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Winter 2022
January-March
Educational courses & events
for adults age 50+
Join us on
campus or
online this
winter!
It’s fun and easy!
Learn for
the joy of it!
csusb.edu/OLLI
2 Winter 2022 ּ 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.
Membership....................... 2
• 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............... 6
• Meet new people: Meet and mingle with mature adults who share
Three-Week Courses........ 11 your interests and those with very different perspectives. You’ll build
new and rewarding friendships.
Shared Interest Groups .... 15
For more information: 909-537-8270 or olli@csusb.edu
Donate ............................. 16
Online Learning ................ 17
Learn more about OLLI membership: csusb.edu/OLLI/membership
Registration Form ............ 19 Join or renew now: csusb.edu/OLLI/join
Meet the OLLI Staff
Angela Johnna
Allen Norris
Director Program
909-537-8248 Coordinator
909-537-8270
angela.allen@csusb.edu johnna.norris@csusb.edu
Member Events 3
Join us for these fun member events.
Winter member events will meet online via Zoom and on campus. 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. Stay
tuned for more in-person and online event announcements throughout the winter term!
Musical Satire of the 50s & 60s
Friday, January 28
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Oliphant Auditorium
Join us for an afternoon of laughter. Enjoy the great satire songs of our more pleasant past with the
irrepressible Tom Lehrer, Alan Sherman, and Mark Russell. You will love this look and listen as we reminisce
about our innocent past and the songs we all loved during a time in our lives when humor was just plain
funny. Get ready to learn & laugh in a comfortable theater setting on campus.
From Leaf to Relief
Wednesday, February 23
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Oliphant Auditorium
This event offers information for adults interested in the many uses of legalized cannabis leaf that are
available for a variety of ailments and personal health needs. Learn about the recent changes in regulations,
legalization, industry standards, testing, politics, challenges of taxation and black-market competition.
Lunch & Learn: Palm Lunch & Learn: Lunch & Learn:
Springs Festival Understanding Hummingbirds of the
Sneak Peek Parkinson’s Disease Coachella Valley
Wednesday, December 15 Wednesday, January 26 Tuesday, February 8
12-1 p.m. 12-1 p.m. 12-1 p.m.
Online via Zoom Online via Zoom Online via Zoom
Join us for this special preview This introduction to Parkinson’s Join Phil Parker, who until
just for OLLI members and disease presented by CSUSB recently lead bird walks for
guests. This sneak peek will be professor, Dr. Jacob Jones , will Friends of the Desert Mountains,
presented by Lili Rodriguez who focus on understanding the Sunnylands, and Mount San
is the Artistic Director at the difference between Parkinson’s Jacinto Natural History
Palm Springs International Film disease and other common Association. Phil will be
Society which mounts the Palm neurologic disorders, and the non presenting a presentation on
Springs International Film -motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Hummingbirds of the Coachella
Festival and the Palm Springs disease including memory Valley, which species to look for,
International ShortFest. impairments and depression. and some visual cues to look for
to help identify them
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Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/events
Register by phone: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-8121
4 Winter 2022 ּ One-Week Courses
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
One-Week Courses Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/courses
$10 each Questions? Call us at: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-8121
How Airline Travel was Made Dante in Art: Botticelli - About the Instructor
Safe Inferno
David Haas, PhD Butch Epps, MFA Butch received his MFA degree
Tuesday, January 18 Tuesday, January 18 from the UCLA department of Film
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1:00-3:30 p.m. and Television’s Independent
Online via Zoom Online via Zoom Producers Program where he
focused on story development and
Mandatory physical security Join us for this fascinating working with screenwriters. He
screening for all airline passengers documentary into the depiction served as the academic liaison to
became law in the United States on of Hell in art as inspired by Dante high profile professional faculty,
January 5, 1973. Walk-through and visualized by Renaissance including studio heads,
metal detectors and low-dose painter, Sandro Botticelli. Follow development executives, and
X-ray scanners made this possible. the arc of Botticelli’s career from others. Since stepping away from
Security has since morphed into beauty to damnation and back the day-to-day rigors of the film
what we now call Electronic again, enjoy readings from Dante, industry, Butch has been teaching
Security Screening. Today, fifty descend into Botticelli’s detailed film appreciation courses while
years later, we see that this map of the Inferno, review developing a book on Orson
screening process is successful and additional sketches and paintings Welles’s Mercury Production of
made aviation safe from most that were part of a planned larger Citizen Kane.
skyjackings, criminal threats, and work, and learn the tale of its
terrorist activity. In addition to provenance all with a host of A No-Politics Look: The News
meeting its original objectives, experts and man on the street & the Law. Who Must Report
Electronic Security Screening and interviews. Guaranteed you will Truthfully?
