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Celebrate Spring with OLLI

The spring semester begins on April 8 and continues through May 24. The Curriculum Council has put together an exciting and eclectic array of courses and lecturers. Classes will be held throughout the county, at the following locations: BCC Pittsfield BCC; Berkshire Museum BMP; The Clark TCW; Frelinghuysen-Morris House, Lenox FML; BCC South County Center, Great Barrington SCC; Spirited, Williams College WCW.

Please refer to the spring 2016 Catalog or visit www.BerkshireOLLI.org for more details.

Great Decisions – James Cotter – BCC The History of Gangs – William Sturgeon - BCC Shakespeare’s Comedies – Richard Matturro – BCC Aspects of Jazz: Vocal Tradition, Rhythm and Composition Call for Photos of MON. – T. Atchison, P. Coombs, R. Evans, T. Murray, S. Rosen, R. Suters – BCC Berkshire Autumn

The Bright and Dark Sides of Soccer – Alan Rubin – SCC OLLI invites photographers to Today’s Headlines – Leonard Tabs – SCC submit photos of autumn in the Theatre Out Loud: A Play Reading Workshop – Karel Fisher – SCC Berkshires for our fall catalog cover Getting Hooked on Fly Fishing – William Travis, Henry Sweren, Ben contest. Images should be color, high-

t ue s . Woods – BCC & other locations resolution JPGs or TIFFs (at least 3 MB) Voices from the Berkshire Edge – David Scribner, Marcie Setlow – SCC and horizontally oriented. Please email submissions to [email protected]. Beyond Photography: Training Your Creative Eye – Thaddeus Kubis – The contest winner will receive a free various locations one-year OLLI membership and their Let’s Go Baja California – WCW photograph will be on the cover of the The Art of Observation – Jock Brooks & Herbert Diamond – TCW, BMP Fall 2016 OLLI catalog. The deadline The Power of Narrative – Leyla Rouhi – WCW for submissions is May 6. W E D. Contemporary Music – E. Golin, I. Perez Velasquez, S. Dankner, Z. Wadsworth, W. A. Sheppard – WCW Spring 2016 Photo Birding in the Berkshires – Ed Neumuth – BCC and other locations Contest Winner Passionate Song: The Story of King David – Rabbi J. Breindel – BCC The Garden Motif in Literature – Wende Greenberg – BCC Jane McWhorter of Great Barring- Kubrick Country – Dan Valenti – BCC ton submitted the winning photo

TH U RS. Watching Dance with a Dancer’s Eye – Megan Reisel – BCC for the Spring 2016 OLLI Catalog cover. It was taken at a pond in Great Enriching Your Modern Art Experience – Kinney Frelinghuysen – FML Barrington. Jane is a graphic artist/ Berkshire Theatre 2016: An Insider’s Preview – Karel Fisher, Barbara photographer who designs the OLLI Waldinger, Nancy Vale – BCC catalog and newsletter. She teaches

FRI. Our Current Healthcare System Decoded: What You Need to Know – workshops on Digital Photography, G. Josephson, B. Liptzin, W. Mertens, D. Salvatore, S. Sweet – BCC Adobe Photoshop and InDesign at BCC South County Center. President’s Message OLLI Leadership

