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May 17, 2016

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Notable OLLI Dates

May
JuneJuly
May 18, 9am: Curriculum Committee Meeting in Michel Student Center Executive Suite 
June 1, 9am: Curriculum Committee Meeting in Michel Student Center Executive Suite
July 6, 10am: Summer Social at Dozer Park - register online

July 7 & 14, 2pm: Study Group Committee Meetings at Peoria NEXT, 801 W Main St
July 12, 9am: Learning Trip Committee Meeting in Michel Student Center Executive Suite
July 15, 9am: Cinema Committee Meeting in Michel Student Center 203
Parking
Summer Parking on Campus

Parking on campus is now open for the summer, until mid-August.  For any events that you attend this summer on Bradley's campus, feel free to park in any of the white- or blue-lined spaces.

Please note: Milling and sealcoating work has begun on Elmwood and St. James streets and will continue for several weeks, weather permitting.  Driving and parking in those areas will be restricted.  Parking decks and other surface lots are open.  Please use caution while walking or driving in that area. 

See you at OLLI!
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Curriculum Committee - Join Us!

All of the activities offered by OLLI are organized by committees of volunteers who do the work to bring the programs to life.  

We invite you to attend the following OLLI Curriculum Committee meetings to provide insight about your past class experiences and to help us create a slate of courses for the upcoming season.  Each of our volunteers - like you - brings a unique personal network of people and organizations that can help create the activities that OLLI offers its members.   

WHEN:  
*Wednesdays, May 18, and June 1, at 9:00 a.m.
  
*Parking is is now open on campus for the summer, but some lots may be closed due to resurfacing 

WHERE:  
*Michel Student Center, Executive Suite (downstairs)

WHAT:  
*On May 18 and June 1, volunteers will recruit qualified instructors for classes, construct class descriptions, and assist those instructors to submit a class worksheet by the June 3 deadline.  

For more information, please call the Continuing Education office at (309) 677-3900.

We look forward to seeing you at the OLLI Curriculum Committee meetings!
Italian
Bonus Summer Study Group: Italian for Fun and Travel

Italian for Fun and Travel (Participation-Based)
Thursdays, August 4, 11, 25, and September 1
1:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Peoria NEXT Innovation Center, 801 W Main St, Peoria

Want to learn Italian?  This summer, we will offer an extra bonus study group - not listed in your brochure - to help you learn the basics of the Italian language.

For more information, call Bonnie at 309-677-3900.  Even though this group is not in your brochure, you can either write it in on your mail-in form, or click here to register for it online, where it will appear in the study group listing.
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View Ken Burns' NEH Lecture 'Race in America'
 
The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, established by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1972, is the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. 

Ken Burns, a 14-time Emmy and two-time Grammy award winning filmmaker, delivered the Jefferson Lecture on May 9 and discussed "Race in America," a topic he has illuminated and confronted through his nearly 40 years of directing and producing acclaimed historical documentaries.

Members of OLLI at Bradley are invited to stream the archived video of the lecture by clicking here.

OLLI thanks the National Resource Center for Lifelong Learning Institutes at Northwestern University for providing information about this event.

2016 Jefferson Lecture: NEH Chairman William Adams Interviews Ken Burns
2016 Jefferson Lecture: NEH Chairman William Adams Interviews Ken Burns
Reads
OLLI Reads

Many OLLI participants are using the OLLI Reads list to share information about their favorite books.

By clicking on the link below, you can open and read the list yourself.  Clicking on most of the titles in the list will direct you to Amazon, where you can find more information about the book and a free sample of the book ready for wireless delivery to your Kindle Reader.

Contact Greg Peine at gspeine@comcast.net with your suggestions for additions to the OLLI Reads list.


If you need a free Kindle Reader for your PC, the videos at the links below can show you how to download the program.

 

Hilltop
Hilltop Happenings
 
World of Wonder Supplies

Continuing Education hosts a popular summer camp for gifted and talented students in June and August called World of Wonder, which provides a fun and challenging opportunity for a younger generation of lifelong learners!

Our teachers are looking for the following specific items:

- wire hangers
- marbles
- thimbles
- newspaper
- cereal boxes
- shoe boxes
- travel magazines
- animal magazines
- old CDs

If you are able to collect any of the above materials, we would like to take them off your hands!  Materials can be dropped off at our office, located on the corner of Main and University Streets, Monday - Friday, between 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

Thank you for supporting World of Wonder!
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