its products and techniques have walk away feeling, if not blessed, Lacey Kendall, MA
been adapted for many other at least more knowledgeable. On Wednesday, January 19
applications and it has also class day, registered members 9:30 -11:45 a.m.
produced many changes to our will meet online at 1 p.m. for an In person on the Palm Desert
campus & online via Zoom
human society. instructor introduction to the
About the Instructor course theme and documentary, More Americans get their news
then we break as you rent and from Facebook than any other
David earned his BA in physics and watch the documentary
PhD in biophysics in protein source despite the fact that
independently via a list of Facebook has no news director, no
crystallography and molecular streaming services to be
biology at the State University of editors, and no newscasts. So
provided. Afterwards, rejoin us where do courts and our laws
New York at Buffalo. He helped on Zoom at specified time for an
design some of the first airport mandate that the truth be told in
open discussion of issues and the news? This course takes a
security X-ray systems in the items of interest as found in the
1970s. David and his wife, Sandra, thorough and non-political look at
documentary. Separate social media, cable news, print
later formed Temtec Inc., which documentary rental fee is
developed and manufactured high- journalism, and network television
approximately $4.00. news to find out who must tell the
tech visitor and temporary IDs. Dr.
Haas is the author of the book, truth in order to maintain their
Personal Identification: Its Modern license, and what news outlets
Development and Security have little or no regulation at all.
Implications, He and Sandra have
more than 80 patents to their
credit.
One-Week Courses 5
For winter courses, OLLI is offering classes in three formats: Online Only, In-Person Only,
and Hybrid. In hybrid classes, some members of the class are in-person while other members
participate via Zoom.
About the Instructor A Jewish Child in Fascist So, You’d Like to Be a Writer!
Vienna Frank Furino
Lacey received her MA in Ruth Lindemann Thursday, January 20
communications from CSU San Wednesday, January 19 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Bernardino and is an experienced 1:00-2:30 p.m. In person on the Palm Desert
broadcast consultant, radio Online via Zoom campus
announcer, manager, and college
instructor. She has over 30,000 No matter our calling in life, most
Life changed rapidly for the
hours of on-air broadcast of us, at one time or another,
people of Austria in March of
experience, including work 1938 when German troops have harbored a fantasy to try our
reporting for CNN and NBC News hand at being an Ernest
marched into Austria to annex
outlets. She currently serves as a Hemingway or Agatha Christie.
the German-speaking nation for
media consultant to several local Many love to write, perhaps never
the Third Reich. On that day, the
university and college campuses Jews of Austria became to seek publishing fame, or even
and their stations. Lacey has share our creation with close
foreigners in their own country,
taught courses in digital media friends, but rather just to express
and people they loved and
production, journalism, broadcast ourselves and document our
trusted the day before were now
speech, race-gender and the suddenly their mortal enemies. creative thoughts for our own
media, and social media for social satisfaction. This course will share
Come and hear Ruth's first-hand
good. with you the basics of that
story about her experience as a
child under Nazi rule. She has a endeavor. Learn how to extract,
deep grasp of European history organize, and document your
because she lived it. creative ideas into a cogent
presentation. And who knows, it
About the Instructor
just may prove worthy of sharing
Ruth was born in Vienna, Austria with the world!
and lived for two years under the
About the Instructor
fascist Nazi regime before
arriving in the United States in Frank brings 25 years of
1940. She served on the Hollywood experience to his OLLI
speaker’s bureau for the courses, including writer/producer
Holocaust Resource Center in credits for major hit shows
Portland, Oregon for 35 years Dynasty, Dallas, General Hospital,
and has been a lecturer at the Falcon Crest, New Year’s Rockin’
Tolerance Education Center in Eve and more. He was also staff
Rancho Mirage for the past ten director with ABC News covering
years. Ruth has also published political conventions, space
two books: To Survive Is Not launches and major news events
Enough and They Will Not Be and later owned an advertising
Forgotten. agency. He taught creative writing
at UCLA and is a member of the
Rancho Mirage Cultural
Commission. Frank is a successful
playwright and is currently
working on his first novel.
6 Winter 2022 ּ One-Week & Six-Week Courses
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form Six-Week Courses
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/courses
$50 each
Questions? Call us at: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-8121
Climate Change Models: How Introduction to Climate The Greatest Tenors:
Do They Predict the Future? Change for Nonscientists Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
And Can They? Donald Ramsay, JD Barry Schoenfeld, BS
Fred Abramson, PhD Friday, January 21 Mondays, Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21,
Thursday, January 20 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 28, Mar. 7
1:00-3:00 p.m. In person on the Palm Desert 10:00-11:30 a.m.
