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OLLI
E-News #2-09 of January 16, 2009
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A REPORT TO BE
PROUD OF, PART 1
From the executive
director
THIS
WEEK I SUBMITTED OUR 2008 ANNUAL ENDOWMENT REPORT to the Bernard Osher Foundation.
One of the benefits of producing reports is that the process forces you
to pause, reflect, and appreciate what has been accomplished. Beginning
this week, I will provide segments of the report so that you can share
in my pride of our accomplishments. Following is the first installment.
2008
COURSES, LECTURES AND OTHER PROGRAM OFFERINGS
OLLI-Mason annually offers 26 weeks of courses
spread over four terms: winter (four weeks); spring (eight weeks),
summer (six weeks), and fall (eight weeks). Courses are offered in
three permanent locations in Northern Virginia: Fairfax (the Tallwood
campus proximate to George Mason University's main campus), Reston
(Lake Anne Plaza); and the Mason campus in Loudoun County.
Additionally, large enrollment classes are held at two off-site local
church facilities on a rental basis. During 2008, we entered into a
partnership with a local retirement community to utilize their
facilities for two classes.
The enclosed catalogs contain a complete
listing of 228 course offerings, 93 special events, 12
continuously-active clubs and other activities for the 2008 terms.
Fifty-seven George Mason University faculty,
including the University Provost, served as instructors or speakers at
one or more of our courses during 2008. A complete listing is below. No
honoraria are paid for these services. In fact, once faculty has served
as instructors/speakers, they are eager to return, given the quality of
the OLLI-Mason student.
Center for Applied Protemics and Molecular
Medicine
Dr. Lance Liotta
Dr. Emanuel Petricoin
Center
for Climate Change
Communication
Dr. Ed Maibach
Center
for Global
Education
Mr. Kevin Stoy
College
of Health and
Human Services
Dr. Frieda Butler
Corporate
and Foundation
Relations
Ms. Diane Coppage
Department
of
Computational and Data Sciences
Prof. Arthur Poland
Dr. Howard Sheng
Department
of Economics
Dr. Donald Boudreaux
Dr. Karol Boudreaux
Dr. Bryan Caplan
Dr. Carrie Meyer
Dr. John Nye
Dr. Russell Roberts
Department
of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Dr. Dimitrios Ioannou
Department
of English
Dr. Lorraine Brown
Dr. Amelia Rutledge
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Department of Environmental Science and
Policy
Dr. Susan Crate
Prof. Jim Lawrey
Dr. Carol Litchfield
Prof. Larry Rockwood
Department
of Geography
and Geoinformation Sciences
Dr. Burl Self
Department
of History
& Art History
Dr. Marion Deshmukh
Dr. Brian Platt
Dr. Richard Norton Smith
Dr. Tom Rushford
Department
of Molecular
and Microbiology
Dr. Alan Christensen
Dr. Paulette Royt
Department
of Music
Dr. Hube Beckwith
Dr. Rachel Bergman
Dr. Jesse Guessford
Dr. Ed Johonnott
Dr. Kelly Ker Hackleman
Prof. Judy Lapple
Prof. Anthony Maiello
Dr. Patricia Miller
Department
of Philosophy
Dr. Debra Bergoffen
Dr. Rose Cherubin
Dr. Emmett Holman
Dr. Ted Kinnaman
Dr. Noelle McAfee
Dr. Irmgard Scherer
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
Prof. Harold Geller
Dr. Robert Oerter
Department
of Public and
International Affairs
Dr. Hazel McFerson
Facilities
Ms. Lenna Storm
Institute
for Conflict
Analysis and Resolution
Dr. Noelle McAfee
Mr. Samuel Rizk
New
Century College
Dr. Janette Muir
Provost
Office
Dr. Peter Stearns
Dr. Matthew Kluger
Robinson
Professors
Prof. Robert Hazen
Prof. James Trefil
School
of Public Policy
Dr. Stephen Fuller
Prof. Stephen Ruth
Dr. James Pfiffner
University
Library
Mr. Adam Fielding
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2009 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS ELECTION
Seeking nominations
 By Bob Lawshe, Nominating Committee Chair
I AM PLEASED
TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS have
volunteered to join me on the 2009 OLLI Nominating Committee –
Susanne Zumbro, John West, Ted Parker, Rosemary McDonald, and Gordon
Canyock. The committee is tasked to develop a slate of 9–12
candidates to fill six vacancies on the OLLI Board of Directors and to
manage the 2009 election of candidates to the Board. These vacancies
are caused by the expiration of the terms of the following Board
members – Valerie Braybrooke, Gordon Canyock, Pat Carroll, RoseMary
Gustin, David Mason, and Rod Zumbro.
