CSU OLLI Spring 2023 Catalog

he Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) team at Colorado State University welcomes you to the Spring 2023 term! With the slow retreat of the pandemic, we were thrilled to offer more in-person courses this past fall and to see and feel the excitement of members returning to our classrooms. Enthusiasm for intellectual growth and social connection is what makes OLLI at CSU thrive as a truly special community of learners – a community I’m delighted to have joined in September and am inspired to help grow.

If you are new to the OLLI community, a little historical context about our institute may be helpful. Initially endowed by the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Colorado State University was established in 2006 and is a membership- based, self-supporting program of the Office of Engagement and Extension committed to fostering lifelong learning and enriching lives of those 50 and better. Our 900+ annual members are people from all professions and educational backgrounds who share a desire to learn, engage, and actively discover more about the world. Each semester we offer a robust selection of in-person and online courses in the arts, cultural and global issues, natural and social sciences, history, literature, politics, technology, and wellness. Our experienced instructors are passionate about their subjects, enjoy sharing their expertise, and often model lifelong learning themselves as active classmates.

We are still experimenting to find the perfect balance between online and in-person courses and will continue to offer just over 20% of our courses in an online format this spring, hosted by a variety of talented returning and new instructors. Whether you join us in Drake Hall or from a computer screen, I think you’ll agree that there really is something for everyone among these choices. There are opportunities to dive into a totally new topic, to go deeper into a long-time interest, and to just have fun while you engage, learn, and create. Regardless of what sparks your interest and keeps you coming back, we’ll look forward to seeing you.

I tell all my friends that OLLI is a worthwhile learning experience!

OLLI is a great way to stay curious!

WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY

OLLI provides a fantastic learning opportunity and social interaction with motivated students.

OLLI members are fortunate to have so many highly qualified specialists available to teach the classes.

OLLI offers informative, entertaining, worthwhile classes and opens up the opportunity to learn about subjects I would not necessarily explore on my own.

OLLI classes are a fun, educational opportunity for social interaction.

OLLI at CSU Spring Term 2023 Announcements

Your Choice—OLLI In-Person or Online Class Options!

We are excited to announce that 75% of the spring curriculum will meet in person, and nearly 25% will feature nationally recognized instructors presenting online classes and lectures. With 80 multi-week courses, OLLI Talks, and OLLI member bonus activities, we think you’ll find that there is something of interest for everyone.

Online Registration Encouraged

We encourage members to continue using online registration and ask that you email OLLI@colostate.edu if you need help with this process. You will also find an OLLI registration tutorial video here

Please note: If members cannot register online, the OLLI team will be available for limited in-person registration at the Spring Open House at CSU Drake Hall on: Wednesday, January 18, 2 – 4 PM.

Catalogs will be available online by January 3 and in the office on January 18.

Spring 2023 CSU Drake Hall

Public Safety

CSU continues to plan for and address COVID and remains responsive to the evolving conditions of the pandemic by prioritizing the safety and comfort of the CSU community.

For Spring term 2023, OLLI will follow the pandemicrelated guidelines established by CSU:

• All OLLI members, instructors, staff, and visitors attending in-person classes at CSU Drake Hall are required to be fully vaccinated to attend class in a CSU facility.

• Boosters are strongly encouraged but not required.

• CSU does not require masks on university grounds however, anyone may wear a mask if they want to; students, faculty and staff should not create their own mask requirements for others.

• Members, instructors, or OLLI visitors exhibiting any Covid-like symptoms are encouraged to stay home and are asked to report symptoms using the CSU Guest Covid Reporter or by contacting the CSU Public Health Office at 970-491-4600.

OLLI Monthly Newsletter

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Enjoy Complimentary Member Bonus Activities

OLLI is pleased to continue offering the extremely popular series of complimentary bonus activities for our Spring 2023 members. This spring, members can enjoy an onsite tour of the CSU Weather Station, three intriguing online lectures, and a Drake Hall presentation by the CSU Pride Center on gender identity and pronouns. These activities are made possible in part thanks to your generous OLLI donations and are free to spring-term OLLI members; however, space is limited, and registration is required. My favorite thing about OLLI is that it offers the opportunity to continue using your mind and to interact with others.

About the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

The San Francisco–based Bernard Osher Foundation was started in 1977 by Bernard Osher, a respected business person and community leader. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life by supporting higher education and the arts. In partnership with the Bernard Osher Foundation, 124 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes are now located on the campuses of prestigious colleges and universities, from Maine and California to Hawaii and Alaska. Each provides a distinctive array of noncredit courses and activities specifically developed for intellectually curious adults of all ages, with special attention to “seasoned adults” 50 or better.

Initially endowed by the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Colorado State University was established in 2006 and is a membershipbased, self-supporting program committed to fostering lifelong learning and enriching lives. Join us and take part in OLLI’s ever-evolving educational opportunities!

Why Become a Member?

Indulge your curiosity! People who are active, engaged in their communities, and enjoy learning throughout their lives feel more productive and purposeful and are healthier and happier. There are no admission requirements, no grades, no tests, and no pressure in OLLI, but rather the opportunity to keep your knowledge of our ever-changing world up to date, try new experiences, and join a community of inquisitive minds.

• Expand your experiences and engage your curiosity

• Gain access to exceptional classes, lectures, and special programs

• Gather with others like you who are committed to learning for a lifetime

• Enjoy complimentary member bonus lectures and activities each term.

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Who Belongs to OLLI?

Our members are people like you from all settings, professions, educational backgrounds, and places. We welcome adults of all ages – with special consideration of those fifty and better – with a desire to learn, engage, build new friendships, and actively discover more about the world around us.

Why Membership Fees?

OLLI at CSU is a member-based, member-driven, selfsupporting program. Each term, a current membership is required to participate in our many exciting multi-week courses, OLLI Talks lectures, and OLLI Experiences.

OLLI non-refundable membership fees include complimentary member bonus lectures and are critical to our institute’s success and sustainability. Along with course tuition and donations, membership fees provide the much-needed support for our dynamic, quality programming and serve to remind learners that they are part of an engaged, active community and a national network of lifelong learners.

OLLI Membership

• OLLI offers two membership terms each year: Fall (September-December), Spring (January-May)

• The $25 membership fee each term allows access to registration for all in-person and online courses and lectures.

• Enjoy complimentary member-only bonus activities included with your paid membership each term.

• If you are unsure of your membership status, visit the OLLI homepage. Go to My Account and select My Profile. Scroll to the bottom to find your membership information. If you do not have a current membership, one will automatically be added to your checkout cart when you register for classes.

Multi-Week Courses, OLLI Talk Lectures, and Special Program Fees

• A paid membership is required to register for all courses, lectures, and special programs.

• Tuition for each course and special program varies based on the length of the course.

• Registration for each 2-hour OLLI Talks lecture is $10.

• Registration for multiple courses is allowed and encouraged.

• All courses, OLLI Talks lectures, and special programs enroll on a first-come basis, subject to space availability. Waitlists are available.

• Registration continues throughout the term until the day before a class or lecture begins.

OLLI at Colorado State University

Tuition Assistance

Thanks to the generosity of the Oltjenbruns Tuition Assistance Fund and the Cathy Stawarski Fund, OLLI tuition assistance is available to any new or returning member experiencing financial difficulty. If financial challenges prohibit you from enrolling in OLLI courses, you are invited and encouraged to apply for tuition assistance to help with course and lecture fees using this online form.

Course Waitlists

If an online or in-person course reaches capacity, a waitlist will be available. If you register online, you will have the opportunity to directly add your name to the waitlist of any course marked full. If a course does not show up in your search, the class and the waitlist are both full.

If space in a waitlisted class becomes available, you will receive an email notification and will have 48 hours to accept the invitation to attend that class. If you do not register for the class within the 48-hour window, the automated system will offer the space to the next person on the waitlist.

Drop, Transfer, and Refund Appeal Policy

OLLI course and membership fees are critical to our institute’s sustainability and are non-refundable.

If you need to drop a class, please visit the OLLI website to find a suitable transfer course that might better fit your schedule or needs. To arrange for a course transfer, contact OLLI staff at OLLI@colostate.edu.

A full or partial refund will only be considered on a case-by-case basis and for unusual extenuating circumstances.

If you feel you have a unique situation requiring a refund, please complete a Refund Appeal Request. Members will be asked to provide written information detailing the reason for the refund request and will be notified once a determination is reached.

Unable to Attend

If you register for a class and cannot attend, please notify our office right away. Do not offer your class seat to someone not registered for the class since we will reach out to members on the waitlist to fill that vacancy. Attendance is taken during each class period, and unregistered visitors will not be allowed to remain in the class.

Class Cancellations

If a course or lecture is canceled, OLLI staff, when possible, will provide a two-hour notice of cancellation and will reach out to all affected class members by email or phone if email is not an option. Members will have a 48-hour window to request a transfer to another course. Please check the OLLI website www.osher.colostate.edu for alternative class options. After 48 hours, a full refund will be processed. Credit card refunds require ten business days.

Inclement Weather Days

If Colorado State University announces a weather-related school closure, OLLI classes are also canceled that day, including online classes. In the event of a snow day or emergency cancellation of a single class, OLLI staff will notify all class members as soon as practical and will coordinate with the instructor regarding a makeup date. To guarantee we can contact you in case of cancellation, please ensure your contact information is current. iI you need help updating your personal information, email OLLI@colostate.edu

Participant Guidelines

The mission of education is to promote and protect the intellectual, personal, social, and ethical development of the individual and to provide an environment that encourages reasoned discourse, intellectual honesty, openness to constructive change, and respect for the rights, opinions, and needs of all class participants without divisive, or polarizing comments. Thanks for keeping our virtual and inperson classrooms a positive learning experience for all!

Support Your OLLI at CSU

Your tax-deductible contributions are essential to support and maintain a high-quality OLLI program, allowing us to keep membership and course fees down. As a selfsupporting program, OLLI depends on your membership and tuition fees as well as contributions to sustain our program. Every dollar you give makes a difference. With your contributions, we can enhance, grow, and continue to create an engaging and thoughtful learning environment. Please consider making a valued donation here, or email giftplanning@colostate.edu.

Visit www.osher.colostate.edu to register online

Spring 2023 Course Calendar by Start Date

Start Date Class/Lecture

Location Pg.

1/26 OSHR 8034 Modern Cosmology (Friedman) Online 33

1/27 OSHR 1220 OLLI Member Bonus: Oatman Arizona The Ghost Town That Refuses to Give Up (Slahor) Online 36

1/30 OSHR 2014 Drawing FUNdamentals (Marander) Drake Hall 9

1/30 OSHR 6079 Primer in Fort Collins History (Carroll) Drake Hall 20

1/30 OSHR 8003 Birding for Complete Beginners (Cook) Drake Hall 30

1/30 OSHR 8048 Dig Deep: Introduction to Exploration & Production of Crude Oil & Natural Gas (Mueller) Drake Hall 30

1/31 OSHR 2055 Why is THAT in the Art Museum! (Purath) Drake Hall 9

1/31 OSHR 3089 OLLI Talks: How the Beatles & Abstract Art Helped Break Up the USSR (Osmann) Drake Hall 12

1/31 OSHR 5056 End of Life Stories: Tying Together the Loose Ends (Rubin) Drake Hall 12

2/1 OSHR 6003 Judaism 101: Everything You Always Wanted to Know (Katzir) Drake Hall 13

2/1 OSHR 3145 OLLI Member Bonus: The Mike File: A Story of Grief and Hope (Trimble) Online 35

2/1 OSHR 7025 Enjoy Great Comedy Classics (Reiter) Drake Hall 29

2/2 OSHR 5010 Religions of the East (Purath) Drake Hall 14

2/3 OSHR 6074 Never Forget: The Germans and the Holocaust (Isaacs) Online 25

2/3 OSHR 8051 Wildflowers for Complete Beginners (Cook) Drake Hall 33

2/7 OSHR 1219 OLLI Member Bonus: In the Art Studio with Artist and Educator Hugh Leeman (Leeman) Online 35

