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OLLI
E-News #16-08 of April 25, 2008
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| REMINDERS |
> ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING:
10:00 Fri, May 2. Plan to attend! Come early for the Silent Auction
9:00-9:45 and stay after the meeting for the picnic and more Silent
Auction.
> BALLOTS MAILED TODAY, APR 25. Hear
the candidates speak at one of the meetings, then cast your vote.
Vote anytime but ballots must be received by noon on Fri, May 16.
> BOARD CANDIDATE
SPEECHES: Tue, Apr 29, 1:00, Lake Anne Church, and Fri, May 2,
10:00, during the Annual Membership Meeting at Tallwood. Click to read
candidate bios.
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MOTHER'S DAY TRIBUTES.
Email your
short tribute to the editor by
May 2. Read more. |
ARTICLES AND NOTICES
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> OLLI
SILENT AUCTION NEXT WEEK! One more week till
the big day. By
Bob Lawshe
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YOUR HELP IN UPGRADING
OUR CLASSROOMS.
Planned audiovisual improvements. By Paul Howard
> JUST
A FEW MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE BIG DAY.
Silent auction info. By Debbie Halverson
>
REPORT
FROM PHOENIX,
PART 2.
From
the executive
director. By Thom
Clement
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SMOKE ALARM GOOD FOR TEN
YEARS AVAILABLE FROM FIRE DEPT.
Free on request. By
Carol Henderson
> LEARN
MORE ABOUT YOUR FELLOW MEMBERS BY HEARING THEIR STORIES.
"Slices and Snippets." By Debbie Halverson
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| DEPARTMENTS |
> A SCHOLAR AND A
GENTLEMAN. Profile of longtime member Earl Canfield. By Jan Bohall
> LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR. A different perspective on classroom temperature.
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CENTER
FOR THE ARTS. Arts
and music events. By Jan Bohall
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MASON
HIGHLIGHTS. Other Mason events. By Barbara Kyriakakis
> COMING
ATTRACTIONS. Non-class events at OLLI for
the next two weeks. |
 OLLI SILENT AUCTION
NEXT WEEK!
One more week till the big day
By Bob Lawshe, Board member
THE
FIRST EVER OLLI SILENT AUCTION, or Vente
Aux Enchères Silencieux, is coming up next Fri, May 2, at
Tallwood immediately following the Annual Membership Meeting.
We have some really nifty things going up for
bid: Like original
poems to celebrate, commemorate, whatever, a subject of your choice; a
charcoal sketch – you chose the subject; and the OLLI players will
create and perform an original skit just for you! You just win the
bid, talk with the poet, artist, and/or dramatist, and voilà,
a real treasure is yours.
We also have art work, jewelry, fresh-baked
bread, afghans (the wrap), dinners, bridge gatherings, baseball
tickets, to name
just a few. There is still time to get your donation in. So far we
don’t have any vacation homes for a week or weekend (or longer), and
we know they are out there (Paris would be nice), bird-watching
lessons, boat outings, lessons on fishing, bridge and home brewing, etc.
Don’t hold back if someone has already donated
a similar item –
more art work (drawings, watercolors, photos, sculpture) on commission
would be nice as would more computer lessons (like how to attach
something to an email, set up a home computer or network, have multiple
email addresses with Cox or Verizon),
dinners, parties, etc. You get the idea. And there must be lots of
other things that could be up for bid that we haven’t thought of – but
you can. We need these items, and we’re counting on you to come forward.
Silent Auction Web site. Check out
OLLI's Silent Auction Web site at http://www.olligmu.org/auction08.htm,
where you can see a complete, continually updated list –
with photos –
of
auction items, and you can download the donation form. This great Web
site was created –
and is being
maintained –
by John West based on input provided by Doris Bloch.
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And don’t forget we’ll be holding the
OLLI Spring Picnic, or Un
Pique-nique au Printemps, simultaneous with the auction, where
there will be food, the recorder group playing, the drama group
dramatizing, readers reading, and lots of fun. All in all it sounds
like
a wonderful opportunity to find out what’s happening at OLLI, meet the
candidates, have fun, pick up something neat (like that villa
in Spain), and connect with fellow OLLI’ers.
Time schedule. The auction will take
place in TA-3. Doors will open at 9:00 and close at 9:55 for the Annual
Membership Meeting (including brief Board candidate speeches) starting
at 10:00 in TA-1. Following the meeting (approximately 11:45), the
auction will reopen until 1:30.
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This is the time to let your imagination soar.
After all, it’s for a really good cause that means a lot to all of us
-- The Friends of
OLLI (see last week's
article about Friends of OLLI ... and read the next article below
about audiovisual improvements funded by Friends of OLLI).
