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Spring 2008 Course Catalog

Have Osher Lifelong Learning, Change Your Life….Again

www.olliatwvu.org

Welcome Lifelong Learners,

With spring approaching there is no better time to celebrate the growth of our Osher Lifelong Learning Institute! I hope that your experience with lifelong learning at WVU has been as exciting and rewarding as mine. We currently serve over 380 members and with your help we will continue to offer our expanding programs to more members of this com-munity. I encourage you to share your experience with your friends and colleagues. Please join us at our Spring Open House “Here We Grow”, where we will celebrate our growth and kick-off our Spring Term. I look forward to seeing you there!!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Adamson

Who we are... 3

Spring OPEN HOUSE

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Membership and Registration Application

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Spring Schedule at a Glance

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OLLI EdVentures 26

OLLI Committee 30

OLLI Supporters 31

Spring 2008

Course Catalog

Contact Information IMPORTANT DATES

• Spring Open House………………………..March 26

• Technical Assistant Course…………………...March 28

• “Aïda” …………………………………………………....April 6

• Classes Begin………….………………………….April 7

• Scenic Railroad ………………………………….. May 3

• “I Capuleti e I Montecchi” ……………………....May 11

• Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob …………….. May 19

• WV Humanities Trip ………………………….June 18-19

• Pittsburgh Savoyards ……………………………. June 22

OLLI at WVU

Mountaineer Mall, Unit D-9

5000 Greenbag Road

Morgantown, WV 26501

Phone: (304) 293-1793

Fax: (304) 293-4779

Email: [email protected]

Visit us online:

www.olliatwvu.org

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Who we are...

OLLI provides educational, recreational, volunteer and social opportunities for individuals 50

and older through day and evening courses, seminars and field trips.

OLLI is a self-directed membership organization within the Center on Aging at West Virginia

University. Together we recognize the unique experiences and capabilities of our members by

emphasizing and encouraging peer learning, member participation, collaborative leadership

and social interaction. The atmosphere is supportive, filled with humor, wisdom, diversity and

insight.

OLLI offers three six-week terms each year. The course selections are rich in music, literature,

art, sciences, politics, health-related topics, social issues, nature and history.

Most Classes are taught in the OLLI classrooms at the Mountaineer Mall. A few are held on the

West Virginia University campus and at off-campus locations. Each site is ADA accessible and

parking is available.

MEMBERSHIP

Annual Membership: $65 (July 1 to June 30)

• Members may register for as many classes as they wish and receive priority enrollment in

all three terms and have voting privileges.

Term Membership: $32.50 per Term (Fall, Winter or Spring)

• If space is available, courses and activities are open to term-members for $32.50 per

term or the fee for the activity.

To become a member, complete the membership application

and return in person or by mail.

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Spring Term Kick-Off

Open House

HERE WE GROW!

OLLI invites you to our Spring Open House. This celebration will highlight the upcoming spring term and the growth of our Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Visitors are invited to celebrate the spring season, learn about OLLI programs and meet our instructors for the spring term. Please join us for an afternoon of light refreshments and bring a friend or two!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

2:30 PM—5:00 PM

Mountaineer Mall

Community Room

2007-2008

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Name(s)

Address

City State: Zip Code

Telephone No E-Mail

New Member: Renewal

Annual Membership Dues: July 1, 2007—June 30, 2008 $65.00

Term Membership Dues: Spring Term Only $32.50

I have paid my membership dues for 2007-2008

Tax-deductible Contribution to OLLI at WVU

The OLLI Educational Opportunities Fund to help another member of this community participate in the program.

I would like to support the Educational Opportunities Fund

The OLLI at WVU Endowment Fund to help assure the continuance of the organization into the future.

I would like to support the OLLI Endowment Fund

The Special Programming fund for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WVU.

I would like to support the Special Programming Fund.

My enclosed check, payable to: the WVU Foundation, Inc.

For $ covers the total amount for membership(s) and/or donations.

Membership Application

Spring 2008 Course Registration Form

Name Date

E-Mail Phone

Mark the circle next to the course(s) in which you wish to enroll. Please submit a separate form for each participant. Photocopies are acceptable, or you may print additional copies from our website at www.olliatwvu.org.