2/7 OSHR 4036 Red Herring Book Club (Hansford/Hoffman) Drake Hall 27

2/8 OSHR 3138 OLLI Talks: Ukraine in Context: An Historical and Personal Perspective (Olienyk) Drake Hall 13

2/8 OSHR 9004 ESSENTRICS ® Aging Backwards (Nolan) First Presbyterian 18

2/8 OSHR 4050 Messages To and From the World (Leisure) Online 28

2/9 OSHR 5055 Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Colombia: Doing Anthropology in Hot Spots (Wilshusen) Drake Hall 14

2/10 OSHR 3150 OLLI Talks: Black Labor, White Sugar (Canepa) Online 15

2/15 OSHR 3143 OLLI Talks: Mass Extinction Odd-ball: the K/T (or K/Pg) Event (Cornell) Drake Hall 32

2/16 OSHR 2058 A Contemporary Spin on Classic Mosaic Making (Walkup) Drake Hall 10

2/17 OSHR 3151 OLLI Talks: Foods That Changed the World (Canepa) Online 15

2/21 OSHR 4048 The Banned Book Club (Hoffman) Drake Hall 27

2/24 OSHR 1007 Loose Watercolor Painting Workshop (Griggs) Drake Hall 11

2/24 OSHR 3152 OLLI Talks: Food Fables (Canepa) Online 16

2/24 OSHR 8055 What Makes the Grand Canyon "Grand" (Slahor) Online 34

2/27 OSHR 3141 OLLI Talks: Conceptual Connection Among Today’s Crises (Garcia) Online 12

2/27 OSHR 3146 OLLI Talks: Sixties Britian: Miniskirts, Mods & Music (Kreider) Drake Hall 20

2/28 OSHR 5057 The International Week That Was (Menzel) Online 12

2/28 or 3/1 OSHR 7001 Cinema du Jour (Merriman) Lyric Theatre 29

3/1 OSHR 7023 Everything You Wanted to Know About Musicals But Were Afraid to Ask (Caponegro) Online 29

3/1 OSHR 8050 Paleontology of National Parks (McDonald) Drake Hall 32

3/3 OSHR 5042 International Global Hot Spots, and the Impact on America (Roberts) Drake Hall 16

3/8 OSHR 6076 Political Language: Common Uses/ Precise Meanings (Hoffert) Drake Hall 23

3/8 OSHR 6042 Northern Colorado Rise of Tourism (Jessen) Drake Hall 23

3/8 OSHR 5026 The Great Turning and You (Casey) Drake Hall 24

Start Date Class/Lecture

3/9 OSHR 2046 Ink Drawing Techniques (Osmann)

Location Pg.

Drake Hall 10

3/9 OSHR 2012 Regional Colorado History Through Art and Photography (Osmann) Drake Hall 10

3/20 OSHR 3139 OLLI Talks: How The West Was Drawn: Women's Art (Osmundson)

3/20 OSHR 6041 Larimer County First Humans (Jessen)

3/20 OSHR 6012 Beets, Beavers, and Bandits - History of Larimer County (Jessen)

3/20 or 3/21 OSHR 4049 Poetic Vision: Jane Kenyon & Company (Patterson)

Drake Hall 9

Drake Hall 20

Drake Hall 21

Drake Hall 27

3/21 OSHR 6078 Big History (Reid) Drake Hall 22

3/22 OSHR 5054 Torah & Midrash: What Biblical & Rabbinic Stories Can Teach Us (Katzir) Drake Hall 13

3/22 OSHR 3135 OLLI Talks: Preparing the Perpetual Gift of a Legacy Letter (Sherwin) Online 28

3/24 OSHR 3142 OLLI Talks: Elizabeth I and the Origins of Modern England (Day) Online 26

3/27 OSHR 1216 A Wine Tour of France (Hensey) Drake Hall 17

3/27 OSHR 3153 OLLI Talks: US Money: Art, History & Symbolism (Meroney) Drake Hall 21

3/29 OSHR 3140 OLLI Talks: How Could They Think That? Understanding Today’s Polarization (Hunter) Drake Hall 13

3/30 OSHR 9019 Comedy Workshop for Beginners and the "Comically Curious" (Reiter) Drake Hall 18

3/31 OSHR 8007 Wildflowers for Long-Time Beginners (Cook)

Drake Hall 33

3/31 OSHR 3144 OLLI Talks: William Shakespeare and the Invention of the English Language (Day) Online 26

4/3 OSHR 9016 Qi Gong for Mind/Body Health Theory with Practice Sessions (Marchell) Online 17

4/3 OSHR 8052 The Path to Birddom (Cook) Drake Hall 30

4/5 OSHR 9018 The History of Medicine (Manley) Drake Hall 18

4/7 OSHR 1221 OLLI Member Bonus: An Introduction to Gender Identity (CSU Pride Resource Center) Drake Hall 35

4/7 OSHR 3148 A Passover Seder Experience Drake Hall 16

4/10 OSHR 3002 OLLI Talks: Nobody Ever Told Me, Lessons from a Dementia Caregiver (Osmundson) Drake Hall 17

4/11 OSHR 6081 The United States in World War II (Danbom)

Drake Hall 22

4/11 OSHR 6075 The Wild Decade of the 1960s (Ferro) Drake Hall 23

4/12 OSHR 6080 Cancer, a Contributing Factor to the Outbreak of World War I? (Eliachar) Drake Hall 24

4/14 OSHR 9036 Advanced Meditation (Hentschel) Drake Hall 19

4/14 OSHR 2059 A World Tour Through Art History (Leeman) Online 11

4/14 OSHR 6077 Gaels, Rebels, Marchers & Statesmen: Ireland since 1900 (Kreider)

4/19 OSHR 1204 OLLI Talks: Discover Mountain Home Cemetery (Iannuzzi)

Drake Hall 26

Drake Hall 25

4/20 OSHR 6083 An American Elegy (Carroll) Drake Hall 25

4/24 OSHR 1214 OLLI Experience: Loveland Foundries Tour (Jessen)

4/25 OSHR 3147 OLLI Talks: The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (Collinson)

4/27 OSHR 5053 Exploring the Recent Landmark Supreme Court Decisions (Alper)

5/1 OSHR 1215 Loose Watercolor Painting Follow Along Workshop (Griggs)

5/2 OSHR 8056 OLLI Experience: Hiking the Geology of Front Range Foothills (Kendrick)

5/9 or 5/10 OSHR 1217 OLLI Member Bonus: CSU Weather Station Tour (Newman)

Drake Hall/ Loveland 22

Drake Hall 31

Drake Hall 15

Drake Hall 11

Drake Hall/ Natural Areas 31

CSU Campus 35

5/12 OSHR 9008 Breathing With the Trees - The Health Benefits of Walking Among Trees (Marchell) Drake Hall 19

5/18 OSHR 3155 OLLI Talks: An End-of-Term Examination of Recent Supreme Court Activity (Alper) Drake Hall 14

7 Visit www.osher.colostate.edu to register online

Important Dates

Jan. 4

Online-only registration opens at 7 AM on the OLLI website

Jan. 18

Spring Open House and Registration at CSU Drake Hall 2 – 4 PM

Jan. 26 Spring 2023 term classes begin

Mar. 13–17 Spring break No classes scheduled

How to Zoom

Are you new to Zoom, or would you like a Zoom refresher? Please contact the OLLI Team at OLLI@colostate.edu to set up a personal tutorial session with one of our helpful OLLI Team Members.

How to Register

Spring 2023 online-only registration opens: January 4, 2023, at 7 AM

Drake Hall registration: Wednesday, January 18, 2 – 4 PM

We request that all members register online on our website www.osher.colostate.edu by selecting the “Courses” tab at the top of the webpage or by using this interactive OLLI catalog.

If you have difficulty with the online registration process, you may contact our OLLI team at OLLI@colostate.edu or attend the Open House at Drake Hall for in-person registration.

There are two ways to register:

1. Go to www.osher.colostate.edu, select “Courses” at the top of the page, and browse the course list OR

2. Browse this catalog and select the “Click to Register” button next to the course you choose

• On your selected course detail page, click the “Add to Cart” button

• When you finish making all your course selections, from your cart, click the “Checkout” button

• Login to your account with your email and password to complete the transaction

• Your Zoom class access link(s) will be sent to you in your transaction confirmation email

Art and Design Drawing FUNdamentals

OSHR 2014

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Monday

Instructor: Carol Marander

Dates: 1/30 – 3/6

Time: 9 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $100

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.” -Paul Klee This fun course will have you excited about drawing. Participants will learn various drawing techniques in graphite pencils and in pen and ink while exploring drawing fundamentals. Learn how to draw what you see. Delve into the basics of using line, value, shape and shading to create realistic drawings. Composition and proportion will also be discussed and used in drawings. Examples of drawings through the ages will be presented. The course will be an all-levels course and is suitable for beginners.

OLLI Talks

How the West Was Drawn: Women’s Art

OSHR 3139

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Monday

Instructor: Linda Osmundson

Date: 3/20

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Although they faced considerable challenges, women created works of art that have come to define an important time in American history. Often brought to the western frontier by their husbands in the wake of the gold rush, women artists rarely had any formal training. Instead, their fascination with the beautiful, rugged country and its people pushed them to create and refine their talents. These women artists captured the West for more than 150 years. Linda Osmundson’s engaging lecture shares images, information, and tidbits about women who painted the West - those from the past and a few from today.

Why is THAT in the Art Museum!

OSHR 2055

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Tuesday

Instructor: Sally Purath

Dates: 1/31 – 3/7

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Ever wonder why specific images and objects are considered to be great art? Or are you visiting a European or American art museum and want to make more sense of what you’ll see? This course overviews the significant types and periods of Western art from prehistoric to post-modern. We’ll focus on art’s historical development at each time period, asking why they made that kind of art and why it changed. You will also receive a one-sheet guide to take to museums.

Optional Tour: Sally will lead a tour of the Asian Art exhibit at the Denver Art Museum on March 21. Details, including transportation options, will be discussed during the first-class session. OLLI tuition does not cover museum or transportation costs ranging from $25 to $39, depending on age and residency.

A Contemporary Spin on Classic Mosaic Making

OSHR 2058

Thursday

Instructor: Renee Walkup

Dates: 2/16 – 3/9

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $75

The art of mosaic making is thousands of years old, but in this hands-on course, participants will learn how to appreciate the art form and make their own modern mosaics. Learn how to: select a base, make materials decisions, cut tiles, glue, and grout and ultimately create your own work of art. This is a hands-on course; each participant will work with glass and other materials. Nontoxic, no-odor glue and grout will be used. Supplies are provided but participants may bring materials from home to use in their mosaic work.

Ink Drawing Techniques

OSHR 2046

Thursday

Instructor: Joe Osmann

Dates: 3/9 – 4/20

Time: 9 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $100

At an individual pace, students will explore line contour, crosshatching, and watercolor wash techniques. Develop your subject preferences by exploring line and tonal techniques with pens and washes. Traditional and contemporary methods will be demonstrated and followed by individual instruction. Join us to experience the unique graphic power of this expressive medium.

Regional Colorado History Through Art and Photography

OSHR 2012

Thursday

Instructor: Joe Osmann

Dates: 3/9 – 4/20

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

The first Colorado artists were Ice Age bison hunters and the cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde. Their blankets, pottery, and paintings are infused with the majestic and spiritual power of the Colorado landscape. Our state became part of the Spanish colony established in New Mexico in 1598. Spanish settlers learned that Native Americans had developed elaborate trading networks and economic partnerships across the West. These customs and traditions were combined with Spanish Colonial art and architectural and religious influences; all adapted for survival in the semi-desert. In the mid-nineteenth century, artists (e.g., Albert Bierstadt) and photographers (e.g., Edward Curtis) created powerful visual images from our region. This course will explore the wide range of influences that form our cultural and artistic foundations and express the unique grandeur of Colorado.

Loose Watercolor Painting Follow Along Workshop

OSHR 1215

Monday

Instructor: Steve Griggs

Date: 5/1

Time: 10 AM – 4:30 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $125

Join Steve for this ‘Follow Along’ class where he will construct a painting from start to finish, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the steps to create a loose, moving, and evocative painting. Plan to have fun, try some new painting techniques, and see what you can do when you paint with a loose watercolor style!

