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We Remember
Joan Kaplan
October 1, 2019
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Stitch in Time Special Interest Group
Monday, October 7, 2 - 4 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Atrium
This is a fellowship group for stitchers of all types (knitting, crochet, quilting, needlepoint, embroidery, cross stitch, sewing, etc) to help encourage, inspire, and support each other. OLLI members of all skill levels are welcome!
SIG contact: Gay Lambirth, 281.433.1060
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Garden SIG
Tuesday, October 8 - CANCELLED
The Garden SIG's scheduled presenter is unable to make it on
October 8, so the group meeting is cancelled. Members who are on the SIG mailing list should look to the October 1, 2019 email for more information.
The Garden SIG restarts in February 2020
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Fall Theme Term on Appalachia
Special Programs
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Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee
Artisan Resources
with Ethnobotanist David Cozzo
THIS WEEK: Wednesday, October 9, 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
We have planned special programs to supplement the theme term on Appalachia: Tradition and Change. All presentations are scheduled for the Reuter Center Manheimer Room. Events are free and open to everyone, and seating is first-come, first served.
Wednesday, October 16, 7 p.m.: Affrilachian writer Crystal Wilkinson will discuss her work.
Friday, October 25, 7 p.m.: Kentucky writer and activist Silas House will discuss his work
Monday, October 28, 6 p.m.: As part of our Fall Member Social, Rodney Sutton will call a square dance, with live music from the Stoney Creek Boys.
Thursday, November
7, 9-11 a.m. OLLI Community Conversation on the theme term.
Whether you took classes, taught one or participated in other Appalachia programs of OLLI, come and share your experience.
Please mark your calendars to attend these wonderful programs. All programs are free and open to everyone and are funded by our Osher Foundation Endowment.
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 Dr. Courtney Lewis
Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignity
Thursday, October 10, noon- 1 p.m.
Laurel Forum in UNC Asheville's Karpen Hall
Dr. Lewis is a tenure-track assistant professor in the anthropology department and the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her current work is in economic development for Native Nations in the United States and, consequently, issues of sovereignty related to-and based upon the necessity of- economic sustainability and stability. Specifically, her research is focused on small businesses located on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. Her research highlights the historical presence of small businesses and entrepreneurs on reservations and answers the questions of how the boundaries that Native Nations work within, land, legal, representational, impact these small businesses; how these boundaries are then transformed by these businesses (e.g. impacts on issues of sovereignty); and how these transformations can truly alter the landscape of a Native Nation in both figuratively and literally.
Click here for a flyer about Dr. Lewis's talk.
Sponsored by UNC Asheville's Departments of Management and Accountancy, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and Anthropology and Sociology
This talk is free and open to everyone.
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It's Showtime!
Friday, October 11,
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Room 120
Calling all writers, poets, singers, musicians, dancers, actors for the new SIG in town: It's Showtime!It's Showtime has started creating! Late comers are welcome. Our next meeting will be Friday, October 11, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 120. Jump right in!
Here is your opportunity to create, perform and have fun with other OLLI members. Do you love to write but are too shy to perform? No problem. Plenty of show-offs will love to hog the limelight. The topic of this year's show is aging. We'll make 'em laugh. We'll make 'em cry.
If you play an instrument, we want you!
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The Forum
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Friday, October 11, 1 - 3 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Room 205
Topic: Current Events and Selection of Topics for the Remainder of October
The weekly Forum encourages a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on a wide variety of topics; the group frequently focuses on current events. All OLLI members are welcome to attend.
SIG Contact: Beth Johnson johnson1ea@earthlink.net
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OLLI VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Asheville City Schools
Give your time, and make a difference!
Changing lives one house at a time
Literacy Council ESOL Program
Empowering lives through literacy
VOLUNTEER NOW...
Make A Difference!
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 Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association
Sunday, October 13,
5:30 - 8 p.m.
UNC Asheville's
Reuter Center Room 206
Member images will be reviewed by a guest presenter to assess how to take your images to the next level.