In person on the Palm Desert Online via Zoom
campus & online via Zoom
campus & online via Zoom
Climate change is considered by Learn about, listen to, and discuss
Climate change models examine an many to be the greatest the greatest operatic tenors of all
entire system: the clouds, challenge of our time. Others time. Each week delve into the
atmospheric movements, land believe the threat is exaggerated personal and professional lives of
mass contributions, and ocean or even a hoax. Governments and two to three tenors, take a critical
behavior, then superimpose upon business are focusing on ways to look at their early and later
this model how humans contribute mitigate and/or adapt to global performances and partners, and
to the behavior of the climate. This warming and its consequences. enjoy dozens of videos of their
is called climate change prediction. This course is intended as an work! Explore tenors of yesterday,
What is the relative importance of introduction to the issues and today, and tomorrow from all over
the many components of modern evidence, and will make available the world, especially those lesser
civilization that contribute to resources for those who want to known from eastern Europe and
changing weather? In this course, know more. The instructor has an Asia.
you will gain an elementary acknowledged point of view: He About the Instructor
understanding of what a model believes climate change is a Barry has over 20 years of
really is and explore two relatively serious threat caused by human experience in advertising,
simple examples: Covid-19 activity. marketing, strategic planning,
epidemiology and drug About the Instructor research, and business
concentrations. Next, we’ll look at development. He is intimately
the more complicated weather Don recently retired from a 40
year career as an attorney in familiar with the social media that
forecasting to better comprehend shape and influence contemporary
complicated climate change Kansas City and Minneapolis. He
spent the last four years of his communications. His clients have
calculations. included American Express,
career as Director of Practice
About the Instructor Support in the IT department of Walmart, Trader Joe's, Suzuki,
Dr. Abramson received his BA in the law firm managing the Toyota, NY/NY Hotel & Casino,
chemistry from Western Reserve collection and analysis of Samsung, and Eastern Airlines. Five
University in 1962 and his PhD in electronically stored information years ago, Barry founded The
chemistry from The Ohio State for commercial litigation. He is a California Community of Men on
University in 1965. After two years lifelong learner and has chosen Facebook; the group now boasts
of postdoctoral experience and five climate change as a focus. He is a over 11,000 members worldwide.
years in industry, he joined the member of the Climate Reality He received his BS from Cornell
pharmacology department at the Project Leadership Corps and is University and has enjoyed a love
George Washington University eager to share and exchange for opera since high school. He is a
School of Medicine in 1972 and ideas and information. practicing Buddhist and his other
retired after 31 years on the avocations include photography,
faculty. He holds a long-term archaeology, and travel.
interest in transmitting science to
the general population.
Six-Week Courses 7
For winter courses, OLLI is offering classes in three formats: Online Only, In-Person Only, and Hybrid.
In hybrid classes, some members of the class are in-person while other members.
participate via Zoom.
History of the Coachella The Genome, Genes, Let the Good Times Roll:
Valley Genetic Diseases & the Regaining our American
MJ Outcault Hill, MA, MBA Future Mojo
Mondays, Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21, Fred Abramson, PhD Larry Fox, MBA
28, Mar. 7 Mondays, Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21, Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
1:00-3:00 p.m. 28, Mar. 7 Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1, 8
In person on the Palm Desert 1:00-3:00 p.m. In person on the Palm Desert
campus In person on the Palm Desert campus
campus & online via Zoom
The Coachella Valley has a Imagine what would happen if a
fascinating history. Come and hear In the early twentieth century, substantial majority of Americans
the stories of our early settlers to New York City’s original home of thought, as almost all of us did
the more recent celebrity poets and peasants was fifty years ago, that our country
hideaways – the people and Greenwich Village. This refuge was on the right track. We might
experiences that have defined us. for artists and free thinkers see ourselves as part of a
Topics in this course will cover provided cheap quarters which collective, cooperative enterprise
agriculture and the battle for allowed bohemians to escape the having a broadly-based social
water, early Coachella Valley dreary, industrial world and live a contract. We might draw closer
homesteads, early Palm Springs, penniless, enlightened lifestyle. together. In an ideal world, our
the railroads, the villages of the However, a new subway mutual contract would be strong
Coachella Valley, pioneers and extension commercialized the enough and popular enough to
goldminers, the hot springs, borough and rent prices rose transcend the polarization of our
Joshua Tree National Park, and rapidly. The bohemians fled, and politics today. This course is about
the ranches and hideaways that the Village turned into a ghost of an optimistic and fun, but still
make our valley so unique. You’ll its once thriving and authentic specific and detailed, set of ideas
get a new perspective and community. Come learn about and policies to do just that.
appreciation. this distinct time in New York
About the Instructor
About the Instructor City’s history.