Please Mail Application and Registration form to:

Mountaineer Mall Unit D-9

OLLI at WVU Center on Aging

5000 Greenbag Road

Morgantown, WV 26501

Technical Assistant Course: Friday, March 28

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O Afternoon Session

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O 1. The New Yorker — Racin, Davidson

O 2. Popular Songs II — Horacek

O 3. Zumba for Seniors — Lombardi

O 4. Beginners’ T’ai Chi — Logar

O 5. Intermediate T’ai Chi — Logar

O 6. Physics Pre– and Post 1900 — Rotter

O 7. Selected Garden Topics — Beamer

O 8. Over the Mountains — Venable, Kemp

Tuesday

O 9. Words, Words, Words — Evans

O 10. The Great Lakes — Norma Venable

O 11. American Folk Dancing — Wilde

O 12. The Russians Are Coming — Held

O 13. A Talent to Amuse — Neel

O 14. Chinese Brush Painting — Runions

Wednesday

O 15. Help Yourself — Byrd, Petitte

O 16. Learn to Play Mah Jong — Bellman

O 17. The Gentle Art of Mathematics — Hall

O 18. William Shakespeare’s Othello — French

O 19. Aging in Place — Mayolo, Grimm

Thursday

O 20. Be Red Cross Ready — Red Cross

O 21. Wagner’s Tristan and Iolde — Benner

O 22. Writing Poetry — Sailer

O 23. Really Big Ideas in Science — Nichols

Friday

O 23. OLLI Potpourri

___ Benefits of Giving Wisely — Miller

___ Cherries 101— Hawkins

___ Organize Your Life — Ness

O 24. Great Films — Keiser

Annual Member Priority Registration Deadline: March 28, 2008

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Technology Assistant and Instructor Training Course

Friday, March 28th Instructor: Jessica Justice

Facilities and Technology Chair: Alan Keiser

Classroom A

Morning Session: 10 a.m.— 12:00 noon

Afternoon Session: 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Course Description: The Facilities and Technology Committee encourages you to attend this hands-on course. A morning and afternoon session will be offered to allow each participant an opportunity to test all the equipment. This course is open to all instructors, teaching assistants and members who are interested in learn-ing the operational procedures for all classroom technology equipment. Each student is encouraged to volun-teer to be the Tech Assistant for one or more classes. The Tech Assistant plays a very important role in the smooth functioning of the class. New ideas are welcome as we develop quick reference sheets and instruction manuals. We are working hard to assign a Teaching Assistant and Tech Assistant to each course.

Instructor Background:

Jessica Justice is a Web Developer for the WVU Center on Aging. She graduated from West Virginia Univer-sity with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a minor in English. As an undergraduate she worked for the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences as a Web Coordinator and then as a Systems Administrator for the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. While working at WVU and taking classes, she has accumulated expertise in hardware and software support, applications programming, web de-velopment, and database administration. She currently provides information technology support for the fac-ulty, staff and students of the Center on Aging, and she develops and maintains the Center's various websites and databases. She also participates in workshops, trainings, presentations and exhibitions.

If you are interested in becoming a Tech Assistant and cannot attend, special arrangements can be made for additional training. Please call the office.

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MONDAY 1. The New Yorker Discussion Group

Coordinator(s): Margot Racin and Ann Davidson

Monday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom A

Prerequisites: Familiarity with and subscription to The New Yorker helpful but not necessary.

April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12 Maximum enrollment: 15

Course description: Come join us for informal discussions of The New Yorker articles and fiction. We will have access to the complete The New Yorker on disc from its inception on February 23, 1925. Participants will be encouraged to select articles for discussion either from current issues or archival material. Reading material will be provided for the first class following registration.

Instructor(s) backgrounds: Margot is retired from the WVU Department of English. Ann is retired from a WVU School of Medicine Research Laboratory. Each has raised four children. Through all of that, they found reading The New Yorker an enjoyable diversion.

2. Popular Songs of the 20th Century, II

Instructor: Leo Horacek

Monday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom B


Course description: A continued study of American Popular Music of the 20th Century, focusing this semes-ter on the 1920s and 1930s. We will examine the words and music of songs from various decades, noting the developments, changes and variations in the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures, in the moods and subjects of the lyrics, and in performance styles.

Instructor's background: Dr. Horacek is Professor Emeritus of Music at the College of Creative Arts of WVU. He is on the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Honor Roll for instructors, and this is his 28th course he has taught for OLLI.

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3. Zumba for Seniors Instructor: Tom Lombardi Monday, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Morgantown Dance Studio April 7, 14, 21, 28 Maximum enrollment: 30 Course description: Zumba is a dynamic fitness system that is high energy and motivating, Latin music with unique movements that allows participants to literally dance away their worries. Based on interval training it was the principle that a physical workout should be fun and easy to do. Zumba will improve cardio-vascular fitness; maximize caloric output; tone and sculpt the body; increase energy, and reduce stress. Participants should wear comfortable, supportive shoes or sneakers, bring a small sweat towel, and a water bottle. Instructor's background: Tom Lombardi is Professor Emeritus in the WVU College of Human Resources and Education. An author of over 80 publications, he has received many awards and honors during his 35 years teaching at WVU including a Fulbright in 2000 to develop special education teacher training programs in Lisbon, Portugal. In his younger years, he was a professional dancer. Since retirement from WVU, he has activated those skills and now teaches Silversneakers and Zumba here in Monongalia County.

