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SOARewards are available for referring new enrollments from March 23 through May 1.

So go ahead, share your catalog, talk about your SOAR plans, and tell your friends to call 248.626.0296 or visit SOARexplore.com to learn what’s happening this spring. Spring 2020 Schedule Spring Program • Field Trips • Special Events Remember, registration begins on March 23rd. Don’t wait to spread the word. May – August 2020 (One gift card for each new enrollment. Enrollee must mention your referral at time of registration or during new member callback. Gift card Class Registration Begins valued at $10 to be selected from a SOAR list of available cards.) Monday, March 23, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. SOAR Board Members and Staff Members

Providing comprehensive Providing comprehensive FINANCIAL PLANNING and INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Susan Greenfield Margaret Winters Roberta Russ Lauri Thornhill Board Chair Board Vice Chair Board Secretary Board Treasurer FINANCIAL PLANNINGFor Over and 3 INVESTMENT DECADES MANAGEMENT For Over 3 DECADES

Patricia Baldwin Rose Marie Battey Mike Beltzman Barbara Spreitzer-Berent Board Member-At-Large Chair, Field Trips Committee Co-Chair, Special Events Board Member-At-Large Committee

Al Darold Dan Harmon Diane Henderson Martin Herman Member-At-Large Immediate Past Chair Chair, Planning Committee Chair, By-Laws Committee

Jerry Nechal Sharon O’Brien Ron Rose Ralph Stromberg Chair, Marketing Committee Founder and Past Chair Board Member-At-Large Chair, Curriculum and Instruction Committee

Elaine Yaker Dionna Lloyd Ronda O’Neal Lisa Hill Co-Chair, Special Events Executive Director Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant Committee

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Letter from the Executive Director

Membership and Registration Information….………………………………………….…..….…....1

SOAR Spring 2020 Class, Field Trips & Special Events Listing by Date .……………………… 3-6

Policies/Procedures………………………………………………………………………….…...... 7

SOAR Spring 2020 Class Calendar …………………………….………………………………..….8

Classes ……………………………………………………………………………….….…..……9-27

Archaeology/Anthropology……………………….……………...…..…………………… 9 Art ………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 Biographical Profiles ……………………………………………………………………… 10 Business/Finance ………………………………………………………………….……… 10 Current Issues .…………………………………………………………….…….….…….. 11 Detroit/Michigan………………………………………………………………………….. 11 Education………………………………………………………………………………….. 12 Film ………...……………………………………………………………………………... 12 Health ……….…………………………………………………………….…….….…….. 14 History ……….…………………………………………………………….…….….……. 14 International………………………………………………………………………………. 16 Journalism/Newscasting/Social Media …………………………………………………… 17 Law/Politics/Government ...………………………………………………………………. 17 Literature …………....…………………………………………………………………...... 18 Music ...... …..….....……………………………………….…………………….………… 20 Nature and Environment…………………………………………………………………... 22 Performing Arts …………………………………………………………………………... 22 Philosophy………………………………………………………………………………… 23 Psychology ………….….………………………………………....……….……………... 23 Religion…………………………………………………………………………………… 24 Science ……………..………………………………………………………....….……...... 24 Senior Issues ……………………………………………………………………………… 25 Special Interest……………………………………………………………………………. 25 Sports……………………………………………………………………………………… 25 Technology ..……………………………………………………………………………… 26 Transportation…………………………………………………………………………….. 26 Travel/Culture ………………………………………………………………………….… 26

Field Trip/Special Events Calendar …………………………………………………….………… 28

Field Trips ……………………………………………………………………………....………29-38

Special Events …………………………………………………………………………………. 39-46 SOAR c/o Adat Shalom Synagogue 29901 Middlebelt Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 www.soarexplore.com (248) 626-0296 [email protected]

*Register online at www.soarexplore.com* Register Fonlineor all Classe s,at Field www.soarexplore.com Trips, and Special Events for all Classes, Field Trips, and Special Events 46 

Letter from Executive Director Special Event About SOAR , Dear SOAR Member

Welcome to the spring term. Our Curriculum and Instruction, Field The Society of Active Trips and Special Events Committees have worked tirelessly to Retirees (SOAR) is a community-based, non-profit, SSocietyO of ActiveA RetireesR put together academic-caliber non-credit classes from professors and experts with in-depth experience in their subject matter, as lifelong learning initiative well as social and cultural activities for our members to Learn, affiliated with Wayne State Engage and Enjoy! University (WSU) and with the Elderhostel Institute I would like to highlight a few things. First, the registration form Network (EIN). The mission has been updated in order for SOAR to pursue external funding. of SOAR, a member-focused All answers are strictly confidential and will not be shared with organization, is to offer a any outside parties. Don’t forget to sign the waiver on the back broad range of non-credit  page and return the entire form. If you register online, log into courses and provide its  your account click the toolbox next to your name, then click members with multiple “My Account”. You will be able to answer the questions that are opportunities for social and on the paper registration form. The waiver is acknowledged when cultural enrichment and you check out. personal growth. Their Special Event volunteer faculty is drawn Second, members are allowed to register for eight classes between from WSU, other area March 23 and April 7, 2020. You also receive one additional free colleges and universities, and class, which is S1136, Clear Vision for 2020? A Look at the a wide range of qualified Upcoming Presidential and National Elections by Jack professionals from throughout Lessenberry. You do not have to register for this class, and you the region. Membership in , “Open Registration” begins, may invite guests. On April 8 SOAR is open to all persons members can register for additional classes (as long as the committed to lifelong additional classes are not in conflict with the first eight that you learning and to all members of already registered for) at no additional cost. the SOAR teaching faculty. Tuition Assistance is available. There are a limited number of one- time, need-based tuition stipends that will be available to help people enjoy SOAR classes during the spring term. Stipends cover The SOAR Board of   the full $100 membership fee for a single term. The application Directors wishes to process is confidential. You may contact the SOAR office for more acknowledge Adat information. The SOARewards program has been extended for another semester. Introduce a friend to the excitement and fun of Shalom Synagogue and Special Event lifelong learning. If they enroll and mention that you sent them, Wayne State University SOARewards will treat you to your choice of a $10 gift card. for their contributions to

Finally, there are several unique Field Trips and Special Events SOAR which allow us to planned for this spring, take a look at pages 29 through 45. maintain our program Register now, spots fill up fast! and to fulﬁll our mission of continuing community I look forward to seeing you this Spring! service. Sincerely,

Dionna M. Lloyd, Executive Director, SOAR 

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MEMBERSHIP

The SOAR membership fee of $100 is paid per 6-week term (Fall and Spring). It allows you to register for up to 8 classes, and one additional free class, S1136, Clear Vision for 2020? A Look at the Upcoming Presidential and National Elections, by Jack Lessenberry, no pre-registration required. During “Open Registration”, on April 8, 2020 you may continue to register for additional classes (as long as they are not in conflict with classes that you are already registered for) at no additional fee. The membership fee for the Winter Program varies depending on the length of the program. TUITION ASSISTANCE A limited number of one-time, need-based tuition stipends are now available to help our members enjoy SOAR classes during the fall or spring term. Stipends cover the full $100 membership fee for a single term. Application is confidential. Contact the SOAR office for more information.

THE TWO TERMS AND WINTER PROGRAM SOAR offers two terms and one Winter Program, each with its own schedule of classes and activities. Winter Program – February and March (Catalog available end of December) Spring Term – April – May (Catalog available mid-March) Fall Term – October through December (Catalog available end of August)

CLASS REGISTRATION

Registration begins roughly four weeks before the start of classes. Registration is permitted throughout the term and can be completed online at www.soarexplore.com or by mailing-in the enclosed registration form.

ONLINE REGISTRATION will begin on Monday, March 23, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Link to the online registration system by going to www.soarexplore.com. Click on the “Register for Classes” link on the upper right-hand side of the website page. To see the list of classes, click the 'Semester' search box. Classes will be listed under their relevant term (such as Fall 2020 or Spring 2020). NEW USERS (IF YOU HAVE NEVER REGISTERED FOR A SOAR CLASS) Click “New User? Start Here” to set up an account. MAIL-IN REGISTRATION. Processing of mail-in registrations will begin on Monday, March 23, 2020. You may join or renew membership by completing the Spring 2020 registration form. Registrations are handled on a first-come, first-served basis, as determined by the postmark date on your envelope, but will not be processed until Monday, March 23, 2020. Payment is accepted by check when mailing in the registration form. Please complete your registration form as soon as possible and mail it to the SOAR office at SOAR, c/o Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt Road., Farmington Hills, MI 48334. You may mail your registration form as soon as it is completed. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED PRIOR TO OPEN REGISTRATION on Wednesday, April 8, 2020.

OPEN REGISTRATION will take place at Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. It will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, and end at 1:00 p.m. on the same day. YOU MAY REGISTER ONLINE FOR ADDITIONAL CLASSES DURING OPEN REGISTRATION.

WITHDRAWAL/REFUND POLICY

If you withdraw at least ten days before the first day of the semester, you will be refunded the full membership fee less a $10 administrative fee. Refunds, for any reason, may be requested by writing to SOAR, c/o Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 or e-mail [email protected] no later than 10 days prior to the start of the first day of classes. NO REFUNDS will be made on or after the FIRST DAY of classes.

LOCATIONS

SOAR’s main location is at Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Classes are also oﬀered at The Birmingham Temple, 28611 West 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Class locations are listed on your conﬁrmation letter, under the title of the class.

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BE OUR GUEST/BRING A GUEST

SOAR has thrived by word-of-mouth marketing to friends, and our Guest Pass allows us to oﬀer non- Special Event members a one-time opportunity to experience a SOAR class for free. Guest Passes are available for SOAR members to give to any non-member who would like to take ONE SOAR class before deciding on a membership. You or your guest may call the SOAR oﬃce to check space availability for a class.

MEMBER INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

VOLUNTEERING:

Volunteers are an important component of the SOAR program. Without their contributions of time, skill, and knowledge, SOAR would not be the strong program that it is today. SOAR is always looking for members to volunteer. SOAR offers a variety of volunteer opportunities – from serving as a Class Attendance Taker, to an Introducer of a Speaker to working in the SOAR office or serving on a committee in a leadership position. To get involved, send inquiries to [email protected] or complete the volunteer form included in this packet and return it as soon as possible, even if you register online.

 FIELD TRIPS & SPECIAL EVENTS 

You may register for field trips and special events online or by mail. The process to register for a field trip or a special event online is the same as when you register for classes. Some field trips and special Special Event events allow you to bring a guest. In the online registration system, guests are termed “additional item.” When you register online, after you check the box by your name, another window will open up. It will say “Guest for -…” If you are taking a guest, change the quantity to 1, enter the guest name, and select the continue button. If you are not taking a guest, select the cancel button. You will be taken back to the prior page, where you should select the register button.

SHARED INTEREST GROUPS (SIGS)

SOAR Shared Interest Groups are classes, discussion groups, or activity groups, organized and operated by SOAR members who share a common interest and like to meet outside the regular class environment. Each group is different, depending on its focus, but all provide fun social experiences in addition to lifelong learning opportunities. If you have an idea for a Shared Interest Group that you would like to help organize, please send your request to [email protected].

Movie Group: Among the shared interest groups at SOAR there is one film club organized by a SOAR  member. If you have an interest in joining the club or gathering more information, contact the  coordinator directly. Please note that the club may occasionally reach capacity.

• Historic Films Club: Meets on the first Friday of every month (except for the months of August and November) at Adat Shalom Synagogue. The group will view and discuss both American and Foreign Special Event films of different genres. Contact Ralph Stromberg at [email protected].

Book Club. The SOAR Book Club meets on the third Friday of every month at 1:15 p.m. at Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48334. The club does not meet during the month of December. Book titles and authors are listed on the SOAR Calendar on the website and on the Book Club page of the SOAR website. Contact Roberta Russ at [email protected]. 

