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Winter 2021
January-March
Educational courses & events
for adults age 50+
Learn for
the joy of it!
csusb.edu/OLLI
2 Winter 2021 ּ Membership
Learn for the joy of it.
Take non-credit, university-level Membership
courses with other mature • $75 annual membership fee,
learners and experience all the includes a parking permit
joy of learning, but without the
• Choose as many courses as you
grades, tests, or homework.
like and pay by the course
A wide variety of courses are
• Enjoy a variety of fun events,
offered each quarter, including
topics in the arts and trips, and university activities
humanities, natural sciences, • Most courses are held once a
and social sciences. You may week for either six or three
also enjoy our educational trips weeks
and shared interest groups. OLLI
is engaging, interesting, and fun! Is cost a concern? Contact us for
more information.
OLLI membership offers you opportunities to:
• Continue learning: You’re never too old to learn. Explore a wide
Table of Contents variety of topics as you engage intellectually, challenge your thinking,
and build your knowledge.
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• Participate in interesting activities: Become part of a dynamic
Member Events.................. 3 learning community that is full of diversity, insight, wisdom, and
intellectual stimulation. Enjoy lively conversations, share opinions,
One-Week Courses ............ 4
and discover new ideas.
Six-Week Courses............... 7
• Meet new people: Meet and mingle with mature adults who share
Three-Week Courses........ 10 your interests and those with very different perspectives. You’ll build
new and rewarding friendships.
Shared Interest Groups .... 13
For more information: 909-537-8270 or olli@csusb.edu
Donate ............................. 14
Online Learning ................ 15
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Meet the OLLI Staff
Johnna Debbi
Norris Vesey
Program Administrative
Coordinator Assistant
909-537-8270 909-537-8121
johnna.norris@csusb.edu debra.vesey@csusb.edu
Member Events 3
Join us for these fun member events.
Until further notice, all member events will meet online via Zoom. Please register in advance. You will receive
the link to join the event via email a few days prior to the event. These events are free to OLLI members.
The C-Change Primer: A Non-Partisan Introduction to Climate Change
Tuesday, November 17
3:00 p.m.
The C-Change Primer is a non-partisan overview of the science behind climate change and a clear-eyed
assessment of the potential risks ahead. It frames climate change in terms of jobs and the economy, health
and personal security, and geopolitical security. The presentation answers the questions most Americans
have about climate change, such as: How do we know climate change is real and is caused by humans? What
is the scientific consensus? What are the dangers? Is there hope?
Sue Anderson’s Retirement Celebration
Friday, December 4
2:00 p.m.
Zoom in to help us wish Sue all the best in her retirement.
Watch your email for more information.
Coffee Hour Happy Hour Happy Hour
Tuesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 20 Wednesday, February 17
9-10 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
Interview with Larry Fox What I’m Watching at Home Rhythm & Rubato in Music
with Dale Knorr with Tim Kopf
Please join us for coffee and some
fun, friendly conversation. This Many members know of Dale’s Back by popular demand! Join us
coffee hour will feature a lively fabulous documentary and for this fun and educational
discussion with long-time OLLI international film classes. Over lecture & performance program
instructor and member, Larry Fox. the past few months, Dale has that explores the yin and yang of
Larry has a fascinating discovered some exceptional musical tension and release. Tim
background and is a man of many new online resources. Zoom in is delightful, talented, and skilled
interests. Zoom in to learn more to learn more about Dale’s on many instruments. He was an
about Larry, see some old recommendations for fun, free, award-winning orchestra
acquaintances, and make some educational programming that conductor and has performed
new OLLI friends. We hope to see you can enjoy from the comfort with orchestras in Lincoln Center
you. and safety of your own home. and the Kennedy Center.
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/events
Register by phone: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-8121
4 Winter 2021 ּ One-Week Courses
One-Week Courses All winter courses will meet online via Zoom. You will receive the
$10 each link to join the course via email a few days prior to the first class.