Loose Watercolor Painting Workshop

OSHR 1007

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Friday

Instructor: Steve Griggs

Date: 2/24

Time: 10 AM – 4:30 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $125

Do you want to create moving and evocative watercolor paintings but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you’ve got a good start but want to continue to grow your skills? If so, then this is the class for you! Watercolor paints can be free-spirited and unpredictable unless you know how to work with them. In this class you will learn Steve’s method for understanding watercolor paints while giving voice to your own artistic style. Learn Steve’s strategy for becoming friends with your paint to create beautiful, moving watercolor paintings with energy, freedom, and fascinating stories. You’ll be surprised what you can do with a paintbrush, an open mind, and a sense of humor!

A World Tour Through Art History

OSHR 2059

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Friday

Instructor: Hugh Leeman

Dates: 4/14 – 5/19

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Travel around the world, examining the incredible beauty within diverse cultures, linguistics, and belief systems through the profundity of art. From ancient objects associated with ancestor worship in China to magnificent hand-carved reliquaries enabling access to sacred ceremonies in the Caribbean, we will expand our horizons by taking in a deep past as we consider its impact on our present. While marveling at humanity’s dynamic complexity, we travel along the song lines in the ancestral lands of the aboriginal people of Australia. Along our journey, we will make our way through West Africa, Colonial Latin America, and Ancient Rome before finding the dawn of globalization and echoes of modernity in the 17th-century Dutch Masters.

OLLI Talks

Conceptual Connection Among Today’s Crises and a Possible Paradigm Shift

OSHR 3141

Monday

Instructor: Hector Garcia

Dates: 2/27

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Our world is experiencing a paradox of unprecedented connectivity, resulting from progress in transportation and technological communication, along with alienation, paralysis, and the incapacity among groups with different points of view to engage in constructive human dialogue. How will rich and poor, comfortable and afflicted, believers in democracy and believers in autocracy, faithful and agnostic, those informed by reason and science, and those misinformed for financial or political gain be able to address the following escalating crises: inequality in income and wealth as well as in access to health, justice, and education; impersonal violence and armed conflict; flows of refugees and undocumented immigrants; scapegoating and prejudice; youth anxiety and global warming? This course presents a comprehensive perspective, which allows viewing connections among these crises and, consequently, the potential for a more human paradigm.

End of Life Stories: Tying Together the Loose Ends

OSHR 5056

Tuesday

Instructor: Nina Rubin

Dates: 1/31 – 2/14

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

When a life is ending, everyone has stories: the one who is passing, those who are mourning, and those who have lost loved ones in the past all have stories about their unique experiences. These stories are often difficult to share. This class will explore the meanings, the healings, and the growing that can come from eliciting, modeling, and sharing these remarkable stories. The ability to embrace these stories contributes to moving through grief. Common themes and experiences will be explored.

OLLI Talks

How the Beatles and Abstract Art Helped Break Up the Soviet Union

OSHR 3089

Tuesday

Instructor: Joe Osmann

Dates: 1/31

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

The CIA was formed in 1947. Dismayed by the appeal communism had on many artists and intellectuals in the West, the agency saw abstract art and jazz as proof of intellectual freedom, creativity, and American cultural power. In contrast, Nikita Khrushchev declared that the electric guitar was an enemy of the people. The Beatles represented the youthful spirit and freedom of western societies and the Fab Four had a huge underground following in the Soviet Union. Learn the details of how these cultural forces influenced history. Yea, Yea, Yea.

The International Week That Was OSHR 5057

Tuesday

Instructor: Don Menzel

Dates: 2/28 – 3/28

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $40

This class will focus on international events and happenings each week preceding the scheduled class. We will discuss a wide assortment of events and happenings in any country worldwide. Topics may range from human interest stories to economic challenges to peace and war. A discussion format will be emphasized.

Judaism 101: Everything You Always Wanted to Know, but Never

Had a Rabbi to Ask

OSHR 6003

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Wednesday

Instructor: Rabbi Hillel Katzir

Dates: 2/1 – 3/8

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Judaism has played a role in Western civilization far beyond the numbers of the Jewish People would suggest. The course will explore the history, beliefs, practices, and thinking of the Jewish tradition and how they have helped to shape our lives in 21st-century America.

OLLI Talks

Ukraine in Context: An Historical and Personal Perspective

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Wednesday

Instructor: John Olienyk

Date: 2/8 | Time: 10 AM – 12 PM

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Date: 2/15 | Time: 1 – 3 PM Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Ukrainians have historically been dominated by foreign powers and have nevertheless fought to preserve and develop their unique cultural and ethnic identity. Ukraine’s modern, independent, democratic nation was created during a great upheaval in Central and Eastern Europe that culminated with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, those reverberations continue today. This course will examine the evolution of Ukraine, with emphasis on the post-Soviet period.

Torah and Midrash: What Biblical and Rabbinic Stories Can Teach Us About Ourselves and Our World

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Wednesday

Instructor: Rabbi Hillel Katzir

Dates: 3/22 – 4/26 Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Stories in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and stories about the people in the Bible (Midrash) have so much to teach us about ourselves and the world we live in today. We will explore and discuss the depth and breadth of these people and their stories and perhaps create some stories of our own about them.

OLLI Talks

How Could They Think That? Understanding Today’s Polarization

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Wednesday

Instructor: Bill Hunter

Dates: 3/29 Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Peoples’ beliefs have become the shields they use to battle against others’ beliefs. It is often impossible to convince someone else to change a belief unless you first understand what and why they believe it. We all have firmly held beliefs that another equally smart and informed person disagrees with. This course will examine beliefs and their origins to encourage a better understanding of ourselves and others. Personal beliefs will be discussed using frameworks for belief creation like Jonathan Haidt’s six moral foundations of career vs harm, fairness vs cheating, loyalty vs betrayal, authority vs subversion, sanctity vs degradation, and liberty vs oppression.

Every OLLI class I have ever taken has been excellent.

Religions of the East

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Thursday

Instructor: Sally Purath

Dates: 2/2 – 3/9

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

The Eastern religions of Japan, India, and China evolved from ancient eras quite differently than the Western religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will compare Asian religions through the lens of history and philosophy to examine what religion was like before and when they were born and trace how they developed over time. We will also discuss their common and different beliefs and practices. Join us as we explore the dynamic and diverse panorama of Asian religious traditions.

Optional Tour: Sally will lead a tour of the Asian Art exhibit at the Denver Art Museum on March 21. Details, including transportation options, will be discussed during the firstclass session. OLLI tuition does not cover museum or transportation costs ranging from $25 - $39, depending on age and residency.

OLLI Talks

An End-of-Term Examination of Recent Supreme Court Activity

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Thursday

Instructor: Richard Alper

Date: 5/18

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

This OLLI Talks lecture will address one critical decision in the current term of the United States Supreme Court which began in early October 2022. As of this writing, the Roberts Court has chosen several potentially significant cases for argument and decision on or before the end of its term in June 2023, but of course, it is too early to say which decision will be handed down by the date of this class. Examples of possible decisions this term would include:

• the right of a Colorado web designer to refuse to provide services to a same-sex couple

• the authority of a state legislature to overturn the popular vote of its state in a state election

Guatemala,

Nicaragua, and Colombia:

Doing Anthropology in Hot Spots

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Thursday

Instructor: Richard Wilshusen

Dates: 2/9 – 2/23

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

As a young anthropologist, my research took me to places amidst the turmoil. I wasn’t studying conflict, but it was unavoidable working in Guatemala, Nicaragua, or Colombia in the late 1970s or 1980s. I had to make sense of what I was doing as conflicts that ranged from the beginnings of the Maya genocide to the early years of the SandinistaContra war, and finally, the violence of the cocaine cartels raged around me. I will reflect on what I learned, and then before the end of each class, John Roberts will share his own unique insights on each situation gained from his long experience in international affairs.

• the survival of affirmative action in education and employment

In the unlikely event that the Court has not filed a significant decision by the date of this lecture, the class will briefly review 3-5 pending decisions for which oral argument has taken place and the issues raised by these pending cases.

Exploring the Recent Landmark Supreme Court Decisions

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Thursday

Instructor: Richard Alper

Dates: 4/27 – 5/11

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

During the October 2021-2022 term of the US Supreme Court, the Court has had an opportunity to set significant precedents in controversial areas of American case law. This June, the Court issued precedent-setting decisions in NY State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen (gun control) and Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (abortion). In the Bruen case, the Court held that State law restrictions on concealed carry of a gun outside the home violated the Second Amendment. In the Dobbs case, the Court reversed Roe v Wade and held there is no constitutional right to an abortion. This three-session class will discuss both of these controversial cases and pose “big picture” questions about what these decisions tell us, if anything, about the direction, values, and themes of the Roberts Court. It will also consider whether the Court is suffering from a “legitimacy” issue and the prospective impact this may have on the Judicial branch of government.

The course will be based on a non-partisan, non-rhetorical, constructive inquiry into making sense of the constitutional reasoning the Court used in these two cases.

OLLI Talks

Black Labor, White Sugar

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Friday

Instructor: Larry Canepa

Dates: 2/10

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the “white gold” that fueled slavery. The extraordinary mass commodification of sugar, its economic might, and its outsized impact on the American diet and health was in many ways foreordained, or even predictable, when Christopher Columbus made his second voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1493, bringing sugarcane stalks with him from the Spanish Canary Islands.

Join us on a journey to explore a product that transformed the world and discover the amazing political, social, and culinary revolution of sugar from a simple crop to a ubiquitous commodity on every cook’s shelf.

OLLI Talks

Foods That Changed the World

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Friday

Instructor: Larry Canepa

Dates: 2/17

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Food is exciting, and there’s no doubt it’s a huge part of our lives. That’s why we love making it and sharing it. This presentation explores the foods that changed the world in profound and delicious social, political, and economic ways. Our hunger for survival, as well as new and tastier fare, had unexpected side effects that molded history. Whether it be the fuel for revolution, or the bread broken between adversaries, food has always been something taken seriously throughout history. It might be something we tend to take for granted, but some foods were so remarkable that when they were introduced, they changed the course of history for entire countries, continents, and civilizations. These foods have an even bigger story to tell. Some foods made such a big impact they actually changed the world.

OLLI Talks

Food Fables

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Friday

Instructor: Larry Canepa

Dates: 2/24

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Explore the myths, legends, and fables of your favorite foods. Food has seeped into our consciousness at a very early age — through folktales, parables, fables, rhymes, and bedtime stories. People have been inventing myths about food for about as long as they’ve been preparing meals. Common culinary folklore can range from relatively sensible cautionary tales to far more inventive notions—and they can be mysterious, comical, intriguing, and always delicious. Every taste has a tale; every ingredient has a story. Join me as I explore these food fables and share a few of my own. Bring your sense of wonder as we discover the ‘Once Upon a Time’ Foods from around the world…

International Global Hot Spots and the Impact on America

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Friday

Instructor: John Roberts

Dates: 3/3 and 4/7

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $20

Join John Roberts for this monthly review and discussion of international hot spots. Seven to ten hot spots selected by the presenter from any continent will be discussed in real terms and with current and future implications for the United States. Open questions will be addressed at each class session. This unique class will provide an interactive opportunity to keep up with critical international news events and developing geopolitical situations. Each student is requested to bring a basic paperback world atlas.

A Passover Seder Experience

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Friday

Instructor: Rabbi Katzir Hillel

Dates: 4/7

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

The Passover Seder is the annual retelling of the biblical story of the liberation of the Jewish People from slavery in Egypt. It is also a celebration of the goal of freedom for all people, from all that keeps us from achieving our full potential, and of the themes of hope and rebirth of Spring festivals. Together, we will read through the traditional story, relating it to our lives and our world. Unlike at a normal Passover Seder, a meal will not be served; but we will share some of the symbolic foods that enhance the telling of the story.

