Ridgewood Community School

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Spring 2020 Table of Contents

Contact Information...... 1 Our office is located in the 50 Plus Card...... 2 EDUCATION CENTER Day Tours...... 3 49 COTTAGE PLACE, SECOND FLOOR RIDGEWOOD Multi-Day Tours...... 5

Computer Literacy...... 9

Careers & the Workplace...... 10

Creative Arts...... 12

Culinary Arts...... 14

Dance & Movement...... 16 Telephone (201) 670-2777 Finance, Investments & the Law...... 17 Fax (201) 444-5565

Handcrafting...... 19 You can visit RCS online at: Health, Personal Growth & Wellness...... 22 www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us or send us email at Home & Real Estate...... 27 [email protected] Languages: English & World...... 27 Special Registration Hours: Leisure & Personal Time...... 29 In Person: Monday - Friday; 1 - 4pm Telephone: Monday - Friday; 1 - 4pm Liberal Arts & Music...... 31 We welcome your questions, Sports...... 34 ideas and comments.

Junior Edition...... 35

Faculty...... 38

General Information...... 43 Special thanks to RCS Drawing Instructor Rina Spring 2020 Calendar...... 43 Goldhagen for the use of the image titled “Pink Dew” that is featured on the cover. Rina’s class can be Where We Are...... 44 found on page 14.

Registration Information...... 45

1 General Information

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2 Day Tours

For all trips and tours, your reservations will be confirmed in writing by RCS approximately 2 weeks before the trip date. Withdrawals made in writing three (3) days prior to the tour will be accepted and your money refunded to you (minus $25 registration fee per ticket) provided we have a waiting list for that tour and your space can be resold. Tours run rain or shine.

Catacombs by Candlelight Tour of The Lunch and Tour of The Culinary Institute NEW! NEW! Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, of America & Woodbury Common Premium Outlets Lunch in Little Italy, Five Points of Manhattan Group Tours & Travel LLC City Hall Park, and a Walk on the Brooklyn Prepare for a treat as we head upstate to Hyde Park, New York, Bridge where we visit The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), widely Group Tours & Travel LLC recognized as the world’s premier culinary college. In the company Join us for this most unusual and exciting walking tour of The of a student guide, we enjoy a tour of this world-renowned learning Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Not to be confused with St. facility. Next, we savor the culinary experience of a memorable Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown, this historical church in lower included lunch, that is prepared and served by the students. Lunch Manhattan has been a landmark for more than 200 years, and is is in the Bocuse Restaurant amongst breathtaking classic French listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tour highlights architecture. Our lunch offers a unique and exciting, world-class include the rare opportunity to explore the only active catacombs dining experience. This afternoon we visit the Woodbury Commons in New York City, and access to sacred sites and hidden areas of Premium Outlets which contain over 220 stores that occupy more the Basilica grounds that are normally closed to visitors. Our than 800,000 square feet. It is one of the largest outlet centers in entertaining guide will also provide us with a history of the church, the world. Our stay will include 1 ½ hours to shop, stroll the as well as the people who once frequented it, and those who rest attractive open-air mall area or enjoy a snack. Please choose one in its catacombs. Next, we can either ride the bus or enjoy a entrée per person at the time of registration: Arctic Char or leisurely stroll down Mulberry Street into the heart of Little Italy, Pan-Roasted Chicken Breast. $165 where we then enjoy an included lunch. After time to shop and 002-Tuesday, April 7, 2020 sightsee, we take a short drive to the nearby City Hall Park. This Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner area is next to a several thousand-year-old Indian trail, which has of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:15 AM and been used as a pasture, a prison, a parade ground, a public returns at approximately 5:15 PM. Cars may be parked in execution site and more. Today, it’s where City Hall is located, and the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk. where countless movies and episodes of Law and Order and Blue Bloods have been filmed. After an orientation walk, free time is provided to sightsee and even take a stroll on the nearby pedestrian portion of the Brooklyn Bridge. $180 001-Saturday, March 28, 2020 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:15 AM and returns at approximately 5:15 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

Trolley Tour of Greenwood Cemetery, DUMBO & Red Hook, Brooklyn NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC Climb aboard a fascinating and memorable two-hour narrated trolley tour of Brooklyn’s 478-acre Greenwood Cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark. It’s like a drive through a manicured landscaped park and museum. Our guide provides us with fascinating stories of many of the cemetery’s most famous and not so famous permanent residents. On these rolling hills is a world-class collection of monuments and mausoleums that include Classical, Egyptian, Gothic, and Romanesque styles. See breathtaking views of Manhattan and stand where George Washington and his troops fought in the Battle of Brooklyn. Among those buried here are famous politicians, generals, artists, authors, and mobsters, such as Currier & Ives, Leonard Bernstein, Horace Greeley, Samuel Morse, Duncan Phyfe and countless others. From here we take a short drive to the original Junior’s Restaurant on Flatbush Avenue where we are treated to an included lunch. This afternoon we take a drive through portions of Red Hook, Brooklyn with a stop at Valentino Park that provides panoramic vistas of the New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. We also visit the riverfront in Brooklyn known as DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and the newly expanded Brooklyn waterfront and Fulton Landing. Here there is time to stroll along this scenic and historic area and again take in breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline. Please choose one entrée per person at the time of registration: Broiled Cheeseburger, Broiled Steakburger, Corned Beef, Pastrami, Turkey Brisket or Beef Brisket. All deli sandwiches are served on Rye Bread. $160 003-Saturday, April 25, 2020 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:00 AM and returns at approximately 5:30 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

3 Day Tours

Cherry Blossom Time at The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens & The Snug Harbor Cultural Center NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC Our day begins with a visit to The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, consistently rated as one of the finest gardens in the metropolitan area. Spring is in the air and with it comes a rainbow of colors throughout the 52-acres of gardens and open spaces. Now is a special time of year to view these floral delights since the garden’s Cherry Blossoms should be in full bloom. Make sure to explore the more than 200 cherry trees along its Esplanade, the Cherry Walk and Japanese Pond Garden. Other highlights are the bonsai museum and the roses, magnolias, lilacs, wildflowers, orchids, and rhododendrons which should be in or near bloom. After time to stroll through the gardens and browse in the shops, enjoy lunch on your own in the garden’s café. From here we travel to nearby Staten Island to visit one of New York City’s most unexpected and extraordinary destinations: The Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. Set among 83-acres of beautiful parkland, the Cultural Center is home to widely acclaimed botanical gardens and boasts 28 historic buildings. This was once a home for sailors and a place of many significant events. Our guided tour includes a visit to a few of the most important buildings and a visit to the exceptional New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden. This tour requires a little more walking than other tours. $125 004-Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:00 AM and returns at approximately 6:15 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

American Institute of Architects’ Yacht Whale Watching & Dolphin Adventure Cruise Around Manhattan featuring The NEW! Cruise from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge NEW! in Queens Oculus, Eataly, Battery Park City Esplanade Group Tours & Travel LLC & 911 Memorial Park Join us as we enjoy a four-hour long Group Tours & Travel LLC Whale Watch & Dolphin Adventure Our day begins with a stop at Brookfield Place, this shopping/event Cruise on the 95-foot long American center is centrally located to many interesting points of interest in Princess. The American Princess has lower Manhattan. We begin with a walk through the 4-billion-dollar a large upper deck with a canopy, a Oculus, the most expensive train stop in the world. It’s like a walk large main deck and cabin with through a Star Trek movie with modern and Spanish Architecture, cushioned seating. They advertise a over 100 stores, several restaurants and Eataly NYC Downtown. A 90% rate of a whale and/or dolphin beautiful promenadealong the Hudson River, the 911 Memorial, sightings. However, sightings are not guaranteed. Cruises are rain Hudson Eats (an elegant dining hall) and the Irish Hunger Memorial or shine. After departing Rockaway, we pass the Marine Parkway are all nearby. Free time to lunch on your own and sightsee is Bridge, where peregrine falcons have been seen diving for prey. provided before proceeding to our exceptional cruise. This While passing the Breezy Point jetty, dolphins may appear off the afternoon we enjoy a nearly three-hour-long cruise that fully coast of New York City and have been known to jump near and circumnavigates the island of Manhattan aboard a 1920’s inspired under the American Princess. Further offshore toward Ambrose yacht. Hosted and narrated by a member of the American Institute Channel, the entrance to New York harbor, we may see the blow of of Architects, our cruise includes complimentary snacks and one a whale and hear the captain shout, “Thar she blows!” We hope to beer, wine or champagne, as well as soda, water, tea or coffee. view humpback whales that are approximately 45 feet in length Additional beverages and a full bar are available for purchase. The weighing about 40 tons. Prior to boarding our cruise we visit the Around Manhattan Tour narration provides exceptional insight into scenic Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a 9,000-acre National Refuge, the many buildings that we view on our memorable and elegant located just to the east of Breezy Point, Rockaway Park and the Mill style cruise. $185 Basin. Lunch is not included, but you may bring your own lunch, 005-Saturday, June 20, 2020 snacks and water aboard. Coolers are not allowed on the tour. Hot Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner dogs, mac and cheese, snacks and drinks are available for of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 9:00 AM and purchase on board. $145 returns at approximately 6:15 PM. Cars may be parked in 006-Saturday, July 11, 2020 the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk. Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 10:00 AM and returns at approximately 6:30 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk.

4 Day Tours

The Grounds for Sculpture & Washington Crossing KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature Special Exhibit at the State Park New York Botanical Gardens Group Tours & Travel LLC Group Tours & Travel LLC Join us in Washington Crossing Historic Park where we learn about KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature is 2020’s must-see exhibition at the the events that took place in this area. They truly changed world NYBG. Everyone will be raving about it for years to come. Join us history. Our visit includes an introductory movie, historic exhibits, as we view this NYBG exclusive, highly anticipated, multisensory the McConkey Ferry Inn, the viewing of an exact replica of Emanuel presentation of the work by the internationally celebrated Japanese Leutze’s famous painting of George Washington crossing the artist, Yayoi Kusama. The exhibit is designed to capture and Delaware River and more. After an included lunch, we visit the illuminate the artist’s profound engagement with nature in nearby Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. Set upon 42 larger-than-life works of art. Across NYBG’s 250-acre landmark beautifully landscaped acres are over 300 contemporary landscape and buildings, Kusama’s lifelong fascination with the sculptures. The quality, variety and amount of sculptures make this natural world will be revealed in depth with multiple installations, park one of the finest sculpture gardens on the East Coast. The including her signature-mirrored environments and organic forms, grounds also include thousands of rose bushes, 2,000 trees and polka-dotted sculptures of colossal flora, mesmerizing nature- numerous flowers and plants that have been specifically placed to based paintings, biomorphic collages, works on paper, botanical create a dramatic backdrop to over 150 amazing outdoor works of sketches, as well as a spectacular horticultural showcase in the art. In addition, there are ponds, a river, bridges and two Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature will also 10,000-square-foot exhibit halls. Free time is provided to explore present brand-new works, including a monumental site-specific this world-class collection on your own and at your own pace. pumpkin sculpture and her first ever participatory greenhouse $160 installation that will be transformed over the course of the 007-Friday, May 29, 2020 exhibition. We arrive in time to explore the many gardens that are Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (corner not part of the special exhibit, enjoy a tram ride and time to lunch of Linwood Avenue & Northern Parkway) at 8:00 AM and on your own in one of their restaurants. Our admission includes returns at approximately 6:00 PM. Cars may be parked in the KUSAMA PLUS: the full experience with admission to all the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk. KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature installations, access to Dots Obsession, Flower Obsession, Mirror Room, works within the Mertz Library building, as well as all other works included in the Garden’s outdoor collections and access to select KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature installations on grounds and in the Conservatory. $135 008-Saturday, September 26, 2020 Departs from Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool parking lot (by the corner of Linwood Ave. & Northern Parkway) at 10:00 AM and will return at approximately 5:30 PM. Cars may be parked in the lot for the duration of the tour at your own risk. Multi-Day Tourss

The Guest House at Graceland, Graceland & Elvis Birthplace Group Tours & Travel LLC This tour features a 3-night stay in the Guesthouse at Graceland as well as a full admission package to Graceland. We will also visit many other exceptional area attractions. In the famous Sun Studio, we will listen to recordings made on the night when Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis held a jam session that later inspired the Broadway hit musical Million Dollar Quartet. A visit to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music relays the story of where over 160 top 100 pop chart’s songs and a staggering 243 hits in the Top 100 R&B charts were recorded. No visit to Memphis is complete without a visit to The Peabody Hotel to see its world-famous ducks. On Beale Street in Memphis, we enjoy the feel of Bourbon Street, as there are many bars with free live music to enjoy. Other highlights include: nonstop airfare from Newark, Mississippi River Boat Ride, Belz Museum, Elvis Presley’s Birthplace and Childhood Church, Mud Island River Walk, round trip shuttle to Beale Street, three breakfasts, one lunch, $75 meal credit for dinner in the hotel, tour escort and more.

009-March 22-25, 2020 Twin Price: $1,675 per person & Single Price: $1,995 per person No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $250 per person.

5 Multi-Day Tours

The tours below are escorted by Group Tours, Inc. For a complete itinerary including the deposit schedules, refund information and final payment dates, please call the RCS office. Any refunds given will be less a $25 per person registration fee. Tours run rain or shine.

VIP Seats at the Military Band Performance The Hershey Hotel (Tattoo) in Norfolk, Outer Banks & Dolphin Lunch in an Amish Home & Penn Dutch Nature Cruise with Oceanfront Accommodations Farmlands Tour & American Music Theater Group Tours & Travel LLC Variety Show You may have been to countless Broadway shows and memorable Group Tours & Travel LLC concerts, but nothing can prepare you for the spectacular Virginia Just mention the name Hershey and any American’s mouth starts International Tattoo, the largest Military Band Performance in the to yearn for the sweet taste of chocolate. This tour is full of sweet United States. Featured is a dynamic cast of about 900 performers things. To begin with our accommodations are in the elegant that travel here from around the globe. It’s a fabulous mix of Hershey Hotel, rated four diamonds by AAA and a proud member pageantry, patriotism, and soul-stirring music featuring marching of the Historic Hotels of America. This tour also explores the bands, massed pipes and drums, military drill teams, gymnasts, history and folklore of the Amish and Mennonites in their Scottish dancers and choirs. It is non-stop, edge-of-your-seat Pennsylvania homes. As we view their beautiful farmlands, we learn entertainment. Our accommodations for three nights are in Virginia about Pennsylvania Dutch life, from its inception to how it exists Beach, where all rooms have private oceanfront balconies. This today. We will also enjoy lunch in an authentic Amish home with an tour is so spectacular that dozens of our clients have taken it four Amish family. Our theatrical entertainment features an outstanding times! Other highlights include: three nights at the Hampton Inn Britain’s Best variety show in the American Music Theater. Other North, Virginia Beach, VIP reserved seating for the Military Tattoo highlights include: one night in the Hershey Hotel, lunch and performance in Scopes Arena, the Outer Banks, Wright Brothers breakfast in the Hershey Hotel, riding tour of Hershey with a visit National Memorial, Nags Head, Roanoke Island, Jockey’s Ridge to Chocolate World, Founders Hall, Kitchen Kettle Village, tour State Park, DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum, Chesapeake Bay escort and more. Bridge-Tunnel, three deluxe continental breakfasts, two lunches, 018-May 15-16, 2020 one dinner, tour escort and more. Twin price: $655 per person & Single price: $745 per 017-May 1-4, 2020 person. No reservation accepted without a deposit of $150 Twin price: $995 per person & Single Price: $1,255 per per person. person. No reservation accepted without a deposit of $200 per person.

Highlights of Northern Delaware Nemours & Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Scenic Boat Cruise Group Tours & Travel LLC Join us for an overnight excursion to Delaware, although at times on this trip you might think we are in Europe. This tour includes a visit to a mansion that is perhaps the finest example of a modified Louis XVI French chateau in North America. Located on a sprawling country estate is Nemours, the 102-room mansion of Alfred I. duPont. The opulence, grandeur and overwhelming elegance of this estate is astounding. Following an extraordinary estate tour, we are treated to a memorable lunch in one of America’s most elegant dining rooms. The Green Room in the Hotel duPont exemplifies the elegance and grandeur of the Gilded Age. It contains oak paneling, oak- beamed ceilings, gold chandeliers, richly textured draperies, Italian mosaics and original oil paintings. Our itinerary includes the charming community of New Castle, Delaware, a treasure trove of historic private homes and public buildings. Our lunch is in a 345-year-old building that now houses Jessop’s Tavern. There is also time to stroll New Castle’s cobblestone streets and visit The New Castle Court House (1732), where the Declaration of Independence was once read on the steps. In the afternoon we enjoy a scenic river cruise on a portion of the lower Delaware River and The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Highlights include Fort Delaware, Delaware State Park, Pea Patch Island, tour escort and more. In the comfort of our hotel, we enjoy a manager’s reception that includes a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. There is also a restaurant in our hotel if you would also like to enjoy dinner there on your own. Other highlights include: overnight accommodations in the Embassy Suites in Newark, Delaware, one breakfast, two lunches, tour escort and more. 010-May 21-22, 2020 Twin Price: $435 per person & Single Price: $515 per person No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $150 per person.

6 Multi-Day Tours

Summertime in New England - New NEW! The Green Mountains of Vermont in The Hampshire & Maine Lake Winnipesauke, Summertime Ogunquit, Maine, Castle in The Clouds & Group Tours & Travel LLC Kennebunkport Let’s head to New England, into the heart of Vermont’s Green Group Tours & Travel LLC Mountains, as we are treated to three nights in the Killington This tour explores the exceptional natural beauty and history of Grand Resort Hotel. Our resort has received the Trip Advisors the New England states of Maine, Massachusetts and New Certificate of Excellence Award and has attractive public areas, an Hampshire during the height of their summer season. Our three outdoor pool, restaurant, lounge, spectacular scenery, walking nights in the charming town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, are paths and more. Highlights are many, and our itinerary reads like a within a few minutes’ walk to the center of town, numerous short list of some of the most popular places to visit in Vermont. restaurants, stores and its historic waterfront. Portsmouth is New We will take a guided tour of one of the largest operating granite Hampshire’s oldest settlement, and its bond with the sea and quarries in the world. After lunch on your own in the charming colonial history is still evident today. This tour visits several town of Waterbury, we are treated to a tour of the Ben & Jerry’s picturesque waterfront communities that we will remember for Factory. On day three, after time to browse in the resort town of years to come. We also visit the majesty of the White Mountains of Stowe, we enjoy an included lunch in the Trapp Family Lodge, New Hampshire. Each mile traveled, by the coast or in the where the family from the Sound of Music made their home in mountains, is more scenic than the one before. Other highlights America. Our visit includes a tour of the lodge and time to explore include: three nights in the Hampton Inn in Portsmouth, boat ride this resort on our own. We also take an aerial tram to the summit on Lake Winnipesaukee, Wolfeboro, NH, Gloucester Fisherman’s of Killington Mountain where we enjoy breathtaking views of the Memorial, Rockport, Massachusetts, three breakfasts, two lunches, surrounding area. Other highlights include: Billings Farm & one dinner, tour escort and more. Museum, Quechee Gorge, time in Waterbury and Woodstock, three 014-July 28-31, 2020 breakfasts, two lunches, three dinners, tour escort and more. Twin Price: $1,215 per person & Single Price: $1,595 per 011-July 7-10, 2020 person. No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $350 Twin Price: $1,035 per person & Single Price: $1,115 per per person. person. No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $175 per person. Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, Sequoia Trees, Napa Valley, Virginia City & NEW! Derek Jeter Induction Ceremony at Reno National Baseball Hall of Fame Weekend NEW! Group Tours & Travel LLC in Cooperstown You will be amazed by the spectacular natural beauty of the many Group Tours & Travel LLC places we visit on this amazing summer tour. Our itinerary explores Derek Jeter is one of the finest baseball players that has ever a diverse, historic and beautiful region of eastern California and graced the field. He spent all of his illustrious 20-year career with western Nevada. We visit the land of the 49ers, learn about the the New York Yankees. Our weekend is highlighted with attendance California Gold Rush and relive the romance of America’s Western to the exceptionalinduction ceremony that will honor this sports Frontier. In the Mariposa Grove of Sequoia Trees we walk among icon and many of the other exciting activities and events that take these beautiful giants. We approach Yosemite National Park from place in Cooperstown during the National Baseball Hall of Fame the east and travel west over a mountain ridge that is one of the Weekend. Enjoy unlimited access to the National Baseball Hall of most scenic roads in North America. Along the way we view Fame during our tour. Even those who have little interest in snowcapped mountains, breathtaking vistas and truly unique areas baseball will enjoy the museum’s many outstanding exhibits and that are rarely found anywhere else on earth. Crossing from the festive atmosphere in Cooperstown. Be a part of history, as we Nevada into California, we straddle mountaintops and view witness one of the most emotional induction ceremonies in years spectacular landscapes. The resort region around Lake Tahoe was and see one of the largest gatherings of the National Baseball Hall made famous by the television show Bonanza as told through the of Fame inductees ever assembled. During most of our adventures of the Cartwrights. Our tour of the Napa Valley finds us Cooperstown visit, there will be opportunities to meet many of the in the heart of America’s most famous wine growing region. Our two-night stay in the capital city of Sacramento is close to its inductees as you pay to get autographed memorabilia from them vibrant Old Town, near dozens of shops and riverfront restaurants. (not included). Other highlights include: membership to the It’s a perfect summer getaway. Other highlights include: nonstop National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, Hall of Fame Yearbook, airfare from Newark, one night in the Embassy Suites in Napa, two overnight accommodations in the Albany Hilton Hotel, tour escort nights in the Embassy Suites Old Town Sacramento, three nights in and more. This tour requires more walking than some other tours. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, two night in the Best Western Plus Yosemite 013-July 25-26, 2020 Way Station, California State Railroad Museum, Napa Valley Winery, Twin Price: $475 per person & Single Price: $575 per lunch on the Delta King, boat ride on Lake Tahoe, Reno, Carson person. No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $125 City and Virginia City, Nevada, Emerald bay, Train & Trolley ride in per person. Virginia City, open air riding tour of the Yosemite Valley, all breakfasts, three lunches, one dinner, tour escort and more. 012-July 13-21, 2020 Twin Price: $3,976 per person & Single Price: $5,145 per person. No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $500 per person. 7 Multi-Day Tours