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S O A R SPRING 2020 Classes Classes, Field Trips and Special Events The shaded areas represent multiple-session courses that count as one class. The Field Trips and Special Events are listed through the end of August 2020 PLEASE NOTE: ALL LOCATIONS LISTED IN THE SCHEDULE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Page Day Date Sec # Title Instructor Time 10 MON 4/27/2020 S1105 John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him Abel, L.E. 10 - Noon 10 MON 4/27/2020 S1108 Business and Climate Change Hoffman, A. 10 - Noon 19 MON 4/27/2020 S1142 All’s Well That Ends Well , But Perhaps Not Marotti, A. 10 - Noon

16 MON 4/27/2020 S1131 Making Sense of Iran: The Eye In A Middle East Storm Khan, S. 1-3 pm   15 TUE 4/28/2020 S1125 The First, Second, and Third Reconstructions Johnson, F. 10 - Noon New Media: The State of Information and 17 TUE 4/28/2020 S1134 Entertainment In 2020 McDevitt, K. 10 - Noon 11 TUE 4/28/2020 S1110 Great Decisions Darold/Harmon 1-3 pm 15 TUE 4/28/2020 S1125 The First, Second, and Third Reconstructions Johnson, F. 1-3 pm Field Trips 20 TUE 4/28/2020 S1144 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and Her Family Scrivener, M. 1-3 pm Today’s Media Landscape, or the Trouble With 17 WED 4/29/2020 S1133 Newspapers Gallagher, J. 10 - Noon 9 WED 4/29/2020 S1104 In Our Own Voice: African American Art and Art Pride VanVoorhies, C. 10 - Noon 10 WED 4/29/2020 S1106 Are There Any Legal Heroes? Dubin, L. 1-3 pm 21 WED 4/29/2020 S1146 Experiencing Opera Herman, M. 1-3 pm 22 THUR 4/30/2020 S1152 The Grandmother Project Cullen, C. 10 - Noon 16 THUR 4/30/2020 S1128 Confronting Hate, Privately, Publically, Politically Stern, G. 10 - Noon

10 THUR 4/30/2020 S1107 “Second Homes” as the Primary Residence of the Soul Eisendrath, C. 1-3 pm 21 THUR 4/30/2020 S1146 Experiencing Opera Herman, M. 1-3 pm 

19 FRI 5/1/2020 S1140 Rock Stars of The American Colonial Period Finkelstein, P. 10 - 12:30 pm  15 FRI 5/1/2020 S1126 Hiroshima And Nagasaki In History and Memory Lublin, E. 10 - Noon 39 FRI 5/1/2020 Advice From A Casting Couch Special Event 1-3 pm Special Events 13 MON 5/4/2020 S1119 A Year at The Movies With Elliot Wilhelm Wilhelm, E. 10 - Noon 14 MON 5/4/2020 S1123 History of Motown Coleman, K. 1-3 pm Emotion and Morality in Our Responses to Images of 13 MON 5/4/2020 S1118 Women and Men in Film Wenzel, M. 12:30 - 3 pm 11 TUE 5/5/2020 S1110 Great Decisions Darold/Harmon 1-3 pm

26 WED 5/6/2020 S1165 Life Changer: The Story of Detroit’s Early Car Makers Collens, A. 10 - Noon 13 WED 5/6/2020 S1117 Colette: A Force of Nature on Film and In Life O’Brien, S. 10 - Noon African American Women’s Suffrage Movement: “Ain’t 15 WED 5/6/2020 S1124 I A Woman?” Coleman-Burns, P. 1-3 pm From Green Pastures To 12 Years A Slave: A Survey of 21 WED 5/6/2020 S1148 Negro Spirituals in Film May, E. 1-3 pm 

42 • Register online at www.soarexplore.com • • Register online at www.soarexplore.com • 3 3   Special Event S O A R SPRING 2020 Classes, Field Trips and Special Events The shaded areas represent multiple-session courses that count as one class. The Field Trips and Special Events are listed through the end of August 2020 PLEASE NOTE: ALL LOCATIONS LISTED IN THE SCHEDULE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE Classes Page Day Date Sec # Title Instructor Time Bombs Over Michigan: World War II Japanese Balloon 16 WED 5/6/2020 S1129 Attacks Unsworth, M. 1-3 pm 25 THUR 5/7/2020 S1161 Scam Prevention and Home Safety Kollar/Bowman 10 - Noon 

12 THUR 5/7/2020 S1113 Soupy Sales in The Motor City, 1953-1960 Shor, F. 10 - Noon  

 27 THUR 5/7/2020 S1169 Cuba: Behind the Closed Doors Wolfe, J & P. 10 - Noon 29 THUR 5/7/2020 Opera: Pagliacci Field Trip 11:00 a.m. 12 THUR 5/7/2020 S1115 The Movie Club Beltzman, M. 12:30 - 3 pm Special Event 11 THUR 5/7/2020 S1112 Prohibition in Hamtramck Kowalski, G. 1-3 pm 19 FRI 5/8/2020 S1140 Rock Stars of The American Colonial Period Finkelstein, P. 10 - 12:30 pm 21 FRI 5/8/2020 S1149 Detroit: Ragtime & The Jazz Age Milan, J. 10 - Noon 15 FRI 5/8/2020 S1127 The KKK In Michigan During The 1920s Placco, M. 10 - Noon 41 FRI 5/8/2020 Every Brilliant Thing Special Event 1-3 pm 26 MON 5/11/2020 S1166 Antarctica – The Final Frontier Burlett, D. 10 - Noon A Saint in Our Midst? The Story of Bishop Thomas 13 MON 5/11/2020 S1116 Gumbleton Murphy, B. 10 - Noon Our 18th Century Constitution, Congress, The

Field Trips 18 MON 5/11/2020 S1138 President, and the Two-Party Political System Sedler, R. 10 - Noon 23 MON 5/11/2020 S1154 Secular Buddhism For the Western Mind Tabor, P. 1-3 pm

12 MON 5/11/2020 S1114 The State of Detroit Public Schools Community District Vitti, N. 1-3 pm  

 Emotion and Morality in Our Responses to Images of  13 MON 5/11/2020 S1118 Women and Men in Film Wenzel, M. 12:30 - 3 pm The Administrative Role of The Michigan Supreme

18 TUE 5/12/2020 S1137 Court McCormack, B. 10 - Noon Special Event 14 TUE 5/12/2020 S1122 Bringing Yoga Into Your Daily Life Sheikh, D. 10 - Noon 25 TUE 5/12/2020 S1162 Learn to Play Mah-Jongg Spreitzer-Berent, B. 10 - Noon 11 TUE 5/12/2020 S1110 Great Decisions Darold/Harmon 1-3 pm 22 TUE 5/12/2020 S1150 Naturalist-Outdoor Educator Derek, J. 1-3 pm 27 WED 5/13/2020 S1168 Travel How? When? Where? Herdegen, C. 10 - Noon Clear Vision For 2020? A Look at The Upcoming 18 WED 5/13/2020 S1136 Presidential And National Elections Lessenberry, J. 1-3 pm

26 THUR 5/14/2020 S1167 Berlin: History and Highlights of a Fascinating City Fogarasi, M. 10 - Noon 11 THUR 5/14/2020 S1109 Investing in Retirement Palacios, A. 10 - Noon Special Events 17 THUR 5/14/2020 S1132 Foreign Policy Update Pearson, F. 10 - Noon   4 • Register online at www.soarexplore.com • 4 41 

Page Day Date Sec # Title Instructor Time 12 THUR 5/14/2020 S1115 The Movie Club Beltzman, M. 12:30 - 3 pm 11 THUR 5/14/2020 S1111 What Ever Happened to The War on Poverty? Fowler, F. 1-3 pm 19 FRI 5/15/2020 S1140 Rock Stars of The American Colonial Period Finkelstein, P. 10 - 12:30 pm 

31 SAT 5/16/2020 Habitat Glass Art Gallery Field Trip 11:00 a.m.  17 MON 5/18/2020 S1135 Political Polarization in America Dulio, D. 10 - Noon Emotion and Morality in Our Responses to Images of 13 MON 5/18/2020 S1118 Women and Men in Film Wenzel, M. 12:30 - 3 pm Pieter Bruegel The Elder: Peasants, Proverbs, and 9 TUE 5/19/2020 S1102 Politics Evans, W. 10 - Noon Field Trips 14 TUE 5/19/2020 S1122 Bringing Yoga Into Your Daily Life Sheikh, D. 10 - Noon 25 TUE 5/19/2020 S1162 Learn to Play Mah-Jongg Spreitzer-Berent, B. 10 - Noon 11 TUE 5/19/2020 S1110 Great Decisions Darold/Harmon 1-3 pm Center for Zoo and Aquarium Animal Welfare and 22 TUE 5/19/2020 S1151 Ethics, Detroit Zoological Society Fuller, G. 1-3 pm 25 TUE 5/19/2020 S1160 Balance and Fall Prevention Peczynski, A. 1-3 pm 18 WED 5/20/2020 S1139 Dickinson: Questions of Faith Eberwein, J. 10 - Noon 26 WED 5/20/2020 S1164 Artificial Intelligence in Our World Today Welch, C. 10 - Noon 16 WED 5/20/2020 S1130 The Battle of The Bulge: Germany’s Last Chance Zellers, B. 1-3 pm 23 THUR 5/21/2020 S1155 Effective Listening Chudnof, M. 10 - Noon 23 THUR 5/21/2020 S1156 Reflections on Disability, Community and Love Feldman/Fialka 10 - Noon  12 THUR 5/21/2020 S1115 The Movie Club Beltzman, M. 12:30 - 3 pm  14 THUR 5/21/2020 S1120 Boot Camp for Brains Frankenberg, A. 1-3 pm 23 THUR 5/21/2020 S1153 Running an Art Theater in The Streaming Age Goldstein, J. 1-3 pm 19 FRI 5/22/2020 S1140 Rock Stars of The American Colonial Period Finkelstein, P. 10 - 12:30 pm Special Events 43 FRI 5/22/2020 Barbara McQuade Special Event 1-3 pm 20 TUE 5/26/2020 S1145 Blues Music and Its Effect on American Popular Music Feinberg, H. 10 - Noon The Muslim Kingdoms of Spain And North Africa: 9 TUE 5/26/2020 S1103 Seven Hundred Years of Islamic Culture Peck, E. 10 - Noon 14 TUE 5/26/2020 S1122 Bringing Yoga Into Your Daily Life Sheikh, D. 10 - Noon 25 TUE 5/26/2020 S1162 Learn to Play Mah-Jongg Spreitzer-Berent, B. 10 - Noon 14 TUE 5/26/2020 S1121 Introduction to Tai Chi Purdy, S. 1-3 pm 20 TUE 5/26/2020 S1143 Poetry of E. E. Cummings Rashid, F. 1-3 pm 24 WED 5/27/2020 S1159 Science Education and Work Force Development Drummond, P. 10 - Noon 24 WED 5/27/2020 S1157 Working Together When We Don’t Agree Tye, L. 10 - Noon 21 WED 5/27/2020 S1147 Sinatra! Johnson, S. 1-3 pm 

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S O A R SPRING 2020 Special Event SSocietyO of ActiveA RetireesR Classes, Field Trips and Special Events The shaded areas represent multiple-session courses that count as one class. ADVICE FROM A CASTING COUCH The Field Trips and Special Events are listed through the end of August 2020 PLEASE NOTE: ALL LOCATIONS LISTED IN THE SCHEDULE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 Classes Page Day Date Sec # Title Instructor Time 1:00 P.M. When It Was A Game: Baseball and The Detroit Tigers 25 WED 5/27/2020 S1163 in The 1950’s Nechal, J. 1-3 pm 23 THUR 5/28/2020 S1155 Effective Listening Chudnof, M. 10 - Noon   Wonderful Things! The Remarkable Jewelry of Ancient   9 THUR 5/28/2020 S1101 Egypt Peck, W. 10 - Noon $10.00 12 THUR 5/28/2020 S1115 The Movie Club Beltzman, M. 12:30 - 3 pm Birmingham Temple Special Event 24 MON 6/1/2020 S1158 Raiders of The Lost Ark: The Hidden Jews Of Ethiopia Bennett, Rabbi J. 10 - Noon 19 MON 6/1/2020 S1141 The History and The Literature: This Tender Land Henderson , D & S. 10 - Noon 28611 W. 12 Mile Road., Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Emotion and Morality in Our Responses to Images of 13 MON 6/1/2020 S1118 Women and Men in Film Wenzel, M. 12:30 - 3 pm 25 TUE 6/2/2020 S1162 Learn to Play Mah-Jongg Spreitzer-Berent, B. 10 - Noon 45 WED 6/3/2020 Being Mortal Special Event 1-3 pm 33 WED 6/10/2020 Mill Race Historical Village Tour Field Trip 10:00 a.m. actor, will explore the many areas of the theater “biz”, 35 SAT 7/18/2020 Belle Isle Bus Tour Field Trip 12:00 - 3:30 pm 37 THUR 8/20/2020 Behind the Scenes at The DIA Field Trip 11:30 am - 4 pm Field Trips

