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OLLI
E-News #3 of Aug. 13, 2005
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NEWS
ALERTS
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>>
Fall
registration starts at 9:00 AM (catalogs have been mailed, but you can view the catalog and download
the registration form online
now)
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Board of directors meets at Tallwood at 10:00 AM; all OLLI members are
invited and encouraged to attend and express their views
>> Last day to sign up and pay for the Aug. 24 Afghan Lunch
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>> "The
Play's the Thing...": Kathryn Russell teaches us Shakespeare's
plays.
>> Opera
for Everyone: Virginia Opera's Candy Leibundguth enlightens us.
>> Planning
for Winter-Term Courses: We need your help; give us your ideas.
>> Reception
for Carol Ferrara: Join us to honor and say goodbye to Carol.
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By Susanne Zumbro,
Administration Committee chair
 I CONFESS: I AM A WILL
SHAKESPEARE GROUPIE. Have been ever since I read Julius Caesar in 9th grade. So when
I retired and joined OLLI a few years back, among my first few
selections was a course on Macbeth
taught by our very own Kathryn Russell.
Kathryn Russell is a former high school English
teacher who taught for 21 years in Fairfax County. An avid fan of the
Bard, Kathryn has taught several Shakespeare plays at OLLI, including Henry IV, Henry V, Othello, Taming of the Shrew, and King Lear. Her lectures are often
interspersed with film clips followed by lively class discussions about
which actor has given a role the most compelling interpretation. My
vote always goes with Kenneth Branagh, hands down.
Whenever possible, her play selections are
coordinated with productions in local theaters. For example,
after completing the study of The
Tempest, several members of the class went downtown to see the
play produced at The Shakespeare Theater in DC.
HAMLET
IS MY NUMBER-ONE SELECTION.
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Sign up; you'll be in for a treat!
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This fall Kathryn will be teaching Hamlet, course number 403, and I
have already put that down as my number-one course selection. Who
knows? Maybe we will finally settle the age-old question: Was Hamlet
really mad? Sign up along with me. You will be in for a treat!
If
this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Back
to top.
By Jane Tombes, OLLI E-News staff writer 
 HAVING BEEN AN OPERA BUFF since my early teens, I thought
I knew everything about this art form. WRONG! This past winter and
spring, I enrolled in opera classes taught by the dynamic,
enthusiastic, and knowledgeable Candy Leibundguth, who has conducted
courses statewide for the Virginia Opera since 1993.
She immersed us in the details of the libretto,
music, and history of Wagner’s Tristan
und Isolde and Gounod’s Faust,
preparing us thoroughly for the company’s performances of those operas
at George
Mason University.
In another spring course, she gave us a primer on
the essential components of opera such as its history, the operatic
voice and vocal tradition, the combination of words and music, and
opera as theater.
SHE'S BACK TO TEACH TWO COURSES.
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I'm
signing up for both!
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Now she’s back again to teach two four-week courses
(number 109 and 110), one for each of the fall performances on the
Virginia Opera’s tour of La Traviata
and Romeo and Juliet. I am
signing up for both classes, a good indication that I still have much
to learn! If you are interested, you need to register early: The
courses are bound to fill up fast! Back
to top.
  By Kathryn
Russell, Program Review Committee chair; Bob Bohall,
Program Review Committee member; and RoseMary
Gustin, Program Review Committee member
OLLI PLANNING FOR WINTER 2006 IS ALREADY UNDERWAY, AND WE
NEED YOUR HELP!
We are pleased to announce that Subject Area Chairs
have agreed to undertake the important responsibility of coordinating
OLLI courses and lectures for Winter 2006. OLLI members who will serve
as chairs for each subject area include:
- Art, Music and Drama ... Eileen
Duggan
- Economics and Finance ... Leo Brennan
- History and International Studies ...
Tom Hady
- Literature and Languages ... Mike
McNamara
- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion ...
Bruce
Reinhart
- Social Studies ... Ben Gold
- Science, Health and Technology ...
Averett
Tombes
- Reston Program Development* ...
Abbie
Edwards
*All Subject
Areas Chairs will be working to identify classes at both Tallwood and
Reston
OLLI NEEDS YOUR IDEAS...
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on
topics, contacts, potential instructors.
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Each Subject Area Chair will be working with a
member of the Program Review Committee. They need and will appreciate
your ideas on topics, names of contacts and potential instructors and
offers to develop and/or teach courses during the winter 2006 term.
Please give them a call or send an e-mail with your thoughts and
suggestions, or contact a member of the Program Review Committee.
Also, please watch for the announcements and attend
any and all of the traditional OLLI Resource Group meetings in the next
few weeks (see first
announcement immediately below). If you are unable to attend,
please consider participating by sending suggestions via e-mail,
preferably in advance of the meetings. The meetings will focus on
discussing and developing ideas for classes for the winter and spring
2006 terms. Watch OLLI E-News for dates and times of meetings.
MEETING OF SCIENCE, HEALTH
& TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE GROUP ON WED., AUG. 17
Chair Averett Tombes
invites interested OLLI members to participate in a meeting of the
Science, Health, and Technology Resource Group at 10:30 AM on
Wednesday, August
17, at Tallwood. This semi-annual meeting will focus on developing
ideas
for topics, classes, and instructors for the 2006 winter and spring
terms.
These proposals will be especially useful in maintaining an OLLI
program
that will continue the excellent standards established in the past. If
you
can't attend the meeting, send Ave your
ideas
in advance by e-mail. Back
to top.
 PLEASE
JOIN US at a special farewell reception to honor and say goodbye
to LRI/OLLI's first employee, our program coordinator
Carol Ferrara. The reception will be Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at
Tallwood, from 1:00-3:30 PM.
Please bring your check for $10 to the office by
August 31, and sign the card in the office. The $10 is to help
defray the cost of the reception and gifts.
A letter to Carol from Pat Cosslett, Board member:
Back
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Rod
Zumbro
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Updated:
May 15, 2006
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