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FALL 2021 Class Catalog Best of Both New at OLLI...............................................Pg. 4 Shared Interest Groups...........................Pg. 6 Worlds VIRTUAL OR FACE-TO-FACE Fall Classes ............................................Pg. 12 OLLI Encore .............................................Pg. 26 Friday Lecture Series ...........................Pg. 28 Printed version is 11" square. Catalog shown reduced to fit letter-size paper. DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Best of Both! Welcome OLLI members... and 50,000 guests! With this issue, we welcome more than 50,000 readers of the Tampa Bay Times . Welcome to OLLI! We start our 28th year having and OLLI followers throughout the world! seen the real advantages for members and If this is the first time you have heard of OLLI, we want you to be our guest for our instructors of holding classes online. complimentary OPEN HOUSE, featuring Dan Ruth! See page 4. In this Best of Both Worlds Fall term, we will continue to offer online courses, which have attracted members, and particularly, instructors from across Florida and the USA. If you live far away, don’t care to drive in traffic, or are otherwise staying home, you can enjoy these classes’ convenience along with the learning and community. Our fruitful discussion classes invite intimacy and real dialogue; lecture courses allow enhanced seeing and hearing. If you are waiting for a return to face-to-face opportunities, this is the term we start to return to some classrooms. We’ll open with Bridge and then move on to exercise, activities and other classes. As I write this, COVID continues How to Reach the OLLI Staff to mutate and threaten our plans. We have We are working remotely. How best to reach us: prepared to move to all virtual classes, if Charise Dixie Joseph McAuliffe Cath Mason Join OLLI, Register for classes Liberal arts classes, Friday Lectures, Program development, Course evaluation necessary. We will persevere, we will carry on: 813-974-5848 OLLI teaching [email protected] [email protected] Voicemail: 813-974-8422 join us! [email protected] Voicemail: 813-974-5166 Mary Ettinger Ara Rogers Jeanne Dyer Program Support, Mailing list Questions, Scholarships, Gifts to OLLI Technology classes, OLLI Tech Squad [email protected] 813-974-5263 [email protected] Voicemail: 813-974-8036 [email protected] Voicemail: 813-974-8037 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE 3 Speaking of the Liberal Arts Technology Spotlight BACK TO SCHOOL This fall we are excited to welcome 13 new arts and sciences It’s unavoidable. Technology is used in every facet of life OPEN HOUSE instructors, including Nora Paine and Andi Laaker, who will today, so get tech-savvy with OLLI! Stay up to date with all offer their face-to-face class, Script Reading: Your Voice for the changes and enhancements that occur each fall when our Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021 the Stage, at the Uptown Stage located in the University Mall, operating systems are upgraded. Begins at 10:00 a.m. which includes excellent parking. For those of you familiar We have 18 NEW classes for you to explore: with Life Story Writing, you will enjoy The Life Story Club with Lani Guerin on Zoom. Music aficionados will delight inThe • Are you into Podcasts yet? Brian Noriega will introduce you Join us via Zoom as we kick off our 28th year! We’ll Silent and Stentorian World of 'Late' Beethoven: Opus 102, in Apple Podcasts: What’s in it for me? While in Podcasting introduce you to our Fall classes and teachers. No. 2 - Ludwig's Final Cello/Piano Sonata with Scott Kluksdahl 1, 2, 3! Peter Terzian shows how easy it is to create and host your own podcast! The Crisis in Civil Literacy & Grigorios Zamparas. Beatlemania will be revisited in Steve Meininger’s The Beatles: In Our Lives. • In the market for an inexpensive computer? Have you Dan Ruth returns to discuss the considered a Chromebook? Why Not? with Dave Smolinski. Fine food connoisseurs should take note of Larry Canepa’s crisis in civic literacy we are Speaking of computers, macOS for Beginners: Big Sur is A Culinary Tour of France and Italy: A Culinary Tour of its experiencing today in the U.S. back and Jane Adamson will introduce you to Evernote for A new class with snacks and drinks at the Regional Cuisine. Apple Computers. Ruth, a Pulitzer Prize winning JCC on Howard Ave will be Culture Cafe: A Taste of Italy with journalist, is certain to be as Joe Caravella. Start spreading the news and take Dennis • Photography enthusiasts are not forgotten with Donna McGrew’s Edit Your Photos with Microsoft Photos on your entertaining as he is insightful. Dundore’s Hidden Gems of New York City. Closer to Tampa will be the Civilian Conservation Corps at Chinsegut Hill with Ross PC, and Doug Gatchell’s Google Apps: Photos. Learn