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O L L I SHER IFELONG EARNING NSTITUTE at George Mason University Serving the Northern Virginia community by providing intellectual and cultural experiences for residents in their retirement years Winter 2016 Loudoun Reston Fairfax Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Tallwood, 4210 Roberts Road Fairfax, VA 22032-1028 Phone: 703-503-3384  Fax: 703-503-2832 Email: [email protected] Website: olli.gmu.edu Affiliated with George Mason University Sites in Fairfax, in Reston near Lake Anne, and the George Mason site in Sterling Copyright © 2016 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University. Materials in this publication are subject to OLLI- Mason copyright but may be reproduced for noncommercial educational purposes if credit is given to OLLI-Mason. All About OLLI Who We Are How to Join The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at George Any person may become a member beginning with the Mason University offers daytime courses, lectures, special winter 2016 term (through fall 2016) by registering online events, and other activities during eight-week terms in the or by completing the registration form on page 27 and spring and fall, a four-week winter term, and a six-week submitting it to OLLI with the required check(s) or credit summer program. There are no exams, no credits, no card information. There are two membership options: college degree required or offered, and no age threshold.  Full membership  Introductory membership Course leaders are qualified members of OLLI, George Please see page 29 for detailed information. Mason University faculty, and others who enjoy sharing their knowledge. OLLI is particularly proud of its volunteer Payment options include paying the annual membership teachers and speakers, many of whom are well-known fee in 12 monthly installments OR in a one-time experts in their fields. The views expressed are those of payment. See page 29 for payment option details. the instructor and do not reflect the official policy or Prospective members may experience OLLI by visiting up position of OLLI or George Mason University. to two class sessions or activities that are not Members pay annual dues, which entitle them to attend oversubscribed. Check with a staff member about as many activities as they wish, subject to space available seating. availability. There may be charges for materials and for some special events. George Mason University Privileges OLLI publishes an email newsletter (OLLI E-News), a Full OLLI members are entitled to a George Mason catalog each term, an online membership directory, and University ID card, which allows them library privileges the Member Handbook. An annual literary journal, OLLI and discounts at many campus facilities. A free Mason Ink, and, from time to time, the Poets of OLLI collection email account with access to the Mason Intranet is also are also published. available. To apply for an ID card, fill out an application, OLLI is one of many Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes available at any OLLI site or on the OLLI website DocStore, affiliated with The Bernard Osher Foundation and is also a and return it to the main office at Tallwood or to the site member of the Road Scholar Institute Network. OLLI is a assistant at Reston or Loudoun. nonprofit, equal-opportunity 501(c)(3) organization and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national/ethnic origin. Where We Are OLLI offers financial assistance for members or potential members who would find it a hardship to Most activities are held at Tallwood, 4210 Roberts Road in pay the full membership fee. Contact the adminis- Fairfax, at the United Christian Parish near Lake Anne in trator at Tallwood for an application. All inquiries Reston, or at the Mason site in Loudoun. OLLI’s main office are kept strictly confidential. is at Tallwood, with satellite offices (open only during class hours) in Reston and the Mason site in Loudoun. All sites are handicapped-accessible and have free parking available. To park at the Mason site in Loudoun you must Important Registration Dates obtain a free parking permit from Mason in Loudoun, Winter registration begins Tuesday, December 1. Suite 130. A map and addresses for all locations are Registration ends on Thursday, December 10 at noon. printed on the inside back cover. Register online at olli.gmu.edu. Catalog Organization Click on the Member Portal. Registrations may also be mailed to: Courses and special events for all three sites are listed Osher Lifelong Learning Institute together, with Fairfax happenings indicated by the prefix 4210 Roberts Road “F” in the title number, Reston by an “R,” and Loudoun by Fairfax, VA 22032 an “L.” Ongoing activities for all sites are listed together. ii Contents All About OLLI ............................................................................................... ii Courses 100 Art and Music ................................................................................... 1 200 Economics and Finance ..................................................................... 2 300 History .............................................................................................. 