6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 1 Lewes/Dover & Ocean View OLFor adults 50+ • Serving Kent LIand Sussex Counties SPRING 2019 | JAN. 28–APR. 8 Learning for the fun of it! www.olli.udel.edu/spring2019 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 2 Spring 2019 Calendar December 24–January 1 Offices closed for winter break Wednesday, January 9 Lewes Open House, Walk-in Registration, Fred Thomas Building, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Thursday, January 10 Dover Open House, Walk-in Registration, Wyoming Church, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Thursday, January 17 Priority Registration Deadline, 2 p.m. Monday, January 21 Martin Luther King Day, Office closed Tuesday, January 22 Dover Instructor Orientation, Wyoming Church, 2–3:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 23 Ocean View Instructor Orientation, Ocean View Town Hall, 10–11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 24 Lewes Instructor/New Member Orientation, Fred Thomas Building, 10–10:30 a.m. coffee social; 10:30–11:30 a.m. orientation Monday, January 28 First day of classes Monday, February 18 Presidents Day, no classes Tuesday, March 5 Second session begins Friday, March 22 Air and Space Museum trip Monday, April 8 Last day of classes Tuesday, April 9 Dover End of Semester Luncheon April 22–26 Office closed for spring break Tuesday, April 23 Lewes Spring Luncheon 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 3 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Follow us! at the University of Delaware in Lewes/Dover & Ocean View www.facebook.com/OLLIDover www.facebook.com/OLLILewes A program of the Division of Professional and Continuing Studies Lewes/Ocean View Council Dover Council Contents Chair—Bill Sharkey Chair—Rosemary Engle Gifts ......................................................................17 Vice Chair—Peter Feeney Vice Chair—Patrick Weaver Guests..................................................................21 Secretary—Katherine Henn Secretary—Caroline Baxter Joe Bailey • Ronnie Grady Bob Comeau • Paul Collins How to Register ............................................7 Phyllis Handler • Susan McLaughlin Craig Haggerty • Sabatino Maglione Identification Badges ..............................7 Madelyn Wright Jane McGann • Karen Schaub Inclement Weather Policy ..................14 Dover Committee Chairs Bud Zimmerman Joe Bailey—Community Relations Instructor Bios ..............................................32 Lewes/Ocean View Rosemary Engle—Special Events Member Benefits..........................................7 Committee Chairs Ronnie Grady—Course Development/ Membership ....................................................7 Ruth Barnett—Library Scholarship Connie Benko—Social Phyllis Handler—Faculty Relations Refunds ................................................................7 Peter Feeney—Long Range Planning Bob Heifetz—Finance Spring 2019 Courses ..................................8 Craig Haggerty—Community Relations Open—Member Relations Spring 2019 Madelyn Wright—Travel Lynn Kroesen—Catalog/ Course Schedule by Day ..................5 Communications/Newsletter University Staff Spring 2019 Sabatino Maglione—Scholarship George Irvine, Interim Associate Vice Course Selection Form ....................42 Jane McGann—Academic Affairs Provost, Professional and Continuing Spring 2019 Studies Karen Schaub—Finance Registration Form..................................41 Anna Moshier—Manager, Joan Sciorra—Travel Osher Learning Centers Spring 2019 Scholarship Application................................................40 Bud Zimmerman—Academic Affairs Renee Moy—Program Coordinator Diana Faison—Administrative Assistant Textbooks and Supplies..........................7 Lewes/Ocean View Academic Affairs Subcommittees Bill Ashmore—Instructional/ Travel......................................................................7 Tech Support—Ocean View Paul Collins—Health/Psychology/ University of Delaware Policies........7 Information Technology Wayne Kling—Instructional/ Tech Support—Dover Peter Feeney—Art John Lafferty—Instructional/ On the cover: Bill Fintel—Science/Math Tech Support—Lewes Artwork by Phil Fretz—History/International Studies Chet Poslusny—Instructional/ Sheila Exum, James McMahan—Economics/Finance Tech Support—Lewes OLLI instructor Paula Wood—Instructional/ Lee Mussoff—Humanities/Language Tech Support—Dover Jon Newsom—Performing Arts/Music Joe Zito—Instructional/ Carol West—Life Skills/Recreation Tech Support—Lewes Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware in Lewes, Dover & Ocean View Fred Thomas Building, 520 Dupont Ave., Lewes, DE 19958 • Phone: 302-645-4111 • Fax: 302-645-4112 • Email: [email protected] The advertising in this catalog subsidizes the cost of printing. 