Classes June - August 2020 Registration Opens Tuesday, May 19, 10:00am

Summer 2020 Art, current events, exercise, science, tours, volunteering, & more!

Sponsored by Dear Friends, Table of Contents We are living in extraordinary, unusual times! Oasis Art Gallery ...... 4 At Oasis, we are meeting the COVID-19 pandemic situation head on – and fexibility is Intergenerational Tutoring Program ...... 4 our new motto. As I write this, we still do not Classes know when we will be given the OK to move Arts ...... 5 back to in-person classes. That means we may Consumer Information & Finance ...... 8 need to offer some classes via a livestream Current Events ...... 9 option, and we most probably will have to limit Film & TV ...... 14 class sizes for “distancing” purposes. We plan Food & Nutrition ...... 15 to pull off our summer session with fexibility Health & Fitness in mind, and we will get through this! We ask Health Lectures ...... 17 for your patience and understanding as we Movement & Exercise...... 20 move through uncharted territory. Oasis staff History & Culture ...... 24 misses all of you – we get our energy from Literature ...... 27 seeing you every day – and we look forward Music ...... 28

From the Director to the day you can return. Performing Arts Finally, thanks to so many of you who donated Friday Performances ...... 31 your spring class fees back to Oasis. It is Lectures ...... 34 heartening to see your generosity, and we Personal Enrichment ...... 34 are grateful. Philosophy, Religion, & Spirituality ...... 35 Science, Math, & Nature ...... 37 Southwest ...... 42 Technology ...... 47 Kathleen Raskob Armchair Travel/Travelogue ...... 48 Executive Director Walks & Hikes...... 49 Travel: Day Trips ...... 50 Off-Site Lectures Oasis staf members At La Vida Llena ...... 51 Top row: Kathleen Raskob, Melody Mock, At Neighborhood in Rio Rancho ...... 52 Cynthia LaCoe-Maniaci. Off-Site Class Locations Directory ...... 54 Second row: Vicki DeVigne, Sylvia Giomi, Oasis National News ...... 55 Becky Kenny. Bottom row: Lisa Lerner Thank You to Our Supporters ...... 56 Thank You to Our Tutors ...... 60 New Mexico Leadership Summit...... 66 Class Calendars ...... 67 Oasis/Collette Trip ...... 71 Oasis Policies 72 [ Registration Info 73 ] Online Registration Info ...... 74 Class Registration Forms ...... 75 Oasis New Participant Form ...... 79 See pages 72-73 for important policy On the cover: Photographer Brandt Magic captures & registration information Oasis participants on a hike (left); Carolyn Clark, Margaret Vining, and Laurel Anderson read at our January tutor training (right).

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COVID-19 UPDATE Please note:

1. Class sizes will be limited until we have more website (www.oasisabq.org). Dates and guidance from the government on distancing times may need to be changed. requirements. Please consider going on a 3. It is possible we will need to cancel some waitlist for a class in case we are able to

off-site classes due to restrictions at those Contents of Table increase class size as the summer progresses. locations. 2. Oasis lectures may need to be moved to 4. Regularly check the Oasis website or your the Zoom platform for live-streaming. We email for updated information. encourage you to learn how to use Zoom – tutorials will be provided on the Oasis 5. Your registration receipt has very important information – please review carefully.

Volunteers - Thank you Oasis Mission We offer a sincere “Thank you” to Oasis is a national organization whose mission is to our many dedicated volunteers. Our promote successful aging through a three-pronged volunteers are vital to our daily approach: lifelong learning, healthy living, and social operations. Some greet you with a engagement. Offering challenging programs in the arts, smile from the front desk while others humanities, science, wellness, and volunteer service, work behind the scenes helping to Oasis creates opportunities for older adults to continue deliver catalogs, making reminder their personal growth and meaningful service to the phone calls, entering health & community. wellness data, assisting with ftness Oasis Affiliation testing, and other odd jobs. It wouldn’t Oasis Albuquerque is a non-proft organization affliated be the same Oasis without our with the Oasis Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, which dedicated volunteers – thank you to was founded in 1982. Nationally, Oasis programs reach each and every one! more than 52,000 individuals and engage more than 6,100 If you are interested in volunteering, volunteers annually. see Lisa for front desk, reminder Join Oasis phone calls, and catalog distribution Oasis is open to all adults regardless of gender, race, opportunities; Vicki for tutoring; creed, ethnicity, national origin or religion. To join, and Cynthia for health & wellness complete the New Participant Form available at the volunteer roles. Come join the fun and Oasis offce or on the inside back cover of this catalog. Or be part of the team that makes Oasis join Oasis online at www.oasisabq.org. a welcoming place. The Oasis Center Special thanks to Mike Langner for Hours: 9:00am - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday installing an upgraded sound system in our large classroom. 9:00am - 4:00pm Friday American Square Shopping Center We extend our special gratitude 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE, Suite 18, Albuquerque to those volunteer instructors who Mail: PO Box 35518 Albuquerque NM 87176 share their expertise and donate Phone: (505) 884-4529 Fax: (505) 884-4942 their time. Because of them we learn something new every day. Email: [email protected] National Website: www oasisnet org Albuquerque Info: www oasisabq org

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 3 Oasis Art Gallery Meg Leonard Solace: Finding Magic and Wonder in Landscape May 18 - Aug 21, 2020 Artist Reception Thursday, August 6, 5-6:30pm Exhibition may be viewed during Oasis office hours.

Meg Leonard fnds solace in nature, in color, and in the act of painting. Brilliant light and vivid hues of the New Mexico environment are evident in her expressive landscape paintings. About her work, she says, “These paintings preserve an experience of being present, observant, open, humbled,

Tutoring / Art Gallery meditative. Observation of the natural Above left: The Right Time world reveals magical moments of oil, 36” x 48” radiance and shadows of mystery. They Above: It was a Very Good Year are intended to whisper to each viewer’s giclee on canvas, 16” x 20” heart. If they evoke peace, mystery, and Left: 24-Karat Gold Spill wonder, then they are successful.” pastel, 18” x 24”

Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring Program Why become an Oasis reading mentor? 10. Volunteering is good for your health. 9. Volunteering inspires you to change an old routine. 8. Volunteering is an opportunity to give back. 7. Volunteering brings people with common goals together. 6. Volunteering strengthens our community. 5. Volunteering saves educational resources. 4. You are needed. 3. You will make a difference. 2. You will impact a student’s literacy. 1. Reading with a student is fun and fulflling. Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring program is now recruiting for fall 2020 training in August, September, and October. Join our team this year and read with an elementary student. Let your love of reading create positive change in our community! Contact Oasis at 505-884-4529 or on the web at https://www.oasisabq.org/tutoring for more info. One student, one reading mentor. Two lives forever changed.

4 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Arts The Art of the Japanese Origami Crane: Workshop 1 Anita Gallegos Origami is the art of paper folding to create sculptural objects and designs. The best- known design is the paper crane, which has symbolic meaning in Japan. Learn the steps

of folding a traditional origami crane plus a Arts few other variations. No experience necessary. $10 materials fee payable to instructor (cash or check) provides a packet of traditional Japanese origami paper and folding instructions. Limited enrollment. Anita Lee Gallegos has been folding and sharing the art of origami for decades. She started training in martial arts as a teenager which gave her an appreciation for Japanese culture and arts. Through her participation in Japanese cultural programs she had the good Join Anita Gallegos to learn the art of Japanese fortune to learn origami from professional paper folding in class #1. folders and hobbyists. The crane is one of her specialties and she has folded thousands of cranes of all sizes, from fractions of an inch Mosaic Art classes through UNM Continuing to several feet. Education and the Harwood Art Center. Her art was featured in the Mosaic New Mexico Friday Jun 5 9:30 - 11:30 group exhibit at Oasis in 2018. Fee: $20 Oasis Monday Jul 13 10:00 - 2:00 Introduction to Mosaics: Tuesday Jul 14 10:00 - 12:00 Art Workshop 2 Fee: $55 2 sessions Oasis Jill Gatwood Introduction to Mosaics: Back by popular demand! Create your own Art Workshop 3 beautiful mosaic art piece, from start to fnish, in two days. In this hands-on class, learn about Jill Gatwood design, cutting tiles, adhesives, and grout. No See class #2. artistic ability or experience is required. All Monday Jul 27 9:00 - 1:00 tiles, tools, and other supplies are provided Tuesday Jul 28 9:00 - 11:00 in class. Bring $25 materials fee payable Fee: $55 2 sessions Oasis to instructor at frst class (cash or check). Note: Second class is 10am-12pm (2 hours). Kelly Jo Designs Pottery: Limited enrollment. Art Workshop 4 Jill Gatwood is an avid hiker and naturalist. Kelly Jo Kuchar When not exploring the mountains and Spend a summer afternoon at Kelly Jo Designs canyons of New Mexico, she creates custom painting a piece of pottery – your way. Take mosaic mailboxes and teaches Introduction to a tour of the working studio before beginning

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 5 your own project. Choose from a wide selection Exploring Clay: Art Workshop 6 of shape options. Kelly Jo Kuchar and her Cindy Dominguez instructors demonstrate possible techniques for Join art instructor Cindy Dominguez at the painting your own pottery piece (stencilling, for Menaul School’s art studio to explore hand- example) and provide a technique book. This building with clay. Create small pieces with is an open studio class. All materials included. coil and slab building before working on and A tour of their working studio production and completing a piece of your own. This may be gallery are included. Limited enrollment. anything from a decorative tile to a teapot Kelly Jo Designs (KJD) has been in business or even a sculpture, depending on your for 30 years. Her pottery is iconic in New imagination. Materials fee of $20 payable Mexico and sold throughout the US. Kuchar by cash or check to the instructor. Limited studied art at Southern Methodist University. enrollment. Participants may bring a snack. Arts In 2012, she opened her studio to canvas and Cindy Dominguez has studied and completed pottery classes and has introduced countless degrees in art history and painting at people to their own inner artist. The studio Westminster College, photography at UNM, is also the home to Los Ranchos Winery with and education at the College of Santa Fe. award-winning wines. Dominguez exhibits her work regularly while Thursday Jul 16 1:00 - 4:00 also curating Luanem Gallery for the Menaul Fee: $50 Kelly Jo Designs School, where she has directed and taught in the art program for eight years. She is also a Introduction to Metalsmithing: photographer and visual artist. Art Workshop 5 Monday Aug 3 10:00 - 3:00 Margie Weinstein Fee: $50 Menaul School Back by popular demand! Join us for a hands- on introduction to metalsmithing at the fully Brushstrokes & Horizons: equipped Meltdown Studio in Albuquerque. Pastel Landscapes Workshop 7 In this four-hour workshop, learn techniques Susan Roden including piercing, sawing, texturing, Paint landscapes using alcohol washes stamping, soldering, making fndings, and accented strokes to explore a varied polishing, and more. Take home several application approach to pastels. In the frst completed metal projects or create components of two sessions, Susan Roden leads group to use later. No previous experience is exercises exploring effects and handling required, just a desire to create. All materials of pastel sticks and brushes. In the second and tools are provided. Limited enrollment. session, proceed to individual pieces on paper Participants may bring a snack. and wood panels. This accelerated technique Margie Weinstein is a native New Mexican is ideal for plein-air or studio painting. All who has worked as a studio potter for 25 years, materials provided; bring materials fee of $15 and recently retired from teaching jewelry and payable to instructor (cash or check) on frst ceramics at Albuquerque Public Schools. She day of class. Limited enrollment. is a bench mate and instructor at Meltdown Susan Roden is a juried member with the where she has taught a variety of classes. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (New Wednesday Jul 29 10:00 - 2:00 York), a distinguished pastelist, and 2020 Fee: $75 Meltdown Studio president of the Pastel Society of New Mexico. She is noted for her pastels as well as other media; she resides and maintains an art studio in Albuquerque. She has exhibited nationally

6 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque and her paintings have been featured in a small art piece (11” x 14” or smaller) to Décor & Style, The Pastel Journal, San Diego frame. Practice cutting mats and spacers, Home/Garden Lifestyles, and Pastel Artist learn how to seal the backs, and adhere wire International Magazine. and hangers with supplies provided. Tools Tuesday & Wednesday Aug 4 & 5 9:30 - 12:30 and materials provided; bring materials fee Fee: $55 2 sessions Oasis of $20 payable to instructor (cash or check). Limited enrollment. Weekends With O’Keeffe 8 See bio #7. Carol Merrill Friday Aug 7 9:30 - 12:00 Carol Merrill spent seven years with Georgia Fee: $30 Oasis O’Keeffe when Merrill was in her 20s, and Arts O’Keeffe was in her 80s and 90s. She worked Introduction to Fused Glass Jewelry: with O’Keeffe on weekends from 1973-1979 Art Workshop at FUSE Makerspace 10 as librarian, secretary, nurse, caregiver, cook, Sarah Nelson companion, confdante, and reader. Merrill Join us for a hands-on, two-session workshop shares stories and reads from focused on glass jewelry two books she wrote about her making at the FUSE experience: Weekends with Makerspace. On day one, O’Keeffe and O’Keeffe: Days in attendees learn techniques a Life, both of which contain that include cutting glass, insight into O’Keeffe toward designing with fusible the end of her life. Merrill ends glass, and programming a with time for Q&A. kiln in order to create glass Although she has loved serious cabochons. On day two, learn reading and writing since early how to drill holes, add metal childhood, Carol Merrill did bails and fnish your glass not publish much until she was items to create pendants. encouraged by O’Keeffe. She Take home several one-of-a- became active in the world of kind, ready-to-wear pieces. poetry and playwriting and No previous experience worked overseas as a librarian. required. All materials and She served as librarian at tools are provided. Note: Kewa Pueblo Elementary second class is from 11am- and Middle Schools as well as 1pm. Limited enrollment. Cochiti Elementary and Middle Sarah Nelson holds a BA Schools. Her books are now on from Northern Illinois Carol Merrill shares stories of her Audible in her voice, as well University with an emphasis as in the National Library for experience working with Georgia O’Keeffe in class #8. in visual communications/ the Blind. photography. After Wednesday Aug 5 12:30 - 2:00 relocating from Chicago to Fee: $10 Oasis Albuquerque in 2000, she began her career in glass art. Framing Your Art: Workshop 9 She attended residencies at Pilchuck Glass Susan Roden School and North Lands Creative Glass in With a hands-on approach, learn the steps to Scotland. Working as a professional artist, professionally frame your works of art. Bring she draws inspiration from natural themes

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 7 to create kiln-worked glass. She is a board member and communications chair for Glass Consumer Alliance New Mexico. Monday Aug 10 11:00 - 2:00 Information & Tuesday Aug 11 11:00 - 1:00 Fee: $75 2 sessions FUSE Makerspace Finance Duran’s Central Pharmacy Museum Tour of Eye to I: History & Tour: Field Trip 12 Self-Portraits From the National Mona Ghattas Portrait Gallery 11 Back by popular demand! Duran Central Josie Lopez Pharmacy (Duran’s), the iconic independent Drawn from the Smithsonian’s National drugstore near Old Town, has been in business Portrait Gallery collection, Eye to I examines since 1942, providing pharmaceutical resources how artists in the US have chosen to portray to our community, as well as serving up themselves since the beginning of the last quality New Mexican food. The Ghattas family century. It features self-portraits by prominent purchased Duran’s from Pete Duran in 1965. fgures in the history of portraiture including Our tour begins at Remedy Coffee, a new Jean-Michel Basquiat, Thomas Hart Benton, cafe next to Duran’s, with a cup of coffee and Elaine de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, Alice pastry. Mona Ghattas provides the history Neel, Faith Ringgold, Diego Rivera, and many and then leads us on a tour of the pharmacy. more. A tour with art curator Josie Lopez.

Consumer Information & Finance Limited enrollment. Limited enrollment. Mona Ghattas, Duran’s president, owns and Dr. Josie Lopez is curator of art at the operates the pharmacy and restaurant. She Albuquerque Museum. She received a master’s has been a pharmacist since 1984 and was the degree in teaching from Brown University 2019 president of the New Mexico Pharmacists and a PhD in art history from the University Association. She graduated from UNM with a of California, Berkeley. Her research and Bachelor of Science in pharmacy. curatorial projects include examining art as a Tuesday Jul 7 9:30 - 10:30 discursive agent in the political arena; modern Fee: $18 Duran’s Central Pharmacy and contemporary Latin American art; 19th century France, Spain and Mexico; Spanish Duran’s Central Pharmacy art from El Greco to Goya; and the history of History & Tour: Field Trip 13 New Mexican art. Mona Ghattas Thursday Aug 20 10:00 - 11:00 See class #12. Fee: $20 Albuquerque Museum Tuesday Aug 4 9:30 - 10:30 See also: Fee: $18 Duran’s Central Pharmacy

Carlsbad Caverns: Stories of Exploration, Art, & Look the World in the Eye: Conservation with artist, author, and lifelong caver Crime Prevention at Home & Play 14 Lois Manno (class #134). Laura Kuehn Being safer doesn’t require changing your lifestyle, personality, or the things you enjoy doing. Planning ahead can keep you safer

at home and while enjoying your favorite

activities when you are out and about. Laura Kuehn, crime prevention specialist for the

8 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Mark Ballard is the director of advance planning for French Funerals & Cremations, a local, family-owned business founded in 1907. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from UNM and has been a part of the Albuquerque community for more than

44 years. Evenets Current Thursday Aug 13 2:30 - 4:00 Fee: $5 Oasis Current Events Making a Case Out of It: An Overview of the Federal Court System 16 APD Crime Prevention Specialist Laura Kuehn offers tips on crime prevention at your home in Karen Molzen class #14. The expression “to make a federal case out of something” can suggest that more important cases land in federal court. In fact, our City of Albuquerque, offers valuable tips on Constitution and laws of Congress determine keeping yourself safe. just what makes a case subject to federal Laura Kuehn has been employed with the court jurisdiction. Karen Molzen, magistrate Albuquerque Police Department since 1997 as judge, guides us through the federal court a crime prevention specialist. She holds a BA system and how it operates towards a better in political science, a supplementary degree in understanding of our third branch of law and society, along with minors in criminal government: the judicial. justice and psychology. Kuehn is designated by In 1999, Karen Molzen was appointed as the International Society of Crime Prevention the frst full-time female United States Practitioners as an International Crime magistrate judge in the District of New Prevention Specialist; she is certifed as a Mexico. After serving 12 years at her Las National Crime Prevention Specialist by the Cruces duty station, that station was changed National Crime Prevention Association. to Albuquerque when she became the District’s Monday Jul 13 10:00 - 11:30 chief magistrate judge. Although she offcially Fee: $10 Oasis retired in May 2019, she continues her work as a magistrate judge in a part-time capacity Peace of Mind in Planning Your under the federal judiciary recall program. Celebration of Life 15 Monday Jun 8 2:30 - 4:00 Mark Ballard Fee: $10 Oasis You have done everything else, now it is time to take care of that last thing you have been Guided Tour of the Albuquerque putting off: end of life discussion. Planning Sunport: Field Trip 17 your fnal celebration is an integral part of any Doug Lutz retirement plan. Learn how to save money and Back by popular demand! A guided view of provide peace of mind for you and your family. our airport. Visit the communications center, Who knows better than you what you want for pass through TSA security (bring a photo ID), your fnal party? An expert can help you have and hop on a van onto the tarmac. Observe that conversation and make it easy for you. planes arriving and departing, see activity at

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 9 Cutter Aviation, and tour the FedEx 727. The tour includes a trip to the old historic airport terminal located west of the main airport. Finally, learn about the amazing architecture and world class art collection on display inside the Sunport. Limited enrollment. Doug Lutz works for the City of Albuquerque Aviation Department, where he acts as tour guide for numerous schools, retiree organizations, and special needs groups.

