Spring Term 2023 Begins at AUM OLLI

Spring Term began at AUM OLLI on April 3, 2023. OLLI members have enrolled in a rich variety of courses to develop their minds, bodies, and skills. Individuals can still join some of these classes if they enroll immediately.

Bonus Opportunities, Lunch Presentations, and Field Trips are all readily available. Bonus Opportunities and Lunch Presentations are both free, included in the basic annual membership fee. Members need to register for each of these options, and if they register, they should remember to attend.

Bonus Opportunities include two book discussion groups. The AUM OLLI Book Discussion Group meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month during a given term from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Center for Lifelong Learning (75 TechnaCenter Drive). Participants can attend one or all of the sessions during a given term. Book selections for the 2023 Spring Term are:

April 04 – Ben Raines, The Last Slave Ship

April 18 – Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

May 02 – Jon Cohen, Harry’s Trees

May 16 – Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

The other book group meets at the Selma – Dallas County Library in Selma on the second Tuesday of each month from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Again, participants can choose which sessions they choose to attend. The spring selections for this group are:

April 04 – Kim Michele Richardson, The Bookwoman’s Daughter

May 09 – Natasha Lester, The Paris Secret for more details about these opportunities.

Lunch Presentations are scheduled on Mondays or Wednesdays from 11:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. There is an eclectic variety of subjects for the spring meetings: Faberge eggs, training service dogs, Alabama rocks, and a concert by AUMcappella. (See the online catalog for dates and presenters).

There are two field trips scheduled for the AUM OLLI Spring Term. On Thursday, April 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., OLLI members will go to the Service Dogs Alabama Training Facility, in Hope Hull, for an introduction to the training of dogs to be service dogs or facility dogs. There is a fee of $15.00 to pay at registration. On Tuesday, April 25, from noon to 2:00, OLLI members once again have the opportunity to attend a wine and food tasting at Peppertree Steaks N’ Wines. There is an additional fee of $30.00 to be paid at the site.