TODAY
IMMUNIZATION CLINIC
Sunday, March 29, 12- 2 pm
Walgreens Drugstore
841 Merrimon Avenue
Asheville, NC
New CDC recommendations for pneumonia vaccines: Prenvar ® and Pneumovax®
Compete in Vaccine Jeopardy!
Talk to UNC Pharmacy Students about any vaccine questions!
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Love OLLI Project
 We want to hear from you the reasons you love OLLI, what OLLI means to you, how your life is changed as an OLLI member! |
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SIG The Forum Meeting
Friday, April 3, 1 pm
Topic under discussion:
"Changing Alliances in the Middle East"
Join this free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on topics ranging from the changing demographics of retirees to nuclear disarmament. All OLLI members are encouraged to attend.
For more information, contact
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Brevard Music Center Sunday Concerts
OLLI has a partnership with historic Brevard Music Center (BMC), a longstanding summer training program and festival, and is pleased to announce the next in the BMC series of recitals that will include hour-long solo and chamber recitals by members of the Brevard Music Center's faculty, held at the Reuter Center. Concerts are free and open to the public.
The performance dates are as follows: Sunday, April 5, 3 pm: Violinist Jason Posnock, Brevard Music Center artist faculty member, with pianist Ivan Seng, performing works by Mozart, Schnittke, and Brahms.;
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 OLLI at UNC Asheville is a vital and vibrant part of our members' lives and the WNC community.
Your support helps us continue to inspire a community of learners who are dedicated to thriving in life's second half and giving back to the community.
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College for Seniors Needs Art Instructors
 The College for Seniors needs studio art instructors to teach oil, acrylic, pastels, watercolors, and more.
Contact Sheila Murphy at murphy.sheila.a@gmail.com or 828-484-8621.
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Join OLLITalk and OLLIMeet  OLLITalk is an optional email distribution list available to OLLI members only. This is the place to exchange general information, ask for and send recommendations or referrals. (It is not the place for person to person dialogue.)
OLLIMeet is an optional email distribution list available to OLLI members only to use as a way to contact other OLLI members about "meet ups" for cultural events, outdoor activities, and the like. Begin your email conversation here and then email person to person for follow-up.
Just send your email address to olli@unca.edu to join either or both lists!
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Sierra Club Meeting
NC Legislative Environmental Update
Wednesday, April 1,
7 pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
1 Edwin Place
(Corner of Charlotte and Edwin) Asheville, NC
The Sierra Club of Western North Carolina will present a " North Carolina Legislative Environmental Update: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly" with the NC state Sierra Club lobbyist in Raleigh, and Julie Mayfield, co-director of Mountain True. Solar energy, fracking, coal ash, water quality, offshore wind, and offshore drilling will be discussed. Learn what you can do to help.
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New SIG Organizing
 Are you single? Do you enjoy wine or want to learn more about it? An organizational meeting for a new SIG, Single Sippers, will be held in April. Please contact
Fran Vincent at fran.vincent@gmail.com
for more information.
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Asheville Chamber Music Series Finale!
Trio Cavatina
Friday, April 10, 8 pm
 The 62nd season of the Asheville Chamber Music Series will come to an end with a performance by the Trio Cavatina -- one of today's outstanding chamber ensembles.
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We were pleased that in the midst of a busy first week of College for Seniors classes that so many of you enjoyed the opportunity to honor Susan Poole for her work as director for College for Seniors. Susan's last day as director is this Tuesday. She is already enjoying a number of College for Seniors courses, so she will be adopting a new role as a participant in our organization and will continue to be a fixture at the Reuter Center.
We hope that we will have a great turnout for our annual Town Hall meeting, Tuesday, March 31, 4:30 pm. We will have a presentation of the results of the Annual Member Survey, an overview of OLLI's finances, an introduction of the nominating committee's recommendations for Steering Council officers, a review of the accomplishments of our committees and staff, and a preview of what to anticipate in the coming year. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions, but we want to hear from you whenever you have questions or ideas.
Finally, we hope that you will enjoy Matt Mengel's story about Jim Tyson, an OLLI "high flyer." Stories from our marketing committee, along with features like Martha Marshall's comments on why she loves OLLI are among the ways that we capture what makes OLLI at UNC Asheville such a special place. We hope that you will add your voice to these statements and also that you will find a way to help us make OLLI an even better place. Jessika Bond and Laurel Jernigan are always ready to help you find the right volunteer opportunity.
We appreciate the passion each of you brings to your creative retirement,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Around the Center
 Susan Poole with a smile at her retirement event last week.
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OLLI Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, March 31, 4:30 pm
Reuter Center, Manheimer Room
Please join us Tuesday, March 31, 4:30 pm in the Manheimer Room for our annual Town Hall meeting. We'll outline the past year's highlights including member survey results and accomplishments from our OLLI programs and activities. The Nominating Committee will introduce the 2015-2016 slate of candidates. Light refreshments will be served. You are encouraged to bring your questions for our staff and Steering Council.
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UNC ASHEVILLE CAMPUS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
March 2015
- 3/31 Lecture: "Developing, Implementing, and Sustaining a Food Assistance Incentive Program for Farmers' Markets: Lessons Learned in South Carolina" with Darcy Freedman of Case Western Reserve University. 7 - 8:30 pm in UNC Asheville's Sherrill Center, room 417. Info: kmoore@unca.edu or 828- 251-6550.