Larry founded and managed a
MJ earned a BA in visual art from About the Instructor
private equity group that
UC San Diego, a MA in education Dr. Abramson received his BS in purchased controlling interests in
from Cal State San Bernardino, chemistry from Western Reserve a number of notable companies.
and an MBA from the University University in 1962 and his PhD in When he retired from business, he
of Phoenix. She has taught English chemistry from The Ohio State was appointed professor of
language acquisition strategies to University in 1965. After two finance in the Kellogg School of
teachers, and is working on years of postdoctoral experience Management at Northwestern
initiatives to create more cultural and five years in industry, he University. Larry plays bridge and
awareness in the classroom by joined the pharmacology loves nature, contemporary art,
researching and teaching local department at the George the movies, non-fiction books,
history throughout California. She Washington University School of 1950s rock & roll, and the hard
is currently working on a docent Medicine in 1972 and retired sciences.
training program to bring local after 31 years on the faculty. He
history to elementary school holds a long-term interest in Refer a Friend & Receive a
children and senior centers in transmitting science to the Free Course Voucher!
Orange and Riverside Counties. general population.
Learn More: csusb.edu/olli
8 Winter 2022 ּ Six-Week Courses
For winter courses, OLLI is offering classes in three formats: Online Only, In-Person Only, and Hybrid.
In hybrid classes, some members of the class are in-person while other members.
participate via Zoom.
Hollywood Scores: A Fertile as the cultural director at Union Force Majeure: Disaster in
Land for Jews Israelita de Caracas from 2008 to Film
Emanuel Abramovits, MBA 2019, in charge of documenting Butch Epps, MFA
Tuesdays, 1-2:30 p.m. Holocaust survivors’ stories, art Tuesdays, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1, 8 exhibits, lectures, and history. Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1, 8
Online via Zoom In Person on the Palm Desert
campus
As doors were closing for artists Major Events of the Bible:
in Europe, they were opening up Did They Really Happen? It’s only natural that the spectacle
Eran Vaisben EdD of disaster has frequently received
in American despite the Great
Tuesdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m. the big screen treatment. Watch a
Depression. Discover how Jewish Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1, 8 selected set of disaster movies as
immigrants, some of them Online via Zoom
escaping the Nazi regime, we examine and discuss a series
created the Hollywood music of larger-than-life trials by ordeal
Did Abraham really journey to
that we have all loved since consistent with our focus on the
Canaan? Did the Exodus story human drama in the face of
childhood. Explore how that actually happen? Who killed
migration changed the landscape disaster. To be sure, there will be
Goliath? What stories are myths
of American culture. Discover lots of characters and character-
and what stories are historically
how a new generation of defining moments to cover plus
accurate? By considering various more, as we enjoy Fate Is The
American composers reacted and historical, archaeological, and
adopted the musical revolutions Hunter (1964), A Night to
literary studies, as well as biblical
of Modernism, Jazz and Pop into Remember (1958), Airport (1970),
texts, this course seeks to
film scoring and confirmed the Poseidon Adventure (1972), The
ascertain whether the big events Impossible (2012) and Sully
fundamental role of music on really happened and why the
films. Anecdotes and stories will (2016). Iceberg Ahoy!
biblical writers included them in
be combined with audiovisuals the Bible. About the Instructor
and musical examples. Butch received his MFA degree
About the Instructor
About the Instructor from the UCLA department of Film
Eran Vaisben earned his MA in
Emanuel has been a concert and Television’s Independent
Jewish Education at the Jewish
promoter since 2000, directly Producers Program where he
Theological Seminary, and in focused on story development
involved in many shows by both 2014 completed his PhD in
American and international and working with screenwriters.
Educational Leadership at the He served as the academic liaison
artists such as Itzhak Perlman, University of California, Davis.
Gustavo Dudamel, Sarah to high profile professional
Between 2006 and 2018, he faculty, including studio heads,
Brightman, Roger Hodgson, served as a school educator and
Kansas, Kenny G, and local development executives, and
administrator. He has lectured at
symphony orchestras. He others. Since stepping away from
numerous academic programs the day-to-day rigors of the film
designed and staged many about educational leadership,
original orchestral events industry, Butch has been teaching
Bible studies, organizational
including Mozartfest, Pink Floyd film appreciation courses while
change, and Jewish history. Eran
Nuestro Tributo, and several developing a book on Orson
has also participated in Welles’s Mercury Production of
world premieres. He also served archeological excavations at two Citizen Kane.
sites in Israel and studied Middle
Eastern history at various
academic programs.
