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CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
Lifetime Learning Center
A Resource for Learning, Teaching, Friendship
Winter Quarter 2015
January 5 - February 26
3841 NE 123rd Street
Seattle, WA 98125
Roger Neale
(206) 949-8882
Director
Edla Deppman
Office Manager
Website: www.lifetimelearningseattle.org
E-mail: [email protected]
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
Lifetime Learning Center
Open to the Public
Bring a Friend
“Sharpen your mind and make new
friends”
Winter 2015 Event Calendar
Mon.
January 5
9:00 am
Classes Begin
Thursday Feb. 26
3:00 pm
Classes End
Friday
12:00-1:00
Feb. 27
REGISTRATION
Lifetime Learning Center, a nonprofit, educational
institution, offers classes and social events for older
adults. Our courses provide the joy of learning and
challenging the mind without the problem of exams or
grades. Classes meet weekly.
Fees: To enroll, students pay a $15 registration fee
each quarter plus a course fee of $30 per class. Some
classes require additional lab, book or materials fees.
Enrollment: Classes fill on a first-come, first-served
basis. Registrations are valid only when accompanied by
payment. No class confirmations are sent. Students are
notified by phone if a class is filled.
Three Ways To Enroll:
1. Complete the registration form at the back of this
brochure, or print a copy of the registration form
from our website, enclose fees, and mail to:
Lifetime Learning Center
3841 NE 123rd Street
Seattle, WA 98125
2. Call (206) 949-8882 to be sure we are in, drop by
and register in person.
3. Register online and pay using bank cards or Paypal.
Scholarships: Inquire at LLC office for scholarship
applications. Scholarships are granted on the basis of
need and are limited to classes not already filled with
enrolled students.
Volunteer Lunch
FACULTY
Michele Abbott, Drawing Instructor
Bruce Bigley, Ph.D., Literature
Jeanne Bryan, B.A., Music Education
Theodore Deacon, DMA, Music
Cecile Disenhouse, Watercolorist
Vel Gerth, B.A., Writing Instructor
Cameron Justam, Rosen Method Instr.
Joan Karkeck, MS
Elhri Larson, Poetry Facilitator
Jim Leonard, MA, Teaching
Marianne LoGerfo, MA, Teaching
Michael Kelly, MD
Barbara Miller, Music Instructor
Jim Mohundro, Film Aficionado
Lynn Pulliam, Interior Design
Ann Ross, Tai Chi Instructor
Stacy Schulze, Yarn Artist
Michael Shurgot, Ph.D., Literature
Bobbie Simone, Ph.D., Literature
LeeAnn Starovasnik, S.A., Feldenkrais
Ted Szatrowski, Bridge Instructor
Bill Taylor, MA, Political Science
Many thanks to these talented people who
donate their time and expertise.
They make Lifetime Learning Center a
fantastic experience for our students!
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
COURSE CATEGORIES
Category
History, Politics, Sociology/
Anthropology; Science
Course
Day
History of Japan
Monday 9:30
The Civil War
Tuesday 9:30
Gods and Heroes of the North
Tuesday 11:00
Medical Ethics
Tuesday 1:00
Birds
Thursday 11:00
Current Events
Wednesday 10:45
Comic Films
Thursday 1:00
The Immigrant Experience
Wednesday 1:00
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Monday 11:00
Raymond Carver
Tuesday 9:30
Write Your Life Story
Tuesday 10:45
Dante’s Purgatorio
Wednesday 11:00
Creative Writing Workshop
Thursday 11:00
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Thursday 11:00
Women For Poetry in Daily Living
Thursday 1:30
American Short Stories
Thursday 1:00
Operas of Richard Strauss
Monday 1:00
Crochet
Monday 1:00
Knitting
Monday, 1:00
Quilt Making Basics
Tuesday 12:30
Options for Senior Living
Wednesday 9:30
Drawing
Wednesday 1:00
Piano Keyboarding
Thursday 11:00
Watercolor Basics
Thursday 1:00
Home Decorating
Rosen Movement
Saturday
Monday 11:00
Balance in Action
Tuesday 11:00
Tai Chi
Thursday 9:30, 1:00
Beginning Bridge
Wednesday 9:00
Intermediate Bridge
Wednesday 10:45
Film
Literature, Writing
Music, Art, Crafts, Life Skills
Fitness
Bridge
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
MONDAY
A History of Modern Japan
Bill Taylor
January 5-February 23
9:30-10:45
Before I provide a description of the course, I
want to mention some features that are unusual
for LLC. Please be sure to read these carefully,
especially number 3.