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Detach & mail with check NO LATER THAN April 27, 2020

Name ______Guest ______

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6 • Register online at www.soarexplore.com • 6 39 SOAR Policies Class-Size Policy: to the SOAR office will help ascertain if seats are available. Class size is determined by several factors: the availability of needed rooms and class-size limits set by 3. Members in good standing will always have the individual instructor. Therefore, the Board of priority seating over guest. Directors has adopted the following policies: Cancellation of SOAR Classes Attendance Policy: On rare occasions, a SOAR instructor may need to cancel 1. Attendance in any course that is “closed” his/her class. In the event that a class must be cancelled, (maximum student limit has been reached by the following actions will be taken: registration count) is limited to those who are formally enrolled. Should seats be available, 1. All SOAR members enrolled in the class will be SOAR members in good standing, who are not notified of the cancellation and it will be listed registered for the course, may be admitted on a on the SOAR website.

first-come, first-served basis after all formally 2. Efforts will be made to reschedule, based on the enrolled students have been seated. The class instructor’s schedule and the availability of attendance taker will determine the number of classroom space. available seats. SOAR Members’ Responsibility for Maintaining an 2. Attendance in any course that is “open” Optimal Learning Environment (meaning there are still seats available by registration count) is open to SOAR members, • Respect the rights of others to express their even if they are not registered for the course. views Members may be admitted on a first-come, first- • Turn off your cellphone before the class begins served basis after all formally enrolled students • have been seated. Seats may not be available for Keep your comments and questions succinct ’ registered members if they arrive late. The • Comply with the instructors requests and class attendance taker will determine the number SOAR class policies

of available seats. Refund Policy:

“give” their seats to other 3. Members may not 1. A member may request and receive a refund of SOAR members, guests, or spouses. membership cost for the SOAR Spring or Fall 4. Members are not allowed to bring extra chairs terms for any reason, no later than 10 days prior into a classroom. to the commencement of the first day of the term. A $10 processing fee will be charged for the 5. Please attend the classes in which you are cancellation. enrolled. If you cannot attend, a phone call or e-mail to the SOAR office will allow another 2. No refunds will be made later than 10 days prior member to attend the class. to the first day of the term. [email protected] or (248) 626-0296. ______

Guest Policy: It is the policy of the Society of Active Retirees not to participate in, directly or indirectly, or to intervene in any 1. Members may bring a guest to only one class political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any per term. Members must present a “guest pass” candidate for public office or any referendum on the ballot to the class attendance taker. in any local community.

Disclaimer Statement 2. Pursuant to the SOAR Attendance policy, guest may not attend classes that are “closed.” Guest Statements and opinions expressed by SOAR presenters are may attend “open” classes on an available seating made in their personal capacities and are not necessarily those basis and under the direction of the class of the Society of Active Retirees. attendance taker. A member phone call or e-mail

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The DIA has one of the largest and most signiﬁcant art collections in the United States with more than 60,000 objects ranging from ancient Egyptian artifacts to contemporary art. Two special exhibitions are opening this summer: Detroit Classes Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020 and Van Gogh America. This trip is limited to MEMBERS only. NO REFUNDS. Payment Deadline August 3, 2020. Please write a separate check for each trip. Make your check payable to   SOAR and mail to SOAR c/o Adat Shalom 29902 Middlebelt Road, Farmington   Hills, MI 48334 Contact Person: Joan Nedeljkovic 248-626-2284

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ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGYARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY S1103 THE MUSLIM KINGDOMS OF SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA: SEVEN HUNDRED Classes S1101 WONDERFUL THINGS! THE YEARS OF ISLAMIC CULTURE REMARKABLE JEWELRY OF ANCIENT EGYPT Tues., May 26 Thurs., May 28 10:00 a.m. - Noon 10:00 a.m. - Noon INSTRUCTOR: Elsie Peck INSTRUCTOR: William Peck As early as the eight century, much of Spain became a From the earliest times in Egypt, the desire to decorate the Muslim land under the rule of Emirs and Caliphs. body with precious metals and richly colored gems Elaborate palace complexes and great mosques were created an ongoing industry of elaborate jewelry constructed. The arts and crafts flourished producing production. With limited tools and techniques, craftsmen exquisite metalwork, textiles, and pottery, as well as were able to create miniature masterpieces of design and carvings in wood and ivory. This extraordinary

art to satisfy the desire to enliven what were often simple occupation did not end until King Ferdinand and Queen   and monochromatic costume ensembles. This lecture will Isabella expelled the Muslims from Spain. investigate the types, techniques, and materials of Egyptian jewelry through the ages. For many years, Elsie Peck was the Curator of Near Eastern Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts; she was William Peck is an Egyptologist with a long career of responsible for a number of important exhibitions of excavating in Egypt, studying Egyptian history, Ancient Near Eastern and Islamic art. She has lived and Classes technology and art. He also curated the Ancient travelled widely in the Near East and North Africa and collections at the Detroit Institute of Arts for many years. has excavated in both Iraq and Egypt. After her retirement she became an initial planner for the Arab American National Museum and an advisor for the ARTART Chaldean Museum.

S1102 PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER: S1104 IN OUR OWN VOICE: AFRICAN PEASANTS, PROVERBS, AND POLITICS AMERICAN ART and ART PRIDE Tues., May 19 Wed., April 29 10:00 a.m. – Noon 10:00 a.m. - Noon Location: Birmingham Temple INSTRUCTOR: Carlene VanVoorhies INSTRUCTOR: Wendy Evans

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In Our Own Voice: African American Art (first hour;  Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel put the ordinary then 15-minute break) people of his day into paintings and prints that ranged Enhance your awareness of the creative contributions of from biblical stories and Flemish traditions to human African Americans from the 19th century through the nature and satire, many of them taking issue with the present day. This presentation provides a lens to examine increasingly vicious Spanish treatment of the issues of race, gender, politics and culture. Netherlands.

Classes Art Pride (second session after break) This talk provides background for the DIA exhibition This program discusses the significant contributions of Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance Revealed and From LGBT artists and their impact on the art world. The artists Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and profiled are among the leaders of modern and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. contemporary art, and have shattered stereotypes and defied prejudice and discrimination on their path to Wendy Evans is an art historian with advanced degrees success. from Oxford University and Wayne State University. She taught art history at WSU, and is a long-time volunteer at Carlene VanVoorhies has been an Interpretive Program the DIA. She has given presentations at SOAR since 2006. Volunteer(docent) with the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) For more information go to www.art-talks.org. for nine years. During that time, she has conducted

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public and private tours in the museum, and presented Law Professor Larry Dubin graduated from the Field Trip programs at community venues over 2,000 times. University of Michigan Law School. He has practiced law, been a law professor, BIOGRAPHICALBIOGRAPHICAL PROFILESPROFILES served as an appointee of the Michigan Supreme Court to the Commission that

prosecutes lawyers for acts of S1105 JOHN WILKES BOOTH AND THE misconduct, and produced Public WOMEN WHO LOVED HIM Television documentaries about Civil Mon., Apr. 27 Classes Rights lawyers. He has also authored books, journal and 10:00 am – Noon newspaper articles, been a television legal analyst, and Location: Birmingham Temple received the 2018 State Bar of Michigan Award for his INSTRUCTOR: E. Lawrence Abel major contributions to the lawyers of Michigan.

Before he shot the president of the United States and S1107 “SECOND HOMES” AS THE PRIMARY   entered the annals of history as an assassin, actor John 

whom were notorious in their own right: women who Charles R. Eisendrath just published Downstream from Field Trip were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak: Here and will discuss several of the essays from his book. women whose lives took wild turns before and after

Lincoln's assassination. After Time Magazine assignments in Washington, Europe

and South America, Eisendrath founded Wallace House Ernest Lawrence Abel is emeritus professor at Wayne at the University of Michigan, home of the Knight- State University School of Medicine, former Director of the University’s Mott Center for Human Growth and Wallace Fellows and the Livingston Awards. His patented Grillworks is made near Overlook farm, where Development, and past President of two International Classes he produces cherries and maple syrup. science societies. He is currently a member of the

Michigan Civil War Round Table (Farmington, MI), the Surratt Society, the Civil War Medical Museum, and the BUSINESS/FINANCEBUSINESS/FINANCE American Name Society. Ernest has authored four books on Civil War topics: Singing The New Nation, S1108 BUSINESS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Confederate Sheet Music, A Finger in Lincoln’s Brain,   Mon., Apr. 27   and John Wilkes Booth And The Women Who Loved 10:0 a.m. - Noon Him, as well as numerous related magazine and scholarly INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Hoffman journal articles.

This session will discuss the extent to which climate S1106 ARE THERE ANY LEGAL HEROES? change is altering markets, and the ways in which Field Trip Wed., April 29 business is responding through adaptation, mitigation, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. and business opportunity. INSTRUCTOR: Larry Dubin Andrew Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of The ethics of lawyers are often defined by "jokes" which Sustainable Enterprise at the University of depict them as unethical. The presenter will share his Michigan, a position that holds joint honest appraisal of the state of legal ethics based on his appointments in the Ross School of

Classes experience in that field over the last 50 years. The Business and the School for Environment & presenter will also show a film he produced for public Sustainability. television, which will provide further information about this issue.

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S1109 INVESTING IN RETIREMENT a 38-year career in Engineering and Product Thurs., May 14 Litigation. Daniel Harmon completed a 25-year career Classes 10:00 a.m. - Noon at Ameritech and retired as Vice President before INSTRUCTOR: Angela Palacios, CFP®, AIF® becoming Director of Strategic Business Services at Walsh College.

After years of investing and saving for retirement, now what? Just because you’ve said your goodbyes to the DETROITDETROIT/MICHIGAN / MICHIGAN work day doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about investing your nest egg. We’ll discuss strategies to ensure S1111 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE WAR you are making the smartest possible decisions for your ON POVERTY? retirement savings. Thurs., May 14 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Angela Palacios CFP®, AIF® is an industry professional INSTRUCTOR: Faith Fowler

with 20+ years of experience. She currently serves as 

 Partner and Director of Investments at Center for The course will take a birdseye view of social attempts to Financial Planning, Inc®. She specializes in investment reduce and/or eliminate poverty in the United States. and macroeconomic research and oversees the What has worked? What has failed? What's next as we management of client portfolios and chairs the Center’s struggle with economic disparity nationally and globally? investment committee. She received her bachelor of arts

degrees in economics from Aquinas College in Grand

Rev. Fowler has been a pastor in Classes Rapids and her MBA from Nichols College in Dudley, Detroit for 33 years; she has also Massachusetts. served as Executive Director of Cass

Community Social Services for the CURRENTCURRENT EVENTS last 25 years. She has an undergraduate degree from Albion S1110 GREAT DECISIONS College as well as an M.Div. from Tues., Apr. 28, May 5, 12, 19 Boston University School of 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Theology and an MPA from the University of Michigan - INSTRUCTOR: Alfred J. Darold and Daniel J. Dearborn. Harmon Limit 35 S1112 PROHIBITION IN HAMTRAMCK Thurs., May 7

 This discussion group is open to members interested in 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  expanding their understanding of international issues. To INSTRUCTOR: Greg Kowalski encourage active participation, enrollment will be limited to 35. The four topics to be considered are in the 2020 This lecture/discussion relates the story of Prohibition in Foreign Policy Association text as follows: 1) Climate Hamtramck. Hamtramck was a hub of illegal activities Change and the Global Order, 2) Red Sea Security, 3) during the Prohibition years. Flaunting Prohibition was so Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, and 4) China’s flagrant in Hamtramck that the city developed a national Classes Road into Latin America. reputation as the Wild West of the Midwest. Here’s how and why all that came about. The text is Great Decisions 2020 Edition. You can order this text material from the Foreign Policy Association, Greg Kowalski is executive director of the Hamtramck using either their website, www.fpa.org, or their phone, Historical Museum. He is a journalist with more than 40 (800) 477-5836. The cost of the Foreign Policy years’ experience in the field and the author of eleven Association text material is $32 plus shipping and local history books, including nine about Hamtramck and handling. You may find the text on Amazon for a lower two on Detroit. price. We will use the same text for the Fall 2020 term.

