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Explore the World with OLLI Through Zoom Manage Your Tech Learn Something New Listen – Read – Discuss SUMMER 2021 Class Catalog Explore the World with OLLI through Zoom Manage your tech Learn something new Listen – read – discuss Shared Interest Groups ..............................Pg. 6 Summer Classes .........................................Pg. 10 OLLI Encore ..................................................Pg. 21 Friday Lecture Series ................................Pg. 22 Learn For The Joy of It DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Jump in—the water’s fine It’s been a year of change and upheaval. Lifelong learning institutes had to adapt quickly or get left behind. Change: it’s scary and exhilarating all at once. Scary until you try the new way, exhilarating once you see, “it’s not that I’ve Never Zoomed! bad.” It’s been a time of physical isolation as well, making Can we show you how? We have a series of tools (print and video) for those of you who are feeling anxious about going online. Visit communication and connection more challenging. That the RESOURCES tab on our website at usfseniors.org. We also have volunteers available to provide one-on-one Zoom assistance to any isolation increased our urgency to learn how to be online in OLLI member. Contact Ara Rogers via email ([email protected]) if a way that retained the spirit of an OLLI-USF class. you need this extra assistance. We’ve learned a lot as an organization in the past year REASONS TO ZOOM about learning and operating wholly online, and we still Easy to see • Easy to hear • No driving • No parking • SAFE have a lot to learn. And while we don’t know precisely when we will return to offering face-to-face activities and what How to Reach the OLLI Staff normal will look like post-pandemic, be assured we are We are working remotely. How best to reach us: actively thinking and preparing for that. Charise Dixie Join OLLI, Register for classes Expect us to start dabbling a bit with face-to-face in the fall. 813-974-5848 [email protected] And expect that we will continue to have a robust online Ara Rogers Questions, Scholarships, Gifts to OLLI presence. It’s a great time to join us! 813-974-5263 [email protected] Joseph McAuliffe Liberal arts classes, Friday Lectures, OLLI teaching [email protected] Voicemail: 813-974-5166 Jeanne Dyer Technology classes, OLLI Tech Squad [email protected] It’s a secret! Please don’t tell anyone … Voicemail: 813-974-8037 OLLI-USF membership rates will be going up. Never fear, we’ll still Cath Mason be among the lowest-priced OLLIs in the network. Program development, Course evaluation [email protected] Effective August 20, 2021 annual membership will be $50. Voicemail: 813-974-8422 Three-year memberships will be $125. Mary Ettinger Renew now before rates go up! Program Support, Mailing list Note: you may renew up to 364 days early. [email protected] Voicemail: 813-974-8036 Speaking of the Liberal Arts Let's Celebrate We gratefully introduce the following new teachers to OLLI USF this 27 Years! summer term, all of whom are committed to providing quality lifelong learning programming with a compelling teaching flair to our members. SUMMER OPEN HOUSE Kathleen de la Peña McCook is Distinguished University Professor ANNUAL MEETING at USF, and was recently awarded the Joseph W. Lippincott Award for outstanding work in library science. Her class, Toward a World Brain: From Diderot to Wikipedia will explore the roles libraries have played Wednesday, May 5, 2021 throughout history in preserving our understanding of the world. Begins at 10:00 a.m. Students of the Da Vinci Code will enjoy Leonardo da Vinci: The Shaping of an Artistic Genius featuring groundbreaking research by San Jose State Join us VIA ZOOM to celebrate the end of our tumultuous, graduate Caroline Cocciardi. Caroline is a writer and filmmaker who exciting 27th year! We’ll introduce you to our summer classes discovered the significance of da Vinci’s interlocking knots during her 20- and teachers. We will engage in a little OLLI business and elect year sojourn in Rome. two members to our Board of Advisors. Former Florida State Senator John Grant, who has taught at USF, UT and The Secret Service: An Insider’s View HCC, will bring his expertise in estate planning, probate, trusts, and elder Michael Horn, special agent with the U.S. law to this important class on Life and Death Documents Everyone Should Secret Service, specializing in electronic Have. Your heirs will be grateful and relieved if you sign up for this class. and cyber-crime investigations, returns to OLLI-USF. Randy Fillmore, PhD student in anthropology, was a science writer for The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Maryland Learn