The Nominating Committee will review all
recommendations and attempt to
develop the best possible slate of candidates. Therefore, you are
encouraged to submit more, rather than fewer, names for consideration.
As you know, Board members can make a positive
and lasting impact on the
operation and future direction of the Institute. We urge you to give
this important task serious consideration, and we look forward to
receiving your recommendations for candidates for the 2009 OLLI
Elections.
You can submit your recommendation to any
member of the committee. Email is
preferred. Please try to submit them by Fri, Jan 30.
Thank you for your cooperation.
BOARD
QUALIFICATIONS/STANDARDS
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When
considering possible candidates please keep in mind that candidates
should have demonstrated or expressed the following qualifications and
standards:
1. An active interest in the Institute in one or more of
the following areas: (a) Teacher, moderator or coordinator of a course
or event; (b) Committee member; or (c) Other volunteer work;
2. The ability to communicate and express ideas verbally
and in writing, and the ability to access and use email, email
attachments and Web sites on a regular basis;
3. Willingness to contribute energy, ideas and time in
support of the Institute;
4. Willingness to assume an active role in the governance
of the Institute, over and above policy making on the Board, in areas
such as Institute officer or committee chair or active committee
member; and
5. Willingness to assume the responsibilities expected of
any nonprofit board: (a) Determine mission and purposes; (b) Select,
support and evaluate performance of executive director; (c) Ensure
effective organizational planning; (d) Ensure adequate resources and
financial responsibility; (e) Determine, monitor and strengthen
programs; (f) Enhance organization’s public standing; (g) Ensure legal
and ethical integrity and maintain accountability; and (h) Recruit and
orient new board members and assess board performance.
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Editor's Note.
Here's a
link to some light reading, possibly for Board candidates and other
OLLI members with too much time on their hands: the Board's Procedures
and Guidelines for the Nominating Committee, a modest 15-page pdf document.
OH,
COME ON! LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART!
OLLI Valentine's Day Party
 By Debbie Halverson, Membership Committee Chair
YOU WON'T WANT
TO MISS THIS ONE! We’re celebrating a day
when folks remember those we love and care
about, and that certainly includes our OLLI friends.
On Fri, Feb 13, at 1:00 you are welcome to a
Valentine’s Day party at Tallwood. There you will be creating your own
ice cream sundaes with three kinds of ice cream and all sorts of
toppings. The entertainment will come from your own member OLLI-ites
who will perform for you.
Now I can’t guarantee the quality of those
performances because we are opening up the program for all sorts of
skills: maybe we’ll have some jugglers, or puppet handlers; maybe
someone will do a stand-up comedy act or a yo-yo act (yo-yo "walk the
dog" is the only animal act allowed). Of course, we expect to have
warblers and instrumentalists and short drama skits, and I’m counting
on our recorder people to offer an act. A poetic recitation would be
nice and even an easy soft shoe. We don’t call it a talent show because
talent is in the eye and ear of the beholder, and we promise not to
pull off any acts with the hook or sound of a gong. This Variety Show
is going to be great!
You will need to respond to this invitation
very soon, especially the invitation to perform. We ask that the
presentation, whatever it is, be kept to no longer than five minutes
(it can be shorter), and we will want to know by Fri, Jan 30. Contact
either me or Kathie West.
If you plan to attend, please don’t leave your
RSVP to the last minute. Contact the office now or no later than Fri,
Feb 6, so we can be prepared with the right amount of ice cream and
beverages.
Doesn’t matter how cold it gets outside; we’ll
warm it up with fun and friendship. Hugs all around!
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CLOSED WINTER COURSES
Most courses are still open
YOU
SHOULD
SOON RECEIVE YOUR
CONFIRMATION LETTER showing the courses in which you have
been enrolled. Most courses are not
full, and it's not too late to sign up ... preferably online (see note
below) or otherwise by filling in a Change of Schedule
Request form in the office or by emailing
the
office with your request.
