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OLLI
E-News
#1-12 of January 6, 2012
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RESOLUTION SUGGESTION FOR ALL OLLI MEMBERS
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
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OLLI
relies on volunteers for much of its work.
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OLLI's
costs would increase significantly without volunteers.
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Volunteering is enjoyable and rewarding.
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From the
executive director
AS YOU CONSIDER RESOLUTIONS for
2012, I'd like to suggest a renewed awareness of the "volunteer
culture" of OLLI: we are basically a "cooperative" that relies
significantly on contributions of time and talents from its members.
Here is an excerpt from the "Volunteer at OLLI" page of our website.
 Volunteering
Is Important to OLLI
Some institutes make volunteering a condition
of membership. We don't
do that. (It wouldn't really be volunteering if we did!) But
volunteering is central to our existence. Our bylaws sum it up:
OLLI "is
governed by its members and functions as an intellectual cooperative in
which members volunteer in administration and as planners, instructors,
organizational officers
and committee members."
There are three interrelated reasons why
volunteering is important to
OLLI—money, workload and teaching.
Simply put, it would cost you a lot more
to be a member if OLLI had
to
pay for all its operations. Although we don't have to do some things
that
a private college would (such as administer entrance requirements, give
exams and award degrees), we offer programs that are comparable to
those
found in colleges. We get by with what is really a minimal membership
fee
because:
- We
rely on our
members to teach or otherwise lead courses.
- We
don't pay
outside teachers and speakers.
- Over
80% of the
work of running the organization is done by member volunteers.
We do
employ
administrative help, a necessity as we continue to grow. In fact,
almost half our budget goes to personnel costs, reflecting the
well-known fact that personnel costs are the major expense item in many
organizations.
Quite aside from financial need,
volunteering in an organization from
which members derive so much enjoyment can and should be personally
satisfying and rewarding.
Four other things should be said about
volunteering:
- You
don't need
prior experience or expertise in a particular field, although this is
always
welcome and in a few cases necessary. Everyone has the talent to help
in
some capacity. If special knowledge is required, we can train you.
- You
should
volunteer only for what you want to do.
- Your
time is
valuable. We won't ask you to put in more time than you can handle
comfortably or serve longer than you can.
- You
should look
on volunteer work as enjoyable and rewarding. If it isn't, we are doing
something wrong.
Note. See the volunteer page or
the Member
Handbook (pdf) for more information on volunteering at OLLI.
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SOME E-NEWS
HIGHLIGHTS
SELECTED AFTER A
QUICK REVIEW of
the 48 issues of E-News published last year, here is a chronological
sampling of interesting, entertaining or important articles for your
light reading.
We welcome human-interest stories from members
about OLLI-related happenings, and we're always interested in your
feedback about E-News ( submit
by email to me or to
Communications Committee
Chair Gordon Canyock).
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 BOOK
CLUB
Wed, Jan 11 at 10:00 – The Old Man and the
Sea
THE OLLI BOOK CLUB will
meet at 10:00 on Wednesday, January 11 at Tallwood. The book for
discussion is Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel The Old Man and
the Sea, the story of the struggle between an elderly fisherman
and a large marlin.
All OLLI members are
welcome.
-- By Ceda
McGrew, Book
Club Coordinator. For more information about the book, see this
Wikipedia article.
 Next
month's book for discussion on Wednesday, February 8 is The Elegance of the Hedgehog by
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PHOTOGRAPHY
CLUB
Fri, Jan 13 at 9:30 – "Beyond Ordinary"
 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 the
OLLI Photography Club will hold its monthly meeting at 9:30 in TA-1.
Our speaker will be professional photographer
Corey Hilz (photo
at right).
A published author,
Corey specializes in nature and travel photography. His work is seen in
magazines, books, calendars and catalogs as
well as art galleries. Corey finds that the diversity in nature and
cultures around the world offers boundless opportunities for new
images.
Corey's presentation, titled "Beyond Ordinary," will share how he
approaches subjects in search of creating
something new and how he uses
his vision to create photographs that go beyond the ordinary image. He
will discuss techniques that will help push your photography forward
and elevate your imagery beyond documentary, well-captured photos to
ones that stretch your creativity.
If you are interested in knowing when to take
the photo (and when not to), you will find this meeting very
informative.
To learn more about Corey and his workshops and classes,
check out coreyhilz.com.
You do not have to be a member of the
Photography Club to attend; all OLLI members are invited.
-- By Steve Schanzer, Photography Club Coordinator
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OLLI
SPIRITWEAR
Click image or here to shop
Order
sweatshirts,
shirts, caps and tote bags with the OLLI/Mason logo
at any time directly from the vendor for delivery to your home. At the
store, click "OLLI-GMU Store" to see the pictures, then click on each
item
to see details. Note: The
pictures do not show our logo but it
will be embroidered on items that you order.
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OLLI FACEBOOK GROUP
Click
icon or here to
join
OLLI
members are
encouraged to join the OLLI Facebook group as
a means
of enhancing intra-OLLI communications. Recent articles: how to join;
how to post
photos. (The icon is also under the Quick
Links table
on our Home page and What's New page.) Note: Once you join the OLLI group,
you can access the group from your personal Facebook page by clicking
on "Groups" or "More" in the left-side navigation area. |
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Selected by the OLLI Poetry
Workshop
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Have
an Epiphany
Take time for self-reflection
Assessment
Then
Leverage
Your accumulated life experience
Your ethics
Get off the couch
Drop that remote
Find that opportunity that lies
At the intersection
Of
What just might be entirely new
But
What your spouse agrees to
What makes your heart sing
And have
Fun
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MASON ARTS AND
MUSIC
Upcoming Fairfax performances, Jan 6 - 15
 By
Jan Bohall, OLLI
E-News Staff Writer
FOR
TICKETS, call
1-888-945-2468 or buy online
(phone and online orders are handled by
tickets.com; a service charge applies) or visit the Center for the Arts
Box Office, Tue-Sat,
10:00-6:00. More info on tickets is at the CFA tickets page.
