TODAY
UNC Asheville's
Center for Jewish Studies
presents the 2014
Phyllis Freed Sollod Memorial Lecture
The Stages of Memory:
From Berlin to New York
A talk with slides by renowned
Holocaust scholar James Young
Sunday, April 6, 7:30 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
Free and open to the public
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MANNA Food Drive
April 7 - 18, 8 am - 5 pm
Reuter Center
Upper & Lower Lobbies
OLLI at UNC Asheville has made arrangements with Manna FoodBank to host a Reuter Center food drop bin from April 7-18, 8 am-5 pm in both the upstairs and downstairs lobby areas.
The best foods to donate include
- Canned meats
- Peanut Butter (plastic jars)
- Dried & canned beans
- Hearty sop
- Meals in a can or box
- Canned fruit & vegetables
- Cereals & grains
- Fruit & vegetable juice
- Dry milk
We will also have envelopes for you to make monetary donations. Every dollar donated to MANNA helps provide enough food for three meals. You may write a check made out to MANNA FoodBank or make a secure donation through the website:
MANNAFoodBank.org
or by calling (828) 299-366
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Scholars Showcase
Friday, April 17, 4:30 pm
Reuter Center Atrium
Join UNC Asheville students on Thursday, April 17th beginning at 4:30pm for a Scholarship Showcase in the Reuter Center atrium. This event will present a variety of ways today's liberal arts students are addressing the challenges facing their community, region, and world and...you're invited! Refreshments will be served.
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Fab Friday Lecture
Friday, April 18, 11:30 am
Reuter Center Manheimer RoomAndy Gibbon "Artisan Coffee: Globally Sourced, Locally Roasted" 
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Audubon Society Meeting
Tuesday, April 15, 7pm,
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
"The WNC Nature Center's
2020 Vision" 
Join the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society as WNC Nature Ctr Director Chris Gentile shares the Center's very ambitious strategic plan for its future. Highlighting the unique wildlife of the Southern Appalachian region both past and present, the Nature Center will become a true gateway to the incredible world of our mountain home.
Free and open to the public.
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Leadership Asheville Seniors
Registration Now Open
The next program begins, Wednesdays, September 10 through November 5, 2014
 Click here to learn more.
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COME FLY WITH ME!
The Reuter Center Singers
In Concert
Saturday, May 3, 7 pm
Sunday, May 4, 4 pm
 Come fly with us back in time in a concert featuring music of The Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Enjoy reminiscing with renditions of such favorites as The Tender Trap, Something's Gotta Give, Everybody Loves Somebody, High Hopes, Just One of Those Things and New York, New York.
Director: Chuck Taft; Accompanist: Nora Vetro. Free Admission
Donations Welcome Limited Seating
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Seven Singers and a
Songwriter Concert
May 2 &3, 2014, 7:30pm and May 4, 2014, 2:30pm
NCStage
Tickets $15
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Dear OLLI Members,
Please remember that there will be a memorial service for Ahmad Amara, longtime peace activist and much-loved College for Seniors instructor, at 2 pm today, Sunday, April 6, in the Manheimer Room at the Reuter Center.
A round of applause to everyone who participated in the Success Outfitters clothing drive. Our spokesperson from Goodwill Industries told us that it was the most successful clothing drive they had ever conducted in Asheville. Thanks to Jim Lenburg and Dick Murray, whose work with the UNC Asheville Career Center inspired the drive.
Coming up next week you will have another chance to donate. Members of our Civic Engagement Committee have worked with MANNA Food Bank to have collection barrels in the upper and lower lobbies of the Reuter Center. We would love to have two successful drives to exemplify the ways that the OLLI community benefits the larger Asheville community.
We have been working to streamline our newsletter without diminishing the content. Please click on the links that will give you detailed information about all listed events. Remember that you can always open the newsletter in a browser to read most easily and also that we archive our newsletters on the website.
With gratitude for our community of teachers and learners,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Find out more about being part of the College for Seniors team!
Monday through Thursday, April 7 - 10
11-11:30 am and 1:30 - 2 pm each day
Upper & lower lobbies
Reuter Center
Members of the College for Seniors Curriculum Committee will be in the upper and lower lobbies this week with information about teaching and volunteering for the College for Seniors. If you would like to know more about College for Seniors or know someone who would be a good instructor, please stop by.
Thanks to Maryann Jones and Paul Williamson and all of the members of the curriculum committee for their ongoing efforts to provide
a stimulating and varied balance of courses.
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 Chuck Fink Brings People Together
Last week's newsletter contained a profile on OLLI member Chuck Fink that some readers had difficulty accessing. Here is a link to the story. |
A New Look at the Calendar 
We have made a change in the OLLI newsletter calendar listing to make it easier to see all that is happening at OLLI and on campus.
Instead of posting a separate calendar list for each week, we provide below links to OLLI's calendar and to the UNC Asheville Master Calendar (which also has an OLLI option). We encourage you to use and become familiar with both calendars as they are a great way to stay linked in to current events.
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"Diamonds, Thugs, and Guns:
The West African Extreme"  A lecture by David Crane,
Former Chief Prosecutor Special Court for
Sierra Leone
Thursday April 10, 4 pm
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 Registration Is Now Open for OLLI 2014 Life Transitions Programs! Exploring Continuing Care Retirement Communities helps you assemble the relevant information and ask the right questions to see whether the CCRC is a living option that meets your needs and helps you choose among the options available to you. Thursdays May 22 - June 26, 2014. Cost: $150 The Gift of Time program will provide tools, resources, and a supportive environment in which to think about how to plan and communicate your end of life wishes to spouses, partners, children and parents. Tuesdays May 20 - June 24, 2014. Cost: $100 members/ $110 non-members For questions or to register for either program, please contact Laurel Jernigan at 828.250.3871
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Stand Against RacismWednesday, April 16, 6:30 pm
Humanities Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public
Seating is limited Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, "A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown," is among the nation's most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past twenty years speaking to audiences in all fifty states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hu ndreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has also lectured internationally, in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions.This lecture is presented as a partnership between Mission Health, the Center for Diversity Education, and OLLI at UNC Asheville as part of the YWCA's annual Stand Against Racism. Click here to read more |
 UNC Asheville Chancellor Search Information
To keep OLLI members members in the informational loop regarding UNC Asheville's search for a new chancellor, we provide the link below to the Chancellor's Search webpage along with a link to a 'Leadership Statement' publication. Click here to view the
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Speaker Joel Salatin
Saturday, April 12, 2014, 6-7:30 pm
Humanities Lecture Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
 Joel Salatin is a third generation organic farmer and author whose family owns and operates Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, forage-based rabbits and direct markets everything to 4,000 families, 40 restaurants, and 10 retail outlets. A prolific author, Salatin's seven books to date include both how-to and big picture themes. The farm features prominently in Michael Pollan's NYT bestseller Omnivore's Dilemma and the award-winning documentary, Food Inc. Co-sponsored by Ashevillage Institute and
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