YOUR HELP IN UPGRADING OUR CLASSROOMS
Planned audiovisual improvements
 By Paul
Howard, Audiovisual
Support Committee Chair
THE
OLLI BOARD APPROVED TWO PROPOSALS for making
significant enhancements to our classrooms. These include hard-wired
network and Internet connections for our Tallwood classrooms, the
social room, the annex, and each member of our staff. The most
noticeable addition, and most expensive (about 45% of the total
expenditure), will be a very bright, high-resolution, high
definition-capable video projector for TA-1. This projector will
support accurate color rendition, which should vastly improve
presentations for the photo club and other users.
Other improvements include: five microphones
for Reston and Tallwood; a software/hardware package to allow us to
enhance color rendition of existing laptop/projector suites; a sound
system for the second classroom at Reston; and provision for an
additional laptop at Reston.
The money for these AV items comes from the
Friends of OLLI fund to which many of you have contributed. The
estimated total cost is almost $11,000.
The Tom Swift Squad (i.e., the Audiovisual
Support Committee) is also planning other enhancements for Reston and
Tallwood. However, the Friends of OLLI fund is down to a level that
will not permit these other improvements at this time. Therefore, we
hope that you will be generous in your contributions to the Friends of
OLLI and to activities such as the Silent Auction that will provide
funds to the Friends of OLLI. Your donations can further enhance our
learning environment.
This just
in!
With the terrific cooperation of the folks at Reston’s Washington Plaza
Baptist Church, we hope to have Internet access readily available in
our classrooms there starting Mon, Apr 28.
JUST
A FEW MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE BIG
DAY
Silent auction info
 
By Debbie Halverson, Membership Committee Chair
BETWEEN BOB LAWSHE AND ME, we
are trying to keep you completely informed about the May 2 events.
While Bob has already told you about the Silent Auction Web site, you
should also know that you have another opportunity to see what the
Silent Auction offers by looking at a listing in the social room on the
bulletin board. This paper copy must remain in the social room because
we did not print a bunch.
You can download the donation form (image shown above) by clicking this
link or you can pick up a form in classrooms or the social room.
Leave the completed form in the file folder in the social room (with a
photo if available or email a digital photo) as soon as possible,
although we can certainly take
items at the last minute. But as a courtesy to those who have been
working so hard to be organized, we would really appreciate your giving
this matter your immediate attention. Note also that we cannot take
some bulky items because in the event the item does not sell, we are
faced
with disposal issues.
At 1:30 when the door to the auction closes,
we
will figure out who got what and then open the door again for you to
collect
and pay. We will accept cash, checks or credit cards.
Delivery of items to Tallwood is scheduled for
Thu, May 1, between 3:30 and 4:30 in TA-3. At your request, donation
forms for IRS purposes will be provided. Should you absolutely be
unable to deliver your items during this time period, please consult
the bulletin board in the social room for information to make
alternative arrangements.
I too am encouraging you to attend all three
of the day’s events. If you are planning to attend the picnic, do
please call the office at 703-503-3384 prior to May 2 to let them know
that you are coming and to get your food assignment. Plan to bring a
lawn chair if you have one as seating for the picnic will be limited.
If you will not be attending the picnic, no need to RSVP.
One additional plea: I know who our regular
helpers are, but everyone else, would you please email me to let me
know if you can help with the auction? Many thanks, and I’ll see you
all on Friday.
REPORT FROM
PHOENIX, PART 2
From the executive director
 By Thom Clement,
Executive Director
AS
I MENTIONED IN LAST WEEK'S OLLI
E-NEWS, there is tremendous variation
among the 119 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes across the country. At
the national Osher conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Pat Carroll and I
learned about some of these differences:
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For example, membership
is defined in different ways. At our OLLI at George Mason University,
to become a member you pay an annual fee of $350, and this entitles you
to take as many courses and participate in as many activities as your
schedule allows at no additional cost. To our surprise, we found that
one OLLI has an annual membership fee of $15. In talking with the
director, I discovered that this low fee has helped them to have
phenomenal growth in a short amount of time. However, the only thing
the members get is a copy of the catalog and a newsletter – there are
extra fees for courses and activities. There are some "members" who do
not take any classes. At our OLLI, an individual can join at any
time
of year and then renew membership after a calendar year, generally at
the beginning of one of the four terms. In many OLLIs, everyone must
"join" at the same time each year, typically at the beginning of the
fall term in September. Some OLLIs allow people to become "members" for
one term at a time rather than annually. |
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The differences in fees and payment
options were also
notable among the OLLIs. As I stated above, the cost of memberships
varies and to some extent defines what being a member is. Some OLLIs
allow for installment payments – everyone pays the same fee, but not
all in one payment. The majority of OLLIs charge an additional fee per
course. Where this generally allows for a lower membership fee, the
total cost for a member who regularly takes two or more classes is
significantly higher than at our OLLI. Some OLLIs charge a lower
"introductory" fee for new members which is applied to the regular
membership fee if the person continues his membership. |
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A third variation among the 119 OLLIs is in
the number and duration of terms.
