Grand Learning

For Information and Registration call 623-546-7470 SUMMER 2022

PLEASE SEE WEBSITE FOR FULL COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Grand Learning utilizes web-based software and participants must have an account to take classes. TO ACCESS GRAND LEARNING ONLINE, VISIT THE SUN CITY GRAND WEBSITE www.suncitygrand.com

Login to your resident account, and click on Golf & Recreation. Grand Learning is under Recreation. Or you can type this URL in your browser: https:// go.asapconnected.com/?org=511

Returning Students: If your login doesn’t work, please email us to request a password reset (include your name and phone number) grandlearning@scgcam.com Please do not create another account.

Classes are held in the Havasupai/ Maricopa classroom unless otherwise specified. Check your invoice for room location.

623-546-7470

Monday–Friday 8 am–4 pm Sun City Grand CAM Activities 19781 N. Remington Dr. Surprise, AZ 85374

EMAIL

grandlearning@scgcam.com

CURRENT EVENTS ROUNDTABLE

PHIL AXELROD

Meets 12 times on Tue 6/14- 8/30 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM FEE $30 Let's meet weekly to discuss the current events of the day. Be prepared to actively participate as we debate the pros and cons of the topics selected by the group. Each participant is encouraged to bring an item or topic currently in the public's eye. We are not limited to political items for discussion. At the beginning of each session, I will poll the group for topics. Once we have a complete list we will vote on all topics and the one garnering the most votes will be the first topic discussed at each meeting. Lively discussions will ensue, followed by resolutions. If you enjoy brisk and vigorous debate, this is the group for you.

UKULELE 101

JONI DEE

Meets 6 times on Tue 6/14 - 7/19 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM FEE $30 Ukulele 101 students will be introduced to the Ukulele, instrument care; Ukulele chords, strums, and picking patterns. By the end of class students will be comfortable playing 3 to 4 chord songs in different genres. Please bring a notebook and ukulele. I have some ukuleles to lend out.

EVERYTHING YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE GOING SOLAR

MICHAEL SHEPP

Meets 1 time on Thur 7/14 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM FEE $10 Knowledge is power. Learn everything you must know before you ever invite a home solar installer into your home. Seniors are the target of scams and fraudulent solar installers. Presented by the home solar instructor with Rio Salado College along with PORA. By the end of this class you will be more knowledgeable than a solar salesman!

THOSE WERE THE DAYS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION, PART 1

STEVE KATZ

Meets 10 times on Wed 6/22 - 8/24 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM FEE $30 This will be the first of 3 semesters of more than everything you ever wanted to know about 50’S TELEVISION—it will be the ultimate nostalgia class with more trivia that any retiree’s brain can handle. You think you know 50’s TV trivia? We’ll see! We’ll of course look at the classics with which you are all familiar: variety shows like Texaco Star Theater, Your Show of Shows and Toast of the Town; sitcoms like I Love Lucy, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best and The Honeymooners; early quiz shows like What’s My Line and I’ve Got a Secret and later big money quiz shows like The $64,000 Question and Twenty-One which ended in grand jury probes and congressional investigations; more westerns than you can imagine from Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger to Gunsmoke and Bonanza; and children’s programming, both animated and live action, like Howdy Doody, Disneyland, The Mickey Mouse Club and Rocky and Bullwinkle. But we’ll also consider a few series that probably most of you have never even heard of like Martin Kane, Private Eye and Rocky King, Inside Detective. You won’t just be teased by a few seconds of clips of each series but will see anywhere from a few minutes to as much as 25-30 minutes of many. For about half the series we will be playing Name that Tune to see if you can identify the series from its theme music; for just about every series, we will be asking trivia questions regarding the characters, the performers who played them and the like; and in about half the classes we will quiz you on some of your favorite commercials from the Golden Age.

60’S ROCK: CREAM

VINNIE BRUNO

Meets 1 time on Thur 8/4 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM FEE $15 Get out of the heat this summer and join Vinnie Bruno for the premiere of 60’s Rock: Cream, his newest lecture. Cream was formed in 1966 and is widely regarded as rock's first supergroup. We will journey with the band through their early days as members of many blues bands as they move toward the formation of Cream. Cream's music spanned many genres including hard rock (Sunshine of Your Love), psychedelic rock (White Room) to blues rock (Crossroads). Their album "Wheels of Fire" became the first platinum-selling double rock album in history. We will follow the band through their infamous internal band conflicts, to their farewell concert and to the trio's widely anticipated reunion tour in 2005. Cream was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES

PHIL AXELROD

Phil Axelrod is a retired insurance underwriter who has been living in Sun City Grand since 2002. He served in the U.S. Navy as a boiler man on the USS Skywatcher and as a nuclear power plant operator on the USS Enterprise. He is interested in politics on the local and national levels and is a past president of the Sun City Grand Republican Interest Group.

VINNIE BRUNO

Vincent Bruno is a Beatles Scholar and 60’s Rock Historian. Recently retired as Director of First Year Programs at LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York). He holds an MPA from Baruch College and as an adjunct professor for the past 25 years he has taught courses in numerous disciplines including Humanities, Business, Mathematics and Cooperative Education. In addition, for the past 17 years he has lectured extensively on The Beatles at universities, colleges, libraries and community centers. As A Beatles scholar and storyteller he looks to both embrace not just their legacy but to present an entertaining, interactive and informative session for both the casual listener as well as the hard core Beatles fan. He currently resides in Arizona and New Jersey.

JONI DEE

I’ve been playing and teaching in and around the Sun Cities for now for over 9 years. I’ve taught four skill levels for the Surprise Park & Recreation, two levels at Branches a recreation program for Homeschool children, here at Grand and number of privates from 6 years to Adult, I teach Sessions each year at the Tempe Ukulele Festival, and randomly lead at the Sun City Ukulele Club.

STEVE KATZ

Steve was the senior partner of a boutique entertainment law firm in Los Angeles, where he represented actors, writers, producers, directors and television and motion picture production and distribution companies and spent many evenings and 2 drink minimums at the Comedy Store and the Improv.

MICHAEL SHEPP

Michael Shepp is the home solar instructor with the Rio Salado College in Surprise. He's been teaching Solar classes for 5 years to Arizona seniors through the University along with organizations such as PORA. His class is titled "Everything You Must Know Before Going Solar". Knowledge is absolute power. Michael retired from the E. I. Dupont Corporation after 38 years of employment.

CHAPARRAL CENTER

19781 N. Remington Dr. Surprise, AZ 85374 n Classes are in the Havasupai/Maricopa classroom in Chaparral Center unless otherwise indicated. n Our classrooms may be warm or cold so wear layers! n Silence your cell phones in the classroom. n Treat your classmates and instructors with respect. We adhere to the CAM No Refund policy. If you drop a class with more than 48 hours notice, we will give you class credit only. 623-546-7470 grandlearning@scgcam.com

Pastor Scott Hackler Pastor Gary E Benson

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