T'ai Chi

Morgantown Dance Studio, Mountaineer Mall

Instructor: Sheila Logar, PT, PhD, Doctorate TCM

Assisted by Cheryl Ornick, Connie McCluskey and Melva Martin

Instructors' background: Dr. Logar is British by birth and training and has been in the United States for 20 years. She received a Ph.D. from the University of London in Physical Therapy and Doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the British College. She is an experienced clinician, teacher, and administrator.

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4. Beginners' T’ai Chi Instructor: Sheila Logar

Monday, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Morgantown Dance Studio

April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5,12 Maximum enrollment: 30

Course description: This course is an introduction to Tai Chi, part of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is holistic (body, mind, and spirit) in its approach to improving health. These classes are enjoyable and good for your health.

5. Intermediate T’ai Chi Instructor: Sheila Logar


Morgantown Dance Studio

April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12 Maximum enrollment: Open

Course description: Students wishing to join the Intermediate class should have taken the Beginners and/or the Practice class. Intermediate class exercises the torso, back and abdominals and is more strenuous.

6. Physics Pre- and Post 1900

Instructor: Carl A. Rotter


Classroom B


Course description: A review of pre-1900 deterministic physics ideas and principles and exploration of post-1900 quantization and probability in physics. In this class the instructor hopes to bring physics to a level of understanding –and discussion—for all participants. Each will receive a CD containing all the ideas and mov-ies used in the classroom. Class participation and guidance is encouraged. Continued...

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7. Selected Garden Topics

Coordinator: Kay Beamer


Classroom A

April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5 Maximum enrollment: 65

Course description: Presenters will demonstrate or speak on various garden topics of their particular interest. Instructor(s) backgrounds: Kay Beamer, Janet Kemp, Mary Ellen Brady, Emily Johnson, and Neva Gocke have quite varied training and interests, but all are Monongalia County Master Gardeners which is the exper-tise represented in these presentations. Tony Winston is a past OLLI presenter on photographic topics. 1. April 7 - Mary Ellen Brady -- Patterns in Gardening: Mazes and Labyrinths 2. April 14 - Tony Winston -- Wildflower Program 3. April 21 - Kay Beamer and Janet Kemp -- Hypertuffa pots and stepping stones 4. April 28 - Neva Gocke -- Container gardening

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Instructor's background: Carl A. Rotter, Emeritus Eberly Professor of Physics, retired from West Virginia University in 2002 after 36 years of teaching and research. Before receiving his Ph.D. from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, he had taught high school physics and math in San Antonio, TX and St. Louis, MO, his hometown.

At WVU Carl primarily taught Engineering Physics and major’s courses in Mechanics, Electricity and Mag-netism, Modern Physics, and Solid State Physics. He created a course: Conceptual Physics for non-science students; it is a required course for all elementary education majors. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences three times, the Golden Key Honor Society outstanding fac-ulty award twice, and the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award in 1987. In 1988 the Council for Ad-vancement and Support of Education named him National Silver Medalist and West Virginia Professor of the Year. In 1995 he was named an Eberly Professor.

As a representative of the Eberly College, he served for 5 years on the board for the development of the 5-year teacher-education program at WVU. He has taught physics classes to many physics teachers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in several formats: satellite, classroom, workshops, web and self-study classes.

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8. Over the Mountains: Engineering the Allegheny Crossing

Instructor(s): Wallace Venable and Emory Kemp


Classroom A

April 7, 14, 21, 28 Maximum enrollment: 65

Course description: This course will cover the evolution of transportation between the east coast and Mo-nongahela Valley. We will discuss both routes and vehicles.

• Early trails and roads, including the routes of George Washington, General Braddock and the National Road Pike.

• The C & O Canal

• The B & O Railroad

Developments since the Civil War

Instructor(s)' backgrounds: Dr. Wally Venable taught Mechanical Engineering at WVU for thirty years. He has had a life-long interest in all kinds of transportation and technology.

Dr. Emory Kemp taught Civil Engineering at WVU before moving to the History Department and starting the Center for the Study of Industrial History & Technology.

TUESDAY

9. Word, Words, Words

Instructor: Nicholas G. Evans

Tuesday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom B


Course description: Vocabulary improvement, especially of recognition vocabulary, by building on class's existent vocabulary. Introduction to some history of English and English linguistics and usage.

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10. The Great Lakes: Mysterious Islands, Haunted Lighthouses, Beautiful Birds, Sailing Ships, Northern Lights, and More.....

Instructor: Norma Jean Venable

Tuesday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom A


Course description: From Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior, this class focuses on the natu-ral and cultural history of the Great Lakes region including the Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence River. DVD's and videos show stunning scenes of islands set like jewels in sparkling waters, silver and copper mines, life on board Great Lakes ore carriers, winter ice and summer sun, maritime history.