Alfred J. Darold retired from Ford Motor Company after

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implement a 100-day plan that culminated with the S1113 SOUPY SALES IN THE MOTOR CITY, Field Trip 1953-1960 development of a new Strategic Plan that focuses on tudent achievement, transforming the district’s Thurs., May 7 raising s 10:00 a.m. - Noon culture, improving staffing, developing the whole child, INSTRUCTOR: Francis Shor and ensuring financial responsibility.

Since the creation and implementation of the Strategic When Soupy Sales emerged on WXYZ-TV in 1953, he Plan, the district has increased student enrollment for the quickly became a popular cultural figure in the Motor

workshop will consider Soupy's connection to the social   teacher vacancies; increased student attendance and   and cultural scene in 1950's Detroit. decreased chronic absenteeism: initiated a Parent Academy that has engaged over 6,000 parents; and Francis Shor is an Emeritus Professor of History at maintained three years of a balanced budget with a 10% Wayne State University. He is the author of four books, reserve. the most recent being Weaponized Whiteness: The

Constructions and Deconstructions of White Identity Field Trip Dr. Vitti was previously chief academic officer of Miami- Politics (Brill 2020). Other publications, covering a Dade County Public Schools, assistant superintendent for broad range of topics in 20th century U. S. and global the Miami-Dade district and deputy chancellor at the history, have appeared in scholarly journals and popular Florida Department of Education. He also served online journals. In addition to his academic work, he has children as a principal, dean of students, and teacher. He been a long-time peace and justice activist, serving received a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s previously on the Boards of Peace Action and Michigan degree in education from Wake Forest University. He Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR). Presently, he is an also holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in education Classes Advisory Board member of MCHR and on the Board of from the Harvard University Graduate School of the Birmingham Temple, where he also co-chairs the Education. Program Committee. He is the founder and director of the

Public Education and Community Engagement (P.E.A.C.E.) Project. FILMFILM

thematic films. Story line, acting, and character Join Dr. Vitti for a discussion about the state of Detroit motivation will all be part of discussions. Public Schools Community District. Come learn about

equitable school funding and the District’s efforts to Mike attended Detroit schools and graduated from Wayne improve student outcomes. State University. Since retiring, he has led film Classes discussions in Michigan and Florida. He has also Dr. Nikolai Vitti was appointed as Superintendent of participated in film festivals for many years. Mike has the Detroit Public Schools Community District on May 23, ability to promote discussion and create an enjoyable 2017 on a five-year contract. In his first year, Dr. Vitti classroom experience. worked closely with the Detroit Board of Education to

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S1116 A SAINT IN OUR MIDST? THE STORY OF male and female characters and the themes they enact.

The two frameworks we’ll use are Noel Carroll’s Classes BISHOP THOMAS GUMBLETON Mon., May 11 understanding of our emotional responses to various 10:00 a.m. - Noon representations (Paradigm Scenarios) and Laurie Shrage’s understanding of the viewer’s background and INSTRUCTOR: Brian Murphy context of viewing (Contextual Film Analysis). We’ll also

consider how we evaluate the aesthetic value of a film in We will view an extraordinary 38-minute film, American terms of its possible ethical virtues and flaws. One Prophet, about "Fr. Tom." He was once the youngest question we’ll discuss is whether or not an ethical Catholic bishop in the US. Now, at age 90, he is still a evaluation of a film should be part of an overall very active cleric. He has been something of a thorn in evaluation. the side of the hierarchy ever since: we will see and

discuss why. Mark Wenzel is a part-time faculty member in the WSU Philosophy Department and has been teaching

Brian Murphy had a 35-year career at Oakland 

philosophy there for 20 years. His specialties are  University as a member of the English Department and as Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy, Philosophy of Art & Director of the Honors College. He is the author of two Aesthetics, and Global Ethics. He’s taught Feminist published books--a novel, The Enigma Variations, and a Perspectives at the Women’s Huron Valley Center twice study of the fiction of CS Lewis. After his retirement he in the past and hopes to begin an alliance between WSU wrote several plays, nearly all of which have had readings and Huron Valley within the next year. or productions at the Medicine Show Theater in New

Classes York. S1119 A YEAR AT THE MOVIES WITH ELLIOT WILHELM S1117 COLETTE: A FORCE OF NATURE ON Mon., May 4 FILM AND IN LIFE 10:00 a.m. – Noon Wed., May 6 Location: Birmingham Temple 10:00 a.m. - Noon INSTRUCTOR: Elliot Wilhelm INSTRUCTOR: Sharon O’Brien

2019 was filled with both fascinating films and some Colette, the great, innovative French writer, never did ominous foreshadowing, and 2020 looks to be every bit anything halfway. As an author, mime, actress, journalist, as intriguing and rewarding for the adventurous filmgoer. famous public figure, and lover of life, she experienced DIA Film Curator Elliot Wilhelm takes a personal look at everything to the fullest. Her injunction to those around some of the most powerful experiences he’s had watching “Look!“ We’ll watch the 2018 film in  her was always,  films over the last year, while sharing observations on the the morning, break for lunch, and return for a discussion current state of world cinema and how to discover the best of the film as well as Colette’s life and times. of it in this era of overwhelming choice and availability.

Sharon O’Brien taught English and Women’s Studies at Elliot Wilhelm has been Curator of Film and Director of Siena Heights University for more than 20 years. She is the Detroit Film Theatre series at the Detroit Institute of

an active SOAR member, serving on the Board of Classes Arts since 1973. He’s a part-time faculty member of Directors and several committees. Wayne State University’s Department of Communication and was host of Detroit Public Television’s “Film S1118 EMOTION AND MORALITY IN OUR Festival” program from 1995 through 2016. RESPONSES TO IMAGES OF WOMEN AND MEN IN FILM Mon., May 4, 11, 18, June 1, 8 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. INSTRUCTOR: Mark Wenzel

We will watch five films followed by a discussion of our emotional and ethical responses to the representations of

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HEALTHHEALTH S1122 BRINGING YOGA INTO YOUR DAILY Field Trip LIFE Tues., May 12, 19, 26 S1120 BOOT CAMP FOR BRAINS 10:00 – Noon Thurs., May 21 INSTRUCTOR: Doris Sheikh 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. INSTRUCTOR: Angelyn Frankenberg In this class, you will learn the benefits of focusing on

deep breathing, moving with mindfulness, and aligning

Classes Can we really do anything to help our brains last as long the spine in multi-directions. Learn gentle stretching to as our bodies? YES, we can! This course, which is release stress, build strength, and increase your range of updated regularly, reviews modifiable factors that motions, with the assistance of a chair by your side. increase our chances of staying sharp as we age, and

features written and movement-based brain exercises. Doris Sheikh has been practicing and

teaching yoga for almost 40 years in   Students should bring a pen or pencil to complete written 

 Canada and in the United States. A exercises and may want to bring a small notebook or senior citizen (75-plus) who was born folder to use as a writing surface. in Basel, Switzerland, she has been a

Farmington Hills resident for more Angelyn Frankenberg has an than 25 years. undergraduate degree in Music and a Field Trip master's in Exercise Science, and

believes that aging well requires a balance between art and science. She HISTORYHISTORY coaches individuals and groups in aging with a sense of purpose and adventure S1123 HISTORY OF MOTOWN through her program called AgeSmart Mon., May 4 With Angye. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Classes Location: Birmingham Temple S1121 INTRODUCTION TO TAI CHI INSTRUCTOR: Ken Coleman Tues., May 26 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Award-winning author Ken Coleman offers a unique INSTRUCTOR: Sam W. Purdy approach to sharing the history of Motown Records.

During the presentation, Coleman will share the family   

 The lecture will cover the origins and history of Tai Chi and community foundation that armed Berry Gordy Jr. Chuan and the general principles of application. There with the business acumen to create the dynamic "Sound will be time for Q & A and an opportunity to practice of Young America" during the 1960s. basic movement principles. Ken Coleman is a Detroit-based writer and

I started training with the Wu family in communications consultant. His first book, Field Trip 1987, became a disciple of Wu Kwong Yu On This Day: African-American Life in in 1994, certified as an Advanced Level Detroit, and his second book, Million Instructor in 2004, and authorized to take Dollars Worth of Nerve, have been featured on disciples in 2015. on American Black Journal, WDET-FM 101.9, The Detroit News, and Table Talk with Brenda Perryman.

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S1124 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S Hope College in Holland, Michigan. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT: “AIN’T I A Prior to his career in higher Classes WOMAN?” education, Dr. Johnson served in the Wed., May 6 United States Marine Corps and 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. worked in the automotive, INSTRUCTOR: Patricia W. Coleman-Burns, PhD telecommunications, and aerospace industries. He is an award-winning public speaker and recipient of the The course engages participants in dialogue exploring the Medal of Honor from the Daughters intersection of race, gender and class in the 100 Year of the American Revolution. Celebration of the 1920’s Suffrage Movement and

African American women. Concepts, themes and constructs include: “Ain’t I A Woman” & “Liftin As We S1126 HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI IN Climb”: the rise of the colored women’s club movement HISTORY AND MEMORY Fri., May 1 and the agendas & priorities of the Black  Women’s/Feminist’s Movements. 10:00 a.m. - Noon  INSTRUCTOR: Elizabeth Dorn Lublin Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns is a University of Michigan Assistant The dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6, Professor Emerita of Nursing and 1945 and Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killed Adjunct/Affiliated Professor in the over 200,000 people, leveled the urban landscape of these Department for Afro-American and two cities, and gave rise to a vibrant anti-nuclear peace Classes African Studies (DAAS), where she movement in postwar Japan. Emperor Hirohito’s teaches over 160 students. Her surrender speech, broadcast on radio just 6 days after the scholarship focuses on intersecting bombing of Nagasaki, also laid the groundwork for a identities, social justice, health disparities, social postwar narrative of victimization. This single class will determinants of health, and efficacious research and explore that narrative and the ways in which it has been community impact. She conducts workshops on “hidden both advanced and contested, with particular attention and unconscious biases”, microaggressions, and paid to presentations by public museums, the writings of “bystander intervention” trainings. survivors (hibakusha), and depictions in popular culture.

S1125 THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD Elizabeth D. Lublin is an Associate Professor in the RECONSTRUCTIONS Department of History at WSU. She teaches survey classes on premodern and modern East Asia, along with Tues., April 28   10:00 am – Noon & 1:00 – 3:00 pm upper-division courses on pre-modern and modern Location: Birmingham Temple Japan, Japanese pop culture, gender in modern East INSTRUCTOR: Fred L. Johnson III Asia, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Her first book examined Christian women’s activism in late 19th and early 20th century Japan, and she is currently working on In the aftermath of the Civil War, the First Reconstruction a second book on the Japanese tobacco industry during – [1865 1877] promised a new dawn of freedom for the Classes that same time. United States, especially for four million former slaves.

