at the MSU Bookstore located in the Clark Student Center. Members must present their LLC name badge to receive the discount.

• Access to the Lifelong Learning Center during MORE scheduled hours of operation. MEMBER PERKS • Attendance to ALL Learning Center scheduled classes and events.

• FREE parking in the lot next to the LLC.

• Opportunities to volunteer with the LLC by participating in a committee or study group.

3 $125 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP Semester Membership $250 for the year

For a one-time annual or semester fee, members can $175 attend our daytime classes throughout the entire academic year without separate registration. Members HOUSEHOLD can attend all of the scheduled classes or pick and Semester Membership choose which classes they find most interesting. $350 for the year

Previous affiliation with Midwestern State University If electing a household is not required for membership. membership, the two people must live in the same house as spouses/ Become a Member partners or a parent and • BY COMPUTER - Register using the secure online adult child. All members form. msutexas.edu/lifelong-learning-center must be at least age 50.

• BY MAIL - If you are paying by check or money order, save or print a copy of the registration form, fill it out, and mail to: Midwestern State University Lifelong Learning Center 3410 Taft Blvd., Hardin 104 Wichita Falls, Texas 76308-2099

• IN PERSON - Enroll at 2527 Hampstead Lane, Tuesday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Please call 940-397-4814 or email NEED [email protected] HELP? if you have any questions or need assistance with registration. GET INVOLVED

VOLUNTEER & LEADERSHIP TEACH A CLASS OPPORTUNITIES If you are current/retired Midwestern Want to get more involved with State University faculty or a local the LLC? We are always looking for members professional with a class topic in mind, we to take roles in committees for Curriculum, want to hear from you! You may teach in Hospitality and Facilities, Marketing and your area of expertise or a subject you are Community Outreach, Membership, and passionate about. All class requests will be committees. Check with us about current reviewed by the Curriculum Committee. opportunities. Please email [email protected].

Lead a study or special interest group! Groups allow participants the opportunity to delve deeper into a specific topic. Study GIVE THE GIFT groups could be about a class that is offered OF LEARNING during the semester, while special interest LLC memberships make great gifts groups could be about books or gardening for birthdays, holidays, or even retirements. or any common interest. Gift certificates can be purchased online or at the LLC. Stop by the front desk to pick up your personalized gift certificate.

Additional Information

CLASS CANCELLATION POLICY REFUND POLICY Weather related: If Midwestern State University An LLC member may receive a full refund up to 14 is closed due to inclement weather, the Lifelong days from the start of the term. Please come to Learning Center will also be closed. Please check the front desk at the LLC to request a refund. the MSU website at msutexas.edu or Facebook page for closure notifications. NAME BADGES Once registered, a Lifelong Learning Center name Non-weather related: On a rare occasion, we may badge will be made for you. You can pick up your be forced to cancel class for a non-weather related name badge on the first day of class. Please wear reason. Should this occur, members should your current term name badge to all LLC classes expect an email from the LLC. Please make sure and events and make sure your badge is visible you provide us with the most up-to-date email when at the LLC. New badges will be provided address for this reason. at the beginning of each semester.

GUEST POLICY PARKING LLC members are allowed to bring one guest one We gladly offer free parking in the lot next to the time during the semester. Guests must be 50 Lifelong Learning Center. Please pick up your years old or older. Please notify us by email at parking pass and name badge for each semester. [email protected] at least 24 hours Parking passes should be placed on the vehicle in advance so we can accommodate seating for dashboard when parked in the LLC lot to avoid your guest. being ticketed. 5 DONATE

Your gift will make a difference as we continue this new initiative to provide learning opportunities for Texomans over the age of 50. Today’s gifts provide financial stability for the fledgling program. As we grow, your support will allow us to keep tuition low and enhance our programs. You will have a meaningful impact on the Lifelong Learning Center and the community members we serve.

Lend your support to the LLC

• Make a gift online. msutexas.edu/lifelong-learning-center

• Make a gift by phone by contacting Rhonda McClung, Midwestern State University Assistant Vice President for Gift Planning and Development, at 940-397-4728.

• Mail a check (payable to Midwestern State University with Lifelong Learning Center written on the memo line), and send to: Midwestern State University Gift Planning and Development 3410 Taft Blvd., Hardin 110 Wichita Falls, Texas 76308-2099

• Give your time as a volunteer at the LLC. Ask us about current volunteer opportunities.

Special Thanks

The MSU Texas Lifelong Learning Center is grateful to our donors for their generous support.

J. S. Bridwell Foundation Joanne and Gary Silverman Donor Louise and Robert Finch Advised Fund – WFACF Colleen and Ronnie James Darlene Simpson Barbara and Harold Jenkins Shelley and Greg Sweatt Pat Thacker

SPONSORSHIPS The MSU Texas Lifelong Learning Center welcomes partnerships with businesses interested in supporting learning opportunities for area residents. Sponsorships begin at $1,000. For more information, contact Rhonda McClung at 940-397-4728 or [email protected]. FALL 2021 CLASSES

LIFELONG LEARNING CENTER AT MSU TEXAS

7 America in Vietnam, Bill Miller continues his acclaimed study of America’s look at the adjustment in direction during the Nixon war in Vietnam. He concluded Part III with a series of administration, the change in strategy and tactics, the Part IV vignettes that depicted the ever-enlarging anguish desperate plight of American prisoners of war, and of the war. With his vivid style, Bill recounted the the first glimmerings of hope that a peace settlement darkening reality that the war could not be won with might be reached via the diplomacy of America’s Bill Miller the strategy and tactics employed by the Johnson most brilliant Machiavellian, Henry Kissinger. administration; the rising toll of casualties among 10 a.m. Americans and Vietnamese, soldiers and civilians Col. William Miller, USAF [Ret], was born and raised Tuesday, September 14 alike; the declining standards for service in Pennsylvania. He holds BA and MA degrees in personnel; the insults and abuse directed against history, and another MA in International Relations. Tuesday, September 21 returning service members in uniform; the social He served three tours in Vietnam, flying 125 combat Tuesday, September 28 unrest that climaxed with the gunning down of missions as pilot of a B52D aircraft. Altogether, he Tuesday, October 5 students by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State has 4,500 flying hours. His leadership positions have University; the rise in “fragging” by some enlisted included Flight Commander, Squadron Commander, personnel against officers; the growing bane of drug Commander, and Professor of Aerospace Science abuse and racial hatred in the ranks; the inadequate (ROTC), Group Commander and Wing Commander. gear provided soldiers in the field, notably the He has taught at Midwestern State and Wayland infamously jamming M-16. This semester, Bill will Baptist Universities.

