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Volu me 15 Issue 6
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June 2013
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E : I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E : I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E : I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
H I G H L I G H T SH I G H L I G H T SH I G H L I G H T SH I G H L I G H T S
Summer Lite 1111----4444
President’s Corner 5555
Board Minutes 6666
Culture Corner 7777
Campus Events 8888
Arts Seminar Series 9999----10101010
Club OLLI 11111111
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O L L I A T U C I O L L I A T U C I O L L I A T U C I O L L I A T U C I
OLLI CONTACTS
OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute
University of California, Irvine
UCI Extension PO Box 6050
Irvine, California 92616-6050
Phone: (949) 451-1403 Email: [email protected]
Woodbridge Office: Karen McKenzie or
Barbara Barone 4662 Barranca Pkwy.
Irvine, CA (above Barnes and Noble)
OLLI WEBSITE www.extension.uci.edu/
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Summer Lite at OLLI
Enrollment begins June 3.
See pages 2 and 3 for directions, fees, and class descriptions — page 4 for
the enrollment form.
Classes in the following: Money Matters
Theatre Workshop Mindfulness Transitions Watercolors
Options in Life Movie Talk
Social Networking Tai Chi
I– Phone Tips Sherman Gardens
From July 8 to July 30 at
Woodbridge Onken unless otherwise noted.
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SUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORMSUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORMSUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORMSUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORM
PRESIDENT’S CORNERPRESIDENT’S CORNERPRESIDENT’S CORNERPRESIDENT’S CORNER
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OLLI members are certainly special – just look at our 15th Anniversary celebration at the U Club. It was wonderful seeing so many there, and we missed those of you who could not make it. As part of our fifteenth year’s drawing to a close, I do want to thank our outgoing board members: Pam McGovern has led us for three years and will continue to share her expertise as Immediate-Past-President to guide OLLI through negotiating processes, Nila Kyser has carefully recorded our board meetings, and Jan Elbaum has worked hard on our membership plans. We greatly appreciate their time and accomplishments. In addition, those who planned and executed our amazing 15th Anniversary cannot be thanked enough. Julie Hume’s idea for a relaxed, joyful barbecue definitely succeeded. Enjoying food, music, games, bidding on the Silent Auction, and each other, over 140 members attended. Julie headed a talented com-mittee: Bev Fritz for the Silent Auction, Joann Burch for the Tribute Book with Anne DeWitt providing art, Al Fuller and Leah Jordan for ice-breaking games, Meredith Cheston for the Lex Leigh Combo, Kay Kurtz for decorating the tables, Jerry and Judy Florman and Martin and Mildred Litke for registering guests, Karen McKenzie and Barb Barone for keeping track of multiple details, and many others who filled in where needed. The next Outlook will not come out until August 1, but we are now looking forward to the remaining June classes, UCI events, and Summer Lite. Pat Linehan President, OLLI at UCI
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(These minutes are not official until approved at a future Board meeting.)
During the May 15 celebration of OLLI’s fifteenth anniversary on the lawn of the University Club Pam McGovern, outgoing President, called the Annual Meeting to order at 5:15 PM. Nila Kyser, outgoing Secretary, was honored for her service. Pam presented the nominees for the Board of Directors for the term June, 2013-May, 2014. New mem-bers begin a two-year term to 2015. President Pat Linehan VP/Administration Barry Ackerman VP/Programs Jessie Tromberg VP Member Services Lee Winocur Field Secretary Joanne Yeager Treasurer Sherri Nussbaum Director-Planning and Assessment TBA Director-Volunteer Development Leah Jordan Director-Special Projects Julie Hume Director-Communication Joann Burch Immediate-Past-President Pam McGovern It was MOVED, seconded and approved that the above members be elected to serve on the OLLI Board of Directors for the June 2013-May 2014 term. The meeting was closed at 5:22 PM. Thanks were given to the fine job done by the Fifteenth Anniversary Committee. Pam McGovern, out-going President, was honored for her service. Submitted by Nila Kyser, Secretary
Volunteer Alert Arts & Humanities committee is looking for an editor for the catalog pages starting with the Spring 2014 catalog. Please contact Judy Gould if you are interested:949-760-8835 or [email protected]. Newsletter Chair is needed to coordinate and proofread items submitted by members. Once a month the office e-mails the newsletter which is formatted by our volunteer editor Jim Semelroth. Please contact Leah Jordan if you are interested: [email protected]. Facilitators are needed for Spring 2014 courses. Send Leah Jordan an email to let her know that you want to volunteer. [email protected]