Our fourteen winter semester classes have been completed. I’m pleased to Academy Returns report that our enrollment and attendance increased over prior years. OLLI is a member-run organization. We held an Open House to attract new members this past December at the With over 150 volunteers, OLLI Whitney Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsfield. Total attendance exceeded members design curriculum, teach 100 OLLI members, instructors, and prospects. It produced 17 new OLLI classes, organize special events, edit memberships. I extend heartfelt thanks to the Membership Committee for their the catalog and newsletter, and serve hard work to produce this event and to our OLLI instructors for their interesting on our board and our committees. For presentations. Our membership currently stands at 1,035. Our goal is to end the many members, becoming an active fiscal year on June 30 at 1,050 or more. OLLI volunteer has been the gateway Our next Open House will be held at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox on to new friendships, new experiences Tuesday April 5, from 10 to 11:30 am, to preview our spring semester. Attendance and new knowledge. by OLLI members is most welcome. Also, mark your calendars for the evening of To give prospective volunteer lead- May 27, when OLLI will hold its Annual Meeting followed by the Mona Sherman ers the information and training they Memorial Lecture. I hope to see a large turnout. need, OLLI established the Leader- On a sad note, I am sorry to inform you that Warren Hagler, Co-Chair of our ship Academy in 2012 and will offer Distinguished Speakers Series, passed away in Florida in December. Warren was it again this June. Held on Monday an energetic, dedicated and long-time volunteer and contributor to OLLI. We mornings from 9am to 1pm, the Acad- extend our sincere condolences to his wife, Hope. emy provides training in leadership As all of you know, OLLI courses, events, trips, and lectures are all created, skills, non-profit operations, OLLI pol- organized, and implemented by our outstanding volunteers, and we are very icies and procedures. It even includes grateful for their efforts. If you are interested in joining a committee or in Monty Python’s hilarious video on teaching a class on a favorite subject, kindly call our Executive Director, Megan how not to lead a meeting. Whilden, at (413) 236-2192 for further information. — Leonard Tabs Leadership Academy training is provided at no charge for up to 15 members each year. We invite 2016 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture to applications from all OLLI members who would like to take an active role Feature Author and Columnist Joe Klein in contributing to OLLI’s continued success. Watch your inbox for a call Every May, OLLI presents the annual Mona for applications. For more information Sherman Memorial Lecture, created by former call the OLLI Office at 413-236-2190.­ OLLI President Arthur Sherman in memory of — Megan Whilden. his wife Mona, who was also a former OLLI President and founder of OLLI’s Distinguished Speakers Series. The Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture is held after our annual meeting and is Strategic Plan free and open to the public. Adopted This year we are excited to host bestselling author and TIME magazine columnist Joe The OLLI Board of Directors has Klein. Joe is the author of seven books, most adopted a new strategic plan that will recently Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes who chart the organization’s way forward Brought their Mission Home. As “Anonymous,” for the next three to five years. It Klein wrote Primary Colors, a best-selling and sets out a comprehensive, forward- critically acclaimed novel inspired by the looking set of goals for OLLI. For each 1992 political race. Klein has written articles goal, it sets specific strategies, assigns and book reviews for The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, The a responsible staff person or OLLI Washington Post, LIFE and Rolling Stone. A member of the Council on Foreign committee and projects a time frame. Relations and a former Guggenheim fellow, he has a weekly TIME column, “In The plan was produced by a the Arena,” which covers national and international affairs. A book signing will Strategic Plan Committee, led by Carl follow his lecture. Shuster and Howard Shapiro. The The 2016 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture will be held on Friday, May 27 committee conducted an extensive at 6 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in downtown Great Barrington. review of current factual information, OLLI’s annual meeting, also free and open to all, will be held beforehand at 5 including the changing demographics pm, also at the Mahaiwe. (continued on next page) 2 (Strategic Plan continued) Winter Open House Draws 100 and needs of the retirement population in the Berkshires. It also examined OLLI’s past and present policies and held an open meeting with OLLI members. One of its key findings was that vast and underutilized human resources are available within the OLLI membership. The plan sets forth the following overall objectives:

• Provide diverse offerings, in a vari- Photos by S usan Geller ety of venues, of quality program- ming to meet the needs of the current and future membership. • Assure the prudent management of all funds in accordance with OLLI’s budgetary goals and pro- vide a platform for the long term achievement of OLLI’s mission. The well provided food table draws a crowd. • Grow the membership so that OLLI has a sufficient revenue stream to accomplish its goals and objectives. • Broaden marketing to the popu- lation at large with the goal of attracting more people to OLLI membership and to program par- ticipation. • Create the opportunity for OLLI members to be involved in activi- ties that support the community and improve relationships with our partners and the Berkshire community at large. • Improve the opportunity for membership participation in the Clockwise starting above: Norah Bresnahan functioning of OLLI through com- and Tom Koelle register guests. mittees, board and leadership roles. Science Co-Chair Tony Segal and Board Many of the strategies outlined in Member Tom Koelle. the Plan are already being implement- ed. Copies of the new plan are avail- Executive Director Megan Whilden shares a able at the OLLI office. moment with Adele Cukor.