The reversal of gains made during the First Reconstruction planted seeds for the Second S1127 THE KKK IN MICHIGAN DURING THE Reconstruction and Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s 1920S and 1970s. Persisting tendencies stemming from Fri., May 8 America’s antebellum period were energized in the Third 10:00 a.m. - Noon Reconstruction of the early 21st Century that, once again, INSTRUCTOR: Michael V. Placco shattered hopes for achieving full liberty and justice for all. In this session we will discuss the rise of the KKK in Michigan during the 1920s. We will speak about the Fred L. Johnson III is Associate Professor of History at various concerns, fears, and attitudes in the U.S. at the

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time that fostered the ascendancy of this large and very 1945. The furthest east they were discovered was in Field Trip wealthy social movement: specifically, the prevailing Michigan. This talk will discuss general outlines of the PAGLIACCI (Ruggero Leoncavallo) anti-Semitism, anti-Romanism, and other prejudices seen balloon attacks followed by a detailed description of the at the dawn of the 20th century. Focus will be placed upon two balloons which were discovered at the border area of the spread of the groups in Michigan and the various Kent & Allegan counties and in the Detroit suburbs of Michigan Opera Theatre Dress Rehearsal $35.00 reasons why the Great Lakes State became such a hotbed Farmington. SSocietyO of ActiveA RetireesR for what was then called “kluxing.” Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (Doors open at 10:00 a.m.) Michael Unsworth is a retired

Classes Born and raised in Queens, New York, Michael Placco history librarian at Michigan State earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees University. He has written and from Bowling Green State University, where he focused lectured on a number of topics, on United States social history. Professor of History at primarily military history. He is a Macomb Community College since 2000, he has taught in member of the Ingham County Parks both traditional and virtual classrooms, including Commission.   courses in both halves of the United States history survey   as well as Michigan history and Latin American history. S1130 THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE: Outside of the classroom, he enjoys speaking about such GERMANY’S LAST CHANCE diverse topics as 19th century baseball history, the Civil th Wed., May 20 Rights movements of the 20 century, and present-day 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. veterans’ issues.

INSTRUCTOR: Bruce Zellers Field Trip

S1128 CONFRONTING HATE, PRIVATELY, Eisenhower could not be strong everywhere in 1944. PUBLICALLY, POLITICALLY Hitler identified his weak spot and attacked it in Thurs., April 30 December of that year. The Germans hoped to reverse the Leoncavallo’s Tragic tale of the tears of a clown. The audience favorite tells of a 10:00 am - Noon course of WW 2: instead their attack failed, hastening the clown who becomes embroiled in a fatal love triangle. The first opera ever to be INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Guy Stern final German defeat. recorded in its entirety, Pagliacci, with its famous “Vesti la giubba” aria was the Classes There are many warnings about the current rise of bigotry, Bruce Zellers teaches American first opera to sell a million copies. hatred, and anti-Semitism. Examples from the past and History at Greenhills School and present will be discussed to stress the reality that we all Oakland University. He reviews Guests are welcome. Payment deadline Saturday, April 11, 2020. Please write a have the responsibility to speak up against these dangers. books on Military History for professional journals. He frequently separate check for each trip and MUST include a stamped self-addressed Dr. Stern holds degrees from lectures groups like SOAR. envelope for the return of your OPERA TICKET. NO REFUNDS.   

retirement at Wayne State. Since Hills, MI 48334. S1131 MAKING SENSE OF IRAN: THE EYE IN A 2003 he has been Director of the Field Trip Institute of the Righteous at the MIDDLE EAST STORM Contact Person: Fran Lewis 248-681-8420 Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. Mon., Apr. 27 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Location: Birmingham Temple ------S1129 BOMBS OVER MICHIGAN: WORLD WAR INSTRUCTOR: Saeed Khan II JAPANESE BALLOON ATTACKS Pagliacci May 7, 2020 Deadline: April 11, 2020 Wed., May 6 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. For the past four decades, Iran and the United States have Name______Phone #______Classes INSTRUCTOR: Michael Unsworth had a tense, complex, and at times, strangely connected relationship. Recent events have created an intensification Address______E-Mail______of existing hostilities, with some pondering whether this Japan sent over 9,200 balloons to attack the North will lead to actual armed conflict, even World War III. American mainland from November 1944 to early April Of Reservations @ $35.00____ Total Enclosed______This lecture will explore the history of US-Iranian

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relations, the regional complexities of the Middle East, at the newspaper. He is the author of several books

S O A R Spring 2020 and explore and forecast future directions for the region including “Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity” Classes and the world. and “Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining Field Trips and Special Events an American City.” He is a 2017 inductee into the (Bold) (Italics) Saeed Khan is Senior Lecturer in Near East & Asian Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Studies and Global Studies at Wayne State University. He MAY THROUGH AUGUST 2020 is also a fellow at Wayne State’s Center for the Study of S1134 NEW MEDIA: THE STATE OF Citizenship and a regular panelist on CBC’s Turning Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT IN 2020 Point. Tues., Apr. 28 26-Apr 27-Apr 28-Apr 29-Apr 30-Apr 1-May 2-May Advice From a 10:00 a.m. - Noon Casting Couch S1132 FOREIGN POLICY UPDATE INSTRUCTOR: Karen McDevitt 1:00 p.m. Thurs., May 14 3-May 4-May 5-May 6-May 7-May 8-May 9-May 10:00 a.m. – Noon MOT Pagliacci Every Brilliant This class will take a close look at the current state of

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 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. INSTRUCTOR: Frederic Pearson will explore the effects of “new media” on both producers 10-May 11-May 12-May 13-May 14-May 15-May 16-May and consumers of information and entertainment. Habitat Glass Art Gallery US foreign policy faces many challenges in the election 11:00 a.m. year 2020: the terms of Brexit and trade; the so-called Dr. Karen McDevitt teaches Film 17-May 18-May 19-May 20-May 21-May 22-May 23-May Middle East peace plan; nuclear armament, alliances and and New Media Studies at Wayne Barbara McQuade security policy; climate and immigration. We will update State University. She has been a 1:00 p.m. the latest developments in these areas and outline the frequent guest lecturer at the Classes 24-May 25-May 26-May 27-May 28-May 29-May 30-May Detroit Film, where she served on Memorial Day implications. 31-May 1-Jun 2-Jun 3-Jun 4-Jun 5-Jun 6-Jun the Executive Board of Directors Being Mortal Dr. Pearson was twice senior Fulbright for the past ten years. Karen also 1:00 p.m. Scholar in Europe, has written widely on serves on the Editorial Board of the Wayne State 7-Jun 8-Jun 9-Jun 10-Jun 11-Jun 12-Jun 13-Jun arms control, military intervention, and University Press. She is a "regular" at the Toronto Mill Race International Film Festival and the New Directors Film Historical Village conflict settlement, and currently is 10:00 a.m. working on networks of international Festival in New York, and you can find her almost every th 14-Jun 15-Jun 16-Jun 17-Jun 18-Jun 19-Jun 20-Jun peacekeeping. He is embarking on his 30 week at either the Maple Theater or the DFT. year at the Center for Peace and Conflict 21-Jun 22-Jun 23-Jun 24-Jun 25-Jun 26-Jun 27-Jun Studies, which celebrates its 55th year in LAW/POLITICS/GOVERNMENTLAW/POLITICS/GOVERNMENT 2020, as one of the nation’s pioneering institutes on the 28-Jun 29-Jun 30-Jun 1-Jul 2-Jul 3-Jul 4-Jul

causes and prevention of violence.  Field Trips & Special Events Field Trips Independence Day  S1135 POLITICAL POLARIZATION IN   5-Jul 6-Jul 7-Jul 8-Jul 9-Jul 10-Jul 11-Jul JOURNALISM/ AMERICA 12-Jul 13-Jul 14-Jul 15-Jul 16-Jul 17-Jul 18-Jul JOURNALISM/ Mon., May 18 Belle Isle Tour NEWSCASTING/SOCIALNEWSCASTING/SOCIAL MEDIA 10:00 a.m. - Noon and Lunch INSTRUCTOR: David Dulio 12:00 p.m. 19-Jul 20-Jul 21-Jul 22-Jul 23-Jul 24-Jul 25-Jul S1133 TODAY’S MEDIA LANDSCAPE, OR THE Classes TROUBLE WITH NEWSPAPERS This lecture will focus on political polarization in 26-Jul 27-Jul 28-Jul 29-Jul 30-Jul 31-Jul 1-Aug Wed., April 29 America today. We will cover a range of related topics including where we see polarization (including public and 2-Aug 3-Aug 4-Aug 5-Aug 6-Aug 7-Aug 8-Aug 10:00 a.m. - Noon INSTRUCTOR: John Gallagher elected officials), historical trends in polarization, and its impact on civic life. 9-Aug 10-Aug 11-Aug 12-Aug 13-Aug 14-Aug 15-Aug

We will discuss the economics of the current newspaper 16-Aug 17-Aug 18-Aug 19-Aug 20-Aug 21-Aug 22-Aug David A. Dulio is Professor of Political and media market, explaining why traditional print Behind the Scenes Science Department and Director of at The DIA newspapers are in such trouble. the Center for Civic Engagement at 11:30 a.m. Oakland University. He teaches 23-Aug 24-Aug 25-Aug 26-Aug 27-Aug 28-Aug 29-Aug John Gallagher is an author and journalist who recently courses on campaigns and elections, retired from the Detroit Free Press after serving 32 years 30-Aug Congress, political parties, interest  Field Trips & Special Events Field Trips 28 17  28 • Register online at www.soarexplore.com • • Register online at www.soarexplore.com • 17  

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groups, and other areas of American politics. Dulio has people receive there. From technological support to where she lived and traveled. After living in Germany, tourist travel. They also work with the U.S. State

published twelve books, with two of his most recent being problem solving methodology and access to justice, the Hungary, Bulgaria, Canada and South Korea for a total Department, hosting delegations from Asia, the Middle Classes Michigan Government, Politics and Policy and Cases in Supreme Court can enhance the way our communities of 40 years, she returned to her native Michigan in 2016. East, Africa, and South America, traveling around the Congressional Campaigns: Split Decision. He has resolve their disputes. Mariya currently substitute teaches, writes, and continues world, offering suggestions and improvements for current written dozens of articles and book chapters on subjects to travel. programs abroad. ranging from the role of professional consultants in U.S. Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack joined the elections to campaign finance. Dulio is also a former Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013 and became S1168 TRAVEL HOW? WHEN? WHERE? American Political Science Congressional Fellow on the Chief Justice in January 2019. An NYU Law graduate, Wed., May 13 Classes Capitol Hill where he worked in the U.S. House of Chief Justice McCormack started her legal career in New 10:00 a.m. - Noon Representatives. York City. In 1996 she joined the Yale Law School faculty, INSTRUCTOR: Carole Herdegen and then became a member of the University of Michigan

S1136 CLEAR VISION FOR 2020? A LOOK AT Law School faculty in 1998. In 2019, Governor Whitmer appointed her as Co-Chair of the Michigan Joint Task Carole Herdegen talks about solo and independent travel. THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL AND Traveling solo takes practice. The more you travel the NATIONAL ELECTIONS Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration. Chief Justice easier it will become and the more experiences and   McCormack continues to teach at the University of 

 Wed., May 13 opportunities you will discover. Don’t sit at home and Michigan and publish in professional journals and law 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. long for adventure ---- seek it out and savor the moments. INSTRUCTOR: Jack Lessenberry media. Tips to get you started.

Some people think this could be the most momentous and S1138 OUR 18TH CENTURY CONSTITUTION, Carole Herdegen, a resident of Bloomfield Hills and wife important election of our lives, one in which the future of CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT, AND THE of an auto executive has lived America is at stake. A veteran analyst who has covered TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM internationally for 18 years in Classes politics for more than 40 years takes a look at what could Mon., May 11 London, Dublin, Frankfurt and happen – and why. 10:00 a.m. – Noon Berne. To date, she has travelled to Location: Birmingham Temple 68 countries and all seven Note: This class will be held at Adat Shalom, 29901 INSTRUCTOR: Robert A. Sedler continents. In between travel, she Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills, 48334. This class is has had her own travel website, was open to all registered SOAR members. You do not This interactive class will discuss the constitutional co-host of a local travel and Classes have to register for this class. Guests are welcome. No structure of the American government under our 18th adventure radio show and travel editor of a west-coast guest passes are required. century constitutional system, and the powers of Congress lifestyle print magazine. She has also been a long-time and the President under that constitutional system. We member of NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Jack Lessenberry is an Emmy- will then discuss the impact of the two-party political Association). As a volunteer on four Earthwatch projects, award winning journalist who system on that constitutional structure. Emphasis will be her last experience was working with African Parks in the taught at Wayne State relocation of 500 elephants in Malawi.