3 400 Literature, Theater, and Writing ........................................................ 5 500 Languages ......................................................................................... 9 600 Religious Studies ............................................................................. 10 650 Humanities and Social Sciences ....................................................... 11 700 Current Events ................................................................................ 13 800 Science, Technology, and Health ..................................................... 15 900 Other Topics .................................................................................... 17 Special Events 950 Lectures .......................................................................................... 18 1100 Social Events ................................................................................. 22 Ongoing Activities ...................................................................... 23 Registration Form ....................................................................... 27 Registration and Membership ..................................................... 29 Schedule .................................................................................... 30 Friends of OLLI ........................................................................... 32 Cover Photo by Dan Feighery Loudoun photo by Beth Davis Tallwood photo by Gordon Canyock iii OLLI Organization OLLI Program Program Committee OLLI is a member-driven organization with its Board of Directors elected by the membership. All activities Chairs………………………….Kat hryn Russell, Russell Stone are managed by an executive director, staff, and Ideas for classes may be submitted to the Program volunteers. Fairfax, Reston, and Loudoun members are represented. Associate or appropriate Program Planning Group. Program Planning Group Chairs Board of Directors Art/Music ………………………Marianne Metz, Nan cy Riley, President …………………………………………………Glenn Kamber* Ann Youngren Vice President ………………………………………… Steve Canner* Economics/Finance ……………………………… Leo Brennan Treasurer ………………………………………………… Stan Schretter History/Current Events ..………………….Emmett Fenlon, Secretary………………………………………………… Irene Osterman Bob Persell, Dick Young, Ray Beery (Loudoun), Ray Beery Bill Reader* Richard Kennedy (Reston) Michelle Blandburg Norma Jean Reck Humanities and Social Sciences……………..Johnnie Hicks, Wendy Campbell Martha Scanlon Camille Hodges Janet Cochran* Nancy Scheeler Language/Literature/Theater ………………… Doris Bloch, Emmett Fenlon Russell Stone* Rala Stone, Bill Taylor, Steve Goldman* Bill Taylor Nancy Scheeler (Reston) Martha Powers Joel Ticknor Loudoun Program…………………………………Barbara Wilan Jennifer Disano, Executive Director Religious Studies………………………………… Steve Goldman * Term Ends June 2016 Reston Program……………………………………. Beth Lambert Science/Technology/Health………………………John Acton, Other Key OLLI Positions Jeff Rosendhal, Audiovisual Support ……………………………….Larry Cereghino Mary Kornreich (Reston) Development …………………………………… Lesley Bubenhofer Special Events……………………………………..Florence Adler, OLLI E-news…………...……………………………… Irene Osterman Jerilyn Mullarkey Facilities ………………………………………………… Garrett Cochran Finance …………………………………………………… Stan Schretter Governance ………………………………………………………Bill Taylor Catalog Production Landscaping………………………………………Valerie Braybrooke Editor…………………………………………………….Martha Powers Loudoun Coordinator………………………………………… vacant Proofreaders……………………...Joan Axilbund, Doris Bloch, Member Services…………………………………… Martha Powers Beth Davis, Susan Van Hemel Member Services, Hospitality………………Sandra Driesslein OLLI Historian………………………………………… Irene Osterman OLLI Representative to Arts at Mason ……………Pat Carroll Staff Outreach …………………………………………………………Dave Ryan Program ………………………… Kathryn Russell, Russell Stone Executive Director…………………………………Jennifer Disano Publications………………………………………….……………...vacant [email protected] Administrator …………………………………… Susan Todenhoft Reston Coordinator…………………………………… Beth Lambert [email protected] Strategic Planning …………………………………Stephen Canner Finance Associate ……………………………………… Karen Nash University Liaison ……………………………..……………..Bill Taylor [email protected] Website…………………………………………………Ernestine Meyer Communications Associate/Registrar…Alice Slayton Clark [email protected] Contact Information Program Associate……………………………………… Beth Davis Tallwood office, phone…………………………… 703-503-3384 Executive Director, Jennifer Disano………… 703-503-7866 Tallwood Site Assistant …………………………………Bill Walsh Fax……………………………………………………………703-503-2832 [email protected] Email ……………………………………………………… [email protected] Reston Site Assistants ……………Ken Wade, Reggie Kilner Website …………………………………………… www.olli.gmu.edu [email protected] Member portal………………………………olligmu.augusoft.net Loudoun Site Assistant …………… Leigh Knox Mason mail stop number…………………………………MSN 5C1 [email protected] Mason@Loudoun mail stop number……………… MSN 1G9 A/V Support Tech ……………… Nick Rodriguez [email protected] iv Courses: January 19–February 15 Fairfax/Reston/Loudoun  For location of class sites, see maps on inside back cover.  Unless otherwise noted, classes beginning with an “F” are held at Tallwood, an “R” at United Christian Parish in Reston, and an “L” at Mason in Loudoun.  