Leon Nesis and Board Member Shirley Shapiro. Special events

The OLLI snowbird Special Events Committee is planning a wonder- ful afternoon in Sarasota, Florida on Thursday, March 24. The participants will be among the first to visit the Ringling Museum’s newly renovated Asian Art Wing and enjoy a guided tour of Samurai: The Way of the Warrior exhibit, followed by a luncheon.

3 OLLI’s Community Robert Sterling Clark and the Institute Engagement and He Founded Mentoring Program Robert Sterling Clark, OLLI is supporting expansion in founder of the Sterling a new direction: community engage- and Francine Clark Art ment. The goal is to marshal the con- Institute, was born into siderable human resources that exist the Gilded Age in New within OLLI for the benefit of the York City in 1877. His Berkshire community. Carole Siegel wealth was derived from and Claudia Shuster are leading this his grandfather Edward effort. Clark’s extensive estate. The first step has been to revive Valued at about $50 the OLLI/BCC Mentoring program, million, it included pro- now renamed “OLLI/BCC Mentoring perty in Manhattan and the C lark of courtesy Photo for Success.” The program creates Cooperstown, NY, as well as a great Hotel. He also purchased many acres in ongoing personal relationships where art collection. Sterling and his brother Cooperstown, near his family’s home. OLLI mentors share their knowledge Stephen inherited both their family’s The Clarks worked together in and skills with students from Berkshire wealth and a passion for art collecting. selecting art. Although they worked Community College. Each mentor Sterling’s life was adventurous. with dealers, they were mainly inspired makes a commitment to connect After graduating from Yale in 1899, he by their own tastes and interests and with his or her mentee in person at joined the U.S. Army, serving in the at first focused on Italian, Dutch, and least once each month as well as via Philippines and in China, and earned Flemish Old Master paintings. Later emails and phone calls. On the BCC a Silver Star fighting in the Boxer they turned to more recent artists side, the program is serving motivated Rebellion (1899-1901). He then set- like John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas students who plan to continue college tled in Paris where he began collecting and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and then, after BCC. Kari Dupuis, a BCC faculty art and where he met Francine Clary, after 1920, to French Impressionism member in human services, has an actress in the Comedie-Francaise, and the Barbizon School. Although identified the BCC students with help whom he married in 1919. Sterling Sterling had disdain for art historians from BCC faculty and staff. bought a home in a fashionable sec- and a desire to stay out of the public Currently fourteen mentor-student tion of Paris and had it renovated eye, as his collection increased pairs are meeting. The OLLI mentors to include a “galleria” for his favor- and his private residences became have specific professional expertise ite paintings. Sterling’s request to overcrowded, he considered creating and are matched with BCC students Stephen for a group of these favorites a museum. who have a similar interest. For that had belonged to their parents— Sterling first considered New York example, a retired teacher is working including works by Millet, Stuart and City, but he feared that an atomic with a BCC student who plans to Inness—started a dispute between the bomb attack might target the city teach. Other pairs are focused on brothers that lasted for decades. during a third world war. He thought art therapy, business, corporate In Paris Sterling collected art, Cooperstown was too remote for management, engineering, law and read books and pursued his love of public access. Sterling had never been medicine. Carole and Claudia hope horses by riding daily in the Bois de to Williamstown, but his family had to encourage more OLLI members Boulogne. This idle life came to an deep connections to Williams College, to volunteer as mentors for the next abrupt end with the beginning of his grandfather Edward’s alma mater. academic year. WW I. Fluent in French, he rejoined Sterling’s grandfather and father had the U.S. military, becoming a liaison both been trustees, and the family had OLLI NEWSLETTER officer between the American and constructed Clark Hall on the campus. Editor: Peter Bluhm French forces. During the war his art Sterling recognized the benefits of Feature Writer: Joanna Fribush collection was in storage and escaped locating a museum in the beautiful Assistant Editors: Linda Halpern, destruction. Berkshires close to the prestigious Judy Katz, Don Miller, Sandi Rubin, After the war the Clarks decided to college, and in 1950 the site was set. Myrna Schneiderman, establish a part-time residence in the In 1953 the Clarks attended the Rose Scotch, Ruth Weinstein United States, while still maintaining cornerstone laying ceremony of Proofreaders: Magda Gabor-Hotchkiss, homes in France. Sterling leased an the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Marie Milazzo, Harriet Shair, 18-room apartment in New York at Institute. Francine cut the ribbon on Selma Williams the present site of the Waldorf-Astoria opening day, May 17, 1955, and two (continued on page) 7 4 Thank you to our OLLI Donors