Salem at Halloween Time ~ Haunted Happenings 2020 Mackinac Island ~ Group Tours & Travel LLC Labor Day Jazz Weekend Salem, Massachusetts, is arguably the ultimate place in the world Festival to experience the fun and excitement of Halloween. There is never Group Tours & Travel LLC a dull moment on this tour when we visit Salem during this The Grand Hotel, recognized as exceptional celebration. This weekend, thousands of costumed one of the most elegant hotels in visitors will descend upon this historic community, geared up for America, has been delighting fun and ready to take in the thrill of its festival-type atmosphere. guests since 1887. Join us as we The Haunted Happenings 2020 Salem Festival is an exciting event indulge in a memorable tour that includes four nights in the like no other. It features street closings that create a vibrant elegant Grand Hotel. The Grand Hotel’s Jazz Fest Labor Day open-air pedestrian mall with numerous food and craft vendors Weekend is an exceptionally special time of year that includes and more. In addition to the excitement of Halloween, we have many interesting and exciting events. It features several live added many historic and fun attractions in Salem. This includes a musical performances throughout the weekend, two afternoon dramatic short play that was written from the transcripts of the outdoor barbeque concerts, three evening receptions, evening witch trial of Bridget Bishop, convicted of being a witch and then concerts, ballroom dancing, a Sunday Gospel performance and sentenced to death. Our hotel accommodations are an extra more! Mackinac Island is a place where time seems to have stood bonus. The hotel has recently undergone an extensive renovation still. Victorian architecture is the standard, and all private motor and features many attractive public areas. To cap off our weekend, vehicles are banned. We will spend two nights in Traverse City, a we are treated to a memorable costume charming waterfront community. We will also visit an exceptional dinner party in the comfort of our hotel recreated fort that tells the unique history of the Great Lakes and on Saturday night. Bring your costume! the Mackinac Straits. Once off Mackinac Island we explore Other highlights include: two nights in portions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and also enjoy scenic the Hilton Hotel in Woburn, drives. Other highlights include: roundtrip air from Newark, scenic Massachusetts The House of Seven drive on Old Mission Peninsula & Winery, Colonial Michilimackinac, Gables, The Salem Witch Museum, a Michilimackinac State Park, roundtrip ferry ride to Mackinac Island, trolley tour of the city, Pickering Wharf, International Boat Cruise through the Soo Locks, all admissions, all Salem Maritime National Historic Site, breakfasts, three lunches, four 5-course dinners in the Grand Custom House, free time during the festival, two breakfasts, one Hotel, tour escort and more. lunch, two dinners, tour escort and more. 016-September 3-9, 2020 015-October 30-November 1, 2020 Twin Price: $3,175 per person & Single Price: $4,325 per Twin Price: $815 per person & person. No reservation accepted with out a deposit of $500 Single Price: $995 per person. No reservation accepted with per person. out a deposit of $150 per person.

Christmas Time in Nashville & The Opryland Hotel NEW! Four Outstanding Shows & Much More Group Tours & Travel LLC Each of our tours has its own special magic, and there are many great tours that we provide to our clients, but Nashville is a truly unique experience. On this tour, we will literally see the best this city has to offer at a relaxed pace. Many of the attractions we see are destinations in themselves and our nonstop air allows us four full days of touring. To begin with, our hotel will be extensively decorated for the holiday season with 2.3 million Christmas Lights. It features an incredible nine acres of indoor atriums along with several restaurants and shops. The public areas include waterfalls, over 50,000 plants, elevated walkways and even an indoor boat ride on the river in the Delta Atrium. Topping off our itinerary are four spectacular shows, one of which Trace Adkins will headline. 020-December 5-9, 2020 Price will be available in January.

8 Computer Literacy

On the following pages, you will find the RCS computer course offerings. Please check the pre-requisites before registering for a course. Operating systems are Macintosh OS 10 and Windows.

Intro. to Personal Computing Facebook 201 - Fine All Things Google and Windows 10 Tune Your Facebook Evelyn McKinnon Tomohiro Kubo Neil Valere Join us for an exploration of the free This is a beginning course for the first time Now that you have learned the basics of tools that Google has to offer. Become a better “Googler” as we learn tips and computer user/owner. If you have just Facebook, this follow-up class will help tricks for searching the web. Discover purchased a PC or laptop or just started you fine tune your Facebook experience. Learn how to tailor FB with your privacy the power of Gmail and Calendar for using one, chances are you have Windows staying organized. Learn how to access 10 platform on your machine. This course and security settings, customize your profile page, create, edit, and invite friends and use Google Apps – a suite of will show you everything you will need to to your groups, send private messages, productivity tools for word processing, know about using your new computer to send money and much more. Facebook is slide presentations, spreadsheets and its fullest capacity. The course will focus always evolving to make your experience more. This is a “hands on” course for on learning to use the mouse, logging on safe and fun, so come out and learn what beginners, so chromebooks will be and off of your computer, how to size new things FB has to offer. $35 available or you can bring your own windows, how to create files and folders, 165-Tues, Apr 14 7-9 pm laptop or chromebook. All participants how to explore directories and programs, RHS Rm 193 must have a Google email account set up before the first class to fully experience how to utilize Windows system One Session the class. Go to google.com/gmail and accessories and generally navigate Intro to MS Office click on “create account.” $140 through Windows. This course will provide 164-Thurs 7-9 pm Jason Porod you with the essential skills to move on to RHS Rm 193 This course will give you an introduction other courses. $195 3 Sessions Starts Mar 12 153-Mon 7-9:30 pm to the programs included in MS Office - Word, Excel and Power Point. One night BFMS Rm 212 will be spent on each program, with Using the Internet 4 Sessions Starts Mar 23 homework in between classes to try out Tomohiro Kubo what you have learned. This class will give This class will focus on security and safe Facebook 101 you a good idea of the basic functions of practices while using the internet for Neil Valere each program and what you might be able personal use. Topics will include: Are you wondering what everybody is to use them for. $140 antivirus/anti-malware use, internet 166-Thurs 7-9 pm talking about? Want to know if Facebook browser safety tips, internet browser RHS Rm 193 extensions and add-ons (ads/ad blockers is right for you before you jump in? 3 Sessions Starts Apr 16 Maybe you just want to see your and malware extensions), types of grandkid’s pictures. And if you are Getting to know Your iPad harmful programs and files that can already a Facebook user, are you using Tomihiro Kubo infect your computer, account passwords America’s #1 social network correctly? This class covers all the basic operations and safeguarding and home router/wifi We’ll explain the basics and answer all and functions of the iPad. We will explore security $35 your questions. See how Facebook users basic navigation, what the various 169-Tues, Mar 17 7-9 pm easily connect with friends, brands, buttons do, new features in the current RHS Rm 193 photos, news, information, relatives, operating system, how to use features One Session opportunities and more. $35 like Siri, how to download apps, and a lot 163-Tues, Mar 24 7-8:30 pm more. If you’ve just purchased a new iPad, RHS Rm 193 this is the class for you! $140 One Session 161-Tues 7-9 pm RHS Rm 193 3 Sessions Starts Apr 21

It is HIGHLY recommended that all students in computer classes have access to a computer in their home or office to practice what they have learned and reinforce the skills and concepts. 9 Computer Literacy Selling on eBay Photoshop Workshop Rick Feingold Chuck Solomon Do you have legos, comics, textbooks, watches, This workshop is an introduction to the Adobe Photoshop family of auto parts, video games, designer handbags, applications including Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop itself. The jewelry, a digital camera, or an iPhone that you class will consist of three consecutive sessions where students are would like to turn into cash? Learn how you can encouraged to bring in some of their own images to correct and enhance in declutter your house by selling unwanted items addition to the images provided by the instructor. Topics will include a brief using eBay. Topics will include: how eBay works, history of Photoshop, the ethical use of Photoshop, how to work with Jpegs learning the value of your items, pricing your and Raw files, editing, keywords, cropping, layers, cloning, white balance, merchandise, writing a description, taking black and white conversions, hue and saturation, sharpening, preparation for photos, using a PayPal account, the bidding and print and saving files in various formats. This class requires that the students selling process, shipping your goods, eBay selling have some basic computer skills. $70 fees, delivery confirmation, feedback and more. 154-Wed 7-8:45 pm Students will be able to develop their own eBay RHS Rm 192 listings upon completion of the class. The 3 Sessions Starts Mar 25 instructor is an eBay Powerseller with more than 10 years of experience. $95 159-Wed 7-9:30 pm RHS Rm 193 2 Sessions Apr 29 & May 6 Check out our new class about using the online community Kohort on page 31.

Grammar Lion: A Grammar Refresher ***ONLINE COURSE*** Ellen Feld Everybody writes. Now, boost your knowledge of English grammar to write better. Gain new tools. Experience results. Write with new strength. Explore the basics of English grammar—like parts of speech and punctuation—and more advanced concepts—like syntax and wordiness. Comprehensive. Effective. Fun. Get lots of practice with quizzes and dynamic activities. Learn on your preferred schedule, from the comfort of your home, office, or favorite cafe. Wherever you are, your personal instructor will guide you. Technology essentials: internet access, email, computer (recommended over mobile device). Questions? Contact the instructor directly: [email protected]. Two options, same course content: 716-Go at your own pace to complete your course in 4 to 12 weeks. Tuition: $150 Starts Mar 6 Careers & The Workplace

Internet Basics for Small Business NEW! 10 Rules for Social Media Dominance NEW! John Tully John Tully It’s easy to get left behind by technology and our tendency It seems like Social Media has become the way that the world might just be to try and ignore it. For small business owners this communicates today – tweets, posts and stories are ever- can be a fatal mistake. Without an understanding of what the present in our news cycle. But how do small business owners internet “is” and why it’s important for small business, even benefit from this phenomenon? This fun and informative session experienced and successful business owners can quickly cede seeks to answer the following questions for the benefit of small market share to their competitors. This two-session class starts businesses and organizations: Where should I “be” on social with a brief history of the internet before describing in layman’s media? What do I write about? How do I keep up? What works terms the components of a successful small business website best? This is a beginner-to-intermediate level class and there and provides a clear strategy for those looking to improve their are no prerequisites other than a general understanding of online presence. This is a beginner’s class and there are no computer terminology and a familiarity with the main social prerequisites other than a general understanding of computer media platforms. $35 terminology. $45 103-Tues, Apr 14 7-9 pm 102-Tues 7-9 pm RHS Rm 208 RHS Rm 208 One Session 2 Sessions Mar 24 & 31 See page 31 & 32 for classes that can help to improve your writing & grammar. 10 Careers & The Workplace

Public Speaking Interview Basics Home Staging for Fun or Profit Sam Nutile Fran Kelley Mary Fitzgerald If you are reluctant to speak in front of an This class will prepare you for what to Attention all people who love to decorate! audience or have a fear of public expect on an interview today. We will If you want to learn how to make money speaking, this is the perfect course for cover everything from how to answer or just have fun through Home Staging, you. It is unfortunate that many people behavioral interview questions, body then this class is for you. In our limit their careers and social abilities by language tips, eye contact, to Skype and introductory class, you will learn what being fearful of speaking in public. This Hire Vue interviews. It is especially Staging is, along with our 5 1/2 step course is designed to limit these fears by important for you to be ready for system to stage any home successfully. helping students understand that public telephone screening interviews - the Plus, we go through a bunch of “hands speaking is a skill and like all skills, the most common way interviews start today. on” exercises that will increase your skills techniques must be learned and practiced Your instructor is a certified Human and your confidence and are also a lot of in order to do well. If you take this course, Resources Professional and will be able fun! $50 you will develop a much deeper skill for to answer any of your questions on 119-Mon 7-9 pm public speaking. Your confidence will grow interviewing. $40 BFMS Cafeteria rapidly and you will have a great deal of 107-Wed, Apr 1 7:30-9:30 pm 2 Sessions Mar 23 & 30 fun meeting and learning from the other RHS Rm 226 students in the class. $80 One Session Home Staging 2…The Next 113-Mon 7:30-9 pm Step BFMS Rm 115 So, You Want to Start Your Own Mary Fitzgerald 6 Sessions Starts Mar 9 Business…! Did you love the Careers in Home Staging David Spiegel class? Are you ready to jump into the Rescue Your Resume Do you dream of owning your own world with your new-found knowledge and & Cover Letter business? Do you wonder if you have the creativity? In this class we expand upon knowledge, courage and resources to Fran Kelley everything you learned in the first class succeed as an entrepreneur? If these Today’s new job search includes key and help you take the next step into the sound like the conversations that you are words, search engine optimization (SEO), actual world of home staging. Discover having with yourself, then this is the and applicant tracking systems (ATS). the difference between decorating and workshop for you. In just 90 minutes we What is a job seeker to do? Today’s staging, get lots of “hands-on” practice will discuss what it means to be an resume needs to address all of these creating “scenes” and learn how to entrepreneur, what it takes to own a components and more. This class will arrange furniture to sell a house. Most business and the steps you can take right offer you the opportunity to develop or importantly, master our proprietary Home away to move closer to that dream. By update your resume incorporating the Staging Consultation so that you can the end of the discussion you will have a latest job search trends.You will work with implement it right away and “make money 5 point action plan that will lay the a certified professional resume writer on Monday!” If you loved what you groundwork for your blueprint to success. who will critique your final draft. We will learned and accomplished in CIHS, Lots of people have a dream like yours. walk you through several job search imagine how clever and confident you will Dreams are the stuff entrepreneurs are e-notes that are needed to accompany feel after 3 more nights of staging fun. made of, however dreaming alone is not your resume for maximum effectiveness This is a great class for realtors who want enough. The difference between you and and to communicate your value to their listings to stand out in the them is this course, designed to equip recruiters and hiring managers. $105 marketplace. It is not necessary to have you with the tools necessary to begin 115-Wed 7:30-9:30 pm taken the CIHS previously, but if you take turning your dream into a reality. $35 RHS Rm 226 both classes this semester, you can take 101-Thurs, Mar 26 7-8:30 pm $25 off of the tuition for this course. $397 2 Sessions Mar 18 & 25 RHS Rm 202 109-Mon 7-9 pm One Session BFMS Cafeteria 3 Sessions Starts Apr 13

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Voice Overs…Now is YOUR Time Licensing 101: Don’t Sell Your Art-License It Such a Voice, James Seawood Lisa Fondo In what could be one of the most enlightening 2 hours you’ve This class is for artists and photographers looking for a way to ever spent, this class will show you how YOU could actually gain artists recognition and generate income other than through begin using your speaking voice for commercials, films, videos the traditional gallery route. Learn the basics of licensing your and more! Most people go about it the wrong way. In this work for stationery, home décor, prints, puzzles and more. What class, you will learn about a unique, outside-the-box way to is required, how to find potential licensees, royalty rates and the cash in on one of the most lucrative full or part-time careers realistic time frame required for your art to end up as products out there! This is a business that you can handle on your own on a retail shelf will be discussed. $35 terms, on your own turf, in your own time, and with practically 105-Wed, Mar 25 7-9 pm no overhead! And NOW is the best time to make this happen as new companies are looking for new voices like never before. RHS Rm 205 This exciting and fun class could be the game changer you’ve One Session been looking for! $42 104-Thurs, Apr 16 7-9 pm Licensing 102 NEW! RHS Rm 232 Lisa Fondo One Session Now that you understand the basics of the business, how do you Writing for Profit proceed with a contract? This class will cover contracts, MT Schwartzman permission letters, and one-time fee agreements – which you There is nothing more thrilling for a writer than pitching an should use and what should be included to protect your rights? idea, placing the story and getting a check. In this course, you This class will discuss basic contract terms, content, liability and will learn techniques that are proven to work, whether your other integral clauses your contract should include. The class will goal is writing for print media or selling stories on the internet. also cover when it is appropriate to issue a one-time fee Classes will cover how to come up with original ideas based agreement or a permission letter in place of a full contract. $40 on personal experience or professional expertise, how to find 106-Wed, Apr 1 7-9 pm the right outlet for your story and how to write an effective RHS Rm 205 story proposal. $80 One Session 117-Thurs 7-9 pm RHS Rm 234 5 Sessions Starts Mar 19 Creative Arts Watercolor for Beginners Watercolor for Beginners II Watercolor Painting-All Levels Eric Santoli Eric Santoli Joel Popadics Beginner watercolor simplified – a This course is designed for anyone with a Paint in a traditional, realistic way in this course for people of all ages. If you reasonably good understanding of how to watercolor class for artists of all levels. have never even held a brush, this is handle watercolor techniques. While Students will learn how to paint the course for you. All the mysteries “Watercolor for Beginners” focused landscapes, seascapes, marine and still and misconceptions of watercolor primarily on learning technique, level II life using a transparent approach to painting will be revealed and explained. will concentrate on using the medium to watercolor. A brief demonstration will be Students will be guided through the create effects from morning mist to given during each session. Topics will course and will learn everything they evening dusk; the way color changes take vary from tricky techniques to universal need to know in order to produce place from one season to another; and painting concepts. The balance of time beautiful paintings. The first evening is painting three-dimensional objects. will be spent on individual instruction. devoted to a discussion of materials Discussions and demonstrations provide Supply list available. $180 and how to fit them into the individual the student with unlimited information. 219-Thurs 2-5 pm student’s budget. Supplies will be Supply list available. $135 Ridgewood Art Inst. East Studio discussed at first class. $135 221-Tues 7-9 pm 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 220-Wed 7-9 pm RHS Rm 198 RHS Rm 138 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 218-Thurs 12:30-2:30 pm Ed Center 2nd Fl, Conference Rm 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5

Supply lists will be sent upon request (via email or fax) or they can be picked up at the RCS office. 12 Creative Arts

Painting in Oils or Acrylics Basic Photography Digital Photography Anne Winner Vincent Marchese Chuck Solomon Techniques of traditional painting are This course is designed to develop your This course is designed for the beginner to explored, in either oil or acrylic medium. photographer’s eye. It will cover basic intermediate student who wants to learn Beginning and experienced painters are concepts and practices of traditional as how to use their digital cameras to make welcome. Students will be encouraged to well as digital photography. Topics will better pictures and to understand how develop their own style and “voice” through include: understanding and using the their camera works. Participants will learn their choice of subject matter. The formal camera & lenses, lighting and exposure, F how to take their cameras out of the elements of painting such as color theory Stops and depth of field, shutter speed and automatic mode and creatively choose and structure are introduced. This is not a motion and basic photographic shutter speeds, f-stops and ISO. We will “demonstration and copy” class, but one peripherals. The course will address learn how to get the images off the digital that encourages individual exploration of aesthetic principles as they relate to card and onto a computer and even take a the painting process. Supply list available. composition, space, exposure, and light in brief look at post processing in $145 both color and black & white photography. Photoshop. Attention will be paid to the 208-Tues 12:30-2:30 pm Attention will be given to each individual different types of digital cameras including 206-Tues 3-5 pm student with weekly critiques of DSLR’s and mirrorless cameras. Students Unitarian Society Fellowship Rm assignments from topics as diverse as will learn the rule of thirds, selective focus, 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 landscapes, portraits, children, depth of field, leading lines and shooting architecture, abstracts, etc. Students will jpegs and raw and how to compose an Painting in Oils be encouraged to compile their best work image. Proper lens choice for various Bill Brown into a portfolio. At least one class will be situations will also be discussed. Students Beginners, as well as more experienced held off campus at the Paterson Museum. will learn how to properly use flash as well painters, are welcome to study traditional Students will be given the opportunity to as available light in shooting portraits. We oil painting. Each class will have several still display their photographs in a group show will also take a look at some of the work of life and floral set-ups. Landscape painting featured at the Paterson Museum at the famous photographers whose images will be taught and encouraged to those end of the semester. A textbook is made a difference. There will be five interested. Achieving an overall light and recommended for this class. (John classroom sessions and two field trips. atmospheric effect as revealed by nature is Hedgecoe’s New Introductory Photography The field trips will take place on Saturday mornings, after the second and third emphasized. You will learn the principles of Course; ISBN. Available through Amazon or eBay.) You can contact the Instructor with classes. There may be a small admission painting and developing form. Instead of any questions at 201-414-1337 or email charge on the field trips. Students will get just learning “how” to paint, you will learn him at [email protected]. $100 a chance to show their work from the field “why” to use a particular color or tone. 211-Thurs 6:45-8:15 pm trips as well as from an independent During each session an equal balance of RHS Rm 214 project which we will discuss in class. $95 time is spent on individual instruction. 8 Sessions Starts Mar 19 212-Tues 7-8:30 pm Award winning artist, Diana K. Gibson, will RHS Rm 215 assist the class if enrollment is sufficient. 5 Sessions plus 2 field trips Supply list available. Supply list available. Relax and Paint in Acrylics Starts Mar 24 Britt Sikiric $135 In this class you can go with the flow and 203-Tues 7:30-9:30 pm let go of your everyday stress and worries. Ridgewood Art Inst. West Studio Join us in creating joy and expressing your 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 true colors. Britt will gently guide you RCS Gift Certificates make through the process of painting with acrylic a great gift for that paint. You can choose the subject or she can provide you with some ideas. The class hard-to-shop-for person! will learn the basics of painting from composition, shape ,color and much more. Painting is a truly cathartic experience and this class will speak to your soul. Come and Call (201) 670-2777 enjoy yourself in a laid back, no pressure environment. This class can be your place for more information. to unwind and have fun each week. A supply fee of $35 is due to instructor at the first class. $105 217-Wed 7-9 pm RHS Rm 198 6 Sessions Starts Mar 18

Students attending photography classes should be at least 16 years of age.