Instructor's background: Norma Jean Venable is retired from WVU and has written many publications on WV birds and other wildlife and scenic areas. She is author or co-author of publications on local history in-cluding Dunkard Ridge, Around Morgantown, History of Blacksville, and The Easton Roller Mill. Her arti-cles also appear in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Goldenseal, and the Monongalia Chronicle. She has had a lifetime interest in Great Lakes History and has taught many classes including OLLI courses on both West Virginia and Great Lakes history.

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Instructor's background: Nick Evans is Professor Emeritus from the Department of English at WVU. Al-though much of his time was spent as an administrator at WVU, he taught a least one course every semester for 38 years. He attended the University of Pittsburgh as an undergraduate, has his master's degree from WVU, and received his EdD from WVU in 1980. He chaired the 2004 decennial committee on accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and directed undergraduate advising at the Undergraduate Academic Services Center and for the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

11. American Folk Dancing

Instructor: Leah Wilde

Tuesday 10:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m.

Morgantown Dance Studio, Mountaineer Mall

April 22, 29, May 6, 13 Maximum enrollment: 30 Continued...

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12. The Russians Are Coming, Part 2: WAR AND PEACE

Instructor: James Dylan Held

Tuesday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Classroom A


Course description: Was this the year you were going to finally read WAR AND PEACE? Or, have you always wanted to read it but were afraid to try? Professor Held will show Nikolai Bondarchuk's epic film of the novel (nearly seven hours), discuss Tolstoy and his world, and lead discussions of the film and/or novel. Homework: What may be the definitive translation of WAR AND PEACE has just been published by Knopf (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) and is available at local bookshops. Start reading NOW! It is 1215 pages! Note: It is not essential that you read the book to take this class, though it IS one of the top novels ever written.

Instructor's background: Professor James Dylan Held has been a WVU faculty member for 28 years, spe-cializing in design, directing, and the literature of the theatre. He teaches theatre history, world theatre and drama, and scenic design. Over the years, Jim has designed productions including Into the Woods, Getting Married, Arcadia, Hamlet, Madama Butterfly, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, and many others. As a director, some of his favorites have been Medea, The Rivals, Noises Off, An Ideal Husband and Brighton Beach Memoirs. For a number of years he has been working on a textbook/anthology to accompany his World Theatre & Drama class-one of the first of its kind in the U.S. Next summer, this course will be offered for the first time as a web-based course at WVU.

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Course Description: Come join in the fun: Social dancing to toe-tapping, old-time and Irish music. No foot-work to learn. Leah will teach circle, square and contra dances and call every move during each dance. For everyone's safety and comfort, wear light-weight clothing, comfortable shoes and avoid rings with high-set stones.

Prerequisites: Must be able to walk at a fairly brisk pace and turn quickly.

Instructor's Background: Ms. Wilde has been dancing for 20 years and calling dances for five years. While teaching English at Shantou University in Guangdong Province during the 2005-2006 school year, she called the first Contra Dance in China.

13. A Talent to Amuse…: Noël Coward

Instructor: Charles D. Neel


Classroom B


Course description: Yet at odds with the reality of a silk-dressing-gowned figure with the ubiquitous ciga-rette holder was an extraordinarily complex person who "invented himself as playwright (sixty produced plays including Private Lives, The Vortex, Design for Living, Present Laughter, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit), actor (theater and film), composer (over three hundred published songs), librettist and lyricist (London Calling, Bit-ter Sweet, Sail Away, and Conversation Piece), director (of many of his own plays) painter (self-styled "Touch-and-Gaugin"), writer (volumes of short stories, autobiography (3), and fiction, screen plays [In Which we Serve, This Happy Breed, Brief Encounter]), cabaret singer (Las Vegas, New York, London, and Paris), wit (Noel-isms), and spy (for the British government along with co-conspirator movie-star Cary Grant). He, along with English novelist and critic Dame Rebecca West, was on the Nazi's death list. He wrote, "Really my life has been one long extravaganza." Sir Noël Coward took leave of his life and of his friends on March 26, 1973, with "Good night, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow." We will, in this course, through lectures, DVDs, and CDs explore the life of this "profoundly savvy, witty, loving, bitchy, and often surprisingly mov-ing" man of the theatre and of the world.

Instructor's background: Professor Neel received his PhD from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeri-tus of Theatre at the College of Creative Arts of WVU. He is on the Lifelong Learners Honor Roll for instruc-tors. He directed and designed Noël Coward's Hay Fever for West Virginia Public Theatre.

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14. Chinese Brush Painting

Instructor: Glenn Runions


Classroom B


Course description: An extension of the calligraphy classes. No art experience is necessary. This class will be using brushes to explore simple and spiritual landscapes, animals, flowers, etc. It will also be using Hsieh Ho "six tenants of brush painting", a somewhat "messy" hands-on class.

Instructor's background: Glenn Runions is retired from WV Extension Service and maintains a studio in Morgantown. During the year he spends time in Hillsboro, WV where he teaches and raises organic gardens for the Gseundheit Institute - Patch Adams. Glenn teaches calligraphy for OLLI and spends his research hours with Chinese approaches toward life long learning.