The CNPA-Asheville Region's goal is to develop a group that will more fully experience the beauty of Western North Carolina through photography. Activities in the Asheville Region include monthly meetings, photo outings, seminars, workshops, exhibits, photo contests, and image critiques. The monthly meetings are held at the Reuter Center on the second Sunday of each month from 5:30-8 p.m., with a meet and greet at 5:30 p.m. and a presentation beginning at 8 p.m.
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Meditation Special Interest Group
Steve Stevens on Tai Chi Chih: Joy through Movement
Monday, October 14, 4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Room 102B
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Steve Stevens
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Established by Justin Stone in the 1970s, Tai Chi Chih is a moving meditation
, not a martial art or exercise program. The practice of 19 slow movements and one pose reduces stress, improves balance and flexibility, and can even lower blood pressure. Many people feel that regular practice of Tai Chi Chih brings a sense of clarity, centering, and joy.
Steve
Stevens
will discuss the origins and principles of tai chi chih. Then he will teach several of the 19 movements that circulate and balance the body's life force energy (chi),
including time for silent reflection and sharing.
Steve Stevens is a retired NC public school teacher who took his first tai chi chih class at College for Seniors in 2009. He was accredited as a tai chi chih instructor in 2013 and has been practicing and teaching Tai Chi Chih: Joy Through Movement ever since. He currently teaches classes at OLLI and at the Asheville Parks and Recreation facility, Harvest House.
All OLLI members are welcome at our meetings and one does not need to have previous meditation experience to enjoy and benefit from these programs.
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History Book Club SIG
Friday, October 18, 1 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Room 120
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
by Joseph J. Ellis
 Ellis examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions--and in his hallmark dramatic and compelling narrative voice--Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.
Come join the fun to share beloved books, engage in discussion, and connect with like-minded members around our favorite subject - history!
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Travel SIG
Friday, October 18, 2-4 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Room 206
Panel Presentation: "Group vs Individual Travel?"
The OLLI Travel SIG has an exciting presentation planned for next month: a panel of three experienced travelers will address the perennial question of group vs individual travel? Each of the speakers will address the pros and cons of either mode of travel, including (1) tours planned and organized by travel agencies and tour operators; and (2) trips planned by the traveler on his/her own, i.e. without assistance of travel agencies or tour operators and (3) the third member of the panel, who has a career-long experience with both types of travel, will add her own views and perspective on the question and solicit anecdotes/stories from the audience that will inform the points made by the three speakers. This should be an instructive and fun experience. Do plan to attend and bring your own stories!
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Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society
Tuesday, October 22, 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Travels with Migratory Birds by Dr. Bruce M. Beehler
Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society (EMAS), in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, will host renowned ornithologist Dr. Bruce M. Beehler in a special presentation on migratory songbirds. Dr. Beehler will recount his amazing journey following the spring songbird migration from the coast of southeastern Texas north through the Mississippi River watershed to the boreal forests of northern Ontario. During his hundred-day trip, he visited scores of local, state, and national parks and wildlife refuges critical to bird migration. His presentation will touch on wildlife, nature conservation, migration research, American history, and rural culture. Dr. Beehler will share stories and photos from his travels and will discuss the importance of conserving habitat throughout the Western Hemisphere to ensure the well-being of migratory songbirds.
Dr. Beehler is an ornithologist and naturalist who has spent his scientific career studying and working to conserve birds and their habitats. He is a research associate in the Bird Division of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Beehler has published twelve books and authored more than a hundred articles about birds and nature. He received his PhD at Princeton working on the behavioral ecology of Birds-of-Paradise and is an authority on New Guinea birds. He is co-author of the Princeton Field Guide Birds of New Guinea.
Signed copies of Dr. Beehler's book, North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring, will be available for purchase at the lecture.
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 Aging and Brain Health:
Tips from the Latest Research
Thursday, October 24, 9-11 a.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Room 206
Sponsored by
The Alzheimer's Association of WNC
, this series of lectures will be offered by
Denise Young, regional manager of the Alzheimer's
Association of Western Carolina chapter, along with
area experts.
