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Calendar & Announcements
Upcoming Schedule of Events
March 31-April 6, 2013
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Dear OLLI members, We had a productive Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, March 28. Many thanks to Cindy Berryman-Fink, OLLI Steering Council chair, for convening the meeting and to Steve Schleifer, chair of the OLLI Research Committee, for presenting the findings of the 2012 Annual Member Survey. Larry Haas, chair of our Finance Committee, presented information about the budget and some exciting new projects, and Charlotte Moore, co-chair of the College for Seniors committee, stepped in to celebrate the hundreds of volunteers who make College for Seniors possible. College for Seniors director Susan Poole had to miss the meeting because of a broken ankle but hopes to be in for at least part of the day on Monday. I know she appreciates all of your good wishes, and we appreciate her dedication to College for Seniors and OLLI. Thanks also to Babs Guardenier and Ceil Sanow for putting out tasty refreshments and to Jim Lenburg for presenting the slate of nominees for 2013-14 steering council. We will send out a link to the slate of nominees tomorrow morning (Monday, April 1) at 8 am; you may either affirm the proposed slate or write in candidates. Please take some time to read the story about College for Seniors "superstar" Mario DiCesare. OLLI Marketing Committee member Emily Roberts' story captures Mario's passion for teaching and learning. Mario's generous spirit and keen mind epitomize the spirit of all of the volunteers who make the College for Seniors and OLLI at UNC Asheville a unique learning environment. We encourage you to attend "A Taste of UNC Asheville" on Monday, April 1, 4:15 pm, to learn more about the work of UNC Asheville undergraduate scholarship students. We are particularly excited to hear about the "Virtual Lincoln Project" ( you can read more about the project by clicking here). On Tuesday, the World Affairs Council presents a talk on the Freedom of Information Act, on Thursday you can learn more about "Young Solar Analogs" in a lecture by Appalachian State University professor Dr. Richard Gray sponsored by the Astronomy Club of Asheville, and on Friday you can learn about "Artifacts and Archaeology" from Dr. George Stuart as part of our Fab Friday lecture series. We are truly grateful for all of the effort and energy, the partnerships and friendships, that make OLLI at UNC Asheville such a vibrant place. Have a great week! Catherine Frank Executive Director |
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We Remember
George Wiener
March 27, 2013
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A Taste of UNC Asheville
Monday, April 1
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
Chancellor Anne Ponder and the members of the OLLI Steering Council cordially invite you to experience
"A Taste of UNC Asheville"
UNC Asheville undergraduate scholarship students will present their research, and you will have an opportunity to hear about their experience on campus.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about UNC Asheville's seriously creative students and to join your OLLI friends for a reception with light refreshments.
Come find out what the Princeton Review, US News & World Report, Forbes Magazine, and The Fiske Guide to Colleges are all raving about.
Join your friends at the Reuter Center to find out how you can be part of the excitement and support UNC Asheville.
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Financial Strategies in Retirement SIG presents
"The Asheville
Real Estate Market:
Buying, Selling, Downsizing, Investing"
Friday, April 5, 1:30 pm
By popular demand, we will be taking a detour from stocks and bonds to discuss hard assets: namely, real estate.
Ken Potts and Jennifer Kelleher from Town and Mountain Realty will be in attendance to help focus our discussion and answer questions about the current state of the Asheville market, recent changes in the North Carolina Offer to Purchase contracts, effects of foreclosures and short sales on our market, and, of course, real estate as an investment (among other topics).
Do not miss this valuable session and bring your questions!
Call Kate Beatty at 231-7710 or email at kkbmom@yahoo.com for further information. |
The STEM lecture
series for spring 2013 has focused on Nobel Prizes. The series has crossed many disciplines, and offered insight and inspiration from Nobel Laureates.  The final lecture in the series is from Dr. Elaine Marten, titled
"Nobel Lady Luminaries in Chemistry"
Tuesday, April 9, 4:30 pm
Reuter Center Room 206
Dr. Marten earned a PhD. in organic chemistry from the University of Rochester and spent her career in chemical research, development and production in western New York industries.
Since moving to the Asheville area after early retirement, she has been a volunteer scientist of Waste Reduction Partners, a retiree technical volunteer group. Their mission is to help industries, institutions and public entities in western North Carolina to save energy, conserve water, and recycle waste streams. The service is provided at no cost.