Two Historic Institutions: The How America's Judges Titanic’s Lost Sister
Royal & the Smithsonian Really Make Their Decisions Cash Baxter, MFA
David Haas, PhD Charles Schudson, JD Tuesday, January 12
Monday, January 11 Monday, January 11 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Join us as we dive to the ocean
The Royal Institution of Great Go behind the bench with Judge depths with Titanic discoverer, Bob
Britain was founded in 1799 as a Schudson to probe judicial minds Ballard, as his team of historians
forum for making science available analyzing actual trials and and a shipload of high-tech
to the public. It provides daily sentencings, including abortion equipment search for Titanic's
lectures and events primarily for protesters, murderers, sex twin, the HMHS Britannic. The
journalists to learn about current predators, white supremacists, most luxurious of its line, the
science and research. Now a and others. Hear judges forging Britannic sank only four years after
science museum in London, it appellate decisions about life and Titanic in half the time. Why did
remains committed to scientific death, corporate crime, Britannic's safety installations fail
education and research. The multimillion-dollar damages, and to operate? Was it felled by a
Smithsonian Institution, also priceless civil rights. Look at the malicious torpedo attack or did it
known simply as the Smithsonian, financial, political, personal, and hit a mine? And what kind of shape
is a trust instrument of the United professional pressures is the majestic steamer in now?
States composed as a group of threatening judicial integrity like Come and learn more about this
museums and research centers. It never before. This course will fascinating story.
was founded on August 10, 1846, appeal to scholars, lawyers and
About the Instructor
"for the increase and diffusion of judges, and all citizens concerned
knowledge." Come explore these about judicial independence and Cash is a fine arts painter, art
two historic institutions in the future of America’s courts. historian, and world traveler. He is
comparison with one another. an award-winning, internationally
About the Instructor acclaimed Broadway producer/NY
About the Instructor Charles is a Wisconsin Reserve director whose career in show
David earned his BA in physics and Judge Emeritus, an adjunct business spans 40 years. Chosen by
PhD in biophysics in protein professor of law, and president of Richard Rodgers to direct two
crystallography and molecular Keynote Seminars, LLC. A Japanese productions of The Sound
biology at the State University of graduate of Dartmouth College of Music, Cash was awarded the
New York at Buffalo. He helped and the University of Wisconsin Chunichi Theatre Award, the
design some of the first airport Law School, he served as a state Japanese equivalent of Broadway’s
security X-ray systems in the and federal prosecutor, a Tony Award. He founded the
1970s. David and his wife, Sandra, Wisconsin Circuit Court judge, Musical Theatre Workshop at
later formed Temtec Inc., which and a Wisconsin Court of Appeals Southern Illinois University and
developed and manufactured high- judge. Schudson has authored was artist-in-residence at
tech visitor and temporary IDs. Dr. hundreds of published appellate universities in New York, Illinois,
Haas is the author of the book, opinions and other works Ohio, Massachusetts, California,
Personal Identification: Its Modern including On Trial: America’s and Texas. Cash has been teaching
Development and Security Courts and Their Treatment of at the Osher Institute since 2004.
Implications, He and Sandra have Sexually Abused Children and
more than 80 patents to their Independence Corrupted: How
credit. America’s Judges Make Their
Decisions, which was nominated
for the National Book Award.
One-Week Courses 5
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/courses
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A Refugee Child in 1940 Saving Money on Darwin’s Errors
America Prescription Drugs Larry Fox, MBA
Ruth Lindemann, BBA Harry Schaffner, JD Wednesday, January 13
Tuesday, January 12 Wednesday, January 13 1:00-3:00 p.m.
1:00-2:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Come explore the fabulous story
Come learn about the first-hand Come learn four different ways to about what Darwin got wrong and
experiences of a Jewish refugee access prescription medications what he couldn’t have known in
child in 1940 America. Ruth will more wisely. Explore getting his day and age. Undergraduate
share her reflections of a time prescriptions through mail order, science students now know how
when most Americans, including driving to Mexico to purchase species originated and mutated.
teachers, had no experience with prescriptions, the company More advanced scientists have a
people who did not speak English GoodRx, and drug foundations refined theory about when and
and were not educated on the that specialize in paying where the first life form
customs and traditions of her prescription medication copays originated. This non-technical,
culture. As a seven-year-old child, for those who qualify. fun, and lively story examines life
Ruth was equally unaware of Comparisons between these four at its starting point.
many American customs. Hear options will be presented as they About the Instructor
amusing and educational stories apply to widely-used medications
Larry founded and managed a
from those times as Ruth for seniors. Discuss how these
private equity group that
wandered the streets of options may help seniors pay for
purchased controlling interests in
Washington, D.C. unattended and the high cost of branded
a number of notable companies.
discovered the marvelous medications, and how to take
When he retired from business, he
wonders of this strange, new advantage of these programs.
was appointed professor of
world. About the Instructor finance in the Kellogg School of
About the Instructor Harry is a litigation attorney who Management at Northwestern
Ruth was born in Vienna, Austria, has resided in the Coachella University. Larry plays bridge and
and lived for two years under the Valley for 14 years. He was loves nature, contemporary art,
fascist Nazi regime before arriving named Lawyer of the Year from the movies, non-fiction books,
in the United States in 1940. She the county bar in 1999, has 1950s rock & roll, and the hard
served on the speaker’s bureau presented over 50 law seminars, sciences.