OLLI at Mason has four terms each year: eight weeks in the spring
and fall terms, four weeks in the winter term, and six weeks in the
summer term. Many OLLIs have just two terms – spring and fall, and
others add a third term in either the summer or winter, but not both.
Some OLLIs have terms of only six weeks, others have 10- or 12-week
terms. It is not unusual for an OLLI to totally close down in between
terms, with no activities or staff on site. As you know, our OLLI has
many activities, clubs and volunteer opportunities that continue in the
weeks when classes are not in session. |
I will continue my discussion of the
variations among OLLIs in next week’s OLLI
E-News. I look forward to seeing you at the upcoming "Meet the
Candidates" events, including next Friday's Annual Membership Meeting,
and for the Silent Auction and Cookout/Picnic also on
that day, May 2.
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SMOKE ALARM
GOOD
FOR TEN YEARS AVAILABLE FROM FIRE DEPT
Free on request
  By
Carol Henderson, Board member
A
SMOKE ALARM GOOD FOR TEN YEARS? You
don’t have to change batteries twice a year? That’s right, and the
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department will provide such a smoke
detector with lithium batteries, and will install it for you. They’d
rather do this on request than rescue you after you’ve fallen off a
ladder trying to do it yourself! Not only that, but carbon monoxide
detectors are available as well. All this is free on request, courtesy
of your county tax dollars. County residents, just call the Fire and
Rescue Department at 703-246-3801.
This is just some of the very useful
information provided by two lively and entertaining representatives of
the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department at an OLLI class in
Reston on Mon, Apr 21. Coordinated by Al Roe, the course is #902, "Your
County/Your Home," and it’s bringing folks from various county agencies
to speak to OLLI members each week this term.
The Fire and Rescue Department has a home
safety booklet available and provides senior education programs. More
information is available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fire.
LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR
FELLOW MEMBERS BY HEARING THEIR STORIES
"Slices and Snippets"
By Debbie Halverson, Membership Committee Chair
WITH THE
SECOND HALF OF THE SPRING TERM in full swing, I want to
point
to two series of classes, one at Reston and the other at Tallwood, that
deserve your interest mainly because they are recollections of
interesting events that occurred in member lives.
"Slices and Snippets" (course #905) in Reston
is scheduled for 2:00 on the remaining Tuesdays in the term. The series
for Tallwood is on Thursday mornings at 9:30. Two speakers at each
session will tell you about interesting events that occurred in their
careers that might have been funny, or scary, or historic. Check the
catalog for who is speaking when.
These classes are not full, and you will get
yet another insight into the lives of some people you thought you
already knew.
HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS ABOUT OLLI
Questions/Comments/Suggestions
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PUBLICLY:
Email
your "Letter
to the Editor" (see recent sample)
or "Letter to
Ms. Ollie Ettakit" (see recent sample)
to the editor. Anonymous
submissions are
acceptable if you provide contact information so we can verify that you
are an OLLI member. Whenever an official response to a letter to
the editor is
clearly appropriate, the editor will obtain and publish the OLLI
response in the same issue so members will have more complete
information and a balanced picture of the matter. |
PRIVATELY:
• Contact any Board member,
committee or
resource group chair, or the executive
director;
• Send an email
to the entire
Board
(email the editor or the office to have your
message forwarded to all members of the Board);
• Submit a
suggestion online
or in the box in the Tallwood social room; or
• Contact the
office by email
or phone (703-503-3384). |
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A SCHOLAR AND
A
GENTLEMAN
Profile of longtime member Earl Canfield
 By Jan Bohall, OLLI
E-News Staff Writer
EARL
CANFIELD HAS HELD HIS LAST MEETING
OF HOMER, ETC. in
the Tallwood Annex after 10 years of exploring The Iliad, The Odyssey and now Shakespeare’s
plays with a small but loyal group. He led the Friday read-aloud
members with quiet dignity and little fanfare, guiding them through
knotty passages to a degree of understanding of theme and story line.
Earl now begins a new adventure, moving with his wife, Johanna, to be
near a son in Ames, Iowa.