But I believe that since my life began

The most I've had is just

A talent to amuse.

Heigho, if love were all!

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WEDNESDAY

15. Help Yourself: A Six-Week Self -Management Course for People Who Live with Chronic Conditions

Instructor: Joshua Byrd and Trisha Petitte

Sponsored by: Marshall University Center for Rural Health and West Virginia University Rural Healthy Ag-ing Network (RHAN)

Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.—12:30 p.m.

Classroom B


Course description: The Help Yourself Program is a workshop where people with different chronic diseases come together. It teaches the skills needed in the day-to-day management of treatments. Learn to maintain and/or increase life’s activities. The course covers topics including action plans, problem-solving skills, nutri-tion, physical fitness, communication, better breathing and muscle relaxation techniques, medication use, de-pression, pain and fatigue management and working with your health care professional.

Instructor's backgrounds: Joshua Byrd, BA, Senior Program Coordinator, WVU Center on Aging. Mr. Byrd is currently a senior program coordinator for R. Turner Goins, PhD at WVU Center on Aging. He graduated from Davis and Elkins College in 1998. He has also taken master's level classes at WVU. He is a member of the Rural Healthy Aging Network. He supports Dr. Goins with her research endeavors and coordi-nates and teaches training classes for this research. He is also certified as a trained leader in the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. Joshua enjoys teaching and looks forward to offering this class to OLLI members.

Trisha Petitte, BA, MPA, BSN, Assistant Director, Office of Health Services Research, West Virginia Uni-versity. Her background is in health research, evaluation and health education. She has worked in rural health communities on a variety of projects including women’s health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and most re-cently electronic patient registries. She is certified as a trained leader in the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program aimed at helping patients better manage their chronic diseases. As a nurse, Ms. Petitte works part-time at Ruby Memorial Hospital on the medical/surgical units.

Optional Text: Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, Third Edition, Lorig, K. Sobel, D. Gonzalez, V. and Minorm, M. This text is optional but very useful. It can be purchased at Amazon.com for $12.89.

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16. Learn to Play Mah Jong

Instructor: Shirley Bellman

Wednesday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom B Annex


Course description: Learning the basics of Mah Jong. A Chinese game played with tiles and with rules simi-lar to the card game Gin rummy. Four players designated by East, South, West, and North take turns picking up and discarding tiles, beginning with East. Each player's goal is to complete his/her hand of four sets of three and a pair, thereby declaring Mah Jong.

Instructor's background: Shirley Bellman has played Mah Jong for over 20 years.

Learning is Forever

17. The Gentle Art of Mathematics - or - How the Leopard Got His Spots

Instructor: Judith Hall

Wednesday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom A


Course description: No background in Math is necessary to attend and enjoy the class. Sessions will watch the 1998 PBS series "Life by the Numbers" narrated by Danny Glover, as well as some supplementary films and materials. These will demonstrate how mathematics is a language by which the world around us can be described.

Instructor background: Mrs. Hall is Assistant Professor Emerita, in the Department of Mathematics at WVU. She has a BS and MS and taught Math and Statistics at WVU for 35 years.

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18. William Shakespeare's Othello

Instructor: William French

Wednesday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Classroom A


Course description: A Christian nation is threatened by Islamic forces. A foreign man (is he a black man? or a "Moor" -- himself an infidel?) is engaged to defend the Christian nation. The foreign man elopes with a beautiful young woman, daughter of a wealthy, important senator. Trouble ahead? You bet! Racial, psycho-logical, symbolic, whatever, we will explore the play scene by scene, discussing Shakespeare's text and view-ing scenes from several productions. We will also enjoy a lecture by Dr. James Benner, Emeritus Professor of Music at WVU, who will discuss the operatic music based on Shakespeare's play and play excerpts.

Instructor's background: Dr. French is a native West Virginian. He earned a BA from WVU in 1954; an MA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1959; and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967. Dr. French taught everything from Freshman Composition to doctoral-level seminars in Shakespeare and Renais-sance English drama in the English Department at WVU from 1964 until 2004. Along with winning numer-ous teaching awards, he has published many articles and one book.

19. Aging in Place

Instructor(s): Regina Mayolo and Jeanne Grimm

Wednesday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Classroom B


Course description: The desire for most Americans is to remain in their own homes for the duration of their lives. This course will provide information and resources to assist those who wish to age-in-place.

Instructor(s) background: Regina Mayolo is a Technical Assistance Specialist with the West Virginia As-sistive Technology System (WVATS) at the Center for Excellence in Disabilities at West Virginia University.

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She has been employed with helping special populations for more than twenty-five years. Educated at the University of Pittsburgh, Regina graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and is the only NAHB Certified Aging-In-Place Specialist in the state of West Virginia. In addition, she recently com-pleted training as an instructor for the FDIC Money Smart Program.