Current Events As a member of the Sunport’s Marketing Take a guided tour of the Albuquerque Sunport Department, he oversees the airport’s with Doug Lutz in classes #17, 18, or 19. volunteer programs and community outreach activities. With a diverse background that includes oil and gas exploration, environmental engineering, banking, and The ARTCC is one of 21 domestic enroute government public service, Lutz has a wealth air traffc control centers and is responsible of experience. for approximately 210,000 square miles Thursday Jun 11 10:00 - 12:00 of airspace covering most of Arizona, New Fee: $18 Albuquerque Sunport Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. They also monitor air traffc into Guided Tour of the Albuquerque and out of the Albuquerque Sunport. Learn Sunport: Field Trip 18 everything you ever wanted to know about our Doug Lutz air traffc control system. Limited enrollment. See class #17. Friday Jun 12 10:00 - 12:00 Wednesday Jun 24 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $20 FAA Air Traffc Control Center Fee: $18 Albuquerque Sunport FAA Air Traffic Control Center: Guided Tour of the Albuquerque Field Trip 21 Sunport: Field Trip 19 See class #20. Doug Lutz Tuesday Jul 7 10:00 - 12:00 See class #17. Fee: $20 FAA Air Traffc Control Center Monday Jul 20 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $18 Albuquerque Sunport FAA Air Traffic Control Center: Field Trip 22 FAA Air Traffic Control Center: See class #20. Field Trip 20 Thursday Jul 16 10:00 - 12:00 Back by popular demand! Tour the Federal Fee: $20 FAA Air Traffc Control Center Aviation Administration’s Albuquerque Air Route Traffc Control Center (ARTCC) at Paseo del Norte and Louisiana Blvd. NE.

10 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Crime, Innovations, & Reforms: Even in his wildest dreams he never imagined A District Attorney’s Perspective 23 how things would turn out. This session Raúl Torrez describes the process before, during, and after Bernalillo County playing on Jeopardy! Zuffranieri answers District Attorney Raúl whatever burning questions you have about Torrez provides a the show and its iconic host, Alex Trebek.

briefng on historical Jason Zuffranieri came to Albuquerque in Events Current and current crime 2002 from his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. trends in Albuquerque. After working at Sandia National Labs, He discusses the he moved into teaching, and has been at various tools and Albuquerque Academy for seven years as a innovations occurring math instructor and coach of math and science inside the DA’s offce teams. Zuffranieri has won multiple national with the Crime Raúl Torrez championships for sudoku puzzles and has Strategies Unit as played trivia games since he was a child. well as reforms throughout the criminal Wednesday Jun 24 10:00 - 11:30 justice system. Hear about the DA’s efforts Fee: $12 Oasis in prevention and intervention. Raised in Albuquerque,CLASS Raúl Torrez is a Vaping: Is it Safe(r)? 25 former federal prosecutor and senior advisor Duane Ross in PresidentPOSTPONED Obama’s Department of Justice. We have all heard about vaping, whether During his time in Washington, DC, Torrez through a friend using it as a safer alternative served as a White House fellow and special to smoking or on the news linked to a death. counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the Join Duane Ross for a brief history and United States. He was sworn in as Bernalillo education on vaping. He presents the latest County District Attorney on January 1, 2017. facts on current trends regarding the use of Torrez graduated from Harvard University, vaping products, what caused those deaths received his master’s degree from the London that were in the news, how vaping compares School of Economics and his law degree from to smoking in terms of safety, and whether it Stanford University. helps people stop smoking. Thursday Jun 18 10:00 - 11:30 Duane Ross, MD, is a medical director at True Fee: $10 Oasis Health New Mexico. Upon completing medical school at Howard University and his residency The Making of a Jeopardy Champion 24 and fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Jason V. Zuffranieri New York, he moved to Albuquerque. He has Last March, Jason served as medical director or associate medical Zuffranieri got the director for Blue Cross and Blue Shield NM call inviting him to and Lovelace Health System, and as a clinical participate on the assistant professor at UNM. Ross sits on the legendary television boards of the American Lung Association of program, Jeopardy! New Mexico and Oasis Albuquerque. Three weeks and 19 Wednesday Jun 24 2:30 - 4:00 wins later he would Fee: $10 Oasis see what a lifetime of preparation and loyal viewing would lead to. Jason V. Zuffranieri

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 11 The Committee that Runs the World: Drawing on 43 years of experience, Barker The National Security Council provides an inside look at investigative Then & Now 26 journalism while he takes us on a behind-the- William H. Itoh scenes tour of many of the Created by the investigations he has pursued National Security Act – locally, nationally, and of 1947, the National internationally. Security Council (NSC) Larry Barker began his advises the president broadcasting career in 1975 of the United States at an Albuquerque radio on matters relating to station, and quickly moved defense and foreign on to television. He began as policy. The NSC has a producer, but his passion expanded considerably for uncovering scandals soon over recent years, led him into investigative

Current Events often going beyond its President Truman in the Cabinet Room of reporting. He has received 45 policy coordination the White House with the National Security Emmy awards from the Rocky role in supporting the Council, 1948, photograph by Abbie Rowe Mountain Southwest Chapter president. Explore (see class #26). of the National Academy of the organization and Television Arts and Sciences. history of the NSC with observations about Barker is a graduate of Prescott College. how well the process has worked under Tuesday Jul 7 12:30 - 2:00 different presidents. Presented in partnership Fee: $10 Oasis with the World Affairs Council of Albuquerque. Ambassador William Itoh served as executive Recap of the 2020 NM secretary of the National Security Council at Legislative Session 28 the White House from 1993-1995. A career Dick Minzner Foreign Service offcer, he also served as In even years, the New Mexico legislature ambassador to Thailand 1995-1999. He holds meets for 30 days and focuses on budget, BA and MA degrees in history from UNM and revenue, and taxation measures. In addition, is professor of the practice in the Department the legislature can consider constitutional of Public Policy at the University of North amendments and proposals placed on the Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is past president of agenda by the governor. A lot has happened the World Affairs Council of Albuquerque. since the 2020 legislative session wrapped up Thursday Jun 25 10:00 - 11:30 in February, and tax and revenue expert Dick Fee: $10 Oasis Minzner reviews major actions taken during the session and the expected special session Larry Barker: Investigative Reporter 27 this summer. Substantial time is devoted to Larry Barker Q&A and class discussion. Back by popular demand! His name is Dick Minzner has been an attorney with the synonymous with investigative reporting Rodey Law Firm since 1974. He graduated in New Mexico. Larry Barker leads the from Harvard College and Harvard Law KRQE News 13 Investigative Team. His School and served in the NM House of award-winning investigative reports have Representatives from 1981-1990. During that exposed corruption, caught con men in the time, he served as majority leader and chair of act, and uncovered governmental misdeeds. the Taxation and Revenue Committee. From

12 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque 1991-1994, he served as cabinet secretary for the Department of Taxation and Revenue and has been a lobbyist in the New Mexico legislature since 1995. Tuesday July 21 12:30 - 2:00 Fee: $10 Oasis Current Events Current Governor Garrey Carruthers: A Conversation 29 Rodger Beimer & Garrey Carruthers Join Governor Garrey Carruthers as he Gov. Garrey Carruthers Rodger Beimer relates his experiences from the political halls of Washington to the Governor’s offce recent books are What Happens Next, a book in Santa Fe – and his many stops along the of poems; and Stillpoint, a novel. He hopes to way. Carruthers, who served as New Mexico retire soon so that he can attend Oasis lectures governor from 1986 to 1991, also has a wealth from the audience rather than the podium. of experience in the private sector and in leadership roles in collegiate education, Tuesday Aug 11 12:30 - 2:00 including chancellor of New Mexico State Fee: $10 Oasis University. Carruthers is one of New Mexico’s most prominent public servants and continues New Mexico Leadership to serve our state as a member of the State Summit 2020 250 Ethics Commission. Guiding the conversation When Leaders Grow, Communities Thrive is Rodger Beimer, a New Mexico television The New Mexico Leadership Summit provides and radio reporter who covered many of an opportunity for community leaders to Carruthers’ career stops. Join us as these take a step back, refresh their perspectives, two native New Mexicans tell it like it is. and be inspired. Our featured speakers Friday Aug 7 2:30 - 4:00 share their unique personal stories and Fee: $12 Oasis leadership experiences. In addition, they provide a window into how they think about Election of 2020 30 ethics and the ethical challenges they face George Ovitt in their workplaces. The summit’s goal is to The frst half of 2020 has been momentous: create a space for you to refect upon your the President of the United States has been leadership style, using what you learn to impeached by the House of Representatives make meaningful change across New Mexico and exonerated by the Senate, the feld of and the Southwest. Democratic hopefuls has been narrowed to Speakers: Tracy Hartzler, president, CNM; one presumptive candidate, and the American Abe Assaad, Special Olympian; Maryalyce people are divided over the President’s handling Jeremiah, author and women’s collegiate of the COVID-19 pandemic. What will happen basketball coach; Gloria Drayer, Kripalu yoga in November? George Ovitt remarks on the practitioner; Monique Fragua, VP Commercial impact of COVID-19, the impeachment and Enterprises, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center; Senate trial, the various campaigns, and, as Hakim Bellamy, founder and CEO of Beyond always, provides historical context. Poetry, LLC; Joy Harjo, 23rd poet laureate of George Ovitt has been teaching at the United States; Adrián Pedroza, national Albuquerque Academy since 2000. His most director of strategic partnerships for Abriendo

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 13 Puertas/Opening Doors; and John Foley, Naval Academy graduate and author. For more information: www.cnm.edu/nmls Friday Aug 14 8:30 - 4:00 Fee: $160 CNM-Smith Brasher

Help Get Out the Vote: Become a Voter Registration Agent 31 Jetta Reynolds & Kathy Korte Back by popular demand! In this workshop, Jetta Reynolds with the Rio Grande Voter Registration Alliance and Kathy Korte, elections training coordinator with the

Film & TV Bernalillo County Clerk’s Offce, train you to be a state certifed voter registration agent. You leave with a notarized certifcate to register any New Mexico resident and can then assist people to become newly registered or help those who have recently moved or changed their name. Learn how to keep accurate registration records. Limited enrollment. Lucille Ball, seen here in a 1950s flm still, is the topic of Jane Ellen’s presentation Everybody Loves Tuesday Aug 18 1:00 - 2:30 Lucy (class #35). Fee: $5 Oasis

Help Get Out the Vote: have launched efforts to corner the Become a Voter Registration Agent 32 large movie-going community in India. Jetta Reynolds & Kathy Korte Nandini Kuehn is a native of India and See class #31. remembers seeing classic Bollywood movies Tuesday Aug 18 3:00 - 4:30 in her youth. Over time, she was intrigued Fee: $5 Oasis enough to try to understand, as an audience member, why these flms are popular across the world and how to approach them to Film & TV perhaps enjoy them or least understand their Vibrant Indian Cinema: popularity better. She lives in New Mexico and A Taste of Bollywood 33 tries to keep up with flms from India (as well as from around the world). Nandini Pillai Kuehn India’s flm industry, loosely referred to as Wednesday Jun 3 12:30 - 2:00 Bollywood, releases about 1,000 flms a year – Fee: $10 Oasis almost twice the number of flms released by Hollywood. Through clips from movies as well Fabulously Funny 50s: Jack Benny, as emerging modern flms, we explore what George Burns, & Friends 34 defnes these flms and glimpse the emerging Jane Ellen market for new, vibrant cinema in India. We In the 1950s when television was still in its also take a brief look at Netfix and Prime that infancy, audiences could fnd a treasure trove of small screen situation comedies or sitcoms,

14 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque which often doubled as variety shows, beamed majority of people. Learn how to utilize gut into their homes on a weekly basis. Whether health powerhouse foods in creative ways in you’re a fan of Jack Benny and the long- this cooking demo. Bryn Smith demonstrates suffering Rochester, or enjoy trying to help recipes using fermented foods, prebiotics, and George outguess Gracie, or can’t wait for the herbs and spices. Samples and printed recipes further adventures of the Kramdens and the are provided. Limited enrollment. Nortons on The Honeymooners, this class is Bryn Smith is a registered dietitian at Nutrition & Food for you. Dietitians ABQ and received her degree from Jane Ellen is the consummate storyteller UNM. She has a background in corporate with eclectic interests, specializing in music wellness and nutrition and lectures at Sandia and entertainment history. She is an award- National Laboratories, UNM, and in the larger winning composer and recording artist who Albuquerque community. As a dietitian, Smith shares her passion for music, history, and believes in the power of food to nourish the spirituality with Albuquerque audiences. mind and the body. She works to improve With a catalogue of more than 60 published people’s relationship with their food to help works and numerous choral and chamber them obtain recognizable health benefts. commissions, her music has been performed Monday Jun 15 10:00 - 11:30 internationally. Fee: $30 Oasis Friday Jun 26 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $10 Oasis Eldora Craft Chocolate: Field Trip 37 Steve Prickett Everybody Loves Lucy 35 Back by popular demand! This small batch, Jane Ellen craft chocolate maker exposes you to Lucille Désirée Ball (1911-89) was a comedian everything from the full cocoa bean to the who once auditioned for the role of Scarlett chocolate bar-making process and presents O’Hara. Together with husband Desi Arnaz, new ways of thinking about chocolate. You will she later built the foundation of the Desilu come to understand the terroir of where a bean Empire on the I Love Lucy show – the most is grown and how it affects taste and quality. popular show in the US during four of its Tour the Eldora Chocolate facility, sample six years on television. Revisit this slapstick some amazing chocolate, and become educated comedy and discover why the show is regarded on the various favor profles of bean origins. as one of the greatest and most infuential Limited enrollment. sitcoms in history. Steve Prickett, owner and founder, followed See bio #34. his hobby, passion, and lifelong love of dark Friday July 17 10:00 - 12:00 chocolate to start Eldora after a successful Fee: $10 Oasis career as a private wealth advisor at Merrill Lynch. Part of this journey was to understand chocolate favors around the world. He Food & Nutrition proceeded to make chocolate from 24 countries and 35 origins. He brings this knowledge and Eating for Gut Health: enthusiasm to Eldora. A Cooking Demo 36 Bryn Smith Tuesday Jun 16 10:00 - 11:00 Gut health is central to overall health. While Fee: $20 Eldora Chocolate each person’s gut is unique, there are some dietary staples that beneft gut health for the

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 15 interested in learning more about plant- based eating or how to support a loved one who follows the diet. Samples provided. Limited enrollment. Tony Quintana holds a master’s degree in health education from UNM and is the manager of the Plant-Based Eating Program for Animal Protection of NM. He has worked in health education and health promotion for over nine years, managing nutrition, diabetes, obesity, and HIV programs. He is also an experienced ftness instructor with three ftness certifcations from the American Council on Exercise. He follows a plant-based diet and enjoys sharing information on the benefts of plant-based eating. Food & Nutrition Thursday Jun 18 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $12 Oasis

Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet: Sprouts Market Field Trip 40 Tony Quintana Back by popular demand! Interested in incorporating more plant-based meals into Learn to prepare gut healthy recipes with your diet? Join Tony Quintana for a tour of Bryn Smith, registered dietitian (class #36). Sprouts Farmers Market. Discover tips for meal planning and creating shopping lists, shopping for plant-basedCLASS foods on a budget, where to fnd these foods in the grocery store, Eldora Craft Chocolate: Field Trip 38 andPOSTPONED reasons for plant-based eating. Tour Steve Prickett involves standing for an extended period of See class #37. time. Limited enrollment. Thursday Jun 18 10:00 - 11:00 See bio #39. Fee: $20 Eldora Chocolate Tuesday Jun 23 9:00 - 10:30 Fee: $18 Sprouts Farmers Market Plant-Based Eating: The What, Why, & How 39 The Wines of France: A Guided Tour 41 Tony Quintana Carolyn & Ken Thompson Back by popular demand! Join Tony Quintana Much more than just a beverage, French wine for an introduction to plant-based eating. is a liquid storyteller. Learn about the fve Learn what it means to follow a plant-based major wine regions: Alsace, Loire, Burgundy, diet, why people choose to eat this way, and the northern and southern Rhône. Hone and how to transition to a plant-based diet. your tasting skills and understanding as we Discover the health benefts, as well as tips consider the place of wine in French society for meal planning, shopping, recipes, and and the cultures from which it springs. Join cooking. This is a great opportunity for those us for a guided tasting of wines with a goal of

16 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque helping you contemplate selections often in almond sauce, zucchini fritters with romesco found on the shelves of your local wine shop. sauce, and pimentón pepper patata bravas Limited enrollment. with aleppo pepper. Samples and recipes

Carolyn and Ken Thompson have experienced provided. Limited enrollment. Health & Fitness: Lectures the French lifestyle through many years of Michelle Michelotti-Martinez is passionate visiting and living there. They met in France about creating great, locally sustainable in 1977 and have shared a love of the country dishes. She studied with renowned chefs in and culture ever since. They have owned a Italy, New York, and Los Angeles and has 20 second home in the Burgundian village of years of teaching, catering, and commercial Pommard since 2005 and operate Your Key food experience. She works with farmers and to Burgundy, a concierge-style trip planning purveyors for the best organic ingredients. service. As experienced teachers and travelers, She is founder and creator of Eatentions, the Thompsons enjoy nothing more than an organic, locally sustainable food service sharing their passion for France with others. company specializing in cooking classes, culinary socials, boutique catering, weekly Friday Jul 10 2:00 - 4:00 meal offerings, and community food events Fee: $40 Oasis and causes. Good Gut Health 42 Monday Aug 3 2:00 - 3:30 Bryn Smith Fee: $30 Oasis Gut health has been linked to many aspects of overall well-being, including metabolic health, Health & Fitness cardiovascular health, and mood management. Lectures With so much media attention on gut health, it can be diffcult to decipher fact from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico fction. Join registered dietitian Bryn Smith (BCBSNM) has partnered with Oasis Albuquerque to learn about the impacts of diet, exercise, to engage older adults in evidence-based and other and supplements – such as prebiotics and programs that lead to active and healthy lifestyles. probiotics – on gut health and the microbiome. The primary focus is to increase physical activity She also discusses foods that are especially and avoid falls. We have expanded our offerings benefcial to gut health. of age-appropriate exercise programs and lectures that address fall risk awareness and reduction. See bio #36. Because of this sponsorship, we are able to offer Monday Jul 20 10:00 - 11:30 selected classes at a reduced rate or free of charge. Fee: $10 Oasis The Best Non-Drug Ways to Lower Tapas Delights: Spanish Cuisine Your Blood Pressure 44 in Small Bites 43 Lynn Umbreit & Sara Ukeiley Michelle Michelotti-Martinez One in three people has high blood pressure. Back by popular demand! Join Michelle If it’s not you, it is someone you know. Learn Michelotti-Martinez of Eatentions to learn the best non-drug, evidence-based ways to three tapas recipes. These legendary “small naturally lower blood pressure and reduce bites” are the heart of Spanish cuisine and the risk of stroke, heart attack, and kidney make for a fantastic party or a light dinner. disease. Practical tips and simple strategies Learn about their importance in Spanish for healthier blood pressure and a healthier culture as your instructor uses in-season, you are shared. local ingredients to prepare the creations. She Lynn Umbreit, MS, is a licensed registered demonstrates how to make Spanish meatballs dietitian nutritionist and certifed diabetes

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 17 educator. She is program director for the minutes per session (#3 through 8) of gentle New Mexico Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring physical activity to help you manage concerns Program (BPSMP). Sara Ukeiley, a certifed about falls, change your environment to reduce personal trainer and registered yoga teacher, risk of falls, and increase your activity with is a healthy heart ambassador for the BPSMP, the support of your peers. Limited enrollment. association group exercise director for the Thursdays Jul 2 - Aug 20 10:00 - 12:00 YMCA, and a ftness instructor. Both are Free 8 sessions Oasis passionate about helping people make healthful changes in their eating and exercise patterns to Hands-Only CPR & AED Use improve their quality of life and health. With the Resuscitation Rangers 47 Thursday June 4 12:30 - 2:00 Resuscitation Rangers Fee: $10 Oasis Back by popular demand! Do you know the signs and symptoms of a heart attack? Could Beginning Meditation Workshop 45 you help someone if they were having one? Rennie Maguire In this program, the Resuscitation Rangers Experience meditation using the classical yoga teach the principles of Early Heart Attack method from a certifed instructor. Learn to Care (EHAC), which incorporates recognizing regulate your breath, focus your attention, early signs and symptoms of someone in

Health & Fitness: Lectures Fitness: & Health quiet your nervous system, ease body tension, cardiac distress and calling 911. They provide and gradually develop inner peace. This class instruction on administering hands-only is for anyone who wants to learn to meditate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and or develop a systematic practice. Class is using an automated external defbrillator taught in chairs; dress comfortably. Take- (AED) with hands-on exercises. Limited home audio CDs available for purchase ($10). enrollment. Limited enrollment. The Resuscitation Rangers is a volunteer Rennie Maguire has been trained and program offered by Lovelace Health System, certifed to teach superconscious meditation which includes the Heart Hospital of New by the Institute of the Himalayan Tradition Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center, dedicated in St. Paul, MN. She has taught meditation entirely to cardiovascular care. The mission of workshops on the Oregon Coast; her clients the Rangers is to improve outcomes for heart have included Oregon State University attack and cardiac arrest victims by helping Extension; City of Newport, OR; and to educate the community. Samaritan Health Services. In Albuquerque, Thursday Jul 9 12:30 - 2:00 she teaches at Oasis, the Jewish Community Fee: $5 Oasis Center, and in various not-for-proft and community settings. Protecting Your Back 48 Monday Jun 8 10:00 - 11:30 Mark L. Schwartz Fee: $12 Oasis Join Mark Schwartz for Backsafe, an informative, fun, and interactive class A Matter of Balance 46 designed to improve your awareness of Teresa Fulton & Joe Huebel proper body mechanics when doing everyday Does a fear of falling prevent you from doing activities. We work through activities such the activities that you love? If so, you are as lifting, bending, sweeping, gardening, not alone. This eight-week, evidence-based vacuuming, using a laptop, and other activities program utilizes lively group discussion, of interest to you. Learn how you can be more problem-solving strategies, videos, and 25 productive and maintain your energy through

18 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque inquiry and examination. What questions should we be asking ourselves and our medical providers?