Six-Week Courses 9
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/courses
Questions? Call us at: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-8121
China in the 21st Century: Scott completed his MA in Who Are We? What Are We
Problems & Prospects international relations in Chinese About? The Philosophy of
Scott McKnight, PhD at the prestigious Renmin Martin Buber
Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30 a.m. University of China in Beijing and Kenneth Zanca, PhD
Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 2, 9 later spent two years there as Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Online via Zoom Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 2, 9
lecturer of politics.
In person on the Palm Desert
How did China become an campus
increasingly wealthy and globally Painting with Water Colors
relevant country over the past Jack Flanigan, MFA Some questions endure in
four decades? How has China’s Wednesdays, provoking thoughtful reflection.
single-party state been able to 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Martin Buber (1878-1965),
adapt and thrive when so many Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 2, 9 existentialist philosopher,
other single-party states have In person on the Palm Desert educator, and gadfly, examined
stagnated or collapsed? What campus big questions with a critical eye
does China’s rise and its impacts and without dogmatism. After
Bring your brush and your examining his bio, and placing him
(economic, political and
creativity and prepare to have among the existentialists, this
environmental) mean for the rest
fun! In this hands-on class you’ll course will look at his ideas on
of the world and the United
learn the basics of painting with love, relationships, conscience,
States? This course will analyze
watercolor. We’ll discuss color and religion.
the rise of China, focusing on
theory, atmospheric perspective,
several key topics: trade and About the Instructor
light observation, brush work, wet
technology, China’s political
and dry, edges, and warm and Originally from New York, Dr.
system, its foreign policies and
cool relationships. We will also Zanca has lived in California since
vast energy needs as well as issues
consider when to use watercolor, 1985. He is professor emeritus at
related to China’s periphery,
and when not to. In addition to Marymount California University,
notably in Hong Kong, Xinjiang,
the course fee, you will need to where he taught philosophy and
and Taiwan.
purchase and bring a palette, religious studies for over thirty
About the Instructor paper, brushes, tempered years. Kenneth has authored
After receiving his PhD in political Masonite board, tape, and many books and articles, and is co
science from the University of pigments. -author of a world religions
Toronto, Scott became a post- About the Instructor textbook, Patterns of Religions,
doctoral fellow and instructor at currently in its third edition.
Jack is a native of Lima, Ohio and
the Munk School of Global Affairs.
has been teaching both studio
His research focuses on the
and academic courses for over 40
comparative political economy of
years in California, Colorado,
innovation and energy, especially
Illinois, Wisconsin, and New
in the Global South. After earning
Hampshire. Throughout his
an undergraduate degree in public
career, he has been a practicing
affairs at Carleton University in
artist and has had his work
Ottawa and working for the
exhibited in both shows and
Governor General of Canada,
galleries. The focus of his study
has been painting, with a deep
interest in art history. Jack is
presently the resident artist at the
La Quinta Resort & Club.
10 Winter 2022 ּ Six-Week Courses
For winter courses, OLLI is offering classes in three formats: Online Only, In-Person Only, and Hybrid.
In hybrid classes, some members of the class are in-person while other members.
participate via Zoom.
Lady Laureates: Female International Cinema The Life & Times of Peter
Nobel Prize Winners for Dale Knorr, BA Sellers
Literature Thursdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Frank Furino
Robert Weibezahl, MA Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24, Mar. 3, 10 Thursdays, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m. In person on the Palm Desert Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24, Mar. 3, 10
Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 2, 9 campus In person on the Palm Desert
Online via Zoom campus
Experience the creativity and
Of the 117 writers who have been cinematic artistry of filmmakers Join us for a profile of one of the
awarded the Nobel Prize for from around the world. zaniest performers in the history
Literature, only 16 have been International cinema allows us to of show business, Peter Sellers.
women. Setting aside this gross discover and appreciate the This course will profile and discuss
inequity and lack of inclusion, few cultures, languages, landscapes, the man and his exceptional life
female writers who were so and lifestyles of people from all through the exploration of six of
honored stand out for their walks of life globally. If you have his greatest films and characters
artistry, their contribution to their an interest in experiencing more including The Pink Panther, I'm All
countries’ cultures, and the imaginative and daring films, Right Jack, Dr. Strangelove, Being
universality of the themes and venture into this exploration of There, and The Mouse that
lessons they convey with their international cinema. We’ll view Roared. The course will then
work. This course will survey the and discuss one film per week culminate with a bio-film, The Life
lives and accomplishments of all including critically acclaimed & Death of Peter Sellers, with a
these women from Sweden’s classics, overlooked gems, and fabulous Sellers interpretation by
Selma Lageröf in 1909 to the most the very best of contemporary actor John Lithgow. Watch the
recent recipient, United States foreign language film. The films movies and stay for the discussion.