Here is the
list of closed
courses and events for the winter term. All other
courses are still available
for you to sign up.
CLOSED WINTER COURSES AND EVENTS
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Fairfax Courses
F101 – Beginning Ballroom Dance
F202 – International Trade and
National Security
F302 – American Social and
Cultural History to 1865
F303 – Royalist Virginia
Becomes Revolutionary Virginia
F304 – National Park Ranger
Potpourri
F305 – Famous Trials
F401 – A Close Reading of The Oresteia by Aeschylus
F407 – Japanese Poetry for a
Little Sartori
F701 – What's in the Daily News
F702 – American Imperialism:
Past, Present and Future
F703 – Why Intelligence
Failures Occur
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F704 – Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oil and
Islam
F705 – Walls in the Age of
Globalization
Loudoun
Courses
L905 – Learn to Play Mah Jongg
L907 – Introduction to the
Alexander Technique
F901 – Contemporary Bridge
Bidding
Reston
Courses
R307 – "I Was There"
R308 – Nomads in History
R410 – Literary Roundtable
R706 – All the News
Special
Events
952 – Holocaust Museum Tour
954 – Pompeii Bus Trip
955 – Rabbi Bruce Aft: From The Bucket List to The Last
Lecture
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Note:
You are encouraged
to add or
withdraw from courses using the online registration system at the OLLI Registration
Portal; after
logging in, click the Courses menu and select Withdraw. You may also
update your personal data, address, phone number or email through
the system.
You must
first create a user account before attempting
changes. Please contact the staff by email
or phone (703-503-3384) for assistance in setting up your user account
... or go to the Registration
Portal and click the Tutorial (see cursor arrow in the below image)
to view a step-by-step,
easy-to-understand explanation.
PHOTO OF THE
MONTH
Selected by the OLLI Photography Club
"A Capital Christmas" by Don Allen
PLEASE WELCOME
NEWEST OLLI STAFF MEMBER
Loudoun Site Assistant Kathy Breen
Kathy Breen; photo by Gordon Canyock.
KATHY
BREEN IS JOINING OLLI AS THE SITE ASSISTANT for
our Loudoun location. Her job responsibilities will include setup for
classes each day, responding to requests from members and instructors,
and coordinating communication for OLLI/Loudoun.
Kathy grew up in Connecticut and attended
Burdett College in Boston. Her family moved to Northern Virginia in the
late 1960's. After family moves to Tehran, California, and Paris, she
moved back to Sterling in 1982, and then to Ashburn Village in 2005.
Kathy has three sons and one grandson, Gunnar, age five, who lives with
her son and his wife in Ashburn; she refers to Gunnar as "my sunshine."
Kathy worked for the CIA from 1983 until she
retired as a Human Resources Officer in 2004. She is an active member
of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Herndon. Since she retired, she
continues to enjoy traveling, reading and gardening and trying to
improve her bridge game.
Contributed by Executive Director Thom Clement.
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 Registration
Portal).
- President: Pat Carroll
- Executive Director: Thom
Clement, phone 703-503-7866
- OLLI Office,
phone
703-503-3384
- Tallwood Administrator/OLLI Registrar: Maria Buczek, phone 703-503-3384
- Board members: See Organization page
(to send an email to the entire Board, send it to the office or the OLLI
E-News editor, and your
message will be forwarded to all members of the Board)
- Committee chairs, resource-group chairs:
See Organization
page
- Suggestions: Online
suggestion box
- Letters to the editor or letters to Ms.
Ollie Ettakit
(etiquette
matters): OLLI
E-News Editor Rod Zumbro,
phone
703-569-2750
MASON ARTS AND
MUSIC
Upcoming Mason performances, Jan 16-25
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.
Fairfax
Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Meyer,
conductor
Featuring
Jennifer
Frautschi, violin
Sat, Jan 17,
8:00
This performance brings the fourth of six
guest conductors, finalists for music director to succeed William
Hudson. Daniel Meyer has recently been appointed music director of the
Asheville Symphony in North Carolina. He previously was music director
of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The program will include Three
Dance Episodes from Bernstein’s On
the Town, Bruch’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in
C Minor.