1. This will be a nine-week class. The ninth
week will involve reading newspaper articles
related to the conflicts in East Asia that have
resulted from the rise of China and Japan’s
troubled relations with it and South Korea.
2. There is a course packet that will be about
250 pages long—about 30 typed pages of
reading for each class. The cost of the packet
will be around $20, but it might be more.
actions. But Japan’s history is a complex one
that we should be aware of as we consider the
question as to whether, or to what extent, we
should rely on Japan as an ally in the region.
This course is designed to provide you with the
basics of that history.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; or What You
Will
Michael Shurgot
11:00-12:15
Shakespeare’s last romantic comedy takes us on
a fanciful journey to Illyria where we meet a a
witty and festive court fool, a pseudo-Falstaffian
drunken sot, love-sick fools, a sexually frustrated
countess, a Puritanical steward, and one hell of a
determined twin sister. “What is love?/ ‘Tis not
hereafter. / Journeys end in lovers’ meeting, /
Every wise man’s son doth know.” Or do they?
Join us. Copy fee: $2:00.
3. Online and paper registration will end on
December 29. No registrations will be allowed after that time, even if they were
mailed before then. Your best bet is to regRichard Strauss in Opera & Song 1:00-2:30
ister early.
Theodore Deacon and Barbara Miller
4. If this class fills in the 9:30 time slot with a
week or two left before registration closes,
I’ll open a second section at 11:00, which
you can register for online. Those who wish
will be able to switch from the 9:30 to the
11:00 section.
Hailed in his youth as Wagner’s true successor,
Strauss’s early operas were condemned as decadent, obscene, and dangerously experimental.
The later operas were deemed too traditional and
intellectual. Throughout his career Richard
Strauss has been both honored and reviled. His
extensive body of operatic works is one of the
Course Description:
last great flowerings of German Romanticism.
This class will explore the operas of Richard
The economic and military rise of China has
Strauss focusing on their literary origins and
caused all manner of questions and concerns
dramatic structure. Special attention will be givabout the future of East Asia, as well as what role en to his opera Ariadne auf Naxos, to be perthe US might play in maintaining that balance.
formed at Seattle Opera this season. A class both
One potential counterweight to China is Japan.
opera novice and aficionado will enjoy.
However, Japan has a very troubled history with
its Asian neighbors. It also has an alliance with
the US that could draw us into a conflict with
China we might wish to avoid.
Past history does not determine a nation’s future
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE
WINTER QUARTER 2015
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
MONDAY
Rosen Movement
Cameron Justam
January 5-February 23
11:00-12:00
Rosen Movement was created by Marion Rosen, a
physical therapist, to foster, support, and maintain
flexibility during the aging years. This goal is aided
by music, which provides fun and inspiration to
move all the joints with ease in an hour. Come
move with us—be more open to the day and to life!
Taught by Cameron Justam, a certified Rosen Method body practitioner.
Crochet
Stacy Schulze
1:00-3:00
For beginners or refreshers. All you need is a
hook and some yarn, and you can learn the
skills to make clothes, household items and
decorations. For learning and practice, bring
some yarn and at least one hook of the right
size for the yarn. You are invited to bring
any patterns or crochet books that interest
you.
Knitting
Group Facilitated
The Lifetime Learning Center would
like to thank and acknowledge Mildred
Horstman for a generous donation that
paid for the printing of LLC’s class
schedules for the 2013-2014 academic
year.
Volunteer Recognition Lunch
Friday, February 27
Noon-1:00
As a way to let our volunteers know
how much we appreciate what they do
for LLC, we’re inviting everyone to a
thank-you-volunteers’ event. We’ve
invited Northwest poet Holly Hughes to
join us and read from her work. Bring a
brown-bag lunch, listen to the work of
an accomplished poet, and say thankyou to our volunteers (there are a lot of
you out there!)
1:00-3:00
For those who enjoy the traditional aspect of knitting. Instruction is available for those who want a
refresher or are newer knitters. All levels welcome.
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE
WINTER QUARTER 2015
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
TUESDAY
January 6-February 24
Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When
We Talk About Love
Michael Shurgot
9:30-10:45
Wagner’s magnificent cycle of operas. A course
book will be available the first day of class.
Write Your Life Story
Raymond Carver is a master of the minimalist style
in contemporary American Literature and a master
story teller. The collection established him as the
supreme short story of his generation. Frank Kermode said of Carver’s fiction that “it is so spare in
manner that it takes a time before one realizes how
completely a whole culture and a whole world condition is presented by even the most seemingly
slight sketch. This second volume of stories is
clearly the work of a full-grown master.”