U.S. Marine Band—"The President’s Own"
Around
the World with
Sousa
Sun, Jan 8, 2:00
Col.
Michael J. Colburn, director, will conduct this traditional Sousa
season opener, part of the band's Living History concert series.
Besides familiar marches, the band will perform Sousa's original
suite, Camera Studies; an
arrangement from Dukas' The
Sorcerer's Apprentice; and the premier of a suite from
Wolf-Ferrari's Jewels of the Madonna.
Admission: Free, non-ticketed
Concert Hall |
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Passion
and Romance
Christopher
Zimmerman,
conducting
Guest
Artist: Sergey
Antonov, cello
Sat, Jan 14, 8:00
The
musical selections highlight the transition from Glazunov's romantic Chant du Ménéstrel
into the shattering intensity of his pupil Shostakovich's Symphony No.
11, surrounding the Cello Concerto in C by Haydn.
Admission: $55, $45, $25, ages 6-18 $5
Concert Hall
Come at 7:00 for an artistic discussion on Grand Tier III.
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 HYLTON
ARTS AND MUSICUpcoming Manassas performances, Jan 6 - 15
By
Sheri
Siesseger, OLLI
E-News Staff Writer
FOR
TICKETS,
call
1-888-945-2468 or click "Buy Tickets" at the event listing in the calendar
(phone and
online orders are handled by
tickets.com; a service charge applies) – or visit the box office in the
lobby of the Hylton
Performing
Arts Center on Mason's Prince William Campus in Manassas, Wed-Sat,
noon to 6:00. More info on tickets is at the ticket
purchase page. Note: Two OLLI
members have advised E-News that tickets for events at the Hylton
Performing
Arts Center in Manassas are also routinely available at the Center for
the Arts box office on the Fairfax campus, open Tue-Sat, 10:00-6:00.
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Passion
and Romance
Sun, Jan 15, 3:00
Conducted by Christopher Zimmerman, the Symphony presents Glazunov's Chant du Ménéstrel,
Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11,
"The Year 1905." Cellist Sergey Antonov is the guest artist.
Admission: $25, $35, $45; children ages 6-18, $5
Merchant Hall
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COMING
ATTRACTIONS
Upcoming non-class events at
OLLI
THE
FOLLOWING LIST
covering
the next two weeks is extracted
for your
convenience from the master calendar maintained by the office, with
direct web links added when available. OLLI members are welcome at all
Board, committee and resource group meetings. For more activities
specifically related to the Loudoun
site, see Roberta Sherman's latest Loudoun
Notes (pdf). For
more activities
specifically related to the Reston
site, see Sharon Gilman's latest Eye on Reston (Word
document).
Note:
The below list is accurate as of mid-week but for the very latest
information, please see Upcoming
Non-Class Events to view the
real-time OLLI online
calendar maintained by
the office.
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KEY
CONTACT
INFORMATION
How to contact OLLI
HERE
IS A READY REFERENCE
on
how to contact OLLI.
For email
addresses and phone numbers not listed below, please consult the online
Membership Directory (log in to Member
Portal).
About
OLLI E-News
and the
member/volunteers who
produce it
Rod
Zumbro
Editor |
Barbara Kyriakakis
Associate
Editor |
Ernestine Meyer
Backup
Editor
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Review Team: Gordon
Canyock,
Barbara Kyriakakis, John West
Database
Manager: Barbara
Kyriakakis
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- About
this newsletter.
OLLI's
weekly newsletter, OLLI
E-News,
is
emailed
to
current
OLLI
members
with
email
addresses
on
Fridays.
When
classes
are
in
session, printed copies of this newsletter are distributed in
classrooms. Comments,
suggestions or complaints? Please contact Editor Rod
Zumbro or Communications Committee Chair Gordon
Canyock.
- Submissions. We
encourage members
to submit news items, articles and photos for this newsletter. The deadline
to
the editor is 7:00 pm Wed (7:00 pm Mon for letters to the
editor
for which an
OLLI response is appropriate) for that
week's issue; submissions
earlier in
the week are strongly encouraged and greatly appreciated.
Please
limit
articles to about 250 words. Submit material via email to Editor Rod
Zumbro
(email rzumbro@gmu.edu).
- Read the latest
issue early. The
new weekly issue of OLLI
E-News
is posted to the OLLI website Thursday evening. Read it by visiting http://www.olli.gmu.edu/pubs.htm#enews,
where
you
will
find
a
list
of
the
last
12
issues;
click
the
latest issue listed.
- Viewing or searching past
issues. Your options for finding items in past issues of OLLI E-News
include viewing the last
12
issues; searching the
content of
ALL issues for any word or words; and searching the
DocStore archive of all past issues by date or issue number.
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Updated:
January 6, 2012
Copyright © 2012 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at
George Mason University. Materials in this publication subject to
OLLI-Mason copyright may be reproduced for noncommercial educational
purposes as long as credit is given to OLLI-Mason.
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Mason University, 4210 Roberts Rd., Fairfax, VA 22032-1028
Phone: (703) 503-3384; Email: olli@gmu.edu;
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