OLLI’S 2013 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGOLLI’S 2013 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGOLLI’S 2013 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGOLLI’S 2013 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
General Information: The minutes from April to be approved at a future Board meeting will be posted on the OLLI bulletin board at the back of the Onken Classroom. Note that the current Donors’ List can be found at www.olliuci.wordpress.com by clicking on the Thank you for
your Donation tab. The list will also be published in both the Spring and Fall catalogs
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CULTURE CORNERCULTURE CORNERCULTURE CORNERCULTURE CORNER
FILM REVIEWS THE RELUCTANT FUNDMENTALIST Based on a novel by Pakistani author, Mohsin Hamid, this film is amazingly rich in texture and thought. Riz Ahmed delivers a brilliant performance as the conflicted protagonist. In the post 9/11 world, where does he belong, where are his loyalties? Does it belong to Pakistan, where his family lives, where he was born? To Prince-ton, where he was educated, to New York where he lives? America views him with suspicion. Philosophies, theories thicken; nothing is as it seems. The experience is like viewing an engrossing book, with the big screen as your tablet. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN Salman Rushdie tells a story – his story, not quite a bedtime story, but one filled with grandeur and magic and history. With the birth of a nation, Pakistan from India, all children born in that hour are said to have special magical powers. And so his story unfolds, weaving history with midnight’s children and their personal tales. There is humor among Fellini-esque spectacle, mixed with cruelties. I was particularly struck with how much Satya Bhabha, one of midnight’s children and central character to the story, looks like a young Al Pacino. Jessie Tromberg
TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY
Attention: OLLI members who attended “All the Worlds a Stage” AH 111 and any others interested in world travel. As dance professor Sheron Wray mentioned, she is interested in bringing people from the commu-nity to Ghana along with dance students and faculty. If you would like to explore the cultural rich-ness there as well as interact with some wonderfully brilliant professors from the University of Gha-na, please e-mail her at [email protected] and ask her to send you a survey to help her determine the viability of an international trip in 2014. Also if you would like a link to the documentary film she showed on the 2010 Ghana Project, please send Sheron an e-mail and she will be happy to share it.
VISIT THE WEBSITE: uci.edu/calendar/?
SAT, JUNE 1 Drama. Spring Awakening by Steven Sater. 8 PM, Claire Trevor Theatre. $11-$20. Continues through June 8. More: 949.824.2787 Physics & Astronomy. Visitor Night at the Observatory: The High- Energy Uni-verse. With Kevork Abazajian, physics & astronomy assistant professor. 8-10 PM, Observatory. Suggested donation $5 per family. More: [email protected] or 949.824.2603
TUES, JUNE 4
Humanities. Author Series: The Famous and the Dead. With T. Jefferson Parker, au-thor. 6 PM, Humanities Gateway, Room 1030. Free. More: [email protected].
WED, JUNE 5. Francophone Animation Fest. The Rabbi’s Cat France 2011. Introduced by Laura Klein, French UCI.7pm. McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway. Free. Author Series. The Devotional Poems by Joe Hall and Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Foerster. 5 PM. The Hill (UCI Bookstore). Free.
THURS, JUNE 6 Drama. Goldoni Gold. Written and directed by Eli Simon. 8 PM, Little Theatre. Cost TBD. Continues through June 8. More: 949.824.2787
FRI, JUNE 7
Music. UCI Symphony Orchestra. With Stephen Tucker, conductor. Conversation 7 PM, concert 8 PM Irvine Barclay Theatre. $12-$16. More: 949.824.2787
Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center. Stem Cell Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease: Overcoming Translational Issues and New Models. With Frank Laferla, neu-robiology & behavior Chancellor's Professor and Chair, and Institute for Memory Im-pairments & Neurological Disorders director. 11 AM - Noon, Sue & Bill Gross Hall, 4th Floor. Free. More: [email protected] or 949.824.9621
SAT, JUNE 15
Arboretum. June Gloom? No, June Bloom! Featuring succulents, perennials, and blooming bulbs. 9 AM-3 PM, Arboretum. Free admission and parking. More: [email protected] or 949.824.5833
REMINDER TO OLLI MEMBERS: Shakespeare Under the Stars on Sale
Buy your Shakespeare Festival tickets now - they’re going fast! King Lear and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream will rotate in August, followed by The Fantasticks musical in September. En-
joy the mini-Elizabethan New Swan Theater in UCI’s Aldrich Park. General admission $30,
Seniors $25, Full-time Students $20. Call Claire Trevor Box Office at 824-2787 or visit
www.arts.uci.edu/tickets. More info at www.newswanshakespeare.com.