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Beginner/Intermediate Comedy Improvisation Stand-Up Comedy Drawing Alex Ishkanian Alex Ishkanian Rina Goldhagen Do you like to laugh? Do you like to make Have you ever wondered if there is a If you have always wanted to learn how others laugh? If so, then come participate “Marvelous Mrs. (or Mr.) Maisel” inside of to draw, but have been frustrated with it in the wonderful world of comedy you? Well, here’s your chance to find out! improvisation! Open to both beginners in the past, we urge you to try this class. This course, inspired by Bobbie Oliver’s and those with experience, the course If your drawing skills are good but you provides you an outlet for creating book, “The Tao of Comedy: Embrace the don’t know how to take it to the next characters and scenes - right on the spot! Pause,” takes a mindful and soulful level, take this class. It is a real “how to” As you are guided to support your approach in helping you develop your class that will give you the right comedic team in a truthful and organic unique comic potential. As you develop a 5 foundation for successful drawing and way, you’ll see how “the funny” emerges minute set, you will learn how to write your will challenge you to achieve more than quite naturally. Our last session affords own jokes, get tips on performance you thought was possible. Students will you the opportunity to invite family and including microphone use, and acquire learn basic drawing techniques chosen friends to see you shine in the comedy techniques to overcome possible writing to train their perceptions and enhance spotlight. Please be warned that this class and performance blocks. Our last session their hand-eye coordination. They will has been accused of developing affords you the opportunity to invite family learn how to compose a drawing, imagination and creativity, fostering and friends to see you shine in the comedy teamwork and spirit, and enhancing one’s identify the range of values in the spotlight. Although this course is designed objects they draw, use shading to give ability to think on one’s feet. Additionally, it recently received a summons for making for beginning comics, all experience levels their subjects volume, observe and draw are welcome. Additionally, would-be “negative space” and much more. ordinary Thursdays feel like fabulous Fridays. So come join the hilarity before storytellers, sitcom writers, and writers (and Planned projects include two still life this class is actually arrested! $145 performers) of all genres looking to inject arrangements and a hand portrait. 202-Thurs 6:45-8:15 pm humor in their material can also reap Students will pay a materials fee of $30 RHS Rm 116 benefits from participating in this comedic to the instructor at the first class for art 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 art form. So bring a spiral notebook and supplies. $125 pen to each class, and be ready to unleash 209-Mon 7-9 pm your “marvelous” in a supportive, caring, BFMS Rm 124 and hilariously fun environment! $145 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 210-Thurs 8:15-9:45 pm RHS Rm 116 9 sessions Starts Mar 5

Culinary Arts

Simple Appetizers You Will Love NEW! Pasta – An Italian Cuisine NEW! Joseph Scillieri Joseph Scillieri You will be the hit of the party when you present your guests Come join us for an exciting evening as you prepare homemade with these mouth-watering appetizers. You will fully participate manicotti and lazy lasagna. We will also prepare a tomato sauce in the preparation of artichoke spinach bites, cheese straws, from scratch. The lasagna will be layered with rich ricotta cheese eggplant and red pepper appetizer, pepperoni Stromboli and sausage bread made with homemade dough. You will taste and and ground beef and chopped sausage. The meal will be enjoy everything prepared. A food fee of $25 is paid to the complimented with a specialty salad with homemade balsamic instructor at class. $35 vinaigrette and garlic bread. You will taste and enjoy everything 265-Tues, Mar 24 6:30-9:30 pm that is prepared. Please bring containers to class for leftovers. A RHS Rm 148 food fee of $25 is paid to the instructor at class. $35 One Session 264-Tues, Mar 31 6:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 148 One Session 14 Culinary Arts

Updating Stuffed Vegetables NEW! Tuiles NEW! Kim Hendrickson Kim Hendrickson When we think of stuffed vegetables we often think of the You may not know them by their name, but these vegetable being the container and the only veggie portion - with are a French classic. These light, delicate cookies are always a filling that is mostly carbs. Kim will turn this tradition around by photographed and are enjoyed alone or used as an ice cream emphasizing healthy foods like more vegetable varieties, and garnish or dessert accent. Because they are delicate, people don’t beans and healthy grains to create recipes that will make you make them often, but Kim will offer tips and tricks to help you drool. If Shiitake Stuffed Butternut Squash with Quinoa Streusel enjoy making these at home. Bonus, they are delicious. Please or Tender Onion with Sausage, Wild Rice & Cheese sound good, bring an apron, an oven mitt, and containers to take home your please join us. Please bring an apron, an oven mitt, and creations. Tuition includes food fee of $15. $60 containers to take home your creations. Tuition includes food fee 258-Wed, Apr 22 7-10 pm of $30. $85 RHS Rm 148 255- Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm One Session RHS Rm 148 2 Sessions Mar 18 & 19 NEW! Sheet Pan Desserts Making Marshmallows....Including Kim Hendrickson PEEPS NEW! A simple half sheet pan can provide many amazing desserts. Kim Hendrickson Either quantities of quick yummy bars, a roulade, a delicious If you have never had a homemade marshmallow, you have really 4-layer cake or dozens of small bite treats. Kim will explore all of missed out! This class will walk you through the basic process of these options in this 2-night class. Slab Fruit Pie, 8 Flavors in One making marshmallows. On the first night, we will make a variety of Pan and Black Forest Bites are a few of the desserts we will be flavors which will be shared before students go home. Then on preparing in the class. Please bring an apron, an oven mitt, and night two, the class will get serious and creative. We will take the containers to take home your creations. Tuition includes food fee basic mallow recipe and use it to pipe out shapes. Good news: In of $30. $85 an airtight container, marshmallows will last for months! Please 259-Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm bring a 9 X 9” pan to the first class plus an apron, an oven mitt RHS Rm 148 and containers to take home your marshmallows. Tuition 2 Sessions includes a food fee of $20. $75 Apr 29 & 30 NEW! 256- Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm RHS Rm 148 Unusual Tarts 2 Sessions Mar 25 & 26 Kim Hendrickson Spring is always a great time to make dessert tarts but it seems Sheet Pan Dinners like we have all made the standard flavors. These classics are (featuring new recipes!) NEW! delicious but this class will explore more unusual flavors and Kim Hendrickson presentations. Kim will walk you through the process of making Do you want a quick way to put dinner on the table using only tart dough (very different than pie pastry!) and offer advice on one pan? This class will give you the recipes to help you achieve making your future tarts delightful. Grapefruit Tart with Quinoa this. If Sheet Pan Honey Glazed Chicken, Maple Mustard Pork Almond Crust, Pear Pumpkin Tart are just a few of the 8 recipes Chops & Carrots or Ginger Shrimp & Vegetables sound tempting, the class will prepare. Please bring an 8” or 9” or 10” tart pan to join us for this class which is back by popular demand. Over two class as well as an apron, an oven mitt and a box or container to nights, a total of 8 recipes will be prepared and shared. Please bring your tart home. Tuition includes a food fee of $30. $85 bring an apron, an oven mitt, and containers to class to take your 260- Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm leftovers home. Tuition includes food fee of $35. $90 RHS Rm 148 257- Wed & Thurs 7-10 pm 2 Sessions May 6 & 7 RHS Rm 148 2 Sessions Apr 15 & 16

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Students attending Kim Hendrickson’s classes should be at least 18 years of age. 15 Dance & Movement

Beginner Level Swing Dance Tap for the True Beginner Lestat HeArt in Motion Studio Faculty Also known as the East Coast Swing, Jitterbug and Jive, this is Tap dance is an indigenous American art form. This hour the most famous American dance. Both triple and single long tap class will include a center floor warm-up, across the rhythms will be taught. Couples only. $160/couple floor rhythmic patterns and dance phrases. Each week will 310-Tues 7-8 pm culminate with a short dance focusing on tap technique and Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm understanding great Broadway composers such as Irving Berlin, 8 Sessions Starts Mar 24 Cole Porter, rag-time music and Broadway favorites. Tap shoes required. $160 Country/Western Partner Dancing 304-Thurs 10-11 am Lestat 10 Sessions Starts Mar 5 This 8-week course will cover some of the following dances: HeArt in Motion Studio, 17 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood Texas Two-Step, Country Swing, Cajun Waltz, ChaCha, and Texas-Style Polka. Dances covered are at the discretion of the Belly Dancing instructor and depend on the interest and ability of the class. Marina Bardash No line dances will be taught. Couples only $160/couple Many experts say that Belly dancing is the oldest form of dance 312-Tues 8-9 pm Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm with roots on all ancient cultures. Belly dancing is a low- 8 Sessions Starts Mar 24 impact, weight-bearing exercise, osteoporosis preventative and is suitable for all ages and fitness levels. The dance is enjoyed Ballroom Social Dancing and performed by women and men. The body benefits from Lestat undulating moves that lengthen the spinal column and This eight-week course will cover some of the following dances: strengthen the abdominal muscles in a gentle way. Sometimes Hustle (Disco), Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango and Swing. By the end of belly dancing is all the therapy you need! $135 the course, you will have the confidence to join your friends on 305-Mon 8:15-9:15 pm the dance floor. Dances covered are at the discretion of the Ridge Sch Cafeteria instructor and depend on the interest and ability of the class. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 Couples only. $160/couple 307-Wed 8-9 pm

Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm English-American Historical Social Dancing 8 Sessions Starts Mar 25 (17th-19th Century) Steve Tichenor & Janice Wolk Ballroom Latin Dancing Join us to learn and practice some of the dances that were Lestat popular from the Playford era to the Victorian era in Europe This eight-week course will cover some of the following dances: and America. Have fun dancing some of the Regency era Samba, Mambo/Salsa, Rumba, Cha Cha and Merengue. Dances dances seen in movies made from the famous Jane Austen covered are at the discretion of the instructor and depend on books. All skill levels welcome. The instruction is informal the interest and ability of the class. Couples only. $160/couple 306-Wed 7-8 pm because the more experienced dancers will work along with the Travell Sch Multi-Purpose Rm less experienced ones. No costume or wardrobe required for 8 Sessions Starts Mar 25 these practice sessions. Upon registration, you will be given a comprehensive calendar for the year and you will be placed on Adult Ballet an email list that will keep you informed on any changes or HeArt in Motion Studio Faculty updates. Cancellations could occur due to out-of-town re- This ten week course will include an introduction to classical enactments involving some of the members and other school ballet technique. The hour-long class will begin at the barre and closings. There are usually no makeup sessions. $45 move to center floor exercises and across the floor work. 300-Fridays 8-9:30 pm Emphasis will be placed on proper alignment, fundamentals of Somerville Sch Basement Cafeteria technique and musicality. Ballet slippers are required and dance Ongoing Starts Mar 6 attire is preferred. $160 For the True Beginner/Fundamentals of Ballet 317-Fri 12:15-1:30 pm 10 Sessions Starts Mar 6 For Intermediate 321-Mon 10-11:30 am Register in 2 minutes using your Visa or Mastercard 10 Sessions Starts Mar 2 (201) 670-2777 https://tinyurl.com/y9g5khze For Intermediate/Advanced 320-Wed 10-11:30 am 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 HeArt in Motion Studio, 17 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood 16 Dance & Movement

Dance, Pilates and Yoga for Everyone! Lynn Needle & HeArt in Motion Studio Faculty HeART in Motion offers adult classes in dance, yoga and fitness for all levels, from aspiring professionals to beginners and senior citizens. Classes are taught by leading professionals in the field who strive to personally get to know each dancer, yogi, or fitness enthusiast in every class. Adult ballet and fitness classes in Yoga and Pilates are offered every day, as well as Luigi Jazz, Modern and Tap throughout the week. Our Me & My shadow classes allow you to find joy through moving with your “shadow!” These classes are perfect for the parent and child team that want to have some fun with movement and music. Choose cruisers & crawlers for your little one who is sitting and crawling or music & movement for your toddler who is up and walking or running. We also have a youth yoga class which offers a physical and mental experience that positively influences our youths’ lifestyles. Students will be able to practice calming the body and mind through yoga postures and breathing exercises, while increasing flexibility, strength, and coordination with a certified RYT instructor. From our HeART to yours, we hope to see you in class! $160

Pilates Yoga Barre Beginner/Intermediate Modern Early Childhood Program 303-Mon 9-10 am 324-Mon 6:30-7:30 pm (6-18 months) 10 Sessions Starts Mar 2 10 Sessions Starts Mar 2 315-Wed 9-9:30 am 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 Cardio Hip Hop/Dance Fitness Restorative Yoga/Meditation 308-Fri 9-10 am 302-Mon 7:30-8:30 pm (18-26 months) 10 Sessions Starts Mar 6 10 Sessions Starts Mar 2 316-Wed 9:30- 10 am 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 Pilates Ball with Props K Pop/Hip Hop 313-Thurs 9-10 am 311-Wed 8-9 pm Youth Yoga (for ages 8+) 10 Sessions Starts Mar 5 10 Sessions Starts Mar 4 314-Fri 3:30-4:30 pm 10 Sessions Starts Mar 6 Pilates Ball 318-Tues 9-10 am 10 Sessions Starts Mar 3 Classes meet at HeArt in Motion Dance Studio, 17 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood. Finance, Investments and The Law How to Buy a Car at Dealer Cost IRA’s – How to Distribute Your Money and Avoid Rick Feingold the 50% Tax Penalties Stop being hassled when you shop for a car. Learn about Amy Harrison hidden incentives such as factory-to-dealer rebates and The IRA distribution law has changed. This revised course holdbacks that enable dealers to sell their vehicles at dealer teaches anyone who has an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), TSA or qualified invoice or less. Savvy consumers use the internet to force pension plan what MUST be done to plan for its distribution. If dealers to bid for their business when buying a car--you can, things are set up improperly, it can cost you needless and too. We will discuss how to find sources of FREE info on expensive taxes. You will learn everything you need to know in dealer invoice costs, how to make an offer, negotiating by order to make an informed decision. You will learn how to optimize your distribution and how to telephone and the internet, selling/trading in your present car, minimize income and estate taxes. We will also discuss and controlling the negotiations. Included is how to locate beneficiaries, spousal IRA rules and whether you should take professional buying services to represent you at the bargaining advantage of the new Roth IRAs. You will learn how to make table. $35 your IRA last a lifetime – or find out if it is more advantageous 370-Thurs, Apr 2 7-9 pm for you to move your money out quickly. If you are RHS Rm 212 contemplating retirement or are retired then this course is for One Session you! $35 364-Wed, May 6 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 208 One Session

17 Finance, Investments and The Law

Medicare Made Clear Creating a Social Security, Estate & Tax Planning 50+ Harris R. Reinstein, Medicare and 50+ Michael A. Manna MBA, CLU, ChFC, AEP Long Term Care Strategy This course is designed to acquaint Are you turning 65? Are you leaving your Amy Harrison, CFP individuals with the value of a employer after age 65? Have you just Social Security reaches almost every professionally drawn will, the necessity of moved to the area? You may be wondering family and, at some point, will touch the a financial power of attorney and the key about your medicare health insurance. If lives of nearly all Americans. Knowing the provisions of a living will/medical power of so, this course if for you. We will discuss facts about Social Security, Medicare and attorney. Seniors are also often totally how medicare works, how you get long term care planning is a prerequisite unaware of taxes that may be due to the medicare, and what it costs. You will learn for making informed decisions that will fit state of NJ or the federal government on about parts A, B, C and D for New Jersey. into your overall retirement strategy. their death. Most elders believe that You will also learn what is not covered. We Topics covered will include: How much of estate taxes are being phased out and are will discuss when you can sign up and your current income might Social of no concern. In many cases this is true when you can change plans. You will leave Security replace? When should you begin - but, few know that New Jersey has an with all this information accompanied by taking benefits? How can working during inheritance tax that can be as high as 16% printed information from the government retirement affect your benefits? Will you and is NOT being phased out. This tax is with phone numbers to call and websites be taxed on your benefits and, if so, how imposed on the estates of people who to visit for more information included. $35 much? What does Medicare cover? Do I have no spouse or children and leave the 352-Wed, Mar 25 7-9 pm need a Medigap policy and why? What money to other family members or RHS Rm 234 are the local long-term care costs and friends. The estate tax law now gives most One Session how can I protect my spouse if I need people an opportunity to reduce or long-term care? There will be time for eliminate capital gains taxes. Methods to Trusts and Gifting 50+ questions. $35 per family reduce these taxes as well as the pros and Marize Helmy 361-Thurs, May 7 7-9 pm cons of gifts and gift taxes will also be New Jersey is the number one most RHS Rm 208 discussed. $35 per family expensive state in which to die. It has the One Session 357-Thurs, Apr 30 7:30-9 pm highest death taxes of any state in the RHS Rm 213 country. New York runs a close second. Retirement Boot Camp One Session Coincidentally, there is a huge opportunity 50+ to save New Jersey and New York estate for Boomers Elder Law Amy Harrison, CFP taxes, in the right situation, by making Michael A. Manna 50+ Are you ready for a retirement that could gifts. This course is designed to help Seniors are often without basic legal last over 30 years? This 3-night individuals understand how they can documents that they need to control their workshop will help you answer the properly make gifts in order to save personal and financial lives as well as their questions that keep you up at night. significant taxes. $35 per family medical care. They are also often totally Topics will include: How do I create an 353-Thurs, May 7 7:30-9 pm ignorant of various government programs income stream once I no longer have a RHS Rm 206 that are available to pay for their home paycheck? Can I even retire or do I have One Session care, prescription drugs, and nursing to work part-time? Do I understand my home care. This course is designed to Understanding Annuities: 50+ current investments, including my acquaint individuals with the value of a Everything You Want to Know 401(k)/403(b) and are they appropriate professionally drawn will, the necessity of About Annuities But for my goals?? Do I have the correct a financial power of attorney and the key NEW! amount and type of insurance? What Were Afraid to Ask provisions of a living will/medical power of estate planning documents should I Amy Harrison, CFP attorney. Eligibility for medicare, medicaid have? This seminar will be taught by a When researching annuities, it’s not and managed care programs will be CFP, a CPA an Estate Planning lawyer and unusual to come across conflicting explored in detail. The drastic changes to a psychologist who will also address the opinions about them. However, a holistic medicaid rules (particularly the penalties emotional aspects of retiring. You will financial plan considers every possibility for making gifts, the new five year look obtain the knowledge needed to address – including the many financial needs you back rule, grandfather provisions) brought your key areas of concern, how to may have over the course of your lifetime about by the Deficit Reduction Act of improve your financial outlook and how and the many possible solutions. Among 2005 will be discussed in detail. New to make better financial decisions as you the available savings and investment Jersey’s excellent prescription drug approach and enter your retirement strategies, annuities could play a role in program (PAAD) for seniors will also be years. Workbooks may be purchased for helping you reach your goals. In this discussed. $35 per family an additional $20 paid to the instructor class, we will explore the different types 360-Thurs, Apr 16 7:30-9 pm at the first class. $55 per family of annuities, benefits and how they may RHS Rm 213 367-Thurs 7-9 pm be used to generate tax-deferred growth One Session and possibly lifetime income. $35 RHS Rm 208 363-Wed, Apr 29 7-9 pm 3 Sessions Starts Apr 16 RHS Rm 208 One Session 18 Handcrafting