A Wine Tour of France

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Monday

Instructor: Chris Hensey

Dates: 3/27 – 4/24

Time: 4 – 5:30 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $150

Wine enthusiasts are invited to join sommelier Chris Hensey for a five-week survey of the wines of France. Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Rhone, Loire, and other regional wines will be sampled while their unique aspects are presented and discussed in an informal atmosphere. Cheese and crackers will be provided. One class will be devoted to a structured, step-by-step analysis of wine. Please bring four wine glasses to each class and come prepared with a sense of oeno-adventure.

Qi Gong for Mind/Body Health Theory with Practice Sessions

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Monday

Instructor: Madeline Marchell

Dates: 4/3 – 4/24

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $40

Qi Gong is an ancient heart, mind, and body practice that includes movement, breathwork, and mindfulness. It strengthens the mind/body connection to bring inner balance and health. Everyone can do Qi Gong. This course will cover breathwork, meditation, moving meditation, healing sounds, and practice. Each two-hour session will include a half hour of Qi Gong practice. Beginners are welcome and returning participants will enhance and enrich their practice. “Put health back into your own hands.”

OLLI Talks

Nobody Ever Told Me, Lessons from a Dementia Caregiver

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Monday

Instructor: Linda Osmundson

Dates: 4/10

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Intermittent memory loss is something most of us deal with in every stage of life. However, as we age, it can be overwhelming to observe small changes in our ability to remember things. It is heartbreaking to perceive these changes in a family member or friend. Is it normal forgetfulness? Is it something more serious?

OLLI instructor Linda Osmundson has walked the challenging road of caring for a loved one struggling with memory loss and cognitive decline. She has asked tough questions, made difficult decisions, and will share her hard-earned wisdom with you. Her presentation includes lessons learned through her experiences providing care for her husband during his dementia journey. She discusses various types of dementia, activities to nurture a loving relationship, and advice on when to consider outside care or a facility. Linda also discusses essential strategies for self-care. Anyone walking this challenging journey will find encouragement and practical techniques to increase personal happiness and alleviate frustration and guilt.

Health and Wellness

ESSENTRICS® Aging Backwards

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Wednesday

Instructor: Terry Nolan

Dates: 2/8 – 3/8

Time: 10 – 10:50 AM or 11 – 11:50 AM

Location: First Presbyterian Church Class Size: 25 participants | Cost: $35

ESSENTRICS® is an age-reversing workout designed to restore and maintain joint mobility and flexibility in muscles, relieve pain, and stimulate cells to boost energy, vibrancy, and the immune system. Using music to cue movement, it’s a dynamic full-body stretch and strengthening program created by Miranda EsmondeWhite, author of Forever Painless and the New York Times bestseller, Aging Backwards. This class will include workouts for OLLI members who are moderately fit and whose doctors approve of their exercising, along with discussion about posture, everyday alignment, and how ESSENTRICS® keeps our minds and bodies active.

The History of Medicine

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Wednesday

Instructor: Holly Manley

Dates: 4/5 – 5/10

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

From medicinal clay to herbs to thought-controlled prosthetics, this class will follow the progress of medicine via ancient medical writings, primitive and modern instruments, and noted healers and physicians from several cultures that have contributed to modern western medicine.

Comedy Workshop for Beginners and the “Comically Curious”

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Thursday

Instructor: Kate Reiter

Dates: 3/30 – 5/4 Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $65

Whether you’ve ever had a secret desire to “stand up at the comedy mic” or need to breathe fresh air into your life - this course is for you! Learn eight elements of why we find things humorous. We’ll explore:

• What’s Funny? – Learn to find the funny all around you in everyday life. Change your perspective and change your life.

• Why’s It Funny? – what do scientists and philosophers, poets, and fools, have to say about the usefulness and essentialness of a sense of humor? And why does explaining a joke kill the joke?

• How’s it Funny? – explore how comedy works by surprising us with a changed perspective! How useful is that in your life, your pursuits, your relationships?!!!

If you are not an OLLI member, you are missing the best bargain ever!

Learn how to add humor to your life stories, add laughs to your presentations, change your outlook on life, and just lighten up! Whether you’ve ever had a secret desire to stand up at the comedy mic or you just want to lighten the stress in your life - this workshop is for you!

Advanced Meditation

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Friday

Instructor: Margit Hentschel

Dates: 4/14 – 5/5

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 25 participants | Cost: $45

This course offers a variety of advanced mindfulness practice tools for diverse audiences and contributes to stress reduction and relaxation, increased focus and concentration, and overall well-being. This course will build on mindfulness meditation practices offered in Fall 2022 and previous years, and newcomers are welcome, too. Sessions will focus on mindfulness meditations with attention on compassion practice and objects like patience, generosity, and death. We’ll also engage in Qi Gong mindful movement. New mindfulness practices will be introduced each week, in addition to reviewing the previous week’s experiences. Participants will be invited to engage in 20-30 minute “hands-on” guided practices. A group Q & A and sharing will follow each practice for collaborative learning. If you have an existing meditation practice you are interested in expanding, please feel free to join this class.”

Breathing with the Trees - The Health Benefits of Walking Among Trees

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Friday

Instructor: Madeline Marchell

Dates: 5/12 – 5/19

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 30 participants | Cost: $20

Breathing With the Trees - The Health Benefits of Walking Among Trees is easy and fun. Connect with your own nature by spending time in nature. Whether it is a short walk, looking out the window at greenery, or gazing upon indoor plants, nature heals. You will learn the healing properties of various species, guided imagery for your walk, and how to share energy and breathe with trees practice.

OLLI allows you to continue to use your mind and to interact both with like-minded people and with those not like-minded, so you continue to grow

History, Psychology, and Philosophy

OLLI Talks

Sixties Britain: Miniskirts, Mods & Music

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Monday

Primer in Fort Collins History

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Monday

Instructor: Brian Carroll

Dates: 1/30 – 2/20

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $40

You know the landmarks, but do you know the history? You may have visited the Council Tree library off Harmony, but did you know there was an actual “Council Tree” where harmony was negotiated?

You may have visited Grandview Cemetery, but did you know the cemetery holds a mass grave containing the remains of nineteen unknown Camp Collins soldiers killed far from home in the Civil War? As part of the eightmember Historic Marker Project Committee, instructor Brian Carroll spent a year researching the backgrounds of these previously unidentified men.

Did you know one of Fort Collins’ early mayors, Frederick R. Baker, was a bodyguard to Abraham Lincoln? His house, now rented out as apartments, still stands on Mulberry Street. Instructor Brian Carroll obtained Baker’s Civil War diary, which he donated to the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, and Baker’s Sabre, which Carroll displays at his presentations.

Hopefully, you have had the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of Buckhorn Canyon, but do you know the stories of two remarkable women who lived in the canyon as pioneers throughout the inventions of modern technology? These tough and caring women produced artwork known all over the world. Learn more about the history surrounding you from a retired FBI agent turned historian with a gift for storytelling.

Instructor: Jodi Kreider

Dates: 2/27

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

During the most of the 1960s, Britain’s Swinging London set the trends in popular culture across the globe. That culture of miniskirts, Mods, scooters, Twiggy, hippies, free love, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and James Bond, was a truly radical and dominant mass culture, produced among the lower classes, featuring the ‘Faces’ of the working classes on new television screens and illicit radio stations, in cinemas and the shop windows of Carnaby Street, and set the new trends. This course will explore the causes, rise & fall of that culture and its influences that continue to resonate today.

Larimer County First Humans

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Monday

Instructor: Ken Jessen

Dates: 3/20 – 4/3

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

Larimer County has been occupied for 12,000 years, but who arrived first? Popular historian and OLLI instructor Ken Jessen starts this story during the last Ice Age with lower sea levels and a causeway between Asia and North America. He will examine the path taken by Nomadic hunters and their arrival at the Lindenmeier Site in Larimer County, which has become one of North America’s most important Pleistocene archaeological sites. Ken will provide a brief history of the evolution of local tribes, their language groups, and a discussion of the reservations given to Colorado tribes and then taken away.

Beets, Beavers, and BanditsHistory of Larimer County

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Monday

Instructor: Ken Jessen

Dates: 3/20 – 4/24

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Accentuate your knowledge and understanding of Larimer County’s past by joining popular OLLI instructor Ken Jessen as he introduces various topics about Larimer County history. The story begins with the first humans, followed by the arrival of Europeans and French trappers. The story continues with significant changes in transportation including the Overland Trail, pioneer roads, and railroads. Improved transportation led to industries and the region’s economic development of hay, stone, plaster, bricks, sugar beets, cherries, peas, and tourism. Water resources were cultivated, starting with early ditches leading to the Colorado Big Thompson Project. Critical to understanding the county is an understanding of the establishment of its towns and schools. The course includes a virtual tour of local historical sites referenced during the class.

OLLI Talks

US Money: Art, History &

Symbolism

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Monday

Instructor: Bob Meroney

Dates: 3/27

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Join Bob Meroney for a fascinating review of the history of money from 7000 BC to today. It includes the initial issue of paper money by the Continental Congress in 1775 (not worth a Continental); the first US coin that Benjamin Franklin helped design in 1787 - the Fugio; the first US Currency Fraud; early US coinage, including the Silver Cent and Ring Cents; our first US legal tender paper money, $1, issued in 1862, and discontinued currencies. The art and symbolism found on different denominations are shown, such as the story of Hobo nickels, the Masonic conspiracy, and proposed evil influences. Example coins and paper currency will be examined in class.

History, Psychology, and Philosophy cont.

OLLI Experience

Loveland Foundries Tour

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Monday

Instructor: Kenneth Jessen

Class Date: 4/24

Class Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Tour Dates: Tuesday 5/2 and 5/9

Tour Time: 9 AM – 4:30 PM | Location: Loveland

Class Size: 30 participants | Cost: $60

Join local historian Ken Jessen as he shares the origins of the nationally known Loveland bronze foundries. Ken will introduce participants to the actual wax casting process and describe modern improvements, including digitization and digital printing. He will examine the many cottage industries that helped make Loveland home to the largest sculpture show in the United States, “Sculpture in the Park.” Two full-day tours will make this information come alive for class members.

Please note: Participants will provide transportation or carpool with other class members. During the first class at Drake Hall, time to arrange carpool details will be provided.

Big History

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Tuesday

Instructor: Stephen Reid

Dates: 3/21 – 4/25

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $60

This course will introduce the idea of Big History, which is an engaging overview of the universe from the beginning, 13.6 billion years ago until now. Readings will combine insights about the Earth and Homo Sapiens from astronomy, geology, physics, archeology, and history. No particular background in these sciences is necessary.

Participants will read and discuss short sections and selected chapters from the following authors and titles:

• Walter Alvarez, A Most Improbable Journey

• Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

• Yuval Harari, Sapiens

We will discuss these selections in the order above, spending about two weeks on each work.

The United States in World War II

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Tuesday

Instructor: David Danbom

Dates: 4/11 – 5/16

Time: 1– 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

World War II shaped the lives of our parents and grandparents in important ways, but it also gave us the America we grew up in - a country of unparalleled prosperity, military strength, and diplomatic dominance. It also gave us a country in which victims of prejudice demanded fairness and equality. Course topics will include American diplomacy and the coming of the war, making and unmaking war plans, the war in Europe, the war in the Pacific, politics and society during the War, and the economy during and after the war.

The Wild Decade of the 1960s

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Tuesday – Thursday

Instructor: Greg Ferro

Dates: 4/11, 4/12, and 4/13

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

Have you ever seen the movie The Graduate? Have you ever heard a song by the Beatles? Do you remember a heavyweight champ by the name of Cassius Clay? Nearly 2/3 of Americans were born after 1969, but the decade still influences us. During the ‘60s, the Russians built a wall, Americans landed on the moon, and the world held its breath for thirteen days during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The decade started with Kennedy and ended with Nixon as president. In between, an ordained minister named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed America forever.

What a decade it was!! Join Dr. Ferro at Drake Hall as he looks at the wild decade of the 1960s.