Class hours are (A) 9:40–11:05, (B) 11:50–1:15 and (C) 2:15–3:40, unless otherwise noted.  Additional information on many instructors can be found at http://olligmu.org/profiles/index-profiles.html. introduction will precede each performance, with time 100 Art and Music afterwards for discussion and reminiscences. Ted Mosser was a high school English teacher and film F101 Understanding Opera, Part 2 appreciation teacher for most of his adult life. He was a public radio DJ in Asheville, NC, during the 1980s, where he Mondays, 2:15–3:40, Jan. 25–Feb. 15 presented a two-hour, twice-a-week show, "Big Band, Instructor: Glenn Winters Broadway and Beyond." This informative and entertaining course offers a survey Marianne Metz currently produces and hosts a Radio of Virginia Opera's 2016 productions, including Fairfax show called "The Melody Lingers On," which Gounod's sumptuous Shakespearean drama Romeo celebrates great American songs from the 1920s through the and Juliet, and Wagner's supernatural romance The 1950s. Flying Dutchman. Comprehensive musical and dramatic F103 Watercolor Painting analysis is offered along with video and audio excerpts, peppered with the presenter's occasional humorous Thursdays, 2:15–3:40, Jan. 21–Feb. 11 Instructor: Leonard Justinian digressions into song and dance. The class is Class Limit: 15 recommended for beginners and aficionados alike. This class will provide an opportunity for watercolor Dr. Glenn Winters has been Virginia Opera’s community outreach musical director since 2004. His adult education painters at all levels to develop fresh skills while program, "Operation Opera," reaches thousands of learning new watercolor techniques. Required Virginians each season at numerous Lifelong Learning materials include: #1, #6, and/or #8 round watercolor Institutes around the state. Dr. Winters’ book, The Opera brushes; a paint palette for mixing colors; watercolor Zoo: Singers, Composers and Other Primates, is available paper, 140 lb. cold press (Arches is best, but you can from Kendall Hunt Publishing. Winters is a composer, as well, use less expensive paper); a kneaded eraser; a and his commissioned operas include works for adults and Staedtler white plastic eraser; and tubes of watercolor children alike. paint in white, charcoal black, cadmium yellow (medium), cadmium red (medium), and ultramarine F102 It's Easy to Remember (and So blue, or a starter set of watercolors. Hard to Forget) Leonard Justinian has been painting for more than 60 years. Thursdays, 11:50–1:15, Jan. 21–Feb. 11 Among other honors, he has received the Grumbacher Instructors: Ted Mosser, Marianne Metz Award. He teaches watercolor painting in his Fairfax City Two seasoned radio producers devoted to classic songs studio and is also seen on Fairfax Public Access Cable TV, Cox and performers bring some of the best to OLLI. They’ve Cable Channel 10, and Verizon FiOS Channel 10. He is a selected American popular song classics from the 1920s member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, through the 1960s, performed by top entertainers. www.wslp.org. Numbers have been chosen for their visual as well as R104 The Ongoing Pleasures of their musical qualities. Via YouTube we'll see stunning Music performances by Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, the Mondays, 2:15–3:40, Jan. 25–Feb. 15 Mills Brothers, Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers, Instructor: Gloria Sussman the Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, This music listening course has continued to live up to and many more. At least 20 performances will be its promising title. We explore with pleasure the many featured over the course of four weeks, and once you facets of classical music with the use of DVDs and see them, you'll find them hard to forget! An 1 Art and Music as tax policy and the distribution of income. We will YouTube. You may sample the wide variety of musical also look briefly at private, state, and local debt. Class offerings from previous terms by searching for Gloria discussion may be supplemented with presentations by Sussman on YouTube.com. experts from the George Mason faculty or National Gloria Sussman has been teaching at OLLI since 2000 and continues to provide entertaining programs for OLLI at Debt Commission members. Reston. Jim Cantwell, an OLLI member, retired from the US Senate Joint Economic Committee. He worked as a health L105 Beginning Drawing and economist/budget analyst at the US House of Sketching Representatives Committee on the Budget and at the Government Accountability Office. He was an assistant Wednesdays, 11:50–1:15, Jan. 20–Feb. 10 professor of economics at Texas A&M University and a Instructor: Kathie West health economist with the American Medical Association. Class limit: 14 Participants with or without drawing experience will F202 Tax Preparation Simplified learn basic techniques for drawing with pencil and ink. Tuesdays, 9:40–11:05, Jan. 19–Feb. 2 You will be introduced to materials useful in drawing Three sessions simple objects, still life, and landscapes. (After Fairfax Lord of Life registration you will be emailed a list of items needed.) Coordinator: Leo Brennan Class participation is expected and practice done at This series of lectures is intended to