What is a Children’s Denise Roberts, Executive Director of Patsy’s House, Denise Roberts has served as the executive is devoted to the protection of children who have director and a forensic interviewer for Patsy’s House Advocacy Center? undergone abuse or are suffering in other crisis Children’s Advocacy Center since October 2014. situations. In this class, she will describe the origins Patsy’s House has official partnerships with eight of Patsy’s House; what was happening in our counties surrounding Wichita Falls, as well as Denise Roberts community before it arrived to serve its mission of partnerships with SAFB, MSU, and United Regional protecting and advocating on behalf of exploited Health Care System. From 2010–2014 she served as 1 p.m. young persons; describe how to conduct a forensic the Director of Preschool Ministries for First Baptist Tuesday, September 14 interview; and enlighten us on how to prevent child Church in Wichita Falls working with children and abuse and raise awareness. families. Prior to that she worked as a forensic interviewer for Patsy’s House and has specialized training in that field. To date, she has conducted over 1,500 forensic interviews of children and provides expert testimony in criminal court proceedings.

The Mating Habits of Did you know that Midwestern State University famous is the discovery of a new species of spider, encompasses a lot more territory than the main by graduate student Greg Broussard, with further Tarantulas and Other campus in Wichita Falls? One of its great treasures discoveries ongoing. On Wednesday, September Tidbits from My Life is the Dalquest Desert Research Station in Marfa, 15, we’re going to have a special session with the Affair with Spiders Texas. It was given as a bequest from Walter near-legendary researcher and biologist Dr. Norman Dalquest, a renowned MSU professor, and his wife Horner, who will not only tell us about the great Rose, who deeded the land to the university in 1966 work ongoing at the Dalquest Desert Research Dr. Norman Horner with the stipulation it be dedicated to the research Station but regale us with accounts of his own work of biologists and geologists. Rose Dalquest with, and among, some of the most mysterious and 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. subsequently donated additional parcels of land. evocative creatures in all of creation (a category Under the stewardship of Dr. Norman Horner, which encompasses arachnids and academics Wednesday, September 15 Emeritus Professor of the McCoy College of alike). Science, Mathematics, and Engineering, and Dr. Lunch break included. Jesse Rogers, an advanced environmentally friendly Dr. Norman Horner is Professor Emeritus of research center was built there. Biology in the McCoy College of Science, Mathematics and Engineering. The Dalquest Desert Research Station has become renowned for many reasons, but perhaps the most Climate Science: Physical Like so many issues in these contentious days, any to the Earth’s atmospheric temperature. The discussion about climate change entails not only lectures will be quite accessible to the well- and Chemical Factors known science but political perspectives and informed audience. that Control the Earth’s various degrees of fabrication. This class will be Temperature different. These sessions will be devoted to the Dr. Jesse Rogers earned his Ph.D. in physical science of the matter. Is the Earth’s climate truly chemistry at TCU in 1967. That year, he became changing? If so, how quickly? How much of the an Assistant Professor at MSU, teaching Dr. Jesse Rogers change is due to natural events and how much to chemistry and physics and doing pioneering human activity? These questions and others will be research in organic and inorganic electrochemistry. 10 a.m. explored and answered using natural physical laws He enjoyed a distinguished career at MSU until his and the relationship of molecular structure, retirement in August 2015. Thursday, September 16 molecular dynamics and electromagnetic radiation Thursday, September 23

Beauty’s Mystery What does art do? These two presentations reflect she led since 2007. At UNT, Robertson integrated on such a question. We will explore various art curatorial practice into the College of Visual Arts and Manners and literary approaches to beauty, one of the three and Design exhibition program, developing both transcendentals (beauty, goodness, truth). We group and solo exhibitions with local, regional, and will learn about the manner of beauty in visual national artists. In collaboration with the UNT Tracee Robertson literacy. We will consider how reading the visual Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, she affects health and well-being. As the session’s title produced two year-long artist residencies with 1 p.m. evokes Flannery O’Connor’s book about the art of internationally known artists Nick Cave and Kiki Thursday, September 16 fiction writing, so too we will ponder the mystery of Smith. Prior to her position in Denton, Robertson beauty. Such mystery, according to O’Connor and taught and curated independently, creating Thursday, September 23 other artists, comes from the core of each person’s exhibitions for major museums. Previously, unique and authentic identity. Robertson was executive director of The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, and earlier in her Tracee Robertson joined the WFMA at MSU career, project coordinator for inSITE97, a public Texas as director in 2019 and is dedicated to art biennial in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, championing an academic museum with deep Mexico. She holds a Master of Arts from the Center community roots. Prior to MSU, Robertson served for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York as director and curator of the University of North and a Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude in Art History Texas (UNT) Art Galleries in Denton, Texas, which from the University of North Texas.

Healthy Living for Exemplified in both his life and his medical practice, Dr. Ali Moshtaghi, a urology specialist here in Dr. Moshtaghi believes it is possible for us to live a Wichita Falls, has been widely praised by patients a Longer Life longer, healthier, and more active life regardless of for his warmth, compassion, and diagnostic skills. age. In addition to providing essential medical care, A graduate of Teheran University/Faculty of as well as traditional counsel on the importance of Medicine, he did his internship at St. Mary’s Dr. Ali Moshtaghi, M.D. diet and exercise, Dr. Moshtaghi takes a deep dive Hospital and his residency at SUNY Upstate into more cutting edge findings, which he will share Medical University Hospital. He is affiliated with 1 p.m. with our Lifelong Learners, on the health-giving United Regional Hospital. In 2017, Dr. Moshtaghi Tuesday, September 21 properties of particular foods and supplements. was co-recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the Wichita County Medical Society.