This first presentation in a three-part series is titled "
Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia." If your loved
one has been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's
disease or is simply showing symptoms, then this
program may be for you! We will explore the relationship
between dementia and Alzheimer's disease and take a
look at the changes occurring in the brain. We will also
cover risk factors, current treatments, and what's on the
horizon for research.
This event is free and open to everyone.
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 Performing Stand-Up Comedy 101 Class Show
Sunday, November 3,
7-9 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
The College for Seniors
Performing Stand-Up Comedy 101 presents
its annual original show. Come join instructor Randy Robins
and his class at its premier performance, designed to have you
laughing, crying and rolling in the aisles. The show will include
adult language and situations.
This event is free and open to everyone.
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Dear OLLI Members,
We have a full month coming up. Mark your calendars and plan to attend all the remaining "Appalachia: Tradition and Change" programs, beginning this week with a presentation by ethnobotanist David Cozzo, making fascinating connections between the ecology of our area and traditional Cherokee craft resources. Authors Crystal Wilkinson and Silas House will appear in October, we will have a square dance and live music for our Member Social, and November we will finish the term with a community conversation about the term and next steps we can all take to better understand and contribute to the region we call home.
Please also note that the schedule has been posted for the African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia, to be held Octoer 17-19. This week you can attend a lecture by Dr. Courtney Lewis on Cherokee small business owners and the ways that their action historically and currently have made "economic sovereignity." We are lucky to be part of a university that offers so many opportunities to learn.
And we are also lucky to be part of an organization where members both teach and select the courses we offer. Please note the opporunities in the newsletter to submit a course proposal (by November 1) to teach at College for Seniors in Spring 2020. If you would like to be one of the many people who find and support our talented instructors, plan to attend an informational meeting about curriculum committees and development on Friday, November 8.
With gratitude for all that you do to make possible our community of teachers and learners,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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 Teach a Course in Spring 2020
for College for Seniors
Thinking about teaching??
This could be your year!
Course Proposal Deadline
for the Spring 2020 term
(March 23-May 15)
is Friday, November 1
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Registration for OLLIChat, the replacement online community for OLLITalk, is now open to new members.
OLLIChat is an online community where OLLI Asheville
members may share information of common interest with each other. It is designed to look and function like the old OLLITalk.
To get started, send an email to OLLIChatAVL@gmail.com, and the OLLIChat volunteers will send you an invitation.
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Today: Blue Ridge Orchestra 2019-20 Season Opening Concert
The Young Masters: Bach, Beethoven and Weber in Their 30s
Sunday, October 6,3 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium
The Blue Ridge Orchestra is thrilled to kick-off its 2019-20 season with "
The Young Masters
," featuring works composed by Bach, Beethoven and Weber while in their 30's. This all-German program has something to please every listener, with classic masterpieces from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic musical eras. We hope you will join us!
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STEM Lecture
Value and Importance of Science by Don Martin
Monday, October 7, 4:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
This is the second in a series of lectures on "Science vs. Science Denial." In this discussion, we will review definitions and descriptions of science, technology, and mathematics, elaborating upon their processes and major characteristics. Using the understandings and distinctions developed from these definitions, we will describe two different perspectives from which to assess their value. We will spend most of our time with emphasis on illustrative examples from different fields of science and technology, each of which have proven valuable and which have made significant contributions to the progress of humankind. We will also consider how they fit our definitions and understandings. We will conclude with brief look at two major areas of science and technology which currently require ajor attention and decisions by society.
Subsequent lectures will go into more detail on the value and importance of science, climate
change, vaccination, evolution, and ethics.
Coming up next: Tuesday, October 22, 4:30 p.m. Michael Wang, OLLI, "Basic Science and Medicine"
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Fab Friday
"Tribute to American Steam Locomotive History with Original Songs"
Speaker - Carol Gibson
Friday, October 11, 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Join Carol Gibson, author, songwriter, educator and railroad historian, for an entertaining and informative ride through American railroad history. Relive the history of steam locomotives through music, lyrics, and relevant historic photographs. Carol is a renowned songwriter and historian who has written and recorded songs in styles ranging from blues, country/bluegrass, folk, barbershop, gospel and jazz, all sung and played by local professional talent. Get a vivid feel for the locomotive era and a renewed appreciation for the railroad in American history.