Jeanne Grimm is Assistant Director for Community Services for the Center for Excellence in Disabilities (CED) at West Virginia University where she has worked for more than 12 years. She manages several pro-grams but the West Virginia Assistive Technology Program, The West Virginia AgrAbility Project, Green Thumbs and Taking Charge of Your Health and Safety are projects associated with the awareness of, access to and acquisition of assistive technology devices and services. All of these CED programs focus on provid-ing information, technical assistance and resources to individuals who are trying to maintain or gain their ability to make informed decisions about where and how they want to live, work and play.

20. Be Red Cross Ready: Emergency Preparedness

Instructors: Red Cross Certified and trained instructors

Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Classroom A

April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15 Maximum enrollment: 25

Course description: This program represents the cooperative efforts of the American Red Cross and the US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Ready Campaign to encourage the public - and the community at large - to be more prepared for disaster or other emergencies. The class will make a plan, get a kit, be in-formed and learn CPR/FA.

Learn for the joy of it!!!

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21. Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

Instructor: James Benner

Thursday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Classroom A


Course description: In August of 1857 Richard Wagner broke off his composition of the monumental four-part cycle of operas "The Nibelung's Ring" after Act II of the third opera, "Siegfried", to compose "Tristan and Isolde" and "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg." Their continuing influence on Western music is vast and in-calculable. The tragic love of Tristan and the Irish Isolde is the stuff of legend, and Wagner dramatizes the inner emotional life of their relationship in a way that was totally new to musical expression. "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" is a freely embroidered comedy about the historically real 16th century crafts-men in Nuremberg, who were the self-appointed guardians of the purity of German poetry. Underlying its boisterous good humor is a melancholic cry of distress for the disintegration of that "holy" German art. The Masters seek its reincarnation. We will discuss aspects of these works and view videos of recent important performances of them.

Instructor's background: James Benner is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Music, College of Creative Arts, at WVU. In May of 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Bethany Col-lege. In May of 2003 he received the WVU College of Creative Arts Dean's Award for "Distinguished Lead-ership in the Arts," and he delivered the convocation speech for the 2003 College of Creative Arts Commence-ment Ceremony. Dr. Benner was a noted pianist and vocal coach in New York City before joining the Music faculty at WVU in 1966. From 1954 to 1968, he played for all of the major tours of the famed Obernkirchen Children's Choir from Germany. At WVU, he prepared, sometimes directed, and often conducted 38 produc-tions of 34 different operas, all fully staged with orchestra. He was in charge of musical preparation for the Opera Company of Boston under Sarah Caldwell in the 1985-86 season. He is on the OLLI Honor Roll for instructors, and this is the 39th course he has taught for OLLI at WVU since its beginning in 1993.

22. Writing Poetry

Instructor: Susan Shaw Sailer


Classroom B


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Course description: Beginning and experienced poets are equally welcome. During each class session we will read one or two poems by published poets; use writing exercises to generate images involving sight, sound, smell, touch and taste; and write one or two poems.

Instructor's background: Dr. Sailer has a PhD in English literature and an MFA in poetry. She retired from WVU's English Department in 2000. For 11 years she taught British and Irish literature at undergraduate and graduate levels. After retiring, Dr. Sailer pursued her lifelong love of poetry, taking workshops in West Vir-ginia, Pennsylvania and Iowa. In 2007, she completed an MFA in poetry through New England College and now has published a dozen poems.

23. Really Big Ideas in Science

Instructor: Duane G. Nichols


April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15 Maximum enrolled: 30

Course description: Let's look at the really big ideas that have come over the last 400 years to change our understanding of the earth, our life on the earth and beyond, as well as their potential for the long-term future. And, let's look at the lives of the people that have been substantially responsible for the development of these ideas, how the ideas themselves have influenced their originators and then the rest of us over the years. Con-sider Galileo's battle for the solar system, Isaac Newton's diverse laws of physics, Ben Franklin's contributions to science and to wisdom more generally, and Charles Darwin's work to understand the evolution of life. Then, let's look at the developments that have brought us digital computers, including Bill Gates, Gordon Moore and others. And, finally, let's examine the life and work of J. Craig Venter who has developed multiple techniques to decode the human genome.

Instructor's background: Duane Nichols completed degrees in chemical engineering at WVU and the Uni-versity of Delaware. He has taught courses in chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering at the college level. His research has involved coal processing, gasification, liquefaction including the environmental as-pects at WVU, the Research Triangle Institute and CONSOL R & D. More recently, he has taught OLLI courses in “global climate change”, “the ABC’s of cosmology”, as well as “energy and the environment”. He is currently the President of the Cheat Lake Environment and Recreation Association (CLEAR) and active in the Mon Valley Clean Air Coalition.

24. OLLI Potpourri Friday 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Classroom A

Maximum Enrollment: 55

April 18: Benefits of Giving Wisely

Instructor: Deb Miller

Course description: Learning more about the easy and smart ways to support your favorite charities, now and in the future, enables a person to choose options that can make a difference for future West Virginians. There are more choices for leaving a legacy than you’d think!

