Course Catalog OLLI@UGA
August through December 2015 OLLI Lunch Menu Expanding Lunch is a multipurpose meal. There are power lunches, ladies lunches, working lunches and civic club lunches, as well as fancier bridesmaids and fashionshow fundraising luncheons, to name a few. And for OLLI members this fall, there are 18 opportunities to enjoy a midday meal and learn something at the same time. Eleven sessions are brown bag lunches, which will be held at River’s Crossing, with the others at Trumps Catering or Talmage Terrace. Subjects range from sports to secret agencies to Botswana. With freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, a topic of particular relevance in today’s violent world is Charles Davis’s program on Hate Speech: Why We Protect Speech that Repulses Us. “I think our luncheon programs appeal for several reasons,” says OLLI Executive Director Katy Crapo. “Our members enjoy the camaraderie and opportunities to socialize that luncheons provide. The Brown Bag Series, which is just one season old, allows us to better utilize our space at River’s Crossing. In addition, it is less formal and provides an opportunity for discussion.” Attending events at River’s Crossing will be more convenient, less expensive and save paper, thanks to an agreement with UGA Parking Services. Anyone who registers for a class at River’s Crossing will receive a parking tag that will be valid through July 2016. OLLI is offering a record 165 courses in 22 categories beginning in August. There will be a number of new classes, including Mary Jean and Peter Hartel’s Chicks in the City. The Hartels have raised backyard chickens for several years and now, with the recent approval of a chicken ordinance, they will teach others how to do it. Mary Jane explains the benefits: “Why backyard chickens? Chicken TV!!! Not only do you get to watch your birds do chickeny things like running for that grasshopper, dust bathing, and making gentle contact noises with one another, you get EGGS!”
Another new entry is Easy Self-Care and Rolfing Structural Integration with John Schewe, a Certified Advanced Rolfer since 1987. According to the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, it is a “holistic system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education that organizes the whole body in gravity.” John will incorporate breathing techniques and chi kung exercises into the practice. Thomas Lauth, incoming president of the UGA Retirees Association, is a first-time presenter. He will discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its obstructed implementation, not only from the standpoint of rollout but of political opposition. “The Affordable Care Act (2010) joins Social Security (1935) and Medicare/Medicaid (1965) as the most important social policy innovations of the past 100 years, yet during its first five years it also has been one of the most controversial and politically divisive policy innovations of the past 100 years,” Lauth says. In addition to this impressive curriculum lineup, OLLI offers social events, trips and at least two dozen special interest groups. The latest SIG is ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out).
What’s Inside? Course listing by Category
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Alphabetic listing of presenters
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Alphabetic course listing with descriptions
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Monthly Calendar with courses
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Special Interest Groups
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Alphabetic course listing with schedule
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OLLI@UGA – Membership Form
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OLLI@UGA – Maps
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