10:45-12:45
Write your memories in a variety of forms—
prose, poetry, or plays, in vignettes or a longer
narrative. Participants read in class and listen to
each other, offering encouragement and suggestions. Facilitators: Nancy Jordan, Margaret Carson, Anita Bhat.
Balance in Action
LeeAnn Starovasnik
11:00-12:00
The American Civil War—Beyond the Battles
Pete Mazza
9:30-10:30
What if you could improve your sense of balance in
walking, standing, and climbing stairs? What if
you could right yourself more easily once you sense
Instructor Pete Mazza brings a forty-year fascinayou are off-balance? We offer an introduction to
tion with the Civil War to this lively and colorful
methods drawn from Bones for Life ™, Awareness
narrative. He’ll describe the ante-bellum period,
Through Movement ™, and the Feldenkrais Meththen show the effects the military and political deci- od ™. Students will be guided through a series of
sions had on the economic and social fabric of the gentle movements designed to increase their ability
Union and Confederacy. What began as a war
to balance in daily activity. Wear warm, comfortaabout legal issues over preservation of the Union
ble clothing and bring a thick blanket or matt
vs. states’ rights evolved into a struggle over the
Quilt Making Basics
12:30-2:00
abolition of slavery and the question of human
rights. The course will also explore the personali- Group Facilitated
ties of military and political leaders, their war deci- Quilters can share the creative skill of crafting
sions, and their legacy for the 20th Century.
beautiful quilts. Class members select their own
Gods and Heroes of the North
Marianne LoGerfo
11:00-12:30
projects. This is a support group sharing quilting
and views of life.
As vibrant and magical as their Greek countereparts, the old Norse gods and heroes pursue
lives of high adventure, low comedy, and enduring
significance. We’ll read their stories, view their
depiction in art, explore their expression in religion
and folklore, and think about their meaning for their
time and ours. To cap it all, we’ll enjoy an enthralling presentation by Theodore Deacon on the
transformation of the original legends into Richard
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE
WINTER QUARTER 2015
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY January 7-February 25
Tuesday
Medical Ethics: A Case Oriented Approach
Michael Kelly, MD
1:00-2:15
The course will give a general introduction to modern bioethics, review definitions and discuss ethical
principles. We will discuss two methods to help resolve medical ethical dilemmas. We will start most
of the classes with a few real life cases and discuss
how they could be evaluated. Active class participation is vital. The course outline is only an approximation depending on length of discussions.
During the course we will cover:
end of life issues
advanced directives
“code status”
cultural and religious perspectives
physician assisted suicide
Terri Schiavo case
Goals:
To learn how to evaluate medical ethical dilemmas and come to a resolution.
To understand advanced directives, their limitations and how they may affect you and your
loved ones.
Have the opportunity to complete your POLST
form.
IV Living Will, Durable Power of Attorney for
Health Care, POLST form, code status and
end of life ethics.
2 or 3 cases for discussion.
V Cultural Considerations – Somali, Asian, native American.
Case discussions.
VI Ethics of solid organ transplantation.
2 cases for discussion.
VII Jehovah Witness Ethical Dilemmas.
3 cases for discussion.
VIII Physician Assisted Suicide.
Case discussion.
Wednesday
Beginning Bridge
9:00-10:30
Ted Szatrowski
This class is for individuals who may or may not
have played bridge before but would like to learn.
We will start by learning point count, basic bidding,
and learning some basic bridge conventions. Students learn the game by playing. We play bridge
for fun—and down-play the competitive aspects.
You will make new friends, improve your memory,
and have a wonderful time.
Intermediate Bridge
10:45-12:15
Ted Szatrowski
This class is for bridge players who have some
bridge knowledge.
Course Outline
Current Events
10:45-12:15
I Greetings, introduction to topic.
Jim Leonard, Facilitator
Discuss ethical principles.
A wide-ranging discussion group, touching on such
II The Jonson 4 box method of analyzing an
diverse topics as headlines from the world
ethical case.
at large, national topics such as the capabilities and
Present a few cases to work on.
accomplishments of our intellectually challenged
III Kelly’s Rules of Thumb for ethical decision leaders in Washington DC, Olympia, and Seattle.
making.
We also touch on topics suggested by group mem2or 3 cases for discussion.
bers.
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE
WINTER QUARTER 2015
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
WEDNESDAY
Options for Senior Living
Joan Karkeck
January 7-February 25
9:30-10:30
Joan will facilitate a discussion exploring the options for living in our senior years. We have inherited a potential thirty more years added to our
lifespan than was expected when we were born.