Instructor's background: Deborah Miller, JD, is the Director of Planned Giving with the WVU Foundation. She has held that position for 13 years and works with donors who are interested in the charitable estate op-tions which can help any component of WVU. She also works with financial advisors. Ms. Miller prepares a monthly column on estate planning which is carried in 20 newspapers around the state. She earned her law and business administration degrees at WVU.

May 2: Cherries 101

Instructor: Edward Hawkins

Course description: History, cultivation, care of, orchard planting, and useful health benefits of cherries, a delectable fruit of mid-summer.

Instructor's background: Dr. Hawkins is a dentist by day but a farmer at heart. He graduated from WVU in 1970 with a BA in English and in1974 with a Doctorate of Dental Surgery. He also did post graduate classes in Japanese Language and Culture and English Literature.

May 9 and 16: Organize Your Life for the Next Generation

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The OLLI EdVenture

Please complete and return the bottom portion of the trip announcement to secure your reservation. OLLI members will receive priority. Checks received after the bus is filled will be returned and a wait-list will be maintained. You will receive confirmation no later than two weeks prior to the trip. If your reservations are made after confirmations have been sent, you will be notified by phone. No tickets will be mailed. Tickets will be distributed upon your arrival for the event. If you have any questions concerning your reservation or you have a last-minute cancellation, please call the office at 304-293-1793. If the office is closed, please leave a detailed message as we check the machine frequently. No refunds will be made, but the office will try to assist in the sale of the tickets. Please note registration deadlines for each trip.

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Instructor: Frances Ness

Course description: Exploring methods for informing the next generation of your wishes regarding personal matters.

Instructor's background: Frances has been a resident of Morgantown since 1964. She has a BS in Journal-ism from West Virginia University.

24. Great Films

Instructor: Alan Keiser

Friday, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Classroom A


Course description: A mixture of foreign, comic, and documentary films will be shown and discussed. Films will be shown which are not usually seen locally.

Instructor's background: Mr. Keiser grew up in North Central Indiana. He has a BA in German from Man-chester College, Indiana; MA in Geology from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana: and attended Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. Alan worked as a coal geologist in an industry setting and also worked for the West Virginia Geological Survey. He taught high school general science in Cebu, Philippines for the US Peace Corps and also taught in Melbourne, Australia and did volunteer work in a large home for coal miners in West Germany. Mr. Keiser has traveled in 52 countries.

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Sunday May 11, 2008

Performance begins at 2 p.m.

NOTE!!! Due to WVU Graduation Bus leaves Mountaineer Mall at 11:00 a.m.

World-class opera stars Vivica Genaux and Laura Claycomb ignite the stage in this version of the famous tale of star-crossed lovers. Vivica, a dazzling Pittsburgh favorite, sings Romeo, one of those “pants roles” in which delec-table mezzo sopranos play the part of ardent young men. When Genaux’s “almost inhuman gift for vocal pyro-technics” sings opposite Claycomb, hailed for her “Botticellian looks” and a voice “that caresses every note,” it’s a beguiling bel canto masterpiece you don’t want to miss! Sung in Italian with English texts projected above the stage. Run time is 2:30 including one intermission.

Transportation and Ticket Price: Orchestra $70.00

First Tier $55.00

Price does not include meal.

PITTSBURGH OPERA

Name(s):

Address:


Phone: E-Mail

____ Orchestra $70.00 Number of Tickets ____ Amount $ ______

____ First Tier $55.00 Number of Tickets ____ Amount $ ______

Enclosed Amount of $_______ made payable to the WVU Foundation, Inc.

Registration Deadline: April 25, 2008

SPACES STILL AVAILABLE

Saturday May 3, 2008

Bus leaves Mountaineer Mall at 8:00 a.m.

Registration Deadline: April 3, 2008

Transportation and Ticket Price: $75.00

Includes Boxed Lunch and Buffet Dinner at Penn Alps

Ticket Price $75.00 Number of Tickets ____ Amount $ ______


Club Sandwich Boxed Lunch ____ Vegetarian Sandwich Boxed Lunch ____

Name(s):

Address:


Phone: E-Mail

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad

After Boarding our bus at 8:00 a.m. in Morgantown, we will head east on I-68. Leaving this new highway at Exit 34, we will take the National Road into Cumberland, MD. The National Road or National Pike, known to most of us as US Route 40, is Amer-ica’s first major national effort to develop an interstate system of transportation. Its construction was started under President Thomas Jefferson.

Our first stop will be the Cumberland Visitor Center of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Park. The C&O Canal has beginnings even earlier than the Pike, having had George Washington, a major sponsor, and steamboat inventor (West) Virgin-ian James Rumsey of Shepherdstown, as an early C&O Canal engineer and administrator.