Many thanks to Howard Jaslow for his dedication putting this series together and all of his efforts to contribute to the vitality of
OLLI and UNC Asheville.
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OLLI's Civic Engagement Committee presents
 What We Know Can Kill Us: Hunger, Obesity, and Policy Gaps in the USA
by Dr. Ameena Batada
Tuesday, April 9
4:15 - 5:45 pm
Reuter Center Room 102A
 Dr. Batada's talk will highlight the connections between food insecurity and obesity in the USA and the significant costs to our society. At the heart of the issue is the importance of healthy food over any food, and the role of government and corporate policies to support healthy choices. She will discuss how policies pertaining to school foods, marketing, labeling, and taxation are outdated compared to current nutrition and social sciences, and how we can take action personally and politically to reduce and prevent obesity and improve access to and consumption of healthy foods in our communities.
Ameena Batada, DrPH, is an assistant professor in the Health and Wellness Department at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Dr. Batada teaches courses on health parity, maternal and child health, community health promotion, and health communication.
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Western North Carolina Sierra Club Meeting
Wednesday, April 3, 7 pm
"Climate Change &
Home Energy Efficiency"
by Jake Crouch
& Amy Musser
The Western North Carolina Sierra Club is presenting Part 3 of a 3 part series on North Carolina's Energy Future, with Jake Crouch of the National Climatic Data Center, and Amy Musser, an expert on home energy efficiency.
The meeting will be held at the Unitarian Church,
1 Edwin Place, Asheville, (corner of Charlotte & Edwin.)
Free and open to the public. For more information
contact: judymattox@sbcglobal.net,
828-683-2176
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TheatreUNCA will present the Tony Award-winning musical  "Spring Awakening," with 6 evening performances and one matinee, opens April 4 in UNC Asheville's Carol Belk Theatre.
Based on the once-banned 1891 drama by German playwright Frank Wedekind, this ground-breaking rock musical depicts themes of teenage self-discovery, sex, and violence, as adolescents grapple anxiously with their emerging adulthood.
As staged on Broadway, with music by Duncan Sheik and words by Steven Sater, the drama is starkly set in the repressive Germany of 120 years ago, but the teens bring their emotions and yearnings - timeless and modern - to life through alternative rock music and lyrics.
Curtain time is 7:30 pm, Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6 and April 11-13, with a 2 pm matinee on Sunday, April 7. Tickets are $15, general public; $12 for seniors and UNC Asheville faculty/staff; $8 for students, and are available at http://drama.unca.edu/theatre-unca. For more information, call
828/251-6610.
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1st Annual OLLI Art Bazaar
Mark Your Calendar!
Friday, April 26, 11 am-6 pm
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Come see the creativity of your fellow OLLI members. Art exhibited (and for sale) ranges from jewelry to paintings to fiber art to handmade soap, and much, much more.
Free and open to the public
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REWINDING THE FIFTIES
is the theme of the
2013 Spring Concert by the Reuter Center Singers.
The May 18th concert will be a fun and entertaining event. We are looking for a '50s automobile to have at the concert to add to the festivities.
Do you own or have access to one of these great cars and would you lend it for the event? Yes? Contact Bob Dutnell, RCS president, at rhdutnell@gmail.com
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This Week
Mar 31-April 6, 2013
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Monday, April 1, 4:15 pm, A Taste of UNC Asheville Event
Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 pm, World Affairs Council with Matt Zommer on the Freedom of Information Act
Wednesday, April 3, 7 pm, Blue Ridge Orchestra Open Rehearsal
Thursday, April 4, 7 pm, Astronomy Club of Asheville Meeting-Dr. Richard Gray, Appalachian State University "Young Solar Analogs"
Friday, April 5, 11:30 am, Fab Friday Lunch and Learn Lecture - "Artifacts and Archeology" with Dr. George Stuart
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Click here to see the OLLI calendar and then click on each event to discover times, event specifics and more.
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Next Week
April 7-13, 2013
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Tuesday, April 9, 4:15 pm, Hunger Initiative Event with Dr. Ameena Batada
Tuesday, April 9, 4:15 p.m., STEM Lecture with Dr. Elaine Marten-"Nobel Lady Luminaries in Chemistry"
Wednesday, April 10, 7 pm, Blue Ridge Orchestra Open Rehearsal
Fri.-Sun., April 12-14, Paths Workshop (OLLI closed to all other activities)
Click here to see the OLLI calendar and then click on each event to discover times, event specifics and more.