Admission:
$55, $45, $35
Concert Hall
32nd Annual International Saxophone
Symposium
United States Navy Band
Fri, Jan 23, 8:00
Admission: Free
Concert Hall
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32nd Annual International Saxophone
Symposium
Commodores Jazz Ensemble
Sat, Jan 24, 8:00
Admission: Free
Concert Hall
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Keyboard
Conversations®
with Jeffrey Siegel
The Longevity
of the Short
Piece!
Sun, Jan 25, 7:00
In this
third of four performances at George Mason this season, Mr. Siegel will
again weave commentary about the composers and their music around his
virtuosity at the piano. The program will include Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words, Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Stravinsky’s Circus Polka, Brahm’s Rhapsody in E-flat, Sibelius’ Evergreen, Granado’s Spanish Dance
and Ginastera’s Sonata.
Admission: $38, $30, $19
Family Friendly: Children 12 and under, half price with an adult
Concert Hall
Other Mason events
 By Barbara Kyriakakis, OLLI
E-News Staff Writer
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Reminder from last week's issue:
• Inauguration Day
at Mason – Jan 20: See the inauguration live on the giant screen in the JC
Atrium at 11:00. Then at 5:00, hear a panel discussion in the Johnson
Center, "Talking Heads Live: Mason experts discuss the presidency,
Inauguration Day and the Obama phenomenon," with Web simulcast to all
Mason campuses. At 6:30, there will be a facilitated dialogue to share
observations, feelings, hopes, and concerns about the election and
inauguration.
New:
• Hot
Topics in Technology Management Speaker Series – "The Art
and Science of Negotiation," presented by Professor Kevin Rockmann,
George Mason School of Management. Reception 6:30; presentation 7:00;
Meese Board Room, Mason Hall, Wed, Jan 21.
• Black History
Month:
- Martin
Luther King Read-In – Wed, Jan 28, 11:00 to 1:00, Paul Robeson
Research Room, Johnson Center.
- Capoeira:
The Slave’s Dance-Fight Game – Thu, Feb 5, 7:00 to 8:30, Johnson
Center Atrium.
- The
Comedy of Kyle Grooms – Thu, Feb 12, 9:00, Johnson Center Bistro.
• Johnson
& Strachan Distinguished Speaker Series – Former Speaker
of the House Newt Gingrich.
Thu, Feb 5, 7:00 to 8:30, Concert Hall. Free. Tickets required.
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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 Upcoming
Non-Class Events to view the real-time 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
Jan 16 10am Recorder Club - TA-2
10am Board of Directors
Meeting - TA-1
11am
Homer Group - Social Room Annex
Saturday Jan 17
12:30pm OLLI Personal Computer User Group - Tallwood
Monday
Jan 19 Office Closed
Tuesday
Jan 20 Office Closed
11am
Fiction Writers Club - Kings Park Library
Wednesday Jan 21
10am Genealogy Club - TA-2
10am
Investment Forum - TA-1
10am
Bridge Club - TA-3
10am
Board Game Group - Social Room Annex
Friday Jan 23
9:30am Photography Club - TA-1
10am
Recorder Club - TA-2
10am
Drama Club - TA-3
10:30am Classic Fiction Book Club - Cascades Library
11am
Homer Group - Social Room Annex
Monday
Jan 26 Winter Term Begins
Wednesday Jan 28
1:30pm Bridge Club - TA-3
2pm
Special Event - 951 Aging in Place - TA-1
Friday Jan
30 Loudoun Let’s Eat Out -
Time, location TBA
10am
Recorder Club - TA-2
10am Drama
Club - TA-3
10:30am New Member Coffee
- TA-1
11am Homer
Group - Social Room Annex
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Rod
Zumbro
Editor
Karen
Hamilton
Deputy
Editor
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About this newsletter. OLLI's weekly newsletter, OLLI E-News, is emailed to OLLI
members with email addresses on Fridays. When classes are in
session, printed copies of this newsletter are distributed in
classrooms, primarily for members without email. 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; earlier submissions are 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 Web site 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, and clicking 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 our
archive of all past issues by date or issue number.
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Editorial
Staff
Backup Editor
John West
Database
Manager
Barbara Kyriakakis
Photo Editor
Michael Coyne |
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Updated: January 16, 2009
Copyright © 2009 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.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George
Mason University, 4210 Roberts Rd., Fairfax, VA 22032-1028
Phone: (703) 503-3384; Email: olli@gmu.edu;
Fax: (703) 503-2832
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