poet Louise Glück in 2020. Short will be presented in their About the Instructor
readings will be distributed in language of origin with English
advance of each class session. subtitles. Frank brings 25 years of
Hollywood experience to his Osher
About the Instructor About the Instructor courses, including writer/producer
Robert is a writer, editor, cultural Dale received his BA in radio/ credits for major hit shows
critic, and publishing industry television/film from Temple Dynasty, Dallas, General Hospital,
veteran who has worked with University’s School of Falcon Crest, New Year’s Rockin’
Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize Communications and Theater. His Eve and more. He was also staff
winners, and countless bestselling career in motion picture and director with ABC News covering
authors. The author of two novels television production spanned 35 political conventions, space
and two award-nominated non- years, where he worked in both launches and major news events
fiction books, as well as short the public and private sectors, as and later owned an advertising
stories and poems, he writes a well as many network TV agency. He taught creative writing
monthly literary column for broadcasts and independent at UCLA and is a member of the
BookPage. As an internationally- freelance projects. Dale was a Rancho Mirage Cultural
produced playwright, he also has member of the jury panel at the Commission. Frank is a successful
worked in theatre and film 2015 and 2018 American playwright and is currently
production. A lifelong learner Documentary Film Festival. He is working on his first novel.
himself, Weibezahl has a master’s a member of the International
in humanities, a bachelor’s in Documentary Association.
English, and an associate of arts
degree in music.Six-Week Courses 11
Register by mail: complete the attached registration form
Register online: csusb.edu/OLLI/courses
Questions? Call us at: 909-537-8270 or 909-537-8121
Current Events Discussion World Religions: Three About the Instructor
Group Monothesisms: Judaism, Dr. Poland is a retired lawyer turned
Lara Bloomquist, JD Christianity & Islam theologian and professor. She holds
Fridays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Arlette Poland, JD, PhD
a BS in political science from UC
Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4, 12 Fridays, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Online via Zoom Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4, 12 Berkeley, a MA in religion from
In person on the Palm Desert Claremont School of Theology, a MA
You have a right to your opinion campus in ethical leadership from
about the news and this is the Claremont Lincoln University, a JD
course to express it. Or, you can This course examines the history, from San Francisco Law School, and
sit back and listen to others voice development, distinctions, and a PhD in philosophy of religion from
their thoughts. Each week the common features among Claremont Graduate University. She
class covers the hot topics of the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. has been teaching at the college
day based on articles from The Two weeks will be spent on each level since 1999 and lecturing with
New York Times, the Los Angeles of the three monotheisms with OLLI since 2005. Her areas of
Times, The Wall Street Journal, focus on history and teachings. specialty based on her Ph.D. include
The New Yorker, The New How they relate to each other Buddhism, Judaism, science and
Republic, The Economist, Time and what distinguishes them will religion, and world religions.
magazine and many more. You be an important part of the
will be alerted in advance of class backbone of the class. These
which articles will drive the week's distinctions and more will be
discussions. All thoughtfully discussed as we compare and
delivered points of view are contrast in order to deepen our
encouraged and will be respected understanding of these three
because different opinions spark spiritual pathways.
engaging discussions.
About the Instructor
As an attorney, former
prosecutor, and criminal justice
instructor, Lara has had a long
professional and personal interest
in civic and social issues. She
headed the Domestic Violence
Division of the Los Angeles City
Attorney’s office, was named
Woman Prosecutor of the Year by
the League of Women
Prosecutors, and was selected by
the L.A. County Bar Association to
be the recipient of their
Prosecutor of the Year award.
Lara has been active in many of
the social, political, and judicial
issues that drive today’s news.12 Winter 2022 ּ Three-Week Courses
For winter courses, OLLI is offering classes in three formats: Online Only, In-Person Only, and Hybrid.
In hybrid classes, some members of the class are in-person while other members.
participate via Zoom.
Three-Week Courses Enchanted Evenings: University and was artist-in-
Broadway’s Golden Years residence at universities in New
$30 each Cash Baxter, MFA
York, Illinois, Ohio,
Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
March 15, 22, 29 Massachusetts, California, and
Online via Zoom Texas. Cash has been teaching at
Both Sides Now: Reflections the Osher Institute since 2004.