Political Language: Common Uses/Precise Meanings

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Wednesday

Instructor: Bob Hoffert

Dates: 3/8 – 4/5

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $40

Politics and religion share a common predicamentthere often are discrepancies between how terms and concepts are used in everyday language and how they are defined in traditions of theological and political ideas. This course has a simple purpose: to illustrate this pattern and to move our political discussions closer to language that has a more precise and specific meaning helping us talk to each other rather than past each other. Terms such as democracy, fascism, communism, socialism, liberal, conservative, radical, reactionary, revolutionary, populism, anarchy, republic, and others will be explored.

Northern Colorado Rise of Tourism

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Wednesday

Instructor: Ken Jessen

Dates: 3/8 – 3/29

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

Join popular historian Ken Jessen as he describes the rise of tourism in the region which begins with the settlement of Estes Park and traces the evolution and impact of Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). Key figures including inventor Freelan Stanley of the Stanley Steamer fortune and naturalist Enos Mill greatly influenced the development of Estes Park and the establishment of RMNP in 1915. The Park Service inherited many commercial operations in the form of lodges, rental cottages, and even stores as well as a need to construct roads to and through the park. The resulting rise of tourism brought economic success to Loveland and Fort Collins as gateway cities.

History, Psychology, and Philosophy cont.

Cancer, a Contributing Factor to the Outbreak of World War I?

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Wednesday

Instructor: Isaac Eliachar

Dates: 4/12 – 4/26

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

The Great Turning and You

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Wednesday

Instructor: Rick Casey

Dates: 3/8 – 4/19

Time: 4 – 6 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

You are invited to join Rick Casey as he presents a contemporary theory of human history called, The Great Turning, which seeks to explain the sources of many of our current social, environmental, and economic problems. Participants will reexamine history through a gender-based perspective, combined with a critical explanation of the history of empires, particularly how they influenced the structure of modern multinational corporations. These insights can be applied to many current issues and may even inspire you to adopt The Great Turning: a turning away from the current destructive nature of the economic policies and political ideologies that created the problems in the first place.

In 1888, a mismanaged laryngeal cancer in the relatively young German peace-seeking Kaiser Frederick William III led to his premature death. He was succeeded by his 29-year-old son William II, a volatile militaristic monarch that, under the prevailing German government policy, had inherited autocratic rule as Commander in Chief of the army and appointer of cabinet ministers. Kaiser William II’s reign from 1888 until WWI was characterized by the relentless, aggressive military expansion that increasingly threatened Britain, France, and Russia. The European combative political stage experienced a surge in multiple diverse conflicts and clashes that inflamed the volatile region and erupted into World War I. Was the Kaiser’s cancer one of the exacerbating causes of World War I?

OLLI Talks

Discover Mountain Home Cemetery

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Wednesday

Instructor: Lynn Iannuzzi

Dates: 4/19

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

You are invited to learn about Mountain Home Cemetery, a forgotten part of our Larimer County history. Lyn will discuss the historical challenges of establishing and maintaining a new cemetery on a barren, dusty prairie and provide important cemetery details such as location, legal issues, political controversies, burial removals, and much more. The cemetery was only open for fifteen years; however, burial removals stretched over six decades and ended with the construction of a midcentury subdivision. By the end of this class, participants will understand how the closure of Mountain Home Cemetery had a devastating emotional and financial impact on Fort Collins residents.

An American Elegy

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Thursday

Instructor: Brian Carroll

Dates: 4/20 – 5/18 Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $50

Join Brian Carroll as he looks broadly at the historical relationship between Euro-Americans and Native Americans, including the evolution of policies and actions influencing the relationship between the two. Along the way, a deep look at the backgrounds of Reverend Colonel John Chivington of Sand Creek Massacre fame, and Attorney William O Collins, our city’s namesake, may provide answers as to why two of the officers charged with prosecuting American policies regarding the Native Americans in the Civil War period West, had two distinct approaches to their responsibilities. Were they unique?

Never Forget: The Germans and the Holocaust

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Friday

Instructor: Anette Isaacs

Dates: 2/3 – 3/10 Time: 4 – 6 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Nearly eighty years after the end of World War II, generations of Germans are still grappling with their country’s and, in many cases, their own family’s horrible legacy under Nazi regime. Join German historian Anette Isaacs for a fascinating discussion of how the German nation has, over the last eight decades, attempted to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust.

History, Psychology, and Philosophy cont.

OLLI Talks

Elizabeth I and the

of Modern England

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Friday

Instructor: Jared Day

Dates: 3/24

Origins

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Examine one of the most iconic figures in British history under the skillful guidance of Professor Jared Day. The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth led a life and career marked by intrigue, war, and dramatic religious and political change, all during one of the high points of British arts, culture, and literature.

OLLI Talks

William Shakespeare and the Invention of the English Language

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Friday

Instructor: Jared Day

Dates: 3/31

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Join visiting OLLI instructor Jared Day as he examines one of western literature’s most influential and formative figures. In late-1500s London, Shakespeare was part of a generation of extraordinary playwrights and poets who transformed Elizabethan England and led the English Renaissance.

Gaels, Rebels, Marchers & Statesmen: Ireland since 1900

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Friday

Instructor: Jodi Kreider

Dates: 4/14 – 5/19

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Ireland has a long history of colonial oppression, rebellion, nationalism, and struggle. That struggle took a new dimension in the 20th century, where new generations constructed visions of a Gaelic, Catholic Ireland earned through violence, sacrifice, and cultural revival. That vision led to conflicts like the Easter Rising of 1916, the Anglo-Irish War, the Irish Civil War, and the Troubles; nation-building resulting in a Free State, a Republic, and Northern Ireland; Civil Rights protests, including hunger strikes and marches; and ultimately peace in two different states. This course will explore these events to understand the long-term implications of the use of violence in nationalism, the fear of compromise, the importance of popular support for movements, identity formation in relation to the state, and the issues that currently dominate both the Republic and Northern Ireland around the EU & Brexit.

Poetic Vision: Jane Kenyon & Company

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Monday or Tuesday

Instructor: Veronica Patterson

Dates: 3/20 – 4/24 or 3/21 – 4/25 Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $60

This course will explore not just the power of Jane Kenyon’s vision and voice but also the vision and voice of a particular poet who inspires you. As a participant, you will have a chance to plumb your poet’s work and see what ignites you and your poems. Each week we’ll write during class. Weekly writing will use your poet’s vision to draw deeper into your own vision.

Red Herring Book Club

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Tuesday

Instructors: Nancy Hansford, Sara Hoffman

Dates: 2/7, 3/7, and 5/2

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 30 participants | Cost: $30

Crime fiction lovers will gather to discuss three assigned mystery books this spring. The titles cover a wide variety of authors. A week before each class session, participants are emailed five questions to consider while reading that week’s mystery novel. This class meets once a month for three months, February through May (skipping April).

• Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman

• Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

• Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben

The Banned Book Club

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Tuesday

Instructor: Sara Hoffman

Dates: 2/21, 3/21, and 4/18

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 25 participants | Cost: $30

Banning books has become a growing national trend. The American Library Association reported 729 recent book challenges, the highest number since it started compiling these lists 20 years ago. The challenges have been lodged against school libraries, public libraries, and bookstores. As we all know, nothing makes a book more popular than having it banned. In this class, we will indulge ourselves by reading and discussing three banned books. We will explore questions about where and why the book was banned, whether it should be banned and who gets to decide what books are banned. This class is for mature audiences only (i.e., anybody who takes OLLI classes.)

We will read one book monthly and then meet once a month to discuss it. On average, the books cost around $10 each and contain approximately 250 pages. All books are currently available at Poudre River Public Libraries.

• Speak by Laurie H Anderson

• The Absolutely True Story of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

OLLI is an accessible means to learn on a variety of topics.

Messages to and From the World

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Wednesday

Instructor: Chloé Leisure

Dates: 2/8 – 3/22

Time: 3:30 – 6 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $90 “A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.”

–Paul Celan

As poets, we write both for ourselves and for others. We write to witness calamity and to celebrate joy. We write to understand and to memorialize. In this course, we’ll collect words, weave them anew, and cast them asea. New writers welcome.

OLLI Talks Preparing the Perpetual Gift of a Legacy Letter

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Wednesday

Instructor: Jay Sherwin

Dates: 3/22 Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 20 participants | Cost: $10

A legacy letter (also called an “ethical will”) is a written document that allows you to share your life lessons, express your values and transmit your blessings to future generations. A legacy letter is shorter than a memoir, typically just a few pages. Writing one is a rewarding experience that creates an enduring gift for your family and friends. This online workshop includes discussion and brief writing exercises to help you examine your life history, explore your values, and capture essential insights. It offers advice, encouragement, and a model structure to help you draft and complete your own legacy letter.

Cinema du Jour

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Tuesday or Wednesday

Instructor: Joannah Merriman

Dates: 2/28 – 4/11 or 3/1 – 4/12

Time: 12 – 3 PM | Location: Lyric Theater

Class Size: 30 participants | Cost: $110

Come enjoy a series of six films and post-film discussions in the comfort of the NEW Lyric Cinema Café, 1209 N. College Avenue. The class will gather at The Lyric to watch a selection of movies with unique storylines and observe filmmaking techniques that often vary from the standard studio fare; however, this is not intended to be a filmmaking course. After each cinematic adventure, you’ll be able to discuss these thought-provoking films together. Movies may be subtitled and carry various ratings. Your theater ticket and a small popcorn are included in the course cost.

Enjoy Great Comedy Classics

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Wednesday

Instructor: Kate Reiter

Dates: 2/1 – 2/22

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $40

Explore and enjoy great comedy classics. This is a survey course from Aristophanes (briefly) through Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball, Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Carol Burnett, duos (Burns & Allen, Nichols & May) and ensembles (classic TV Variety Shows & Vaudeville) to stand-up Borscht Belt greats, Mrs. Maisel, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, and Kathleen Madigan. Although styles and pop culture change, comedic methods are timeless. This class is just for pure fun! Obviously, we cannot cover EVERY one of your favorites, but suggestions are welcome!

Everything You Wanted to Know About Musicals but Were Afraid to Ask

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Wednesday

Instructors: Sam & Candy Caponegro

Dates: 3/1 – 3/29

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $40

Join musical theater historians Sam and Candy Caponegro as they share video clips enhanced by expert insights into some of their favorite movies and Broadway musicals. You are invited to sit back and relax as this entertaining couple discusses and dissects everything from musical biographies like Funny Girl and Annie Get your Gun to histories like 1776 and Hamilton to OscarWinners such as American in Paris and West Side Story and everything in between. This class promises to bring back memories as well as unveil intriguing behind-thescenes details.

Birding for Complete Beginners

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Monday

Instructor: Kevin Cook

Dates: 1/30 – 3/6

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Knowing it’s a bird is one thing but knowing which bird you see is a whole different world of accomplishment! With a few more than 500 species documented in the state, Colorado hosts about five percent of the world’s total bird diversity. We rank tenth among all states for total bird diversity and third among landlocked states. This class will present details on bird diversity as a starting point for you to understand how much you already know and then will explain a meaningful protocol for identifying birds. Once learned, this protocol applies to identifying all other wildlife as well.

The Path to Birddom

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Monday

Instructor: Kevin Cook

Dates: 4/3 – 5/8

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Once you get good at identifying birds, what comes next? The interest in identifying birds and the commitment to pursuing that interest now involve more people than does hunting or fishing. People who enjoy finding and identifying birds are generally known as “birders,” and their interest is “birding.” People who enjoy engaging birds are generally known as “birdwatchers,” and their interest is “birdwatching.” This class will present ways to move beyond the beginning stages of birding and birdwatching by introducing the concept of “birddom” as a blending of recreational and intellectual interests in birds to accomplish something even more rewarding!

Dig Deep: Introduction to Exploration & Production of Crude Oil &

Natural Gas

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Monday

Instructor: Harry Mueller

Dates: 1/30 – 3/6

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Harry will draw on his extensive experience as a geologist as he discusses various aspects of this industry.

• Geology of Oil & Gas (processes resulting in economic accumulations).

• Exploration (techniques used to determine where accumulations might be).

• Drilling Wells & Developing Fields (vertical and horizontal wells, completion procedures, data acquisition, potential problems).