Dr. Aroop Mangalik is a retired oncologist Health & Fitness: Lectures from the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center. He was involved in clinical trials for new treatments of cancer, and he treated different types of cancer. He is an advocate for openness and honesty, which provides physical and emotional comfort at all stages of an illness. He is the author of the book Dealing with Doctors, Denial and Death: A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness. Thursday Jul 23 12:30 - 2:00 Fee: $10 Oasis

Top Ten Podiatry Problems & How to Address Them 50 Learn how to reduce your risk of fractures with Janet Simon Karen Reed in class #53. Aging feet are often painful, but they do not have to be. Janet Simon shares the most common podiatric problems and best practices for addressing these unwanted symptoms. Her safer, more effcient movement. Please wear presentation includes tips for self care and comfortable clothing. Limited enrollment. when professional care should be sought. Learn Mark Schwartz has been a chiropractor in how to keep your feet in working condition – an Albuquerque for 19 years after practicing in important part of overall wellness. Pennsylvania for over 20 years. He is certifed Janet Simon, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine in the Backsafe program and has been (DPM), MEd, is executive director of the New offering it for 12 years. He is a member of the Mexico Podiatric Medical Association and International Chiropractic Association and the is a board certifed podiatric physician in New Mexico Chiropractic Association. Albuquerque with New Mexico Foot & Ankle Friday Jul 10 10:30 - 12:00 Institute. She has more than 30 years of Fee: $15 Oasis experience in clinical practice and serves as senior advisor to the Public Health Committees Limits of Medicine: When Should We of the American Podiatric Medical Association Shift From Treatment to Care? 49 and the American Public Health Association. Aroop Mangalik Monday Aug 3 10:00 - 11:30 Medical treatments have made and continue to Fee: $10 Oasis make progress. But two obvious facts seem to be forgotten by many: frst, all diseases cannot Natural Pain Management be fxed, and second, death is inevitable. For Strategies for Arthritis 51 those who realize these realities, life becomes Li Xu easier and death more peaceful. We discuss Back by popular demand! Li Xu presents a how we can work through the complex feld two-part workshop on arthritis: the causes, of uncertainty by using some basic tools of how to adapt your pain management strategy

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 19 to the changing seasons, how diet and or treat existing osteoporosis? Join Karen Reed nutrition affect management, and guided, to learn the answers to these questions and hands-on presentations on how to use certain more, such as what are fragility fractures and acupressure points to manage pain in the how can one prevent them? She also discusses knees, neck, back, and shoulders. These are strategies to maximize wellness, maintain techniques that you can apply in your daily independence, and feel your best. life to manage your chronic arthritis pain. Karen Reed has spent most of her 15 years Limited enrollment. as an RN in orthopedic specialties. She Dr. Li Xu holds a PhD in acupuncture, is a was instrumental in the development of DOM (Doctor of Oriental Medicine), and has New Mexico’s frst and only Bone Health & been learning and practicing acupuncture Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) through UNM. since 1995. In 2004, Xu moved to Albuquerque As the nurse navigator for the FLS, she has from China to teach acupuncture at Southwest helped develop treatment protocols. She has Acupuncture College, and she continues also been highly involved in efforts to provide to practice there. Xu specializes in pain osteoporosis and fragility fracture education in management, women’s health, internal the community and within academic circles. medicine, and diet and nutrition. Monday Aug 24 2:30 - 4:00 Mondays Aug 3 & 10 1:00 - 2:00 Fee: $10 Oasis Fee: $24 2 sessions Oasis See Also: Health & Fitness: Movement Fitness: & Health The Neuroscience of Headaches 52 Vaping: Is it Safe(r)? with Dr. Duane Ross (class #25). Bill Shuttleworth What is a headache and how do you get rid of one? Neuroscientist Bill Shuttleworth Health & Fitness discusses the prevailing hypotheses about headaches, from a research scientist’s Movement & Exercise perspective. He also shares the scientifc basis of common treatments for headaches, as well N Even though regular physical activity is benefcial, O as new advances in treatment. not every type of exercise is appropriate. Choosing T the best ftness program will depend on the needs Bill Shuttleworth, PhD, is chair and Regents’ E of the person. Oasis recommends you discuss this Professor in the Department of Neurosciences with your healthcare professional before you begin an in the UNM School of Medicine. He is also exercise program, especially if you’ve been sedentary. director of the Center for Brain Recovery and Repair in the UNM Health Sciences Center. In addition to studying brain tsunamis, Tai Ji Quan: Moving Shuttleworth enjoys sharing his work and that for Better Balance Session A 54 of his neuroscience colleagues to foster brain Ilene Dunn health in the community at large. Would you like to improve your balance and posture? Try Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Monday Aug 24 12:30 - 2:00 Balance. Learn and practice eight balance- Fee: $12 Oasis challenging forms adapted from Yang style tai Sticks & Stones: How Unseen Bone chi that we perform in a slow, fowing manner, coordinated with natural breathing. Improve Loss Can Hurt You 53 your coordination, body awareness, lower body Karen Reed strength, and range of motion in this evidence- What is osteoporosis and what causes it? More based program. Limited enrollment. importantly, how can we prevent osteoporosis Ilene Dunn is a certifed personal trainer,

20 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque specializing in senior ftness and the environment. Better Balance, part of the maintenance of strength, balance, and an Oasis Free from Falls series, is based on the active lifestyle. She holds certifcations as a premise that physical activity is the antidote to Health & Fitness: Movement yoga instructor at 500 hours, Athletics and many of the challenges that accompany aging. Fitness Association of America personal Pre- and post-tests are done during class. trainer, and A Matter of Balance master Limited enrollment. trainer. In addition, she is certifed in Tai Chi See bio #54. Quan, Tai Chi for Arthritis for Fall Prevention, and Tai Chi for Heart Conditions; she is also a Mondays & Wednesdays Jun 1 - Jul 8 trained instructor in Tai Ji Quan: Moving for 1:00 - 2:00 Better Balance. Fee: $36 12 sessions Oasis Mondays & Wednesdays Better Balance Session B 57 Jun 1 - Jul 8 9:00 - 10:00 Fee: $36 12 sessions Oasis Ilene Dunn See class #56. Tai Ji Quan: Moving Session A is not required to take Session B. for Better Balance Session B 55 Mondays & Wednesdays Jul 13 - Aug 19 Ilene Dunn 1:00 - 2:00 See Class #54. Fee: $36 12 sessions Oasis Session A is not required to take Session B. Tai Chi for Health Part 1 58 Mondays & Wednesdays Jul 13 - Aug 19 9:00 - 10:00 Ilene Dunn Fee: $36 12 sessions Oasis Are you interested in improving your balance and/or reducing joint pain through gentle Better Balance Session A 56 movement? Recommended by the Arthritis Foundation and the National Council on Aging, Ilene Dunn this evidence-based class has been shown to Join us for an upbeat class designed to help ease joint pain and improve balance. The class you maintain, improve, or restore balance was developed by Dr. Paul Lam and is based on skills. We do problem-solving activities Sun Style tai chi. Basic principles of tai chi are to challenge our minds and bodies in a incorporated into the class to leave you feeling socially supportive and confdence-building calm, relaxed, and well. Limited enrollment. See bio #54. Tuesdays & Thursdays Jun 2 - Jul 9 11:00 - 12:00 Fee: $36 12 sessions Oasis

Tai Chi for Health Part 2 59 Ilene Dunn For those who have mastered the basic movements in Tai Chi for Health Part 1, this class is an opportunity to learn additional movements from the Sun Style 73 form to enhance your practice. As we learn the Oasis instructor Ilene Dunn leads a number of our movements, we go deeper into the tai chi exercise programs, including tai chi and balance principles. Come expand your practice, keep the classes.

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 21 qi fowing, and continue the health benefts. work). The fnal component of this practice Prerequisite: knowledge of the Tai Chi for is a brief visual meditation and individual Health Part 1 (a.k.a. Tai Chi for Arthritis relaxation/meditation. Limited enrollment. for Fall Prevention) Basic Forms. Limited Cindy Russell followed her love of physical enrollment. activity to become a personal trainer after See bio #54. many years in business and fnance. As a Tuesdays & Thursdays Jul 14 - Aug 20 senior ftness and fall prevention specialist, 11:00 - 12:00 she has been able to follow her passion: Fee: $36 12 sessions Oasis working with older adults and assisting them towards their desires to live healthy lives. She Qigong: Taoist Water Method 60 has a BA in human and community services and is an ACSM Certifed Personal Trainer, Marcia Pincus an ACE Certifed Group Instructor, a health The Qigong Taoist Water Method is a coach, and a senior ftness specialist. 3000-year-old practice developed by Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Tuesdays Jun 9 & 16 9:00 - 10:00 Te Ching. This qigong method emphasizes Fee: $16 2 sessions Oasis softness and specifc body movements to increase the qi fows within the body and to Tai Chi for Heart Conditions 62 age gracefully. Learn basic qigong movements Ilene Dunn Health & Fitness: Movement Fitness: & Health to increase qi fow and the circulation of fuids Research shows that tai chi may reduce in the body, including around the joints. Please stress and ease heart conditions. We combine bring a yoga mat to stand on if you have one. gentle movement, breathing, and a focus Limited enrollment. on health and nurturing ourselves to build Marcia Pincus has been practicing Chinese strength from the inside and increase a sense martial arts for nearly 35 years. Her practices of well-being, energy, and heart health. This have included kung fu, tai chi, qigong, and ba program, developed by Dr. Paul Lam, includes gua. For the last decade, she has practiced and movements from Sun, Yang, and Chen-style taught the Taoist water method qigong. She tai chi. Both beginners and those experienced has taught qigong for the City of Albuquerque in tai chi can beneft from this class. Standing and the Chinese Culture Center. She is a and seated options available. Limited certifed Energyarts instructor, and she holds enrollment. degrees in geology and engineering with a See bio #54. specialty in environmental engineering. Fridays Jun 12 & 19 11:00 - 12:15 Mondays Jun 8 - Jun 22 11:00 - 12:00 Fee: $16 2 sessions Oasis Fee: $24 3 sessions Oasis Yoga for Happy Feet 63 Stretch & Relax 61 Gloria Drayer Cindy Russell Back by popular demand! Your feet support Back by popular demand! Deep breathing and you all day long, so take a little time to return gentle stretching greatly improve the body’s the favor. This class is great if you have any ability to relax. Join us for a practice focused issues with your feet, but it is also ideal if you on posture, strategic breathing techniques (e.g., simply want to keep them healthy. Gloria abdomino-diaphragmatic or “belly” breathing), Drayer has poses perfect for hammer toes, and a blend of stretching techniques, including plantar fasciitis, bunions, and more to help modifed yoga poses. We gently stretch from relieve pain and improve the health of your either a standing or seated position (no foor feet. Poses are done standing or sitting; no

22 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque yoga mats or prior yoga experience needed. beneft satiety, digestion, and mood. Mindful Limited enrollment. breathing can give us more energy and force. Join us for a practice to include mindful

Gloria Drayer holds a 500-hour Kripalu Health & Fitness: Movement yoga certifcation and has nearly 30 years eating, breathing, and several complementary experience teaching yoga. Her sessions are yoga postures. You don’t need a lot of time, given in a non-competitive environment where just conscious awareness. Class is seated or

participants are encouraged to engage at a standing, no mat required. Limited enrollment. healthful and enjoyable level. Her workshops, including those dealing with life-altering topics See bio #63. such as grief, insomnia, osteoporosis, and Tuesday Jun 30 1:00 - 2:15 back care, are held around the country. She Fee: $10 Oasis is the author of the book Yoga and Grief: A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing. Better Living Through Movement 66 Tuesday Jun 23 3:15 - 4:30 Athena Valerio-Hirschfeld Fee: $8 Oasis Learn and practice strategies for getting your body to function optimally in activities of daily Yoga for Healthy Aging 64 living. Get your body to work for you through Gloria Drayer hands-on cues and very tailored movements Join Gloria Drayer for a four-part yoga class incorporating vision, balance, joint mobility, covering key aspects of health affected by and strength. All ftness and knowledge aging. She guides you through weight bearing levels can beneft from this program, aimed exercises to build bone density, specialized at improving awareness of your own body and moves designed to engage ocular muscles for abilities, pain management, and joint mobility. reduced eyes strain, breathing techniques and Limited enrollment. poses designed for deep body-mind calmness, Athena Valerio-Hirschfeld, PhD(c), is an and gentle movements aimed at building Albuquerque native who brings passion and fexibility in, and muscle around, major joints. experience to physical wellness through Limited enrollment. movement and diet. She is an Albuquerque See bio #63. Fire Rescue lieutenant, Z-Health certifed Tuesdays Jul 7 - Jul 28 3:15 - 4:30 practitioner, certifed natural health Fee: $32 4 sessions Oasis professional, Hardstyle Kettle Bell certifed

Mindful Eating & Breathing Practices 65 Gloria Drayer Back by popular demand! Eating and breathing are basic bodily functions that we engage in without much thought. However, being mindful of these functions can bring great health benefts. Mindful eating can

Help your feet help you with Gloria Drayer in Yoga for Happy Feet (class #63).

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 23 trainer, community health trainer, and clinical educator. Her experience and interests include fne arts, archaeology, physical ftness, brain training, balance and vision training, performance improvement, and body awareness. Fridays Jul 10 - Jul 24 11:00 - 12:00 Fee: $24 3 sessions Oasis

A Taste of Tai Chi Chih 67 Ellen Tatge Have you wondered what tai chi chih is and why it is so widely recommended, particularly for better balance, mental focus, and its calming effects? Tai chi chih is a modern form of tai chi that is easy to learn Join Maya Sutton to learn about Celts and Vikings History & Culture and practice. In this one-session class, practice in class #68. Image: Guests from Overseas (1901) several movements and learn the principles by Nicholas Roerich, depicting a Viking raid. behind the practice. Even a short taste of this moving meditation is a useful tool to enhance health and well-being. Limited enrollment. and Britain. Learn much more about these Ellen Tatge is known for her kind and gentle two cultures’ alphabets, magical systems, teaching of this life-enhancing practice. mythologies, and zest for living. A former high school teacher and then a Dr. Maya Magee Sutton graduated from corporate trainer, she is a certifed instructor Georgetown University’s School of Foreign and has been practicing and teaching tai chi Service. She received her PhD from UNM chih for more than 25 years, including many where she has taught for 35 years. She taught courses for older adults. Tatge takes great joy Celtic Mythology at UNM for 10 of those years. in sharing this effort that develops balance in Sutton has spent much time at sacred sites, all aspects of our lives and maximizes our most and lived in England for seven summers. precious gift: good health. Thursday Jun 25 12:30 - 2:00 Thursday Aug 20 9:00 - 10:00 Fee: $10 Oasis Fee: $10 Oasis The USSR: A State Against Its People 69 History & Culture Donald Gluck Lenin’s 1917 Russian Revolution was arguably Celts & Vikings: How Did They Mix? 68 the crucial political event of the 20th century. Maya Sutton The Cheka Secret Police was quickly formed. Celts and Vikings were adjacent geographically There followed arrests, forced-labor, famine, but worlds apart in values. Starting around and massacres – not mitigated until the death 800 CE, Scandinavian people “went a-Viking” of Stalin in 1953. In this two-part class, we all over Europe. They explored, plundered, study the period with video clips corroborated and traded for 350 years from the North Sea by the Black Book of Communism and The to the Black Sea. Using maps, photos and Gulag Archipelago. Film clips include The history, Maya Sutton shows the impact of Secret Lenin, Forced Relocation of Crimean Vikings on the Celtic lands of Ireland, Scotland, Tatars, and The Infamous Moscow Show Trial.

24 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Donald Gluck has four university degrees kingdoms under the seas of the English including a PhD in engineering. For 11 years Channel. Come delve into the mysteries he taught classes in foreign and older movies of the Mounts. for the Institute of Lifelong Learning for New See bio #68. Mexicans. He is interested in philosophy, history, and politics, and has taught classes Wednesday Jul 22 12:30 - 2:00 on conservatism, the Holocaust, and the USSR Fee: $10 Oasis & Culture History for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning Jews & Navajos: Worlds of Tradition in Santa Fe. & Sacred Lands 72 Gordon Bronitsky Tuesdays Jul 7 & 14 2:30 - 4:00 Jews and Navajos – and Native Americans Fee: $20 2 sessions Oasis more generally – share much in common: Franklin D. Roosevelt & US living in the world of tradition and the world Involvement in World War II 70 of the present, 1492, ties to sacred lands, and more. Gordon Bronitsky explores some of the Noel Pugach commonalities and how these communities Noel Pugach reviews Franklin Delano have worked together in the past, as well as Roosevelt’s actions prior to Pearl Harbor possible directions for the future. and during World War II. Did he deceive the American public in maneuvering to enter the Gordon Bronitsky has a PhD in anthropology war? How well did he lead the war effort? from the University of Arizona. He is the What were the consequences of his actions and founder and president of Bronitsky and policies? In this two-part class, we analyze and Associates, working with indigenous peoples evaluate these and other relevant questions. around the world in the performing arts. Dr. Noel Pugach, professor emeritus of Monday Jul 27 10:00 - 11:30 history at UNM, specializes in US foreign Fee: $10 Oasis relations. The author of numerous monographs and articles, he lectures frequently and does Philip II of Spain, 1527-1598 73 Chautauqua performances of historical fgures. Matthew J. Barbour At various points in his life, Philip II was King Thursdays Jul 9 & 16 10:00 - 11:30 of Spain, King of Portugal, King of England Fee: $20 2 sessions Oasis and Ireland, King of Naples and Sicily, Duke Mont Saint-Michel & of Burgundy, Duke of Milan, and Lord of the St. Michael’s Mount 71 Netherlands. He ruled, through these and other titles, the most extensive empire the Maya Sutton world had ever seen. Yet, his reign is often Legend describes giants using these two rocky remembered for its failures more than its islands facing each other across the English achievements. Learn about the life of this Channel as stepping stones. Mont Saint-Michel enigmatic monarch. and St. Michael’s Mount have identical names, look similar, and both are fortifed bastions Matthew Barbour holds BA and MA degrees topped by a church. Do their histories differ – in anthropology from UNM and works for one in France and the other in England? These the NM Department of Cultural Affairs. He places share legends and tales of vanished is the regional manager of Coronado and

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Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 25 Jemez Historic Sites. He has published over 200 nonfction articles and monographs. Under Barbour’s management, Coronado Historic Site received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History and the Jemez Historic Site received the Archaeology Heritage Preservation Award. Tuesday Jul 28 10:00 - 11:30 Learn about the Pisa Cathedral, with its Leaning Fee: $10 Oasis Tower of Pisa, in class #75. Photo by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro (Wiki Commons). History & Culture Great Medieval Cathedrals: The Building Blocks 74 Timothy C. Graham The Exceptional Character The great cathedrals of the European of Pisa Cathedral 75 Middle Ages are some of the most inspiring Charles Steen buildings ever constructed by human hands. Pisa had an exceptional place in the history Timothy Graham describes the evolution of Italian communes in the medieval and of the different elements that make up the Renaissance centuries. Despite constant medieval cathedral, including the basic design threats from Florence, a dynamic economy of the building, the use of sculpture to adorn based on maritime trade provided the funds to its facade, and the deployment of stained- construct one of the most amazing structures glass windows. He also analyzes the specifc of the period. Examine the architectural techniques used by the medieval craftsmen design, exterior decoration, and stunning who built the cathedrals. works of art that adorned its interior. We also Dr. Timothy Graham is a Distinguished consider the original mistake that gave the Professor of history and a Regents’ Professor in campanile (bell tower) its dangerous lean and the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. He the modern work that saved it. served as director of the Institute for Medieval Charlie Steen’s classes place historical events Studies from 2002 until 2020, organizing the in context with art, architecture, religion, and acclaimed annual Medieval Spring Lecture other cultural aspects of a period. He teaches Series. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees western civilization at UNM. He is the author from Cambridge and an MPhil from the of fve books, including Margaret of Parma: A Warburg Institute, University of London. He Life, and many articles. A graduate of UNM, is the author of Introduction to Manuscript he also holds a PhD in early modern European Studies and in 2016 received the Medieval history from UCLA. Academy of America’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies. Friday Aug 14 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Oasis Wednesday Aug 12 12:30 - 2:00 Fee: $12 Oasis

