New Travel Opportunities for 2010

Visit our website Outings and Travel page for announcements of new travel opportunities for our members.  How does Florence and Rome, Italy – March 7 – 14, 2010, sound?

Also we would like to remind you that the University of Virginia Semester at Sea program, which offers discounts to OLLI-UVa members, has extended the early booking date to February 15, 2010,  for  the May 2010 Enrichment Voyage.  Visit the Semester at Sea website for more information about this exciting program.

Good News! OLLI-UVa courses will soon be available in the Valley.

Starting in September, 2010, more than a dozen courses will be held in downtown Staunton at the R.R. Smith Center, 20 S. New St. These will be the same exciting daytime classes with convenient free parking.  Course specifics will be in the Fall 2010 catalog, which will be on-line by the first of June, 2010.

To get you excited about the Valley Session, here are some of the proposed course titles:

• The Miracle of Self Government
• The Modern President: The Second Year of the Obama Presidency
• The Search for Amelia Earhart
• Conservation Issues in Augusta County: Exploring Our Environment and Spreading the Word
• Love and Art: Poetry and Paint
• The Story Only You Can Tell
• History and Development of Opera in the Western World
• Fundamentals of Genealogical Research
• History of Landscape Architecture
• Science and Faith: How are they Related?
• Prisons in America: An Insider’s View
• Fallacies in Ordinary Reasoning
• Beautiful Writing: A History of, and Practical Introduction to, Calligraphy

To be added to the OLLI at UVa mailing list, please email the OLLI office at: olliuva@virginia.edu with your name and mailing address.  You may also receive Valley updates by signing up on our website, www.olliuva.org, for our Email Newsletter

You may contact the OLLI at UVa office by phone by calling  434 923-3600 or for out-of-towners, through our toll-free number: 1-877-861-9207.

OLLI Spring 2010 catalog online now!

The Spring 2010 Catalog is online now.  Courses are filling quickly with a couple already closed. You might want to register for your spring semester courses before the holiday rush is fully upon us.

Livable Communities: Opportunities for Successful Aging

November 11, 2:00 pm
Doubletree Hotel
Elinor Ginzler, Senior Vice President for Livable Communities, AARP

Elinor Ginzler, a national expert on independent living for seniors, will discuss the elements of a livable community and the critical relationship between those elements and the ability to age successfully.

The lecture will include a discussion on the inter-generational benefits of these elements and the importance of connectivity. Ginzler will highlight some of AARP’scurrent work on mobility and housing.

via Institute on Aging, University of Virginia.

Cosponsors are JABA and the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. Reception to follow. Lecture and parking are free. Only preregistration is required. Please e-mail or call (434) 243-5695. Online registration available at Institute on Aging website.

National 2009 Conference Presentations | Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Osher Institute Conferences

Visit the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute National Resource Center to view a slide show of photos and to download PowerPoint presentations  from the 6th National Conference – October 12 -14, 2009.

Lots of great ideas!  See anyone you know?

The Canyons Grand Summit Hotel, Park City, Utah.

OLLI Conference Attendees: Biographies (pdf file)

“Building a Community of Learners” – Conference Program and Sessions (pdf)

via National Conference Presentations | Osher Lifelong Learning Institute National Resource Center.

Session B Classes start this week!

Just a reminder – Fall 2009 Session B classes start the week of October 26.  Enjoy!

Fall Lectures and Outings for Current OLLI Members

Chrysanthemums are in bloom, the morning air is crisp and pumpkins are set by the front door.  Fall is here and Session A classes have begun!

We are offering two more lectures and two OLLI outings this semester for our current members.  To register for the outings, please follow the instructions provided in the notices below. For the lectures, please register by emailing the OLLI office at olliuva@virginia.edu.
We hope you will join us!

Summer Break Is Over – Classes Start This Week!

We hope that everyone had a great summer!

Fall 2009 classes for OLLI at the University of Virginia start this week.  For the latest information about schedule changes and for directions to class locations visit our website at

http://www.olliuva.org

If you have any questions call the OLLI Office 434-923-3600.

Enjoy the FALL 2009 courses!

Classes at Westminster Canterbury

For those of you with classes at Westminster Canterbury, please note directions below:

From Route 250, turn into the Westminster Canterbury entrance and proceed to the guardhouse.  Turn right and drive to the back of the main building.  Park in the “Visitor Parking — Blue Lot.”  Walk to the Blue Ridge entrance.  Go through the double doors.  As you face the circular sofa, turn left and walk down the hallway to the lobby with the piano.  An OLLI sign will be posted on either the “Rotunda” and/or “Blue Ridge” rooms where OLLI courses are held.

New closed courses and schedule changes

Here are the changes for this week:

• Another full course – A34 – Basic Estate Planning.

• No longer full -  B31 – The Supreme Court (enrollment raised to 100)

• Location change:
  A14 – The Pleasures of Browsing Dictionaries will be held at Meadows Church.

• Time change for FIRST CLASS ONLY:
  A16 – The Many Faces of Depression will meet on 9/15 at 9 – 10:30 am – (earlier than listed in the catalog). The remaining 5 class meeting times (9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20) will meet as scheduled:  11 am – 12:30 pm.