OLLI at BCC depends on the generosity of its members and supporters. Patrick Folan Thank you to all those listed below who supported the annual Fund for OLLI Rose Forman and the Mona Sherman Fund in its last fiscal year July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. Rose Foster & Harry Galinsky John & Ann Galt Sponsor Ronald & Iris Maitland Michael & Ellie Geller Arthur Sherman Michael & Marilyn Margolis Virginia M. Giddens Lou Marhefsky Marcia Gold Fellows Susannah W. Marks Sheldon Gross Anonymous Audre & George Menken Hope & Warren* Hagler Stephanie Beling Wilma & Norman Michaels Lois Hill Sandi & Alan Rubin William Mulholland Larry & Sondra Klein Ellen & Leonard Tabs Elizabeth & Jim Nixon Ann L. Krawet Elna Nugent Stuart & Carol Kuller Mentors Guy & Patricia Pancer Jo Ann Lancaster Norman Avnet & Selma Williams John & Pat Pollok Dr. Robert Lee Barbara & Andrew Hochberg Jan & Bill Reid Barbara Mandler Lucy Kennedy Robert Rosen & Diane Saunders Irving Marks John Lipkowitz Laurence Roth Jay & Shirley Marks Enid Michelman Milton & Ruth Rubin Nancy McGill Wendy H. Robbins Linda Sambel Estelle Miller Betsey & Mark Selkowitz Lucia Scala Richard T. Miskinis Carl & Claudia Shuster Leslie Morris Martha & Ron Stewart Harold Shair Howard & Shirley Shapiro Suzanne Nash Scholars Carol Siegel Katherine G. Ness Michael Albert Nancy Vale Katherine M. O’Brien Anonymous Abbie J. von Schlegell David & Susan Orenstein Howard & Sue Arkans Stacy Wallach & Jennifer Kay Brandon & Sandra Pantorno Cynthia Payne David Auerbach Megan Whilden Deborah Payne Bob & Shelley Berend Arthur Winston Marian Raser Valerie & Peter Bluhm Fran & Joel Wolk Pamela Roberts Barbara & Douglas Brand Ken & Fran Rubenstein Jane Braus Friends Martin & Audrey Schlanger Ronald & Judith Cerel Anonymous Carole Schwimmer & Bob Mainzer Robert & Bonita Desrosiers Jeffrey & Alison Atlas Rose Scotch Herbert & Carol Diamond Alan & Judith Benjamin Andrea Seligsohn Andy & Karel Fisher Robert Bieniek Arline Shalan Nancy Galliher Robert & Nancy Bott Martin Silver Margo Golos-Reines Jean Bousquet Paul & Turbi Smilow Howard & Sue Gorham Marlene Brager John & Lorraine Tinger Rosemary Graves Paula & Harold Byrdy Lora Tobias Eric & Phyllis Greenberg Deborah Caine Madeleine Victor & Ray Pieczarka Joel & Carol Greenberg Ann Campbell Barbara & Jesse Waldinger Robert Gross & Barbara Wacholder Alan & Roselle Chartock Alexandra Warshaw Edmund Grossman Marlene Chautin Carolyn & Jerry Zinn Linda & Phil Halpern Phyllis Cohen Tom & Nancy Halstead Deborah Cote * Deceased Mark & Barbara Hartman Judith Cromwell Daniel Idzik & Kathleen Osborne Rutledge & Arletta Currie Michael & Loretta Kahn Ruth T. Degenhardt For information on making a bequest Tom & Ro Koelle Richard Drees to OLLI or including OLLI in your will, Kathryn Jensen Phyllis & Ed Epstein please contact OLLI Executive Director Aaron & Lynne Leavitt Theodore Evans Megan Whilden at 413.236.2192 or Lois Lenehan Helene & Harwood Fisher [email protected]. Judy & Howard Levin Paul & Marilyn Flaum 5 OLLI Instructors (Kinney Frelinghuysen continued) Kinney is the Director of the Karel Fisher Frelinghuysen Morris House and Teacher, Dramatist and World Traveler Studio (FMH&S) in Lenox, next to Tanglewood. FMH&S is the for- Karel Fisher has had a lifelong passion for mer home of Kinney’s aunt and the theater. She studied at Columbia University uncle, American Abstract artists Suzy where she majored in anthropology and also Frelinghuysen and George L.K. Morris. took many drama courses. After Columbia, As a fulfillment of Suzy’s and George’s Karel joined the Peace Corps and was sent to mission to educate the public about the Philippines to teach English as a Second abstract art, it is open seasonally and Language (ESL). There she discovered that has a superb collection of European teaching by drawing on theater and role playing and American Cubist Art. Visitors can made her students