help you with the home will be very helpful. Come out and see that you preparation of your income tax returns. too can sketch. ● Jan. 19: A Review of Federal Tax Laws, with an Kathie West, an OLLI member, was a high school theater Emphasis on Senior-related Issues. Presenter John teacher at Robert E. Lee High School and Thomas Higgins is a tax training specialist for AARP Tax-Aide, Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. She is Virginia. also a talented artist whose home serves as an art gallery ● Jan. 26: A Review of Virginia Tax Laws for Seniors to for her many drawings and paintings. Consider. John Higgins will build on the previous lecture, describing the requirements of Virginia tax 200 Economics and laws in preparing federal and state tax returns, and Finance using the content and organization of your documentation "shoebox" to help prepare your returns. F201 Federal Deficits and Debt: ● Feb. 2: Everything You Always Wanted to Know 2016 and Beyond about Your Taxes but Were Afraid to Ask. Linda de Marlor, who teaches tax law at real estate and Mondays, 9:40–11:05, Jan. 25–Feb. 15 educational institutions, will give a brief presentation Instructor: Jim Cantwell about issues that affect most seniors, and then she’ll This course will address several aspects of federal open the session to questions on real estate, legal, and deficits, including the current debt level, how it has financial issues. She has appeared on hundreds of radio grown over time, and projected debt levels over the and TV shows, and is returning to OLLI for her ninth next several decades. Because of their large and season. growing contributions to federal deficits, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on the debt F203 Retired with Questions will be examined in some depth. Questions to be Wednesdays, 9:40–11:05, Jan. 20–Feb. 10 addressed include: Why does the federal debt matter, Coordinator: Leo Brennan anyway? Are we any different than Greece, a country Class limit: 25 in fiscal distress? Is there a ratio of US debt to national As seniors look through the kaleidoscope of life, we income where a debt-fueled economic crisis becomes find our world constantly changing, and we hunger to inevitable? What is the trade-off between fiscal know what others are doing in similar situations. This austerity and economic growth? Are America’s and our open forum, an outgrowth of the Investment Forum grandkids’ futures in peril because of the growing and other OLLI classes, is designed to address the debt? How might the debt impact current retirees? concerns of seniors regarding a wide range of The federal budget process will be examined, as well retirement issues. A panel of experienced investors will 2 History provide answers to member questions through 300 History friendly discussion. Presenters include: Al Smuzynski, Investment Forum moderator; Lou Coglianese, Investment Forum member; Mike May, financial planner for seniors; and Helen Flynn, seniors’ real F301 Commemorating the Seminal estate expert. Topics may include annuities, fixed Events Our Boys Faced in WWII income, asset allocations, management of IRAs, Mondays, 11:50–1:15, Jan. 25–Feb. 8 staying in your home, downsizing, how to make your Three sessions money last, and moving to a new location. Instructor: Jim Lewis ● Jan. 20: Class members will identify their areas of This series of lectures, illustrated with PowerPoint concern. slides, will concentrate on several of the seminal ● Jan. 27–Feb. 10: Panel members will address events of the Second World War. member concerns. ● Jan. 25: What Our Boys Faced on D-Day. This talk will focus on the difficulties that the Allies faced in F204 The Tom Crooker Investment undertaking the largest amphibious invasion ever take Forum place. Wednesdays, 11:50–1:15, Jan. 20–Feb. 10 ● Feb. 1: D-Day +1 through the Battle of the Bulge. Fairfax Lord of Life This lecture details the fascinating sequence of events Moderator: Al Smuzynski following the Allied Landing through Hitler’s surprise The Investment Forum, which meets weekly winter offensive. throughout the year, addresses investment topics of ● Feb. 8: Downfall: The Empire’s Last Stand. This particular interest to retirees. A weekly agenda is presentation focuses on events from mid-1945 through distributed, and each session begins with open the end of the war in the Pacific, with special attention discussion of recent events in the economy and in to the largest planned amphibious invasion in history. financial markets, and their impact on investment Jim Lewis is a noted Civil War and World War II historian, decisions. Member presentations typically include lecturer, and local Civil War site tour guide. He recently topics such as recent market indicators, stocks, bonds, visited Europe to do in-depth research for his latest work, The Battle of Normandy through the Bulge. His works funds (mutual, exchange-traded, and closed-end), include: The Hunter Mill Road Civil War Self-Guided Tour, REITS, options, commodities, master limited Forgotten Roads of the Hunter Mill Corridor, and Sunstroke partnerships, sectors, allocations, and investment and Ankle Deep Mud. strategies. We use analyses and data from the financial press. F302 National Park Ranger Potpourri Al Smuzynski is a retired