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 University for a quarter- in light of the Trump Presidency and the divided century, and who has written Congress, including the impeachment of the President and S1169 CUBA: BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS for many national and its aftermath. Thurs., May 7 regional publications. He now 10:00 a.m. - Noon writes and has a podcast at Lessenberryink.com Robert A. Sedler is Distinguished Professor of Law at INSTRUCTOR: Jim & Py Wolfe Wayne State University, where he teaches the courses in

Classes S1137 THE ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE OF THE Constitutional Law. He is a frequent SOAR lecturer. Join world-travelers Jim and Py Wolfe, as they land in MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT Havana, then travel cross-island to Cienfuegos and Tues., May 12 LITERATURELITERATURE Trinidad. We will visit Old Havana, ride in Classic cars, 10:00 am - Noon attend government-sponsored cultural events and church- INSTRUCTOR: Hon. Bridget Mary McCormack S1139 DICKINSON: QUESTIONS OF FAITH sponsored social services, visit an organic farm, a coffee Wed., May 20 plantation, dance clubs, and Hemingway’s house and People are generally familiar with the Supreme Court’s haunts. Classes 10:00 a.m. - Noon decision-making function, but less so with its INSTRUCTOR: Jane Donahue Eberwein administrative function. Through its support and Jim and Py are former teachers and administrators in

governance, the Court affects the way the public Bloomfield Hills. They have taught in China six times and Was Emily Dickinson a religious poet or a rebel against experiences all the courts of the state and the very justice travel to places that are often too remote or dangerous for the faith transmitted by church and family? In this class

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retiring. She has written on American poetry from the to do extensive research so their writing accurately TRAVELTRAVEL AND & CULTURE CULTURE S1164 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN OUR Puritans to the Twentieth Century with special attention reflects the history of the period. Using This Tender Land , WORLD TODAY to Emily Dickinson. Her latest project is an essay on the by William Kent Kreuger as the launching point this class Wed., May 20 S1166 ANTARCTICA – THE FINAL FRONTIER Dickinsons and Amherst’s First Congregational Church. will offer a one-hour look at the history of the Great 10:00 a.m. - Noon Mon., May 11 Depression, continuing with a discussion of the novel as     INSTRUCTOR: Charlie Welch 10:00 a.m. - Noon a piece of contemporary literature. Readers and history S1140 ROCK STARS OF THE AMERICAN buffs welcome! Participants should read This Tender INSTRUCTOR: Don Burlett COLONIAL PERIOD Land before the class. This lecture will provide a general overview of artificial Fri., May 1, 8, 15, 22 intelligence, how it works, how it is being applied today, A birding trip to Antarctica is a visit to one of the last 10:00 am – 12:30 p.m. Stan and Diane Henderson are avid and where it is going. We will also delve into natural frontiers on our planet. With its historical significance and INSTRUCTOR: Paula Finkelstein Limit 35 readers – Stan reads history, Diane language processing and personalization. Contemporary natural importance, Antarctica is a grand stage for Classes reads fiction. In other lives, Stan issues and concerns will be discussed including privacy, adventure. This lecture will cover a trip to the Falkland In this election year of 2020, we will look back on what would have been a history professor environmental impact, ethical design, and fake news. Islands, South Georgia Island, and Antarctica in a quest our founders wrote to define their vision of government. and Diane an English professor. They of birds, animals, and a majestic world of water and ice. Although many of the political texts we will review are have teamed up to share their passion Charlie is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan admired for their establishment of our Democratic for history and literature with the studying artificial intelligence and natural language Don is a retired research scientist, Republican form of government, they are, in their own SOAR community. In their previous worlds, Stan was the processing. His recent research focuses on personalizing President of Oakland Audubon Society, a right, excellent examples of literary rhetoric for their Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student language technology. He will be defending his thesis this long time American Birding Association Classes ability to educate, persuade, and inspire. Before class, Life at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and Diane summer and pursuing a career in academia. member and lifelong birder. He has please review the Declaration of Independence and the was an educational program planner and consultant. traveled to all seven continents and 40 Constitution. We will also examine excerpts from the countries in a quest to see birds. He has TRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION Federalist Papers and some of the letters of John and seen more than half the birds on the planet. S1142 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, BUT

Abigail Adams, among other pieces. PERHAPS NOT

S1165 LIFE CHANGER: THE STORY OF Mon., Apr. 27   S1167 BERLIN: HISTORY AND HIGHLIGHTS OF   DETROIT’S EARLY CAR MAKERS There will be a $5.00 materials fee, payable to the 10:00 a.m. - Noon A FASCINATING CITY Wed., May 6 instructor at the first class. Location: WSU Tierney Alumni House Thurs., May 14 10:00 a.m. – Noon INSTRUCTOR: Arthur F. Marotti Limit 22 10:00 a.m. - Noon th Location: Birmingham Temple Paula is entering her 16 year of INSTRUCTOR: Mariya Fogarasi teaching at SOAR. She continues to INSTRUCTOR: Arnold Collens We will examine this comedy, one of Shakespeare’s find stimulation from the students, “problem plays,” as a case study of audience

Classes In 1990, the German Parliament voted to move its capital enjoying all of what they have to Approximately 125 years ago, Detroit’s entry into the disorientation. Setting the drama against the model of city from Bonn back to reunited Berlin, which has now share. horseless carriage industry began on Woodward Avenue. romantic comedy the dramatist employed in his earlier resurfaced bigger, better and culturally stronger than ever Over a short period of time, Henry Ford, along with Olds, comedies, we will discuss the play’s efforts to upset before. Berlin has been called edgy, poor (financially), Buick, and Leland, began introducing cars. Backed by audience expectations and provoke them to rethink their rich (culturally), sexy, liberal, exciting, historical, local financiers and innovators, they sparked an industry notions of love, male-female relations, and human international, and never-ending. Mariya Fogarasi spent that changed the American way of life. We will explore agency. It would help to have some familiarity with ten years in this fascinating capital and will focus on the relationships between these fascinating men and their Shakespeare’s romantic comedies such as Much Ado Classes favorite highlights of a city that has joined the major cars while sharing intriguing stories and photos. About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. European capitals as a “must see.”

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serves as Director of the Emeritus Academy. He is the INSTRUCTOR: Michael Scrivener Paul Drummond is an award-winning educator with author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986); Manuscript, forty-seven years of experience. Paul has been the S1162 LEARN TO PLAY MAH-JONGG Print and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995); and president of the Metropolitan Detroit Science Teachers First, the topic: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and Her Tues., May 12, 19, 26, June 2 Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Association, the Michigan Science Teachers Association, Family. I'll be talking about Mary Wollstonecraft 10:00 a.m. - Noon

Classes Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England and is the Secretary of the Square One Education Shelley's great novel Frankenstein in the context of her INSTRUCTOR: Barbara Spreitzer-Berent (2005), and (with Steven W. May), Ink, Stink Bait, Network. He is currently providing professional Limit: 24 Revenge and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman’s parents--Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist pioneer, and development and curriculum support for the Macomb William Godwin, her father and author of a philosophical Household Book (2014). He has edited or co-edited ten Intermediate School District. Mah-jongg is a game of skill, strategy, and chance usually collections of essays, including (with Ken Jackson), treatise supporting anarchism, along with her husband Percy Bysshe, a Romantic poet, political activist, and played by four people. Similar to card games such as Gin Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and SENIOR ISSUES radical writer. If you're reading the novel, I recommend SENIOR ISSUES Rummy, the object is to collect winning sets of game   Postmodern Perspectives (2011). His current research is 

 pieces called tiles. This 4-week class is aimed at beginners on early modern English manuscript poetry and English the 1818 edition, not the 1831 edition. who have never played mah-jongg. Participants will be Catholic culture. S1160 BALANCE AND FALL PREVENTION Distinguished Professor of English at WSU, I have learning the equipment, process, rules, conventions and Tues., May 19 published much on Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Godwin, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. strategies of the game with supervision. S1143 POETRY OF E. E. CUMMINGS and Wollstonecraft. I also wrote four monographs on INSTRUCTOR: Ashley Peczynski Tues., May 26 Romanticism and Jewish Studies. I started teaching at An $8 materials fee is payable to the instructor on the

Classes 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. WSU in 1976. I am currently in phased retirement. first day of class. Attend this course to learn strategies and exercises to help INSTRUCTOR: Frank D. Rashid Feel free to contact me with questions. with improving stability in order to prevent falls and Barbara Spreitzer-Berent is a noted We will examine several of Cummings’s poems about injury. speaker and experienced instructor in a MUSICMUSIC love, nature, and society as examples of seemingly radical variety of areas of expertise. She plays Ashley is a physical therapist who specializes in the modernist innovation combined with content that harkens Mah jongg with numerous local groups treatment of neurological, vestibular, and geriatric back to the Romantic period and earlier. His poems are S1145 BLUES MUSIC AND ITS EFFECT ON for the fun and challenge of the game. populations. She holds a Doctorate of Physical Therapy Classes irreverent, funny, sensual, challenging, and often AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC from Grand Valley State University with additional conventional products of his time and place. Tues., May 26 courses taken related to balance and falls prevention. She 10:00 a.m. – Noon has 3 years of clinical experience working at Henry Ford SPORTSSPORTS Frank D. Rashid is professor emeritus of English, former Location: Birmingham Temple Health System. dean and department chair, and co- INSTRUCTOR: Henry Feinberg

founder of the Institute for Detroit S1163 WHEN IT WAS A GAME: BASEBALL AND

  S1161 SCAM PREVENTION AND HOME THE DETROIT TIGERS IN THE 1950’S 

 Studies at Marygrove College. He is The music of African Americans has had a long influence editor of the Literary Map of Detroit on that of white Americans. That influence can be seen SAFETY Wed., May 27 and co-editor of Tiger Stadium: Essays from the days of the minstrel show in the 1800’s to the Thurs., May 7 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. and Memories of Detroit’s Historic emergence of Blues and Ragtime music after the Civil 10:00 a.m. - Noon INSTRUCTOR: Jerry Nechal Ballpark, and he has published on War and on into the Broadway, Jazz, and Rock and Roll INSTRUCTOR: Monica Kollar and Heather Detroit literature, history, and culture. music of the modern era. This presentation will look at Bowman This class will cover Major League baseball in what some A lifelong Detroiter long active in local both Delta Blues and Piedmont Blues and show how their have called the “Golden Era” before expansion, scandals, Classes social causes, Rashid works on housing and practitioners, like Sonny Terry and Muddy Waters, were In this digital era, it has never been easier for cyber and free agency: a time when baseball was the “National neighborhood issues and opposes public subsidies for directly responsible for the music of George Gershwin, criminals to take advantage of our citizens. This talk Pastime” with bonus babies, colorful players, cheap seats, professional sports and other forms of corporate welfare. Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric focuses on the strategies being used to defraud and steal and more. The Detroit Tigers of the 1950’s will be the Clapton, and Bonnie Raitt. During this presentation we the identities of innocent hard-working people. Home center point of the discussion which will include will be listening to many classic recordings from the Safety will focus on ways to protect your home from differences in the game, memorable players and events, beginning to the end of the 20th century as well as to live criminals. Yankee rivalry, Hall of Famers, no hitters, batting

Classes musical performances. champs, etc. Some less “Golden” elements will also be Monica Kollar and Heather Bowman are Crime discussed like tight ownership control and the slow pace Henry Feinberg is a musician, composer and music Prevention Technicians for the Farmington Hills Police of integration. instructor. He has taught music history classes at Department. Their primary focus is to educate residents Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills since on ways to prevent crime and maintain a safe environment Jerry Nechal was raised in the Detroit area and attended