The number of options are increasing faster than
most of us can comprehend, yet many of us feel
the need for immediate planning and decisionmaking. Some of these decisions may be irreversible. Let us use some of the resources available in our community for informing our process
and supporting one another in getting started.
We’ll use a process called “Picturing Life.”
Dante: The Divine Comedy: Part Two,
Purgatorio
Bobbie Simone
11:00-12:30
Virgil and Dante emerge from Hell and climb the
mountain to meet Beatrice. This is a continuation
of the fall class in which we read and discussed
the Inferno, but others are welcome. Translation
by John Ciardi, New American Library.
Drawing FUNdamentals with Michele Abbott
Michele Abbott
1:00-3:00
All levels are welcome. Class will cover the use
of various drawing materials and paper surfaces.
Instructor will demonstrate techniques for using
expressive line, value, and composition. Have
fun drawing from life or photographs. Learn
how to draw in preparation for a watercolor. Or
just play with ink washes. Draw loose and fast
or slow and careful. Just like your handwriting.
Swedes: The New Land. (1972) Farmers in
Minnesota, mid 19th Century, with Max Van
Sydow and Luv Ulmann.
Russian Jews: Hester Street. (1975) Husbands
come first to NYC’s lower east side to prepare
for wives and children, late 1890s.
Italians: Good Morning, Babylon. (1987)
Stonemasons end up in Hollywood designing
sets for D. W. Griffiths: pre-WWI.
Guatamalans: El Norte. (1983) After the army
destroys their village, teenaged brother and sister
brave difficulties and danger to reach the U.S.
and hope for a better life.
Japanese: American Pastime. (2007) During
WWII, Japanese-Americans were uprooted from
their homes in the western states and placed in
internment camps. A story about how they managed.
Vietnamese: The Beautiful Country. (2004)
Teenaged Binh flees from Saigon to America to
look for his G.I. father.
From Senegal and Syria: The Visitor. (2007)
A college professor finds his apartment in New
York occupied by two illegal immigrants.
Chinese: A Great Wall. A computer engineer,
feeling discriminated at his job, takes his American-born wife and son to visit his sister in China.
Films are mostly in English, with subtitles for a
few scenes. Optional discussion follows the
films.
The Lifetime Learning Center admits students of
any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all
rights, privileges, programs made available to
students at the school. It does not discriminate
on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic
Films: The Immigrant Experience: Seeking a origin in the administration of its educational,
admissions, and scholarship policies.
New Community
Bobbie Simone
1:00-3:00
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
THURSDAY
Tai Chi 1
Ann Ross
January 8-February 26
9:30-10:30
erations in a small village in Columbia, featuring
wonderful story telling using Magic Realism, a
technique that intersperses magical or supernatural events within the texture of ordinary reality.
Book available in the office.
Tai Chi is a slow moving meditation to improve
health, balance, and spirit. From the gentle practice of the postures, you will learn about your
physical and spiritual center. This class is geared How Birds Live
to continuing students.
Connie Sidles
Tai Chi 2
1:00-2:00
This session is geared toward beginners.
Piano Keyboarding
Jeanne Bryan
11:00-12:15
For students with basic knowledge of names and
locations of those ivories and some note-reading.
By term end, students can play familiar tunes.
Piano book $16. New students must contact instructor before joining the class.
Creative Writing
Vel Gerth
11:00-12:45
11:00-12:00
Join author and expert on avian life Connie Sidles
for an expanded version of the fascinating look at
the lives of birds she presented at LLC’s 2013
summer session. Eight sessions will cover:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
How birds become birds.
How birds use feathers and flight.
How birds find love.
How birds raise the kids.
How birds find food.
What birds do at night.
How birds migrate.
How we can help.
PCC Scrip Card
Do you shop for groceries at PCC? If so, you
should be using a scrip card linked to LLC. It
costs you nothing. PCC keeps track of your purchases, and gives back to the Learning Center 5%
of what you spend. So far LLC has received
$7,000! If enough of us take advantage, we anticOne Hundred Years of Solitude 11:00-12:30 ipate receiving $2,000 a year from PCC. We
thank PCC for supporting non-profit organizaBruce Bigley
tions like ours, and we urge you to talk to us
about acquiring your own scrip card.
Described by novelist William Kennedy as “the
first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis If you have lost your scrip card, it’s easy to rethat should be required reading for the entire hu- place. See us in the office.
The PCC Scrip Card is one of the easiest, most
man race,” this novel is Marquez’ masterwork
painless and effective ways we have to bring in
and one of the most important texts of Latin
American and of World Literature in the last cen- funds! Please ask Jeanne Eisenberg, Roger or
tury. It is a family chronicle covering seven gen- Edla to explain how you can participate.