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CEP 6292 12/18 1 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 4 OLLI LEWES, OCEAN VIEW AND DOVER Thirty years of lifelong learning in Kent and Sussex Counties For thirty years, the University of • The Rehoboth Art League is a longtime, generous Delaware’s Osher Lifelong Learning OLLI partner, providing classroom studio space for Institute (OLLI) programs have many OLLI art classes. provided vital learning opportunities • In 2010, UD’s lifelong learning programs received a in Kent and Sussex Counties. $2 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation “Find broader horizons” was the and joined the national network of OLLI programs. program’s early motto and aptly • With the founding of UD’s OLLI Dover program, the illustrates the program’s story of Lewes/Ocean View and Dover programs have forged growth and impacts in southern a strong partnership. The programs’ combined mem- Delaware. Originally founded as bership opportunities allow Lewes, Ocean View and the Southern Delaware Academy Dover OLLI members to enroll in unlimited courses at of Lifelong Learning (SDALL) in 1989, the program was all of UD’s Kent and Sussex County OLLI locations. modeled on UD’s Wilmington-based lifelong learning Total OLLI membership in Kent and Sussex Counties program founded 10 years earlier. The Wilmington program • now exceeds one thousand, with 208 Dover members boasted attendees from as far away as Dover, Milford and and 817 Lewes/Ocean View members. Rehoboth, but by 1988 an enthusiastic 17-member steering committee formed to establish a dedicated program in Dr. Jim Broomall, UD’s longtime associate vice provost for southern Delaware. In 1989 with 59 founding members, the professional and continuing studies, has been a committed SDALL program offered its first courses in Milford, Delaware. champion of UD’s lifelong learning’s programs. “With modest beginnings the University’s Osher programs in In 1993, the program moved to Lewes, Delaware, beginning Kent and Sussex County have grown to over 1,000 members its long and productive history in the community. Some today, with courses now offered in Dover, Lewes, and highlights include: Ocean View to ensure that the Osher experience is • OLLI’s early Lewes-based locations have included accessible to Southern Delaware,” said Broomall. He added, UD’s Virden Center, the Biden Conference Center at “The program is an exemplar of the University’s tradition Cape Henlopen State Park, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church of and commitment to the land-grant university model.” and the Lewes Public Library. “I am continually inspired and excited to be a part of this • Longtime member and instructor Amelie Sloan offered vibrant program,” added Anna Moshier, current manager the first OLLI pottery class in 1990 and continues as a of UD’s OLLI programs in Kent and Sussex Counties. member today. “Through OLLI members, I am learning to age with grace • In 2003, the program began its longstanding relationship and dignity, benefiting from the knowledge, ideas and with Cape Henlopen School District, relocating to the camaraderie shared here at the OLLI program. I look Lewes School for 10 years. In 2013 and 2014, respectively, forward to expanding our horizons as we look toward the program moved to its current home in the school district’s OLLI’s future of continued growth and lifelong learning Fred Thomas Building and in Ocean View Town Hall. opportunities in Delaware.” 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 5 Congratulations! Thank you, OLLI, for many happy memories. May the future bring great success. Bill Sharkey Congratulations on 30 years of lifelong learning in Lewes. Thank you to the staff, Anna and Renee John, Joe and Chet A special thanks to all the marvelous instructors that make OLLI-Lewes so great! Denise Bridgens and Paul Collins 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 6 Congratulations on your 30th anniversary And best wishes for continued success to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute From Rosemarie and Jerry Pillari Happy 30th Anniversary Thank you Enthusiastically for enriching Thanks for the our lives for supporting opportunity for 30 years. OLLI’s next enrichment and Here’s to our friendship. bright future! horizon! Sue Claire Harper A grateful student— Lee Mussoff Jane McGann 6292OLLILewesDoverCatS19.qxp_Layout 1 12/7/18 10:39 AM Page 7 Lewes Spring 2019 Course Schedule by Day January 28–April 8 (No classes February 18) MONDAY IT116 Technology Devices— Pollisino (1)