9 As most of our Lifelong Learners know, Cheyenne, Oklahoma. From his home Comedy Hour! two things we were looking forward to in in the Canadian River Valley, Bob loves particular in our truncated 2020 spring to square dance, train sheep dogs, race Bob Rogers semester were live comedy acts from Dick pigeons, write, and fish. He embraces life 12:30 p.m. Crislip and Bob Rogers, two gentlemen and ends every rendition of his column, with well-deserved reputations for being “Braying from Burro Hill” with this piece of Wednesday, September 22 hilarious on purpose. Unfortunately, advice to the readers: “Enjoy Your World— COVID-19 has no discernible sense of It’s a Good Place to Be.” Dick Crislip humor, so their gigs with us had to be 12:30 p.m. postponed. But here they are, on tap November 10 - Dick Crislip Wednesday, November 10 again, with an extra year to refine their Our very own Dick Crislip of Trivia! fame acts. Please remember that these two will do his character sketch of “Private gentlemen have loved ones, some of whom Foxhole.” Dick retired from the Air Force will be here, so we may have to tap the after 30 years with the rank of Chief Master brakes on the kind of heckling you’ll see Sergeant. He enjoys making people laugh in most comedy clubs, which means that and has been doing stand-up comedy since if you bring your lunch that day, keep the 1991. He created the comic character tomatoes in the sack. Private Foxhole based on some of his military experiences and has won two local September 22 - Bob Rogers Laff Off competitions. Dick has a B.S. in Bob will regale us with some great stories Psychology from the University of Southern from his book, “Pondering, Philosophizing Mississippi, an M.A. and Ed.S. in Counseling and Braying from Burro Hill.” A Texas Parks from Troy State University, and an M.A. in and Wildlife Department management Public Management from Midwestern State employee for over thirty years, Bob honed University. He is retired from the Wichita his skills as a storyteller, stand-up comic, Falls State Hospital and is quite active in and humor columnist for The Canadian local veteran affairs. [Texas] Record and The Cheyenne Star in

The Revolutionary Last year, Dr. Mary Draper gave an exhilarating Mary. Edward Draper, a future British military recounting of some of the most significant events officer, Chief Secretary of Bourbon Island, and Year 1776 of the “Dreadful Year 1692.” This year, she returns founder of the Mauritius Turf Club, was born in to illumine another year of enormous consequence. Oxfordshire. Jane Randolph Jefferson, the mother Most of us know 1776 as the “birth year” of the of Thomas Jefferson, died in March of that year, Dr. Mary Draper United States of America, as proclaimed through before she could read her son’s illustrious words in the Declaration of Independence. But that is not all the Declaration. Scottish philosopher and historian 1 p.m. that happened that monumental year. The British David Hume, one of Jefferson’s great intellectual Tuesday, September 28 Navy celebrated New Year’s Day by burning down influences (Jefferson bought Hume’s six-volume Norfolk, Virginia, though the Patriots, led by Tom History of England and then, after he had founded Tuesday, October 5 Brady, had their part to play, including looting the the University of Virginia, banned it from the library Tuesday, October 12 local distillery as the fires burned. No, wait, that last for being anti-republican) lived long enough to read sentence is inaccurate. Lt. Thomas Brady actually the Declaration (Hume had supported the fought near Lake Michigan, where, as an officer of independence of the Colonies as early as 1771) the Patriots, he was captured by Potawatamis and and then died a little more than a month later. turned over to the British during the Battle of Trail Creek in December 1780. Everything else in that All of which is to say, while prodigious history was sentence is true. Accuracy matters. indeed being made domestically in 1776, that is not the full story. With her inimitable enthusiasm and But the events of the American Revolution, as depth of scholarship, Dr. Draper will shine a light momentous as they were, were not all that upon that consequential year. happened in 1776. Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations and Edmund Gibbons the first Dr. Mary Draper is an Assistant Professor of volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman History at Midwestern State University. She earned Empire. The Bolshoi Ballet was founded in Moscow. her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Virginia Juan Bautista de Anza established the site for the and her B.A. from Rice University. A scholar of Presidio of San Francisco. In Bavaria, the secret the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century society “The Illuminati” was founded. Mozart’s British Caribbean, she has conducted and Serenade No. 7 debuted in Salzburg. Phi Beta presented research throughout the Caribbean, Kappa was founded at the College of William and United States, and Europe. Shall we dance? Do you want to learn to tap dance, but lack the and choreography projects include Nelly Don the shoes and finesse of Fred Astaire? Join Morgan Musical at the Crown Center in Kansas City, My Fair as she teaches a beginning tap class from a chair! Lady, Spring Awakening, and The Great American Morgan Mallory This low-impact and low-strain class will have all Trailer Park Musical. As an actor, Morgan has participants in a chair to focus on sounds and basic played Morticia in The Addams Family, rambled technique. Participants may bring shoes if they about butterflies as April in Company at SF 12:30 p.m. have them, but they are not required. Class will Playhouse, and learned American Sign Language Wednesday, September 29 learn basics such as toe-heel, shuffle, ball-change, (ASL) to play Sylvia in Tribes. Morgan is very and a short combination. passionate about arts education, and previously started both the drama and dance programs at Morgan Mallory is an assistant professor of theatre Eastside College Preparatory School. Keep up with at Midwestern State University. Favorite directing her at www.morgandayley.com.

Wilder as young Dr. Frankenstein who, second-best comedy of all time in ABC’s FUNNY MOVIES! mindful of his infamous father’s legacy, “Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of our insists on being called “Frankensteen;” Time.” In it, the renowned British troupe In these challenging times, what could be Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher, whose “Monty Python” (John Cleese, Graham more uplifting than to watch classic films very name causes horses to rear in terror; Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry that will make you fall down laughing? This Wilder and Peter Boyle, as the monster, Jones, and Terry Gilliam) undertake an semester, we have two uproarious gems dressed up in white tie and top hats, Arthurian quest. The budget was so low guaranteed to raise every Learner’s doing a charming rendition of Irving that the film couldn’t afford horses, so endorphin levels. Berlin’s “Putting on the Ritz;” Gene King Arthur and his knights shuffle along Hackman’s blind man offering a cigar to on foot to find the Holy Grail. En route, Young Frankenstein (1974) the monster, then inadvertently setting they encounter the Green Knight who 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 20 the poor creature’s thumb on fire as he loses one limb after another in combat but Number 13 on the American Film Institute’s tries to light it for him. Feel free to come in never the desire to slay them all; the Killer list of “100 Funniest America Movies,” Mel costume (masks optional) because we’re Rabbit (“what’s he going to do, nibble us to Brooks’ masterpiece is filmed in black and showing this knee-slapper in the month of death?”); a tragic, lovelorn cross-dressing white using many of the original props Halloween. lass in a tower (“I’m not dead yet; I’m from Boris Karloff’s 1931 classic actually feeling much better”); and one “Frankenstein.” Anyone who saw this movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) hilarious, preposterous meme after in the theater will remember (and probably 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 3 another. re-enacted) some of its scenes: Gene This hilarious British offering was voted