of Women at Midlife
Colette Tracy, MBA, MAT Come explore the golden age of
Mondays, 1:00-2:30 p.m. the Broadway musical, which Food: Ordinary, Surprising &
March 14, 21, 28 created blockbusters and huge Amazing
Online via Zoom stars, explored cultural Stephenie Slahor, JD, PhD
differences, and showcased war, Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
young love, murder, royalty, March 15, 22, 29
The course reflects on our lives and
Online via Zoom
culture to understand how and poverty, racism, religion, and
why we are who we are. However, diversity. Examine how the
A to Z, or artichokes to zucchini,
it is just as important to look at Broadway musical evolved into
we like, love, savor, and even
where we are in life now, and what what it is today. Through the eyes
hate certain foods. Explore some
we want for the rest of our lives. of rare archival Tony Award-
popular foods, food safety,
How do we stay vibrant and alive winning footage, watch live
freshness, to microwave or not,
throughout the joy and pain that is performances of Angela
herbs, and vitamins and minerals.
life? Starting at midlife, the world Lansbury, Chita Rivera, Carol
Discover graceful ways of eating
around us starts to change from Channing, Carol Burnett, Ethel
more messy foods (corn on the
everything that we have known Merman, Jerry Orbach, Joel Grey,
cob, artichokes, etc.), California
and built in the first half of our and others, while they sing the
food festivals, and even how to
lives, even if we have been songs that they made famous on
handle food emergencies such as
cognizant throughout each season. stage
how to get rid of a cherry pit or
About the Instructor About the Instructor fish bone in your mouth when
Colette Tracy has been a business Cash is a fine arts painter, art dining with royalty! And, for your
development leader and college historian, and world traveler. He canine pal under the desk while
instructor for most of her career, is an award-winning, you're watching the course, learn
spanning more than three decades. internationally acclaimed what's good and bad to eat for
She is founder and executive Broadway producer/NY director man’s best friend!
director of the nonprofit named whose career in show business About the Instructor
Education for Growth, which works spans 40 years. Chosen by
Dr. Slahor is a writer, professor,
with underserved students and Richard Rodgers to direct two
lawyer, and lecturer. She is a life
young adults to teach skills such as Japanese productions of The
member of the Southwest Marine
emotional intelligence, positive Sound of Music, Cash was
Educators' Association, the Phi
psychology, empathy, self- awarded the Chunichi Theatre
Kappa Phi National Honor
compassion, and soft skills. She Award, the Japanese equivalent
Society, and the Coachella Valley
possesses a MA in both of Broadway’s Tony Award. He
Archaeological Society. Dr.
organizational leadership and founded the Musical Theatre
Slahor is also a member of the
psychology. Workshop at Southern Illinois
Shadow Mountain Gem and3-Week Courses 13
Mineral Society, the Astronomical Writing a Legacy Letter Creative Writing
Society of the Desert, and the Lions Jay Sherwin, JD Rick Lantz, JD
Club. Her hobbies include travel, Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
kayaking, snorkeling, geology, March 16, 23, 30 March 16, 23, 30
astronomy, selenology, Online via Zoom In Person on the Palm Desert
meteoritics, and the natural campus
sciences. This course is designed to
introduce the concept of legacy Explore the art of writing and the
letters and to encourage you to foundation of creativity. Where
Introduction to English do stories come from? How is a
Romantic Poetry craft your own. A legacy letter, or
ethical will, is a brief written plot created? How can one
Luc Agosta, JD
Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. document that allows you to describe and develop important
March 15, 22, 29 share your life lessons, express characters with depth and
Online via Zoom your values, and transmit your excitement? Learn about dialogue
blessings to future generations. and how important it is to know
If you hated poetry in high school Writing one is a rewarding the time, place, and person to be
or never quite got it, here's your experience that creates an accurate and compelling in your
chance to give it another try. This enduring gift for children, storytelling. Decide whether to
course in English Romanticism grandchildren, and other loved write in the present or past tense,
(1785-1830) is designed to foster ones. The course includes first person, or third. Explore the
enthusiastic engagement with discussion and brief writing use of flashbacks and the
poetry that has provided pleasure exercises, and offers advice and a importance of reading a novel not
and passionate insights to model structure to help you just for entertainment, but also
countless readers for several organize your thoughts and start for learning and developing your
hundred years. Included is a brief writing. creative writing skills. Get creative
overview of Romanticism followed and start writing.