bank regulator and an advocate VIII of affordable housing. He currently serves on the boards of Thursdays, 2:15–3:40, Jan. 21–Feb. 11 Virginia Community Capital and Community Capital Bank of Fairfax Lord of Life Virginia. Coordinators: Brad Berger, Emmett Fenlon It’s back for Round 8! Due to continued interest in the L205 Tax Preparation Simplified mystery “potpourri” concept, the National Park Service Wednesdays, 9:40–11:05, Jan. 20–Feb. 3 will reveal four new topics on each presentation day. If Three sessions you enjoy surprises, this is the course for you! We will Coordinator: Leo Brennan explore local connections to people, places, or events This class is a repeat of F202. which shaped our nation’s history. National Park Service rangers have participated with OLLI in over 80 thematic courses, special events, and trips since 2001. 3 History R305 Battles in Eastern Europe That R303 The Great War: Imperfect Framed Our Times Peace and Revolution in Russia Tuesdays, 11:50–1:15, Feb. 2–Feb. 9 Mondays, 11:50–1:15, Jan. 25–Feb. 15 Two sessions Instructor: Bernie Oppel Instructor: Ed Janusz Class limit: 75 The struggle for world supremacy known as the Cold The Great War ended in November 1918, but the war’s War has resumed today in the dispute over Ukraine. unresolved issues, and the imperfect peace that This presentation will address three battles near the followed it, reverberated throughout Europe, East Vistula River (in what is now Poland) and discuss how Asia, and the Middle East for the remainder of the they framed Europe for the ongoing conflict. Those 20th century. The Russian Revolution, a major three battles are: consequence of the war, roiled international affairs for ● Grunwald/Tannenberg I (1410). Laid the framework decades. History can be viewed as a process of for the governance of Eastern Europe. interpretation and reinterpretation of events, or as a ● Tannenberg II (1914). Gave impetus to the events recitation of immutable facts. This course follows the which ultimately culminated in the Communist first approach and focuses on the long-term Revolution. consequences and complex legacies of World War I. ● Soviet/Polish/Ukranian/Lithuanian War (“Miracle of Beginning with a broad overview of the final phase of the Vistula”) (1919/1920). Contained that revolution the Great War, we will examine the consequences of for at least two decades, but laid the groundwork for the Treaty of Versailles before concluding with an fascism in the 1930s and for the current crisis in the analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917. This course Ukraine. is a revised version of F306 from the winter 2015 term, Ed Janusz retired after a career in the US Army Corps of and it incorporates class discussion within a lecture Engineers and the aerospace and computer services format. industries. He is a published author who spent his early Bernie Oppel, OLLI member, is a retired Foreign Service years among Eastern Europeans and will attempt to present officer and retired Air Force colonel. He holds a PhD in the events from their perspective. modern European/Russian history from Duke University. He has taught history at the USAF Academy, as well as several R306 Reston: Past, Present and history and history film courses at OLLI. Future R304 Internment of Japanese- Tuesdays, 2:15–3:40, Jan. 19–Jan. 26 Americans during World War II Two sessions Rose Gallery at Reston Community Center, Lake Anne Tuesdays, 9:40–11:05, Jan. 19–Jan. 26 Coordinator: Ann Youngren Two sessions ● Jan. 19: Reston: The Inspirational Early Years. This Instructor: Robert Finkelstein class will examine the inspiration behind the founding Approximately 112,000 Japanese-Americans (70% of of Reston and its exciting early years, from Robert E. whom were US citizens) living on the West Coast were Simon’s purchase of Sunset Hills Farm in 1961 through interned during World War II only because of their 1967, when Gulf Oil took over the community’s ancestry. This class will trace the history of Japanese development. Using archived materials and movie clips immigration and discrimination in the US, the from the Reston Historic Trust, this class will discuss historical events of World War II, some of the Simon’s original goals for Reston, the early architecture experiences of those interned, the legal issues and of Reston, and the issues the innovative community Supreme Court cases, and politics during the War. The faced. class will also review the events after World War II, ● Jan. 26: Reston: The Present and the Future. Class including efforts to compensate those interned and participants will learn about the major issues that face legal cases to reverse the convictions of those Reston today: how the Silver Line is affecting the internees found guilty. community, the proposed redevelopment around Lake Robert Finkelstein earned his BS in American government Anne, and the 50th anniversary of Reston’s founding. from Columbia University, and his MS in computer systems from American University. Over the past year, he has We will view more archived materials and film clips extensively read about and studied the internment. from the collection of the Reston Historic Trust. Presenters for these sessions will be members of the board of the Reston Historic Trust. 4