26 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque are always welcome. Jun 9 - Lilac Girls by Literature Martha Hall Kelly; Jul 14 - The Year of Living Please note: Book groups will meet in June, Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s July, and August. Happiest Country by Helen Russell; Aug 11 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Enlightenment Now: Kim Michele Richardson. Limited enrollment. Book Study & Discussion Group 76 Coordinator Mary Bibeau, a retired UNM John Horton & Lars Larson academic advisor and teacher, is an avid reader People are living longer, healthier, and happier of anything from encyclopedias to cereal boxes. Literature lives. While our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal Tuesdays Jun 9 - Aug 11 1:30 - 3:00 of using reason and science. Using the book Fee: $10 3 sessions Oasis Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker, we Summit Book Group 78 examine its stimulating material through a six- week study and discussion group. Each week Merrie Courtright a different class member prepares the class by The Summit Book Group meets on the third sending background and questions from the Tuesday of every month. Book selections are: book which will be the discussion topics for the Jun 16 - Confederates in the Attic by Tony following week. You must have the book for Horwitz; Jul 21 - The Paris Orphan by Natasha class. Limited enrollment. Lester; Aug 18 - Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold. Limited enrollment. John Horton, a graduate of The University of Texas Arlington, is a retired electrical Coordinator Merrie Courtright is an Oasis engineer. He has conducted study and tutor and tutor trainer. She is a retired basic discussion groups for Oasis with Barrie education teacher at CNM. Segal. He facilitates discussions based on the Tuesdays Jun 16 - Aug 18 11:00 - 12:30 material and questions prepared by other Fee: $10 3 sessions Oasis people in the class. Lars Larson serves as the co-coordinator for this class. Holmes Book Group 79 Wednesdays Jun 3 - Jul 8 10:00 - 12:00 Lorna Kuyk Fee: $45 6 sessions Oasis The Holmes Book Group meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Book selections are: Austin Book Group 77 June 16 (Oasis) - The Soul of America: The Mary Bibeau Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham; The Austin Book Group meets on the second Jul 21 (Oasis) - Dave Barry Does Japan by Tuesday of each month and newcomers Dave Barry; Aug 18 (library) - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. Limited enrollment. Lorna Kuyk is a transplanted Minnesotan who misses snow, but not shoveling. She loves having time to read and share that reading with others. She also

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 27 coaches church and nonproft leaders around instrumentalist; an actor in radio, flm, and the country. television; and the author of fve books. Along Note: Jun 16 & Jul 21 at Oasis; Aug 18 at the way he also managed to sing a song or Erna Fergusson Library. two as well as compose 250 songs, including “The Christmas Song” with its reference to Tuesdays Jun 16 - Aug 18 1:00 - 2:30 holiday chestnuts. Fee: $10 3 sessions Oasis & Erna Fergusson Library See bio #34. Monday Jun 1 12:30 - 2:30 West Mesa Book Group Fee: $10 Oasis Returning fall semester. Hello, Jerry! The Musical World Music of Jerry Herman 82 Music Jane Ellen Please note that all Jane Ellen lectures “When they passed out talent,” legendary are two hours. actress Carol Channing once said, “Jerry stood in line twice.” Composer and lyricist Jerry Singing the Show Tunes 80 Herman (1931-2019) is responsible for some Jane Ellen of Broadway’s most enduring hits: Mame, Join us for the third decade of this popular La Cage aux Folles, and Hello, Dolly! His Oasis class. Meet weekly to rehearse a wide works belong to the Golden Age of Broadway variety of favorite tunes, then perform in the musicals and can often be construed as community at the end of the term. Learn vocal overly optimistic; however, each one carries technique and exercises designed to increase a timeless message of humanity’s ability to confdence and musical skills. Reading music triumph over despair, hatred, and prejudice. or formal training is not required – only the See bio #34. love of singing. All levels welcome. Off-site performances July 28, August 11, August Friday Jun 5 10:00 - 12:00 18. Performance at Oasis Friday, August 21, Fee: $10 Oasis 2-3pm (see class #99). Bugles, Bands, & Drummer Boys: Jane Ellen brings to this class a solid Music of the American Civil War 83 background in performance, accompaniment, Jane Ellen and musical direction. Her wide experience in When we think of music connected with war, classical music, theater, chorus, and bands, the big band favorites of World War II often plus her natural enthusiasm combine to come to mind. However, there was more music make this class a joyful learning activity for written during, for, and about the American every participant. Civil War than any other time of national Tuesdays Jun 2 - Aug 4 10:15 - 11:45 mobilization in US history. As new technology Fee: $65 9 sessions Oasis fueled a growing sheet music industry, the popularity of the brass band increased, and Remembering Mel Tormé 81 music permeated the lives of soldiers and Jane Ellen civilians alike. Jazz vocalist Mel Tormé (1925-99) had the See bio #34. distinction of being a child prodigy who made his frst public appearance at the age of Thursday Jun 11 12:30 - 2:30 four. He was a jazz composer and arranger; Fee: $10 Oasis a professional drummer; a talented multi-

28 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque John Coltrane: A Love Supreme 84 physical abuse to use her powerful voice to Jane Ellen transcend genre barriers, performing in blues, Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz, and gospel. Her (1926-67) worked in bebop and hard bop, most famous hits include “The Wallfower,” before helping to pioneer the use of modal and “Something’s Got a Hold on Me,” “I’d Rather free jazz. Working with scores of musicians, Go Blind,” and the classic “At Last.” including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, See bio #34. Coltrane’s music ran the gamut from jazz Wednesday Jul 1 2:30 - 4:30 ballads to the avant garde, culminating in his Fee: $10 Oasis spiritually-infuenced tour de force album, Music A Love Supreme (1964). His legacy includes Robert & Clara Schumann: Their Lives, one of the most revered (and challenging) jazz Their Loves, Their Music [CL] 87 standards today, “Giant Steps.” Jane Ellen See bio #34. The story of Robert (1810-56) and Clara Monday Jun 15 12:30 - 2:30 Schumann Fee: $10 Oasis (1819-96) is the stuff of Classical Composers in Review legend and Throughout 2020, Jane Ellen presents a the basis series on classical composers, indicated by of flms: CL in the title. two equally brilliant The Life & Times pianists, of Johannes Brahms [CL] 85 both with a passion for Jane Ellen composing; Johannes Brahms (1833-97) began his life both as a child prodigy in a poverty-stricken area sharing a of Hamburg. At 13, he was earning a small passionate wage playing nightly in taverns, and by romance the age of 15 he was giving piano recitals and love. and writing music. He was a merciless self- Fate would critic who destroyed nearly all of his earliest Musicians and composers Robert not be kind compositions, spent years writing and and Clara Schumann are the topics to them, rewriting works, and who took nearly 20 of class #87 with Jane Ellen. Image: as after years to complete his frst symphony. lithograph by Eduard Kaiser, 1847 only a few See bio #34. (Wiki Commons). happy and incredibly Thursday Jun 18 2:30 - 4:30 productive years, Robert’s health began to fail. Fee: $10 Oasis Ultimately driven to madness, Robert died at At Last: Ms. Etta James 86 the age of 46 while Clara continued on as a touring concert pianist and educator. Jane Ellen Rolling Stone magazine ranks versatile See bio #34. contralto Etta James (1938-2012) as #22 Monday Jul 6 10:00 - 12:00 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Fee: $10 Oasis Time. James survived a childhood flled with

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 29 Liza With a Z: Liza Minnelli 88 Jane Ellen Actress and singer Liza Minnelli (1946- ), daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, is perhaps best known for her Oscar- winning performance in the flm Cabaret. That achievement is merely the tip of the iceberg, however, as her career has taken her from singing in nightclubs to Broadway’s Flora the Red Menace (1965), award-winning television specials, box offce hits such as the movie New York, New York, and work as a popular

Music recording artist. See bio #34. Wednesday Jul 15 12:30 - 2:30 Fee: $10 Oasis

I Will Always Love You: Join Jane Ellen to explore the life of Liza Minelli, Whitney Houston 89 seen here in her role as Sally Bowles in the flm Cabaret (class #88). Jane Ellen One of the most commercially successful pop artists of all time, Whitney Houston (1963- has now sold an estimated 60 million albums 2012) is a 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame worldwide, and a re-formed band will be inductee. Her cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will touring this year (2020). Always Love You,” featured in the movie The See bio #34. Bodyguard, topped the Billboard charts for 14 weeks. She has been cited as the most Thursday Jul 30 10:00 - 12:00 awarded female artist of all time by Guinness Fee: $10 Oasis World Records, and her fame has grown Tchaikovsky: exponentially since her tragic death at the Beyond The Nutcracker [CL] 91 age of 48. Jane Ellen See bio #34. The catalog of prolifc Russian composer Pyotr Monday Jul 20 12:30 - 2:30 Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) is often reduced Fee: $10 Oasis to two works: The Nutcracker ballet and the 1812 Overture. Consequently, his biography, Songs From the Wood: as well as – somewhat surprisingly – the Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull 90 worth of his compositions, have often been Jane Ellen hotly disputed. This presentation provides an Legendary British progressive rock band introduction to his life and works, and to the Jethro Tull, led by vocalist and fautist Ian controversy which continues to surround them. Anderson (1947- ), frst achieved success with His sixth symphony, the Pathetique, may truly a blues album in 1969. After several prog rock be autobiographical after all. albums, the band shifted to hard folk rock See bio #34. with the albums Songs From the Wood and Heavy Horses in the late 1970s. Jethro Tull Friday Aug 7 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $10 Oasis

30 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque In the Nick of Time: Bonnie Raitt 92 Performing

Jane Ellen Performances Arts: Performing Bonnie Raitt (1949- ), daughter of Broadway star John Raitt, is a critically-acclaimed Arts: Friday singer whose career trajectory lasted 20 years before she became an overnight success Performances propelled by the album Nick of Time (1989). Please note that all Friday Performances Her roots-infuenced rock, folk, and country begin at 2:00pm recordings feature a deeply personal lyrical interpretation. Country singer Graeme A Swinging Afternoon With Connors has said, “Bonnie Raitt does the Bobcats: Friday Performance 94 something with a lyric no one else can do; she Come listen to some classic and contemporary bends it and twists it right into your heart.” jazz, swing, blues, and bossa nova. Start tapping your toes to the music and songs made See bio #34. famous by Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Duke Wednesday Aug 12 2:30 - 4:30 Ellington, Rodgers and Hart, Frank Sinatra, Fee: $10 Oasis and more. The Bobcats are winners of the New Mexico Music Award for best jazz CD, Music My Son, the Folk Singer: For The Sole in 2019. Allan Sherman 93 Seven-string guitarist Dan Dowling is a Jane Ellen veteran jazz and blues musician who has been Allan Sherman (1924-73) is probably best performing for the last three decades. Bob known for his hit “Hello Muddah, Hello Gusch, on woodwinds, has been a mainstay Fadduh” but he began his career as a of the Albuquerque music scene backing such television actor and producer long before greats as Clark Terry and Dianne Reeves. essaying a comedy career with the parody “A John Griffn is a long time acoustic and electric Satchel and a Seck” based on a tune from Guys bassist with various jazz, blues, and rock and Dolls. His mainstream success lasted only groups. He has appeared with artists such as a few years in the early 1960s, after which he Bo Diddley, Eddie Harris, and Charlie Rouse. tried his hand at everything from Broadway Drummer Roger Shirley, local favorite, has musicals to voicing The Cat in the Hat. played with too many bands to mention. See bio #34. Friday Jun 5 2:00 - 3:30 Fee: $12 Oasis Monday Aug 17 12:30 - 2:30 Fee: $10 Oasis

See additional Jane Ellen classes in the Film/TV category: Fabulously Funny 50s: Jack Benny, George Burns, & Friends (class #34) & Everybody Loves Lucy (class #35).

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Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 31 Duo Fuego With Guitar & Flute: Southwestern Detour Couriers from the Friday Performance 95 1920s through the Great Depression. The Tony Cesarano and Bonnie college-educated detour couriers, or tour guides, were “walking- Schmader perform jazz talking billboards,” enlightening standards, Latin, and popular travelers about the history and tunes on unique instruments - unique beauty of the then little- alto guitar and alto fute. The known Southwest. Grab your alto fute is characterized by its walking shoes, cameras, and a rich, mellow tone, especially in hat as we once again bump along the lower range. The alto guitar, the old dirt roads to take a detour originally created by the late of the grand Southwest! jazz guitarist Joe Beck, uses a unique stringing pattern and Van Ann Moore has performed reentrant tuning to play bass lines, internationally as a singer and harmony, and melody. Come and actress who researches, writes, enjoy the cool combination of these directs, and stars in her own one- instruments and musical styles. woman theater performances. She holds BA and MA degrees Tony Cesarano studied jazz guitar from the University of Colorado in New York City as a teenager and the University of Denver with famous Hungarian jazz respectively, and has performed Performing Arts: Performances guitarist Attilla Zoller. Later, he and taught throughout the US and worked as a professional musician internationally. in NYC playing guitar in the pits of many Broadway musicals Friday Jun 26 2:00 - 3:30 and tours, including Radio City Fee: $12 Oasis Music Hall for 28 years. Freelance performer Bonnie Schmader plays The Virginia Creepers’ jazz, classical, and world Old-Time Music: music throughout the Friday Performance 97 Southwest and Mexico. The Virginia Creepers She was awarded the love tunes and songs from 2017 Artist in Residence Appalachia and beyond at Canyons of the and have been playing old- Ancients National time music in New Mexico Monument in Colorado. for Friday Jun 12 almost 30 years. Their 2:00 - 3:30 repertoire includes weird, Fee: $12 Oasis old, and crooked tunes from exotic places like West Fred Harvey’s Virginia and Kentucky; Southwest Couriers: lively dance tunes that Top: Duo Fuego All Aboard! 96 Middle: Van Ann Moore as a Southwest Courier they play for squares and Friday Performance Bottom: The Virginia Creepers contras; and songs about With Van Ann Moore hard times, trains, and A new breed of courageous, intelligent, whiskey. Their music ranges in age from the and hard-working women traveled west Civil War era and earlier to newer pieces in in the 1880s as Harvey Girls, and then as the old-time style.

32 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Club, located east of Oasis on Menaul. Remember the good old days when you went Performing Arts: Performances Arts: Performing to your local pizza parlor and sang along with the banjos and honky-tonk piano? For this event, the Banjos Etc. group recreate that same kind of environment as you enjoy pizza, song, and the opportunity to “cut a rug.” You may purchase liquid refreshments from their bar if you so desire. Five members of Banjos Etc. provide the Left: Banjos, Etc. music, including tenor Bill Cochrell, Dick Below: Neuman and Wayne Shrubsall on banjo, The Oasis Vickye Blatherwick on honky tonk piano, Entertainers and Mark Weaver on tuba. These musicians all belong to the Rio Grande Jazz Society. This is your chance to relive those carefree days of old in the funky atmosphere of the German American Club! Friday Jul 24 2:00 - 3:30 Fee: $15 Edelweiss German American Club

Show Tunes With the Oasis Entertainers: Friday Performance 99 The band members have a combined total of The Oasis Entertainers continue the well over 150 years of musical experience. celebration of their 30th anniversary with Based in Albuquerque, they play around New a summer concert jam-packed with tunes Mexico and beyond for dances, parties, and from Broadway shows. Selections include festivals, and as soothing background music songs from Camelot, Finian’s Rainbow, for the quiet and studious patrons of saloons The Fantasticks, and much more. Although and taverns. The band features Rick Olcott the group always offers a special audience on guitar, Scott Mathis on mandolin, Laurie participation song, concert goers are welcome Phillips on mandola, Jane Phillips on fddle, to sing along whenever they like! Marc Robert on bass and banjo, and Michel Every trimester enthusiastic singers enroll Robert on fddle. And all of them sing now in the Singing the Show Tunes class. Nine and then! weeks later, they take their hour-long show into the community for performances. Led Friday Jul 17 2:00 - 3:30 by Jane Ellen, this close-knit community of Fee: $12 Oasis musicians performs favorite show tunes. All Honky Tonk Singalong & Pizza With are invited to attend this musical adventure! Banjos Etc.: Friday Performance 98 Friday Aug 21 2:00 - 3:00 Join Oasis and Banjos Etc. for a fun Friday Fee: $10 Oasis concert and singalong at the German American

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 33 History of Opera 2: From Bel Canto Performing Arts: to Modernity 101 Julius Kaplan Lectures In early 19th century Italy, Rossini, Bellini, History of Opera 1: From Inception and Donizetti created bel canto (beautiful to Vocal Dominance 100 singing) as an international style of serious and comic opera that combined vocal display Julius Kaplan with expressive feeling. Verdi, emphasizing In late 16th century Italy, a group of aristocrats dramatic intensity, set a standard to which all and intellectuals attempted to recreate ancient subsequent composers aspired. Nationalism, Greek religious drama. Called opera, it soon especially in Wagner, revolutionized opera became popular. The importance of the human both in style, content and context. Extreme voice elevated singers into “sacred monsters” experimentation and a desire for opera to be who were more important than composers intellectually stimulating as well as musically or directors. Vocal stamina and acrobatics innovative characterized much of the mastered by the castrati led to abuses that productions up to today. devalued dramatic content, leading to reforms that underlay the frst operatic genius in the See bio #100. late 18th century. Learn about Monteverdi, Wednesday Jun 10 10:00 - 11:30 Handel, Gluck, Mozart, and more. Fee: $10 Oasis Julius Kaplan received his PhD in art history from Columbia University and spent his Personal

Performing ArtsEnrichment Performing Personal / career teaching at UCLA and California State University, San Bernardino. A lifelong opera Enrichment enthusiast, he is a board member of Opera Southwest and offers frequent classes on opera When I Was a Child: Writing the Stories for the community. of Your Early Years Workshop 102 Wednesday Jun 3 10:00 - 11:30 Wendy Orley Fee: $10 Oasis Back by popular demand! Have you thought you should write down some of your memories for your grandchildren, but can not seem to get started? Have you written, but are now stuck? Wendy Orley teaches techniques to write stories of In three sessions, use various techniques to your childhood in class #102. jump-start your storytelling. Whether they become a collection of anecdotes or a full-fedged memoir, these stories are meaningful and can be your small legacy to those who come after. This class is most appropriate for those just starting out. Note: classes are on Monday, June 1; Thursday, June 4; & Monday, June 8. Limited enrollment. Wendy Orley has degrees in history, English, and information science. She has written many stories from her childhood and the time she spent living in Europe and Africa for her children, who wanted

34 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque to know about her life “from before we can Emerson and others in the 1800s. An Philosophy,Spirituality & Religion, remember.” She taught English to adults in American creation, New Thought did not come several countries, and believes strongly in from conventional faith traditions, was/is not the importance of short personal writing to a reactionary movement, and is not New Age. illuminate the past and personal values. New Thought holds there is but one presence, God, and we are a part of that allness. Join Mondays & Thursday Jun 1 - Jun 8 Jim Marshall as he traces its origins to 10:00 - 11:30 antiquity and through the likes of P.P. Quimby Fee: $28 3 sessions Oasis and Anton Mesmer. The Gentle Art of Wandering 103 Jim Marshall holds an MS degree in education David Ryan from St. Cloud State University. He spent 23 The gentle art of wandering is about allowing years in public education in the Minneapolis, yourself to see and letting what you see MN area, 10 years in corporate public guide you on where you go. Doing this can relations, 15 years as an ordained Unity minister, and now serves as a chaplain for make every walk outdoors amazing. Through Lovelace Women’s Health. photographs and real life examples this class shows you the basics of wandering and how Monday Jun 1 10:00 - 11:30 these skills can work in any setting. Adopting Fee: $10 Oasis these skills will make it possible for you to have an adventure every time you wander out How to Criticize Properly: the door. A Jewish Perspective 105 David Ryan is an experienced hiker, back- Dov Gartenberg country explorer, and the author of several Have you ever felt the need to criticize a outdoor walking books including The Gentle loved one, friend, or associate? Has it gone Art of Wandering. Many of his insights into well or has it bombed? The rabbis, the sages wandering were developed while looking of Jewish tradition, grappled with the issue of proper criticism based on their reading of for archaeological sites in the New Mexico Leviticus 19:17. We take a journey through backcountry as a volunteer for the Bureau of Jewish literature and beyond on the ethics of Land Management. He is also the co-author personal criticism. of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Albuquerque. He has conducted many workshops on hiking Rabbi Dov Gartenberg was trained as a and wandering. Conservative rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has served as a congregational Tuesday Aug 18 10:00 - 11:30 rabbi for nearly 40 years. He did advanced Fee: $10 Oasis Jewish studies and comparative religions at UC Berkeley, Harvard, USC, and the Philosophy, Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is a teaching rabbi, exploring the richness, Religion, & insight, and subtlety of Judaism and its relevance to modern life. Spirituality Wednesday Jun 17 10:00 - 11:30 New Thought: Fee: $10 Oasis An American Movement 104 Jim Marshall New Thought religions came out of transcendentalism, led by Ralph Waldo