something, meet great people! Please invite a friend Lamoreaux. • For Apple device members, join us online or face-to face for to learn more about OLLI and share this information. What’s New in iOS & iPadOS 15? Pam Tyler will debut the thought-provoking Astrology: Register online at www.usfseniors.org Persistence of Interest and Controversy. Doug Stowell offers • Michael Bice returns to show us the present capabilities Or email [email protected], phone 813-974-5848 Let’s Find Out Who You Are! and Are We a 10?: US Rankings and the promise of technology that helps us live in Global Indicators. Political history students should consider independently and safely. Trump and the American Presidency with Paul Mack, and Learn about classes, special events, lectures, animal lovers will appreciate Life and Death: What We Learn social activities and from the Death of a Pet with Ron Hammerle and Dani McVety. New Instructor Spotlight more for adults age 50+. Enjoy camaraderie and learning Over half the classes being offered by our returning faculty will with other interesting, interested adults! Dave Smolinski’s engineering career be new classes, so take your time perusing the catalog and spanned over 30 years at Digital circle those that most pique your interest. Equipment, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. At these places, he focused on I’ve Never Zoomed! fixing technical problems and customer Can we show you how? We have a series of tools (print and satisfaction. After retirement, Dave Meet the OLLI Bird video) for those of you who are feeling anxious about going continued to help his neighbors with their multitude of computer problems. We all know the early bird gets the worm. online. Visit the RESOURCES tab on our website at usfseniors. Dave has been an OLLI member Here it’s the OLLI Birds that get rewarded! org. We also have volunteers available to provide one-on-one Zoom assistance to any OLLI member. Contact Ara Rogers via for several years and serves as a Look for the OLLI Bird on selected classes throughout this email ([email protected]) if you need this extra assistance. technology moderator for our OLLI instructors. catalog and get a 50% discount when you register early. No And now, Dave is teaching his first course for OLLI this fall minimum purchase, no codes to remember! Register by 4 PM — Chromebook? Why not? Let Dave introduce you to an September 16 and receive your discount! economical computer, the Chromebook especially if you are tired of PC updates, viruses, and other Windows issues. Come learn about why and how to use it. Bring your own Chromebook or play with one of ours! REASONS TO ZOOM Easy to see • Easy to hear • No driving • No parking • SAFE 4 Register online at https://olliconnects.org/Fall2021/ or call 813-974-5848 OLLI-USF Annual Fund 2020-2021 We are grateful for your support during this challenging period of pandemic-fueled transition. If OLLI helps connect you to other interested and interesting people, if OLLI online means learning and community are accessible to you, if OLLI helps keep you sane, please let us know with your financial support. President’s Council Steven Specter, Ph.D. & Randie Specter Sharon & Richard Feldman In Honor of Rich Evelyn Ann Romano In Memory of Brenda Tipps ($1,000+) Rhoda Stein Kennedy and Kevin Chittim who gave their John Rowe, Jr., Ph.D. Phyllis & Lewis Alpert In Honor of E. Howard Nancy Stuart time generously to keep us connected Diane Russell In Memory of Lois Henrikson during the pandemic Rutherford Edward & Joan Weaving E. Howard Rutherford and Mark Felix In Honor Richard Frosch In Honor of Charise Dixie Jean Amuso Diane White of Phyllis and Lewis Alpert Doug Gatchell Anonymous Marion Yongue In Honor of Phyllis and Lewis Linda & Ken Schatz Jane Applegate, Ph.D. Alpert Nancy and Ephraim Graff Phyllis & Robert Shaw Michael Bice Nick Graves In Memory of Brenda Tipps Michelle and Robert Smits In Memory of Bob Bharat Pathakjee & Susan Waraczynski Family Leader’s Council Lillian Guttman & Michael Eichhorn In Honor of Findorff · Fund (up to $249) Lewis Alpert Sue Tihansky Alan Carlson Vickie & Richard Adelson In Honor of Charise Georgette Hartner John Toole Kevin Chittim In Memory of Brenda Tipps Dixie Anne Haywood Carol Torrens In Memory of Anselmo Torrens Bruce Gobioff Ruth Adrian Elissa Henderson Nancy Tracy Susan Northcutt, Ph.D. Namelda R. Allen Shirley Herring Pamela Tyler In Memory of Brenda Tipps Dr. Earl Richardson Eduvigia Ancaya, M.D. In Honor of Charise Rabbi Garson Herzfeld Diane J. Verhoest SNUG-Senior Networking User's Group Dixie Glenn Hooper Stephanie Walgamott Strozier-Viren Family Foundation, Inc. Anonymous Henry Hyatt In Honor of Charise Dixie Cynthia Ward Catherine & David Wheeler Anonymous Marie Ippolito David & Lorraine Watson Stanley Ashe Richard J. lsinghood Miriam Brevda Zack Director's Council Sankaran Satheesh Babu, M.O.