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And Beyond
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Monday, April 15, 9:30 am, RSVP Information Session on Volunteer Opportunities in Health & Wellness
Tuesday, April 16, 6 pm, Global Longevity Lecture with Dr. Ron Manheimer and Dr. Mariano Sanchez
Tuesday, April 16, 7 pm, Audubon Society Meeting
Wednesday, April 17, 4:30 pm, Poetry Reading by OLLI writers
Wednesday, April 17, 7 pm, Blue Ridge Orchestra Open Rehearsal
Thursday, April 18, 6 pm, Buddhism Lecture by the Venerable George Churinoff
Thursday, April 18, 7 pm, Center for Jewish Studies Lecture - Rabbi Sheila Weinberg
Friday, April 19, 11:30 am, Fab Friday Health Education Series Lecture-"Stroke Smart" with George Waltman, RN
Friday, April 19, 2 pm, Medicare Choices Made Easy (registration required- call the Council on Aging, 277-8288)
Friday, April 19, 3 pm, Symphony Talk with Daniel Meyer
Click here to visit the OLLI calendar where you will find details on the above listed events and more.
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Campus Events Highlights
Week of 3/31/13
4/3 Sports: Baseball: UNC Asheville vs. Western Carolina University. 6 pm at McCormick Field, Downtown. Tickets and info: uncabulldogs.com
4/5 Art: Opening Reception: Annual New Media Juried Student Show - New Media students exhibit their works, juried by Evan Meaney, in 2-D, 3-D, digital, and interactive media in Highsmith University Union Gallery. Exhibit remains on view through April 14, free and pen to the public. Gallery hours:
9 am - 9 pm weekdays; 12-6 pm weekends. Info: nm.unca.edu Park in white striped spaces.
4/5 Humanities Lecture: "Fin de Siecle to Modernism," Melodie Galloway, assistant professor of music, and Peter Caulfield, professor of literature. 11:25 am in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Info: humanities.unca.edu or 828/251-6808. Park in any white-lined space on campus. Lipinsky Auditorium is in Lipinsky Hall, on the main quad near Ramsey Library.
4/7 Music: Judi Lampert and Friends in Concert - Flutist Lampert of UNC Asheville's Music Department faculty performs in different instrumental settings. 4 pm, Lipinsky Auditorium. $5; students free. Same parking situation as above.
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Click here to view driving directions to UNC Asheville campus
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"But I'll tell you a very funny story"...A brief conversation with Mario A. DiCesare. By Emily Roberts
 Born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York, Mario DiCesare says the only thing he enjoys more than reading and writing about classical literature is teaching it. A distinguished professor (emeritus), Dr. DiCesare taught English and comparative literature for nearly forty years at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In addition to his teaching career, he has worked on more than twenty books in several fields, mostly comparative literature, including a major study of Virgil's Aeneid, three books on the important Renaissance Latin poet Marcus Hieronymus Vida, and several collections of essays on Renaissance literature. He also founded and was director of the publishing program of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton from 1978 to 1996. While the Center was in New York, the series produced over 150 hardcover volumes, spawned a paperback series called Pegasus, and housed the journals Exemplaria, Milton Quarterly, and General Linguistics.In retrospect, Professor DiCesare's academic beginnings were humble, as he studied Latin, Greek and the Romance languages in a Chicago seminary before he truly found his calling for literature. After ten years in the seminary he realized that this was not what he wanted to do with his life and laughingly remembers the root of the problem, "I had gotten into trouble many times at the seminary for reading Shakespeare when I was supposed to be reading one of the Holy Fathers." Dr. DiCesare moved back to New York in 1952 and went on to receive his MA and PhD in literature from Columbia University, where he garnered the prestigious Fels Fellowship. He then began his teaching career at then Harper College which was to become SUNY at Binghamton.
In 1996, after retirement and raising his six children and three step children with his second wife Lee, the couple moved to Asheville, and were instantly struck by the beauty of the area. He recounts, "Every day the sun would shine, and you would smile (because the sun was shining)." The transition for the couple was bittersweet. After building their dream home and starting out with the Center for Creative Retirement in its infancy, Lee underwent surgery for a brain tumor, and life for the couple changed forever as she bravely battled her illness.