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Janice Fialka and Rich Feldman are the parents of Micah harmonica at various venues in metropolitan Detroit. of D-Mercy, SOAR Wayne State and Macomb, other Fialka Feldman who is a disability Justice leader and S1158 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE senior groups and organizations, and at a convention of HIDDEN JEWS OF ETHIOPIA pioneer in inclusion. Janice Fialka S1146 EXPERIENCING OPERA the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors. Mon., June 1 (www.danceofpartnership.com) is a national speaker, Wed. & Thurs., April 29, 30 10:00 a.m. - Noon trainer, and author of numerous articles and books. Her 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. S1148 FROM GREEN PASTURES TO 12 YEARS A INSTRUCTOR: Rabbi Josh Bennett most recent book is What Matters: Reflections on INSTRUCTOR: Martin Herman Limit 65 SLAVE: A SURVEY OF NEGRO

Classes Disability, Community and Love. SPIRITUALS IN FILM In this course, Rabbi Josh Bennett will share the amazing Pagliacci, Leoncavallo’s short (70 minutes) two-act Wed., May 6 Rich is a long time Detroit labor and community activist story of the Hidden Jews of Ethiopia. We will explore the opera—a quintessential example of operatic verismo 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. who works with the James and history of the Ethiopian Jewish Community and discover loosely based on a real-life incident—will be performed INSTRUCTOR: Eldonna L. May Grace Lee Boggs Center to the roots of an African Jewish presence in the ancient by the Michigan Opera Theatre during its spring season: nurture Community Leadership. Aksumite Kingdom. Following a trail of clues and

May 9th through May 17th. Often staged as part of a Through lecture, discussion, and examination of film   He worked 20 years on the historical narratives, we will investigate the possibility 

 double bill—most frequently paired with Cavalleria clips, this course will explore the utilization of Negro assembly line at Ford Motor that the Ark of the Covenant resides today in modern Rusticana—MOT’s production of Pagliacci will be an Spirituals in films from the earliest “talkies” to the Company, 10 years as an elected Ethiopia. All of this leads to the recent discovery of a union leader, and almost 10 years on the International “Jewishly Rooted” population in Addis Ababa and North expanded and stand-alone version of the opera, details of Twentieth century. Participants will consider and discuss which will be discussed during Day One prior to a the role of the spiritual in film and its overall contribution staff. He co-edited the book End of the Line: Auto- Shewa. Join Rabbi Bennett as he shares stories, images, screening of the opera in its entirety. On Day Two, a to plot development, cinematography, and film scores. workers and the American Dream in 1988. and videos from his recent trip to support “The Hidden discussion and screening of Puccini’s even shorter (55

Jews of Ethiopia.” Classes minutes) Gianni Schichi, the comedic conclusion of his An accomplished academic, Eldonna L.

S1157 WORKING TOGETHER WHEN WE Trittico—three contrasting one-act operas— which is May, certified online professor and two- Rabbi Bennett has served as one of the spiritual leaders DON’T AGREE occasionally paired with Pagliacci, will provide both time Fulbright award recipient, is a of Temple Israel, Michigan since his ordination from the Wed., May 27 complement and contrast. veteran faculty member of the 10:00 a.m. - Noon Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1994. He holds a master’s degree of Hebrew Letters as well as an Department of Music at Wayne State INSTRUCTOR: Lindsay Tye Martin Herman, Emeritus Professor of Humanities at University. Her specialty is Twentieth Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew Union College. Rabbi WSU, is a musicologist by training, but has devoted much Century Music History, including African Bennett has focused his energies on Jewish youth Classes • of his academic career to Interdisciplinary Humanistic and African-American music. A dynamic Learn techniques that enhance conflict throughout his career. His proudest accomplishment in Studies and Comparative Arts. He offers programs about international presenter and scholar, Dr. May has management and communication effectiveness. the realm of youth work is in the connection of American • music and music-related subjects—particularly but not published extensively and authored for prestigious Recognize circumstances that create barriers to teens to the State of Israel. During his career, he has taken exclusively opera—to diverse audiences in the Detroit publications including The New Grove Dictionary of successful communication. more than 1,400 students to explore the Jewish homeland. Metropolitan area. Music, 2 ed.; SAGE/Golson Media’s Music in the Social • Prevent or reduce the likelihood of conflict More than any of this, he prefers playing baseball in the and Behavioral Sciences; and ABC CLIO’s Music Around escalating into disputes using a variety of conflict back yard with his wife Meg, his beautiful curly-headed   

 the World: A Global Encyclopedia. techniques and strategies. daughter Madison, and two adorable sons, Zachary and S1147 SINATRA!

Jacob while rooting for the Tigers in their chase for the Wed., May 27 Lindsay Tye is the Mediation, Education, and Outreach pennant! 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. S1149 DETROIT: RAGTIME & THE JAZZ AGE Supervisor at Oakland Mediation Center. Working in a Location: Birmingham Temple Fri., May 8 nonprofit at OMC allows Lindsay to see the successes of SCIENCESCIENCE INSTRUCTOR: Stuart Johnson 10:00 a.m. – Noon effective communication and the immediate impacts Location: Birmingham Temple Classes mediation has on individuals. She is also an outdoor Whether called “Frankie,” “The Voice,” “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” INSTRUCTOR: Jon Milan enthusiast and dog lover! S1159 SCIENCE EDUCATION AND WORK or “The Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra was the FORCE DEVELOPMENT greatest singer of popular music in the 20th Century. Sub- A Look at Detroit’s Rich Musical Heritage 1890-1940, Wed., May 27 titled “The Beginning, The Middle, The End” this through vintage photos, shared memories and musical 10:00 a.m. - Noon presentation will cover his career through the ups and examples. Drawing on his many years of experience as a INSTRUCTOR: Paul Drummond downs and overs and outs in song and pictures from his pianist, historian, educator and lecturer, Detroit-based birth in 1915 to his death in 1998. journalist, Jon Milan provides a rare look at an important Classes The presentation will describe the focus of professional period in the city’s rich musical heritage. development and instructional practices in light of the In 2007, as an outreach of the Michigan Jazz Record Next Generation Science Standards. It will also highlight Collectors (MJRC), Stu began and continues to lecture on Detroit has always been at the forefront of American the Square One Education Network’s efforts to bring the Jazz and Jazz related topics at numerous locations popular music development, and the ragtime years, jazz standards to life for K-12 students through programs that

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age and big band eras were no exception. The city’s long S1151 CENTER FOR ZOO AND AQUARIUM at Meadow Brook as part of The Saharan Africa as a US Peace Corps volunteer working history of ethnic, racial and musical diversity has served ANIMAL WELFARE AND ETHICS, Detroit Playwrights' Lab: New Plays, with and learning from traditional African shamans. She Classes the region well, creating a fertile environment for creating DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY New Voices. She has also performed as holds an MBA in marketing and communications as well and nurturing some of America’s best as a Master’s degree in Metaphysical Science and a PhD -known and Tues., May 19 the character in her book, Annie Finds distinctly indigenous forms of music. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Her Magic: Helen Keller's teacher and in Philosophy. INSTRUCTOR: Grace Fuller, Ph.D. shares her story in a one woman show Learn about many of the musicians, composers, throughout the country. PSYCHOLOGYPSYCHOLOGY publishers and entrepreneurs who cemented Detroit’s This course will provide an overview of animal welfare

Classes significant role in the development of popular American th th research initiatives at the Center for Zoo and Aquarium S1155 EFFECTIVE LISTENING music in the late 19 and early 20 centuries. S1153 RUNNING AN ART THEATER IN THE Animal Welfare and Ethics (CZAAWE) of the Detroit Thurs., May 21, 28 STREAMING AGE Zoological Society. Participants will hear about the 10:00 a.m. - Noon Jon Milan is a Detroit-based freelance author, pianist, Thurs., May 21 variety of techniques utilized to understand the quality of INSTRUCTOR: Mel Chudnof and music historian. He frequently lectures on Michigan- 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. life that animals experience living in the care of humans. Limit: 80 related subjects and has written five books including INSTRUCTOR: Jon Goldstein Topics include using infrared thermography to understand   Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age, Arcadia, 2009; and 

 the emotional responses of gorillas to interactions with Old Chicago Road. Arcadia, 2011. His most recent Are you sometimes frustrated because your spouse, adult humans, measuring rates of DNA repair during grizzly There will be over 25 different streaming services by the books, co-authored with Gail Offen, include: Grand River children or grandchildren will not open up and talk to bear construction, and what pressure sensors can tell us end of 2020. How does an art theater survive when so Avenue: Detroit to Lake Michigan, Arcadia 2014; Iconic you? Effective listening can help tremendously. Some about the welfare of penguins. many films are going straight to the TV? Restaurants of Ann Arbor, Arcadia, 2016 and Michigan people are good listeners most of the time, while others

Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces, Arcadia, 2019. He can do it some of the time. Good listening is essential to Grace Fuller manages animal Jon Goldstein has owned and operated Highline

has written for The Detroit Metro Times, Detroit Monthly effective parenting or grandparenting, effective Classes welfare research and Investments for 17 years. Mr. Goldstein received a Magazine, and The Detroit Area Convention and Visitors management and teaching, and for well-balanced monitoring efforts for the Master’s of Business Administration Degree in Finance Bureau Magazine. He has spent his professional career friendships and other relationships. While it is not Detroit Zoological Society. from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts as a corporate communications manager. inborn, it is not difficult to learn. Effort needs to be made These studies utilize data Degree in Communications from the University of to develop this skill, and unlearning existing habits is collected from behavioral Michigan. He lives and works in Bloomfield Hills, sometimes necessary. NATURENATURE AND & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT observations as well as Michigan.

physiological measures developed in the endocrinology This class will be a meaningful, yet lighthearted, Classes lab at the Zoo. Grace joined the DZS in 2014 after a post- S1150 NATURALIST-OUTDOOR EDUCATOR PHILOSOPHYPHILOSOPHY interactive workshop in effective listening and doc studying slow lorises in Indonesia for Oxford Brookes Tues., May 12 communication skills. (This class is a repeat of a popular University, having completed her PhD research through 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. course taught in the past). Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and Case Western Reserve S1154 SECULAR BUDDHISM FOR THE INSTRUCTOR: Joe Derek University studying lighting design for nocturnal WESTERN MIND Mel Chudnof, Ph.D., retired after 43 years primates. Mon., May 11 Creating a backyard habitat is fun and educational. as a professor of psychology and social   1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 

natural world. therapist, and consulted with businesses This class will explore the teachings of the Buddha with and community agencies. He is an avid S1152 THE GRANDMOTHER PROJECT a focus on their value and relevance to people living in Joe Derek has loved nature since Thurs., Apr. 30 world traveler, social activist, volunteer, childhood and is the former our own time. Buddhist teachings have informed both and a proud father and grandfather. He has enjoyed 10:00 a.m. - Noon secular spirituality emphasizing personal growth and Classes Farmington Hills City INSTRUCTOR: Collette Cullen teaching for SOAR for eight years. Naturalist. He has conducted inner peace, as well as many aspects of cognitive psychology. We will look at the Buddha’s teachings as classes and seminars on nature The Grandmother Project is a storytelling tribute to the both a guide and a method for achieving full human S1156 REFLECTIONS ON DISABILITY, and the outdoors since 1977. He COMMUNITY AND LOVE hosted “Naturally Michigan history of the strong women who have in the past, and still flourishing in this life and this world. Thurs., May 21 Afield” for four years at WCAR AM and WHND A.M. today, contribute so much to the foundation of Detroit Peggi is a certified Integrative Wellness 10:00 a.m. - Noon radio plus he hosted nature related television shows on area communities. Classes and Life Coach. After a corporate INSTRUCTOR: Richard Feldman & Janice Fialka local Channel 8 while he worked for Farmington Hills. Cullen, an author and actor, has been recognized for career with Xerox which included

several prior works and at the 2018 Fringe Festival and designing and delivering training Intelligent Lives, Participants will view the film which 2018 Dearborn Random Acts Theater Awards. Most programs to managers both in the US portrays three individuals with intellectual disabilities. recently, her script Shedding Skin was selected to be read and abroad, she spent two years in sub- You will hear the voices of community, circles of support,

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Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces, Arcadia, 2019. He can do it some of the time. Good listening is essential to Grace Fuller manages animal Jon Goldstein has owned and operated Highline has written for The Detroit Metro Times, Detroit Monthly effective parenting or grandparenting, effective Classes welfare research and Investments for 17 years. Mr. Goldstein received a Magazine, and The Detroit Area Convention and Visitors management and teaching, and for well-balanced monitoring efforts for the Master’s of Business Administration Degree in Finance Bureau Magazine. He has spent his professional career friendships and other relationships. While it is not Detroit Zoological Society. from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts as a corporate communications manager. inborn, it is not difficult to learn. Effort needs to be made These studies utilize data Degree in Communications from the University of to develop this skill, and unlearning existing habits is collected from behavioral Michigan. He lives and works in Bloomfield Hills, sometimes necessary. NATURENATURE AND & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT observations as well as Michigan.