Coming up:
October 18: Urinary Incontinence Is Not a Normal Part of Aging - with Dr. Brian Cohen
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UNC Asheville Bulldog Athletics
***A limited number of free tickets for OLLI members are available for some events. Email Jacqueline Lowe for information: jdlowe@unca.edu***
Big South! Women's Soccer: UNC Asheville vs. Charleston Southern
Saturday, Oct 12, 6 pm, Greenwood Soccer Field
Big South! Men's Soccer: UNC Asheville vs. Radford
Saturday, Oct 12, 3:30, Greenwood Soccer Field
Big South! Women's Soccer: UNC Asheville vs. Longwood
Saturday, October 19, 3:30 p.m., Greenwood Soccer Field
Big South! Men's Soccer: UNC Asheville vs. Campbell
Saturday, Oct 19, 6 pm, Greenwood Soccer Field
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OLLI Authors
Kay Duncan and Paul "Schepp" Scheberle
Thursday, October 17, 5 p.m.,
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Room 206
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Kay Duncan grew up in a Chicago suburb, jumped from that small pond to a slightly larger one at Northern Illinois University where she graduated with a BS in sociology. She then lit out for the territories to seek her fortune: the enormous pond of Houston, where she reveled in city life, earned her master's at the University of Texas School of Public Health, then promptly changed careers to her true love, graphic design.
More true love came with finding Covenant, a liberal Christian church, developing a coterie of friends, and meeting and marrying Dennis. After 40 years of the good life in Houston, they sought more outdoor living and relocated to Asheville, replete with forested beauty, lots of live music, the richness of OLLI, and plenty of al fresco dining. Here Kay runs a free-range poetry farm, featuring sustainable metaphors and organic wordplay. Her work has been published in the Great Smokies Review.
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 Paul "Schepp" Scheberle's writing draws from his roots, growing up on the Northeastern plains of Colorado. As a child he often wondered,
"Where do the roads lead, after they leave town?" He couldn't wait to be old enough to find the answer in every new adventure. Along the way, from one adventure to the next, Schepp met many colorful characters. He had no idea that someday he would become a writer and have the opportunity to share these characters with you the reader or listener.
Schepp worked many different jobs and met many different characters over the years. Often times he's the character in the story or poem being shared. He has been a shoe-shine boy, played the drums in beer joints as an adolescent and worked as a road musician with many different traveling bands over the years. Alcoholism, drug addiction, bullying, suicide, love and life are some of the topics that Schepp writes about.
Schepp is currently working on a book which is a combination of his poetry, flash fiction and digital art, about the life of a beat up road musician. Schepp Scheberle is married to Gloria Ray-Scheberle, who is also his best friend, soulmate and mistress. The Scheberles moved to Asheville four years ago. Gloria is reconnecting to her love for acting in theatre, and sings in the Wild Asheville Community Chorus, after retiring as a public school teacher of thirty plus years.
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African Americans in Western North Carolina
and Southern Appalachia Conference
"Existence as Resistance: Expressions of Resilience"
Thursday, October 17- Saturday, October 19
The African Americans in WNC and Southern Appalachia Conference illuminates the African American experience in Southern Appalachia including history, culture, community, and enterprise. Now in its 6th year, the three-day conference seeks to eradicate incomplete and false narratives about African Americans in this region, while creating new possibilities for the future.
This year's conference will take place Oct. 17-19, 2019 with the theme of "Existence as Resistance: Expressions of Resilience."
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Thursday, October 17, 7 - 9 p.m.,
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
 This workshop will feature a panel whose members are experienced in addressing end-of-life issues. Discussion will include communicating your treatment wishes to loved ones and to medical personnel, ethical and legal issues, and the uses of advance directives. Ample time will be reserved for questions. Assistance will be provided for anyone wishing to complete a legally valid advance directive, including the notarization required in North Carolina, using the NC ACP "Short Form".