for the Holocaust Resource Center served as an adjunct law
in Portland, Oregon, for 35 years professor at Northwestern
and has been a lecturer at the University, and has taught at the
Tolerance Education Center in University of Illinois High School
Rancho Mirage for the past ten for the Gifted. Harry’s goal is to
years. Ruth has also published two help people get the benefits that
books: To Survive Is Not Enough are available to them, benefits
6 Winter 2021 ּ One-Week Courses
All winter courses will meet online via Zoom. You will receive the link to join the course via email a
few days prior to the first class.
More About the Drugs in Doctor Zhivago: A Poet for Writing a Legacy Letter
Your Life All Seasons Jay Sherwin, JD
Fred Abramson, PhD Bernard Epps, MFA Friday, January 15
Thursday, January 14 Thursday, January 14 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1:00-4:00 p.m.
This workshop is designed to
This course will cover drugs used to Nominated for ten Academy introduce the concept of legacy
alleviate pain, including narcotics, Awards and winner of five, Dr. letters and to encourage you to
anticoagulants, and a whole Zhivago (1965) tells the epic story craft your own legacy document. A
spectrum of drugs that work on the of doctor/poet, Yuri Zhivago legacy letter, or ethical will, is a
brain. We will explore drugs used (Omar Sharif), and the great love brief written document that allows
to treat depression, anxiety, sleep of his life, Lara (Julie Christie), you to share your life lessons,
disorders, Alzheimer's, migraines, against the backdrop of the express your values, and transmit
and more. Learn how these drugs Russian Revolution. Directed by your blessings to future
work, their limitations, and their David Lean, the film features a generations. Writing one is a
costs, and why your physician stellar cast and memorable score rewarding experience that creates
might prescribe one or the other. by Maurice Jarre. This course will an enduring gift for children,
This is a continuation and provide a recorded introduction grandchildren, and other loved
expansion of last year's course, to the film prior to class, then you ones. The workshop includes
though you can take this course rent and watch the film discussion and brief writing
without having attended last year’s independently in whole or in part exercises, and offers advice and a
course. via a streaming service of your model structure to help you
About the Instructor choice. On class day, we will meet organize your thoughts and start
online at 1 p.m. for an analysis writing.
Dr. Abramson received his BA in
and discussion of the first half of About the Instructor
chemistry from Western Reserve
the film and again at 3 p.m. for an
University in 1962 and his PhD in Jay created the Life Reflections
analysis and wrap-up of the
chemistry from The Ohio State Project to educate people about
entire film. Separate film rental
University in 1965. After two years legacy letters, ethical wills, and
fee is approximately $4.
of postdoctoral experience and five other legacy documents. He has
years in industry, he joined the About the Instructor practiced law, worked with
pharmacology department at the Butch received his MFA degree charitable foundations, served as a
George Washington University from the UCLA Department of philanthropy consultant and a
School of Medicine in 1972 and Film and Television’s hospital chaplain. He has extensive
retired after 31 years on the Independent Producers Program experience teaching and facilitating
faculty. He holds a long-term where he focused on story online learning programs, including
interest in transmitting science to development and working with recent presentations for six other
the general population. screenwriters. He served as the OLLI programs.
academic liaison to high profile
faculty, including studio heads,
development executives, and
others. More recently, Butch has
been teaching film appreciation
courses while developing a book
on Orson Welles’s Mercury
Production of Citizen Kane.
One Week & Six-Week Courses 7
Six-Week Courses
$50 each
Introduction to Reiki Bohemian Greenwich How Music Reflects Culture
Debbi Vesey, RMT, MA Village Gordon Williams, BM
Friday, January 15 Barry Schoenfeld, BA Mondays, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
1:00-3:00 p.m. Mondays, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1
Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1
Reiki is a powerful method for How does music reflect the
directing universal life force In the early twentieth century, outlook of its host culture?
energy for support, protection, New York City’s original home of Explore non-western traditions
and healing. It is available to poets and peasants was such as Indian and Indonesian
anyone in order to improve the Greenwich Village. This refuge music, and consider how the
health of all living things, intend for artists and free thinkers songs of Native Americans,
the most positive outcome of provided cheap quarters which Australia Aborigines and the
situations, and promote peace allowed bohemians to escape the Melanesians of Papua New
and harmony. This course will dreary, industrial world and live a Guinea reconcile the people to
cover reiki’s history and how it penniless, enlightened lifestyle. their landscape. We will also look
can be used to improve the However, a new subway at how various western genres
quality of life for you, your loved extension commercialized the reflect different beliefs. This
ones, your pets, and more. borough and rent prices rose course will consider the words of
About the Instructor rapidly. The bohemians fled, and songs and their relationship to
the Village turned into a ghost of other musical elements.