• Reservoir Engineering & Production of Oil & Gas (maximizing/optimizing recovery).

• Economics and Brief History of the oil industry.

• Contentious Issues (fracking, global warming, surface vs. subsurface ownership, profit vs. income, regulation vs. inspection /enforcement, etc.).

OLLI Talks

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

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Tuesday

Instructor: Jim Collinson

Dates: 4/25

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

Jim Collinson has walked in the footsteps of the heroes of early Antarctic exploration. His expeditions to this region give him a unique perspective as he retells the history of the Heroic Age of Exploration, which began in 1895 when the 6th International Geographical Congress proposed “the exploration of the Antarctic Regions is the greatest piece of geographical exploration still to be taken.” Several scientific expeditions followed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including British and Norwegians’ attempts to reach the South Pole. The Heroic Era ended with an unsuccessful Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition from 1914-17. Explore this history with an expert whose career was focused on the continuation of strides made by these courageous explorers.

OLLI Experience Hiking the Geology of Colorado’s Northern Front Range Foothills

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Tuesday

Instructor: Mike Kendrick

Date: 5/2

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Hike Dates: Thurs. 5/4 and 5/11 or Tues. 5/9 and 5/16 Hike Time: 9 AM – 1 PM | Location: Maxwell & Bobcat Ridge Class Size: 15 participants | Cost: $50

Field observations are the best way to learn geology. This course will consist of an introductory lecture session followed by two field sessions at Maxwell and Bobcat Ridge Natural Areas. We will discuss the geologic foundation of the foothills landscape, examine, and identify rocks, and discuss resource use. Other topics will include the origin of Colorado’s crust, the ancestral and modern Rocky Mountains, the Great Unconformity, and the Western Interior Seaway.

Maxwell Natural Area field session: 4 miles hike, 630 feet of ascent, approximately 3 hours duration

Bobcat Ridge Natural Area field session: 3.5-mile hike, 450 feet of ascent, approximately 3 hours duration

Please note: Participants will provide their transportation or carpool with other class members. During the first class at Drake Hall, time to arrange carpool details will be provided.

OLLI Talk

Mass Extinction Odd-ball: the K/T (or K/Pg) Event

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Wednesday

Instructor: Bill Cornell

Date: 2/15

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $10

By 1860, three mass extinctions in Earth’s biota were identified; by the year 2000, two more had been added to the list. These five mass extinction events profoundly altered life on Earth. Four were driven by “normal” geologic processes, each requiring millions of years to play out. In this talk, we will look at the extraordinary Cretaceous/Tertiary (or Cretaceous/Paleogene) event, focusing on the evidence accumulated since the 1990s that tells a different story of biocatastrophe.

Paleontology of National Parks

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Wednesday

Instructor: Greg McDonald

Date: 3/1 – 3/8

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $20

The national park system protects a variety of national treasures, both cultural and natural. Out of the 400-plus units are parks that contain spectacular fossils. There are ten national parks set aside specifically for fossils, but fossils are known from many other parks as well. While some of these are very familiar, such as Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado and the Petrified Forest in Arizona, others are more obscure. Come learn about some of the new fossil parks and parks not as well known for their fossils. Learn about the history of the Earth from a park’s eye view and behind the scenes of the paleontological research that takes place at parks.

Modern Cosmology

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Thursday

Instructor: Ed Friedman

Dates: 1/26 – 3/2

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

This is a survey course of six 2-hour classes related to the recent revolution in cosmology and astrophysics covering:

• Our current understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe

• The early universe and its production of light elements

• The cosmic microwave background

• The geometry of the expanding cosmos

• New observational methods, including gravitational waves

• Updates on the latest discoveries as they occur

• Unanswered questions in cosmology and how they are being explored

• New results from the James Webb Space Telescope

This is not a typical astronomy class; we won’t have much to say about our solar system. We’re thinking about the big picture using material culled from recent professional journals. Lecture notes and videos will be available to students.

Wildflowers for Complete Beginners

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Friday

Instructor: Kevin Cook

Dates: 2/3 – 3/10

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Wherever you go—a vacant lot or municipal open space, state park or national park—wildflowers always present themselves as conspicuous elements of the life scape. Some wildflowers are so widespread that you recognize them as familiar and even know them by name. For many people, a specific encounter with a particularly attractive wildflower triggers a pivotal thought: I wish I knew more about wildflowers! This class will present a way to progress from merely seeing wildflowers to knowing what they are by learning how to identify them using botany as both a guide and tool.

What Makes the Grand Canyon “Grand”

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Friday

Instructor: Stephenie Slahor

Dates: 2/24 – 3/10

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $30

What make the Grand Canyon “Grand”? Geology, archaeology, biology, and ancient and modern human history have made the world’s most famous canyon a site for wonder, awe, and fun. This course will explore many of the facts, trivia, and mysteries of the Grand Canyon. Key course topics will include: how Grand Canyon was formed; the role of the Colorado River; late Archaic peoples and their ventures into the region of the Grand Canyon; the unique biology and botany of the desertto-pines changes of habitat in the layers of the Canyon; Southwest tribal associations with the Canyon past and present; the restoration of the almost-extinct California Condors at Grand Canyon; human history of Spanish explorers, and the prospectors, hunters, and guides who made the Grand Canyon home; the trails in and along the Canyon; the development of the preservation of the site as a National Park; and, yes, those famous Grand Canyon mules!

Wildflowers for Long-Time Beginners

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Friday

Instructor: Kevin Cook

Dates: 3/31 – 5/5

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $60

Recognizing wildflowers almost as if they are old friends brightens personal time outdoors, whether picnicking, hiking or just relaxing. Knowing the identities of a few dozen wildflowers by memorizing their names feels good, but with about 2,500 flowering plant species growing wild in Colorado, knowing a few dozen represents only a beginning. Just as some people go birding, fishing, or hunting, the wildflower enthusiast can go “wild flowering!” This class will explain ways to move beyond the basics of recognizing wildflowers by name to robustly engaging with them for deeper enrichment.

In the Art Studio with Artist and Educator Hugh Leeman

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Tuesday

Instructor: Hugh Leeman

Dates: 2/7

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $0

Explore the empowering nature of the artistic process and its potential to heal and connect when brought out of the studio and into the world with artist and educator Hugh Leeman. He will tell stories of how personal tragedy transformed into a passion for art as a healing mechanism. See behind the scenes of his collaborative project with the homeless in his San Francisco neighborhood and how his art played a role in bringing clean water projects to the indigenous Aeta tribes in the Philippines.

CSU Weather Station Tour

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Tuesday or Wednesday

Instructor: Noah Newman

Dates: 5/9 or 5/10

Time: 10 – 11:30 AM | Location: CSU weather station

Class Size: 25 participants | Cost: $0

The Colorado Climate Center is opening its doors to OLLI members to visit one of its on-campus weather stations. The Climate Center is a recognized State Climate Office by the American Association of State Climatologists (ARSCO designated). As a recognized State Climate Office, the Center strives to collect and observe data to monitor the climate, place individual events into historical perspective, disseminate climate information to the user community, and provide climate expertise as part of the decisionmaking process. The Climate Center is dedicated to developing tools and methods to communicate Colorado’s climatology and climate variability more effectively to scientists, educators, stakeholders, media, and the public. To better understand Colorado’s climate and how it is changing, the staff also regularly conducts (and collaborates on) research projects.

The Mike File: A Story of Grief and Hope

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Wednesday

Instructor: Stephen Trimble

Dates: 2/1

Time: 4 – 6 PM | Location: Online

Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $0

In The Mike File, author Stephen Trimble grapples with his brother’s heartrending life and death and looks behind doors he’s barricaded in himself.

In 1957, when “Stevie” was six and Mike was 14, rage and psychosis overwhelmed Mike. He was committed by court order to the overcrowded Colorado State Hospital, formerly known as the Colorado State Insane Asylum, and never lived at home again. Twenty years later Mike died alone in a Denver boarding home. Only after both Stephen’s parents were gone did Stephen risk grappling with the contents of the envelope they had saved including decades-old court and medical records, yellowing newsprint, and letters from Mike. With a resolve to resurrect his brother, to re-create his life, and to know him for the first time, Trimble was able to move from silence and denial to acknowledgment.

Part detective story, part social history, part journey of self-discovery, The Mike File is a fully compassionate and unsparing memorial to a family and a forgotten life and will move anyone with a relative or friend touched by psychiatric illness or disability.

Longtime Denver psychiatrist, Richard Cohn will join Stephen for this presentation to comment on Mike’s story and provide context for our current state of mental health treatment.

Lectures cont.

Oatman Arizona, The Ghost Town That Refuses to Give Up

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Friday

Instructor: Stephenie Slahor

Dates: 1/27

Time: 10 AM – 12 PM | Location: Online Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $0

OLLI is pleased to introduce visiting instructor Dr. Stephenie Slahor, professor, writer, and lecturer. OLLI members are invited to sign up for Dr. Slahor’s complimentary bonus lecture about a ghost town that refuses to give up. She will tell you about Oatman, Arizona--a town begun by gold and silver mining, and which later held a “golden” place along America’s Mother Road, namely, Route 66. Although Oatman’s past heydays are done, the area north of town is still mined for gold. Interstate 40 bypassed Oatman, and pessimists predicted the fall of Oatman. But the town lives on as a tourist destination, and its history and its present-day activities keep it safe from crumbling away. You’ll learn about Oatman and meet some of its surprising “residents.”

An Introduction to Gender Identity, Pronouns,

and Beyond

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Friday

Instructors: CSU Pride Resource Center and Visible Voices

Dates: 4/7

Time: 1 – 3 PM | Location: Drake Hall Class Size: 50 participants | Cost: $0

You are invited to join OLLI for a timely and honest discussion facilitated by CSU’s Pride Resource Center and Visible Voices. These collaborating organizations strive to educate the CSU campus and local community about what it means to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, or an ally of LGBTQ+ people and communities. The presentation will provide a general overview of these topics as well as include a Q & A session with elders in the local LGBTQ+ community.

Meet the Instructors

Richard Alper earned his law degree with a concentration in real estate and state and local government from the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard is co-founder and past chair of the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County and served as co-chair of the community and public affairs section of the Maryland State Dispute Resolution Commission. Since 1993, Mr. Alper has mediated, facilitated, and arbitrated 200+ cases in federal and state courts and agencies, non-profits, including churches, and private clients. He has designed and taught more than 1,500 hours of conflict resolution, arbitration, negotiation, commercial real estate, land use, and environmental law courses. He currently serves on the facilitator roster of the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, AZ.

Richard has taught at the University of Maryland Law School, the University of Baltimore Graduate School in Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies, and the College of Southern Maryland’s Center for Environmental Training. He has guest lectured at Colorado State University, the OLLI @ CSU program, Warner College of Natural Resources, and its School of Agriculture and Resource Economics, the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, the Catholic University of America Law School, and the George Washington University Law School.

Larry Canepa has a background in the culinary arts, including teaching, hospitality management, etiquette training, wine expertise, and even a certificate of tea mastery. Larry Canepa’s portfolio is as flavorfully diverse as the menus he has created for his unique food and culture ‘food-tainment’ classes. He has taught culinary and restaurant operations classes at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Phoenix and Le Cordon Bleu, Scottsdale, AZ and is a frequent instructor for the OLLI program at ASU.

Sam and Candy Caponegro are film historians who are passionate about movie musicals and feel it is their job to keep the movie musical genre alive through their lectures. They have acted, directed, and produced professional, community, and school theater for over thirty years. Candy’s most notable professional acting roles are Adelaine opposite Nathan Lane in Guys and Dolls and Cheri opposite Divine in the New York production of Women Behind Bars. Sam and Candy teach for OLLIs across the country and have lectured on cruise lines, at libraries, and to multiple 50+ audiences.

Brian Carroll retired from the FBI in 1996 after a 27-year career as a Special Agent. He has resided in Fort Collins for over 25 years and has researched various historical topics important to the area. In retirement, Brian consulted with the FBI and US State Department, furnishing instruction to foreign police managers about managing terrorist incident investigations. He helped establish the Security Management Program for the University of Denver’s University College. Brian is the author of an excellent book on Fort Collins history, William O. Collins, From the Mayflower to the Rockies with Stops in Between.