more comfortable with spoken English. view work by Suzy and George as well Other foreign adventures and professional experiences followed after Karel’s as that of their more famous contem- marriage to Andy, whose work in public health took them to India, Nepal, poraries such as Picasso, Braque, Leger Bangladesh, Thailand and Kenya. In these countries Karel again taught ESL and Gris. using her effective dramatic techniques, and she also worked in national Originally from New Jersey, both museums. Returning to the United States, Karel worked in theatre in both the Kinney and his wife, Linda, met in New York metropolitan area and Washington, D.C. and participated in drama France where Kinney was a student workshops with Olympia Dukakis. In addition to her love for the spoken word, and Linda was visiting as part of her she is a talented writer who experiments with poetry, short stories and scripts. work as a producer for WOR radio in Karel taught literature and drama in Washington, D.C. for a program New York. They were introduced by affiliated with American University prior to moving to the Berkshires. During mutual friends and their first date was their many travels, Karel and Andy had always considered a family residence in a tour of Versailles. Today Kinney and Richmond to be their home base. They moved there permanently in 2005 and Linda have two adult sons, Thomas have been active in OLLI ever since. Karel serves on the Literature Committee. and John. For recreation, Kinney Karel and Andy have a daughter and a granddaughter in Ohio. enjoys rowing, walking, birdwatching OLLI members enjoyed Karel’s first play reading workshop entitled “Three and biking. He and Linda spend most Pulitzer Prize Winning Dramatists: Arthur Miller, William Inge, and Tennessee of the year in the Berkshires but also Williams,” and will be delighted to know that she’s teaching a similar course travel occasionally to Winter Park, this spring, “Theatre Out Loud.” This time, she will use short plays, each of Florida, where he finds more time to which can be read and discussed within one class session. She also lends her paint. talents to OLLI’s new Performing Arts Initiative. Kinney enthusiastically helps Here in the Berkshires, Karel’s short play, “Stepping On My Head in Dr. Scholl’s people appreciate modern art and Sandals,” was performed by both Town Players and Women’s Action Movement has given tours of FMH&S for some Theatre (WAM). Her poems have been published in the Berkshires and in twenty years. He has thoroughly Washington; and when she has the time, Karel includes art work and dancing enjoyed teaching two courses for among her hobbies. — Linda Halpern OLLI in which he has been able to convey his love of modern art to his students. Through effective, hands- Kinney Frelinghuysen on techniques he guides them to a Artist and Curator fuller understanding and appreciation of what is admittedly a very difficult Kinney Frelinghuysen is a painter who not only art form. Employing such innovative lives every day surrounded by modern art, but also exercises as having students use a enthusiastically shares his passion for that art. He sketch pad to trace the contours of grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated some of the shapes within existing from Bowdoin College. He also has a degree from artworks, Kinney reports he can the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in “see the change start to happen” as Paris. Kinney has shown his work in New York students quiet their verbal side and galleries and locally at the Sanford Smith Gallery in open up their visual side. His most Great Barrington. His paintings have been acquired recent OLLI course, says Kinney, was inda F relin g huysen L inda by many private collectors, including the late “one of the most exciting educational Malcolm Forbes and art critics Hilton Kramer and experiences” of his life. — Peter Bluhm