Debbi is a lifelong learner who is its once thriving and authentic
interested in topics such as About the Instructor
community. Come learn about
permaculture, native plants, this distinct time in New York Gordon has worked as a senior
alternative healing methods, and City’s history. programmer and editor of
spiritual health. She received her publications for Australia’s six
Reiki Master Teacher designation About the Instructor symphony orchestras. His writing
in 2015. Debbi also earned a BS in Barry has over 20 years of credits include Journey to
business and an MA in education. experience in advertising, Horseshoe Bend with composer
She is the current administrative marketing, strategic planning, Andrew Schultz, a narration for
assistant for the OLLI program at and business development. He is Beethoven’s Egmont music, and
CSUSB. familiar with the social media new dialogue for the first
that shape and influence Australian opera, 1847’s Don John
contemporary communications. of Austria. For the Adelaide
His clients have included Symphony Orchestra, he
American Express, Walmart, produced Music is our Culture, the
Trader Joe's, Toyota, NY/NY first work for symphony orchestra
Hotel & Casino, Samsung, and by Indigenous Australians. He has
Eastern Airlines. Barry founded been the Los Angeles reviewer for
The California Community of OperaWire, teaches at the Osher
Men on Facebook, which now Lifelong Learning Institute at
boasts over 11,000 members. He UCLA, and has given pre-concert
received his bachelor’s degree talks at Sydney Opera House.
from Cornell University and is an
opera lover and a practicing
Buddhist. His interests include
photography, archaeology, and
travel.
8 Winter 2021 ּ Six-Week Courses
All winter courses will meet online via Zoom. You will receive the link to join the course via email a
few days prior to the first class.
Does Education Really Equal Theism, Atheism & The Men of Ballet
Opportunity? Agnosticism Barry Schoenfeld, BA
Larry Fox, MBA Ken Zanca, PhD Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Jan. 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24, Mar. 3
Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 2 Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 2
Ballet is one of the most beautiful
We should long since have If you have taken a position on art forms, but when most people
reached consensus on how to the question of whether or not hear the word ballet, they imagine
increase opportunity through God exists, you have already elegant women in tutus. However,
education and should have long considered the philosophy of there are just as many male ballet
since taken the steps to make it religion. This course will examine dancers who deserve the spotlight
happen. The facts and methods the underpinnings for theism, and recognition. This course will
to increase opportunity through atheism, and agnosticism, and explore a little about the training
education are widely known, but will critically evaluate each one. and commitment required for this
not incorporated into current No matter where you stand on art form and will explore the rich
policies and programs, many of this question, we can all benefit history of male ballet dancers from
which have been largely from periodic review and re- Nijinsky to Nureyev to Baryshnikov
unchanged since Victorian times. examination of basic assumptions to Polunin to Vasiliev, including
The result is that our educational regarding these religious videos from over a hundred years of
achievement under-performs philosophies. stunning performances from all over
almost all advanced countries at About the Instructor the world.
every level. We have fewer skills, About the Instructor
fewer facts, and sometimes an Originally from New York, Dr.
undeserved self-confidence. Zanca has lived in California since Barry has over 20 years of
What to do is straight-forward, 1985. He is professor emeritus at experience in advertising,
pragmatic, and, with broad Marymount California University, marketing, strategic planning, and
commitment, not terribly hard. where he taught philosophy and business development. He is familiar
Together, let's develop that religious studies for over thirty with the social media that shape and
mutual commitment to future years. Kenneth has authored influence contemporary
generations. many books and articles, communications. His clients have
including an introduction to included American Express,
About the Instructor ethics textbook, How to Arrive at Walmart, Trader Joe's, Toyota, NY/
Larry founded and managed a a Considered Opinion. NY Hotel & Casino, Samsung, and
private equity group that Eastern Airlines. Barry founded The
purchased controlling interests in California Community of Men on
a number of notable companies. Facebook, which now boasts over
When he retired from business, REFER A FRIEND 11,000 members. He received his
he was appointed professor of bachelor’s degree from Cornell
finance in the Kellogg School of University and is an opera lover and
Management at Northwestern Current members, refer a new a practicing Buddhist. His interests
University. Larry plays bridge and member and you receive a include photography,
loves nature, contemporary art, voucher for one free course! archaeology, and travel.