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 35 Miguel de Unamuno: The Tragic Sense of Life 106 Frank Yates The life of Miguel de Unamuno (1864- 1936) embraces the many tensions and conficts within Spanish society leading up to the Spanish Civil War. A renowned intellectual, he was also a professor of Greek and later rector of the University of Salamanca, and was best known as author of Tragic Sense of Life, Abel Sánchez, and The Agony of Christianity. As we examine these three works, discover how Kierkegaard deeply infuenced de Philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno (left) is the topic of Unamuno’s vision of the Christian class #106 with Frank Yates while mathematician Sofa Germain tradition. (right) is studied in class #111 with David Metzler. Reverend Dr. Frank Yates is parish associate in the Byzantine Catholic Church in 1981. at First Presbyterian Church. He also teaches He was pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help New Testament in the religious studies until medical retirement directed him into program at UNM, and philosophy and ethics new pastoral work. He has been presenting

Philosophy, Religion, & SpiritualityPhilosophy, at Lewis University, as well as at St. Norbert for Oasis for many years on a wide variety of University in Wisconsin. He is a graduate topics. of Abilene Christian University and UT Wednesday Aug 12 10:00 - 11:30 Austin and has graduate degrees from Austin Fee: $10 Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Monday Jun 22 10:00 - 11:30 The Binding of Isaac: Fee: $10 Oasis A Test of Faith or ? 108 Shlomo Karni Pius XII & the Holocaust: A New Look The binding of Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19) raises at “Hitler’s Pope” 1933-1945 107 some of the most diffcult issues in the Old Christopher Zugger Testament. Among them are the issue of Cardinal Pacelli was elected Pope in 1939, human free will, blind faith in God, and the shortly before World War II began, and double dilemma of obeying God by doing evil, was hailed as a friend of the Jewish people. or disobeying God by doing good. Learn about Today, he is either reviled as a failure, or three possible interpretations of the same lauded as an unknown rescuer. Using recent event from different points of view. research, Christopher Zugger dives into what Dr. Shlomo Karni is professor emeritus at we now know of the 1933 Concordat with UNM where he taught in both the departments Germany, Pius XII’s actions towards Jews of electrical engineering and religious studies. and involvement with anti-Nazis, the silence He received his undergraduate degree from the of the Holy See, and both post-war accolades Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and and accusations. his graduate degrees from Yale University and Father Christopher Zugger was born the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. in Buffalo, New York. A graduate of St. Thursday Aug 13 10:00 - 11:30 Bonaventure University and The Washington Fee: $10 Oasis Theological Union, he was ordained a priest

36 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque winners of major mathematical prizes over Science, Math, & the past few years provides the impetus for exploring the work of these and other leading Nature women mathematicians, starting from the 19th-century work of Sophie Germain and Science, Math, & Nature Protecting Endangered Species: continuing to the present day. We look at Zoo Field Trip 109 highlights of the fascinating discoveries made Lane Kirkpatrick by these pioneering women. Lane Kirkpatrick takes us on a guided tour David Metzler specializes in stimulating of the nationally acclaimed Albuquerque Zoo. lectures on math topics. He holds a BA in He discusses wildlife species threatened with mathematics from Rice University and a extinction, causes of extinction, and what zoos PhD in mathematics from MIT. He has are doing to prevent extinctions. Visit some of taught at Rice University and the University the zoo’s Species Survival Programs including of Florida and currently teaches at Mexican gray wolves, polar bears, jaguars, Albuquerque Academy. snow leopards, Malayan tigers, giraffes, Asian elephants, cheetahs, African painted dogs, Tuesday Jun 2 12:30 - 2:00 orangutans, and more. Class fee includes zoo Fee: $10 Oasis admission. Limited enrollment. A Cub’s Life: Lane Kirkpatrick is a BioPark Zoo docent Baby Bears & Mama Bears 112 and a retired business executive whose frm focused on industrial automation and Daryl Ratajczak environmental consulting. With a lifelong Black bears are awe-inspiring animals that interest in wildlife, nature, and conservation, captivate our minds with their human-like he has prepared extensive zoo-wide tour antics, especially the young cubs. But life is materials and leads zoo tours. He is a not always an easy stroll in the dandelions. contributing editor to New Mexico Wild. He This class takes you on a crash course of what practiced taxidermy when young, managed a mother bear needs to do to defend her cubs federal, state and local environmental while teaching her offspring how to be a wise agencies. He also produced and hosted the ol’ bear. Enjoy award-winning photography PBS Channel 5 program, New Mexico’s throughout the class. Environment. Daryl Ratajczak is a wildlife biologist working Tuesday Jun 2 9:30 - 12:00 for the US Forest Service. He obtained Fee: $20 Albuquerque Zoo his degree in wildlife management and managed a black bear rehab, research, and Protecting Endangered Species: education facility located outside Great Smoky Zoo Field Trip 110 Mountains National Park. He worked for the Lane Kirkpatrick Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and See class #109. served as the big game program coordinator, managing the state’s deer, bear, and elk Thursday Jun 4 9:30 - 12:00 programs, eventually becoming the chief Fee: $20 Albuquerque Zoo of Wildlife and Forestry for the state of Tennessee. Selected Women Mathematicians: Past & Present 111 Thursday Jun 4 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Oasis David Metzler The groundbreaking selection of Maryam Mirzakhani and Karen Uhlenbeck as

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 37 Butterfly Farm Tour: Field Trip 113 involved in some of the frst experimental Tatia Veltkamp applications of lasers. He headed the group Back by popular demand! Come feed the that designed optical components for the frst butterfies and tour a working butterfy farm. fber optic transatlantic cable. He lectured Wings of Enchantment Butterfy Farm is for many years on technical subjects for a local leader in supplying fresh, healthy the Institute for LifeLong Learning for butterfies for release while also offering New Mexicans. community educational programs to raise Thursday Jun 11 10:00 - 11:30 awareness about the importance of butterfies Fee: $10 Oasis in our environment. Learn about the life cycle of the butterfy and what it takes to produce New Mexico Birds: butterfies for a release. Limited enrollment. Resident & Migratory 116 Tatia Veltkamp has been raising butterfies for Laurel Ladwig over 18 years. She has worked with the Xerces New Mexico is blessed with a tremendous Society on habitat restoration, and has worked variety of habitats that provide homes for with Southwest Monarch Study in Arizona to both resident and migratory birds year-round. study migration patterns in the Southwest. Learn about birds breeding here in summer Currently, she works on helping to understand and get ready for migrants headed our way

Science, Math, & Nature & Math, Science, the migration patterns of the monarch this fall. In addition to exploring the best times butterfy in New Mexico. She started Wings and places to see certain birds, we talk about of Enchantment Butterfy Farm in 2010. ways to welcome birds into your yard and create a habitat with wildlife gardening. Tuesday Jun 9 9:30 - 11:00 Fee: $18 Butterfy Farm Laurel Ladwig is a lifelong birder who worked in informal science education teaching about Butterfly Farm Tour: Field Trip 114 birds and stars for three decades before Tatia Veltkamp pursuing a master’s degree in geography and See class #113. environmental studies at UNM. She is on the advisory board for Bernalillo County Master Tuesday Aug 4 9:30 - 11:00 Naturalists, co-coordinates Albuquerque’s Fee: $18 Butterfy Farm participation in the City Nature Challenge, and is working to promote the new ABQ Backyard The Technology Inside Your Refuge Program, a program of the Friends of Smartphone: An Engineer’s View 115 Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge. Lawrence Anderson Wednesday Jun 17 2:30 - 4:00 Starting with Apple’s frst iPhone, the Fee: $10 Oasis smartphone has earned a place front and center in our lives. Buried inside this Ten Engineering Achievements technological marvel is a host of innovations That Changed the World Overnight 117 in semiconductor, battery, micro-mechanical, and other technologies. Review some of the David A. Crossley advances that have made it possible to cram so Throughout history, very clever people have much functionality into so little space and put invented ways to enlarge human capabilities the world at our fngertips. through creation of devices which multiply our capabilities or provide completely new Lawrence Anderson earned a PhD in electrical ones. Some of these were so benefcial engineering from Stanford University and that everybody wanted one immediately. spent most of his career at what was then These include weapons, navigation aids, AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was communication systems, and even medical

38 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque tools. Explore exceptional examples at an atmosphere. Depending on the characteristics easily understood level. of the eruption, the atmospheric residence David Crossley has degrees in both electrical time of the particles can range from days to years while atmospheric circulation patterns

and mechanical engineering; he retired from Science, Math, & Nature a 40-year career in the aerospace arena. He determine the extent of distribution. Thus, taught electromagnetics at New Mexico State volcanic eruptions can have effects on weather University, performed electronic warfare in nearby locations and on global climate. operations in fve war zones with the Air Dierdre Kann discusses the observed impacts Force out of Kirtland Air Force Base, and of major volcanic eruptions over the past is now playing oboe with the Albuquerque century and how volcanoes could infuence Philharmonic. future climate. Monday Jun 22 12:30 - 2:00 Interested in math and science as a child, Fee: $10 Oasis Deirdre Kann earned a BS in mathematics and a PhD in atmospheric sciences. She worked for Bugs, Bugs, Bugs: various agencies within the National Oceanic Field Trip to the BUGarium 118 and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for 30 years, including 23 years as the science and Bugs can not be ignored. Eight of 10 animals operations offcer at the Albuquerque National on Earth are arthropods, and we can not Weather Service, before retiring in 2016. survive without them. They pollinate fowers, feed other animals, eat dead things, and Wednesday Jul 8 10:00 - 11:30 play other important roles in the ecosystem. Fee: $10 Oasis Enjoy a docent-led tour of the BUGarium to see the fascinating lives of bugs. Explore the The Role of Regenerative Agriculture naturalistic habitats and the unseen wonders in Climate Change 121 of different insects and other arthropod species Sarah Wentzel-Fisher from around the world. Fee includes BioPark Agriculture takes place on 790 million acres of admission. Limited enrollment. working lands in the US, 41 percent of all US Thursday Jun 25 2:00 - 3:30 lands, excluding Alaska. These rangelands, Fee: $20 Abq Botanic Garden pastures, felds, and forests constitute our best tool for maintaining healthy watersheds, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs: Field Trip fostering biodiversity, and sequestering to the BUGarium 119 See class #118. Thursday Jul 9 2:00 - 3:30 Fee: $20 Abq Botanic Garden

The Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions on Weather & Climate 120 Deirdre Kann During volcanic eruptions, gas and dust particles are spewed into the

Learn how volcanic eruptions affect our climate in class #120 with Deirdre Kann. Image: Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska (NASA photo).

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 39 carbon. The ranchers and farmers who Charles Fleddermann discusses carbon-free tend working lands in the future – and how electricity technologies in class #122. Photo by knowledge of them and strategies for their Steve Elkins stewardship are shared and implemented – will have an enormous impact on the resilience ethics in engineering at UNM as well as of our environment, economies, and climate. to the larger engineering community. His Science, Math, & Nature & Math, Science, Sarah Wentzel-Fisher has worked in food and book, Engineering Ethics, is now in its fourth agriculture planning and advocacy for over edition. Fleddermann received his PhD in a decade with a focus on supporting young electrical engineering from the University of and beginning farmers and ranchers. She Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. was the editor of Edible Santa Fe from 2011 Wednesday Jul 15 10:00 - 11:30 to 2017. In her free time, she enjoys helping Fee: $10 Oasis her partner with his family pig farm in San Antonito in the East Mountains outside of Science is Everywhere: Albuquerque. Cool Scientific Demos 123 Friday Jul 10 10:00 - 11:30 Len Duda Fee: $10 Oasis Experience the wonder of science as Len Duda demonstrates a variety of science Enabling Technologies for demos that include air pressure, density, Carbon-Free Electricity 122 polymers, and chemical reactions with added Charles Fleddermann explanations of the science behind the demos. In 2019, New Mexico made the commitment Duda has performed scientifc demonstrations to have 100 percent carbon-free electrical for many years at Explora, for thousands of generation by 2050. This presentation elementary school students at school science examines the enabling technologies – solar, assemblies, at Sandia National Labs, and the wind and nuclear – that will get us there. We NM Science Fiesta. also cover modern battery technology and its Leonard Duda, PhD, retired from Sandia role in achieving this goal. Finally, we look at National Laboratories after 37 years. He has the prospects for the rest of the US to follow been involved with volunteer science education New Mexico’s lead. activities including a NASA/JPL Solar System Dr. Charles (Chuck) Fleddermann is a Ambassador, Science Olympiad, regional professor of electrical engineering and and state science fairs, and the Explora associate dean of engineering at UNM. He Science Center. He is a Grand Awards judge has taught courses on professionalism and co-chair at the Intel International Science

40 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque and Engineering Fair. In retirement, Duda The Rise of Artificial Intelligence & continues his volunteer work and is a part- the Coming of Really Big Brother 126 time educator at Explora. Creve Maples

Thursday Jul 23 10:00 - 11:30 The term artifcial intelligence (AI) frst Science, Math, & Nature Fee: $10 Oasis appeared in the 1950s.The fuzzy objective was to build machines at least as smart as humans. The Nuts & Bolts of NM Weather & The initial boom, in both expectations and Forecasts: Field Trip to the NWS 124 funding, focused on everything from speech Kerry Jones & Daniel Porter recognition, to language interpretations, to Back by popular demand! The National simple robots. Funding ebbed and fowed from Weather Service (NWS) in Albuquerque is the 1950s through the 1990s. In this two- one of 144 offces and support centers across session class, we explore how AI is now broadly the US whose primary mission is to provide applied to diverse uses. forecasts and warnings for the protection of Creve Maples has undergraduate degrees life and property. Learn about the numerical from MIT and a PhD in nuclear science guidance, forecast products including the from Berkeley. He was head of Lawrence watch-warning program, and the science behind weather events of New Mexico. Note: Berkeley Laboratory’s Advanced Computer Part of the tour may be outside for a weather Architecture Lab, carrying out pioneering balloon launch. Wear comfortable shoes, dress work with multiprocessor computers and real- in layers, and be prepared to walk and stand. time visualization. He founded the Synthetic Limited enrollment. Environment Laboratory at Sandia National Laboratories. His work in virtual reality and Kerry Jones, the warning coordination human-computer interfaces has received meteorologist, leads the NWS vision of the national attention. Weather-Ready Nation. Daniel Porter, the science and operations offcer, ensures the Tuesday & Thursday Jul 28 & 30 2:00 - 4:00 offce operations are running smoothly, infuses Fee: $24 2 sessions Oasis new technology into operations, and supports the staff through training. Jones and Porter Robotics: Changes & Opportunities 127 have worked at various NWS offces for over Chris Ziomek 35 combined years and regularly speak on Robots are changing the world, but not in the a wide range of meteorological topics and way that many people think. Robots are not emergency preparedness. replacing people – instead, robots enable a Monday Jul 27 3:30 - 5:00 new generation of tools that offoad repetitive Fee: $18 National Weather Service and dangerous tasks. This is completely changing the nature of work, and there could The Nuts & Bolts of NM Weather & be a worldwide shift from low-cost labor to Forecasts: Field Trip to the NWS 125 highly automated solutions. Learn about data Kerry Jones & Daniel Porter and insights that explain the challenges and See class #124. opportunities of this technological shift. Monday Aug 17 3:30 - 5:00 Chris Ziomek is a serial entrepreneur who Fee: $18 National Weather Service has over 30 years of experience in the high- tech industry. He presently leads Build With Robots, an automation business developing the next generation of robotic tools. Ziomek also serves as an adviser and investor in many New Mexico-based startups. He holds BS and

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 41 MS degrees in electrical engineering and is a Natural History Center, and Animal Humane licensed professional engineer in the state of New Mexico, and travels as much as possible. New Mexico. Thursday Aug 6 10:00 - 11:30 Wednesday Jul 29 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Oasis Fee: $10 Oasis

Ten Scientific Frauds That ALMOST Southwest Changed the World Overnight 128 Gutiérrez-Hubbell House History & David A. Crossley Cultural Center: Field Trip 130 Bogus claims have been a continuing problem Flora Sánchez for science throughout written history. Some This tour provides a glimpse into the life of are intentional frauds or caused by error, and the Gutiérrez-Hubbell family, who built a many result from excessive enthusiasm by the beautiful home and thriving business on the experimenters. Unfortunately, many of these

Southwest Camino Real. Now on the National Register claims gain so much publicity that even after of Historic Places, the structure dates back to exposure, they continue to retain believers, like the 1860s and has been a private residence, the anti-vaxxers, and even appear in school mercantile, trading post, stagecoach stop, and textbooks. The current Theranos scandal is a post offce. Highlights include a description of classic example. Learn about amazing examples the renovation of the 180-year-old adobe home, at an easily understood level. stories of family members, and a walk around See bio #117. the gardens and nearby acequia. Limited Wednesday Jul 29 12:30 - 2:00 enrollment. Fee: $10 Oasis Flora Sánchez is a descendant of the family who owned the home. She is a retired educator, Human Evolution News From Asia 129 teacher, school counselor, and administrator for Dave Weaver Albuquerque Public Schools. Upon retirement, Denisovans, tiny humans, and giant apes, oh she served as an elected member and three- my! For a variety of reasons from geographical term president of the NM State Board of to cultural to practical, very little work Education. She serves on the board of directors has been done to expose data and develop for the Hubbell House Alliance where she also interpretations about human evolution in Asia. volunteers as a docent and presents lessons for Recent work has begun to clarify the great feld trips. importance of Asia in the human evolutionary Wednesday Jun 3 10:00 - 11:30 story. Dave Weaver discusses and illustrates Fee: $15 Gutiérrez-Hubbell House human evolution news from Asia over the past million years. Coronado in the Rio Grande Valley, Dave Weaver received his doctorate in physical 1540-1542 131 anthropology from UNM. After 25 years at Matt Schmader Wake Forest University, he returned to New The Coronado expedition of 1540-1542 is Mexico. He has worked in North and Central famous for many reasons but is not fully America, Europe, and Africa on human understood. Much of what has been taught skeletal analysis, forensic anthropology, about the expedition over the years is rooted bone microstructure, human evolution, and in myth. Matt Schmader provides an update osteoporosis. In retirement, he volunteers for on current research at a major site in the US Forest Service, the Sandia Mountain Albuquerque that has produced new information to shed light on the background,