something, meet great people! Please invite a friend to School of Pharmacy. His class, Human Evolution from Prehistory to ???, learn more about Olli and share this information. will discuss the significant discoveries in paleoanthropology since 2019 that traces human origins to an earlier beginning than what was thought. Register online at www.usfseniors.org Or email [email protected], phone 813-974-5848 Denise Rose, Ph.D from Loyola University Chicago and her culinary husband Georgie, will demonstrate through meals made with an Instant Pot, that eating a plant-based diet is the best strategy to reduce chronic Learn about classes, special events, lectures, social activities and disease risk in their short course, Plant-based Cooking: Using Whole Foods more for adults age 50+. Enjoy camaraderie and learning to Help Prevent Chronic Disease. with other interesting, interested adults! Technology Spotlight New Instructor Spotlight Summer is when we Floridians like to travel, possibly Douglas Gatchell was recruited out of college to avoid our hot, sticky weather. We can help get your to work at Howard Hughes Aircraft, consulted photography skills up to date with these four classes: with police on solving computer crimes, worked MAY: How you arrange objects in your photo really makes a difference. at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a network Learn about composition, then go out and practice what you learn as engineer and retired from the National Science the instructors guide you through your shots using either a smartphone Foundation as a director who gave grants to or camera. Better Composition for Outdoor Photography is led by OLLI people such as those developing the Google Outdoors SIG leaders Donna McGrew and Diane White. Office suite of programs. And now Doug is JUNE AND JULY: What’s a vacation without memories? Take a bunch of teaching his first OLLI course this May:Google Free Office Apps, and short (or long) video clips of different places and some photos, then learn will introduce you to the free integrated suite of office and productivity how to put them together into a movie. We can help whether you use an apps available to everyone from Google: Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Apple computer or a PC with these two classes. Check out iMovie Magic Draw and Forms. for iPhone/iPad: Create and Edit or Movie Maker Magic for Windows, both led by Peter Terzian. Ready to spend some time and master the cameras and Photos app on your iPhone? You will NOT need 10,000 hours, just our Master iPhone Cameras, Photos & More with Jeanne Dyer and Kitty Sullivan. OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE 3 OLLI-USF Annual Fund 2020-2021Now underway! We are grateful for your support during this challenging period of pandemic-fueled transition. If OLLI helps connect you to other interested and interesting people, if OLLI online means learning and community are accessible to you, if OLLI helps keep you sane, please let us know with your financial support. President’s Council Leader’s Council Susan Lee ($1,000+) (up to $249) Doris Losey Phyllis & Lewis Alpert In honor of E. Howard Vickie & Richard Adelson Cathy & Chuck Luthin Rutherford Ruth Adrian Cath Mason In memory of Brenda Tipps Anonymous Namelda R. Allen Donald McNair Jane Applegate, Ph.D. Anonymous Kay Menzel and Donald Menzel, Jr. Bharat Pathakjee & Susan Waraczynski Family Anonymous In Memory of Brenda Tipps Fund Stanley Ashe Catherine Mitchell Alan Carlson Dr. Sankaran Satheesh Babu, M.D. Kathy Palmer Kevin Chittim In Memory of Brenda Tipps Darius Bakunas Derrie & Angelo Perez Bruce Gobioff William H. Baur, III Jeanette & Pat Reilly Susan Northcutt, Ph.D. Mary A. Bell Elaine Richard In Memory of Bob Findorff SNUG-Senior Networking User’s Group Phyllis Besterman Thelma Rodriguez, Ph.D. Strozier-Viren Family Foundation, Inc. Charlotte Brown Evelyn Ann Romano In memory of Catherine & David Wheeler David N. Campbell Brenda Tipps Robert Capellini In Memory of David Henry John Rowe, Jr., Ph.D. Director's Council Joyce Carpenter In Memory of Brenda Tipps Diane Russell In Memory of Lois Henrikson ($250-$999) Carolyn Clark Linda & Ken Schatz Lewis Barker Don Clark In Memory of Bob Findorff Phyllis & Robert Shaw Jaime Bonilla Marianne Cole Michelle and Robert Smits Liesse Chable Elva & Frances Currie In Memory of Bob Findorff Robyn Cheung, Ph.D. Mercedes De La Cruz Sue Tihansky Kevin Chittim In Honor of Bob Findorff James & Patricia Dodge Carol Torrens In Memory of Anselmo Torrens Judith Daniele Family Fund Linda Dunk In Honor of Brenda Tipps Nancy Tracy Ray Ann Granda Favata Mary Ettinger In Memory of Barbara Pamela Tyler In Memory of Brenda Tipps Linda Feeney Hildebrand Diane J. 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