Beginner/Intermediate Knitting Creating Fine Silver Jewelry for Beginners Emily Abramenko Terry Kovalcik In this class, you will learn the basic skills to knit just about This beginner’s workshop will explore the seemingly endless anything. Topics will include casting on, knit stitch, purl possibilities of creating silver jewelry with Precious Metal stitch, ribbing, increasing, decreasing and binding off. You will Clay. It will introduce you to the different types of PMC (lump, learn how to read a pattern and calculate your gauge. These sheet and paste) in an easy step-by-step format. Topics basic skills will prepare you to start a simple project and you’ll covered will include: working with the clay, creating forms, be on your way to a relaxing and enjoyable hobby. A knitting carving, molding, texturing, firing, oxidizing, and polishing. kit is recommended and is available from the instructor at the Participants will explore these techniques with an eye toward first class for $25. Enrollment is limited. Intermediates will finding their own voice and style through a choice of projects work at their own pace. $120 - pendants, hollow forms, decorative beads, constructed 426-Wed 7-9 pm forms and earrings. PMC is a unique jewelry making material. This user-friendly product is a malleable substance that is RHS Rm 139 composed of fine silver particles in an organic binder. It can 8 Sessions Starts Mar 4 be sculpted and manipulated like potter’s clay. After firing in a kiln, all that is left is your unique design in pure (.999) silver. Beginner/Intermediate Knitting Materials fee* is payable directly to instructor at class. *Depends on price of silver Please note: Precious Metal Clay Michelle Kupfer (PMC) is based on the market price of silver which fluctuates daily. In this class, you will learn the basic skills to knit just about Due to the continuing rise in the price of the silver, the price listed here anything. Topics will include casting on, knit stitch, purl may not accurately reflect the current price of the material. Prices may stitch, ribbing, increasing, decreasing and binding off. You will end up being higher or lower. At the time of this printing, the cost of learn how to read a pattern and calculate your gauge. These PMC materials for this class is approximately $92-$100. $165 basic skills will prepare you to start a simple project and you’ll 411-Mon 6:30-9:30 pm be on your way to a relaxing and enjoyable hobby. A knitting BFMS Art Rm kit is recommended and is available from the instructor at the 8 Sessions Starts Mar 9 first class for $25. Enrollment is limited. Intermediates will work at their own pace. $135 429-Tues 11:30 - 1:00 pm Creating Fine Silver Jewelry–Level Two Ed Center 2nd Floor Conference Rm Terry Kovalcik 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 This is an intermediate level fine silver jewelry class. The prerequisite for this workshop is attendance at a prior class in silver metal clay jewelry. If you have attended one of Terry’s Intermediate Knitting Workshop introduction to silver jewelry classes or a metal clay class with Michelle Kupfer another instructor, this class is for you. We’ll continue to This workshop is for those knitters who already know the explore the unique qualities of silver metal clay, while basics like how to cast on, knit and purl. Students will have constructing more complicated three-dimensional, hollow form the opportunity to work independently on their knitting elements. Learn how to combine your silver jewelry with a projects, guided by the instructor, and with moral support splash of color to finish your designs—work with UV resin, from the fellow knitters. Bring a project of your choice. polymer clay inlays, glass paints, or Aura 22. Each project will Enrollment is limited. $135 be made more complex by combining many of the techniques 430-Tues 10 - 11:30 am learned in prior workshops with an aim to help bring your work Ed Center 2nd Floor Conference Rm to the next level. *Please note: Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 based on the market price of silver which fluctuates daily. Due to the fluctuating price of the silver, the price listed here may not accurately reflect the current price of the material. Prices may end up being higher or lower. At the time of this printing, the cost of PMC materials for this class is approximately $96-$110. Aura 22 is an optional cost and also fluctuates with market conditions. All participants are required to pay a $25 bench/kiln fee for consumable materials, firing supplies and colorants, payable directly to the instructor at the start of the session. $165 412-Tues 6:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 138 8 Sessions Starts Mar 10

(Due to space constraints, participants in classes held at the Education Center are asked to park in the metered lot.) 19 Handcrafting

Crochet Fundamentals NEW! Sensational Stained Glass Bobbin Lace Making Susan Leibowitz Patty Vangieri, www.glassgallerynj.com Mayra Petretti Learn the fundamentals of crochet and If you ever wanted to learn the classic and Bobbin lace is an old type of handwork. A build your skills through a progression of beautiful craft of stained glass but had no few simple stitches lay the foundation for projects worked flat, in rounds and 3-D. idea where to start, this is the class for you. the most intricate lace. Even the simplest Learn the basic stitches, how to combine As a beginner, you will learn the patterns can be used for clothing, place them into stitch patterns, gauge, color fundamentals of laying out a pattern, using mats and wall hangings. Supply cost is $20. tools, cutting glass, foiling and soldering $100 changes and finishing. Master the while creating a simple suncatcher. You will 405-Tues 7-9 pm language of crochet and how to interpret then move on to a larger (up to approx. RHS Rm 191/291 patterns and charts. This class is for 10”x15”) flat panel project of your choice. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 newbies or as a refresher for those Please bring safety glasses and an apron or 404-Wed 9:45-11:45 am returning to crochet after a long break. work shirt to the first class. Additional Ed Center 2nd Floor, Conference Rm Bring an I/5.5mm or J/6mm hook and solid supplies will be discussed the first night of 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 light color, smooth worsted weight yarn to class. Approximate cost of materials is $95. the first class. $100 $165 Learn to Sew 407-Mon 5:30-7 pm 424-Tues 6:30-9:30 pm Vivian Burns, www.soyoustudio.com BFMS Parent Center RHS Rm 194 In this class, students will learn how to 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 work with a commercial sewing pattern to create a garment or two (depending on Open Studio: Crochet NEW! Stained Glass II your sewing ability and speed) from start Susan Leibowitz Patty Vangieri, www.glassgallerynj.com to finish. Please bring your sewing Build your crochet skills through a This is an open workshop for those that machine and a Kwik Sew Pattern for a selection of projects worked flat, in have already taken Stained Glass 1 and garment of your choosing. This garment rounds and 3-D. Learn the basic would like to work independently, but in a must be for yourself. Fabric choice will be stitches, how to combine them into group environment. Branch out to new discussed at the first class. Sewing stitch patterns, gauge, colorwork and projects such as lamps, a large flat panel, machines will be available for those who finishing. Master the language of cement stepping stones or 3-D pieces like do not have one. $140 crochet and how to interpret patterns jewelry boxes and candleholders – the and charts. More advanced crocheters choice is yours! Material fee can range 401-Mon 7-9 pm will receive coaching and problem- widely, depending on your choice of BFMS Cafeteria solving assistance on their on-going project and glass selection. Class size is 8 Sessions Starts Mar 9 projects. Skill builder lessons on limited. $165 intermediate & up topics will be offered. 425-Wed 6:30-9:30 pm Includes an option to design and write RHS Rm 194 elemental patterns. Bring an I/5.5mm or 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 J/6mm hook and a solid light color, smooth worsted weight yarn to the first The Art of Rubber Stamping class. Continuing students also can bring their current project. Deirdre Mastrangelo This class is for new or continuing Come join the fun! You’ll learn to make crochet students. $100 beautiful, hand-stamped cards using a 400-Mon 7-9 pm variety of techniques. No prior craft BFMS Parent Center/Library experience is necessary to enjoy this class. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 Supply fees are paid to the instructor at the beginning of each class. 410-Thurs 7:30-9:30 pm Series cost is $65, individual classes RHS Rm 138 are $20 each. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 418-Rubber Stamping Series Cards I $20 413-Wed, Mar 4 Supply fee $13 Cards II $20 416-Wed, Mar 11 Supply Fee $13 Cards III $20 408-Wed, Mar 18 Supply fee $13 Cards IV $20 422-Wed, Mar 25 Supply Fee $13 (Due to space constraints, participants in classes held at the Education Center are asked to park in the metered lot.) All Rubber Stamping classes will meet in RHS, Rm 191 from 7-9 pm. 20 Handcrafting Vegan Wax Candle Making Create Your Own Natural Skincare LaShonda Tyree LaShonda Tyree Do you enjoy burning scented candles? In this two hour hands on With over 16 years of experience making natural soaps and workshop learn how to custom craft your own container candle cosmetics, La Shonda will teach and guide you on how to make using eco-friendly plant based waxes such as soy and coconut. your body products or at least make you more aware of what you With candles being used in 7 out of 10 households, there is no are putting on your skin. Take control of what goes on your skin wonder why everyone wants to learn how to make them. Topics from head to toe. Over the course of three weeks, you will learn covered will include: choosing the correct wick, selecting the basics of how to make your own soap, lotion, body scrubs, appropriate candle containers, using colorants, safely making bath fizzies, bath salts, facial masks and bath teas in this candles, picking the right wax, properly use fragrance, melting hands-on DIY class. We will cover the theory behind each and pouring at the correct temperature and sourcing ingredients. application and then put it into practice making each product A materials fee of $15 is payable to the instructor at class. $35 from raw natural skin loving ingredients such as coconut oil and 419-Tues, May 5 7-9 pm shea butter. A $40 material fee is payable to the instructor at the RHS Rm 148 first class. $75 423-Tues 7-9 pm One Session RHS Rm 148 3 Sessions Starts Apr 14 Intro to Embroidery Buse Ozler NEW! During this intro to embroidery class, you will be learning the basic stitching techniques and different ways of embroidering flowers, vines, leaves, letters and other designs. By the end of the program, you’ll have many practice samples, 4-5 presentable/gift worthy embroidery hoops, an embroidered tote bag and an embroidered garment. A list of materials with links to suggested purchasing locations. Supplies needed should cost approximately $30. $125 402-Mon 7-9 pm BFMS Rm 104 8 Sessions Starts Mar 2 You can make great gifts in our handcrafting classes!

Ridgewood Makerspace Neil Valere Do you love to tinker, experiment, build, fix, take apart, investigate, invent, and/or craft? Then the Makerspace is for you! The space can be your workshop, you craft room, or your lab. It is your home away from home, where you can meet others with similar interests, or those who can help to expand your skill set and collaborate on new and exciting projects. Past projects have been as simple as sewing on a button to actually building a 3-D printer. You will have access to all of the machines, tools and technology we offer such as micro-controllers (Arduino & Makey Makey), 3D printers, power tools, CNC router, woodshop equipment and more. We are excited about our brand new addition to the Makerspace, an Epilog laser cutter. The laser cutter brings a whole new layer of experience for both returning and new members. If you are interested in participating, volunteering or learning more, please contact [email protected]. Please bring your own supplies for your project. A $10 materials fee is due at class to cover commonly used supplies for the equipment.

Regular Membership $85 Wood Shop Pass $10 We welcome students age 12 409-Mon 6-9 pm Laser Cutter Pass $10 and above. RHS Rm 198A 9 Sessions Starts Mar 16

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Hula-Hooping for Beginners Marina Bardash Usui Reiki Two- Practitioner Certification Course Hula-Hooping is a great way to strengthen, tone, and build Dawn Dittmar your whole body stamina. Working out with the hoola-hoop is The Usui Reiki level two course is a comprehensive course that unique among all other exercises. It requires concentration in gives you a deeper understanding of Reiki’s healing energy and order to keep the hoop in rotation. You simply can’t have the techniques used in order to provide healing for others. This your mind elsewhere as you go through the abdominal and course will begin with a review of Reiki One and then it will move aerobic workout. It is aerobic exercise but also relaxation at on from there, with specific techniques to consciously access the same time. The repetitive motion is very soothing to the and channel Reiki energy for either a Reiki treatment session, or nervous system. It is a fun workout for the body and the for applying Reiki from a distance. You will receive three sacred mind. Bring your own hoop or buy a collapsible one from the Reiki symbols and a Reiki Two attunement. You will also learn instructor at the first class for $45. $135 the Byosen Scan. After the attunement, we will have a group 459-Mon 7:15-8:15pm practice, where everyone both receives and administers Reiki Ridge Sch Cafeteria treatments using the symbols. We will review Reiki Client Forms 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 as well as New Jersey Laws governing Reiki. At the completion of Say Hello and Know! Introduction to Face this course, you will be a Certified Reiki Practitioner, with an unbroken lineage all the way back to Dr. Usui and you will be Reading Techniques certified to perform a full Reiki treatment on others, using a Lois Kramer-Perez, CHt. massage table, yoga mat or with your client in a seated position. Learn your unique elemental style based your archetype: Thinker, Materials will include a Reiki Level Two Booklet at the beginning Groundbreaker, Transformer, Supporter or Diplomat. Begin of the Class and a Reiki Level Two Practitioner Certificate at the operating with your natural strengths through understanding and end of the class. A materials fee of $25 is to be paid to the knowledge. Face Reading Techniques teach us how best to teacher at the first class. *The Prerequisite for studying Usui communicate by understanding not only our own inherent style Reiki Level Two is having successfully completed Usui Reiki Level but how to recognize that in others - in an instant! What would One. $150 you say if I told you that you could understand how to 455-Tues 7-9 pm communicate with anyone on their terms just looking at their face! RHS Rm 240 Know the significance of ears, nose and mouth, size and shape. 4 Sessions Starts April 21 What do the eyebrows reveal? How about the ears? The shape of a hairline and the lines on the face also tell a story. Learn these Face Reading principles and you will never look at faces the same Release Your Stress ~ with Mindfulness and again! $40 Personal Clearing Techniques 485-Wed, Apr 1 7-9 pm Lois Kramer-Perez CHt. RHS Rm 232 Are you finally ready to learn how to release your stress? Are you One Session tired of carrying all of this weight on your shoulders? Are you ready to stop allowing situations, of which you have no control, control you? What if I Usui Reiki One Certification Course told you that you will immediately find relief Dawn Dittmar from the stresses of the environment we live At this level of training, you will be initiated into the healing in today? You feel lighter already! Learn the practice of the Usui Reiki system. This course will cover the simple mindfulness and personal clearing History of Reiki, Reiki Principles, Gassho Meditation, The techniques and you will find that you will Chakra System, learning techniques for connecting to the move from victim to victor. Through Universal Source of Reiki energy at a deep level and allowing it breathing, visualization, anchoring and guidance, even the most active minds are surprised to find ease to flow through you for self-healing, along with The Reiki Hand using these simple techniques. The moment we begin changing Positions. You will receive the attunement to practice Reiki our patterns through choice, we can respond to events of which One. Once the connection is made through the attunement, we have no control. Each participant receives a recording of the the Reiki energy will be available to you for the rest of your life. meditation portion. No meditation experience required. Bring a After the attunement, we will conduct a group practice, where pillow to make your seat more comfy. $35 everyone both receives and administers Reiki treatments. 484-Wed, Mar 18 7-8:30 pm Materials will include a Reiki booklet to be distributed at the RHS Rm 232 beginning of the class for use during and after the class, as well One Session as a Reiki One Certificate at the end of the class. A materials fee of $25 is to be paid to the teacher at the first class. $150 454-Tues 7-9 pm RHS Rm 240 4 Sessions Starts Mar 3 22 Health, Personal Growth & Wellness

Hypnosis for Weight Loss Arthritis, Balance and Fall Prevention Exercise A Healthy Mind For a Healthy Body Program Lois Kramer-Perez CHt Mary Lee Costello If you are ready to change your eating patterns and are tired of Does arthritis pain or fear of falling prevent you from participating feeling stuck, you know the time to act is now! It is always easier in the normal activities of daily living? You’ll be surprised to learn to lose weight when we have a partner. What you may not realize that this class, with an emphasis on flexibility and balance, also is that your partner is already there waiting for instructions. Our incorporates all the recommended movements from the Arthritis best partner is our subconscious. Hypnosis is the perfect way to Foundation. Using popular music from many decades and easy connect with our subconscious - enlisting that part of ourselves motions, makes the class totally fun! It will uplift your spirits and to help. In this class you will experience a relaxing hypnosis enliven your muscles. This informative class will help those with session using guided imagery and suggestions to support healthy rheumatic or musculoskeletal arthritis enjoy a more active lifestyle eating to attain the results you desire. You will also learn self- while improving overall health. We also target range of motion, hypnosis techniques to support your new behavior. Each muscular strength/endurance, cardio endurance, neurobics and participant will receive the recording of the class session for future relaxation techniques. Class will include some arthritis inspired Tai use. $35 Chi exercises. A guided meditation is conducted at the conclusion 469-Wed, Apr 29 7-8:30 pm of each class. Participants are offered both seated and/or standing RHS Rm 232 options. In this group exercise class you will also use light weights, One Session rubber resistance bands, flexible balls and more, while smiling to the music. After a class or two, you will be inspired and feel better. Playing With Pendulums Please wear supportive footwear and bring water and a set of 1 lb. Lois Kramer-Perez CHt hand-held weights (optional). Instructor will provide the additional Are you curious about pendulums? Pendulums have become a assistive equipment. After a few classes you should notice a very popular tool today. Pendulums have been used for “dowsing” reduction in pain and stiffness, notice increased flexibility and and “accessing intuition” for hundreds of years. You may have develop strategies to improve balance, confidence and feel like a seen people hold a ring on a string over a pregnant woman’s belly new you! $140 to see if she is having a boy or a girl. Students will learn the 481-Wed 6-7 pm basics about pendulums, how to set your pendulum to access BFMS Rm 135 information and find out what to do when you do not have your 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 favorite pendulum on hand. We will also practice using the pendulum to receive information and learn how to begin using Zumba Gold Beginners – Toning your pendulum to clear your space, clear yourself and clear Mary Lee Costello others. Have fun in this experiential class learning a valuable tool. Why include weight-bearing activity with an already unique, No pendulum experience required. Bring your pendulum, stimulating calorie-burning Zumba class? Besides the step-by-step purchase one at the class or a tool will be provided for you. $40 instruction using every muscle in your body, you will learn how to 465-Wed, Apr 22 7-9 pm build bone density and strength by working against gravity to RHS Rm 232 improve tone, balance and endurance. The lightweight toning One Session sticks are a cross between hand-held weights and maracas and are optional for the class. Whether you choose to use the lightweight Zumba Gold Beginners – for Adults of ALL toning sticks or just your own resistance, you will experience an Ages effective, low-impact approach that utilizes not only the lower body with activities such as walking and dancing, but also upper Mary Lee Costello body resistance training that works your shoulders, back and arms. Do you love music? Would you like to dance without feeling The class is very similar to the Gold Beginners class, but is self-conscious? Lose yourself in the most influential movement in designed in a circuit training format to balance the cardio and the fitness industry and find yourself…in shape. Safely and strength training for maximum “exercise in disguise” results. The effectively tone your body and burn calories in this beginner class, music selection is always the student’s favorite part of the class while dancing to Latin and International music including and the choreography fuses many genres such as merengue, salsa, Merengue, Salsa, Cha-Cha, Cumbia, Belly Dance, Flamenco, Pop, reggaeton, cumbia, bachata, tango, flamenco, dancehall, kizomba, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Bachata, Tango, Samba, Bhangra and theme pop, rock & roll and fun themes. The instructor provides props classics. This class in designed to emphasize the basics, taught and laughter to help burn the calories. The class is taught with step-by-step to achieve confidence, perfect for those who are modifications to raise or lower the heart rate so that adults of ALL new to fitness or are returning after a long time, who may not be ages on the journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle can successfully able to keep up in a high-energy class; or who have limitations participate and benefit. The weights cost about $20 and are that need to be addressed with modifications. Please wear available to purchase from the instructor at class. Enhance your comfortable work-out clothing and flat soled sneakers (not workout and strengthen your muscles and bones. Contact running shoes) and bring water and a small towel. The smiles, instructor for more info or with any questions at (201) 661-0365 or laughter and props are on Mary Lee. The party is about to begin [email protected]. $120 – she will be waiting for you! Contact instructor for more info or 453-Thurs 7-8 pm with questions (201) 661-0365 or [email protected] BFMS Rm 135 $120 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 471-Tues 6:30-7:30 pm BFMS Rm 135 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 23 Health, Personal Growth & Wellness