About 11:15 a.m. we will pick up our box lunches and board our coach on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and let the steam locomotive pull us back up the mountain to Frostburg. There we will visit the Threasher Carriage Museum. This is an outstanding collection of horse-drawn vehicles collected by a local native and successful business man, Jim Threasher. The col-lection includes both pleasure and work vehicles, all restored to like-new condition.

Re-boarding our train, we will return to Cumberland and stop at Penn Alps for an early supper buffet and arrive in Morgantown around 6:30 p.m.

Register for the Prep Course: Over the Mountains: Engineering the Allegheny Crossing with Wally Venable and Emory Kemp

"There in a beautiful forest was a solid, high rock-ledge rising beside a waterfall, and the natural thing seemed to be to cantilever the house from the rock-bank over the falling water...I think you can hear the waterfall when

you look at the design." -Frank Lloyd Wright


Price does not include meal. Registration Deadline: April 11, 2008

Monday May 19, 2008

Bus leaves Mountaineer Mall at 8:15 a.m.

Bus leaves Kentuck Knob at 4:30 p.m.

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Photo by: George Logenecker

Join us for a day of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. First we will visit Fallingwater where George Longenecker will give a private tour of the grounds. After our tour, we will visit the Fallingwater Café for lunch. After lunch we will continue our tour at Kentuck Knob. This tour is limited to 20 people so make your reservations quickly.

Announcing our Spring Show !

H.M.S. Pinafore

Name(s):

Address:


Phone: E-Mail




Price does not include meal. Registration Deadline: June 6, 2008

Sunday June 22, 2008

Bus leaves Coliseum Blue Gate at 10:15 a.m.

The Pittsburgh Savoyards, Inc. is a semiprofessional, community-based, non-profit theater company funded by local contributions and ticket sales. We operate for the purposes of perpetuating the heritage of Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas, and providing a hands-on opportunity for interested persons to learn about and experience musical theater. While our focus is the performance of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, we occasionally perform non Gilbert and Sullivan concerts and other composers' comic operas. The Company has been in existence since 1938, and is informally affiliated with a number of similar groups throughout the country.

Join OLLI for the afternoon performance of H.M.S. Pinafore. After the show, we will be eating at Red Lobster.

H.M.S. Pinafore

Join a OLLI Committee !!!

Curriculum

Meets the first Monday of each month at Noon

Members help plan and develop course offerings and recruit faculty.

Marketing and Promotion Meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at Noon

Members plan, develop and implement marketing strategies and plan and support promotional events.

Finance and Fundraising Meets the last Friday of each month at Noon

Members review financial reports and assist in fundraising initiatives that will ensure the future of the Osher

Lifelong Learning Institute

Office Assistant Assist where needed

Members help with the administration of the organization.

Membership Meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at Noon

Members assist in the growth of the OLLI membership by creating new initiatives, increasing our mailing list and

membership services.

OLLI EdVenture Meets the second Wednesday of each month at Noon

Members develop trip opportunities and assist in the marketing and promotion of the OLLI EdVentures.

Special Activities Meets the third Wednesday of each month at Noon

Members plan and implement the Open House Kick-Off events for each term, the Annual Membership Meeting

and other special events.

Archive Meets the second Tuesday of each month at Noon

Members maintain and preserve OLLI history.

Facilities and Technology

Meets the first Wednesday of each month at Noon

Members assist in the planning and maintenance of the OLLI facilities and technology resources.

Newsletter Meets the second Tuesday of each month at Noon

Members develop and publish the quarterly newsletter for OLLI.

Supporters

We would like to thank and acknowledge the following patrons and supporters.

We have thrived due to their unwavering commitment.

The Bernard Osher Foundation

West Virginia University Community Medicine

Alan Ducatman, MD, MSc

Chair, Department of Community Medicine

OLLI Members and Volunteers

390 and Growing

Our Distinguished Instructors

Committee Members

The OLLI Board of Directors:

Irving Goodman, President

John Pearson, Vice President

Art Pavlovic, Treasurer

Carole Boyd, Secretary

Jane Martin, University Representative

Margaret Albrink

Rita Bajura

Marian Conner

Phil Faini

Lynn Harper

Alan Keiser

Janet Kemp

JoAnn Lorensen

Edwin J. Morgan

The OLLI Committee Chairs:

Curriculum: Marian Conner

Facilities: Alan Keiser

Finance: Art Pavlovic

Mailing: Roger Dalton

Membership: Ann Davidson

Newsletter: Ted Stevens

Nominating: Emory Kemp

Publicity and Promotion: Betty Maxwell

Special Activities: Rita Bajura and Ed Morgan

Advisors:

David Blaydes Roger Dalton

Mary Ellen Brady Betty Maxwell

Lydia Conaway Ted Stevens

Mary Jane Hamilton

Staff: Jennifer Adamson, Executive Director

Nancy Merrifield, Administrative Associate

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