He joined Learning in Retirement, now OLLI, "in ‘95
or ’96," shortly after retiring from the Congressional Research
Service, an adjunct of the Library of Congress. For LRI he taught
courses in poetry appreciation, believing that poems need to be read
aloud; the class brought favorite poems to read to the group. Earl’s
recitation from memory of Frost’s "Provide, Provide" was a sterling
moment from those classes.
In 1998 he stood at a Tallwood Book Club meeting and
asked if there was interest in reading classical literature aloud, and
so began Homer, etc. The group met first at King’s Park Library, later
in Supervisor Sharon Bulova’s office, and then found a home at
Tallwood. Members will now continue to meet under the guidance of Sibyl
Vanneman. The last member of the original group, Lilyan Spero, says
that Earl "is one of the nicest and most decent human beings I have
met. Anyone who comes to this group regularly stays with it until they
leave OLLI; there’s no drifting away." Earl says that he and Lilyan
have read Homer’s Iliad
through twice with the group, and he intends to read it a third time.
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
A forum for members to voice their views
on OLLI matters
WE
WILL
PUBLISH your brief letters about OLLI and, if
a response seems appropriate, we will include an OLLI response from the
executive director or the applicable officer or committee
chair in the same issue. Submit your letter via email to the editor or
submit it as a "letter to the editor" via
the online
suggestion box or the suggestion box in the Tallwood Social Room.
To be published in a given Friday's issue, the editor must receive the
letter no later than 7:00 pm on Monday so that any applicable OLLI
response can also be published. Letters can be published
anonymously but you must include your name and email address or phone
number so we can verify that you are an OLLI member.
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A different perspective on classroom
temperature
I was in the class where the instructor collapsed on April 9. It was
not too hot for me or my husband. I always dress for the weather and am
rarely too warm in the classes. On the contrary, I have left class in
TA-1 with a stiff neck from the fans being turned on before summer
comes.
We small, cold-sensitive people are usually
outnumbered or just quieter. Perhaps it's difficult for everyone to be
comfortable, but dress in layers you can remove and don't assume
everyone is too warm just because you are.
-- Valerie Stucky, OLLI member
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 CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Arts and music events at Mason,
Apr 25-May 4
By Jan Bohall, OLLI
E-News Staff Writer
FOR
TICKETS, call
1-888-945-2468 (phone orders are handled by tickets.com)
or visit the Center for the Arts Box Office, Tue-Sat, 10:00-6:00. More
info on tickets at the CFA tickets page.
GMU
Players #3
Measure
for Measure
by
William Shakespeare
Directed
by Rick Davis, artistic director of the CFA/Theater of the
First Amendment, this play brings Shakespeare’s most sustained
investigation of
the role of law and justice applied to a wide variety of human
circumstances. Stay for a post-performance discussion with the director
and members of the Players. The
Saturday afternoon performance is an OLLI Special Event.
Fri, Sat, Apr 25, 26, at 8:00
Sat, Apr 26, at 2:00
Thu, Fri, Sat, May 1-3, at 8:00
Sat, Sun, May 3-4, at 2:00
Admission: $8 seniors/students, $12 other adults
Theater Space (From Level 2 of
Parking Deck take the bridge, enter the first door on the left and
follow hallway through the gray doors and down stairs.)
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Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Masterworks
5
William
Hudson, conductor
Maestro Hudson conducts two popular symphonic renditions, one of
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, and one of excerpts
from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2. He concludes with
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
Sat, Apr 26, at 8:00
Admission: $55, $45, $35, $25
Concert Hall
Come early for a free, pre-concert lecture at 7:00. |
GMU Wind Symphony &
Symphonic
Band Spring
Concert
Tue, Apr 29, at 8:00
Admission: $10 seniors/students, $15 other adults
Harris Theater
GMU Dance Company
May
Concert
Thu, Fri, Sat, May 1, 2, 3, at 8:00
Admission: seniors/students $7, other adults, $10
Dance Performance Studio (3rd floor of the Performing Arts Bldg.,
adjacent to the Concert Hall).
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Diavolo
This group is made up of dancers, gymnasts and actors that use oversize
structures and surrealistic sets of commonplace items. Performers leap,
fly and twirl to portray metaphors for the absurdities of life.
Fri, Sat, May 2, 3, at 8:00
Admission: $44, $36, $22
Family friendly: Children 12 and under half price with an adult
Concert Hall
Come at 7:15 for a pre-performance artistic discussion in the Grand
Tier III Lobby.