Meditation - Beyond Mindfulness Feng Shui 101 – Feng Shui Your Space for Dharmachakra Buddhist Center Abundant Living We would all like to become more centered and peaceful. Lois Kramer-Perez CHt. Mindfulness is essential; it is used and developed through Learn some of the secrets of Feng Shui and create an abundant life meditation. But meditation shows us that mindfulness is just by arranging your space to achieve your hearts desires. Feng Shui the beginning to discovering lasting inner peace. Go beyond principles have sustained for thousands of years, cultures and indfulness. Learn to meditate. All are welcome. No prior lifestyles, bringing us magnificent power to activate, create and eperience necessary. $85 sustain healthy, abundant and happy lives. Do you want to find 476-Tues 7:30-9 pm out how your front door can impact your career? Ever wonder why RHS Rm 116 bathrooms are so important in feng shui? How about the significance of the stove in your home - do you even use it? What 4 Sessions Starts Apr 14 is the best use of mirrors using feng shui principles? What is going Beginner’s Running Program on in your bedroom? Find out how photographs and storage in the North Jersey Master’s Track and Field Club bedroom can influence your relationships. Participants will find Improve your fitness and train to run a 5K in this popular, the right method and actions to fit their needs. Bring your Feng non-competitive 8-week program. No experience is required, Shui questions. We will use three student floor plans as examples and both new and returning runners are all welcome. We want in the class, email your floor plan of the one room you have a you to experience the joy of running and to make it a question about to [email protected]. Floor plan must be permanent lifestyle. Individuals will be coached by a Level 2 received by March 18 to be eligible. $40 endurance certified USATF running coach and supported 464-Wed, Mar 25 7-9 pm through their journey by enthusiastic former graduate RHS Rm 232 volunteers and North Jersey Masters club members. You will One Session receive weekly training schedules along with regular e-mail communication, running “homework”, practical advice and Introduction to Astrology inspiration that will help you to progress at your own pace Dawn Dittmar and to be successful in crossing the finish line! This is a fun Did you ever wonder what the ancient people did before the and rewarding program and you will be making yourself proud invention of the television? They waited until nightfall, studied with each step that you take towards achieving your personal the moon, the stars and the planets and began to realize that goal. Enrollment fee also includes special guest experts when Hermes Trismegistus said “As above so below,” he wasn’t (typically in nutrition, running mechanics, and injury fooling. Astrology is still the ultimate reality show. Whether prevention), a t-shirt, race entry and a one- year membership you’re new to astrology or a returning student, take that next to the North Jersey Masters Running Club. Please include step, go “Dancing with the Stars” and discover what the stars your e-mail with registration. For more information go to and planets might be saying to you! A practical approach is https://njmasters.com/beginner-program/ or e-mail c25k@ emphasized for use as a springboard to future study. A $5 njmasters.com. You may also call 201-540-9701. $90 materials fee is payable to the instructor at class. $115 460-Wed 9:30-10:45 am 458-Wed 7-9 pm Ridgewood Duck Pond, 1133 E. Ridgewood Ave., RHS Rm 230 Ridgewood 8 Sessions Starts Mar 25 8 sessions Starts Mar 25 Intro to Qi Gong – Movement, Meditation, Self- 461-Sat 9:00-10:15 am Glen Rock Duck Pond, 149 Alan Ave, Glen Rock Massage and Breath-work to Improve Health 8 sessions Starts Mar 28 and Energy Karen Livanos-Centauro Three Steps to Long-lasting Pain Relief Learn about the Ancient Chinese practice of Qi (Chi) Gong (Kung). Qi Gong is a system of exercises, meditations and breath-work Tyler Ardizzone practices, combined to improve & harmonize the flow of “qi” (life Do you have chronic pain? Isn’t it so confusing? Your doctor, force energy) within the body. Qi Gong is easy to learn, non- physical therapist, and surgeon all seem to be saying different strenuous and doesn’t require a lot of room to be performed. Qi things and nothing is providing long-lasting pain relief. The Gong can increase your physical strength and flexibility, enhance reason why nothing is working is because chronic pain is a mental function, and aid in the reduction of stress. During the complex issue with many different causes that are unique to the two classes, you will be introduced to several medical Qi Gong person that is in pain. Two people can have the same pain for forms of slow, flowing movements, meditation, self-massage, and the same period of time with the same amount of joint damage, breath sequences to help improve your health and energy levels. but the same approach will not work for both of them. During Wear comfortable clothing and sneakers to partake in gentle Qi this course, we will make the complex topic of pain into a simple Gong exercises which can be done standing or sitting. Please also and reversible issue. We will do this by understanding the reason bring water and eat lightly before class. $44 why the body creates pain, learning how to relieve your aches 478-Wed 7-8:30 and pains, and exploring how you can continue the progress on RHS Rm 212 your own. $35 477-Thurs, Apr 2 7-9 pm 2 Sessions Mar 25 & Apr 1 RHS Rm 205 One Session

24 Health, Personal Growth & Wellness Gentle Yoga in a Chair Yoga for Deep Relaxation Joan Tarrant Mary Ann Gebhardt This course will be a gentle yoga class with a special emphasis on The practice of yoga quiets the mind and releases tension while the problems of people with arthritis or other joint/ mobility issues. developing strength and flexibility in the body. Sessions will include The goal will be for participants to become more flexible and breath work, posture practice, meditation and relaxation. This prevent them from experiencing a loss of function in body parts. class is designed specifically for the novice. Students should dress They will also experience an alleviation of pain. The class will in comfortable, layered clothing and bring a yoga mat and large consist of a series of yoga asanas (poses), which have been towel or blanket. This class blends yoga and ayurveda. $105 modified and adapted to the participants’ needs. Chairs will be 482-Wed 7:30-8:30 pm used for people who have difficulty using the floor. Pranayama Orchard Sch Cafetorium (breathing exercises) will be incorporated into the class, to reduce 8 Sessions Starts Mar 4 stress and ease pain. This class is not appropriate for pregnant women. Please bring a mat or towel to class. There will also be a Why Weight guided meditation in every class. $135 A Weight Loss Support Group 456-Thurs 10-11am David Spiegel Unitarian Society Fellowship Room Why Weight is a personal growth weight loss support group 8 Sessions Starts Mar 12 designed to provide a safe, supportive and nurturing environment for individuals dealing with weight issues. In this group we will The Wonderful World of Crystals explore the keys to unlocking the doors to the secrets of leading a Karen Finnerty – Eagan, CRMT, Crystal Practitioner happier, healthier life as well as how to deal with the challenges of Crystals and gemstones have been used by ancient civilizations for weight issues on a daily basis. $70 thousands of years. The Egyptians, Greeks, Sumerians, and others 451-Mon 7-8 pm incorporated them into jewelry, cosmetics, and amulets, used them BFMS Rm 110 for protection, health and much more. Today crystals are used daily 6 Sessions Starts Mar 16 in all of our lives. Crystals are strong enough to power watches, and to be used in industry and technology. In the fields of alternative Natural Ways to Care for Your Health Using healing, crystals are believed to have healing properties that help to Essential Oils balance the mind and body and release mental, physical and spiritual blockages. So what then is crystal energy? How might crystals be Lorinda Walker used to spark changes in your life, in your home, in your career? Are This is an interactive lecture with a hands-on “Make and Take” you interested in learning how to set intentions and help bring them component, where participants will each select an essential oil and to life? You will learn how to shop for and choose crystals to support make a remedy to take home with them. Topics covered will you, as well as how to care for and use them. A variety of crystals will include: what essential oils are, where they come from and how be discussed to help deepen your understanding. Whether you are a they are sourced to insure that they are pure and effective. beginning crystal user or seeking to expand your existing collection Participants will get a chance to experience different essential oils, together we will explore the world of crystals and experience so much learn what they are used for, and the different methods of more. Come and enjoy and receive a gift of a free crystal. $35 application. Included in the materials fee, each participant will 479-Wed, Mar 18 7- 8:30 pm select an oil to help with a particular health problem (for instance RHS Rm 234 diffi-culty sleeping, fighting off colds, or decreasing headaches), and make a roller bottle to take home with them for their use. One Session Educational hand-outs will be given and there will be time for A Fun and Fascinating Guide to Creating Crystal questions to be answered. A materials fee of $12 is payable to the instructor at class. $35 Grids 472-Tues, Mar 24 7-9 pm Karen Finnerty-Eagan CRMT, Crystal Practioner RHS Rm 206 Would you like to increase peace and positive energy in your One Session home and life? Would you like to learn how to focus your Acu-Yoga energy and amplify your intentions? Whether you are slightly familiar with crystals, are a crystal lover, use crystals every day, Joan Tarrant or are interested in increasing your knowledge and use of Acupressure is an ancient healing art that dates back to China crystals, you just might be interested in learning about crystal more than 5,000 years ago and has been shown to affect the grids! Crystal grids have been used for thousands of years and body by way of meridians (energy pathways) located throughout are now gaining in popularity. So just what are crystal grids? the body. The benefits of gentle yoga movements are known to How do crystal grids work? What crystals are used to make improve balance, strength and flexibility. Acu-Yoga is a way to crystal grids? Creating a crystal grid can be fun, fulfilling and combine the two into one practice. The class will explore art of meditative. Learn to use your imagination and intuition to pressing on pertinent acupressure points while maintaining a create crystal grids. Participants will receive step by step yoga pose. Tibetan Singing Bowls will be played during directions on how to create three types of grids, learn about relaxation. Bring a yoga mat and a blanket to class. $35 grid components, how to set an intention for the grid, choose a 486-Mon, Apr 13 7-8:15 pm grid base, choose the number and type of crystals and how to BFMS Rm 135 activate and maintain grids. Participants will also receive a free One Session crystal grid template and crystal. $35 480-Wed, Apr 1 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 234 One Session 25 Health, Personal Growth & Wellness American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR/ Singing Bowls for AED Course Healing & Relaxation Richard Van Der Wall Mary Ann Gebhardt & Joan Tarrant Heartsaver CPR/AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that Singing bowls are used in yoga, music therapy, and sound teaches CPR for adults, children and infants, AED use and how to healing. They are also played to signal the beginning and the relieve choking in adults, children and infants. This course teaches end of silent meditation. Like a bell, the tone is produced by skills with the AHA research-proven practice-while-watching striking the side of the bowl with a wooden mallet. By running technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, the mallet around the bowl - only with slight pressure - a pure provide feedback, and guide the student’s learning of skills. This tone will eventually rise. When this happens, the bowl is said to course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who need sing. Tibetan singing bowls vibrate and produce a deep a course completion card for CRP for job requirements or just for relaxation, the singing bowls are also used in combination with personal reasons. Upon completion of the course, students will other healing practices, such as meditation and deep be issued a CPR certification card valid for 2 years. $85 breathing. This class will be deeply relaxing, starting with gentle 473-Tues, Mar 17 6:30-9:30 yoga stretches, followed by listening to the healing tones of the pm bowls. More information about the bowls will be discussed. RHS Rm 229 Mary Ann & Joan will have over 50 singing bowls. Bring a yoga One Session mat and a blanket. $35 American Heart Association Heartsaver 462-Mon, Mar 30 7-8:30 pm First Aid BFMS Rm 135 Richard Van Der Wall One Session Heartsaver First Aid is a video-based, instructor-led course that Zen Stretch and Meditation teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an Aliza Rosen emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical A stretch class is like a good massage that lasts for services arrives. Students learn duties and responsibilities of first days. The class starts with a thorough and easy to aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including learn stretch routine that anyone can do. Then we will severe choking, heart attack and stroke; and skills for handling learn correct breathing and finish with a modern injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, meditation that relaxes the mind and clears mental broken bones, sprains, bites and stings. This course is for anyone anguish. Stretching improves flexibility, lowers risk of with limited or no medical training who need a course completion injury, improves respiratory function, blood circulation, card for First Aid for job requirements or just for personal reasons. digestion, focus, balance, and induces relaxation. Get Upon completion of the course, students will be issued a First Aid in touch with your body, release stress, and unwind certification card valid for 2 years. $85 your mind with an easy stretch class. Good for all levels. No 474- Tues, Mar 24 6:30-9:30 pm fitness or flexibility required. Wear comfortable clothes, bring a RHS Rm 229 yoga mat and enjoy. $120 One Session 467-Wed 7-8 pm American Heart Association Heartsaver RHS Rm 116 CPR/AED & First Aid Course 6 Sessions Starts Mar 18 Richard Van Der Wall This course is a blended learning course that combines the two individual courses at a cost savings. See the individual course descriptions for curriculum information and details. $140 475-Thurs 6:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 229 2 Sessions Mar 17 & 24

Jazzercise Rose Pasek, Instructor/Franchise Owner & Staff • www.jazzercise.com • [email protected] Jazzercise is the world’s #1 dance-fitness program. Through a unique collaboration, participants will enjoy UNLIMITED CLASSES for nine weeks, thats over 110 opportunities to work out! No previous dance experience is required and no matter what your fitness level, you will see results while you have fun. In Jazzercise you will find all ages, shapes, sizes and fitness levels. In other words, you’ll see people just like you. Instructors will demonstrate both challenging movements and low-impact variations. Each 60-minute class offers a blend of jazz dance and exercise choreographed to today’s music. Easy to follow, fun choreography includes a gentle warm-up, 30-minute aerobic workout, muscle toning and strengthening segment with weights, and a stretch finale. These classes are on-going and are for students of all levels. Wear loose, comfortable clothing (i.e. bike shorts, regular shorts, and jazz pants with a workout top or t-shirt) and cross-training athletic shoes. Bring a towel or exercise mat and a non-breakable water bottle with a lid. Please arrive 15 minutes early to your first session. Come as often as you like. Schedule is subject to change. Check website for updates. 452-Mar 2 - May 15 $129 for unlimited classes SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT 7:30-8:30 am 9-10 am 9-10 am 9-10 am 9-10 am 7:30-8:30 am 6-7 pm 7-8 pm 6-7 pm 7-8 pm 10-10:30 am 8-9 am Jazzeruse Five Corners, 545 4th Ave, Westwood NJ 26 Home & Real Estate

Working with an Architect on Moving Magic NEW! Love Your Style and Care for an Addition, Alteration or New Jean Marie Herron & Cindy Your Clothing House Project Myer Zahavi & Schwartz Donald Rubin Join Certified Professional Organizer Jean Do you constantly feel like you don’t love Working with an architect to plan and Marie Herron, owner of POSSEE Partners, what you are wearing? Are you constantly prepare for an alteration/ addition or a along with her colleague Cindy Myers, tugging and pulling on every item? Do you new house project is a straightforward President of Ridgewood Moving Services, regularly get holes or have issues with how and logical process and can be a very as they teach and share together their to maintain your wardrobe? This class is comfortable and enjoyable experience. veteran strategies, tips and tricks on how your chance to work with a personal stylist This course will take you through the to organize any home for a stress-free, and get the equation to great personal steps involved to realize a successful smooth move. You’ll learn how to hire a style. You will also learn what makes you project. Some of the topics discussed will professional mover and how to prepare feel your best, so you always step out be finding an architect, planning the yourself physically and emotionally for feeling comfortable, confident, and project, preparing the construction what is generally known as a major life put-together. In this class, you will get the drawings and specifications, zoning and transition. $35 guidelines Zahavia and Schwartz use with zoning variances and the construction 511-Tues, Apr 21 7-8:30 pm their one-on-one clients to help them find phase. Examples of drawing and other RHS Rm 205 the best version of themselves. You will illustrative materials will help to clarify One Session also get some of the best ways to care for items in your closet, and the instructor’s the process. $35 Conquer Your Closet 508-Wed, Mar 25 7:30-9:30 pm best recommendations for how to Zahavi & Schwartz RHS Rm 215 continue to care for the clothing stored in Does your closet overwhelm you in the One Session your wardrobe. Zahavi & Schwartz can morning? Can you never find the right help you reduce your stress in the No Drama Downsizing pair of shoes? Does a wrinkled sweater morning, give you an organization system Jean Marie Herron make you late? Are you tired of not that works for you, and help you increase Join a Certified Professional Organizer® having anything to wear? In this class, the length of the life of your clothing. $40 from POSSE as she shares her strategies, you will learn how to take inventory of 512-Thurs, Apr 2 7-8:30 pm tips and tricks on how to downsize any what you have, purge items from your RHS Rm 215 home. Learn the sequence of how to closet, and hear some great organization/ One Session prune your possessions so they fit tracking tricks about how to maintain beautifully into your new spaces on your closet/wardrobe after you achieve moving day. Downsizing can be a closet clarity and conquer your closet’s stressful and challenging project for issues. Please bring an image of the current state of your closet so we can give practical most, here you will learn how to deal with Register in 2 minutes using your all the decision making in digestible steps. and customized tips. You will also receive Moving Magic makes the perfect part our list of local stores to help in your goal Visa or Mastercard two for this class! $35 to conquer your closet! $40 (201) 670-2777 https://tinyurl.com/ 505-Tues, Mar 24 7-8:30 pm 509-Thurs, Mar 26 7-8:30 pm y9g5khze RHS Rm 205 RHS Rm 215 One Session One Session Languages

Sign Language I ESL - English as a Second Language Carl Andreasen Catherine Chriss Learn the fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL). Students are Students will develop basic communication skills in English. introduced to spelling, grammar, exchanging personal information and The students will be tested at the first class to determine level talking about family, friends and activities. This course is designed for and confirm placement in the group. This class is not for those with little or no knowledge of ASL. $130 beginners and students must be able to read English. Text

571-Thurs 7-8:30 pm book will be discussed at first class and the cost may range RHS Rm 217 from $15-$30. $215 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 552 - Tues & Thurs 9:30 - 11 am Education Center 2nd Floor, Small Conference Rm 14 Sessions Starts Mar 17

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Students are asked to purchase the text listed under each description and bring it to the first class. Texts range from $16-$40. Please contact the RCS office for more complete text information. If there is nothing listed under the description, no text is required. Intro to Japanese Culture Intermediate Conversational Italian French III and Language Angela Maniaci Isabelle LeLuc Yasuko Hansen For returning students and new students who have This is a conversational class that will cover Class will teach you basics including daily been introduced to Italian whether in an academic various topics such as current affairs, culture, expressions, pronunciation, questions, or lifestyle capacity (e.g. Italian family background sociology, history, etc. This is a class for counting and culture. $135 or the workplace). It is recommended that new advanced students and it requires a high level of students participate in telephone/email evaluation 573-Tues 7-8:30 pm oral French and French conversation. $135 with teacher before registering. Please provide RHS Rm 216 558-Mon 7-9 pm email address. $125 BFMS Rm 126 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 569-Tues 7:30-9 pm Text: Genki I: Elementary 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 (Used is Suggested) RHS Rm 213 Text will be discussed at class. 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 Japanese II Text: Italian Made Simple Beginning Irish Akemi Thompson Advanced Conversational Italian Bob Burke This class is for those who have already taken a Designed to develop the basic skills of listening, Angela Maniaci beginner course or have some knowledge. $135 speaking and writing Irish. Will include brief We will continue to focus on building vocabulary 574-Tues 7-8:30 pm discussion of history, customs and culture. $130 and strengthening conversational skills. We will 575-Mon 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 202 continue to cover Italian history, culture and 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 BFMS Rm 122 traditions. One segment will be based on 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 Text will be discussed at first class. ‘Conoscere l’Italia’ with excerpts from the textbook “Oggi In Italia.” It is recommended Irish II German I that new students participate in telephone Bob Burke Irene Fortunato evaluation with teacher before registering. $135 This is for those who have already taken a Learn to read, write and carry on basic 572-Wed 7-8:30 pm beginner course or have some knowledge. $140 conversations in German. $140 RHS Rm 213 576-Mon 8:30-10 pm 563-Tues 7-8:30 pm 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 BFMS Rm 122 RHS Rm 248 Text: Read & Think in Italian by the Editors 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 of Italy Magazine Spanish I Text will be discussed at first class. Julian Garcia French I An easy approach to learning the basics with Russian I Alain & Martine Chahine proper pronunciation and structure. $115 Irene Fortunato For the beginning student. Students will learn 577-Tues 7-8:30 pm Learn to read, write and carry on basic everyday expressions which may be helpful RHS Rm 226 conversations in Russian. $140 when traveling to a French speaking country. We 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 564-Tues 8:30-10 pm will cover greetings, salutations and basic Text will be discussed at class. RHS Rm 248 conversations. $115 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 556-Wed 7-8:30 pm Spanish II Text will be discussed at first class. RHS Rm 216 Julian Garica 9 Sessions Starts Mar 4 This class is for those who have already taken a Italian I Text: Panorama De La Langue: beginner course or have some knowledge. $125 Angela Maniaci Francaise Niveau Level 1 578-Tues 8:30-10 pm For beginners who want to be introduced to Italian RHS Rm 226 in order to develop listening and speaking skills in French II basic situations such as meeting and greeting Alain & Martine Chahine 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 people with greater ease when in Italy or with For students who already have a basic Text will be discussed at class. Italians in your lives. Some history on culture and knowledge of French. Students will learn about traditions will be introduced. $115 conjugating verbs in the present tense along 568-Tues 6-7:30 pm with nouns in order to create short sentences to RHS Rm 213 use in conversation. Real life situations like 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 ordering food will be discussed. $125 Text: Italian Made Simple 557-Thurs 7:30-9 pm RHS Rm 216 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 Text: Panorama De La Langue: Francaise Niveau Level 2