Tales from a Career Tad Gose, who regaled our Lifelong Learners with public to its beauties and wonders. He described his previous classes on Civil War Medicine and the his job this way: “I had PETA on one shoulder and as a Park Ranger Buffalo Soldiers, returns to describe his adventures the NRA on the other. I had the public in front of me and observations as a park ranger dealing with and the governor behind me. I did all this while wildlife in all of its human and animal trying to balance on a box of rattlesnakes.” Like all Tad Gose manifestations. Tad will recount his experiences of Tad’s previous classes, this one should be fun! in covering everything from forest fires to boat 10 a.m. fires; from handling snakes to handling drunks and Tad Gose is a retired park ranger, a recognized Thursday, September 30 outlaws; from serving as an emergency rescuer to Texas historian, a contributor to three teaching as an experienced guide. From dazzling documentaries on Buffalo Soldiers, a museum flora and fauna to ominous bureaucracies, Tad archivist, and has also contributed to multiple books experienced it all as a park ranger, and he never on both subjects. lost his love of nature or his joy in introducing the

11 “From Every Peril in There is an all-services version of the Naval Hymn supplication are the men and women who train “Eternal Father Strong to Save” which appeared our pilots to fly. Theirs is a mission of staggering the Air”: Flight Safety during World War II and includes verses invoking importance and enormous complexity. Nowhere is God’s protection for soldiers on the land and fliers that essential training more well provided for than in the air as well as sailors on the sea. The third at Sheppard Air Force Base. In this class, Bill Smith Bill Smith verse, the one for those who fly, goes like this: will talk about Flight Safety Training, the risks it seeks to mitigate through the most rigorous training 1 p.m. O Spirit, whom the Father sent regimen imaginable, and the inherent qualities that Thursday, September 30 To spread abroad the firmament; inspire those who “dare the eagle’s flight.” He will O Wind of Heaven, by Thy might, also address that most compelling of questions: “A Save all who dare the eagle’s flight, plane just crashed—what do we do now?” He will And keep them by Thy watchful care describe the development of a USAF safety investi- From every peril in the air. gator and offer insight into a crash investigation.

In addition to the pilots themselves, the persons Bill Smith teaches flight safety at Sheppard Air most devoted to fulfilling the fervent hopes of that Force Base.

The Natchez Trace: This semester Jodie returns in person, with his full The Natchez Trace Parkway is a recreational road complement of gear for hands-on learning, and we and scenic drive through three states. It roughly 10,000 Years of are exhilarated at the prospect. follows the “Old Natchez Trace” a historic travel corridor used by American Indians (possibly as long History The Appalachian Trail is 2,200 miles long and as 10,000 years ago), “Kaintucks” (rustic, migratory extends from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Kentuckians), European settlers, slave traders, Jodie Rhone Mount Katahdin in Maine, which makes it the soldiers, and future presidents. Established as a longest walking-only trail in the world. First unit of the National Park Service in 1938, the envisioned in 1921 and initially completed in 1937, Parkway commemorates the history and preserves 10 a.m. it traverses deep woods, verdant valleys, and small the natural beauty of the most significant travel Wednesday, October 6 mountains, most of it through undeveloped land. route of the Old Southwest - the Natchez Trace. Millions visit it; a few thousand have completed it; no one who spends more than a few nights on it The 444-mile foot trail that became known as the is ever unchanged by the experience. It is a place Natchez Trace was the lifeline through the Old The Appalachian that inspires reflection, exhaustion, more than a few Southwest. You can experience portions of that sore muscles and, in the end, a deep and abiding journey the way earlier travelers did - on foot. Trail gratitude. Today there are five separate trails totaling over 60 miles. Jodie will reveal some of their wonders to us. 12:30 p.m. Over the last year, Jodie Rhone has completed hundreds of miles of the trail in the company of a Jodie and Karen Rhone are founding members of Wednesday, October 6 close friend contending with a grievous illness. This the Lifelong Learning Center. is their story.

The World May Not Be We’ll take a journey deep into our own conceptions and holds a master’s in theological studies from the and misconceptions about The Way Things Are. University of Dallas in Irving. He serves as Medical as Bad as You Think The truth about the current state of “the human Director for Presbyterian Manor, the Earl Crawford condition” will likely surprise you. Bring a pen House of Hope, and Trans Star Ambulance. He or pencil. There will be a test. now also serves as Medical Director for Healing Dr. J. Robert Parkey Hands Healthcare and Little Black Bag House Calls, Dr. J. Robert Parkey, MD MTS HMDC CMD, is pursuing a personal commitment to the care of 10 a.m. a geriatrician and palliative medicine physician. homebound elderly and of those with serious and Thursday, October 7 He received his doctorate in medicine from the life-limiting illness in our community. University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Palliative Care Michelle Nelson enlightened us on this important Michelle Nelson has 32 years of experience as class two years ago, but with the COVID-19 a Registered Nurse. She has worked at United pandemic, it seemed wise to bring her back again, Regional for 25 years, holding numerous positions Michelle Nelson and this time with a new sense of urgency. An with increasing management responsibility. She integral concept for palliative care is having robust began development of the Palliative Care program advance care planning discussions that involve at United Regional working with the Center to 1 p.m. the patient, family, and the care team. An aging Advance Palliative Care resources (CAPC) and the Tuesday, October 7 population and numerous chronic health conditions Palliative Care program started in 2009. Nelson Tuesday, October 14 make these conversations even more important. has presented at state and national conferences on Every person should create a document related topics related to community resource networks for to their wishes for health care and advance care unfunded and uninsured populations and effectively planning priorities. There are numerous acceptable integrating hospital readmission strategies with documents/processes that will legally meet this value-based care. She has a Bachelor’s degree in requirement. This course will utilize the Five Wishes Nursing from Midwestern State University and is Document and crosswalk it with the Texas Advance also a certified ELNEC instructor (End of Life Nurs- Directive document. The Five Wishes format is ing Education Consortium). perfect for a conversation starter to be used with family members to clarify personal choices related to end of life care.