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GMU Opera
Tartuffe
by Kirke
Mechem
Fri, Sat, May 2, 3, at 8:00
Admission: $15 seniors/students, $20 other adults
Harris Theater
2008 GMU Music Scholarship Concert
featuring
University Symphony Orchestra, Choirs
and
Concerto Soloists
The groups will perform Slava!
by Leonard Bernstein as well as selections from Gilbert and Sullivan
operettas. Musicians well-known to OLLI members include Anthony
Maiello, conductor of the Symphony Orchestra, and Dr. Lisa A.
Billingham and Dr. Stanley Engebretson, conductors of the University
Chorale and University Singers. Provost Peter N. Stearns will make a
special guest appearance.
Sun, May 4, at 7:00
Admission: $15 seniors/students, $20 other adults
Concert Hall
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MASON HIGHLIGHTS
Other Mason events
 By Barbara Kyriakakis, OLLI
E-News Staff Writer
- Student
Recitals
- All free.
- Brach Cobb, saxophone, Sat, Apr
26, 2:00,
Performing Arts Bldg. Choral Room and Andrea Lively, violin, 4:00,
Grand Tier III, Concert Hall;
- Mon, Apr 28, Kenny Kohilhaas,
guitar, 6:00, Grand
Tier III, Concert Hall;
- Wed, Apr 30, Christian Perez,
guitar, 6:00 and Matt
O'Keefe, cello, 8:00, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall.
- Cinema
Series
– No Country for Old Men, Sat,
Apr 26, 6:00 and 9:00. $1 with Mason ID. JC Cinema.
- Middle
East Studies
Program Film Series – Meeting Resistance, Mon, Apr
28, 7:00, JC Center; The Yacoubian Building, Tue,
May 6, 7:00, JC Center.
- Public Choice Seminar - [pdf
working paper] David Redlawsk, Political Science, University of
Iowa. Wed, Apr 30, 4:00, Carow Hall.
- Physics
and
Astronomy Seminar – Matter Wave
Magic, presented by Charles
Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Thu, May 1,
11:30, 302
Research I.
- World
Café
Dialogue on Immigration – [pdf info] Making
a Difference: What Can We Do in Our Communities, Thu, May 1, 7:30,
SUB II, Rm 7.
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COMING
ATTRACTIONS
Non-class events at OLLI for the next two
weeks
The following
list covering the
next two weeks is extracted for your
convenience from the master calendar maintained by the office (see the Forecast
of Non-Class Events for more details and to view the
actual OLLI online calendar used by the office). Note: Board,
committee, resource-group and 'membership-type' meetings/events below
are highlighted
in bold. OLLI members are
welcome at all Board, committee and resource-group meetings (except
during executive sessions).
Friday
Apr 25 Ballots
mailed for Board of Directors election
9:30am Drama Club - TA-3
9:30am Photography Club - TA-1
10am Italian Club - TA-Annex
10am Recorder Group - TA-2
12:30pm Loudoun Lunch Out - Vintage 50 Restaurant,
Leesburg
1pm 960-Spec Event-Lifelong Learning - TA-1
1:30pm Homer, Etc. Book Club - TA-Annex
Saturday Apr 26
2pm 961-Spec Event Measure for Measure - Mason
TheaterSpace
Monday Apr 28
1pm Lake Anne Bridge Club
Tuesday
Apr 29 1pm Reston-Meet the
Candidates - LA
Wednesday Apr 30
1:30pm Bridge Club - TA-3
2pm 962-Spec Event-Tenor in the Board Room - TA-1
Thursday May 1
11am Fiction Writers Club - Kings Park Library
Friday
May 2 10am Annual Membership
Meeting including candidate speeches - TA-1
9:00-9:55am and (about) 11:30-11:45am
Silent
Auction -
TA-3
11:30-11:45am (about) OLLI Picnic - Tallwood Grounds
1:30pm Homer, Etc. Book Club - TA-Annex
Monday May 5
1pm Lake Anne Bridge Club
Wednesday
May 7 10am Spec Events Res
Grp Mtg - TA-2
1:30pm Bridge Club - TA-3
2pm Program Review Comm
Mtg - TA-2
2pm History Club - TA-1
Friday May
9 Loudoun Spec
Event - Dodona Manor and Lightfoot Restaurant
9:30am Drama Club - TA-3
9:30am 963-Spec Event-Hillwood Estate - Bus Trip -
Fair Oaks
10am Italian Club - TA-Annex
10am Recorder Group - TA-2
1:30pm Homer, Etc. Book Club - TA-Annex
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Rod
Zumbro
Editor
Karen
Hamilton
Deputy
Editor
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About OLLI
E-News. OLLI
E-News, OLLI's weekly newsletter, is emailed to OLLI
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Canyock.
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E-News Editorial Staff
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Database
Manager
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Updated:
April 25, 2008
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