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Advanced Beginner Bridge Intermediate Bridge: NEW! Intermediate Bridge: Amy Nellissen, The Bridge Table Competitive Bidding Polishing Your Bidding NEW! For those who play a little bridge, but not Amy Nellissen, The Bridge Table Amy Nellissen, The Bridge very well. Learn modern bidding and play of Learn how to interfere after the opponents Table the hand strategy. Stay after class for open and how to thrive when they interfere Step beyond the bare basics while we review practice, and meet others to play with with you. The law of total tricks, overcalls, and expand on Standard American bidding. between lessons. Meet nice people to play doubles, preempts, the big double and more. Every hand you play will be analyzed with tips Meet nice people to play with at the optional with at the optional practice session after on bidding, play and defense. Meet nice practice session after each class. people to play with at the optional practice each class. Tuition is $240 is paid on or before session after each class. Tuition is $240 is paid on or before Feb 21 and $255 after Feb 21. Tuition is $210 is paid on or before Feb 21 and $255 after Feb 21. 660-Mon 10 am – 12 pm May 11 and $225 after May 11. 654-Mon 1-3pm Westside Presbyterian Church, 674-Thurs 1:45-3:45 pm Westside Presbyterian Church, DePhillips Hall,6 Monroe St Ridgewood Westside Presbyterian Church, DePhillips Hall,6 Monroe St Ridgewood 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 DePhillips Hall, 6 Monroe St, Ridgewood 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 8 Sessions Starts May 21 Pre-Intermediate/ Intermediate Bridge: Deadly NEW! Bridge Topics for NEW! Bridge Modern Conven- Defense Advancing Players tions Amy Nellissen, The Bridge Table Amy Nellissen, The Bridge Table Amy Nellissen, The Bridge Table Do you make the most of your high cards Sharpen your bidding, play and defense. Here’s your chance to learn the Stayman, when you defend? Tune up your opening Challenging topics include defensive Blackwood and bridge friends. Meet nice leads. Meet nice people to play with at the signaling. Meet nice people to play with at people to play with at the optional practice optional practice session after each class. the optional practice session after each class. session after each class. Tuition is $240 is paid on or before Tuition is $210 is paid on or before Tuition is $210 is paid on or before Feb 21 and $255 after Feb 21. May 11 and $225 after May 11. May 11 and $225 after May 11. 658-Thurs 1:45-3:45 pm 675-Mon 10 am – 12 pm 673-Mon 1-3 pm Westside Presbyterian Church, Westside Presbyterian Church, Westside Presbyterian Church, DePhillips Hall,6 Monroe St Ridgewood DePhillips Hall, 6 Monroe St, Ridgewood DePhillips Hall, 6 Monroe St, Ridgewood 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 8 Sessions Starts May 18 8 Sessions Starts May 18

Hiking in Harriman State Park Hiking in the Local Mountains Harold Petzold Harold Petzold Come and enjoy three progressive, scenic hikes in bucolic Enjoy interesting hikes with an experienced hike leader. Actual Harriman State Park. Specific hikes will be chosen by instructor hikes will be chosen by the instructor (based on group ability) and based on group ability. Please dress in weather-appropriate will be in the Highlands/ Harriman area with locations in Sterling outdoor clothing and hiking boots. Bring rain/ wind gear, 1 to 2 Forest and Norvin Green. Please wear weather appropriate quarts of water, snacks and a lunch. Hikes are on Sundays from 9 clothing and dress in layers. You must wear hiking boots and bring am – 2 pm. Group will meet at the Copper Tree Mall in Oakland 1-2 quarts of water and a snack. Hikes will take place on three at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $65 Sundays from 9 am-2 pm. Group will meet at the Copper Tree 669-Sun 9 am-2 pm Mall in Oakland at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $65 3 Sessions Mar 15, Mar 29, Apr 19 663-Sun 9 am-2 pm 3 Sessions Mar 22, Apr 5, Apr 26

Outdoor Navigation Harold Petzold If you have always wanted to understand how to read an outdoor map and use a compass for finding your way in the woods, this is the course for you. Learn to interpret terrain, estimate distances, negotiate obstacles and follow bearings. Students are advised to dress appropriately in long pants and shirts and sturdy boots. Compass and instructional materials will be provided by instructor for in-class use. Bring rain gear, lunch, snacks and 2 - 3 quarts of water. Group will meet at the Copper Tree Mail in Oakland at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $50 668-Sat, Mar 28 9 am – 1 pm 665-Sat, May 2 9 am – 1 pm One Session

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Nature Walk Travel Practically with Style Harold Petzold Zahavi & Schwartz “Shinrin-yoku” can be defined as taking in the forest atmosphere Do you always over pack? Is your suitcase typically overweight? Do or forest bathing. Closely linked with the human evolutionary you wonder how people always look so stylish and relaxed on process, it is a walk in nature, for its therapeutic effects. Those who vacation? This class will teach you the best practices for compact spend time in the woods experience lower levels of cortisol (which packing, how to only pack a carry-on, what items to pack for a induces stress), a lower pulse rate, lower blood pressure and stylish adventure and nine reasons why it’s okay to over pack if healthier blood sugar levels. It has now become a recognized you are organized about it. After this class, you will always be relaxation and/or stress management activity in Japan. Join us as prepared and will look great while you travel. Join mother-daughter we unwind and enjoy the natural beauty of our areas forests. stylists, Zahava & Orly for a fun night to learn how to figure out Please wear weather appropriate clothing and dress in layers. You what to pack for where you are going. $40 must wear hiking boots and bring 1-2 quarts of water and a snack. 651-Thurs, Apr 16 7-8:30 pm Group will meet at the Copper Tree Mall in Oakland at the back RHS Rm 215 end of the Staples parking lot. $35 One Session 652-Sat, Apr 18 9 am-12 noon One Session Boss UP Your Style - How to Dress Confidently Collectible Automobiles as a Passion and Appropriately for Work & Play Bob Austin, Burton Hall, and Fred Hammond Zahavi & Schwartz Whether you own a collectible car or not, this series of 9 sessions Have you heard of “power dressing”? Do you want to move the is for anyone who enjoys special interest automobiles as a hobby needle on your career, or at least start dressing for the Job you or a passion. This course will explore the world of special interest want? Are you tired of wearing just all black to the office or from cars…cars you do not need but would love to own. While the day to night? Is your personal style feminine and girly but you want emphasis will be on the decades from 1940 to 1979, this does not to add a little edge in the workroom? In this class, the dynamic mean that older classics and newer cars will be ignored. The class mother & daughter duo, Zahava & Orly Schwartz of Zahavi & will begin with an assessment targeted to identifying the car or Schwartz, will give you the seven key ways to add power to any family of cars that best suits each class member’s interest and personal style, five easy silhouettes that give confidence in the abilities, Drawing upon the considerable experience of the board room, and ten accessories that are great to keep at the instructors, as well as guest speakers, and class members office for an easy transition to make any outfit more powerful. themselves, each class will afford a journey through aspects of the Bonus outfit combinations and ways to express your personal style collectible car hobby including: what car suits you, guidance on in the office are also discussed. $40 buying a collectible car, sources of valuable car related information 671-Thurs, Apr 23 7-8:30 pm and presentations focusing on the automobiles of specific RHS Rm 215 decades. Other topics will include appraising, financing, insuring One Session and registering, electronic communities and more. $115 656-Thurs 7:30-9:30 pm RHS Rm 248 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5

Hiking the Appalachian Trail Harold Petzold Enjoy the day hiking along the Appalachian Trail. We will travel on the “AT” along the Bearfort Ridge between Route 17A and the New York State Border and from the top of Mount Peter to the New York/New Jersey border. This is a through hike (starts and ends in different locations) along a portion of the Appalachian Trail. Bring sturdy hiking boots, weather appropriate clothing, snacks and lunch, a minimum or 2 quarts of water, rain/wind gear and personal first aid items. Group will meet at 8:30 am the Copper Tree Mall in Oakland at the back end of the Staples parking lot. $40 655-Sat, Apr 25 9 am – 2 pm One Session

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Life on Wheels: Vacation or Live in a Motor Getting Unstuck NEW! Home Dawn Romeo & Linda Voogd Steve Fowls Are you unhappy with your relationships or career? From a humorous (but informative) standpoint, learn how Are you lacking clarity and direction? Do you crave more a motor home can replace a beach, lake, or mountain home meaning and fulfillment, but aren’t sure how to achieve it? You or better yet, replace them all. This class presents an overview of will learn powerful techniques and practical tools from the lifestyles available to those who would like to see the USA authors of, Life 101: A Guide to Your Personal Evolution, to help at one’s own pace in a house on wheels. The instructor and you clarify what you want, silence your inner critic, discover his wife own a motorhome and reside in it 2 to 4 months per year. what is blocking you from getting what you want, and how to $35 per family overcome the obstacles that are holding you back to reclaim 670-Tues, Mar 17 7-8:30 pm your life. $50 RHS Rm 205 667-Tues 7-9 pm One Session RHS Rm 228 Organizing Your Community or Family 2 Sessions Mar 24 & 31 Group on Kohort Mark Kossick Coastal Navigation Are you a group leader looking to be better organized? Are the United States Coast Guard runaway email threads and unwieldy spreadsheets giving you the The topics covered in this class will include: the tools of cold sweats? Or maybe, more simply, you just want a platform built navigation, the use of nautical charts, chart symbology, aids to on privacy and trust, one that’s ad-free and algorithm-free. You navigation like GPS and chart plotters, avoiding hazards and using can break away from the social media giants and do all of this. We landmarks. We will also cover boating publications and boating have the perfect mobile app and class for you. Welcome to Kohort, apps. Additional topics will include tides, winds and current, using a community management platform which saves group leaders the radio in an emergency situation and how to operate under time and headache in a safe, non-toxic environment. Kohort is the limited visibility and adverse conditions. $105 perfect solution for active groups - think families, teams, book/ 653-Tues 7:30-9:30 pm recipe clubs, booster clubs and more. Come have a look for RHS Rm 292 yourself. We will get you up and running in no time. $30 7 Sessions Starts Mar 10 657-Wed, Mar 25 7-8:30 pm RHS Rm 206 One Session

Liberal Arts, Music & General Studies Beginning Guitar Intermediate Guitar Cyndi Avedon Cyndi Avedon Enjoy playing this versatile instrument. Folk, classic rock, For those who know basic chords and would like to improve country and contemporary songs will be taught along with their skills and meet other players. Guitars may be rented by basic chords, strums, blues & rock bass patterns and scales. calling the instructor at (201) 391-2073. A materials fee of $2 Guitars may be rented by calling the instructor at is payable to the instructor at the first class. Ukuleles (201) 391-2073. A materials fee of $2 is payable to the welcome! $135 instructor at the first class. Ukuleles welcome! $120 717-Mon 8-9 pm 715-Mon 7-8 pm BFMS Rm 106 BFMS Rm 106 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2

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Writing for Profit Just Write An Evening with MT Schwartzman Gwendolen Gross Strunk & White There is nothing more thrilling for a If you have been meaning to write M.T. Schwartzman writer than pitching an idea, selling the more, but just can’t get started, come You probably remember Strunk & White story, seeing it in print or posted on the to weekly writing practice sessions from high school or college, but do you internet, and getting a check. Find out designed for all levels of writers. We’ll know who the authors were? Come join from a pro how to tell stories based on review the fundamentals of writing freelance writer and Strunk & White practice (including keeping your pen your personal experience or aficionado M.T. Schwartzman as we moving and you’re free to write the learn all about their famous book “The professional experience. Classes will world’s worst junk) and then get right to cover how to come up with original Elements of Style.” From the history it. There will be several stimulating behind Strunk & White to its most ideas, how to find the right outlet for writing topics each session, discussions enduring lessons on grammar and your story, and how to write a story of craft and writing process and a punctuation, this is an evening that’s proposal. $80 chance (but not a requirement) to read sure to be fun and informative. Bring 117-Thurs 7-9 pm the fresh work aloud. You’ll go home your copy of “The Elements of Style” RHS Rm 234 each week with ideas for where to (4th Edition recommended) and go 5 Sessions Starts Mar 19 continue. Perfect for jump-starting a home a better writer! $35 work-in-progress or generating new 672-Tues, Apr 28 7-9 pm material. Please bring a notebook and RHS Rm 234 pens or pencils. For both new and One Session continuing students. $130 659-Mon 1-2:30 pm Ed Center 2nd Floor Conference Rm 5 Sessions Starts Mar 16

Joy of Singing Motown Records and Barry Eugene Papay Gordy Do you find yourself always singing a Rick Feingold tune in the shower? Well, come out of Berry Gordy wrote the Jackie Wilson hit RCS Gift that shower and share your talent with Lonely Teardrops but barely made any Certificates other like-minded singers. Join this fun money. So he started his own record class to explore singing with and for company named Motown. The label other people like you. Solo singing is played an important role in the racial part of the course. This is not just a integration of popular music achieving sing-a-long. Along the way you will pick crossover success. Motown would launch up some hints on better vocal production the careers of Diana Ross & the through correct breathing, good phrasing Supremes, Smokey Robinson, The and an even sound. The teacher will Temptations, Martha Reeves and the provide live accompaniment to enhance Vandellas, The Four Tops, and Stevie make a great the songs. $110 Wonder. Class includes classic video of 714-Mon 7:30-9 pm the early years of Motown music. $30 gift for that BFMS Rm 101 664-Wed, Mar 25 7-9 pm hard-to-shop-for 9 Sessions Starts Mar 2 RHS Rm 205 One Session person! Call (201) 670-2777 for more information.

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Art Talks Grammar Lion: A Grammar Refresher Roger Davidoff NEW! ***ONLINE COURSE*** Join our art-loving group to explore seven great artists Ellen Feld and their selected masterpieces, in seven presentations on their Everybody writes. Now, boost your knowledge of English grammar extraordinary contributions to Western Art. We will explore the to write better. Gain new tools. Experience results. Write with new work and unique stylistic achievements of Dürer (German strength. Explore the basics of English grammar—like parts of Renaissance), Rembrandt (Dutch Golden Age), Seurat (French speech and punctuation—and more advanced concepts—like Post-Impressionism), Modigliani (Early 20th Century), Kandinsky syntax and wordiness. Comprehensive. Effective. Fun. Get lots of (Bauhaus), Magritte (Surrealism) and Diebenkorn (Late 20th practice with quizzes and dynamic activities. Learn on your Century Modern American). Each class will show reproductions preferred schedule, from the comfort of your home, office, or of each artist’s most famous pieces, accompanied by printed favorite cafe. Wherever you are, your personal instructor will guide descriptions, as well as a short biography of each artist. Come you. Technology essentials: internet access, email, computer out and enjoy art without the over-crowded galleries! $125 (recommended over mobile device). Questions? Contact the 701-Thurs 7:30-8:45 pm instructor directly: [email protected]. RHS Rm 240 Two options, same course content: 7 Sessions Starts Mar 12 Start Date : Mar 6 Music Talks: The Art of the Short 716-Go at your own pace to complete your course in Roger Davidoff 4 to 12 weeks. Tuition: $150 This course features seven presentations of ‘smaller’ NEW! classical music pieces, composed to make their impact in a shorter span. We will hear and discuss the art of composers Victorian Book Club who were able to condense their musical ideas, without needing M.T. Schwartzman extended forms and long periods of time. If you’re expecting to Modern advertising, medicine, transportation, and even our hear Mahler, this class is NOT for you… conversely, if you love Christmas traditions can all trace their beginnings to the Victorian Chopin, this class has your name on it! We will hear ‘abbreviated’ age. Join us for a lively discussion of how these 19th-century works by JS Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, developments shaped our society today and hear selected readings Mendelssohn, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Mussorgsky / from period novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Rimski-Korsakov, J Strauss II, Tchaikowsky, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Dukas, Joplin and Gershwin – masterpieces ALL! Please join us as Gaskell, Charles Dickens and others. $35 we listen and enjoy great music in shorter bursts. $125 702 – Tues, Mar 31 7-9 pm 661-Tues 7:30-8:45 pm RHS Rm 234 RHS Rm 240 One Session 7 Sessions Starts Mar 10

Alexander Hamilton – Secretary of the Treasury Rick Feingold Today, Hamilton, An American Musical is the hottest NEW! ticket on Broadway. As America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton founded the U.S. financial system. His Federalist plan was quickly opposed by Anti- Federalists Thomas Jefferson and James Madison until a grand compromise was worked out. This program features music from the Broadway production including The Room Where it Happens and video from the Hamilton musical. $30 676- Wed, Apr 1 7-9 pm RHS Rm 208 One Session

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Volleyball (Co-Ed) Power Volleyball League Bob Livingstone Bob Livingstone, Men and women have an opportunity to have fun, exercise, socialize and keep in www.ridgewoodvolleyball.com shape. All classes are co-educational. Both skill levels have a warm up skill drill in Here is an exciting opportunity for the beginning of each class. After the start of the classes, instructors may competitive, co-ed teams to play one recommend class changes to keep groups ability-compatible. $90 another. There are two nights available, Tuesday & Thursday. Each BEG/INTERM 9-10:30 pm night has a round robin schedule 898-Mon Starts Mar 2 followed by playoffs. Each team must 899-Wed Starts Mar 4 field a co-ed roster at all times. 9 Sessions RHS-Gym #1 Interested teams or single players looking to possibly join ADVANCED 9-10:30 pm an existing team can e-mail Bob at 900-Mon Starts Mar 2 [email protected] or stop by either 901-Wed Starts Mar 4 night for further information. 9 Sessions RHS-Gym #1 League starts Jan 7 & Apr 4 Fee is $550 per team.