the movies, non-fiction books,
1950s rock & roll, and the hard Learn more:
sciences. csusb.edu/OLLI/membershipSix-Week Courses 9
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
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Engaged Buddhism Today Winston Churchill: Soldier of Love & the Cold War in Film
Michael McDonald, PhD Freedom Bernard Epps, MFA
Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Kevin Peterson, MA Thursdays, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Jan. 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24, Mar. 3 Thursdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4
Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4
Modern Buddhism has evolved During the Cold War, lies, deceits,
from passive meditation. Now, In the summer of 1940, most of and betrayals were standard
many Buddhist teachers focus on Europe lay prostrate under the tradecraft in the murky world of
social engagement and offer brutal conquest of Nazi Germany. intrigue between rival
practical advice for dealing with Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, superpowers. These qualities can
psychological stress or problems Hungary, Romania, and France be rough on personal
such as anger, frustration, and had all surrendered to Hitler's jack relationships, especially between
grief. This course begins with -booted legions. In Western men and women. Let’s talk about
Thich Nhat Hanh exploring his Europe, only fascist Spain and the Cold War and learn how rough
expertise in teaching, poetry, and Great Britain remained it was as depicted in the following
meditation, and will also focus on independent. If Britain were to films: The Third Man (1949), The
select ideas from the Dalai Lama, survive, it would need a leader Spy Who Came in From The Cold
Pema Chodron, Jack Kornfield, who would embody all of the old- (1966), Topaz (1969), Seven Days
and other modern Buddhist fashioned virtues of courage, in May (1964), The Lives of Others
teachers. Emphasis will be on the patriotism, and the love of (2006), and The Russia House
practical help psycho-spiritual freedom, and who would be as (1990). We will meet online via
pointers can give us in our ruthless as Hitler, but for a better Zoom for an introduction of the
common quest to find peace and cause. That man, if he existed, film, then you rent and watch the
satisfaction in life. would be Britain's last hope. film independently via the
About the Instructor Fortunately, in London, there was streaming service of your choice.
such a man. After the film, rejoin us for a
Dr. McDonald received his PhD in discussion of each film's topic and
philosophy from the University of About the Instructor
issues. Separate film rental fees
Hawaii in 1995, and specializes in After a career of over 30 years in
are approximately $25 total.
the study of Plato and Chinese investment banking, Kevin has
philosophy. He maintained a chosen to return to his other About the Instructor
business career and taught classes great interest, the study and Butch received his MFA degree
in Chinese thought, philosophy, teaching of history. Kevin has from the UCLA Department of
and religion at Prescott College in been an instructor with OLLI since Film and Television’s Independent
Arizona, the University of 2017, and in that time has taught Producers Program where he
Redlands, and California State courses on Abraham Lincoln, focused on story development
University in San Bernardino. He George Washington, Dwight and working with screenwriters.
also teaches as a tutor for Mirus Eisenhower, and the history of He served as the academic liaison
Secondary Schools. American foreign policy. Prior to to high profile faculty, including
that, he was an instructor for OLLI studio heads, development
at the University of Utah. Kevin executives, and others. More
has a bachelor’s degree in history, recently, Butch has been teaching
a master’s degree in political film appreciation courses while
science, and has done graduate developing a book on Orson
work at the doctoral level in Welles’s Mercury Production of
political science. Citizen Kane.10 Winter 2021 ּ Six-Week & Three-Week Courses
Three-Week Courses
$30 each
Current Events Discussion Governmental Connections Tips for Healthy Aging
Group & Contrasts: U.K. & U.S. Barbara Appelbaum, MBA, MAT
Lara Bloomquist, JD Arlette Poland, JD, PhD Mondays, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Fridays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fridays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. March 8, 15, 22
Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, Mar. 5 Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, Mar. 5
Aging is inevitable, but how you
You have a right to your opinion What, if anything, does our age is not. It's never too late to
about the news and this is the constitutional law have to do with start caring for yourself because
course to express it. Or, you can sit how English Parliament works? everything you do over the course
back and listen to others voice This course will delve into the of your life contributes to your
their thoughts. Each week the class English Parliamentary system to aging. Healthy aging consists of
covers the hot topics of the day trace how it might have two components working
based on articles from The New impacted, influenced, or inspired collectively: physical and mental
York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the formation of the United well-being. By keeping these
The Wall Street Journal, The New States constitutional law system. optimized, you can stave off age-
Yorker, The New Republic, The By reviewing how the English related diseases and live your best
Economist, Time magazine and Parliament system works, and by life in your senior years. Come
many more. You will be alerted in comparing and contrasting that explore an integrative approach to
advance of class which articles will system with our own, a better medicine, nutrition, fitness, and
drive the week's discussions. All understanding of the evolution of spirituality. Learn to stay strong
thoughtfully delivered points of the United States constitutional mentally and physically to actively
view are encouraged and will be law system can be achieved. pursue all that life has to offer.