UCI CAMPUS EVENTSUCI CAMPUS EVENTSUCI CAMPUS EVENTSUCI CAMPUS EVENTS
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FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013
July 18 – lunchtime in Swan, 12 pm* Staging Theater in A Midsummer Night's Dream Ian Munro – NSSF Dramaturge and Professor of Drama
July 25 – 5 pm in Swan* The Role of the Vocal and Text Coach Phil Thompson – Fool in King Lear and Co-Artistic Director NSSF
August 10 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm
Directing King Lear Eli Simon – Director of King Lear and Artistic Director NSSF
August 16 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm
Curses and Blessings in King Lear Julia Lupton – NSSF Dramaturge and Chair of English
August 22 – lunchtime in Swan, 12 pm* Acting in Shakespeare Robert Cohen – Honorary Artistic Director NSSF and Professor of Drama
August 23 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm Directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream Beth Lopes – Director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, MFA in Directing, UCI
August 28 – lunchtime in Swan, 12 pm* Playing the Role of King Lear Dudley Knight – King Lear in King Lear and Professor Emeritus of Drama
September 8 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm
Shakespeare and Music Gary Busby – Music Director of The Fantasticks and Chair of Drama
September 19 - pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm Directing The Fantasticks Myrona Delaney – Director of The Fantasticks and Professor of Drama
* Daytime seminars include a tour of The New Swan Theater
* Please feel free to bring a bag lunch Talk-backs with actors, directors, and dramaturges after all Friday shows
For show times, tickets, and information: www.newswanshakespeare.com.
JULY SPECIALS: NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE UCI dance professor Molly Lynch celebrates NCI’s 10th Anniversary with a special evening Saturday, July 13th commemorating the many choreographic successes created on the Irvine Barclay stage. NCI Highlights presents excerpts from NCI pieces now in the repertoire of companies around the country. NCI’s celebration continues Saturday, July 27 at 8 PM at the Barclay with the birth of 4 new ballets created as part of the intensive 3-week process where 4 noted choreographers (David Fernandez, Susan McCullough, Kitty McNamee and Petr Zahradnicek) create new pieces on 16 professional dancers. Show your OLLI ID at the Barclay to get student tickets for $20 for either show (buy both
shows and save $5 a ticket); adult tickets $30; VIP $60. Call 949-854-4646 to buy tickets or
visit www.thebarclay.org.
MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTATION: MAURY AND JERRY OLLI members are invited to a free presentation by UCI drama professors Myrona Delaney and Dennis Castellano’s class for big ensemble numbers from musicals on Wednesday, June 12 at 8 PM in Winifred Smith Hall. The program will include works by Maury Yeston (ie. Nine, Grand Hotel, Titanic, Phantom) and by Jerry Herman (ie. Mack and Mabel, Hello Dol-ly, Mame, Le Cage aux Folles). No reservations required.
HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY, OLLI AT UCI
MORE UCI ARTS MORE UCI ARTS MORE UCI ARTS MORE UCI ARTS
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OLLI Bridge Players
Contact Club OLLI Bridge facilitators Jan Hundeby (949) 551-0202, [email protected] or Carole Hill (949-509-0202, [email protected] or see the Spring Cat-alog for information. One more meeting at 1:00 PM, Tues-day, June 25 at Woodbridge.
Mah Jongg
We play Mah Jongg on a drop-in basis on Tuesdays 1:30 PM at Rancho Senior Center; guests are welcome, and we will be playing all summer. For more information, see the Spring Catalog or e-mail Estelle Elkin [email protected].
Calling All Amateur Musicians If you play the violin, flute, cello, piano or other musical instrument, let’s get together and see if we can form an OLLI group to make some beautiful music.
Contact Nancy Tepper at (949) 644-2190 or [email protected].
OLLI LIBRARY NEWS
The OLLI library has a great new addition for those who missed or want to re-live the Fall 2012 class World War II Remembered Part 3. It is a six disc set of the presentation told by those who lived history. One disc covers “The Battle of Midway.” Another “The North Atlantic in the RCN” and “Life in the Navy.” Another “Life in the Black Air Force.” Also ”Wasp Service and a Tribute to Vi Cowden,” “The Japanese-American 442 Regimental Combat Team” and “The Next Generation: Survivors and Perpetra-tors.”
EXCEPTIONAL LEARNING FOR INFINITE MINDS
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CLUB OLLICLUB OLLICLUB OLLICLUB OLLI
OLLI BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Pat Linehan President
Barry Ackerman
VP Administration
Jessie Tromberg VP Programs
Lee Winocur Field VP Member Services
Joanne Yeager
Secretary
Sherri Nussbaum Treasurer
TBA
Director-Planning and Assessment
Leah Jordan
Director -Volunteer Development
Julie Hume
Director-Special Projects
Joann Burch Director-Communication
Pam McGovern
Immediate-Past-President
Tanya Zabalegui
Liaison, Univ. Extension (ex-officio)
Newsletter Deadline Submit articles to Pat Linehan by the third Tuesday of each month. [email protected].
Jim Semelroth, Editor