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President’s Corner 5555

Board Minutes 6666

Culture Corner 7777

Campus Events 8888

Arts Seminar Series 9999----10101010

Club OLLI 11111111

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OLLI CONTACTS

OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute

University of California, Irvine

UCI Extension PO Box 6050

Irvine, California 92616-6050

Phone: (949) 451-1403 Email: olli@uci.edu

Woodbridge Office: Karen McKenzie or

Barbara Barone 4662 Barranca Pkwy.

Irvine, CA (above Barnes and Noble)

OLLI WEBSITE www.extension.uci.edu/

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Summer Lite at OLLI

Enrollment begins June 3.

See pages 2 and 3 for directions, fees, and class descriptions — page 4 for

the enrollment form.

Classes in the following: Money Matters

Theatre Workshop Mindfulness Transitions Watercolors

Options in Life Movie Talk

Social Networking Tai Chi

I– Phone Tips Sherman Gardens

From July 8 to July 30 at

Woodbridge Onken unless otherwise noted.

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SUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORMSUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORMSUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORMSUMMER LITE ENROLLMENT FORM

PRESIDENT’S CORNERPRESIDENT’S CORNERPRESIDENT’S CORNERPRESIDENT’S CORNER

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OLLI members are certainly special – just look at our 15th Anniversary celebration at the U Club. It was wonderful seeing so many there, and we missed those of you who could not make it. As part of our fifteenth year’s drawing to a close, I do want to thank our outgoing board members: Pam McGovern has led us for three years and will continue to share her expertise as Immediate-Past-President to guide OLLI through negotiating processes, Nila Kyser has carefully recorded our board meetings, and Jan Elbaum has worked hard on our membership plans. We greatly appreciate their time and accomplishments. In addition, those who planned and executed our amazing 15th Anniversary cannot be thanked enough. Julie Hume’s idea for a relaxed, joyful barbecue definitely succeeded. Enjoying food, music, games, bidding on the Silent Auction, and each other, over 140 members attended. Julie headed a talented com-mittee: Bev Fritz for the Silent Auction, Joann Burch for the Tribute Book with Anne DeWitt providing art, Al Fuller and Leah Jordan for ice-breaking games, Meredith Cheston for the Lex Leigh Combo, Kay Kurtz for decorating the tables, Jerry and Judy Florman and Martin and Mildred Litke for registering guests, Karen McKenzie and Barb Barone for keeping track of multiple details, and many others who filled in where needed. The next Outlook will not come out until August 1, but we are now looking forward to the remaining June classes, UCI events, and Summer Lite. Pat Linehan President, OLLI at UCI

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(These minutes are not official until approved at a future Board meeting.)

During the May 15 celebration of OLLI’s fifteenth anniversary on the lawn of the University Club Pam McGovern, outgoing President, called the Annual Meeting to order at 5:15 PM. Nila Kyser, outgoing Secretary, was honored for her service. Pam presented the nominees for the Board of Directors for the term June, 2013-May, 2014. New mem-bers begin a two-year term to 2015. President Pat Linehan VP/Administration Barry Ackerman VP/Programs Jessie Tromberg VP Member Services Lee Winocur Field Secretary Joanne Yeager Treasurer Sherri Nussbaum Director-Planning and Assessment TBA Director-Volunteer Development Leah Jordan Director-Special Projects Julie Hume Director-Communication Joann Burch Immediate-Past-President Pam McGovern It was MOVED, seconded and approved that the above members be elected to serve on the OLLI Board of Directors for the June 2013-May 2014 term. The meeting was closed at 5:22 PM. Thanks were given to the fine job done by the Fifteenth Anniversary Committee. Pam McGovern, out-going President, was honored for her service. Submitted by Nila Kyser, Secretary

Volunteer Alert Arts & Humanities committee is looking for an editor for the catalog pages starting with the Spring 2014 catalog. Please contact Judy Gould if you are interested:949-760-8835 or judygould@peoplepc.com. Newsletter Chair is needed to coordinate and proofread items submitted by members. Once a month the office e-mails the newsletter which is formatted by our volunteer editor Jim Semelroth. Please contact Leah Jordan if you are interested: jordanLR@cox.net. Facilitators are needed for Spring 2014 courses. Send Leah Jordan an email to let her know that you want to volunteer. jordanLR@cox.net

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General Information: The minutes from April to be approved at a future Board meeting will be posted on the OLLI bulletin board at the back of the Onken Classroom. Note that the current Donors’ List can be found at www.olliuci.wordpress.com by clicking on the Thank you for

your Donation tab. The list will also be published in both the Spring and Fall catalogs