respected because different About the Instructor About the Instructor
opinions spark engaging
discussions. Dr. Poland is a retired lawyer Barbara is an engaging speaker,
turned theologian and professor. author, wellness coach, and
About the Instructor She holds a BS in political science consultant. She offers strategies to
As an attorney, former prosecutor, from UC Berkeley, an MA in recognize resilience in order to live
and criminal justice instructor, Lara religion from Claremont School of well as we age. She has published
has had a long professional and Theology, an MA in ethical two books, Be Your Own
personal interest in civic and social leadership from Claremont Superhero (2018) and Live in
issues. She headed the Domestic Lincoln University, a JD from San Wellness Now (2013), and is
Violence Division of the Los Francisco Law School, and a PhD recognized as an expert in the
Angeles City Attorney’s office, was in philosophy of religion from growing field of integrative
named Woman Prosecutor of the Claremont Graduate University. wellness. By combining healthy
Year by the League of Women She has been teaching at the living, spirituality, and
Prosecutors, and was selected by college level since 1999 and neuroscience principles, Barbara
the L.A. County Bar Association to lecturing with OLLI since 2005. aims to help people understand
be the recipient of their Prosecutor Her areas of specialty based on how to be proactive in their health
of the Year award. Lara has been her PhD include Buddhism, care versus reactionary in their
active in many social, political, and Judaism, science and religion, and sick care.
judicial issues that drive today’s world religions.
news.
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/courses
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All winter courses will meet online via Zoom. You will receive the link to join the course via email a
few days prior to the first class.
Making the Music Dance Normality & Terror: Life in Digging Deep: Health &
Again Nazi Germany Medicine
Cash Baxter, MFA Anette Isaacs, MA Fred Abramson, PhD
Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
March 9, 16, 23 March 9, 16, 23 March 10, 17, 24
Choreography is the art of Seventy-five years after the end This course will examine various
devising dances. Masterful of World War II, most of today’s contemporary questions such as:
choreographers invite us to be research on Nazi Germany is What’s the story about stem cells?
transmitted to exotic and exciting focused on its system of terror How dangerous are environmental
places in live theatre, as well as in that ultimately led to the death pollutants like endocrine
motion pictures. This course is an and destruction of millions of disruptors? Should you be
affectionate look at two of the people. By looking at various concerned about conditions like
greatest masters, Fred Astaire and societal paradigms, such as prediabetes and prehypertension?
Bob Fosse. The “enchanted education, employment, cultural What are therapeutic potentials of
evenings,” in which these two expression, and the role of illicit drugs like LSD, Ecstasy, and
remarkable dancers created and women, this course will present psilocybin? For each topic, the
performed their magic, take us fascinating insights into how the background, discoveries, and
from Vaudeville to Broadway, German people were oscillating evaluation of risks and benefits will
movies to television, and changed between normality and terror, be presented.
the way the world of dance is and how the Nazis were able to About the Instructor
perceived. turn Germany into a brutal and
horrific dictatorship. Dr. Abramson received his BA in
About the Instructor chemistry from Western Reserve
Cash is a fine arts painter, art About the Instructor University in 1962 and his PhD in
historian, and world traveler. He is Anette is a German historian and chemistry from The Ohio State
an award-winning, internationally public educator who has been University in 1965. After two years
acclaimed Broadway producer/NY presenting hundreds of programs of postdoctoral experience and five
director whose career in show on more than 30 different topics years in industry, he joined the
business spans 40 years. Chosen pertaining to her native country's pharmacology department at the
by Richard Rodgers to direct two history, politics, and culture. Ms. George Washington University
Japanese productions of The Isaacs holds master's degrees in School of Medicine in 1972 and
Sound of Music, Cash was American studies, political retired after 31 years on the faculty.
awarded the Chunichi Theatre science, and history, and is an He holds a long-term interest in
Award, the Japanese equivalent of adjunct faculty member at the transmitting science to the general
Broadway’s Tony Award. He lifelong learning departments of population.
founded the Musical Theatre five community colleges and
Workshop at Southern Illinois universities in Illinois. She is also a
University and was artist-in- popular instructor at Florida
residence at universities in New Atlantic University's OLLI in Boca
York, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, Raton.