We write spontaneously through prompts/
outlines, from lines of poetry or prose. No corrections of work, only praise for a word or line.
We learn by doing to create a piece. We encourage each other to write in our unique voices.
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE
WINTER QUARTER 2015
CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS
THURSDAY
January 8-February 26
had neither time nor energy to write all those plays,
delegating that work to Tom Stoppard. (123 min.)
Women for Poetry in Daily Living 1:30-3:00
In Wag the Dog (1977), spin doctor Robert De Nero
A peaceful oasis for sharing poetry from internaand producer Dustin Hoffman stage a phony war to
tional writers and our own hands/hearts if we feel
divert attention from a President’s peccadillos. It
so inclined. A safe place for women to express and can’t happen here. (97 min.)
let their voices be heard with love of language, in- 2000s:
sight, humor, and observation.
Rupert Everett and Colin Firth are the quintessential
British upper class as mistaken identity drives Oscar wild in 2002’s The Importance of Being EarWatercolor Basics
1:00-3:00
nest. (97 min.)
Cecile Disenhouse
The Coen Brothers are at it again. One Woody
Guthrie odyssey is rolled into three as George
No experience necessary. Beginning instruction
Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson ask
includes description of supplies, composition, use
the musical question “O Brother, Where Art
of color, washes, wet into wet, and the use of ink
with watercolor. Artists of any level are welcome to Thou?” (2000). (106 min.).
participate in the studio. The instructor demonContemporary American Short Stories
strates mainly landscapes, cityscapes and the odd
1:00-2:15
animal. Students can visit: www.jettes.org to see Jim Leonard
instructor’s work.
Each week we’ll discuss two modern short stories,
some from the contemporary realistic tradition, othFilm: Faces of Comedy
1:00-3:00
ers more experimental. Our reading list includes
Jim Mohundro
stories by Russell Banks, Amy Bloom, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, Edward P. Jones,
1970s:
Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Alice
Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal and Medeline Kahn Walker, and others. The book for this class is The
bring 1930s’screwball comedy back to life in 1972 Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction,
with What’s Up, Doc? (94 min.)
The Revised and Updated 2nd Ed. 2007 (available
Diane Keaton’s Annie Hall popularizes the dandy
new or used on-line)
look, and does battle with an angst-ridden (what
else?) comic and a lobster in Woody Allen’s Oscarwinning 1977 film. (93 min.)
Saturday
1980s:
Various sexes are victoriously mixed, matched, and
mixed up, by and with Robert Preston and Julie An- Hands-On Home Decorating
Lynn Pulliam
drews, in Victor, Victoria (1982). (132 min.)
In Raising Arizona, Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
Join this fun, hands-on decorating class. We meet
are an Ozzie and Harriet for the 80’s in this 1987
in student’s homes to discuss and do furniture, acfilm by Joel and Ethan Coen. (94 min.)
cessory arranging and color. Saturdays, or other
1990s:
Forsooth, many scholars agree that Joseph Fiennes, days if desired. Contact Instructor Lynn Pulliam
(254-370-8719) for schedule.
as Shakespeare in Love (1998), distracted by
Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush and Judi Dench,
LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015
LLC REGISTRATION FORM
Winter Quarter 2015 Jan. 5– Feb. 26
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Twelfth Night ____________$30 _______
Rosen __________________ $30________
Richard Strauss __________ $30________
Crochet ________________ $30________
Knitting ______ ________ $30 _______
Wednesday
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Current Events __________ $30________
Senior Living ____________ $30 ________
Dante _________ ________ $30________
Films _________________ $30________
Drawing _________________$30 _______
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Civil War _______________$30 _______
North Gods _____________ $30________
Balance ________________ $30________
Life Story _______________ $30________
Quilting ________________ $30________
Medical Ethics ___________ $30________
Saturday Decorating ______ $25________
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100 Years of Solitude _____ $30________
Birds ___________________$30 ________
Watercolor __ ___________ $30_______
Keyboard _______________ $30________
Poems __________________ $30________
Tai Chi 2 ________________$30 _______
Short Stories _____________$30 _______
Films: Comedy ____________$30 _______
Class Fee Total………………………………………....$___________
Quarterly Registration Fee………………………….$15________
Donation (We appreciate your generosity)…..$___________
Total Fees………………………………………………….$___________
Mail to:
Lifetime Learning Center
3841 NE 123rd Street
Seattle, WA 98125
You may also register and pay online at: www.lifetimelearningseattle.org. (If you pay
online and want a refund, please see us rather than seeking a refund from your
bank or Paypal.)
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