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CULTURE CORNERCULTURE CORNERCULTURE CORNERCULTURE CORNER

FILM REVIEWS THE RELUCTANT FUNDMENTALIST Based on a novel by Pakistani author, Mohsin Hamid, this film is amazingly rich in texture and thought. Riz Ahmed delivers a brilliant performance as the conflicted protagonist. In the post 9/11 world, where does he belong, where are his loyalties? Does it belong to Pakistan, where his family lives, where he was born? To Prince-ton, where he was educated, to New York where he lives? America views him with suspicion. Philosophies, theories thicken; nothing is as it seems. The experience is like viewing an engrossing book, with the big screen as your tablet. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN Salman Rushdie tells a story – his story, not quite a bedtime story, but one filled with grandeur and magic and history. With the birth of a nation, Pakistan from India, all children born in that hour are said to have special magical powers. And so his story unfolds, weaving history with midnight’s children and their personal tales. There is humor among Fellini-esque spectacle, mixed with cruelties. I was particularly struck with how much Satya Bhabha, one of midnight’s children and central character to the story, looks like a young Al Pacino. Jessie Tromberg

TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY

Attention: OLLI members who attended “All the Worlds a Stage” AH 111 and any others interested in world travel. As dance professor Sheron Wray mentioned, she is interested in bringing people from the commu-nity to Ghana along with dance students and faculty. If you would like to explore the cultural rich-ness there as well as interact with some wonderfully brilliant professors from the University of Gha-na, please e-mail her at wrays@uci.edu and ask her to send you a survey to help her determine the viability of an international trip in 2014. Also if you would like a link to the documentary film she showed on the 2010 Ghana Project, please send Sheron an e-mail and she will be happy to share it.

VISIT THE WEBSITE: uci.edu/calendar/?

SAT, JUNE 1 Drama. Spring Awakening by Steven Sater. 8 PM, Claire Trevor Theatre. $11-$20. Continues through June 8. More: 949.824.2787 Physics & Astronomy. Visitor Night at the Observatory: The High- Energy Uni-verse. With Kevork Abazajian, physics & astronomy assistant professor. 8-10 PM, Observatory. Suggested donation $5 per family. More: tsmecker@uci.edu or 949.824.2603

TUES, JUNE 4

Humanities. Author Series: The Famous and the Dead. With T. Jefferson Parker, au-thor. 6 PM, Humanities Gateway, Room 1030. Free. More: humanities@uci.edu.

WED, JUNE 5. Francophone Animation Fest. The Rabbi’s Cat France 2011. Introduced by Laura Klein, French UCI.7pm. McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway. Free. Author Series. The Devotional Poems by Joe Hall and Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Foerster. 5 PM. The Hill (UCI Bookstore). Free.

THURS, JUNE 6 Drama. Goldoni Gold. Written and directed by Eli Simon. 8 PM, Little Theatre. Cost TBD. Continues through June 8. More: 949.824.2787

FRI, JUNE 7

Music. UCI Symphony Orchestra. With Stephen Tucker, conductor. Conversation 7 PM, concert 8 PM Irvine Barclay Theatre. $12-$16. More: 949.824.2787

Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center. Stem Cell Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease: Overcoming Translational Issues and New Models. With Frank Laferla, neu-robiology & behavior Chancellor's Professor and Chair, and Institute for Memory Im-pairments & Neurological Disorders director. 11 AM - Noon, Sue & Bill Gross Hall, 4th Floor. Free. More: stemcell@research.uci.edu or 949.824.9621

SAT, JUNE 15

Arboretum. June Gloom? No, June Bloom! Featuring succulents, perennials, and blooming bulbs. 9 AM-3 PM, Arboretum. Free admission and parking. More: ldlyons@uci.edu or 949.824.5833

REMINDER TO OLLI MEMBERS: Shakespeare Under the Stars on Sale

Buy your Shakespeare Festival tickets now - they’re going fast! King Lear and A Midsummer

Night’s Dream will rotate in August, followed by The Fantasticks musical in September. En-

joy the mini-Elizabethan New Swan Theater in UCI’s Aldrich Park. General admission $30,

Seniors $25, Full-time Students $20. Call Claire Trevor Box Office at 824-2787 or visit

www.arts.uci.edu/tickets. More info at www.newswanshakespeare.com.