California, and Texas. Cash has
been teaching at the Osher
Institute since 2004.12 Winter 2021 ּ Three-Week Courses
All winter courses will meet online via Zoom. You will receive the link to join the course via email a
few days prior to the first class.
The L.A. Zoot Suit Riots of Artists with Arthritis: Then Current Events Discussion
1943 & Now Group
Barry Schoenfeld, BA James Louie, MD Lara Bloomquist, JD
Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fridays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
March 10, 17, 24 March 11, 18, 25 March 12, 18, 26
The Zoot Suit Riots were violent This course will explore the You have a right to your opinion
clashes during which mobs of U.S. determination of many artists about the news and this is the
servicemen, off-duty police with autoimmune diseases. We course to express it. Or, you can
officers, and civilians brawled with will look at artists who lived in sit back and listen to others voice
young Latinos in Los Angeles. The early times with less their thoughts. Each week the
June 1943 riots took their name understanding and less effective class covers the hot topics of the
from the baggy suits worn by many therapies for their ailments, then day based on articles from The
minority youths during that era, contrast them with artists in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
but the violence was more about current times who have Times, The Wall Street Journal,
racial tension than fashion. Local benefitted from more effective The New Yorker, The New
papers framed the racial attacks as therapies. Learn about artists Republic, The Economist, Time
a vigilante response to an such as Renoir, Dufy, and magazine and many more. You
immigrant crime wave, and police Outterbridge, who suffered from will be alerted in advance of class
generally restricted their arrests to rheumatoid arthritis; Paul Klee which articles will drive the
the Latinos who fought back. Come who dealt with scleroderma; week's discussions. All
learn about this divisive time in Toulouse-Lautrec’s thoughtfully delivered points of
California’s history. pycnodysostosis; and Ruth view are encouraged and will be
About the Instructor Asawa’s systemic lupus respected because different
erythematosus. Viewing the opinions spark engaging
Barry has over 20 years of changes in their lives and their discussions.
experience in advertising, artistic expressions will be
marketing, strategic planning, and About the Instructor
instructive and inspirational.
business development. He is About the Instructor As an attorney, former
familiar with the social media that prosecutor, and criminal justice
shape and influence contemporary Dr. Louie is the associate
instructor, Lara has had a long
communications. His clients have physician diplomate for UCLA
professional and personal
included American Express, Rheumatology at the David
interest in civic and social issues.
Walmart, Trader Joe's, Toyota, NY/ Geffen School of Medicine. He
She headed the Domestic
NY Hotel & Casino, Samsung, and received his doctor of medicine
Violence Division of the Los
Eastern Airlines. Barry founded The degree from Washington
Angeles City Attorney’s office,
California Community of Men on University in St. Louis, and has
was named Woman Prosecutor of
Facebook, which now boasts over served as a professor for UCLA’s
the Year by the League of Women
11,000 members. He received his School of Medicine. James has
Prosecutors, and was selected by
bachelor’s degree from Cornell presented lectures on artists with
the L.A. County Bar Association to
University and is an opera lover autoimmune diseases worldwide,
be the recipient of their
and a practicing Buddhist. His and is the co-author of two
Prosecutor of the Year award.
interests include photography, books, Targeted Treatment of the
Lara has been active in many of
archaeology, and travel. Rheumatic Diseases, 1st edition
the social, political, and judicial
and Treatment of the Rheumatic
issues that drive today’s news.
Diseases, 2nd edition.Shared Interest Groups 13
Shared Interest Groups
Shared interest groups (SIGs) are free, peer-facilitated discussion groups that foster fellowship and active
learning. They are open to current OLLI members and meet throughout the year, so you can participate as
your schedule allows.
All SIGs will meet online via Zoom this year unless otherwise noted. Sign up today to get started.
Book Club
Are you a reader? Are you ready to take the next step and engage in fun and stimulating conversations about
the books you've read? Join the OLLI Book Club. We will meet once a month at a time and place that works
for all of us. We will agree on which book(s) we will read and then get together to discuss them. Members of
the group will take turns volunteering to lead the discussion. Books may be any genre, vintage, or subject
that the group wants to explore.
Meets the second Wednesday of each month.
Coordinator: Shelley Mitchell
707-496-8689 or shelleydmitchell@gmail.com
Genealogy Club
Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of lineages. Who are your ancestors?
