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The Oakmont News / January 15, 2015
PC Users Group nBarbara G. Dudley
NEW LOCATION FOR OPCUG MEETINGS!
Remember, OPCUG now meets at the East Recreation Center on the second Monday of each month at 2 p.m., except for June, July, August, and December. This move is a permanent one for the group. For more information on this move, see our December Newsletter on our Home page.
Q&A SESSION—MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
At the East Rec. Center at 2 p.m., OPCUG will hold its first Question-and-Answer Session for the new year. As usual, please E-mail your questions for our panel of experts to Bob Mandelstam at BobMandel@ PSUAlum.com. Early receipt allows Bob and the experts to research and arrive at the best solutions to your issues. You also can submit a question at the meeting by requesting a form from a board member, filling it out, and submitting it then and there.
OAKMONT COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER (OCLC) NEWS
Winter classes begin in the new year. For more information about the upcoming classes, visit their Web site at OakmontLearning.org, and then click on the “Oakmont Computer Learning Center” heading.
VISIT US ON THE WEB AT OakmontPCGroup.org
At our Web site, you can find information about the upcoming Q&A Session or General Meeting and read timely articles about PC issues in our most recent Newsletter on our Home page. In addition, you can access past newsletters, information about past programs, find out about your board, and other useful information. We need you to know, as well, that we welcome comments and suggestions for this new site. Please, send your insights to Barbara_OPCUG@ yahoo.com. Thank you!
NEED HELP WITH YOUR PC? GET IT FOR FREE!
If you live in Oakmont and want personal PC help, group members are happy to assist you, free of charge. Call our experts: Phil Kenny at 538-2075, Dan Gaffney at (916) 878-9538, or Gordon Ramsey at 538-4981.
nJim Ptak
Oakmont Music Lovers
nJoan Lounsbery
SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE: A FILM FEATURING MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
All music lovers are invited to watch this film on the making of Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece Symphonie Fantastique from the San Francisco Symphony’s popular “Keeping Score” series, and featuring their Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Marc Helfman will be hosting this showing. “I feel, therefore I am.” For Hector Berlioz, and for the Romantic movement of the 19th Century, these were more than mere words—they were the guiding principle of much of the writing of the time. With the unprecedented outpouring of emotion in his Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz almost overpowered Paris. Marc Helfman This orchestral sonic spectacular, written to win the heart of a beautiful actress, Harriet Smithson, tells the story (in the words of Berlioz) of “an artist gifted with a lively imagination, who has poisoned himself with opium in the depths of despair because of hopeless love.” That artist was Berlioz himself. From romantic daydreams to deadly displays of devotion, the work encapsulates the inner drama—and trauma—that made Berlioz one of the great Romantic masters. The piece is the equivalent of a literary epic, and dates from 1830. It is scored for a total of over 90 musicians. Watch the charismatic Michael Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony as they follow Berlioz to the brink and beyond. WHEN: Tuesday, February 3, 10:30 a.m. WHERE: East Recreation Center COST: Free admission
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Single Boomers Social Club
Our 2015 SBSC membership drive is underway. For a mere $12, plan on enjoying many events throughout the year. Membership fees are due on a calendar year running from January to December. Dues are not prorated to the month a member joins. Once you join, you’ll receive additional information on volunteer opportunities, member name badges and club bylaws. Use the form below to sign up or contact Sandy Throne at srthrone@msn.com for a membership application. Our members-only Crab Feed on January 17 is fast approaching. This is always a well-attended event
with everyone walking away fully consumed. Our next social for members and guests will be held at the Quail Inn on lucky Friday, February 13 from 6–9 p.m. Our membership continues to grow as word spreads about our friendly socials and upcoming events. Feel free to drop by any of our Socials, meet our members and get a sense of who we are. You won’t be disappointed! Our club’s purpose is to offer a friendly social environment and to promote fun, camaraderie, and entertaining events combined with an opportunity to meet single baby boomers in a relaxed setting.
SINGLE BOOMERS SOCIAL CLUB Membership Renewal/New Members
Dues for calendar year 2015 are $12. Please return this application with your check (no cash please) payable to SBSC to the next monthly SBSC social or leave in the designated SBSC folder located at the OVA Office. Thank you! Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________ Phone #: ___________________________ E-mail: ____________________________________________________
nBill Anderson
OCF Partners with Oakmont’s Documentary Film Masterworks
As we have reported in recent columns, the Oakmont Community Foundation has and is making an impact on the activities of numerous Oakmont organizations that influence the lives of all of us in this community. We asked Ernie Rose, originator and long-time producer of Documentary Film Masterworks, to comment on how his work has been influenced by grants from the OCF. Here is what he had to say: “For the last 17 years Oakmont’s Documentary Film Masterworks free monthly screening/discussion series has been a labor of love. It has drawn for the most part on my personal collection of more than 1,250 of the world’s best documentaries, acquired over the course of a 70-year career working in that field. As outstanding new documentaries emerge from a new generation of young filmmakers, I try to keep up with them by buying copies on the open market, previewing most of them on Netflix to be assured of their superior quality. “But as an academic retiree with limited resources, there are many new programs I would love to share with our audience but can’t afford to buy. During this past year Oakmont’s Community Foundation has been a godsend in coming to my rescue. Its generous support has enabled me to expand the number of outstanding new programs I can now show, ranging in subject matter from the life cycle and importance of bees to the human food supply to the underlying conflict of democracies in meeting the demand for national security without jeopardizing our Constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and the right to citizen privacy. “As we age, one of the important challenges is keeping our mind alive, and being aware of issues that have an impact on our well being. It has been my great pleasure to help advance in a small way those objectives through the screening and discussion of films that deal with real world problems. And for helping sustain that effort, we owe a debt of deep gratitude to all who graciously contribute to our own philanthropic angel—the Oakmont Community Foundation.” OCF continues its support of organizations like Documentary Film Masterworks. Many Oakmont organizations depend on tax-deductible donor contributions made to the OCF to support their operations. Our ability to offer Grants comes from funds contributed by generous Oakmont residents. You can make a tax-deductible contribution to OCF by picking up a Donor Form at the OVA Office; picking up a contribution envelope at one of the participating grant organizations; mailing a contribution to the OCF at the OVA address or placing your form with check in the OCF file in the OVA Office. Questions? Contact any of these OCF Directors: Pat Amedeo, Bob Chapman, Pat Clothier, Bob Giddings, Sue Millar, Sally Risberg; Emeritus, Bill Anderson. Consider OCF in your will, as a memorial, or to honor someone.
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