Despite this setback, Professor DiCesare has taught at least one course at the College for Seniors (CFS) every term since 1996, and describes the importance of OLLI's community and its support through his wife Lee's illness. "Teaching was my salvation through the most difficult times," he says quietly. While he is best known for his Shakespeare classes, he has also taught semester courses on The Odyssey, The Iliad, and Dante's Inferno.
Professor DiCesare is unwavering in his passion for teaching. "The long and short of it is... I have taught literature all my life. My favorite part of preparation for a course is the reading, and if I repeat a course, I have one basic principle and that is to make it new. Never repeat what you did last time you taught this course. Go at it fresh. Read the play, see a film, think about it, re-read it, and start making notes. That works. I love the language of the plays, and I love spending time just studying a speech that I thought I knew and begin to see something different."
Spring semester 2013 is the first semester that Professor DiCesare has taken a break from teaching at the CFS. He plans to work with his friends and family to create a collection of his late wife Lee's letters. This very personal project will not keep him from CFS for long though, "I intend to keep teaching for at least 20 more years. I love this so much that I look forward to it every week. I will miss it, but I'll be back."
We look forward to it, Professor.
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Tuesday, April 16, 6 pm
OLLI offers a A Special Presentation titled
The Global Longevity Revolution
The graying of the global population is creating unprecedented challenges to societies the world over. More generations are coexisting and interacting than ever before. This has dramatically altered relationships within families, communities, the work place, and in the halls of government. The arena of lifelong learning is no exception. What strategies might centers for lifelong learning embrace in this growing aging and multigenerational context?
Hear University of Granada, Spain, sociology professor
Mariano Sanchez, an international expert on intergenerational relationships, currently doing his research at Penn State University, in a dialogue with
Dr. Ron Manheimer, founding director of the NC Center for Creative Retirement (now OLLI at UNC Asheville)
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The Center for Jewish Studies at The University of North Carolina Asheville and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville
Present
"Aging with Awareness"
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
Thursday, April 18, 7 pm
Reuter Center, UNC Asheville
Free and Open to the Public
Rabbi Weinberg's talk will combine a reflection on the five hindrances encountered in meditation practice that obscure the mind's ability to see clearly and how these same obscurations show up as one ages. The talk reveals the five hindrances in the Passover story as the impediments to freedom. Once one has identified these "hindrances", one has a pathway toward their dissolution. One can see freedom, as do Jewish mystical sources, as both an internal psycho-spiritual reality as well as a socio-political one. Rabbi Weinberg will also share some of the work that she is involved in in the Jewish world to sustain and support "wise aging."
For more information, contact the Center for Jewish Studies at 828.232.5027. cjs.unca.edu
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OLLI at UNC Asheville Workshops Program
presents
Creative Acrylics and Mixed Media
CRN: 20003
Course Dates: April 19 & 20
Course Times: 1 pm - 5 pm
Instructor: Ursula Gullow
Fee: $100/member; $110/non-member
Material Fee: None. The instructor will provide a detailed materials list prior to start of the workshop. If participant is buying all new brushes and paint, it could cost $80-$125.
Workshops are open to the public; OLLI membership is not required to enroll.
Learn the basics of acrylic painting, and discover how to boldly take your acrylic paintings into a new direction with paper, graphite, and assorted materials. This workshop is designed to accommodate beginning painters and experienced artists.
Instructor, Ursula Gullow will teach students how to use various mediums to give their paintings drama, dimension, and texture.
Ursula Gullow (ursulagullow@gmail.com) is a visual artist who has been investigating the possibilities of paint for nearly 12 years. Gullow received a BA from SUNY New Paltz in 1994, and an AA in graphic design and illustration from Seattle Central Community College in 2000. She was a resident artist with the Gil Society in Akureyri, Iceland, in 2005, and was awarded a Regional Artist Project Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council in 2008. Currently Gullow teaches art classes at A-B Tech. For more information visit the instructor's website, www.ursulagullow.com
For more information, click here for a link to view the workshop description and more information. Stop by the Center or call 828-251-6140 to register. | |
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May 21-June 4, 2013
Join area seniors for friendly competition in a variety of events:
billiards, horseshoes, shuffleboard, croquet, badminton,
cycling races, swimming, basketball, bowling, golf,
track events (short and long distance runs),
field events (discus, softball throw, shot put,
spin casting, football throw, standing & running long jumps)
Click here to download more information and event registration form
For more information contact:
Dee Black, 828.259.5809 or dblack@ashevillenc.gov
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