Where did they live? What did they do? How did their life choices lead to where you are today? This SIG will
help you explore your family history using multiple resources. Come develop an understanding of genealogy
and unlock the mysteries of your family's past.
Meets upon request.
Coordinator: Dick Knapp
760-861-2010 or knappassoc@aol.com
Glass Club
Man has been fascinated with glass, naturally formed or man-made, for thousands of years. Whether
fashioned for utilitarian, decorative or personal use, glass has been an important commodity throughout
history; that's even more true today. This SIG will explore many facets of glass history including, but not
limited to, glass objects of historical/stylistic periods, fabrication in the past and present, historical glass
designers and artists, popular glass collectibles, and more. Possible visits could include nearby museums,
collections and glass hot shops. No prior knowledge is required.
Meets the first Wednesday of each month.
Coordinator: David Novick
760-345-8041 or dtnovick@earthlink.net
Don’t see a group that interests you? Contact us at 909-537-8270 to discuss your ideas.
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/SIGs
Register by phone: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-812114 Winter 2021 ּ Donate
Ways to Support OLLI
Our Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is a financially self-supporting program that does not receive any state
funding. Membership fees and endowment interest are our largest sources of revenue, but they still don't
cover our full operating costs. We rely on the generosity of our members to keep the program thriving and
affordable. Making a financial gift is one way to appreciate the impact OLLI has had on your life in retirement.
Help ensure the long-term sustainability of the enriching educational and social programming that touches
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• the capacity to expand and adjust to changing needs
• the staff to provide a high level of service for all members and instructors
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Please consider a gift to OLLI at a level that is comfortable for you. Your support matters and is appreciated.
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Learning via Zoom is easy & fun!
If you've never used Zoom before, we understand it can feel a little scary. But...it really is quite simple. If you
use email or can get to our website, you have the skills necessary to participate in a Zoom course online. To
help you feel more comfortable, we've created a few resources that you can either view now or print and
keep for later reference.
Let's get started...
• Sign up for online classes just like you do for all other OLLI courses and activities. You can either register
on our website or mail in a registration form.
• A few days before your first class, you'll receive an email that includes a link you'll click to join your class.
That's it. Just click the link and you're in. Be sure to save that email as you'll need the link to join the
class.
• If it's your first time using Zoom, you'll be prompted to download the application on your device; simply
follow the instructions on your screen. You don't need to purchase anything or set up an account. It's
safe, easy, and free.
• You can participate via your computer, tablet, or smartphone. Most laptops, tablets, and smartphones
have a built in camera and microphone, which will enhance your Zoom experience. No camera or
microphone? You can still participate from your computer by watching the screen and typing any
comments or questions in the Chat section. You can also join in from your telephone (with or without a
computer) to listen in.
Zoom Orientation Workshops Need help?
We offer a variety of opportunities to help you get started or to Don’t hesitate to call us:
explore some more advanced features when you're ready. To
participate, just click on the workshop date below or visit our Johnna Norris: 909-537-8270
website for the links. Remember, if this is your first time using Debbi Vesey: 909-537-8121
Zoom, you'll be prompted to download the application on your
device; simply follow the instructions on your screen.
How to Zoom
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 10:00 a.m.
Meeting ID: 862 3839 8437
Zoom for Tablets & Smartphones
Thursday, Jan. 7, 10:00 a.m.
Meeting ID: 886 2098 9355
Additional dates to be announced.
For Zoom orientation workshop links, a printable resource guide,
and additional information about learning online, visit our website:
csusb.edu/OLLI/online-learning-resourcesIN CONVERSATION: The Voices of OLLI
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members, instructors, staff, and university
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____ Two Historic Institutions: The Royal & the Smithsonian ____ Darwin's Errors
____ How America’s Judges Really Make Their Decisions ____ More About the Drugs in Your Life
____ Titanic’s Lost Sister ____ Doctor Zhivago: A Poet for All Seasons
____ A Refugee Child in 1940 America ____ Writing a Legacy Letter
____ Saving Money on Prescription Drugs ____ Introduction to Reiki
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____ Bohemian Greenwich Village ____ Engaged Buddhism Today
____ How Music Reflects Culture ____ Winston Churchill: Soldier of Freedom
____ Does Education Really Equal Opportunity? ____ Love & the Cold War in Film
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____ The Men of Ballet ____ Governmental Connections & Contrasts: U.K. & U.S.
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____ Tips for Healthy Aging ____ The L.A. Zoot Suit Riots of 1943
____ Making the Music Dance Again ____ Artists with Arthritis: Then & Now
____ Normality & Terror: Life in Nazi Germany ____ Current Events Discussion Group
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