Fencing for Children Gr 3-10 Fencing for Adults and Basketball Maksim Zaitsev Children over the age of 16 John DiCostanzo This class is designed to introduce Maksim Zaitsev Full court basketball played for the fun students to the exciting sport of fencing. This class is designed to introduce of it. Participants should bring a white Often called a physical game adults to the exciting sport of shirt and a dark shirt to all classes. of chess, fencing develops endurance, fencing. Often called a physical game $60/one night; $115/two nights coordination, agility, poise and balance. of chess, fencing develops endurance, 850-Tues 9-10:30 pm In addition to the physical aspect, it also coordination, agility, poise and balance. BFMS Gym develops concentration and problem In addition to the physical aspect, it also 9 Sessions Starts Mar 3 solving skills. This class will include develops concentration and problem 851-Thurs 9-10:30 pm warm-up games, footwork, agility and solving skills. This class will include coordination development, fencing BFMS Gym warm-up games, footwork, agility and 9 Sessions Starts Mar 5 instruction, bouts and fencing games. All coordination development, fencing necessary equipment is provided.*An instruction, and bouts. The featured additional fee of $10 is to be paid to the sword is the Epee. All necessary instructor for insurance with USFA. $150 equipment is provided. $150 855-Mon 4-5 pm 852-Mon 7-8 pm Arena Fencing Academy, Arena Fencing Academy, 152 Franklin Tpke, Waldwick 152 Franklin Tpke, Waldwick 7 Sessions Starts Mar 2 7 Sessions Starts Mar 2

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Tee it Up with TGA NEW! Premier Pickleball TGA Golf Professional Patty Corn & Barbara Norton, Premier Pickleball We bring the golf course to you. TGA’s golf program is Come learn the fastest growing sport in America! All classes perfect for beginners to build fundamental skills and learn include one hour of instruction and 30 minutes of guided about the sport. Our limited flight TGA golf ball is safe to use play to get you on the courts and having fun. Classes include indoors while still maintaining an accurate flight path. TGA all the basic shots in the game, court positioning, etiquette, programs offer: professionally trained coaches, long game rules and scoring and are taught by certified pickleball and short game lessons, learn golf rules and etiquette, instructors. All equipment is provided. Participants must returning golfers will learn and practice more advanced skills. wear sneakers & comfortable clothes and be prepared to Class offers a maximum 10:1 student to instructor ratio. move and have fun. $119 Equipment is not provided. Make sure to bring at least a 853-Mon 7-8:30 pm pitching wedge, 7-iron, and a putter. swing. $160 Orchard School Gym 860-Mon 7-9 pm Orchard Sch Cafetorium 6 Sessions Starts Mar 30 6 Sessions Starts Apr 13 854-Thurs 12-1:30 pm Hoop Heaven, 132 Hopper Ave, Waldwick 6 Sessions Starts Mar 2

Junior Edition

Encore Music Studio: Private Instrumental Lessons Gary Fink - Coordinator Through this program, you can study with an actively performing professional musician from the tri-state area – at an AFFORDABLE price! Lessons will give the opportunity for students of all ages to study an instrument. Please call for information regarding children in 3rd grade or younger. Lesson times will be arranged after school and in the evenings. Following registration, the instructor will contact students and a lesson time will be scheduled. The following instruments are offered this semester:

BRASS: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Baritone Horn; WOODWIND: Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone; PERCUSSION and STRINGS: Viola, Violin, Cello and Bass as well as Piano, Guitar, Jazz Improvisation, Music Theory and Voice. Lessons are 14 weeks or 7 weeks. NOTE: When the artist/teacher cancels a lesson, that lesson will be rescheduled. Students may reschedule 2 lessons within the term. Most lessons are held at BFMS or GWMS. For further program information, contact Gary Fink between 10:30 am-1:30 pm at (201) 262-2237. 945 14 weeks, 30 min. lesson $520 945-7 7 weeks, 30 min. lesson $280 Lessons start week 946 14 weeks, 45 min. lesson $710 946-7 7 weeks, 45 min. lesson $420 of January 27th. 947 14 weeks, 60 min. lesson $920 947-7 7 weeks, 60 min. lesson $560

If you register for a full 14 week session before Jan 31, you will receive an Early Bird discount of $25. When registering, please indicate instrument.

RCS also sponsors the Ridgewood High School Behind-the-Wheel Driver Education Program. For more information, contact the Program Coordinator Ron Knott at (201) 670-2700 x 20648. 35 Junior Edition

Fun With Art I Co-Ed Volleyball Clinic Ann Monton for Middle School Students Explore the fundamentals of art with step-by-step drawings that RHS Volleyball Staff Member & Robert Livingstone include landscapes, cartoons, animals and many more Volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S. One of favorites. Enjoy working with the mediums of soft chalk the main reasons for its popularity is that you can have fun doing pastels, watercolors and paint. This class is a wonderful it almost anywhere – your backyard, on the beach or in a gym. introduction that will continue to enrich a child’s love for the Having the right techniques and skills will make the game more arts. A materials fee of $15 is payable to the instructor at the fun to play. Join us in this co-ed clinic/ workshop where we will first class. Assistant instructor John Monton will join the class if work on some of the basic skills, play lots of games and have fun. enrollment is sufficient. $110 This is for both boys and girls at any level of play. $88 — Grades K-3 — — Grades 5-8 — 951-Mon 4-5 pm 948-Mon 7:30-9 pm Somerville Sch Art Room RHS Gym #1 8 Sessions Starts Mar 2 9 Sessions Starts Mar 23 Fun with Art II Ann Monton Suzuki Violin Instruction Explore a more advanced level of the arts. Subjects such as Louise Butler landscapes, seascapes, sunsets, still life and animals may be Children learn to play using the Suzuki method. They can learn at drawn. We will paint with acrylic paint on canvas board and a very early age and find that playing an instrument can be fun. may enjoy other mediums as well. A materials fee of $15 is Classes are small (maximum 6 children) and each student receives payable to the instructor at the first class. Assistant instructor individual attention. Classes are 40-minutes and will be scheduled John Monton will join the class if enrol lment is sufficient. to begin between 3:30 and 5:30 pm. Parent attendance is Students may take both classes as they offer completely required at all lessons. Students must call Mrs. Butler directly for different lessons. $110 placement and scheduling prior to registering - (201) 652-1192. — Grades 3-9 — Beginners are being accepted this semester. $110 952-Mon 5-6 pm 949-Mon 3:30-5:40 pm Somerville Sch Art Room Travell School Music Rm 8 Sessions Starts Mar 2 10 Sessions Starts Mar 2 950-Thurs 3:30-5 pm Advanced Acrylic Painting Travell School Music Rm Ann Monton 10 Sessions Starts Mar 5 An advanced class for students who enjoy art. We will explore and develop painting skills. Individual and group instruction will be provided. Subjects such as flowers, landscapes, seascapes, sunsets, still life and animals will be provided. Students will be provided with canvas, acrylic paint and brushes. A materials fee of $25 is payable to the instructor at the first class. $140 — Grades 3-11 — 954-Thurs 5-6:30 pm Somerville Sch Art Room 8 Sessions Starts Mar 5

Girls High School Volleyball Bob Livingstone & Mauricio Garcia This clinic is designed for all levels of high school players who are looking to improve their level of play. Students will benefit from intensive drills, instruction and competition. We will emphasize a high level of individual skill development, which will include serving, jump serving, passing, setting, hitting, blocking and defense. $88 959-Wed 7:30-9 pm RHS Gym #1 9 Sessions Starts Mar 18

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RCS SAT Prep John Eichmann, English Pat Driscoll, Mathematics The SAT has changed and this course will update you on those changes.This course will help to clarify the purpose, structure and use of the SAT test and will provide instructional material to develop the necessary skills in math and English. Math includes a brief review of arithmetic, algebra I, and geometry, with emphasis on intuitive solutions to problems and test-taking skills. English will stress techniques in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and types of reasoning, with an emphasis on how to complete the new essay portion of the exam. Additional test-taking and preparatory strategies will be discussed. Students will take sample tests, then we will grade them and go over strategies to improve their score. Students must purchase text prior to the first class. Please call the RCS office for title of current text. $200/one subject; $375/both subjects — ENGLISH — — MATH — 943-Tues 6:30-8 pm 944-Wed 6:30-8 pm RHS Rm 217 RHS Rm 217 6 Sessions Starts Mar 3 6 Session Starts Mar 4

Learn to Sew Golf for Children Vivian Burns, www.soyoustudio.com TGA Premier Sports In this class students will learn how to work with a commercial TGA brings the golf course to you! Our award-winning curricu- sewing pattern and a real sewing machine. All materials and the lum incorporates golf instruction, educational components, and sewing machines will be supplied. Students will learn to sew a character development lessons in a fun and nurturing environ- pair of pajama bottoms, a tote bag and simple skirt. For ment. Students develop skills and understanding of the game students in grades 3-7. $95 through station-based activities and drills that increase in 960-Mon 5-6:30 pm difficulty throughout our 5-level program. Come tee it up with BFMS Cafeteria TGA! $160 6 Sessions Starts Mar 16 953-Mon 6-7 pm Orchard School Cafetorium 6 Sessions Starts April 13

37 Faculty Emily Abramenko, is an experienced knitter who has taught in / University of The Arts with a minor in Art History. He holds a a knitting store and loves to help her friends learn to knit BFA in Graphic Design; he has owned his own design consultant firm since 1991. He founded an Art Appreciation Program for Carl Andreasen, has 20 years of experience teaching sign public school elementary students, and continues to give language. lectures and museum tours at most NYC museums. In addition to Tyler Ardizzone is a licensed bodywork therapist and personal his comprehensive knowledge of Western Art History, he has also trainer with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science. He studied Musicology at NYU’s Graduate School of Music, specializes in using NeuroMuscular Reprogramming, evidence- specializing in Austrian / German music from 1750 through 1900. based movement therapy, and simple lifestyle modifications to Dharmachakra Buddist Center, is a Buddhist meditation relieve chronic pain. Pain relief is a simple process that does center in northern NJ. They are dedicated to helping you find not require any miracle methods or magic pills. happiness from within your own heart and real solutions to Bob Austin, is the owner of Robert Austin Brand & your problems through Budda’s advice. Communications. Before starting his consulting practice, he John DiCostanzo, MA in Dental Technology, owns a dental was Global VP Corp Comm for Volvo Financial Services, for laboratory in Bergenfield. He plays basketball as a form of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, and was Director of Marketing exercise. He has been playing for over six years. Communications for Volvo. Dawn Dittmar, began studying astrology at her grandmother’s Cyndi Avedon, BFA from Northwestern University, over knee when she was 9 years old. She has also studied with 35 years of experience teaching guitar to adults and children. Zoltan Mason and Jeri London. She continues to study at the Phil Azzolino, President of Group Tours & Travel LLC has been National Center for Geocosmic Research and the Astrological escorting tours since 1984. During his 34 year career he has Society of Princeton. She has been teaching Basic Astrology to written and escorted over two thousand group tours Adults at the Brookdale Community College since 2014. throughout most of North America and six continents. An Karen Finnerty-Eagan, is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher and added advantage that Group Tours provides on most multi-day Crystal Practitioner. She is a retired educator with 38 years of tours, is that Donna, Phil’s wife, also accompanies the group. teaching experience working with children with special needs in They are a perfect husband and wife team with dynamic the classroom. Karen has a Master’s Degree in Education and personalities and they provide additional personal attention to is certified as a Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant. all passengers. Karen shares her passion, and experiences, collecting and Marina Bardash, is an experienced Yoga, Dance and Hula- working with crystals. She provides information and practical Hooping Instructor. applications for their use and enjoyment. William Brown, artist, teacher and apprentice to John Osborne John Eichmann, BS, certified NJ teacher, SAT preparation for several years. specialist. Bob Burke, has been a student of the Irish Language for almost Rick Feingold, has more than 25 years of Community School 30 years & has been teaching adults for the past 6 years. teaching experience. He holds the designation of eBay Education Specialist and has worked as a Performing Arts Vivian Burns, has been sewing since she was 8 years old. She Marketing Director and in marketing luxury automobiles. BA, in worked in the fashion business for 20 years as a buyer/designer History Rutgers University, MBA, Penn State University. His before she began So You Studio in 2005. Vivian teaches sewing travel writing has been published in the Boston Herald and in after school programs, adult schools and for private Christian Science Monitor. He has taught consumers how to get students. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Berkeley College. the best deals for over 25 years. Louise Butler, instrumental music teacher and performer in Ellen Feld, has been an online grammar instructor for over 15 orchestras in the area. years, with more than 40,000 students enrolled in her courses. She holds a master’s degree in writing from the Johns Hopkins Alain Chahine,is a native French speaker and is married to a University and has taught college courses online and in the French speaker. He has constant contact with France. His traditional classroom, including creative writing, developmental professional background is in International Logistics and Supply writing, and English composition. Ellen has worked as a and he currently teaches that subject at Union County College as newspaper reporter and copy chief, personal essayist, website an adjunct professor. reviewer, and writing coach Martine Chahine, was born and raised in the Loire Valley of Linda Ferraro, is a certified running coach and competitive France. She has a bachelor’s degree in French History. She has runner who loves sharing her passion for the sport. She has been teaching French to adults for more than 15 years. been running for over 20 years and competes in every race Mary-Lee Costello, is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of distance from 5k’s to marathons. Technology in Apparel Design. She is certified both by AFAA as a Gary Fink, is the Director of Jazz and Percussion at Ridgewood group exercise instructor and by Zumba Fitness LLC as an High School. He attended Eastman School of Music and William instructor for Basic Levels, Gold, Toning and Zumba Kids and is Paterson Univ. He has an active schedule as a freelance CPR/AED certified. She brings Zumba joy to local schools, Relay percussionist and studio instructor. for Life, senior centers and developmentally disabled adults. Mary Fitzgerald, APSD Certified Home Stager and Certified Roger Davidoff, is a graduate of The Philadelphia College of Art 38 Faculty

Home Stager Trainer. ASP Staged Homes Professional and Art and an art teacher in Japan. She taught at the Japanese licensed real estate associate. School in New Jersey for 16 years. She currently teaches at the High School Diplomats Program at Princeton University. Lisa Fondo, is the owner of Persistence of Vision, LLC an art-licensing agency established in 1990. The agency Amy Harrison, is a Certified Financial Planner and a represents artists and photographers. Ms. Fondo is also a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. She specializes in wealth journalist who writes about licensed art and home décor management strategies including retirement, estate, divorce, industry trends. and education planning. Irene Fortunato, experienced foreign language instructor. Has Marize Helmy, Esq. graduated from Fordham University prior taught in schools and adult education for over 20 years. to attending Law School at SUNY Buffalo. She focused her Russian native who visits the country often. studies and clinical experience on various aspects of Family Law. Outside of academics, she dedicated her time to Steve Fowls, BA in Psychology, Political Science and Sociology, philanthropic nonprofit organizations. She has worked for retired co-owner of Medical Equipment Sales & Marketing Michael A. Manna & Associates, P.C. since 2006, prior to Company. He is a former professional photographer who now attending law school and is currently an Associate Attorney, shoots digital photos as a hobby. practicing in the areas of Estate Planning, Elder Law, Real Julian Garcia has almost 20 years of experience as a language Estate, Guardianships and Estate Litigation. instructor and he speaks several different languages. He Kim Hendrickson is author of the Tastefully Small™ cookbook currently teaches adults at RCS and at Berlitz series, winner of two Florida Publisher’s Association gold Mary Ann Gebhardt, has been studying yoga for 25 years, is a medals. She has catered for the New York Metropolitan Opera, registered member of the Yoga Alliance 500 hours, and is a the Penguin Repertory Theatre, The Bizarre Food Show, and Chopra Certified Instructor. She creates a non-competitive Slangman’s World. She is a regular presenter at the World Tea environment integrating movement and breathing. Mary Ann Expo, John Campbell Folk School, and at culinary events traveled to Nepal where she trekked and brought back beautiful throughout the New York area. Kim teaches that good food is Tibetan Singing Bowls. more than good taste; it’s the fun and joy of creating something beautiful and sharing it with others. Rina Goldhagen, is a resourceful and imaginative Artist and teaching professional, having more than 20 years of experience. Jean Marie Herron is a Certified Professional Organizer®. She She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with an founded POSSE in 2005 after over a decade in the corporate emphasis in watercolor, and in addition to being proficient in food service industry. As an organizing and productivity many other mediums, she is an excellent communicator. She consultant, her company specializes in helping people established the Art of Excellence Studio in 2004 as a private transform their professional and personal lives through the instruction studio for select clientele. In addition, she has transference of methodologies into their spaces and time crafted a 9-week Beginning Drawing class for the Adult management. Her work has helped hundreds of clients in Community School in Ridgewood in which she lays the homes, offices and training rooms. Jean Marie is a Golden Circle foundation for successful drawing and challenges students Member of the National Association of Productivity & to achieve more than they thought possible. Organizing Professionals, the Affiliate Chair for RealSource Association of REALTORS® and an Expert Writer for Gwendolen Gross, an award-winning instructor and novelist, EzineArticles.com. is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including Field Guide, Getting Out, The Other Mother, and The Orphan Sister. Alex Ishkanian, has loved acting since his grade school days. Gwendolen’s newest novel, When She Was Gone (Simon & A graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as Schuster, 2013) explores the disappearance of a teenager and well as Drew University’s theatre program, he went on to be a the shadows and secrets of suburban life. She holds an BA from young adult member of The First All Children’s Theater Oberlin college and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her performing at The Kennedy Center. More recently, he has been website is www.gwendolengross.com. seen in LINE as a member of the historic NYC 13th Street Repertory Company. Locally, he has worked with The Bergen Burton Hall, Burton Hall & Associates, LLC , has served the County Players in both plays and musicals. He is a member of automobile industry since 1977 as a creative resource Creative Interventions, an educational improvisation ensemble. benefitting from considerable experience in the premium end of His continuous studies in acting, improvisation ,Stand-Up the business. His list of clients includes Audi, BMW, General Comedy, and singing have included work with Beryl Smith Motors, Ferrari, Ford, Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedez-Benz, Porsche, Durham, Barbara Feller, Michael Barbary, HB Studios, Laughing Peugeot, Toyota and Volvo. Budda Comdey School, and The Magnet Theater. He has authored many children’s musicals that tour schools through Fred Hammond, has over 25 years as a Public Relations the United States. executive and automotive consultant and over 40 years in the automotive industry with some of the most respected Fran Kelley, MA, CPRW, SPHR, JCTC, SHRM-ScP, is a Certified marquees on the premium and performance end of the Professional Resume Writer and Job & Career Transition Coach automotive spectrum. and has extensive corporate Human Resources and Outplacement experience. Fran is a nationally published author Yasuko Hansen, has been an art student at Parsons School of and President of The Resume Works in Waldwick, NJ.

39 Faculty Mark Kossick, after graduating from Williams College, Mark volleyball teams and league. spent 20 years in the global sports content and media distribution business for NBC Sports & the National Basketball Angela Maniaci, is an experienced Italian Language instructor Association, most recently VP of International Content for the who has worked with area language schools for many years. NBA from London, UK. Upon return to the US, Mark launched Michael A. Manna, is an honors graduate from Boston College Kohort Technologies and is pursuing his startup dream. and Boston College Law School. His is a member of the National Terry Kovalcik, has over 30 years of dedication to creative Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and is admitted to practice in work in art. He received a Fine Arts degree in drawing and New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts as well as before the painting. Terry currently works as a freelance illustrator with an Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Manna is a licensed emphasis on the children’s market. He discovered PMC in 1999 provider of mandatory continuing education for certified public and has been hooked ever since. He received Guild accountants, certified life underwriters, certified financial Certification in 2000 to teach others about PMC and became a planners and social workers. Mr. Manna has also served as a Senior Certification Instructor in 2005. www.TerryKovalcik.com faculty member of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, not for profit organization dedicated to the Lois Kramer-Perez C.Ht,,CHt., Intuitive Practitioner and continuing education of attorneys. Educator, Graduate of F.I.T, The Feng Shui Alliance School, Institute of Hypnotherapy and Wellness Institute. Lois certified Vincent T. Marchese, is a native of Paterson, NJ. He graduated in Feng Shui and Hypnosis, and is a Board Member of from Ramapo College of NJ with a BA in Cultural Anthropology. International Feng Shui Guild. Lois is the go to expert when He has also taught history and photography for many years. His you’re finally ready to receive passionate relationships, a studio is located across from the Great Falls of the Passaic River peaceful home, and a life you love. She puts her 10+ years of and he was involved with the redevelopment of the Historic feng shui energy clearing to work for realtors, divorcees, District. business owners, and moms running a busy household, to put Deirdre Mastrangelo, BS, Fordham Univ., MS Stevens them in the driver’s seat with their relationships and spaces. Institute of Technology, is a demonstrator for Stampin’ Up! and You may have seen her guest appearances on the Dr. Joy Show a lifetime crafter. and Family Today with Maria Mirkovitch. Lois is a sought after speaker, expert, contributing author Breakthrough Results; and Evelyn McKinnon, has been teaching English at the GW creator of popular programs such as “Clearing Meditation Middle School since 2006. She has an MA in Teaching from Circle” and the “Feng Shui Jumpstart”. William Paterson University. She is an avid user of technology to enhance and streamline many areas of life. Tomohiro Kubo, is an experienced adult education instructor who works for a public school information technology department Ann Monton, NJ certified Art Teacher. Michelle Kupfer, has been knitting for 20 years. She has John Monton, has an art degree from Marymount experience teaching both adults and children. Manhattan College. Susan Leibowitz ,is a lifelong stitcher and has been a Craft Lynn Needle, dancer, choreographer and master teacher. Yarn Council Certified Knit & Crochet Teacher for over a decade. Curiosity, problem-solving, and community are at the core of Amy Nellissen, is an ABTA Master Teacher – the highest level her classes. recognized by the American Bridge Teachers’ Association. She is an ACBL-accredited teacher and a Silver Life Master. Isabelle Leluc, is a French native from the Southwest area of France. She is a freelance French tutor for individuals and small Barbara Norton and Patty Corn have over three years of groups and she has been teaching French for the last 9 years at teaching experience. Each are IPTPA and PPR certified. Patty is all different levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). She also a USAPA Ambassador, Premier Pickleball teaches and works with her students to take various French officially manages play in Bergen County, NJ. recognized certifications and diplomas. She is fluent in 4 Samuel A. Nutile, BS from Fairleigh Dickinson University, languages. She holds a degree in languages and literature. graduate work at Northeastern University and Public Speaking Isabelle is passionate about developing her students’ skills in Training at Rutgers University. Former Vice President and the French language. Company Officer of a large public company. Extensive public Lestat, is a former Fred Astaire Dance instructor. He has over speaking engagements monthly to the Board of Directors, 20 years experience as a Ballroom Dancing Master in New taught company sponsored motivational sessions and was a Jersey, New York and California. guest speaker at trade show expositions. Currently a Lector at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Park Ridge. Karen Livanos-Centauro is a RYT200 Yoga Teacher and has been teaching yoga since 2007. She has completed a Medical Buse Ozler ,graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Qi Gong Training as a “The Healer Within” ™ Practice Leader. Fashion Design. She has been embroidering and selling her Karen is also a Reiki II Practitioner and a Gate Energy Facilitator. embroideries on her website for over 3 years. (@buse.ozler). She has been working with energy and healing modalities for She wants to share her experience and knowledge with people over 20 years. who’d like to learn this art form. Robert Livingstone, teacher/player and coordinator of Eugene Papay, music teacher in Bergenfield for 30 years, musical director and accompanist for several regional opera 40 Faculty