Rick Casey received an M.A. in Economics in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for several years as an economic analyst for a Denver oil company. Rick briefly taught economics at the Front Range and Western Colorado University, but turned to programming in 1992, then earned a second master’s in Telecommunications from CU-Boulder in 2002. After surviving two Wall Street-induced recessions (the Dot Com crash in 2002 & the Global Financial Crisis in 2008), he learned how the world REALLY worked. He subsequently got involved in political activism and returned to teaching environmental economics in 2009 part-time to share his newfound wisdom with others, which he loves to do...but still works as a programmer to earn a living.

Dr. Jim Collinson is an emeritus professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University. His research has taken him throughout the Transantarctic and Ellsworth Mountains. After retirement, he served as a lecturer on Antarctic cruise ships.

Kevin Cook has worked full-time as a self-employed writernaturalist since earning his biology and wildlife biology degrees from Western State College and CSU. As a lifelong naturalist, Kevin has explored Colorado to experience its wildlife firsthand and has spent his entire adult life addressing the issues between people and the natural world. Kevin writes natural history columns for newspapers and magazines, edits technical articles for scientific publications, leads wildlife observation tours, teaches various wildlife classes, and presents monthly wildlife lectures at several Colorado venues.

Dr. Bill Cornell earned BS and MS degrees in Geology at the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. from UCLA. Bill has taught geology at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), with stints as department chair, assistant dean of the College of Science, a pre-med advisor, and taught in the OLLI Program at UTEP for 15 years. He received numerous teaching and service awards from UTEP. In 2007, he received the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Dr. David Danbom is a CSU grad who earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University. He taught American History at North Dakota State University for 36 years and is the author of six books, one of which is on the Great Depression. He has taught several OLLI classes.

Dr. Jared Day taught American history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for sixteen years. His areas of specialization are US political, urban, and cultural history and world history from the fifteenth century to the present. He is the author of several books and numerous popular and peerreviewed articles. He now teaches at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, CT.

Dr. Isaac Eliachar, is a retired physician who headed the Laryngotracheal reconstruction section at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Since his retirement, he has actively pursued his interests in World War II and post-war history, teaching history courses at the Palm Springs Air Museum, the Osher Institute at Cal State San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus, and, more recently, the Osher program at Colorado State University.

Dr. Greg Ferro has several teaching career highlights. These include appearing on the front cover of State College Magazine as one of the best teachers in Centre County, PA in June 2005; nomination for best teacher in America by the Disney Corporation in 2002; two-time appearance in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers; and earning The American Family Institute’s Gift of Time Tribute.

Dr. Ferro has been interviewed numerous times on local radio and television and invited to speak at The Pennsylvania Military Museum four times. For the past ten years, Dr. Ferro has taught courses on US History at the Chautauqua Institute in New York, sponsored by The Road Scholar Organization.

Dr. Ed Friedman has B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics, and designed space systems for monitoring Earth’s climate and weather, ocean science, planet detection, astronomy, and astrophysics during his 48-year professional career. He was Chief Technologist at Ball Aerospace, Technical Fellow at Boeing, Adjunct Faculty in the engineering department at the University of Colorado, and a Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has taught college math, astronomy, and orbital dynamics and consults for NASA missions. Ed’s volunteer work includes teaching astrophysics and advanced math to elite high school students, and he is the author of four books on optical systems.

Hector E. Garcia is President of Mex-US Global, LLC., consultancy in intercultural communications and international strategic alliances; author of Clash or Complement of Cultures?: Peace and Productivity in the New Global Reality; and creator of the Cultural Complementarity Paradigm. He was co-founder and Executive Director of Minnesotans for NAFTA; Executive Director of Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs; Executive Director of National Conference for Community & Justice MN/ Dakotas; Mexico Liaison for Prudential Bache Securities, NYC, NY; Consultant at Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), part of The Economist magazine’s financial group in Mexico headquarters for Latin America. Hector is also a University of Minnesota OLLI Course Leader and speaker on subjects covered in his textbook and in his article “Optimizing Globalization will become Possible through a New Paradigm,” published by the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies in May 2020.

Steve Griggs has a love of art that started early in life. While other children would lament field trips to the art museum, he would embrace them as his favorite day of the school year! Steve’s mother bought his first ‘real’ watercolor set of six tubes of paint when he was in elementary school, and his love of watercolor was born. Growing up in a large family made finding time and space for painting challenging. Whenever possible, Steve would steal away to the basement of his childhood home, where he would paint but never show anyone what he had done. Steve remained a ‘closet artist’ until he attended Michigan State University and graduated with a degree in Studio Art. Steve later attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Reflecting his unique, loose painting style, Steve’s paintings have been juried into various national and international exhibitions and have regularly won awards. Steve loves to guide other artists in learning to paint in his free and expressive style, and he is a sought-after workshop instructor and exhibition juror. Steve and his partner, Sue, have written numerous articles for publication in Watercolor Artist and The Artist Magazine (published in the UK). Steve has gallery representation with Mirada Fine Art in Indian Hills, Colorado; Twisted Fish Gallery in Elk Rapids, Michigan; J Petter Galleries in Douglas, Michigan; and Five3Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA.

Nancy Hansford has lived in Fort Collins for more than three decades. She is a longtime freelance writer and author of Fort Collins Highlights and Northern Colorado Ghost Stories As a local author’s columnist for the Coloradoan, she has supported outstanding local authors for many years, bringing talented authors to the OLLI classroom through her popular course: What the Book Jacket Doesn’t Tell You.

Chris Hensey offered Miami University’s Institute for Learning in Retirement wine-tasting courses for fifteen years, nearly as long as he operated his own shop, Main Street Gourmet, in Oxford, Ohio. He has passed the Introductory Exam for The Court of Master Sommeliers and serves as a judge for The Cincinnati International Wine Festival. He is currently the lead Sommelier for Chimney Park restaurant in Windsor.

Dr. Margit Hentschel is the Co-Founding Director of Colorado State University’s Center for Mindfulness. She also serves as the Executive Director for the Northern Colorado Foodshed Project. Margit shares mindfulness practices in classrooms and community workshops and has over 25 years of teaching experience. Margit believes that a healthy mind/ body connection facilitates a more sustainable relationship with oneself and the community. She holds a Ph.D. from Colorado State University’s School of Education, focusing on Peace and Reconciliation Leadership.

Meet the Instructors cont.

Dr. Bob Hoffert, a CSU emeritus professor, and dean focused his teaching and research in political philosophy on the US political founding. His most recent publication is The 1960s Segregated South: Youth’s Zeal and Aged Reflections. During this time of reactionary degeneration, Bob is renewed by the competent decency of his daughters and the zest and promise of his grandchildren.

Sara Hoffman has taught writing and literature at OLLI and elsewhere for 40 years and is the author of a historical fiction novel about her grandmother, Finding Baby Ruth. She is a full-blown bookworm who puts reading near the top of her favorite pastimes.

Bill Hunter has been a management trainer and facilitator for over 40 years. For the last 17 years, he conducted Vistage CEO peer groups, helping them learn from each other.

Lyn Iannuzzi is the fifth generation to call Fort Collins and Northern Colorado home. She has accumulated generations of photographs and family stories about homesteads, log cabins, cattle ranches, and agriculture. She retired as a California Aerospace Director of Accounting, returned home, and has dedicated her retirement to Colorado historical projects. Lyn received the 2020 Fort Collins Historical Society Recognition Award for the Mountain Home Cemetery Records project that provided a detailed cemetery report and over 1,000 document images and transcripts to the Fort Collins Parks Department and the archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery.

Anette Isaacs, MA, is a German historian and public educator. She has presented hundreds of programs on more than 40 different topics all pertaining to her native country’s history, politics, and culture in the Chicagoland area and south Florida. Ms. Isaacs holds master’s degrees in American Studies, Political Science, and History and has taught for multiple OLLI programs nationwide.

Kenneth Jessen has been teaching OLLI classes since 2014. He worked as a journalist for Northern Colorado newspapers for over four decades and, during that time, has had over 2,300 articles published. He has authored 22 books on Colorado history. Jessen holds a BSEE in electrical and electronic engineering, an MBA, and post-graduate telecommunications technology.

Rabbi Hillel Katzir lived in Israel for several years, practiced law in three states, and has led Jewish congregations in Iowa, Maine, and Colorado. He has taught courses related to Judaism and the Constitution with OLLI at CSU since 2016. In 2013 he published The Evolving Covenant: Jewish History and Why It Matters, which is recommended reading for his Jewish history course.

Mike Kendrick worked as a petroleum geoscientist for 33 years and retired to Fort Collins in 2018. He designs and leads geology hikes as a volunteer naturalist with the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department and as a volunteer hike leader for the Fort Collins Newcomers Group. He is also a Certified Interpretive Guide. In September of 2022, he published the book: Our Geologic Heritage in Colorado’s Northern Front Range Foothills—A Guide to Larimer County Natural Areas.

Dr. Jodie Kreider earned a M.A. in Teaching from Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Arizona. As a Colorado native and alumnus of CSU, she returned to her origins and has taught in the History Department at CSU since 2010 where she is currently an Associate Professor of Teaching. She has also taught at the University of Denver since 2006. She specializes in British, Irish, and modern European history, the intersections between gender and nationalism in Wales and the British Isles, and understanding history through popular culture.

Hugh Leeman is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, teaching art history and technique in English and Spanish. Leeman’s artwork and projects focus on community collaboration and social interaction.

While living in the Caribbean at a young age, Leeman imagined himself remaining there for the rest of his life. Yet, as a teenager, he began to meet visiting cruise ship passengers from the Americas and Europe. Their stories would change the course of his life, inspiring a multi-year journey. He traded his paintings for rent while working his way around the world. He learned to draw from books he couldn’t read while teaching English in China. Leeman moved to the United States from the Middle East, where he picked up trash in the desert and has developed his social practice for over a decade, living on San Francisco’s “skid row” and collaborating on projects with the homeless.

Leeman has exhibited his artwork at the de Young Museum, the Museum of Mexico City, the Masur Museum of Art, and the Arlington Contemporary Art Center. He was awarded an Artistic Mastermind Grant and created a twenty-foot-tall mural of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. adjacent to King’s birth house in Atlanta, Georgia. His artwork and projects are published in The Outlaw Bible of American Art

Chloé Leisure holds an M.A. from Northern Arizona University and an M.F.A. in poetry from CSU. A former CSU English instructor, she currently teaches community and elementary creative writing and art classes. Leisure was the 2014 Fort Collins Poet Laureate and is the author of The End of the World Again.

Holly Manley has a master’s degree in Technical Writing and Communication from CSU and has worked as a technical writer. She developed course curricula for many classes at the college level and for OLLI. Writing is one of her passions, along with hiking, reading, felting, and traveling.

Carol Marander is an artist living and working in Fort Collins, Colorado. She worked as a graphic designer for many years at Colorado State University while pursuing her fine art. Carol is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the Colorado Watercolor Society and has exhibited her drawings and paintings in numerous local and national juried exhibitions. Carol has taught drawing classes at OLLI for several years. She is excited about sharing her love of drawing with her students.

Madeline Marchell is an Integrative Medicine practitioner and Medical Qi Gong instructor. She has incorporated Qi Gong in various hospital locations. Currently, she is also a Naturalist for the city of Fort Collins, where she shares Qi Gong in the Natural Areas.

Dr. Greg McDonald is a retired regional paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Before transferring to the BLM, he worked for the National Park Service as the Senior Curator of Natural History in the Washington Museum Management Program, as Paleontology Program Coordinator in the Geologic Resources Division, and as the paleontologist at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. Before working for the government, Greg was Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and collections manager for vertebrate paleontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. He earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, a master’s degree at the University of Florida, and a Bachelor’s degree at Idaho State University. His research focuses on the extinct giant ground sloths and their relatives and Plio-Pleistocene mammals of North and South America. He is a co-editor of Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth and a co-author of The White River Badlands – Geology and Paleontology

Dr. Don Menzel is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Penn State University and has served as a tenured faculty member at three public universities. He resides in Loveland, CO.