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 Astronomy Club of Asheville Thursday, April 2, 7 pm Reuter Center "Fast Radio Bursts: An Astrophysical Mystery" by Dr. Brian Dennison UNC Asheville Glaxo Wellcome Professor Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are rapid, singular pulses of radio emission coming from deep space. Their origin is a profound mystery. At UNC Asheville Dr. Dennison and students are working on theoretical aspects of FRBs, particularly those that pertain to their evident propagation through intergalactic space for up to a billion years before reaching us.
The Astronomy Club of Asheville meets the first Thursday of each month at 7 pm, with an interesting line- up of speakers and topics. OLLI members may attend club meetings and star gazes at no cost. Club members will be on hand to advise and assist in the basics of astronomy and the techniques of observing celestial phenomena. Click this link to find out more about the Astronomy Club of Asheville.
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I started taking classes and found them thought provoking and interesting. And then I met fascinating people who have been all over the world and lived interesting lives.
OLLI has made a difference in
my life by...
stimulating my mind and introducing me to so many new things as well as helping me to keep my body healthier too. I have met many wonderful bright people who are fun, who want to make the world better, and are helping Asheville
What OLLI means to me...
that retirement is not an end--it is the beginning of another interesting phase of my life.
~ by Martha Marshall
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Jim Tyson - OLLI's High Flyer
 by Matt Mengel
A lifelong learner, Jim has been coming to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville (OLLI) since 1990. He fondly remembers taking a Mary Lasher class at the First Baptist Church long before there was OLLI's Reuter Center on the UNC Asheville campus. Since 2004, Jim has taught courses in OLLI's College for Seniors program, including The Evolution of Aircraft and History of Aircraft Carriers. He has served on OLLI's Curriculum Committee and has been a long-time member of the Bridge SIG (Special Interest Group). Jim is a member of the Western North Carolina Pilots Association, the WNC Air Museum and the Harvard Club of Asheville.
Jim Tyson is "OLLI's High Flyer!" He was born in Philadelphia in 1929 and was raised in both Florida and Alabama. In the mid-1930s, Jim's father paid 50 cents each for the Tyson children to go up in a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Since that first exciting experience, aviation has been in Jim's blood.
Click here to read the rest of the story.
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Fab Friday Lecture
Friday, April 3, 11:30 am
Finding the Emeralds in Our Own Backyard
by George Briggs
Plans for a new arboretum emerged in Western  North Carolina during the 1980s, almost one hundred years after Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned the world's finest research arboretum within the Biltmore Estate. At the same time, the furniture, tobacco, textile, and manufacturing sectors of our region's economy were all declining. Since it was created twenty-eight years ago, the leadership of the North Carolina Arboretum has interpreted and celebrated landscape architecture in the Southern Appalachians and has helped to form place-based economic development strategies. As a public garden, the Arboretum now attracts about 500,000 visitors annually and conducts a broad portfolio of educational offerings. As importantly, it helps to nurture the leveraging of local resources and capabilities into economic and community progress. George Briggs, a member of the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects, has been the Executive Director of the Arboretum since 1987. This event is free and open to the public.
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Evenings at the Cabaret Weimar
Tuesday, April 7, 7 pm
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
"Einstein in Berlin" by Peter Fenves
Phyllis Freed Sollod Memorial Lecture
The Weimar Era was Germany's tumultuous experiment with democracy between the World Wars. At this lecture, enter the world of epoch making physicists in 1920s Berlin as Professor Peter Venves recounts Einstein's revolutionary theories of the universe and his role as a social activist denouncing German militarism and advocating for a Jewish homeland.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Introduction to Figure Drawing From Life Workshop
Dates: April 11 and 12, 2015 Times: 1-5 pm
Instructor: Frances Greenberg
Fee: $95/member; $105/non-member
Materials fee: $10/person for model's fee
Open to the public. OLLI membership is not required to register.
Drawing the human body is easy if you know how. While viewing a live nude model, participants learn to create depictions that are accurate and pleasing. The instructor will provide step by step demonstrations to illustrate how to improve composition, proportions, form, line, and contrast.
Frances Greenberg (francesgreenberg@aol.com) has experience as a drawing and design instructor at Prince George's Community College in Landover, Maryland. She is currently the open studio coordinator at the Red House Studios and Galleries in Black Mountain. Frances has been a full-time working artist since 1976, with both BFA and MFA degrees.Figure Drawing from Life
Click here to view more OLLI Workshops
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16th Annual Careers Education Awareness Day
Needs Volunteers!
 Planning for the 16th Annual Careers Education Awareness Day is underway, and planners are seeking volunteers. The event planners would like to connect with retired physicians or others retired from the medical field to participate and offer advice about how high school students can pursue these careers.
The day is cosponsored by UNC Asheville, MAHEC's Department of Health Careers and Diversity Education, and the WNC Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) and is scheduled in the Sherrill Center on October 6, 2015 (corrected date).
If you are interested in participating, please contact Annie Burton at aburton3@unca.edu or 828.251.6498 |
Special Thanks!
 OLLI would like to thank its Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend (CREW) Sponsor, Timothy E. Gillespie, Cosmetic Implant, & General Dentistry for his support! Timothy E. Gillespie, DMD, FAGD Cosmetic Implant, & General Dentistry 36 Orange Street, Asheville, NC 28801 (828) 252-9351 www.drtimgillespie.com CREW helps those considering relocation in retirement examine all their options carefully and make an informed decision about this major life transition.
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