42 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque and a little worse during his administration. Take a look at the highs and lows of each presidency and the lasting legacy left behind. Portia Vescio has been an archivist for 20 years. She arrived at UNM in 2016 and is in charge of university Southwest collections. She is responsible for collecting, cataloging, and promoting the university’s historical documents and photographs; she also works with classes and creates exhibits about UNM history. James F. Zimmerman was president of UNM from Prior to arriving at UNM, Vescio worked for 1927-1944. Learn more about him and other early Michigan State University and New Mexico UNM presidents in a lecture by Portia Vescio, UNM State University. She received her MLIS archivist, in class #132. degree from Indiana University. motivations, events, and the cultural after- Friday Jun 12 10:00 - 11:30 effects of this signifcant turning point in our Fee: $10 Oasis region’s and our country’s history. Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site: Dr. Matt Schmader has 40 years of feld Field Trip 133 experience in southwestern archaeology. He Dotty Bender has worked on sites of virtually every cultural The Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site, frst time period, ranging from Paleo-Indian to excavated in the 1930s, gives us a glimpse Archaic campsites, from Spanish contact/ into life in a 14th century mountain village. A colonial sites to the historic red light district guided tour of the 1/3-mile trail and museum in downtown Albuquerque. He is currently provides a glimpse of how the early Tiwa an adjunct professor at UNM’s Anthropology people built their homes and survived life by Department and earned his MA and PhD gathering, farming, and hunting. The museum from UNM. He is the retired superintendent features a mural/map depicting the southern of City Open Space, and was the only City Tiwa world at the time that the Pueblo was archaeologist from 2007 to 2016. occupied. Limited enrollment. Wednesday Jun 10 12:30 - 2:00 Our tour is led by Dotty Bender, who has Fee: $12 Oasis worked with the Tijeras Pueblo site since 1998, For Better & For Worse: giving tours and programs for school groups and adults. She is a former school secretary Early Presidents at UNM 132 and has worked with the Forest Service for Portia Vescio many years. She is a docent and is on the University of New Mexico archivist Portia Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Board of Directors. Vescio provides an overview of the frst seven presidents at UNM, illustrating how each Wednesday Jun 17 10:00 - 12:00 man left the university both a little better Fee: $20 Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 43 Carlsbad Caverns: Stories of Exploration, Art, & Conservation 134 Lois Manno Carlsbad Caverns is one of the world’s great caves with a rich history dating back to its 1898 discovery. Its exploration is ongoing with another mile added to its surveyed length this year. Since its discovery, the cave has been an inspiration for artists from landscape photographer Ansel Adams to Zozobra creator Learn about the history of the Menaul School with Gustave Baumann. Join caver, artist, and “living historians” who describe their experiences in Carlsbad Cavern volunteer Lois Manno as class #135. she shares the hidden stories of this famous cave and the work being done to preserve this Dr. Christine Marie Sierra, professor emerita Southwest national treasure. in political science at UNM, taught American Lois Manno, artist, author, and lifelong caver, politics for 28 years. She has been a member has deep ties to Carlsbad Caverns National of the Advisory Board of the Menaul Historical Park. In her two decades of volunteerism Library of the Southwest since 2015. Rudy for the park, she helped with a NOVA Laumbach grew up on a ranch in northeastern documentary and the PBS Series Anyplace New Mexico. He graduated from Menaul Wild focused on Carlsbad Caverns, curated School in 1949. He has served on the Menaul an exhibit for the park’s art collection, helped Historical Library Board for almost 20 years. develop a gallery in the visitor center, and Francis Chang came to Menaul School from currently manages its Cable Camoufage China and graduated with the class of 1963. Project. She wrote the award-winning book, Nona Browne served as Menaul School’s Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns Library director from 1992-2017. through the Artist’s Eye. Tuesday Jun 23 12:30 - 2:00 Friday Jun 19 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Oasis Fee: $10 Oasis Homesteads in New Mexico 136 Menaul School: Brenda Wilkinson Glimpses of History & Legacy 135 The Homestead Act forever changed the landscape of the American West. These Christine Sierra, R. E. (Rudy) Laumbach, homesteads dot the backcountry of New Francis Chang, & Nona Browne Mexico, and most families have at least one This presentation about Menaul School is ancestor who fled a homestead claim. Go back by the Menaul Historical Library of the in time to explore some of these special places Southwest. We begin by tracing the school’s and the remarkable people who struggled to origins as a Presbyterian Mission School in realize their dreams in a harsh environment. the 19th century, to its special role educating The presentation includes many images, both Spanish American children from northern New recent and historic, and draws on accounts Mexico, and fnally to its distinctive student acquired through oral history interviews body in contemporary times. Then hear from from descendants. “living historians” who describe their history, experiences, and relationship with Menaul Since graduating from UNM in 1993, Brenda School and the Menaul Historical Library. Wilkinson has served as archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management. She has a passion for the vibrant archaeology and history

44 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque of New Mexico and for sharing them with the championship bout between Johnson and public, winning a national award for excellence Jim Flynn. Learn how this championship in interpretation. She has conducted extensive fght brought notoriety to the small town oral history in Socorro and Catron Counties. of Las Vegas. Wednesday Jun 24 12:30 - 2:00 Toby Smith worked for the Albuquerque Fee: $10 Oasis Journal for 30 years as a reporter and editor. He taught at the University of New The Day a Bomb Was Dropped on Mexico for 15 years. As a freelance reporter, Albuquerque (& Other Military Smith has published ten books, including Southwest Aviation Incidents) 137 Crazy Fourth: How Jack Johnson Kept His Roland Penttila Heavyweight Title. Smith has lived in New The Air Force kept the 1957 bombing of Mexico since 1976. Albuquerque top secret for 29 years. Roland Tuesday Jul 7 10:00 - 11:30 Penttila recounts the circumstances of this Fee: $10 Oasis potentially disastrous accident. Names are revealed. Details of the death and destruction Madrid & the Turquoise Trail: are laid bare for all to see. And, while we’re at A Virtual Tour 139 it, learn about some other military mishaps in Lynne Sturtevant Albuquerque and New Mexico. Looking for a fun excursion close to home? Do Roland Penttila is a retired civil engineer who you enjoy shopping, meeting quirky people added amateur historian to his photography and petting goats? Join us for a virtual tour hobby and is now fully engaged in learning of the scenic back road to Santa Fe. We trace more and more about the city and state he Madrid’s evolution from coal company town to adopted in 1998. He approaches his historical artsy tourist mecca, stroll down an authentic research like an engineering old west Main Street in Cerrillos, project, and is interested in and ponder why the citizens of all aspects of the city’s history Golden are obsessed with colored from its founding in 1706 glass bottles. Lots of images and through the present. practical travel information are Monday Jun 29 10:00 - 11:30 included. Fee: $10 Oasis Lynne Sturtevant owned a travel agency in the heart of Washington, Crazy Fourth: DC, was the marketing director Jack Johnson Takes of a tour company specializing On Las Vegas, NM 138 in Southeast Asia, represented Toby Smith the China International Travel World Heavyweight Boxing Service, and managed all travel Champion Jack Johnson programs for the world’s largest came to Las Vegas, NM in travel trade association. She has 1912 where, as an African also been a tour guide, taught at a American, he faced racism travel school, and escorted groups and one crazy event after World Heavyweight Boxing all over the world. Sturtevant is another. Toby Smith, author Champion Jack Johnson’s the author of fve books on of Crazy Fourth, tells the 1912 visit to Las Vegas, NM is local history and tourism. story of what happened discussed in class #138 with Monday Jul 27 12:30 - 2:00 author Toby Smith. during the heavyweight Fee: $10 Oasis

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 45 History of Catholic Parishes and culture, and produced a major museum of New Mexico 140 exhibition on Route 66. John M. Taylor Tuesday Aug 11 10:00 - 11:30 Explore the development of Catholic parishes Fee: $10 Oasis and churches along the Rio Grande Valley, from Isleta to Truth or Consequences. John Heart of Collecting: Sustaining Native Taylor has documented the history of New American Art, Culture & Families 142 Mexico Catholic parishes from the Spanish Judith Lavender Conquest to present day. He presents seldom- Southwestern Native American people and seen images from archives and individual their art enrich life in New Mexico. Focused collections to make this history come alive. on New Mexico Pueblos and the Navajo John Taylor retired in 2010 as the manager Nation from 1903 to 2013, this colorful multi- of the Integrated Technologies and Systems media presentation explores family trading Strategic Management Group Support post history, Southwestern Native American Southwest Department at Sandia National Laboratories. artists, and privately collected art pieces. The He has a master’s degree in nuclear places, people, and artifacts weave a story engineering from Stanford University and of how sustaining art, culture, and families was a member of Sandia’s technical and impact lives. management staff for 35 years. He is the Born and raised in Gallup, New Mexico, author or co-author of 50 technical reports Judith Lavender spent her childhood playing and 14 books on a variety of topics including in stacks of Navajo weavings at her father’s New Mexico history, soccer science, and trading post. Surrounded by Native American naval history. art, she developed a discerning eye for quality. Thursday Aug 6 12:30 - 2:00 By visiting artists in their homes, she built Fee: $10 Oasis an appreciation for their culture and families. She holds an MEd in child development from Radiance, Rust, & Revival: Route 66 in Albuquerque 141 Deborah Slaney Too often the history of Route 66 in Albuquerque has been overlooked, even though our city sits near the center of the southwestern leg of the route and boasts, at 16+ miles, the longest single-city urban stretch of the highway in the nation. Join us as we explore the visual history of the Mother Road, hear the powerful stories of those who traveled through our city, and enjoy artifacts collected over decades of driving the Mother Road. Deb Slaney is an independent curator and curator of history emerita from the Albuquerque Museum. She holds a BA in Southwestern anthropology from the Deb Slaney discusses Route 66 in Albuquerque in class #141. Photo: Jules Allen, radio artist, University of Arizona, and a master of in front of the Firestone service building, c. 1931, liberal studies/museum emphasis from the photographed by Brooks Studio. Courtesy University of Oklahoma. She has published Albuquerque Museum Photo Archives, gift of fve books on Southwestern art, history, Channell Graham.

46 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Erikson Institute in Chicago, IL, and advocates apps and home screens, fnding and installing quality of life for children and families. useful apps, and using maps and camera Wednesday Aug 12 10:00 - 11:30 functions. This class also covers using Gmail Fee: $10 Oasis and Google calendar. Class fee includes a 36- page course book. Bring your fully charged The Swastika in New Mexico History 143 Android smart phone to class. This course is Richard Melzer not applicable for iPhones. Limited enrollment.

Identifed with Adolf Hitler’s evil Nazi regime Lee Maddenkrall is the owner of Technology in Germany, the swastika is among the most Leehowardglobal, providing digital media, hated symbols in the world. But long before it instruction and management tools for became such a terrible symbol, the swastika businesses. He is the AARP community represented the opposite: a force for good in programs manager for the Albuquerque metro countless cultures, including several Native area, instructing members in technology and American cultures of the Southwest. Learn maximizing their use and knowledge of smart about the use of this symbol in not only New devices. He works as a presenter, trainer, and Mexico’s native culture, but also in everything instructor in all areas of digital media. from tourism, commerce, clubs, military Tuesday Jun 2 1:00 - 3:00 organizations, and even the New Mexico State Fee: $25 Oasis University’s yearbook for 75 years. After teaching for more than 37 years Richard Android Phone Beginning Essentials 145 Melzer is now a retired Regents Professor of Lee Maddenkrall History from UNM’s Valencia Campus. He is See class #144. a former president of the Historical Society of Tuesday Jul 7 1:00 - 3:00 New Mexico and is the award-winning author Fee: $25 Oasis of over 25 books and 100 articles about New Mexico history. In retirement, he continues Cybercrime Fighters: to research, write, and travel through New Phishing & Identity Theft 146 Mexico in search of weird, creative, and Lee Maddenkrall humorous subjects, of which there are many. If you have email, use social media, or even Tuesday Aug 25 10:00 - 11:30 text on your mobile device, you are a target Fee: $10 Oasis for phishing. Phishing is an attempt to trick See also: you into divulging personal confdential information a cybercriminal can use to steal Jews & Navajos: Worlds of Tradition & Sacred Lands with Gordon Bronitsky (class #72). Technology Android Phone Beginning Essentials 144 Lee Maddenkrall Back by popular demand! Learn the basic skills of using your Android-based device including initial setup, gestures, organizing

Learn some basic skills of using your cell phones in our technology classes with Lee Maddenkrall in classes #144, 145, 147, and 148.

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 47 money or even your identity. Learn the basic desktop and mobile device. Class fee includes a ways to recognize the hallmark signs of 24-page course book. Limited enrollment. phishing and how to stay safer online. Class See bio #144. fee includes an 18-page course book. Limited enrollment. Tuesday Jun 30 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $18 Oasis See bio #144. Tuesday Jun 9 10:00 - 12:00 Armchair Travel/ Fee: $18 Oasis

iPhone Beginning Basics 147 Travelogue Lee Maddenkrall Sales Presentation: Learn About Back by popular demand! In this class learn Oasis/Collette Southern Charm Trip 150 the basics of your iPhone as we explore Featuring Charleston, Jekyll Island, available apps. Find out how these apps can & Savannah help keep you organized, productive, and Josh Ogden entertained. This class covers all the basic information every iPhone user should know Trip is April 11 - April 17, 2021 and understand. Class fee includes a 70-page 7 Days • 9 Meals course book. Bring your fully charged iPhone Learn about this Oasis/Collette trip where

Armchair Travel / Travelogue / Travel Armchair to class. This course is a beginners class and you experience America’s southeast. This tour is not applicable for Android phones. Limited includes stays in Charleston, Savannah, and enrollment. Jekyll Island. A city that has defed all odds, See bio #144. Charleston survived the Civil War, major fres, an earthquake, and hurricanes – and still Tuesday Jun 23 1:00 - 3:00 exudes elegance, charm, and grace. Travel to Fee: $25 Oasis the exclusive Jekyll Island, once the beloved iPhone Beginning Basics 148 vacation spot for prominent families. See the stunning St. Simons Island 106-foot tall Lee Maddenkrall lighthouse, and visit historic Savannah with a See class #147. trolley tour highlighting the Historic District. Tuesday Jul 28 12:30 - 2:30 Reserve trip by October 12, 2020 for best Fee: $25 Oasis price and availability. See page #71 for more information. Cybercrime Fighters: Password Oasis has been working with Collette for Managers for Beginners 149 more than fve years, offering a variety of Lee Maddenkrall tours. Josh Ogden is Collette’s business Back by popular demand! Frustrated with development manager for New Mexico, all the long incomprehensible passwords that Colorado, and Wyoming. you need to stay safe online? Are you using Tuesday Jun 9 3:00 - 4:00 the same password everywhere, or using Free Oasis passwords that are not secure because it is so hard to keep track of them? Learn how to Adventure Travel: Fascinating really ramp up your online safety easily by Cultures of Bhutan, Laos, & Turkey 151 using a password manager app. Discover what popular apps to look for, and how to install Al Davis and use one of the most popular apps on your Al Davis experiences countries in unique ways; in this class, he shares his encounters

48 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque local wildfowers that should be in bloom on our hike. Likely sightings often exceed 50 different blooms. To maximize wildfower viewing, the hike location is determined closer to hike date. Depending on location, our hike is 6-8,000 Hikes & Walks feet above sea level, slow- moving, moderately strenuous Join Josh Ogden of Collette Tours to learn about on uneven trails, and about two miles. Exact a tour to Charleston, Savannah, and more (class location is emailed prior to hike. Limited #150). enrollment. Becky Schnelker, master naturalist, has a MA with different cultures. Bhutan, the happiest in fne arts printmaking and worked at UNM’s place on earth, the mountain tribes in Laos Tamarind Institute as curator of lithography and the cave residents in Turkey are just a for 32 years. She was a Native Plant Society few of his destinations. For each adventure, member and has a passion for digital Davis discusses his travels in each particular photography of wildfowers. Upon retiring, culture and environment, including problems she joined the frst Bernalillo County Master encountered. Many photos will be shared. Naturalist class. She is still a contributor and Alan Davis has traveled to 95 countries and volunteers to lead wildfower identifcation has slept on all seven continents. He was walks for the Sandia Ranger Station. trained in computer science and has a PhD Wednesday Jun 10 9:00 - 11:30 from the University of Illinois. In addition Fee: $15 Walks to a long corporate career, he held academic positions at the University of Colorado and in David Canyon Hike 153 Indonesia, Nigeria, Spain, and South Africa. Davis has published 100+ articles, lectured David Ryan 2,000+ times in 28 countries, and is the author With wonderful views of the Manzano of nine books. Mountains and the ponderosa parkland at the bottom of David Canyon, this hike is Wednesday Jul 22 10:00 - 11:30 reminiscent of the Flagstaff area and not to Fee: $10 Oasis be missed. In addition to the spectacular scenery, this area has plenty of birds to enjoy. Walks & Hikes Our hike is approximately 3.3 miles with a total elevation descent and gain of around For all walks, bring clothing layers, water, 400 feet. No restroom facilities available. sun protection, binoculars, camera, and Limited enrollment. anything you might want to be comfortable See bio #103. (e.g. sturdy shoes, trekking poles). Monday Aug 17 9:00 - 12:00 Wildflower Identification Hike Fee: $15 David Canyon-Mars Court Trail in the East Mountains 152 Becky Schnelker Join us in the Sandia Mountains where guides provide considerable experience and a list of

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 49 the 1800s, the Plaza was built in the Historic Day Trips Plaza Park which was also home to many outlaws such as Jesse James, Doc Holiday, Please call Oasis before enrolling if you have any questions about accessibility on trips. Voodoo Brown, Billy the Kid, and Vicente Silva. Then, a six-minute drive brings you over to the newly restored Castañeda Hotel. From Castles to Harvey Girls Built in 1898 and considered an absolute in Las Vegas NM: Day Trip 154 jewel, the Castañeda was Fred Harvey’s Kathy Hendrickson frst trackside hotel and the beginning of Take a trip to Las Vegas, New Mexico to America’s frst hospitality empire. If this can experience the history woven into the fabric be arranged, possibly go across the street from of this railroad-era town, from Montezuma the Castañeda to tour the Rawlins Building, Castle to the Old Town Plaza to the train a former dormitory for the Harvey Girls. depot and the recently restored Castañeda Otherwise, walk around the railroad depot or Day Trips Day Hotel. Tours are led by Kathy Hendrickson spend a little time in the Castañeda lounge of Southwest Detours along with a before returning home. representative from the Las Vegas Traveler notes: Comfortable walking shoes Harvey Girls. and layered clothing are recommended. You First, make a quick stop in Las Vegas to will be walking and standing. Meet at Oasis. pick up our tour guides before driving to the Includes: transportation; bottled water on bus; United World College (UWC) for a tour of the admission fees (if applicable), driver tip. Light campus and the famous Montezuma Castle. lunch is provided at the Plaza Hotel/Range Originally built as a hotel in the late 1800s, Café (included in trip fee). Pre-registration Montezuma Castle was purchased in 1981 required; limited enrollment. for the UWC, a boarding school with students Please note: due to current circumstances, trip from 90 different countries. On the grounds date and details are subject to change. of the campus and also part of your tour, the Dwan Light Sanctuary uses prisms instead Thursday Aug 20 8:00 - 5:45 of windows to transform light that enters the Fee: $125 Trip building into a lattice of rainbows. Then, return to the Plaza Hotel for lunch at their Range Café; (light lunch included in trip fee), accompanied by a presentation Take a trip to Las Vegas, NM, to explore the newly on the Harvey Girls. After lunch, tour the renovated Castañeda hotel and other attractions Plaza Hotel. A tradition in Las Vegas since (class #154).

50 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Kathleen McCleery is an award-winning Off-Site Classes veteran broadcast journalist, and is now a Oasis members must special correspondent and freelance producer pre-register and pay for the PBS NewsHour. She was the program’s the $5 class fee. Limited deputy executive producer from 2005-2013. enrollment for Oasis She has covered presidential campaigns and members. There is NO produced interviews with six presidents. At Off-Site Lectures charge for La Vida Llena residents, and NBC News in the 1980s, she worked with you do not need to pre-register through Oasis Roger Mudd on news magazine programs. (even if you are also an Oasis member). McCleery taught journalism at Princeton All classes are scheduled from 3:00-4:30pm. University in 2016 and 2018, focusing on media coverage of US elections. The Power of Sound Thursday Jul 9 3:00 - 4:30 in Ancient Sacred Sites 155 Fee: $5 La Vida Llena Maya Sutton Who knew that prehistoric people in Europe Jack Benny: Forever 39 157 embedded sound in ancient stone structures? Yolanda M. Day The new feld of acoustic archaeology has Jack Benny, star of stage, screen, radio and discovered this resonance in Paleolithic caves television, not only did it all but did it all at and Neolithic monuments. In some painted the same time. Known for both his impeccable caves in France and Spain, more animal comic timing and stinginess, he developed a images cluster around the most resonant devoted audience over a more than 30-year places. In stone circles and dolmens, acoustic career. This lecture by Yolanda Day brings archaeologists are pursuing a sense of how you history from Benny’s friends and family the past sounded, particularly if rituals might as well as live skits performed from some of have included sound. This is all very new. his most successful radio shows and personal favorites. See bio #68. Yolanda Day is the co-founder of the Rio Thursday Jun 11 3:00 - 4:30 Grande Players, a community theatre Fee: $5 La Vida Llena company which re-creates the Golden Age of The Great Political Upset of ‘48 156 Radio. Over the last eight years, as producer/ director for the company, she has enjoyed Kathleen McCleery learning about the era when radio was king “The only question about ‘48 is who and sharing that history. She fnds that it screwed it up the most: the Republicans continues to be a pleasure and an honor to or the reporters?” Seven decades later, the recreate for audiences the voices of some of presidential election of 1948 still fascinates. radio’s most beloved characters. Longtime PBS producer Kathleen McCleery revisits the contest with excerpts from the Thursday Aug 13 3:00 - 4:30 PBS flm The Great Upset of ‘48, which she Fee: $5 La Vida Llena directed. She offers tales of locating the train Truman used for his whistle-stop campaign and fnding footage of the frst televised political conventions. Finally, McCleery examines parallels (and differences) between 2020 and 1948.