If you have never been admitted to Mission Hospital, but want your advanced directives added to the Mission Medical Record,
click here for an Advance Directive Permission form to fill out. Also, if you have existing advance directives, you may mail the "Permission Form" along with a copy of your existing Advance Directive to Mission for addition to the Mission medical record (or you can get help doing this at the next ACP workshop).
This workshop is free and open to everyone, adults of all ages. For more information, call OLLI, 828.251.6140 or email
olli@unca.edu.
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Symphony Talk:
"Fright Night"
Friday, October 18, 3 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Anna Clyne's Masquerade, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Michael Daughterty's Dead with bassoon soloist Michael Burns
Symphony Talks are an entertaining and educational way to hear about the music to be performed at the upcoming Asheville Symphony Orchestra (ASO) Masterworks Concerts. The program begins with a presentation about the life and times of the featured composers. ASO Music Director Darko Butorac and the soloist for the upcoming concert will talk about how the orchestra prepares and offer ways to listen to the performance. For more information about the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, or to find out how to purchase tickets for performances at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, visit
ashevillesymphony.org
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Food Donation Drive to Benefit the Rathbun House
 The
Rathbun House, a hospitality house located in
Asheville and operated by MountainCare, provides lodging and a supportive environment in a home-like atmosphere for patients and their families coming to the city for medical treatment. The facility opened to guests in 1994.
Rathbun House operates solely on donations of money, food and supplies.
Currently, the pantry is critically low in most, if not all, areas. Help those that are in need by bringing non-perishable foods including such items as
coffee, sugar, creamer, granola bars, crackers and assorted "grab and go" snacks. Canned food items such as soups, chili, stew, fruit, vegetables, and pasta would also be appreciated.
The food drive will last until the end of October. Please help! Your generous donation will be tremendously appreciated. Look for the food drive bin upstairs in the Reuter Center lobby.
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Friday, October 18, 5 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Atrium
"Death Café" is an engaging gathering a storytelling experience holding as conversation. A conversation that too often alienates one in our death phobic culture. A new movement, a shift, is at play in recovering the ritual of being with death through personal storytelling of fears, loss, and death; a deepening ritual emerges and we build a culture of dying wisely. Join us at our next Death Cafe, the new holy ground or common ground and the wonders of being with dying, presented on Fridays; October 18, November 15, and December 20, 5-6:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Thirdmessenger's Karen Sanders, Greg Lathrop, and Sa'id Osio.
This event is free and open to everyone.
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 Behind the Scenes with
NC Stage
A Doll's House, Part 2
Friday, October 25, 1:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Nora Helmer is returning home 15 years after closing the door on her life with her husband Torvald and their three children. Her unexpected homecoming is met
with recriminations, and the family drama unfolds in this explosively entertaining continuation of Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House. Written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath,
A Doll's House, Part 2 explores gender roles and societal expectations through the eyes of a woman living in an era for which she is simply too exceptional.
Go behind the scenes of professional theatre with NC Stage Artistic Director and co-founder Charlie Flynn-McIver. Explore the themes of this season's plays, talk with the actors, directors and designers about design concepts and the rehearsal process, and experience a scene or two performed live. Join us for an insider's
view of how theatre happens!
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 OLLI Member Social
Monday, October 28, 4:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Atrium
Join your OLLI friends for the Fall Member Social. Take this opportunity to socialize, enjoy delicious food, drinks and a square dance called by Rodney Sutton and live music by the Stoney Creek Boys Get ready for photo booths, music, great food, and some surprises!
This event is free and open to OLLI members.
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College for Seniors
Curriculum Committees:
What Makes Them Tick?
You Do!
Informational Meeting
Friday, November 8, 9-11 a.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Room 206
OLLI members volunteer to serve on one of the 11 Curriculum Committees, which consider course proposals, interview instructors, and develop the curriculum for College for Seniors.
You can learn more about joining one as a way to create the exciting learning opportunities that our members enjoy every term.
Come to an informational meeting on Friday, November 8, 9-11 a.m. in Room 206.
Herb Gunn and Pascale Couturier will be on hand to answer your questions. Call Herb at 828.251.6873 or email hgunn@unca.edu
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