Contestation and Social Chicanx photographer Annie López has been an Ann Marie Leimer trained in Latin American Art important presence in the Phoenix, Arizona, art and Art of the Américas and specialized in Critique in the Work of scene since 1982, producing photographic and Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, receiving Photographer Annie López text-based work that interrogates family histories, her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Chicanx constructions of identity, and gender roles. Austin. Leimer currently serves as Professor of Art Ann Marie Leimer Initially creating black-and-white wet-process for the Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual images such as We didn’t know how to make Arts at Midwestern State University. Her published enchiladas (1995) and 1/4 Hispanic loves rice and work has appeared in the journals Afterimage, 10 a.m. beans (1998) as part of her ongoing Hispanic Chicana/Latina Studies, The Journal of Latino-Latin Tuesday, October 12 Series, López moved from away from two- American Studies, and Religion and the Arts, and dimensional work in 2013 and began in the books Beyond Heritage; Border Crossings; experimenting with the dress form combining a Chican@ Critical Perspectives and Praxis; New sculptural approach with sewing and photographic Frontiers in Latin American Borderlands; Tina printing techniques, such as cyanotype. Achieving Fuentes: Marcando el relámpago; LatinX: Artistas mastery of the cyanotype process during the last de Tejas; Voices in Concert: In the Spirit of Sor three decades, the artist uses tamale wrapping Juana Inés de la Cruz; and Los Maestros: Early paper as the foundation for non-wearable clothing Explorers of Chicano Identity. as diverse as undergarments, vests, skirts, and dresses. The artist resisted Arizona’s state law SB She has curated several exhibitions of Chicanx 1070 known as the “Show Me Your Papers Law” art including “¡Adelante Siempre! Recent Work by including her birth certificate in Official Proof. by Southern California Chicana Photographers,” She exactly replicated a bullet-proof police vest for “Chicano Photographer: The 1970s from a (I Wish I Were) Bullet-proof which consists of texts, Chicano’s Perspective,” and “Globe, AZ: A multiple images of her face, and six black buttons Community at the Crossroads.” Leimer serves on that function as closures but that also suggest the National Advisory Board for Mexican Art. Since bullet holes repeatedly perforating the sculpture. 1848, a research initiative inaugurated by Karen López used the “alien” work documents Mary Davalos and Constance Cortez in 2016, which belonging to her grandmother and grandfather to will result in a searchable digital platform and a depict the ongoing trauma experienced by brown multi-volume book. In 2022, Duke University Press bodies regardless of citizenship in Relative Alien will publish the anthology Consuelo Jimenez 2020. In each of these objects, the dress form Underwood: Art, Vision, Weaving, which she stands for the absent or present body conjured by co-edited with Laura E. Pérez and which has been the artwork, engages with local, regional, and supported by a Wyeth Foundation for American national events impacting Latinx bodies, and Art Publishing Grant. informs movements toward social justice.

13 So, you think you might be smarter than all these challenging, the atmosphere is rollicking, the TRIVIA! other Lifelong Learners, but you are too humble to laughs are abundant, and the humiliation is nominal say so out loud? Or are you worried that when it [kidding…nobody gets humiliated playing this Dick Crislip comes to IQ, yours is around room temperature? game. Or maybe everybody does]. And each week, Whether you regard yourself as an unappreciated we award gold, silver, and bronze medals made of north Texas Einstein, or fret that you are two French priceless ephemera to the winners. 12:30 p.m. fries short of a Happy Meal, why not come have fun Wednesday, October 13 with us at one of our rousing “TRIVIA!” games? Led Ancora Imparo! If you remember what that means, Wednesday, October 27 by game-meister Dick Crislip (aka “the Alex Trebek you are already in the running for the gold. of the Southern Plains”), the questions are Wednesday, November 17

“North Dakota Woman November 16, 2019, 32-year-old Amber Barrett that was ravaging America long before COVID-19 of Fargo, North Dakota, encountered her friend ever appeared. Why was the mother so indifferent Left Six Children with Faruk Shahid at a supermarket. According to police to her friend’s death and the welfare of the Dead Body:” The Dire reports, she believed he was showing symptoms children? Why was she so determined to go to Effects of Poverty on of an opioid overdose and invited him to sleep on work? How could six young children so readily the floor of her home. A few hours later, she found recognize the cause of death? All of these American Families him unmoving and, despite concluding that he questions speak to the toll that social deprivation, was dead, left his body on the floor and went to dire poverty, the opioid epidemic, and a fraying Catherine Earley work. She also left her two children and their four network of mutual accountability can take on a friends, who recognized the victim as Ms. Barrett’s family, a community, and a nation. friend and determined, on their own, that he had 10 a.m. died of an overdose. On January 16, 2020, she was Catherine Earley is Assistant Professor of Social Thursday, October 14 charged with child neglect and failure to report a Work for Midwestern State University. For twelve dead body. years, she served as Director of Children’s Ministry at First Christian Church, and then as a regional Apart from the salacious aspects of this terrible director in foster care. She is also a volunteer news headline—dead body, six kids, indifferent mentor for “Traffick911.” Catherine is married mother—lies a deeper story about the and the mother of two young children. consequences of poverty and the opioid epidemic

How the Bible In a series of two lectures, Sue P. King will address Sue P. King is an MSU alumnus, holds an M.Div. the origins of the Bible. How did these books and degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, was a Came to Be only these become the sacred texts for Christians? pastor in a mainline Christian denomination, and The twists and turns of the process hold intrigue has chaplaincy experience in a major trauma for any historian and insight and understanding for hospital. She has eighteen years of corporate Sue P. King Christians. The events that prompted the writing experience as a computer programmer. She lived of the manuscripts and the circumstances that in the Middle East for more than two years in a 10 a.m. prompted the religious leaders to confer official country with a predominantly Muslim population, Tuesday, October 19 recognition on them as sacred scripture will be enjoying unique opportunities for cross-cultural brought to life, creating a big picture that will form experiences and faith formation. She is the author Tuesday, October 26 a coherent and remarkable picture of the Bible’s of Questions from the Pews: Theological Narratives emergence. in Reply.