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 51 Miguel Trujillo: New Mexico’s Great Unknown Civil Rights Hero 159 Gordon Bronitsky When New Mexico became a state in 1912, the state constitution denied Native Americans the Oasis members must pre-register and pay the $5 right to vote. In 1948, Miguel Trujillo of Laguna class fee. Limited enrollment for Oasis members. Pueblo sued New Mexico and successfully There is NO charge for Neighborhood in Rio overturned that segment of the 1912 Rancho (NIRR) residents, but you must pre- register at the NIRR hospitality desk (not Constitution. Why did the state block Native through Oasis, even if you are also an Americans from voting? Who was Miguel Oasis member). Trujillo? Why did he sue New Mexico and what were the consequences for him, for Native All classes are scheduled from 3:00-4:30pm. Americans, and for the State of New Mexico? Would the Real Wolfgang Amadeus See bio #72. Mozart Please Stand Up? 158 Monday Jul 13 3:00 - 4:30

Off-Site Lectures Off-Site Jane Ellen Fee: $5 Neighborhood in Rio Rancho By the age of four, we’re told that Mozart (1756-91) could learn a piece of music in You’ve Got a Friend in Carole King 160 roughly 30 minutes. When he was fve, he was Jane Ellen playing both the clavier and violin at a level Singer/songwriter Carole King (1942- ) began that astonished professionals. Somewhere her career in the 1960s writing hit songs with around the age of six, he began to compose. then husband Gerry Goffn. A decade later, she This course explores the fascinating history became an award-winning performer in her as well as the uniquely astonishing mythology own right when the album Tapestry topped generated by his life and career. the US charts in 1971 for 15 weeks, remaining See bio #34. on the charts for six years. Recipient of the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress Monday Jun 8 3:00 - 4:30 in 2012, King has written the musical Fee: $5 Neighborhood in Rio Rancho soundtrack of our lives across fve decades. See bio #34. Monday Aug 10 3:00 - 4:30 Fee: $5 Neighborhood in Rio Rancho

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52 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Oasis volunteers, participants, and instructors are what help our organization grow and thrive! Here are some photos from past programs and events.

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Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 53 Off-Site Class Locations Directory For additional information, contact the Oasis office at (505) 884-4529. Albuquerque Botanic Garden BUGarium Erna Fergusson Library 2601 Central Avenue NW. Meet at the Botanic 3700 San Mateo NE. Just north of Comanche Road Garden entrance. 768-2000 near Montgomery Park. Albuquerque International Sunport FAA Air Traffic Control Center Sunport Blvd SE. Park in the Sunport Parking 8000 Louisiana Blvd NE. The ARTCC is located at Garage and bring your parking ticket into the terminal the SE corner of Paseo del Norte and Louisiana Blvd for validation by Sunport staff. Meet under the 1914 NE. Entrance is on Louisiana Blvd. There is a manned airplane hanging from the ceiling behind the escalators gate and visitor parking is outside the gate. You must in the Great Hall. show a photo ID to enter. Albuquerque Museum FUSE Makerspace 2000 Mountain Road NW, near Old Town. Free 101 Broadway Blvd NE #3100. The building is parking on site (give your parking space number to the located just west of the Lobo Rainforest Building close Museum receptionist). 505-243-7255 to Broadway and Central. There is plenty of parking at FUSE. 505-224-3873 Albuquerque Zoo 903 10th Street SW. Meet at the ticket counter. Gutiérrez-Hubbell House Off-Site Class Locations Class Off-Site History & Cultural Center Butterfly Farm 6029 Isleta Blvd SW. Exit off I-25 at Rio Bravo and 9517 Dona Rowena Ave NE. Wings of Enchantment turn south on Isleta Blvd SW (314). Hubbell House is Butterfy Farm is in the neighborhood just NW of just south of Don Felipe Road SW. 505-244-0507 Eubank & Montgomery. Business entrance is at the purple gate to the left of the garage doors. Park along Kelly Jo Designs Studio the street. 6829 4th St NW, Los Ranchos, 87107. Located on 4th Street approximately 1/4 mile north of Osuna, on the CNM Smith Brasher Hall west side of the street. Located on the SW corner of University Blvd and Coal Ave SW. La Vida Llena 10501 Lagrima De Oro Rd NE. From the David Canyon - Mars Court Trailhead Montgomery & Morris intersection, go north on Morris From Tijeras Exit on I-40 (Exit 175). Go 8.8 miles south one block, then turn east on Lagrima de Oro Rd NE. on NM 337 (South 14) to Raven Road. Turn right on La Vida Llena will be on your left. 505-293-4001 Raven Road and follow it 1.6 miles to Mars Court. Turn right on Mars Court and drive about 20 feet to the Meltdown Studio parking area. Mars Court is unpaved but very short. 901 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Suite E130. This is behind Consider carpooling as parking is limited. D H Lescombes Winery & Bistro (formerly St. Clair Winery & Bistro) on Rio Grande. Duran’s Central Pharmacy 1815 Central NW. Begin tour at Remedy, a cafe in the Menaul School pharmacy/restaurant complex across the parking lot. 301 Menaul Blvd NE. Please see your registration confrmation for directions to the Art Building. Edelweiss Rio Grande German American Club National Weather Service 4821 Menaul Blvd NE. Park behind the club or on the 2341 Clark Carr Rd SE. From I-25, take Sunport street nearby. Blvd exit. Take University Blvd SE, pass through the intersection marked Rental Car Return and make Eldora Chocolate your next left onto Clark Carr Rd SE (no light at this 8114 Edith Blvd NE, about two blocks south of Paseo intersection). Drive up the hill (look for white dome) del Norte, on the east side of the street. through one more intersection, turn into frst driveway on left - NOAA brick building. 505-243-0702

54 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque The Neighborhood in Rio Rancho Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site

900 Loma Colorado Blvd NE, Rio Rancho. From east on I-40, take exit 175 (Tijeras) going south Oasis National News Off of Northern Blvd NE. 505-994-2296 on State Road 337. After the frst stoplight, continue for approximately 1/4 mile. Park at the Sandia Ranger Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Station, on the left. The trail and museum are behind Catholic Church the Ranger Station. Meet in the parking lot. 1837 Alvarado Dr NE. Between San Pedro and San Mateo NE. One block north of Constitution Ave NE and Walks one block south of Alvarado Park. Location to be announced. Please check your class receipt and your email for updates. Sprouts Farmers Market 5112 Lomas Blvd NE, near the corner of Lomas and San Mateo. Meet inside the store between the two doors.

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The world is facing a challenge not seen in Upstate Oasis in Syracuse, NY St. Louis Oasis our lifetime. Without question, every single and Los Angeles Oasis • Offers its discussion-based one of us has been impacted by COVID-19 • Fitness classes online through Zoom program Conversations that Count via Video, including Tai Chi and Total phone and online classes through igniting a global pandemic threatening Fitness. Zoom Video. public health, the economy, and instigating disorienting changes to the way we live. Indianapolis Oasis San Diego Oasis • Aging Mastery Program (AMP) • Online classes through Zoom Video Oasis programs reduce social isolation online through Zoom Video is a covering topics on COVID-19, current among older adults, which runs contrary 10-class program that encourages events, and technology. people to create their own playbook to the health risk reduction mandate to for aging well. Albuquerque Oasis maintain social distancing. Although we • Online classes through Zoom Video have suspended all in-person programs San Antonio Oasis and communication with tutors, nationwide, each Oasis Center has created • Weekly podcast series on topics providing them activities and ranging from meditation, community professional development. new opportunities to keep your minds and resources, and social isolation. bodies healthy and active. Oasis is During these challenging times, Washington Metro Oasis (DC) dedicated to staying in touch with our Oasis is glad to provide new participants during COVID-19. • Online discussion groups through Zoom Video, as well as several arts and ways for you to be involved. We are transitioning from in-person humanities classes. classes to an online platform. Zoom Video Rochester Oasis Communications is the chosen service for • Online Zoom Video classes and all Oasis Centers for its reliability, ease of community resources for exercise use, and accessibility. It can be downloaded programs, book recommendations, and information from Rochester for free to any mobile or desktop device. Regional Health. To find out more or to join Oasis for a program in your area, visit www.oasisnet.org.

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 55 Thank You To Our Contributors This donor list refects contributions made between March 11, 2019 and March 16, 2020. Your generosity expands our possibilities and brings a world of knowledge to all our members. We thank you. Legacy Circle Annelies Dahlquist Charles and Sherri Karaian Lee and Betty Higbie Donna Jeanne Dionne Robert Lett Janis Marston Glen Ewing Larry and Marcia Lubar Linda Shank Jane Flax Lucille A. Lucero Howard and Debra Friedman Jack Meloy Matisse Benefactor & Fellow ($1000+) Therese Goetz and Ron Lipinski Jim Parnell Anonymous (2) Doyle Hayes Cornelia Platt JoAnn Albrecht Brett and Anne Heinrich Barbara Ruzinsky Nancy L. Adam George and Kathy Marnell Landon D. Smith Jack and Laurel Babcock Lynn Mullins Stanley and Marilyn Stark Wei-Ann Bay Dick and Sharon Neuman Jan Tepper Todd and Karen Griffn Our Contributors Our Anna M. O’Connell Jacqueline Tommelein Jerry and Anita Harper Harold and Karen Pound Lilly O. Schnell Kathleen and Will Raskob Lawrence and Joyce Reszka Norma J. Spilman Kay Rhoads Ray Reeder Carol M. Spitz Kenneth and Anne Sapon Marcia Schiff Geny Stein Ann and Tom Stafford Marianne and Kim Seidler Karen Taylor Lewis Suber Bob Thomson and Adrienne Larkin Nancy and Bernard Urbassik Lorna M. and Bruce Wiggins Robert and Marylee Tyler Patricia R. Wagner William and Alice Willis Janet M. Weber Katherine L. Wharton Sustaining Scholar ($500-999) Beverly Wilson Almira L. Whiteside Anonymous (1) Alice J. Wolfsberg Joyce Wilson Linda and Richard Avery Robert and Janice Wilson Supporting Scholar ($150-249) Merrie C. Courtright Linda R. Zipp Anonymous (7) James W. Culpepper Marjorie Armstrong Scholar ($100-149) Jack Hertz and Sherilyn Frank Richard H. Berg Anonymous (12) Sylvia M. Friede Shirley M. Bolton Ralph Anderson and Dr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Friedman Rayme Romanik and Allan Boyar Cheri Tillman-Anderson Kenneth and Diane Gillen Lynn Buckingham Catherine Angell Kenneth Hartke Robert and Marylyn Burridge Sara Babb Noelle W. Holzworth Charles and Barbara Caldwell William C. Baker Christine Kilroy Gilbert Libby and Mary McNamara Gig and Jeanne Brummell Dawn Liberman John and Judith Candelaria Dr. Elizabeth Burki Janis C. Marston Judy Clem Robert and Janice Burrows David and Josie McClurg Craig Cropsey and Lynne Byron Joyce Robertson Cindie Clinton-Cropsey Laura A. Bushery Duane Ross Richard Dickman Vance Bass and Margo Milleret Edward Rose Sheila Doucette Gil and Julia Clarke Marilyn Sheppard Robert and Monika Ghattas Carl and Karen Carlson Contributing Scholar ($250-499) Stanley P. Griffth Christine Cooper Anonymous (3) Ed Grundmeier and Mary Ann Mary Covan Brewington Dawn Anderson Michael and Jana Druxman John Gunlogson Don and Cheryl Barker Phillip and Martha Day Rochelle Holt Lloyd and Jessica Bonzon Phyllis M. Denton Robert B. Hume Julia Bowdich Pat Dolan Clarice Jenkins Clayta J. Campbell Leonard and Patricia Duda Susan and Mark Kalin Colston Chandler Kathleen Dwyer

56 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Harry J. Ettinger Alan Andrews David and Frankie Ewing Helen Feinberg Nancy Arnold Patricia Fry Libby Foster Margaret and Julian Bartlett Thelma A. Giomi, Ph.D. Chuck and Judy Gibbon Mary E. Breitenbach Diane and Donald Goldfarb Chris Gibbons Susan Broidy Steve and Penny Goldstine Joan Gillis Paul C. Collins Manuel Gonzales

Barbara Goldsmith June and Leonard Conti Mina Jane Grothey Our Contributors Gerald and Madelyn Gold Frank and Pat Dean Sarah Hamilton Kirk and Jan Gulledge Vicki DeVigne Candice Lichtenfels James O. Guth Jonathan Feinn Betty Hinkle Karen R. Halderson Edgar Furie Judy Weinstein and Bob Johns Dixie Hanks John Eugene Foster Peggy M. Johnson Ellin and Jon Hewes Ruth and Jarrett Galbreth Katherine Kraus John and Mitzi Holmes Katherine Hauth Charles and Carol Kreis Cal and Judy Jaeger George Kawamoto John M. Kulikowski Dalia Jaramillo Annika Levy Isadora Kunitz Judy Jennings George and Susan Lind Anne Legoza Ruth Johnson Yvonne Mangrum-Spicer Norma Libman Jay Jordan Al Koston and Jinny Taylor Vicki Macaulay Teresa Jordan-Culler Kathryn Sedlacek Joan and Fred March Connie Johnson Janice S. Matthews Deborah Johnson Friend ($50-74) Roy McConkey Anonymous (19) Carol Kain Les McFadden and Roxanne Pacheco Richard M. Adam Michael and Marianne Kelly Millie McMahon John and Barbara Allman Bill and Jane Kelly Lois Meinrath Leslie and Edward Atler Bliss Kelly-Loree Allan and Frances Moorhead James C. Babin Ann King Darlene Moore Ronald Bentz Stephen F. Klein Alice Morgan Dan and Karen Blazek Sherif Lepi Jennie Negin and Harold Folley Pamela and Bill Bonahoom David Lujan Nora Nonnenmacher Doug Bosomworth Frank and Patricia McCulloch Daphne Orner Larry and Patricia Bost Teresa Montano Marjorie D. Padilla Henry E. Botts Melissa Morris and James Messec Regina F. Peel Bebeann Bouchard Michael Nutkiewicz and Catherine Perry Sherry Brockett Joan Weissman Faye E. Posthumus Nancy E. Brooks Gail Owens Victoria Pratt Arnold and Elizabeth Burton Elizabeth Perkett Richard J. Prinz Joyce Carden Patricia Cazier Renken Daniel and Billie Pyzel Jean Civikly-Powell Lou Reynolds Ruben M. Ravago Barbara J. Cole Karen J. Smoot Donna Rigano Susan Z. Cooper Diane Sparago Jane A. Ronca-Washburn Marty Corley Marylin K. Stephens Carole Ross Sharon L. Crane Edith Sheets Ann Ruhnka and Martha Jacobs Margo Danoff Susan Siebert Mary M. Ryland Barbara and David David Matthew and Diane Sloves Joe Sabatini Hubert Davis Jennifer Starr and Gene Lesser Judy Schaab Melinda Dawe Mary Frances Tapscott William G. Tallman Steve Deming and Julie Denning Priscilla A. Weaver Ms. Jamie Taylor Pat and Rob Dickerson Paul Weiss Joyce A. Thompson Carol and Robert Diggelman Fred and Cheryl Wieker Donna Trambley Jim Drennan Barbara Wright Jotina Trussell Ray Doberneck Dan and Jane Wright Margery Valliant Becky and Mike Du Mond Michaeline Von Blomberg Associate Scholar ($75-99) Randy and Redd Eakin William R. Waite Anonymous (6) Nancy Elsinger Edward Wallhagen

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 57 Thank You To Our Contributors (continued) Winnie Waltzer-Hackett Linda Hollis Terri B. Salazar Patrick Ward and Deborah Detorie Jane Hueter-Moody Margaret Samuelsen Charles Wellborn Mae Jackson Laura Sandison Ester P. Wells Shlomo and Michaela Karni Gwen Sawyer James and Linda Wolcott Wendy Keller Alan Shapiro Kenneth and Barbara Zaslow Sara Kelley Marian Simons Nancy Kirkwood Jerry Don Stauffer Donor ($1-49) Karen Knight Elaine V. Stevens Anonymous (17) Roberta Hope Knussmann Janet Strong Joseph Alcorn Ellen Kruse Leonard and Mary Tabor Carol Allen Janice Langdale Margaret Taylor Arthur Alpert Allen R. Lappin Carolyn Tedford Janice Arrott Marjorie P. Larragoite Jane Thiedeman Anita R. Atkinson Margreta Larson Todd Tibbals Stella Baca Sharon L. Leach Denise Tierney Karen L. Barber Jeff Lowry Sally Uebelacker

Our Contributors Our Edward P. Barengo Regina Lubeck Ronald W. Waitz Samuel Barol Elizabeth Lueking Sheridan Ward Judith Bernstein Stephanie L. Mallory Susan Weiss Virginia Betterton Maria R. Martinez Jerry Whitfeld Margo Bouchard Tom May Ken and Betty Whiton Barbara Brown Margarete A. Mayer Hugh and Barbara Witemeyer William T. Brown JoAnn Mercer Kathy A. Wright Elaine Burgess Adelle L. Merville Sheryl Wolf Betty Campbell Phyllis Metzler Paula Wynnyckyj Roscoe L. Champion Karin McDowell Ms. Kristin S. Zuniga Mary and Raymond Chevalier Susan McKinstry In Honor of Scott Hooker Anonymous Carol H. Chismar Ina Miller Maria Crill Caroline Monie In Honor of Beverly Forman Melinda Daczynski Edward Monjaras Janice Lehmann-Shaw and John Shaw Marilyn Davidman Joann Sebastian Morris In Honor of Kathleen Raskob Audrie M. Dembowski Mary Jean Murphy Diane Harrison Ogawa Susie Dilts Sally J. Nittler Drs. Nancy Croker and Joe Gorvetzian Pauline and Charles Eaton Susan Noftsker In Honor of Merrie Courtright Kenneth Eberhard Kathleen Nunn David and Donna Courtright Constance Enright Allen and Joan Olson Mike and Fran Ford Ann Marie Ornelas In Memory of Gladys Barker Dan and Toby Friedman Marilyn Ortman Laurence Barker Phyllis J. Frier Michael Perry In Memory of Joanna B Bartlett Jerry A. Goffe Belinda L. Pierce Mary Ann Bunten Jane Goodrich Valerie Platt Mark Naylor Joe and Juneal Grainey Rada L. Potts In Memory of John Michael Coffey, MD Julie J. Gregory Carole R. Price Kristine J. Coffey Blanche G. Griffn Walter and Charlotte Punke Kim Griffth Therese R. Quinn In Memory of Doug Swift Christine Hall Linda Ramundo Jane N. Swift Betty Halvorson Margaret A. Riley Wiggins, Williams & Wiggins PC George Ann Hankins William B Riker On behalf of our clients Bonnie Hardesty Frances J. Robertson Mark T. Henderson Philip and Mary Rosell Sarah K. Henderson Beth Rudolph Beverly Hill Carol Russell Arlene E. Hohnstock Mary Alice Salazar

58 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque 1 IN 3 AMERICAN ADULTS HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? WANT TO DO SOMETHING? Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program Open to everyone (members and non-members)

According to the American Heart Association, nearly 80 million adults in the United States have high blood pressure. Less than half have it under control. High blood pressure is a key, modifiable, risk factor for both heart disease and stroke. The Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program helps participants reduce their blood pressure and develop healthier eating habits. Working with trained Healthy Heart Ambassadors, participants will learn to properly take their own blood pressure at home and how to make healthy nutrition changes to help lower their blood pressure. $45 (without digital blood pressure monitor) Digital blood pressure monitors are available for $30 TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH, SIGN UP TODAY!