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FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013FREE UCI ARTS SEMINAR SERIES 2013

July 18 – lunchtime in Swan, 12 pm* Staging Theater in A Midsummer Night's Dream Ian Munro – NSSF Dramaturge and Professor of Drama

July 25 – 5 pm in Swan* The Role of the Vocal and Text Coach Phil Thompson – Fool in King Lear and Co-Artistic Director NSSF

August 10 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm

Directing King Lear Eli Simon – Director of King Lear and Artistic Director NSSF

August 16 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm

Curses and Blessings in King Lear Julia Lupton – NSSF Dramaturge and Chair of English

August 22 – lunchtime in Swan, 12 pm* Acting in Shakespeare Robert Cohen – Honorary Artistic Director NSSF and Professor of Drama

August 23 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm Directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream Beth Lopes – Director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, MFA in Directing, UCI

August 28 – lunchtime in Swan, 12 pm* Playing the Role of King Lear Dudley Knight – King Lear in King Lear and Professor Emeritus of Drama

September 8 – pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm

Shakespeare and Music Gary Busby – Music Director of The Fantasticks and Chair of Drama

September 19 - pre-show outside Swan, 7 pm Directing The Fantasticks Myrona Delaney – Director of The Fantasticks and Professor of Drama

* Daytime seminars include a tour of The New Swan Theater

* Please feel free to bring a bag lunch Talk-backs with actors, directors, and dramaturges after all Friday shows

For show times, tickets, and information: www.newswanshakespeare.com.

JULY SPECIALS: NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE UCI dance professor Molly Lynch celebrates NCI’s 10th Anniversary with a special evening Saturday, July 13th commemorating the many choreographic successes created on the Irvine Barclay stage. NCI Highlights presents excerpts from NCI pieces now in the repertoire of companies around the country. NCI’s celebration continues Saturday, July 27 at 8 PM at the Barclay with the birth of 4 new ballets created as part of the intensive 3-week process where 4 noted choreographers (David Fernandez, Susan McCullough, Kitty McNamee and Petr Zahradnicek) create new pieces on 16 professional dancers. Show your OLLI ID at the Barclay to get student tickets for $20 for either show (buy both

shows and save $5 a ticket); adult tickets $30; VIP $60. Call 949-854-4646 to buy tickets or

visit www.thebarclay.org.

MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTATION: MAURY AND JERRY OLLI members are invited to a free presentation by UCI drama professors Myrona Delaney and Dennis Castellano’s class for big ensemble numbers from musicals on Wednesday, June 12 at 8 PM in Winifred Smith Hall. The program will include works by Maury Yeston (ie. Nine, Grand Hotel, Titanic, Phantom) and by Jerry Herman (ie. Mack and Mabel, Hello Dol-ly, Mame, Le Cage aux Folles). No reservations required.

HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY, OLLI AT UCI

MORE UCI ARTS MORE UCI ARTS MORE UCI ARTS MORE UCI ARTS

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OLLI Bridge Players

Contact Club OLLI Bridge facilitators Jan Hundeby (949) 551-0202, ted41jan@sbcglobal.net or Carole Hill (949-509-0202, marketfan@aol.com or see the Spring Cat-alog for information. One more meeting at 1:00 PM, Tues-day, June 25 at Woodbridge.

Mah Jongg

We play Mah Jongg on a drop-in basis on Tuesdays 1:30 PM at Rancho Senior Center; guests are welcome, and we will be playing all summer. For more information, see the Spring Catalog or e-mail Estelle Elkin estelle.elkin@att.net.

Calling All Amateur Musicians If you play the violin, flute, cello, piano or other musical instrument, let’s get together and see if we can form an OLLI group to make some beautiful music.

Contact Nancy Tepper at (949) 644-2190 or nbtepper@aol.com.

OLLI LIBRARY NEWS

The OLLI library has a great new addition for those who missed or want to re-live the Fall 2012 class World War II Remembered Part 3. It is a six disc set of the presentation told by those who lived history. One disc covers “The Battle of Midway.” Another “The North Atlantic in the RCN” and “Life in the Navy.” Another “Life in the Black Air Force.” Also ”Wasp Service and a Tribute to Vi Cowden,” “The Japanese-American 442 Regimental Combat Team” and “The Next Generation: Survivors and Perpetra-tors.”

EXCEPTIONAL LEARNING FOR INFINITE MINDS

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OLLI BOARD OF

DIRECTORS

Pat Linehan President

Barry Ackerman

VP Administration

Jessie Tromberg VP Programs

Lee Winocur Field VP Member Services

Joanne Yeager

Secretary

Sherri Nussbaum Treasurer

TBA

Director-Planning and Assessment

Leah Jordan

Director -Volunteer Development

Julie Hume

Director-Special Projects

Joann Burch Director-Communication

Pam McGovern

Immediate-Past-President

Tanya Zabalegui

Liaison, Univ. Extension (ex-officio)

Newsletter Deadline Submit articles to Pat Linehan by the third Tuesday of each month. pblinehan@gmail.com.

Jim Semelroth, Editor