About the Instructor
by explorations of Wordsworth's About the Instructor
Jay created the Life Reflections
great "Tintern Abbey," Coleridge's Rick was a trial attorney for 47
Project to educate people about
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and years, and honed his public
legacy letters, ethical wills, and
Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," speaking skills while trying 68 jury
other legacy documents. He has
poems which examine the trials over the course of his
practiced law, worked with five
Romantic notion of a possible career. In the latter part of his
different charitable foundations,
realm lying beyond the physical career, he established and
and served as a philanthropy
senses, available to us via managed his own 20-person law
consultant and a hospital
imagination and the "inner eye." firm. He is the author of two
chaplain. He has extensive
About the Instructor experience teaching and novels, was a sports writer and
Dr. Agosta received his MA and facilitating online learning sports editor in college, and a
PhD in English at the University of programs, including recent creative writing tutor. He wrote a
Texas, Austin. At CSU Sacramento, presentations for six other OLLI monthly column for the Riverside
Luc taught courses in children’s programs. Law Journal and has taught
literature, English romanticism, creative writing for both children
and the Victorian Era before and adults. Rick and his wife are
retiring in 2010. He has published happily retired in the Coachella
numerous articles on children’s Valley.
literature and three books, Howard
Pyle, E.B. White: The Children’s
Books, and Losing Time: AIDS
Lessons in Love and Loss.14 Winter 2022 ּ Three-Week Courses
Birth of American Modernist a visiting artist/scholar in Current Events Discussion
Photography residence at the University of Group
Gary Smaby, BA California, Santa Barbara’s Kavli Lara Bloomquist, JD
Thursdays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Institute for Theoretical Physics Fridays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
March 17, 24, April 7 (KITP). Many of Gary’s March 18, 24, April 1
No class on March 31 In person on the Palm Desert
photographs are in permanent campus & online via Zoom
In person on the Palm Desert
campus collections at UCSB and the
University of Minnesota. You have a right to your opinion
This art history course explores about the news and this is the
the 1930s stylistic clash between Journalism Policy Discussion course to express it. Or, you can
east and west coast artists and Forum sit back and listen to others voice
photographers who espoused Harry Schaffner, JD their thoughts. Each week the
divergent philosophies on Thursdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. class covers the hot topics of the
recognizing photography as an art March 17, 24, April 7 day based on articles from The
form. The period is marked by a No class on March 31 New York Times, the Los Angeles
In person on the Palm Desert
tangled web of relationships campus Times, The Wall Street Journal,
among photographers, artists, The New Yorker, The New
muses, critics, and patrons. The Examine the role of journalism in Republic, The Economist, Time
old-fashioned East Coast the political divide in our country magazine and many more. You
Pictorialist movement was without polarizing discourse. will be alerted in advance of class
dominated by legendary New Print journalism, TV journalism, which articles will drive the
York photographer and gallery and sundry journalism in blogs, week's discussions. All
owner, Alfred Stieglitz. A loose social media, and podcasts will be thoughtfully delivered points of
cadre of rebellious Bay Area examined and discussed to better view are encouraged and will be
visionaries sought to challenge understand the role of journalism respected because different
Stieglitz’s influence, led by then and policy that may have opinions spark engaging
relative unknowns like Ansel welcome or unwelcome discussions.
Adams and Edward Weston. The consequences. This forum About the Instructor
course will focus on the artwork encourages all points of view, but
while highlighting the complex As an attorney, former
is not a forum to discuss the prosecutor, and criminal justice
personalities and interpersonal merits of any point of view, but
relationships of the time. instructor, Lara has had a long
rather the role of journalism in its professional and personal
About the Instructor present form or in an improved interest in civic and social issues.
For over 50 years, Gary’s artistic form. She headed the Domestic
eye has trained his camera lens About the Instructor Violence Division of the Los
on an eclectic range of subjects Harry is a litigation attorney who Angeles City Attorney’s office,
from legendary rock stars and has resided in the Coachella was named Woman Prosecutor of
Nobel laureates to breathtaking Valley for 14 years. He was the Year by the League of Women
landscapes from Antarctica to the named Lawyer of the Year from Prosecutors, and was selected by
Serengeti. During his professional the county bar in 1999, has the L.A. County Bar Association to
career, Gary was an presented over 50 law seminars, be the recipient of their
internationally known and oft- served as an adjunct law Prosecutor of the Year award.
quoted high-tech analyst on Wall professor at Northwestern Lara has been active in many of
Street. Since 2012, Gary has been University, and has taught at the the social, political, and judicial
University of Illinois High School issues that drive today’s news.
for the Gifted.Shared Interest Groups 15 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 or hybrid 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 Gentle Yoga Learn simple ways to effectively move your body without pain to regain flexibility, strength, endurance, focus, and concentration. There will be an emphasis on correct alignment linked with breathing techniques. Gentle yoga is appropriate for all fitness levels. All yoga poses can be modified depending on your level of fitness, even if you have hip, knee, or shoulder limitations. Please bring your own yoga mat and a small towel. Wear loose, comfortable clothes. Prepare to feel better in your body! Meets the third Thursday of each month online via Zoom Coordinator: Luciana LoPresto Yogatrips@mac.com Don’t see a group that interests you? Contact us at 909-537-8270 to discuss your ideas.
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