Cannabis in Relation What exactly is cannabis and where does it come Earth, ourselves, and each other. She has served from? as a medical officer and health care administrator to Health and Wellness in the United States Air Force and the American What the heck are cannabinoids? And how do we Red Cross. Her duties and travels through Europe distinguish them from the naturally occurring and Japan have involved her working primarily on Deborah Bacashihua cannabinoids in the body called endocannabinoids? issues of immigration, Indian health, and the care of over 800,000 active duty personnel and their 1 p.m. Is hemp marajuana? Is it legal or beneficial? dependents. She has also been a member of the Tuesday, October 19 Wichita County Medical Alliance, whose service Come join this class and improve your awareness included a medical mission trip to the Philippines Tuesday, October 26 and be informed of the facts and fiction surrounding during a time of great political upheaval. For this, the highly controversial plant that has been around the group was a recipient of the Global Mission since 2900 B.C. Humanitarian Award, presented by former First Lady Barbara Bush in 2001. Deborah continues to Deborah Bacashihua is of American Indian be actively involved in the natural aspects of health (Cherokee) descent and was taught early in life that care, which includes educating individuals to be full we are all here with a mission to maintain participants in their health care needs. balance, while working together to care for Mother

The Civil War Diary of On September 12, 1859, while attending the Young torical record lies primarily with her location—north Ladies’ Institute in Washington, D.C., seventeen- Alabama. Only a few written diaries by women in Catherine Fennell: A Young year-old Cassie Fennell, the niece of U.S. Congress- north Alabama have surfaced and no others from Confederate Woman in man Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb, began a Marshall County where Cassie did the bulk of her Alabama, 1859-1865 diary to record her school days. Upon returning to writing. Cassie’s diaries, with their entries on Deposit Ferry, Alabama, she wrote of her desire Huntsville, contribute to a small but growing histo- to become a scribe of history by writing of “my riography on Union occupation in north Alabama. Dr. Whitney Snow country and politics.” Though typical of southern Perhaps more important are Cassie’s entries on women diarists in age, class, education, and politi- Guntersville which was shelled and later burned by 10 a.m. cal connections, Fennell’s contribution to the his- Union forces. Thursday, October 21

Cherokee Missionary: The When Catharine Brown drew her last breath, Alabama in Huntsville before going to receive a Life of Catharine Brown slipping silently into death, little did she know that Ph.D. in history from Mississippi State University. her impact on the Cherokees and American history She specializes in southern, environmental, and would become legendary. Having achieved fame, agricultural history. At MSU, she teaches Old South; 10 a.m. much of it unwanted, in life, Catharine may have New South; Civil War & Reconstruction; Thursday, October 28 taken solace in the fact that she had striven to do Environmental History; Popular Culture; and Film her duty to her parents, her people, and her God. History. She has written on an array of subjects Since her death, she has become the focus of including but not limited to 4-H; tung oil; poems, songs, and books, most notably Memoir of paulownia trees; Frank James; feuding; and cotton Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee mills. Her work has been published in peer- Nation (1825) and Cherokee Sisters: The Collected reviewed journals ranging from The Alabama Works of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (2014). She Review and the Journal of Mississippi History attracted such notice for two chief reasons. She to Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture and was the first Native American the American Board Forests, Trees, and Livelihoods. For the past three of Commissioners of Foreign Missions converted years, she has been annotating a Civil War-era to Christianity. With 32 letters and a diary to her diary. This project, The Civil War Diary of Catherine name, she is the most prolific Native American Fennell: A Young Confederate Woman in Alabama, woman writer of the early nineteenth century. 1859-1865, is under contract with the University of Tennessee Press for their Voices of the Civil War Dr. Whitney A. Snow is Associate Professor of series. She is on the board of directors of the Gulf History at Midwestern State University. She earned South Historical Association. her B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of

15 It Takes a Village: Part I: October 21 Leslie Schaffner is passionate about philanthropy What is a Community Foundation? and the nonprofit community in our area. She has When a Community In this session, you will hear a brief history of the dedicated most of her professional life to community foundation movement in the United helping nonprofits further their mission. Leslie just Comes Together States and how it has morphed in the last two celebrated her two-year anniversary as President decades. You may be surprised at how long the of the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation. Leslie Schaffner concept has been around! We will also discuss the During her short tenure, she has led the Foundation giving tools available to donors and the benefits of through a period of significant growth in the using a community foundation as a vehicle for your organization’s scholarship program and Texoma 1 p.m. charitable giving plan—today and in the future. Gives. Prior to arriving at the Community Thursday, October 21 Learn about the tax advantages and the Foundation, Leslie also spent 16 years with The Thursday, October 28 convenience of Donor Advised Funds and more. Priddy Foundation, where she shepherded the This session will also dispel the myth that development of the first Arts and Culture Plan for community foundations are only for people Wichita Falls, along with leading a team of with a lot of money. community leaders to launch the Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture, serving as the new Part II: October 28 organization’s first president. Planned Giving and Leaving a Legacy There are ways to make sure the charitable Leslie Schaffner is a graduate of Baylor University, organizations most important to you continue to with a degree in communications. Among her receive support even after your passing. If you accomplishments, she is an award-winning are interested in learning how to leave a legacy journalist, past president of the Junior League of through a planned gift, this session is for you. We Wichita Falls, co-created and co-chaired the Empty will explore how the Wichita Falls Area Community Bowls fundraising event for the Wichita Falls Area Foundation can ensure your charitable giving will Food Bank, and was a past director and longtime continue for years to come. We will also show you steering committee member of FallsFest. Leslie how those giving opportunities extend beyond cash spent five years with KFDX as a reporter and gifts. anchor, moving into public relations, advertising, and marketing before finding her niche in philanthropy and nonprofit work.