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59 Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring Program Thank you - thank YOU Oasis volunteer Marylyn Burridge Paul Duggan Karen Griffin reading mentors! We have a fabulous Arnold Burton Mary Eagle Stanley Griffith team of returning and new volunteers Joan Bustos Rose Mary Eakin Nancy Harbert who are committed to seeing our Ann Cadier-Kim Kathleen Economy DeRitha Harding students succeed. Clayta Campbell Barbara Egelman Susan Harris John Candelaria Carolyn Ehlert Sharen Hart This year our team mentored 615 Amy Carpenter Sara Ellis Jean Haseman students in the Albuquerque, Belen, Shelley Carter Barbara Everett Carolyn Hasey Bernalillo, and Rio Rancho school Robinelle Casaus Orese Fahey Anne Hayes districts! Ann Casper Nada Fahnestock Sharon Healy Thank you also to the individual donors Mary Chao Kala Falkenberg Jan Heinonen who generously support our program Nancy Chavez Berg Sheryl Faulconer Mark Henderson along with the Ruthie Schwed Memorial Fay Chazin-Seidelman Jonathan Feinn Ellin Hewes Tutor Volunteers Fund for their contribution to our Oasis Cameron Clare Christiane Fenner Margie Hobby Carolyn Clark Kenneth Fenner John Hockert tutor library. Alberta Coffey Jay Fielding MaryAnn Holland We are always recruiting compassionate, Gloria Cola-Craig Lynnette Fields Joseph Huebel patient, enthusiastic and fexible adult Barbara Cole Karen Fisk-Mohoric Robert Hume volunteers to share their joy of reading Jean Conner Elizabeth Fitzgerald Susan Hunt with elementary students. Currently we June Conti Maureen Fitzgibbon Susan Ingles are planning for our fall 2020 training Susan Cooper Barbara Flint Carol Jakowatz sessions in August, September, and Maria Cordova Beverly Forman Rose James October. Call Oasis at 505-884-4529 or Susana Correa Barbara Frames Nancy Jay visit our website at www.oasisabq.org/ Merrie Courtright Sherilyn Frank Susan Jennings tutoring for more information on this Bryan Crawford Katherine Frost Donna Jernigan exciting volunteer opportunity! Corrinne Crawford Susan Frow Bettye Jewell Jennifer Crawford Elyse Frumkin Harold Jimenez Jim Acosta Edwin Beatty Niccie Crespin Julia Fuchs Jennifer Johns Richard Adam Michael Beerman Marjorie Cypress Margaret Galbraith Dolorita Johnson Jane Adams Dorothy Bender Elizabeth Dagucon Anna Gallegos Peggy Johnson Lois Adkins Carol Benson Laura Dalton Doris Garcia Roxanna Jones Barbara Allman Suzanne Berry Valerie Dalton Geraldine Garcia Carol Kain Leslie Alperin Martha Beyerlein Thomas Daly Marianne Getchell Deirdre Kann Pat Amai Mary Bibeau Margo Danoff Peggy Gilbert Antoinette Karnavas Laurel Anderson Martha Bird Marilyn Davidman Patricia Givens Alice Kay Ralph Anderson Deborah Blank Marilyn Davis Elsa Glassman Carolyn Kaye Johanna Ash Patsy Boeglin Doris DeGregorio Therese Goetz Jean Kelley Linda Avery Bette Bolton Claudia Delaney Penny Goldstine Michael Kelly Lorraine Baca Joseph Bonahoom Vicki DeVigne Morton Gould Sylvia Kelly Renee Baca Pam Bonahoom Holly DeWees Pamela Graef Maria Kersey Sandra Baca Bebeann Bouchard Mary Dickson Pauline Graham Frances Kilpatrick Scott Baker Katherine Breen Susan Dilts Frederick Grambort Judith Klauber Sophie Baldonado Elizabeth Brockway Denise Dobier Milton Graus Nancy Knackstedt Jan Bandrofchak Heidi Brooks Deborah Dobrian Teresa Greco George Koinis Patricia Bartels Lou Anne Brown Deborah Doxtator Christie Griego Molly Kraft Rebecca Bauerschmidt Elizabeth Burki Georgia Dray Blanche Griffin Cheryl Krahn

60 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque One student, one reading mentor, one school year. Two lives forever changed. David Kuhn Patricia Meyer Anna Reluzco Mark Solomon Margaret Vining Patricia Kunkel Kathleen Meyn Barbara Resnikoff Ron Spanswick Michaeline Von Victoria Kuster Pamela Miller Kathryn Rhoads Belinda St. John Blomberg Anne Lane Susan Mills Judith Ribble Gail Stapp Janis Wainright Tutor Volunteers Tutor Victoria Lanzing Ilene Mondschein Bonnie Rich Jennifer Starr Debarah Wallace Susan Lawrence Teresa Montano Lindsey Ritscher Carol Steeves Susan Wallack Kathie Leeper Debra Morris Mary Roach Patricia Steffen Priscilla Weaver Marta Light Stan Mortimer Christine Robinson Susan Steiner Judith Weinstein Max Light Marshall Mourar Patricia Robinson Leslie Stine Melanie Weisman Sandra Ligon Ellen Mulle Sherry Robinson Pansy Stone Jerry Wesner Jayne Lindberg Lynn Mullins Judith Rosenstein Krista Stracuzzi Linda White Patricia LoCicero Richard Neuman Diane Ross Bobbie Stratton Beverly Wilson Janet Lowry Elizabeth Newman James Ross Lewis Suber Mary Wilson Lucille Lucero Ruth Nichols Mary Ross Jan Tepper Patricia Wilson Valerie Lucero Janet Nixon Steve Rubio Jane Thiedeman Sharon Wilson Candace Lugo Cynthia Noll Bonnie Rucobo Joyce Thompson Barbara Witemeyer Loretta MacCosbe Nora Nonnenmacher Lilia Ruiz Linda Thompson Linda Wolcott Jean MacLeod Allison O’Malley Beth Saucedo Elizabeth Toombs Daniel Wolford Patricia Madden Robert O’Malley Karen Schlue Susan Trumbo-Forrer Margaret Wolford Mary Mandeville Sheila O’Neill Catherine Schmitz Kathryn Trusty Alice Wolfsberg Yvonne Mangrum- Daphne Orner Liz Schoofs Pamela Turman Sue Wolinsky Spicer Lannett Ortiz Jane Schwendeman Karin Urban Virginia Woodside Joan March Joyce Ott Alice Scott Nancy Urbassik Margaret Yoakum George Marnell Linda Owens Polly Scoutaris Cynthia Vaughan Betty Yoches Carol Marr Roxanne Pacheco Norman Segel Barbara Vernon Theresa Zebrowski Janis Marston Gayle Page Judy Seigel Linda Vik Nancy Zulick Rita Martinez Velia Parga Abigail Sengebush Clarabelle Villareal Sarah Martinez Kathy Parker Cheryl Senitz Sean Martinez Timothy Parker Dawn Serrano William Mason Betsy Patridge Douglas Shaw Deborah May Jeanette Pawlowski Roslyn Shaw Maureen McAndrews Daniel Pedrick Katherine Shelton Daniel McDermott Charles Perkins Susan Siebert Michelle McDermott Betty Petruno Hope Sikes Linda McDowell Judi Pitch Roxanne Sikes Joseph McGillivray Ellen Pompeo Jeanne Silliman Kathleen McMahon Mary Ellen Pope Lori Sjaardema Julie McVay Elizabeth Potter Vivian Skadron Gail Melanson Rada Potts Suzy Skinner Tutor Mary Dickson participates in Nora Mendoza Edith Powers Sherry Smestad “Read Across America” Lois Mentze Victoria Pratt Debra Smith Miriam Merrick-Ray Carole Price Gail Smith Jean Merritt William Putnam Janice Smith Cecilia Metz Billie Pyzel Vicki Smith Phyllis Metzler Sylvia Ramos Cruz Karen Smoot Helen Metzner Ruben Ravago Barbara Solak Paula Metzner David Ray Leonard Solak

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65 New Mexico Leadership Summit When Leaders Grow, Communities Thrive

Presented by Central NM Community College & Oasis Albuquerque Friday, August 14, 2020 :: CNM Main Campus, Smith Brasher Hall The New Mexico Leadership Summit provides an opportunity for community leaders to take a step back, refresh their perspectives, and be inspired. Our featured speakers share their unique personal stories and leadership experiences. In addition, they will provide a window into how they think about ethics and the ethical challenges they face in their workplaces. The summit’s goal is to create a space for you to reflect upon your leadership style, using what you learn to make meaningful change across New Mexico and the Southwest.

Speakers Tracy Hartzler Hakim Bellamy President, CNM Founder and CEO Abe Assaad of Beyond Poetry, LLC Special Olympian Joy Harjo Maryalyce Jeremiah 23rd Poet Laureate Tracy Hartzler Joy Harjo Author and Women’s Collegiate of the United States Basketball Coach Adrián Pedroza Gloria Drayer National Director of Strategic Kripalu Yoga Practitioner Partnerships for Abriendo Puertas/ Opening Doors Monique Fragua VP Commercial Enterprises, John Foley Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Naval Academy Graduate and Author John Foley

For more information: https://www.cnm.edu/nmls Register Now ** If it is impractical to hold the NMLS on August 14th, the event will be postponed to a later date, and your ticket will be honored for the new date.

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WEDNESDAY Tai Ji Quan for Balance B Tai Workshop Pastel With O’Keeffe Weekends Better Balance B Ji Quan for Balance B Tai XII & the Holocaust* Pius Heart of Collecting Medieval Cathedrals Better Balance B Bonnie Raitt Ji Quan for Balance B Tai Better Balance B

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If you have a car, truck, motorcycle, RV, golf cart, or boat that you no longer use, now is the time to bypass the hassle of selling it – donate it to Oasis! We can connect you to a local and convenient alternative to getting rid of what you no longer need while supporting Oasis! For more information, call Kathleen Raskob at 505-884-4529 or email [email protected].

70 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Oasis Albuquerque & Collette Travel present Southern Charm

Featuring Charleston, Jekyll Island, & Savannah Oasis/Collette Trips April 11 - April 17, 2021 • 7 Days • 9 Meals Sales Presentation Tuesday, June 9, 3-4pm (class #150)

Experience warm Southern hospitality in America’s southeast. Learn about rich history and deep traditions on this tour with stays in Charleston, Savannah and, Jekyll Island. A city that has defed all odds, Charleston survived the Civil War, major fres, an earthquake, and hurricanes — and still exudes elegance, charm and grace. Travel to the exclusive Jekyll Island, once the beloved vacation spot for prominent families including the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and J.P. Morgan. See the stunning St. Simon’s Island 106-foot tall lighthouse before stepping into the past at the Museum of Coastal History. Visit historic Savannah with a trolley tour highlighting the Historic District. Allow the stately mansions, beautiful squares and romantic riverfront promenades to capture your heart.

Reserve trip by October 12, 2020 for best price and availability. Prices start at $2,949 (double) For more information: https://gateway gocollette com/link/982444 • Included in Price: Round Trip Air from Albuquerque Intl Airport, Air Taxes and Fees/Surcharges, Hotel Transfers • Not Included in Price: Cancellation Waiver and Insurance • All Rates are Per Person and are subject to change based on air inclusive package from ABQ

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 71 Oasis Policies (505) 884-4529 :: Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00am to 4:30pm, Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm American Square Shopping Center 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE, Suite 18 Albuquerque, NM 87107 Mailing Address: PO Box 35518 Albuquerque NM 87176 How do I become a member of Oasis? What is your guest policy? You may join Oasis at any time by completing You may register a guest by paying their class the new participant form found on the inside back fee. Professional caregivers who accompany a page of this catalog. Or you may join online at participant do not need to pay. www.oasisabq.org. I can’t come to class. Can I get a refund? How do I register for classes? Program fees are non-refundable unless Oasis cancels You may register online, in person at the Oasis offce, or reschedules the class. In the case of unforeseen or by mail at any time during the summer session. circumstances (i.e. jury duty or emergency medical Payment is required at the time of registration and reasons), credit may be applied to another class. If holds your place in a class. We normally do not take possible, we ask you to give us at least 24 hours notice Oasis Policies Oasis registrations over the phone because we need you to in advance of your absence so that, if applicable, we sign a waiver of liability. However, if you have special can add someone from the waiting list. circumstances where you do need to sign up over the phone, we can accommodate you. If you have already Can I give my seat to someone else if I registered for classes in the current term, you may am not able to come? add classes by phone. Just like the airlines, your seat in class is not If I want to drop my registration form transferable to someone else. It is not fair to those off at your office, when can I do so? on our waiting list. Typically, the Oasis offce is open from 9:00am - What is the payment policy for day trips? 4:30pm Monday through Thursday, and 9:00am Full payment is due to Oasis at the time of -4:00pm Friday. However, because of the registration. If you cancel 7 or more days before uncertainty of COVID-19 restrictions, please departure, you will receive a credit; if you cancel call the offce at 505-884-4529 to determine if we fewer than 7 days before departure, you will forfeit are open You may also mail your form to us the entire amount. If Oasis cancels a trip, you’ll What types of payment do you accept? receive a full refund or credit. We accept cash, check, or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or Discover). Courtesy Confirmation Calls Oasis volunteers try to telephone class members What if the class I want is full and I’ve prior to a class to confrm details. We cannot already paid for it? guarantee we will always reach you, so be sure to Due to space or other considerations, enrollment is keep your own calendar. We do not refund class limited for some classes and trips. You are welcome fees if you miss a class because you were not called. to join the waiting list so we can call you if space becomes available. Your name is NOT added to the Food/Drink policy roster until you have been notifed and we have You are welcome to bring water to any class, received your payment. If you do not get into the however, please do not bring gum, hard candy, class and have paid by check or cash, we will issue snacks, beverages such as coffee, tea, soda, etc. a credit for any unused amount. into classrooms. We have tables in the lobby where you may fnish your drink or eat a snack/lunch if If you pay by credit card, we will only charge your you wish. card for the classes in which you are actually enrolled.

Because of current uncertain circumstances, please note that class dates, locations, and other details are subject to change. Please check your email for Oasis updates, visit our website, or call the Oasis office for up-to-date information. Check to see if Oasis office is open, as it may be better to mail your registration forms or register online.

72 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Registration Info: Oasis Policies Summer 2020 continued Registration opens Tuesday, May 19 at 10:00am.

I am experiencing a financial Summer 2020 classes begin Monday, June 1. Info Registration challenge. Do you offer financial assistance for classes? How early can I register for classes, and how If you are experiencing a fnancial challenge can I be sure I’ll get into the classes I want? and fnd yourself unable to take lectures Registration opens at 10:00am on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. If at Oasis, please make an appointment to you register online at that time, you have a very good chance of speak with the executive director so we getting into a popular (or limited enrollment) class. If you are not comfortable registering online, your best bet is to mail in your can fnd a way to support you. paper registration form as soon as possible. We start collecting registration forms the day the catalogs arrive; however, they are The opinions expressed by presenters not entered into our system until registration opens at 10:00am and volunteers are their own and do on May 19, 2020. not necessarily refect the views of Oasis or its sponsoring organizations. You can mail your registration form at your earliest convenience after receiving, reviewing, and selecting classes from your new Also, please remember that catalog. Paper registration forms are processed in the order they information received in Oasis classes are received by volunteers beginning at 10:00am on the frst day related to health, fnance (including of registration (May 19, 2020). The frst form received is the frst appraisal or investment), or legal one entered and so on. It takes our volunteers one to two days matters is presented in an educational to process all the paper registration forms in the order they are context. You should seek professional received. advice related to your specifc Important Registration Information situation before making decisions in these areas. Complete your forms and payments carefully. Include payment for all of your classes and trips. •Couples or two friends who attend classes together should Online registration: www oasisabq org submit forms together IN ONE ENVELOPE. You must, however, It’s easy and convenient; pay with a credit submit separate forms and payment for each person. Each card. (See page 74) attendee must sign the waiver of liability form. 1. Go to www.oasisabq.org •Email: If you have email, please include the address on your 2. Log in to your MyOasis account by form, so we can email your receipt and confrmation. clicking on Sign In (upper right corner). •Payment methods If you do not already have an account, •Credit Cards: We strongly encourage payment by credit please click on Sign In and then on card. If you pay by credit card, we will charge only for the Create Account. classes in which you are enrolled. 3. You must fll out the Create a •Cash or check payments: We accept cash or checks. If you MyOasis Account form in order to are paying by cash or check and a class is full when your create your password and user name registration is processed, we will apply the additional amount to your account and create a credit. You may use that for for all Oasis online services. future classes OR it will be applied to your wait-listed class Online signups require credit card if space becomes available. payment. Oasis Albuquerque in American Square Shopping Center Our Map 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE, Suite 18 Albuquerque, NM 87107-1855 on Location Back Mailing Address: PO Box 35518 Albuquerque NM 87176 Cover

Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 73 How to register for classes on the Oasis website

1. Go to www.oasisnet.org

2. Click Sign In at the top to Sign in to MyOasis. If you don’t have a MyOasis account yet, click “Create Your Profile” to get started.

3. Choose Albuquerque from the Locations list on the menu. • If you are using a tablet or smartphone, tap the mobile menu icon to find the Cities list.

4. On the Albuquerque Oasis home page, choose Classes from the menu to see upcoming classes.

5. Finding classes: On the Classes screen, you can search using any of the Filters on the left, or by entering words in the Search box at the top. Online Registration Info Registration Online If you know the class number, click the Class Number tool on the left and type the number.

If you are having trouble finding a class after using the search tools, try clicking the Clear Search button, or the fishhook next to the search tool. 6. To sign up for a class, click Add to cart.

7. Paying for classes: When you are ready to pay for classes in your cart, click View Cart and then proceed to checkout.

You will be directed to sign a waiver of liability. The Wish List: If desired, you can mark classes that you want to sign up for at a After you agree to the waiver, later date by choosing Add to Wish List. follow the instructions to pay When you are ready to register for them, with a credit card. choose My Wish list on the left and then click Add to Cart to put your desired classes into your shopping cart. The Add to Cart button does not appear until registration opens at 10:00am on May 19. Stay tuned for an exciting new shopping cart experience coming in 2020.

74 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Cut along the line to remove and return this form. ! Oasis Summer 2020 Trimester Class Registration Oasis ID# (from address label on catalog): ______

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City ______Zip ______Phone ______Email Address ______WAIVER OF LIABILITY:I, for myself and my executors, administrators and assignees do hereby release and discharge Oasis and all other sponsors, supporters and all agents and persons acting for and on behalf of such entities from all claims or damages, demands or actions whatsoever in any manner related to or growing out of my participation in programs sponsored by Oasis including but not limited to: educational, cultural, volunteer, physical fitness related programs and travel in any form. I attest and verify that I have full knowledge of the risk involved in physical fitness activities and that I have obtained approval from my physician to participate in same. I understand that all program fees are nonrefundable except as provided in the Oasis refund policy.MEDIA RELEASE: I give permission for The Oasis Institute to photograph or videotape me and to use my name, and image in Oasis materials and publicity. I authorize the use of my name and image in publications produced by The OasisBy: ______Institute’s partners and by the media. I agree to be photographed or videotaped by the media for general publication. SIGNATURE (REQUIRED)

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Please return this form to: Oasis n PO Box 35518 n Albuquerque, NM 87176 n 505-884-4529 n Fax: 505-884-4942 To register for classes, please see the Class Registration forms in this catalog, or visit us at www.oasisabq.org Oasis Institute/Oasis Albuquerque nonprofit org American Square Shopping Center U.S. Postage 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE, Suite 18 PAID Albuquerque, NM 87107-1855 Albuquerque, NM Mailing Address: Permit No. 482 PO Box 35518, Albuquerque NM 87176 505-884-4529 www oasisabq org registration opens Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 10:00am & continues thrOuGhOut the term See details page 73 Classes begin Monday, June 1, 2020 Oasis Summer 2020 Summer Oasis www.twitter.com/OasisAbq

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Oasis Albuquerque Because of current uncertain circumstances, please Board of Directors note that class dates, locations, and other details are Lorna M. Wiggins Chair subject to change. Please check your email for Oasis Wiggins, Williams & Wiggins updates, visit our website, or call the Oasis office for Bret Heinrich VP up-to-date information. Wings of Hope William Willis, MD Treasurer Candelaria Anne Sapon Secretary True Health NM NORTH Dawn Anderson Oasis Institute Oasis Albuquerque 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE WalMart Duane Ross, MD Suite 18 True Health NM (505) 884-4529 Wei-Ann Bay, MD Phoenix Richmon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NM America Cost Plus American Home Staff Furnishing n Kathleen Raskob Executive Director d Melody Mock Program Coordinator Menaul

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