Dr. Robert Meroney is a professor emeritus in engineering from Colorado State University. He has 55 years of experience in teaching, research, and consulting. He has developed over 50 lectures on eclectic topics ranging from corporate logos to fraud, to surrealistic art, to MONEY! These have been presented to service clubs, senior centers, libraries, college classes, and book clubs.

Joannah L. Merriman, M.A. is a writer/community educator/retired psychotherapist. Her love of images and words brought her to Osher/OLLI as a facilitator in 2007. She has taught OLLI cinema and reflective writing courses for over fifteen years. She shares her Fort Collins home with her longtime partner, Neil, and three fur babies.

Dr. Harry Mueller has a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin and has worked in various aspects of the oil industry for ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco for 33 years. He taught numerous short courses on multiple aspects of oil and natural gas exploration and production during that time. Since retiring from Aramco, he has taught several courses and lectures for OLLI.

Noah Newman is a Research Coordinator for the Colorado Climate Center and the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network (www.cocorahs.org). A third-generation native of Colorado, Noah loves water no matter where it is. In the winter, he has been a skier since he was 5, and in the summertime, he was a white-water rafting guide during his college years. Noah received his bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University in 1997 and began his career teaching informal science education in 2002. With experience teaching science - from astronomy to zoology with magnets and rocketry in between - he currently enjoys teaching how to measure precipitation accurately to people of all ages and backgrounds. Noah has led professional development training sessions for teachers and class presentations for K-12 students since 2005. He has been interviewed multiple times on live T.V. and twice presented onstage to 15,000 students at Coors Field’s annual Weather and Science Day. He continues to lead presentations, classes, and webinars across Colorado and the nation.

Terry Nolan lives by the motto, ESSENTRICS® makes other activities you enjoy easier – not harder! She discovered ESSENTRICS® at age 60 and is now a certified Level 4 instructor who taught classes in Steamboat Springs for six years and contributed to editing its training manuals. Terry’s teaching style is mindful and fun as she guides you through dynamic fullbody strength and flexibility workouts that move with a curated playlist. Terry is confident that OLLI members who do so much to keep their minds active will love this fitness program that brilliantly does the same for their bodies.

Dr. John Olienyk is a CSU emeritus professor of finance. He has had a lifelong interest in international affairs, particularly as they pertain to Eastern Europe. All four of his grandparents were born in Ukraine and emigrated to the U.S. He was raised in an ethnic Ukrainian community, and Ukrainian culture and traditions were deeply embedded in him at an early age. The collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in independence for Ukraine and created an opportunity for John to contribute to the growth of the new nation. Over a span of twelve years, he participated in a USAID-sponsored faculty exchange program with a number of universities in Ukraine and has maintained his relationships with the young professors that he mentored. He also taught in an MBA program at a university in Russia.

Joe Osmann holds an MFA and is a retired college professor, practicing artist, and illustrator who has taught art for 40 years. Attracted to the visual arts at an early age, his life’s work has been devoted to exploring and applying visual literacy and design. Joe combines student-centered teaching with practical knowledge to support individual student goals.

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Linda Osmundson learned caregiving the hard way through her husband’s dementia journey. An author and former teacher, Osmundson writes magazine/blog articles that offer support and share knowledge. Papa’s Changes, a dementia picture book for children and adults, was released in September 2019 and illustrates a grandchild’s loving relationship with her grandfather.

Veronica Patterson is an award-winning poet whose collections include How to Make a Terrarium (Cleveland State University, 1987), Swan, What Shores? (NYU Press Poetry Prize, 2000), Thresh & Hold (Gell Prize, 2009), & it had rained (C.W. Books, 2013), Sudden White Fan (Cherry Grove, 2018), and two chapbooks. She writes, teaches, and is the first Loveland Poet Laureate (2019–2022).

Sally Purath earned her B.A. in Social Sciences and an M.Ed. at Colorado State University. She taught history, world humanities, and language arts for 26 years for the Poudre School District and has led National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes and other teacher workshops. Sally has extensive training in Russian history and world humanities, especially in India, China, Japan, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. She has studied religion and culture in Japan, China, India, Peru, Turkey, and Europe. Sally currently teaches courses for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program at Colorado State University.

Dr. Stephen Reid taught in the CSU English Department for 42 years. His spring course reflects his continuing interest in science and the history of science since his days as an undergraduate physics major.

Kate Lyn Reiter is an M.F.A. graduate of the Yale School of Drama. She has appeared on Comedy Central, Fox Network, and numerous New York City Comedy Club stages. She has been awarded an NYC Backstage Bistro Award for Comedy Performance and was nominated for the Manhattan Association of Cabarets’ MAC Award. Her acting credits include performing with Robin Williams and John Lithgow in the film, The World According to Garp. Her comedy workshops have been presented for over 15 years in conjunction with Centenary Stage Company, Chester Theatre Company, Warren County Cultural & Heritage Foundation, New Jersey Teen Arts, and the Roxbury Alliance for Arts Council. She has also taught Theatre and English at Warren County Community Theatre and Centenary College. Laughter, Reiter believes, is a way for all people to reframe even life’s most challenging experiences and release themselves from what would otherwise be a ponderous road of suffering. Humor is medicine— both spiritual and physical. This workshop is for all people.

John E. Roberts has an M.S. degree from Cornell University. He served 34 years with the US Department of State and the US Peace Corps as an undisciplined semi-professional in 19 countries. He has taught International Studies at CSU and has taught various courses with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Colorado State University since 1999. John brings a rich set of life experiences and a keen interest in international affairs. He describes himself as always a student, a teacher, and an internationalist.

Nina Rubin is a retired Clinical Social Worker. She has been a Jewish educator for more than 40 years. She has taught nationally on topics of Women’s Torah, spiritual practice, and Jewish death practice for over 30 years. Nina has lived in Fort Collins for 43 years, working in medical social work and with interfaith initiatives.

Jay Sherwin has practiced law, given away money for five different charitable foundations, and served as a hospital chaplain. In 2019, he created the Life Reflections Project to educate people about legacy letters, ethical wills, and other legacy documents. Jay has extensive experience facilitating online adult learning programs, and he has offered this presentation for OLLI programs nationwide

Dr. Stephenie Slahor has been dubbed “the Renaissance woman” for her many interests in lecturing, writing, and presenting OLLI courses in natural sciences and on fascinating places worldwide. She enjoys hobbies such as travel, kayaking, snorkeling, geology, meteoritics, and selenology.

Stephen Trimble is a writer, editor, and photographer who has published 25 award-winning books during 45 years of paying attention to the landscapes and peoples of the Desert West. He received The Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation and a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Colorado College. In 2019, he was honored as one of Utah’s 15 most influential artists.

Trimble speaks and writes as a conservation advocate and has taught writing at the University of Utah. He makes his home in Salt Lake City and in the red rock country of Torrey, Utah. For more about his work, see www.stephentrimble.net.

Renee Walkup has a B.A. in Art from Stephens College and is a full-time professional mosaic artist residing in Fort Collins. After developing a passion for 3D art, she trained with some of the world’s most accomplished mosaicists. Currently, her work is exhibited in galleries around the country, and she most recently completed a large commercial installation in Colorado. Prior to her migration as a mosaic artist, Renee was an in-demand global corporate trainer/speaker, with classroom skills honed for over 22 years.

Dr. Richard Wilshusen has been an archaeologist for most of his adult life. He began as a field archaeologist, and over the years, he gradually took on other roles as a research director, instructor, curator, and finally, an administrator. He has worked with universities, cultural resource management firms, museums, state and federal governments, and tribes. Wilshusen is the former Colorado State Archaeologist and is currently a consultant and OLLI instructor.

THANK YOU OLLI Donor Honor Roll 2022

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Colorado State University greatly thanks the many members, instructors, and members of our community who have so generously contributed to our program during 2022. We also appreciate the many thoughtful anonymous contributors who have also provided valuable support to help our program grow and flourish.

Anonymous

Rich Alper

Tom Andersen

Elaine Andersen

Suzie Barbour

Tom Barbour, Jr. James Bert Beverly Bert Anne Blair John Blair, Jr. Dr. Tom Boardman

Dr. Jim Boyd, Sr. Susan Brand

Larry Canepa Joan Carter Rick Casey

Dottie Childers Scoot Childers

Madeleine Collinson

Dr. James Collinson Bill Cornell John Cowdrey

Linda Danforth*

Dr. James Danforth, III*

*In memory of Dan Ward Jean Darst

Dr. Richard Darst

Dr. Isaac Eliachar Doug Ernest Robert Gannon Pat Gannon

James Giffin

Vicki Grassman John Green Vicky Green Joe Grim Beverly Hadden Dr. Bruce Hall Richard Hall Bruce Harshberger Janet Harshberger Dr. Richard Henze Kate Herrod

Thomas Hickman Lani Hickman

Dr. Elaine Stratton Hild Barbara Hoel Dr. Bob Hoel Dr. Robert Hoffert Jane Hoover K. Howat

Susan Jones Lois Jensen**

**In memory of Barney Jenson Jerry Karbs

Barbara Karbs

Rabbi Hillel Katzir

Randall Kennedy Kate Kling

Rev. Richard Kling Celeste Kling Wanda Koch

Dr. Jean Lehmann

Albert Leung

Barbara Leung

Paul Lohr Holly Manley

Dr. Sue Ellen Markey Judith McArthur Dr. Greg McDonald Bob Michael Tim Monty Kathleen Monty Patricia Moore Dr. Chet Moore, Jr. Thomas Morrow Suzanne Morrow Harry Mueller, III

The National Park Service Dr. Ray Nelson Leslie Noone Dr. John Olienyk Don Oliver Penny Oliver Leslie Olson Susanne Olson Dr. Kevin Oltjenbruns Ken Oltjenbruns

The Bernard Osher Foundation Joe Osmann

Connie Pain

Stacy Plemmons Nancy Plemmons

Ruth Potter

CSU Powerhouse Jude Printz

Kate Reiter Mary Rezetka

John Roberts

Judy Sayre-Grim Judge Charles B. Schudson Dr. Earl Sethre

Lisbeth Sethre Jay Sherwin Dr. Robert Simmons Wanda Simmons

Dr. Hal Smith Cathy Stawarski Doug Stowell

Felice Thorson-Boudreaux Jerry Thorson-Boudreaux Gary Turner

Kathleen Turner Carole Tuttle

Karen Unger Dr. Don Unger Dr. Henry Weisser Dr. Donald Wells Janet Wells Robin Welsh Karen Wilken Brad Young Margaret Young

Give the Gift of Learning

As our OLLI spring classes gear up for this term, I hope you will take a moment to consider what the OLLI @ CSU program gives to you. Knowledge? A forum for discussion? Friendships? New skills? Connectedness? A sense of belonging? Members have described all of these in conversation and through course evaluations, and I hope you’ll consider how you might continue the spirit of giving. OLLI @ CSU is a member-driven institute and giving back enables us to enrich the lives of current members and those of future lifelong learners.

While a portion of our program operating costs are funded through membership fees, Colorado State University support, and the Osher Foundation Endowment, your financial investment allows us to offer the full spectrum of opportunities and experiences that make membership in the OLLI community so special. Your financial support this year will help us expand access to OLLI @ CSU through tuition assistance and to better serve our community of lifelong learners with low membership fees, more social activities, and improved classroom technologies.

Our OLLI @ CSU fundraising this year embraces and promotes a “culture of philanthropy” approach to giving started by Bernard Osher himself. Rather than focus on a dollar goal, we are striving for 60%-member participation. This means every gift you make, and every dollar amount you give, no matter how big or small, makes a difference.

Please ask yourself what OLLI @ CSU gives to you and consider giving back by making a tax-deductible donation today.

Are you thinking about leaving a legacy for the CSU OLLI program?

The CSU Office of Gift Planning works with donors and their advisors to design a gift plan that most effectively accomplishes the donors’ charitable goals considering their individual financial and estate-planning needs.