The Italian The Italian Renaissance is like reading a story with Joseph Ross, architect, is active in the design and three chapters (Florence, Rome, Venice) each production of architecture projects throughout North Renaissance respectively authored by the artistic works of Texas ranging from an astronomy campus in rural Alberti, Michelangelo, Palladio, and their Foard County, a new college campus in suburban contemporaries. The Italian Renaissance is an Fort Worth, and a corporate campus in the urban Joseph Ross anchor to the western tradition of architecture core of downtown Dallas. Joseph earned his post that is visible today in the courthouses, churches, professional degree in Architecture from Harvard 10 a.m. schools, and universities across western culture; University, and has lectured at the University of New Tuesday, November 2 and this two-lecture class format will discuss Mexico School of Architecture and Planning. Joseph its roots in 15th century Italy. This course will is a member of the American Institute of Architects Tuesday, November 9 consider the influence of Italian humanism that and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal in prevailed among patrons, art and the church, and 2007. Joseph is also a member of the Kemp Center its development into the art and architecture of the for the Arts and curated the 2018 architecture renaissance. exhibition “Surface and Ornament.”

Preparing for the Non Most people spend significant time preparing for Dr. David Carlston is a licensed psychologist. He the financial aspects of retirement. However, has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Ohio Financial Aspects of successful transition to retirement requires an University. He has taught at Midwestern State understanding of the inter- and intra-personal University for fifteen years. He is currently serving Retirement aspects of leaving the workforce. The purpose of as the Psychology Department Chair. Dr. Carlston this course is to provide attendees with an overview has also provided counseling services to individuals Dr. David Carlston of the impact of retirement on individual retirees and families. and their relationships. 1 p.m. Tuesday, November 2 Thursday, November 4 A Personal 40 Year Journey from College Freshman to Drawing upon his own experiences, Dr. Samuel Watson will discuss American higher education Dean to Full Professor: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been from a student, faculty, and administrative perspective. This class will enlighten Learners Dr. Samuel Watson on things like tenure, the differences between administrative and faculty ranks and roles, public and private institutions, merit and need based 10 a.m. financial aid, systems and governing boards, Thursday, November 4 and other idiosyncrasies of academia. Thursday, November 11 Thursday, November 18

Part I: Surviving WWII PART l: November 9 Fred will share his experience as a new immigrant, Surviving WWII and the Cold War first learning English and then French to add to his and the Cold War Fred Krautz was born five years into the disastrous native German tongue and the Russian he had been and destructive reign of the fascist dictator Adolf compelled to learn. Canada had been desperately Hitler. One year later, World War ll began, and his seeking immigrants from the destroyed European Fred Krautz hometown became a target for bombing by the countries, but that was not apparent on their Western Allies. To avoid the approaching Soviet arrival. After a long six-year wait, Fred was finally 1 p.m. Army, his family evacuated to Central Germany. in the United States, a country he had only dreamed Tuesday, November 9 When the cataclysmic years of the war ended, his about. Their destination turned out to be Cincinnati, home became part of the Russian Occupation Zone, a choice influenced by relatives who had already under the iron fisted rule of Communist dictator settled there. Fred will share details of his Part II: Restarting Life Josef Stalin. It was a time to resist, collaborate, or experience attending six elementary schools and escape. After four years struggling to survive, trying three high schools before becoming his family’s in Freedom to escape to the freedom of West Germany became first college graduate. There followed more than the only humane answer to enslavement by the forty successful years in industry, which required 1 p.m. Communist regime. The successful escape was him to make more than a hundred international facilitated to a large extent via his American uncle business trips as Vice President of Research, Thursday, November 11 Victor, who served in the OSS (Office of Strategic Development, and Quality. The most compelling Services), which subsequently became the CIA personal trip was his return to Berlin, the capital of (Central Intelligence Agency). Fred will share the East Germany, in 1971 – the very place the family personal aspects of those traumatic first 11 years of had been forbidden to leave in 1949. his life living under two evil dictatorships. Fred Krautz earned undergraduate and graduate PART ll: November 11 degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Restarting Life in Freedom University of Cincinnati. His entire career was spent The dream destination of the family was the United in the field of fiberglass-reinforced composites, States. One of his aunts had already immigrated spending 22 years with Owens Corning and 17 there, and the other aunt became a citizen through years with Saint-Gobain Vetrotex America. Fred and marriage to Fred’s uncle Victor. The demand for his wife Jane married in 1962 and have been a part visas for German nationals far outweighed the of the Wichita Falls community since 1987. Their small quota available. This prompted the family to two grown children live in Reno, Nevada, and the settle in the intermediate destination of Canada. greater Atlanta area.

Ceramics, Nature, and Steve will introduce his ceramic artwork and some and individuals in Slovenia; Thailand; Australia; of the processes of making ceramic sculpture while Austria; Portugal; China; Japan; Canada; Italy; “Math” While Paying giving insight into his influences. Germany; Romania; Cuba; and the USA. He has Attention and Saying Yes been juried into international and national Steve Hilton earned his MFA at Arizona State exhibitions in conjunction with curated exhibitions University. He also holds degrees in art education in the U.S. Steve is a full-time ceramics and art Steve Hilton and geology from Missouri State University. His education faculty at Midwestern State University work has been collected by museums, universities, and is a Fellow of the Council of NCECA. 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 16

17 Connecting with Albert Einstein said that if a person looked deeply Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) camps, as into nature, everything else would become clearer. well as with other structured projects. But even we Nature When we contemplate nature, or recall our adults can always discover and learn new things encounter with it, it inspires different emotions, from spending time in nature. Liz Martin thoughts, and memories. Most folks our age can remember being shuttled outside to go play with Liz Martin is Executive Director of the River Bend the neighbor kids, and when we did it, it wasn’t just Nature Center. She earned her Bachelor of 1 p.m. a matter of thinking about nature—we interacted Science at Midwestern State University. She has Tuesday, November 16 with it, running, digging, and building in it. In worked on both sides of the aisle in business today’s more supervised world, children can management, working for non-profit companies experience nature through STEAM (Science, for 23 years and nonprofits for nine.