companies, organist, soloist and choir director, vocal coach and Eric Alexander Santoli (b.1991), is a full-time artist and accompanist. teacher. Santoli is a 2014 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a 2013 graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy Rose Pasek, is a certified jazzercise instructor and franchise of the Fine Arts. His work and teaching revolve around the owner. individuality of each student and the painting techniques of the Mayra Petretti, has been working with Bobbin Lace for almost 19th century. Each painting is a visual poem, a memory and 20 years. She has completed the assessment program from the created most successfully by being in the moment. He is very Lace Guild (UK ). She teaches privately and also at the proud to currently be teaching at the Ridgewood Community Metropolitan Chapter’s Lace Day. She demonstrates lace School and at Bergen Community College. making at various festivals and historical homes. MT Schwartzman, has been a full-time freelance writer Harold C. Petzold, Licensed New York State Outdoor Guide. covering the travel industry for more than 25 years. During that He has been leading hikes for more than 10 years. time he has sold over 700 articles to magazines and websites in the US, Canada, England, Finland and Australia. He has nearly Joel Popadics’, paintings have been exhibited in solo and 20 years experience teaching adult education. group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States. In addition, his work is in public and private art Joseph Scillieri, has a BA in Business Administration from collections including the United Methodist Church, Ridgewood WPU, and a Certificate of Culinary Arts from Bergen Community and the University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro. Mr. College. He has over 13 years’ experience in the food service Popadics is the recipient of numerous national awards. He is industry and is an experienced adult education instructor. an elected member of five art organizations and a signature James Seawood is a New York based voice talent and teacher. member of the American Watercolor Society. He has been He has brought his signature sound to commercials for a featured many times in AMERICAN ARTIST and THE ARTIST’S myriad of brands and organizations including Nike, Army West MAGAZINES. Mr. Popadics is a Past-President of the New Point, The City of Charlotte, Cholula Hot Sauce and MGM Las Jersey Watercolor Society. He is the education director and an Vegas Casino. instructor at the Ridgewood Art Institute. He received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. To view his Britt Sikiric, graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a watercolors on-line visit: http://www.watercolorpop.com degree in Fine Arts/Painting. She has been an art instructor for children and adults for over 20 years. She has also done Jason Porod has been a teaching in the Ridgewood Public scenic design for local theater companies, been a visual School district since 1999. He taught grades 3-5 at Willard merchandiser for various companies and did prop and scenic Elementary School for 17 years, and is now teaching Math, design for the children’s television show “Steampipe Alley”. Environmental Science, and STEM classes at both district middle schools. Jason holds a Master of Science in Educational Chuck Solomon, has been a professional photographer for over Technology degree and served for many years as a teacher thirty years. A former staff photographer at Sports Illustrated; his technology coach. photographs have appeared on the cover of that magazine more than forty times. Equally proficient at shooting action, portraits Harris R. Reinstein, MBA, CLU, ChFC, has been assisting and picture stories, he is also the photographer and author of senior investors for over 20 years. He is a Registered several children’s books. Chuck has received many awards for his Investment Advisor with SagePoint Financial, Inc. photographs and has had an image named by Sports Illustrated Dawn Romeo, is a psychotherapist, a speaker, a coauthor of as one of the 100 greatest sports photographs of all time. He the best-selling book, The Soul of Success, and coauthor of the was recently profiled in Adorama’s Meet a Pro series. A firm award-winning book, Life 101: A Guide to Your Personal believer in the power of the still image; he has spent a good deal Evolution. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia of his career making memorable images and eagerly shares his University and post graduate certificate from New York passion for photography with his students. University. She also coaches select individuals on how to David Spiegel is a graduate of Trenton State University, a create more success in their lives. business owner and a life coach. He launched his first business Aliza Rosen, Ohashiatsu Acupressure Therapist, LMT, Licensed in 1980 and has since opened over a dozen successful Medical Diagnostic Sonographer (ARDMS), Licensed Massage ventures. His business background spans the gamut from and Bodywork Therapist, CPR certified and a member of the retail, to service, to sales, marketing and consulting. He brings American Bodywork and Massage Professionals. Aliza is an his life coaching skills along with his real life experience of what advanced graduate of the Ohashi Institute- studied with Master it takes to be an entrepreneur to his business course. He is Wataru Ohashi. Aliza has written articles in wellness magazines also a founding partner of Why Weight Transformation Center. and gives talks about back pain, stress and wellness. Joan Tarrant is a registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Donald Rubin, is a licensed architect in NJ and NY and a Alliance. She has completed both the 200 Hour and 500 Hour member of the American Institute of Architects. He has course work and certification requirements. extensive experience designing residential projects, primarily Akemi Thompson, B.A. Japanese Literature from Jissen single-family homes, as well as apartment buildings and Women’s University. Has 9 years teaching experience. townhouses. He has an architectural practice based in Westwood, NJ. 41 Faculty

Steve Tichenor, is currently the Chairman of the North River line of defense against common ailments and has found them to Colonial Dancers. Steve has studied some Baroque dance as be beneficial for supporting the emotions as well. As a Licensed well as English Country dancing for several years. He is also a Massage Therapist for 24 years, Lorinda uses doTERRA Essential member of New Jersey Militia Heard’s Brigade, a Revolutionary- Oils in her massage therapy practice and is also a Certified War era re-enactment group, in which he has served in every AromaTouch Practitioner and a Certified AromaTouch Instructor. capacity from NCO to Unit Commander. He also makes special As a doTERRA Diamond Level Wellness Advocate, she has traveled appearances to public school classes speaking to students around the country, teaching others how to use essential oils to regarding the Revolutionary War and 18th Century re-enacting. support a healthy lifestyle. As a Certified AromaTouch Instructor, Tichenor’s interest in history is personal - both his maternal she has taught hundreds of people how to facilitate the and paternal ancestors settled in New England in the early AromaTouch Technique, a clinical application of eight doTERRA 1600s. oils to the back and the feet. This treatment helps alleviate stress, boosts the immune system, reduces pain and discomfort and John Tully, is the owner of Delta Strategic Marketing a digital restores balance to the body. Lorinda enjoys showing others how marketing agency that works primarily with businesses to they can take charge of their health and empower themselves to improve their online presence. John has worked for and with feel better without side effects, only side benefits. Essential oils small businesses for the whole of his working life – in a variety have transformed her life in so many ways and she is passionate of roles from technical management (VP level) through sales about sharing their amazing healing properties. and marketing as Product, Business Development and Marketing managers. He understands the small business and Anne Winner, certified teacher and artist who has exhibited what makes them tick – what they need and what they don’t to her work in a variety of media. have successful marketing campaigns. John has an extensive track record of public speaking having presented seminars and Janice Wolk, is self-taught dance caller, who has co-instructed training programs for 20+ years. He’s presented all across the Historic English/American Social Dance with Steve Tichenor US, Canada and Europe. John has been a volunteer presenter through the Ridgewood Community School for over 7 years. She for SCORE Chapter 15 and is also a teacher with the Montclair serves as Secretary/Public Relations Liaison for the North River Adult School presenting a variety of courses on Internet Historical Dancers, a historic dance troupe. Janice is also a Marketing and related topics. member of New Jersey Militia Heard’s Brigade, a Revolutionary War re-enactment group, and of the American Friends of La Shonda Tyree, is the owner of Nyah, a handcrafted beauty Lafayette, a historic and patriotic organization dedicated to the and skin care business. She turned a part time hobby into a full memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Aside from living history, time passion, which consists of handcrafted soaps, lotions, other hobbies include art and art history. She has taken portrait bath salts, body scrubs, lip balms and bath teas. She has painting workshops in Woodstock, NY and also enjoys dabbling facilitated relaxation workshops and lotion making workshops in watercolors. A longtime resident of New Jersey, Janice works for adults and children. in Manhattan at a world-renowned beauty company. Patricia Vangieri has been the owner of The Glass Gallery Zahavi & Schwartz is made up of mother-daughter team, Stained Glass Studio in Nutley, NJ for 24 years. She is an Zahava & Orly Schwartz. We are personal stylists, wardrobe instructor, designer and fabricator to novice and experienced coaches, and curate unique shopping experiences for our hobbyists as well as a provider of tools and supplies needed for clients. With over 10 years’ experience in the fashion world, we working in the craft. She also works as a commissioned artist have taken this knowledge and been perfecting our Closet for those wanting custom work for their home or business. Rehab & Style Transformations, to teach our method to the www.glassgallerynj.com community, to help more people gain clarity, define their style, and get more organized. We look to empower men and women Richard Van Der Wall possesses over ten years professional through their wardrobe, so they always feel comfortable and experience, including supervisory, law enforcement able to take on any challenge set before them. communication, and emergency medical services. He is highly proficient in training and evaluation of emergency service Maksim Zaitsev, has 27 years of fencing experience, qualifications within the state of New Jersey, criminal justice specializing in Epee. He started fencing at age of 9 in 1988 in computer operations, and community affairs coupled with Tallinn, Estonia. Education: University of Massachusetts, incident command systems. Richard has been a certified CPR Boston, MA Bachelor of Arts in Economics, class 2005. Personal Instructor through the American Heart Association for the past achievements include: Master of Sport of Fencing (A- Epee), 10 years. Estonian Junior National Champion, multiple finalist and semi-finalist at National Championships, Estonian Linda Voogd, is a holistic therapist, licensed addiction Junior National Team Member of Nikolay Novoselov, Irina counselor, and certified life coach. She received her master’s Embrich and other prominent Estonian fencers. Coached by degree in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Linda National and Olympic coach Samuil Kaminsky, 14 Years of is a speaker, adjunct professor, contributing author of 365 Ways coaching experience: New Jersey Fencing Alliance 2012-2014, to Connect to Your Soul and coauthor of the award-winning Medeo Fencing Club, NJ 2011-2012, Ridge High School, NJ book, Life 101: A Guide to Your Personal Evolution. Creating (Women Epee Squad Champions, 2012) 2011-2012, Columbia healthy beliefs, attitudes, and thought patterns are the tools High School (State Champions for many years), Dana Hall High she employs to lead people toward personal transformation. School, MA (Head Coach) 2004-2006 & Boston Fencing Club, Lorinda Walker, has been working with therapeutic grade MA 2001-2004. essential oils for 14 years. She uses them exclusively as the first 42 General Information You Should Know

The RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL offers to all citizens and taxpayers of Ridgewood, as well as residents of nearby communities, the opportunity to continue their education and pursue special interests. The school is administered through the office of the Superintendent of Schools and assisted by the RCS Advisory Council. Ridgewood residents who would like to be considered for the Council should contact Shelly Stanton, Coordinator.

RCS is an equal educational opportunity organization. It affirms its responsibility to ensure all students and all employees equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, ancestry, national origin, and social or economic status.

RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION ADVISORY COUNCIL Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D, Superintendent of Schools Board of Ed. Representative Antoinette Kelly, Lou Gallo-Mann Business Administrator/Board Secretary Lynn Larson Shelly Stanton, Coordinator, RCS Linda McNamara Anna Thomas-Candrilli, Registrar, RCS Susanne D. Ziskis

Schedule of Classes

Monday Tuesday Mar 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Mar 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 Apr 7, 14, 21, 28 May 4, (11)) May 5, (12)

Wednesday Thursday Mar 4, 11, 18, 25 Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 Apr 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Apr 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May 6, (13) May 7, (14)

Friday Saturday Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 May 1, 8, (15) May 2, 9, (16)

X - No classes on that date/schools closed Passover begins – April 8 Good Friday – April 10 Spring Recess – April 6-10

( ) - Make-up date for canceled classes. Please note that these dates are pre-scheduled make-ups for the 9-week session. If your class is less than 9 weeks, the first available date after the end of your class will be used as the make-up date.

43 Where We Are

The RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL business office is located at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood. Most of our classes, however, are held in various schools & other facilities in Ridgewood. A few are held in other communities. Please check the course description of your particular course for the location of your class. All course descriptions give the location of the class. Below is a map of Ridgewood showing the Ridgewood locations only. If you need directions to your class in Ridgewood or any other location, please do not hesitate to call us (670-2777) and we will be happy to direct you.

CLASS LOCATIONS

Ridgewood Schools Other Locations in Ridgewood 1. RHS - (Ridgewood High School) 11. Christ Church - 105 Cottage Place 627 E. Ridgewood Avenue 12. Ridgewood Public Library - 125 N. Maple Avenue 2. BFMS - (Benjamin Franklin Middle School) 13. Paramus Reformed Church - 660 E. Glen Avenue 335 N. Van Dien Avenue 14. Graydon Pool Parking Lot - Linwood Ave & Northern Pky 3. GWMS - (George Washington Middle School) 15. Ridgewood Art Institute - 12 E. Glen Avenue 155 Washington Place 16. The Stable - 259 N. Maple Avenue 4. Glen - 865 E. Glen Avenue 17. Education Center - 49 Cottage Place 5. Hawes - 531 Stevens Avenue 18. American Red Cross - 74 Godwin Avenue 6. Orchard - 230 Demarest Street 19. Unitarian Society - 113 Cottage Place 7. Ridge - 325 W. Ridgewood Avenue 20. Art of Motion Studios - 17 Chestnut Street 8. Somerville - 45 S. Pleasant Avenue 9. Travell - 340 Bogert Avenue 10. Willard - 601 Morningside Road

Directions to all schools and other locations are now available on the RCS website www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us

44 Registration/Cancellation Information

1. No acknowledgements are sent. You should report to your class unless notified to the contrary. You have 5 easy ways to sign up: 2. Registration fee ($25 per person per course) is included in the tuition fee. It is not refundable for 1. MAIL IT NOW! DON’T WAIT! ~~~~ any reason (unless the course is canceled by RCS or ~~~~ Fill in registration form and mail it with check, money ~~~~ RCS institutes a schedule change). ~~~~ order or charge information to: 49 Cottage Pl., Ridgewood, 3. Tuition must accompany registration. Registrations NJ 07450. You can mail your registration as soon as you are processed in the order they are received. receive your brochure. 4. Refunds & Withdrawals: • If RCS cancels your course, you will receive a full 2. WALK IN Starting Jan 27 refund. In-person registration at 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood: • If you want to withdraw from a class before it Mon through Fri 1-4 pm begins, you must submit your request in writing to RCS THREE FULL BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO WALK IN AFTER CLASSES BEGIN THE FIRST CLASS MEETING (not counting You may register at BFMS and RHS between the hours of the day of class). You will receive a refund (less 7-9:30 pm Mon thru Thurs if there is still space in the class. the $25 registration fee). This policy differs for After classes start, RCS registration hours are trips and tours. Please see those pages for details. 1-4 pm, Monday - Friday. • If you withdraw from the class after the first session, no refund or credit will be given. If you want to withdrawal or miss a class due to personal 3. PHONE CHARGE ONLY reasons, illness, injury, negligence or an oversight Phone Number: (201) 670-2777 of your own, no refund or credit will be given. Starting Jan 27 • If you find a course does not meet your legitimate (Visa and Mastercard accepted) expectations, we ask that you send a written Hours: Mon through Fri, 1-4 pm request to us as soon as the course is finished After classes start, RCS registration hours are 1-4 pm, and complete a course evaluation. We will issue Monday - Friday. you a tuition credit for another RCS course. • Refunds are processed in 3-4 weeks. 4. FAX IT CHARGE ONLY 5. Any class is subject to cancellation (up to start date Fax Number: (201) 444-5565 of class) if registration is not sufficient. Students will Starting Jan 27 be notified by telephone. Please register early!! Visa and Mastercard 24 HOURS A DAY 6. Special Needs: Most Ridgewood schools are Fax the form. In order for your registration to be barrier-free. RCS will make your class accessible to properly processed, it must include all information on you. If you have special needs, please alert RCS upon registration form on next page. registration. Advance notice of 2 weeks must be given. 7. Book & Supply Fees: These are additional costs and are due at the first class. 5. ON-LINE 8. School Closings: RCS is closed whenever the https://tinyurl.com/y9g5khze Ridgewood schools are closed (see calendar on Starting Jan 27 page 47). Closings due to inclement weather are Visa and Mastercard 24 HOURS A DAY announced on the central office answering machine at Complete and secure online registration for all classes 201-670-2700 or on the RCS office answering machine is now available through Community Pass. To begin, use at (201) 670-2777 between 6:30 and 8 am and will the signup link above and create a Community Pass remain there throughout the day. Emergency closing account. Once this is done you will have access to all information is also available on the Ridgewood website the events and activities within Capturepoint.com. www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us and on television news FOX 5, NBC 4, ABC 7 and Channel 12. If storms develop during the day, please call the RCS office at (201) 670-2777 after 3 pm for cancellation information. 9. Please check your calendar prior to registering. Refunds will not be given for personal scheduling conflicts or double-booked classes. Each class description contains the class location at the 10. Transfers made at the discretion of the bottom of the listing. Please see map on page 44. RCS office.

45 To Register

Follow the easy instructions on the facing page. Make check or money order payable to: RCS SPRING 2020 bk# RCS Cash o Education Center, 49 Cottage Place Check o Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Check # ______Use one card per course print per student. Name ______Forms may be duplicated. LAST FIRST Address ______

Town ______Zip ______

Registrations are not confirmed. Home Ph# ______Cell Ph#______Please report to your class unless Course title ______Course # ______notified to the contrary. Day/Date______Time ______Place/Rm:______Fee $______RCS courses are open Visa or MC # ______to all persons * Email:______CVV:______Exp. Date _______regardless of residence. Unless Make check or money order payable to: RCS SPRING 2020 bk# RCS Cash o otherwise stated, Education Center, 49 Cottage Place Check o Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Check # ______students must be at print Name ______least 14 years old LAST FIRST and in high school to take Address ______

adult classes. Town ______Zip ______

Home Ph# ______Cell Ph#______*Except for those classes listed Course title ______Course # ______under the junior edition section, RCS classes are intended for Day/Date______Time ______Place/Rm:______Fee $______adults. Students ages 14-18 Visa or MC # ______may attend upon request, but Email:______CVV:______Exp. Date _______some classes are not suitable for children. Please call the RCS office Make check or money order payable to: RCS SPRING 2020 bk# RCS Cash o for more information. Education Center, 49 Cottage Place Check o Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Check # ______print Name ______Please do not wait until the LAST FIRST last minute to register. Address ______If there is insufficient Town ______Zip ______

enrollment for a course, Home Ph# ______Cell Ph#______it will be canceled. Course title ______Course # ______AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Day/Date______Time ______Place/Rm:______Fee $______- REGISTER EARLY!! Visa or MC # ______Email:______CVV:______Exp. Date _______

46 RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL Non-profit Org Ridgewood Board of Education U.S. POSTAGE Education Center, 49 Cottage Place PAID Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Paramus, NJ Permit No. 877 (201) 670-2777

*****ERCWSS***** POSTAL PATRON

5 easy ways to register: PHONE: (201) 670-2777

WALK-IN: 49 Cottage Place, 2nd Floor Lobby

MAIL: 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ 07450

FAX: (201) 444-5565

ONLINE: https://tinyurl.com/y9g5khze

SEE INSIDE BACK COVER FOR REGISTRATION HOURS!