 Inviting the world of nature in from a balcony, patio, or INSTRUCTOR: Peggi Tabor work. During his career, he also backyard, anyone can make a home for some form of our PERFORMINGPERFORMING ARTSARTS maintained a private practice as a natural world. therapist, and consulted with businesses This class will explore the teachings of the Buddha with and community agencies. He is an avid S1152 THE GRANDMOTHER PROJECT a focus on their value and relevance to people living in Joe Derek has loved nature since Thurs., Apr. 30 world traveler, social activist, volunteer, childhood and is the former our own time. Buddhist teachings have informed both and a proud father and grandfather. He has enjoyed 10:00 a.m. - Noon secular spirituality emphasizing personal growth and Classes Farmington Hills City INSTRUCTOR: Collette Cullen teaching for SOAR for eight years. Naturalist. He has conducted inner peace, as well as many aspects of cognitive psychology. We will look at the Buddha’s teachings as classes and seminars on nature The Grandmother Project is a storytelling tribute to the both a guide and a method for achieving full human S1156 REFLECTIONS ON DISABILITY, and the outdoors since 1977. He COMMUNITY AND LOVE hosted “Naturally Michigan history of the strong women who have in the past, and still flourishing in this life and this world. Thurs., May 21 Afield” for four years at WCAR AM and WHND A.M. today, contribute so much to the foundation of Detroit Peggi is a certified Integrative Wellness 10:00 a.m. - Noon radio plus he hosted nature related television shows on area communities. Classes and Life Coach. After a corporate INSTRUCTOR: Richard Feldman & Janice Fialka local Channel 8 while he worked for Farmington Hills. Cullen, an author and actor, has been recognized for career with Xerox which included several prior works and at the 2018 Fringe Festival and designing and delivering training Intelligent Lives, Participants will view the film which 2018 Dearborn Random Acts Theater Awards. Most programs to managers both in the US portrays three individuals with intellectual disabilities. recently, her script Shedding Skin was selected to be read and abroad, she spent two years in sub- You will hear the voices of community, circles of support,

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family, and siblings. RELIGIONRELIGION 2002 and has coached numerous piano and harmonica throughout the Metro Detroit Area including libraries, students. He also performs regularly on the piano and the Adult Learning Institute, the Music Theatre class at U Classes

Jews of Ethiopia.” Classes minutes) Gianni Schichi, the comedic conclusion of his An accomplished academic, Eldonna L.

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Ave, Detroit MI 48202. Parking at rear of the building. S1144 FRANKENSTEIN, MARY SHELLEY AND engage the students in the Science and Engineering for themselves and their families. HER FAMILY Practices. Finally, it will describe how it all connects to Classes Arthur F. Marotti is Distinguished Professor of English workforce development. Tues., April 28 SPECIALSPECIAL INTEREST Emeritus at Wayne State University, where he currently 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. serves as Director of the Emeritus Academy. He is the INSTRUCTOR: Michael Scrivener Paul Drummond is an award-winning educator with author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986); Manuscript, forty-seven years of experience. Paul has been the S1162 LEARN TO PLAY MAH-JONGG Print and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995); and president of the Metropolitan Detroit Science Teachers First, the topic: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and Her Tues., May 12, 19, 26, June 2 Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Association, the Michigan Science Teachers Association, Family. I'll be talking about Mary Wollstonecraft 10:00 a.m. - Noon

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his first Tiger game in the 1950’s. His essays on baseball Arnold Collens has degrees in we will consider several aspects of this question: the S1141 THE HISTORY AND THE LITERATURE: have been published in numerous baseball anthologies education and business from Wayne impact of growing up in an era of revivalism; reaching THIS TENDER LAND Classes and the Baseball Research Journal. He is a member of State University. He is a retiree from poetic maturity during the Civil War; and the influences Mon., June 1 the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR), the the business world, a lifetime traveler, of Darwinism and new biblical scholarship. Our most 10:00 a.m. - Noon Mayo Smith Society and the Eddie Lake Society. He is a a trained photographer and an avid revealing evidence comes from her poems along with INSTRUCTORS: Diane and Stan Henderson storyteller of Detroit’s growth and graduate of both the University of Detroit and Wayne insights offered by readers of various backgrounds. Limit 60 State University. history. Arnie leads tours and lectures using his personal photo gallery as a Jane Donahue Eberwein taught American literature and Historical novels tell interesting stories about a time, a Classes TECHNOLOGYTECHNOLOGY vehicle to highlight his presentations. American studies at Oakland University from 1969 to 2007 and has been teaching poetry for SOAR since place and the people who live there, requiring the authors

language processing and personalization. Contemporary natural importance, Antarctica is a grand stage for Classes reads fiction. In other lives, Stan issues and concerns will be discussed including privacy, adventure. This lecture will cover a trip to the Falkland In this election year of 2020, we will look back on what would have been a history professor environmental impact, ethical design, and fake news. Islands, South Georgia Island, and Antarctica in a quest our founders wrote to define their vision of government. and Diane an English professor. They of birds, animals, and a majestic world of water and ice. Although many of the political texts we will review are have teamed up to share their passion Charlie is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan admired for their establishment of our Democratic for history and literature with the studying artificial intelligence and natural language Don is a retired research scientist, Republican form of government, they are, in their own SOAR community. In their previous worlds, Stan was the processing. His recent research focuses on personalizing President of Oakland Audubon Society, a right, excellent examples of literary rhetoric for their Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student language technology. He will be defending his thesis this long time American Birding Association Classes ability to educate, persuade, and inspire. Before class, Life at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and Diane summer and pursuing a career in academia. member and lifelong birder. He has please review the Declaration of Independence and the was an educational program planner and consultant. traveled to all seven continents and 40 Constitution. We will also examine excerpts from the countries in a quest to see birds. He has TRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION Federalist Papers and some of the letters of John and seen more than half the birds on the planet. S1142 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, BUT Abigail Adams, among other pieces. PERHAPS NOT

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relations, the regional complexities of the Middle East, at the newspaper. He is the author of several books

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ALL LOCATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CHECK CONFIRMATION LETTER OR WEBSITE FOR CHANGES. time that fostered the ascendancy of this large and very 1945. The furthest east they were discovered was in Field Trip wealthy social movement: specifically, the prevailing Michigan. This talk will discuss general outlines of the PAGLIACCI (Ruggero Leoncavallo) anti-Semitism, anti-Romanism, and other prejudices seen balloon attacks followed by a detailed description of the at the dawn of the 20th century. Focus will be placed upon two balloons which were discovered at the border area of the spread of the groups in Michigan and the various Kent & Allegan counties and in the Detroit suburbs of Michigan Opera Theatre Dress Rehearsal $35.00 reasons why the Great Lakes State became such a hotbed Farmington. SSocietyO of ActiveA RetireesR for what was then called “kluxing.” Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (Doors open at 10:00 a.m.) Michael Unsworth is a retired

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S1116 A SAINT IN OUR MIDST? THE STORY OF male and female characters and the themes they enact.

discuss why. Mark Wenzel is a part-time faculty member in the WSU Philosophy Department and has been teaching

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Classes first time in over a decade; outpaced the state in at or City. His daytime and evening television programs from above grade level performance in literacy and "Lunch with Soupy Sales" at noon to "Soupy's On" at 11 mathematics; demonstrated the second highest p.m. established him as a mainstay of television for kids improvement in 4th grade mathematics in the nation; and adults alike. In addition to reviewing his background restored art/music and physical education in all schools; and career during the period from 1953-1960, this increased teacher salaries by nearly $9K and reduced workshop will consider Soupy's connection to the social   teacher vacancies; increased student attendance and   and cultural scene in 1950's Detroit. decreased chronic absenteeism: initiated a Parent Academy that has engaged over 6,000 parents; and Francis Shor is an Emeritus Professor of History at maintained three years of a balanced budget with a 10% Wayne State University. He is the author of four books, reserve. the most recent being Weaponized Whiteness: The

Public Education and Community Engagement (P.E.A.C.E.) Project. FILMFILM

    EDUCATIONEDUCATION S1115 THE MOVIE CLUB Thurs., May 7, 14, 21, 28 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. S1114 THE STATE OF DETROIT PUBLIC INSTRUCTOR: Mike Beltzman SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT Mon., May 11 Field Trip 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Participants will gain tools that they can use to expand INSTRUCTOR: Nikolai Vitti their film-watching experience. Over a four-week period, students will have the opportunity to discuss a variety of thematic films. Story line, acting, and character Join Dr. Vitti for a discussion about the state of Detroit motivation will all be part of discussions. Public Schools Community District. Come learn about equitable school funding and the District’s efforts to Mike attended Detroit schools and graduated from Wayne improve student outcomes. State University. Since retiring, he has led film Classes discussions in Michigan and Florida. He has also Dr. Nikolai Vitti was appointed as Superintendent of participated in film festivals for many years. Mike has the Detroit Public Schools Community District on May 23, ability to promote discussion and create an enjoyable 2017 on a five-year contract. In his first year, Dr. Vitti classroom experience. worked closely with the Detroit Board of Education to

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degrees in economics from Aquinas College in Grand

Rev. Fowler has been a pastor in Classes Rapids and her MBA from Nichols College in Dudley, Detroit for 33 years; she has also Massachusetts. served as Executive Director of Cass

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Before he shot the president of the United States and S1107 “SECOND HOMES” AS THE PRIMARY   entered the annals of history as an assassin, actor John 

 RESIDENCE OF THE SOUL Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. Booth was Thurs., Apr. 30 hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. womanizer. This lecture isn't about John Wilkes Booth, INSTRUCTOR: Charles R. Eisendrath the assassin. It's about the women in his life, some of whom were notorious in their own right: women who Charles R. Eisendrath just published Downstream from Field Trip were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak: Here and will discuss several of the essays from his book. women whose lives took wild turns before and after

Lincoln's assassination. After Time Magazine assignments in Washington, Europe and South America, Eisendrath founded Wallace House Ernest Lawrence Abel is emeritus professor at Wayne at the University of Michigan, home of the Knight- State University School of Medicine, former Director of the University’s Mott Center for Human Growth and Wallace Fellows and the Livingston Awards. His patented Grillworks is made near Overlook farm, where Development, and past President of two International Classes he produces cherries and maple syrup. science societies. He is currently a member of the

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SOAR Spring 2020 Class, Field Trips & Special Events Listing by Date .……………………… 3-6

Policies/Procedures………………………………………………………………………….…...... 7

SOAR Spring 2020 Class Calendar …………………………….………………………………..….8

Classes ……………………………………………………………………………….….…..……9-27

Field Trip/Special Events Calendar …………………………………………………….………… 28

Field Trips ……………………………………………………………………………....………29-38

*Register online at www.soarexplore.com* Register Fonlineor all Classe s,at Field www.soarexplore.com Trips, and Special Events for all Classes, Field Trips, and Special Events 46 SOAR Board Members and Staff Members

Patricia Baldwin Rose Marie Battey Mike Beltzman Barbara Spreitzer-Berent Board Member-At-Large Chair, Field Trips Committee Co-Chair, Special Events Board Member-At-Large Committee

Al Darold Dan Harmon Diane Henderson Martin Herman Member-At-Large Immediate Past Chair Chair, Planning Committee Chair, By-Laws Committee

Jerry Nechal Sharon O’Brien Ron Rose Ralph Stromberg Chair, Marketing Committee Founder and Past Chair Board Member-At-Large Chair, Curriculum and Instruction Committee

Elaine Yaker Dionna Lloyd Ronda O’Neal Lisa Hill Co-Chair, Special Events Executive Director Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant Committee

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