The Beauty of God’s Once again, the last class of our semester instructor, he will once again regale us with his incorporates the beautiful photography of David accounts about the challenges and joys of traveling Nature and the Spencer. As a young adult, he photographed trains the world to visually capture its astonishing range from around the world. Rising security concerns in and beauty. Handiwork of Man every realm of transportation led him to direct his eyes and lens to the world’s most imposing and David Spencer, M.D., acquired his first camera Dr. David Spencer majestic landscapes. David will offer an array of when he was in sixth grade and served as a his stunning photographs of majestic landscapes in photographer for his high school and college far-flung destinations, as well as some images from annuals. A practicing radiologist for over 35 years, 1 p.m. his earlier fascination with trains. A much-admired he retired from the medical field three years ago. Thursday, November 18

SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY, SEP. 14 WEDNESDAY, SEP. 15 THURSDAY, SEP.16 FIRST DAY OF CLASSES 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. N. Horner: “The Mating J. Rogers: “Climate Science: 10-11:30 a.m. Habits of Tarantulas and Physical and Chemical B. Miller: “America in Other Tidbits from My Life Factors that Control the Vietnam, Part IV” Affair with Spiders” Earth’s Temperature” Lunch break included. 1-2:30 p.m. 1-2:30 p.m. D. Roberts: “What is a T. Robertson: “Beauty’s Children’s Advocacy Center?” Mystery and Manners”

TUESDAY, SEP. 21 WEDNESDAY, SEP. 22 THURSDAY, SEP. 23 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30-2 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. B. Miller: “America in B. Rodgers: Comedy Hour J. Rogers: “Climate Science: Vietnam, Part IV” Physical and Chemical Factors that Control the 1-2:30 p.m. Earth’s Temperature” A. Moshtaghi: “Healthy Living for a Longer Life” 1-2:30 p.m. T. Robertson: “Beauty’s Mystery and Manners”

TUESDAY, SEP. 28 WEDNESDAY, SEP. 29 THURSDAY, SEP. 30 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30-2 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. B. Miller: “America in M. Mallory: “Shall We T. Gose: “Tales from a Vietnam, Part IV” Dance?” Career as a Park Ranger”

1-2:30 p.m. 1-2:30 p.m. M. Draper: “The B. Smith: “From Every Peril Revolutionary Year 1776” in the Air: Flight Safety” OCTOBER

TUESDAY, OCT. 5 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6 THURSDAY, OCT. 7 10-11:30 a.m. 10-11:30 a.m. 10-11:30 a.m. B. Miller: “America in J. Rhone: “The Natchez J. R. Parkey: “The World Vietnam, Part IV” Trace: 10,000 Years of May Not Be As Bad As History” You Think…” 1-2:30 p.m. M. Draper: “The 12:30-2 p.m. 1-2:30 p.m. Revolutionary Year 1776” J. Rhone: “The Appalachian M. Nelson: “Palliative Care” Trail”

TUESDAY, OCT. 12 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13 THURSDAY, OCT. 14 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. A. Leimer: “Contestation and D. Crislip: Trivia! C. Earley: “The Dire Effects of Social Critique in the Work of Poverty on American Families” Photographer Annie Lopez” 1-2:30 p.m. 1-2:30 p.m. M. Nelson: M. Draper: “The “Palliative Care” Revolutionary Year 1776”

TUESDAY, OCT. 19 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20 THURSDAY, OCT. 21 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30-2:30 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. S. King: “How the Bible Funny Movie: Young W. Snow: “The Civil War Came to Be” Frankenstein Diary of Catherine Fennell”

1-2:30 p.m. 1-2:30 p.m. D. Bacashihua: “Cannabis L. Schaffner: “It Takes a in Relation to Health and Village: When a Community Wellness” Comes Together”

TUESDAY, OCT. 26 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27 THURSDAY, OCT. 28 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. S. King: “How the Bible D. Crislip: Trivia! W. Snow: “Cherokee Came to Be” Missionary: The Life of Catharine Brown” 1-2:30 p.m. D. Bacashihua: “Cannabis 1-2:30 p.m. in Relation to Health and L. Schaffner: “It Takes a Wellness” Village: When a Community Comes Together” 21 NOVEMBER

TUESDAY, NOV. 2 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3 THURSDAY, NOV. 4 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30-2:30 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. J. Ross: “The Italian Funny Movie: Monty Python S. Watson: “A Personal 40 Renaissance” Year Journey from College Freshman to Dean and Full 1-2:30 p.m. Professor” D. Carlston: “Preparing for the Non Financial Aspects 1-2:30 p.m. of Retirement” D. Carlston: “Preparing for the Non Financial Aspects of Retirement”

TUESDAY, NOV. 9 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10 THURSDAY, NOV. 11 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30-2 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. J. Ross: “The Italian D. Crislip: Comedy Hour S. Watson: “A Personal 40 Renaissance Year Journey from College Freshman to Dean and Full 1-2:30 p.m. Professor” F. Krautz: “Part 1: Surviving WWII and the Cold War” 1-2:30 p.m. F. Krautz: “Part 2: Restarting Life in Freedom”

TUESDAY, NOV. 16 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17 THURSDAY, NOV. 18 10-11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 10-11:30 a.m. S. Hilton: “Ceramics, Nature D. Crislip: Trivia! S. Watson: “A Personal 40 and ‘Math’ While Paying Year Journey from College Attention and Saying Yes” Freshman to Dean and Full Professor” 1-1:30 p.m. L. Martin: “Connecting 1-2:30 p.m. with Nature” D. Spencer: “The Beauty of God’s Nature and the Handiwork of Man”

TUESDAY, NOV. 23 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24 THURSDAY, NOV. 25 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED Thanksgiving Holiday Thanksgiving Holiday Please join us for a HOLIDAY PARTY

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O’DONOHOE HALL SIKES PRIVATE DRIVE BUILDING PRESS SOCCER Parking McCOY LAKE BRIDWELL BRIDWELL COUNCIL DRIVE CENTER COMPLEX ENGINEERING HALL PIERCE HALL KILLINGSWORTH ACTIVITIES HALL COUNCIL DRIVE COUNCIL DRIVE HALL FAIN CENTER Parking COMANCHE TRAIL Parking Parking Parking INSTRUMENT MUSIC HALL RECREATIONAL/ RECREATIONAL/ Parking Jesse Rogers Promenade Parking Parking ALUMNI ATHLETIC FIELD (SOUTH) ATHLETIC FIELD (NORTH) HARDIN ADMINISTRATION (Mustangs Walk) Parking NOCONA TRAIL WIGWAM TRAIL CENTER PAPOOSE OUTDOORParking

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