BY P HOTO Roger Kimball.

6 Ed Neumuth Meet Lucy Kennedy Birdman of Washington New OLLI Board Member Ed Neumuth was born in the Bronx in 1945 Lucy Kennedy grew up in Monson, and was an avid Brooklyn Dodgers baseball fan. Ed Mass. in the Pioneer Valley. Her went to Providence College, enrolling in the pre- post-secondary education took her med program, and finished in three years with a to the University of Michigan, then B.A. in biology. He then went on to the University to Stanford University, where she of Pennsylvania to study veterinary medicine. received an MA in English, and then After completing his degree in 1970, Ed moved to back to Massachusetts, where she Boston’s south shore joining a large practice that

T haddeus B . K ubis. U sed with p ermission. received an MBA from the Harvard primarily treated companion animals. He remained Business School in 1977. Lucy’s pro- there for three years, taking advantage of the proximity to the ocean to study the © 2015 fessional career began with a stint natural history of the coast while living in a cabin next to a deserted cranberry in advertising and consumer pack- bog. When he learned that the bog was going to be developed he accepted a aged goods, working for a number of position in the Berkshires and moved to the town of Washington. major advertising agencies and multi- During this period Ed took a break to spend a winter in Alaska where he helped national corporations including Leo a good friend in a fieldwork project designed to determine how the pipeline Burnett, BBDO, Ted Bates and Nestlé might impact wildlife, particularly caribou. His time in Alaska reinforced his love Foods. Gravitating toward financial of the natural world. Upon returning to the Berkshires, Ed taught a veterinary services marketing, Lucy filled a num- technician course at Holliston Junior College in Lenox and then opened his own ber of roles at MetLife in New York practice in Washington in 1980, retiring some 27 years later. While working in City. As Vice President of Institutional veterinary medicine Ed took the time to investigate all aspects of natural history, Marketing, she worked in customer exploring the forests in his area and developing a fascination with birds. “With sales support and new business devel- birds,” he said, “there is always something new to discover, and the more you opment. She retired from MetLife in learn, the more you realize how wonderful they are. It’s humbling.” 2010. Ed began to teach birding for OLLI because he wanted to share the wonder of Like many OLLI members, birds with others—to be able to identify them and appreciate them. Questions Lucy divides her time between the he has his students consider include: How do birds survive the extreme tempera- Berkshires and another location. tures of Berkshire winters? How do they take journeys of thousands of miles and But instead of migrating to warmer not only survive but also return to their birthplaces? What is the connection climes, she spends the winter months between birds and their habitats? What birds are we likely to see in our area? in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. Given his passion for nature, it is not surprising that Ed makes time for “I thoroughly love the Berkshires and gardening, beekeeping and fishing. He also offers a birding program at Bascom have an affinity for New England,” Lodge, leads a field-birding trip for the Trustees of Reservations at Notchview says Lucy. She also has a passion for and is president of the Hoffmann Bird Club. He has shared his interest in bird history and historic preservation. In vocalization with the sight-impaired. Ed believes that birding can help keep Lenox Lucy lives in a 100 year-old people healthy as they age. It challenges eyesight, hearing and memory, and house and has become involved in the walking in the woods aids balance. He would like to see more and more people work of the Lenox Historical Society. participate. — Sandi Rubin Currently she is developing a web- site for the town’s 250th anniversary (The Clark continued from page 4) celebration. She serves as a financial counselor for Habitat for Humanity galleries opened that contained 33 paintings, seven sculptures and a selection of in Pittsfield. In addition to history, silver. Over the ensuing 60 years, because Sterling had placed no restrictions on Lucy’s hobbies include bridge and its charter, the Clark was able to expand its buildings, campus and educational photography. services, so that it is now a world-renowned institution. Lucy serves on the Marketing and During their last years together, Sterling and Francine lived part-time in a Development Committee and the suite in the museum. Sterling suffered a stroke in the fall of 1955, but he did see Web Development Committee where the summer season in 1956, when his extraordinary Renoir collection was dis- she helps pursue OLLI President Lenny played. After his death in December 1956, his remains were cremated and even- Tabs’ interest in improving technol- tually interred beneath the front steps of the museum. Francine died in 1960, ogy with a new and more interac- and her tomb is next to Sterling’s. tive website. As a new board member, The museum has fulfilled the Clark’s vision, as shown on the museum’s Lucy’s skills and expertise are already cornerstone inscription: “In this place men and women will be strengthened serving OLLI well. — Ruth Weinstein and ennobled by their contact with the beauty of the ages.” — Joanna Fribush

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OLLI Students View Illuminated Manuscripts at Photos by L aura Gross S mith Chapin Library

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Wayne Hammond, Interim Custodian of the Chapin Library at Williams College, speaks to OLLI students