OLLI at Auburn FALL 2022 Course Grid

Classes: September 12 – November 4
Registration period: August 15 – September 22

Course Grid

Course Descriptions

Class Location	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Alternate Location
Date	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Alternate Location
MONDAY	Learning Spanish Sylvia Cooke 9-10:30am Main Classroom In-person	American Citizenship and Its Decline Jim Barber and Herb Shivers 9/12-10/3; 9-10:30am Hybrid C.S. Lewis on Christianity Herb Shivers and Jim Barber 10/10-10/31; 9–10:30am Hybrid	Writing Our Lives Terry Ley and Cathy Buckhalt 9–10:30am In-person	Opera's Greatest Composers: Verdi & Wagner Elizabeth Aversa 9/12–10/31; 9-10:15am OLLI Shares UA	Shorter Hikes at Chewacla State Park Harold Bruner 9–11:30am Meet at Chewacla. In-person
		The Reagan Legacy: How Does It Compare with Republican Conservativism Today Larry Gerber 11:00am–12:30pm Hybrid	Writing Poetry: Vision and Revision Ken Autrey 11am –12:30pm In-person	The Road to Pearl Harbor Tennent Lee 9/12–10/17 10:30am–12pm OLLI Shares UAH	Silver Sneakers David Tillman 11:30am-12:30pm Meet at Max Fitness – Auburn M&F In-person
	Study of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism Mical Traynor 2:30-4pm Main Classroom In-person		The Secret Life of Trees Anne Randle 2:30 - 4pm In-person
	Mah Jong SIG Ann Beale, Judy Jones, and Mary Ann Hanson 3-5pm Kitchen area	Exploring Drawing Media and Techniques Margee Bright-Ragland 5-6:30pm In-person

Class Location	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Boykin Gym
Date	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Boykin Gym
TUESDAY		Communism in Power From Stalin to Mao John Parr 9/13-10/18 9-10:30am In-person	Philip Henry Gosse: Naturalist-artist in Alabama, 1838 Gary Mullen 9/13–10/4; 9–10:30am OLLI Shares AU Hybrid Ancient Life in Alabama Bill Deutsch 10/11–11/1; 9-10:30am OLLI Shares AU Hybrid		Line Dancing for Beginners Betsy Keown 9-9:45am In-person Line Dancing Intermediate Betsy Keown 10-10:45am In-person
	Did You See the Movie, CODA? Betty Hare 9/13-11/1 No class 9/21-10/4 11am-12:30pm Main Classroom In-person	The Land Looks After Us: An Introduction to the Study of Native American Religious History Joel Martin 11:00am-12:30pm Hybrid	Brazil: The Southern Giant Sonny Dawsey 11am-12:30pm In-person
				Significant Events that Shaped the Wild West Richard Rhone 9/13–10/4; 1:30-2:45pm OLLI Shares UA America's Longest Conflict- The Apache Wars Richard Rhone 10/11–11/1; 1:30-2:45pm OLLI Shares UA
		Fall Mysteries Harold Bruner 2:30–4pm In-person	Europe and the United States after the Great War: Conflict and Diplomacy Joseph Kicklighter Hybrid 2:30–4pm	Whatever Happened to Folk Music, Part VII Mike Reinke 2:30–4pm OLLI Shares AU
		Writer’s Workshop Patricia Foster 9/20 and 9/27; 5-7pm In-person	New South Book Series: Children of Dust by Marlin Barton 8/30; 4–5 pm In-person

Class Location	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Auburn Public Library	Boykin Auditorium	Alternate Location
Date	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Auburn Public Library	Boykin Auditorium	Alternate Location
WEDNESDAY			The Asia-Pacific War Frank Broz 9–10:30am OLLI Shares Hybrid	Psychological Reality and Unwarranted Beliefs Bill Confer 9/14–10/19 8:30-10:00am OLLI Shares UAH		African American Education in Alabama Elijah Gaddis and Keith Hebert 9–10:30am In-person	Tai Chi Kitty Frey 10:45-11:15am Boykin Gym In-person
	OLLI Brown Bag Series Boykin Community Center Auditorium 11:30am – 1:00pm
	Fall Gardening in East Alabama Charles Mitchell 2:30-4pm Main Classroom In-person	Chinese Brush Painting Dong Shang 2:30–4pm In-person		Military Blunders, Season 3 John Mason 9/21 – 10/26 1:15-2:45pm OLLI Shares UAH	The Brain Train Jay Jones 2:30–4pm In-person
			New South Book Series: More Than Peanuts: The Unlikely Partnership of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver by Edith Powell 9/14; 4–5pm In-person

Class Location	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Auburn Public Library	Alternate Location
Date	Sunny Slope	Annex	Pebble Hill	Zoom Only	Auburn Public Library	Alternate Location
THURSDAY	Staying Active: Day Hiking Harold Bruner 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Meet at Sunny Slope In-person	Seasonal Craft Workshops Sarah McMillian 9-11am In-person		Russian-Ukrainian: Forward to the Past Jay West 8:30am – 10:30am	Desegregating Schools in Alabama: Voices from the Field Jason Bryant 9-10:30am In-person	Walk This Way Bob Banks 8:30-9:30am Meet at Toomers Corner In-person
	Cultural Heritages Adeola Fayemi, Mariela Delgado, and Susie Webster 9/15, 22 10/13, 20, 27 11/3 11am-12:30pm Main Classroom In-person	Needlework SIG Joan Sampson 11:30am-12:30pm		Sounds of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra Christopher Confessore and Maria Wilson 9/15,29, 10/13,11/3; 10:30–11:45 am	The Columbian Exchange Rod Rodriguez-Kabana 11-12:30am In-person
		Introduction to Architecture Drawing Laura Murray 9/15–10/6 2:30-4:00pm In-person	New South Book Series: Mobilizing the South: The Thirty- First Infantry Division, Race, and World War II by Chris Reid 10/13; 4–5pm		History of Architecture and Art Philip Fretwell 2:30-4:00pm In-person
		Writer’s Workshop Patricia Foster 9/22 and 9/29 5-7pm In-person	New South Book Series: How to Survive the Apocalypse by Jacqueline Trimble 11/3; 4–5pm In-person

Class Location	Sunny Slope Annex	Alternate Location
Date
FRIDAY	Introduction to Jamaican Cooking Tanisha Stephens 9/16–10/21 11am–1pm In-person	Silver Sneakers 11:30am-12:30pm Meet at Max Fitness – Auburn M&F In-person
	Afternoons reserved for Committee, Council, and staff meetings

OLLI Brown Bag Series 11:30am – 1:00pm Boykin Community Center Auditorium 400 Boykin St. Auburn
September 14	OLLI Business Meeting
September 21	Jason Chang presents Taiwan: A Pleasant Island Waiting for You to Explore
September 28	Sheila Masters presents A Brief History of Human Subjects Research
October 5	Gerald Johnson presents The Realities of the Electoral and Voting Processes
October 12	David Tillman presents Living Your Best Life!!!
October 19	Zanice Bond presents A Death in the Family: Quilts, Memory, and Bereavement
October 26	Wayne Flynt presents his book Afternoons with Harper Lee
November 2	Larry Gerber presents Murder and My Rug Adventure in the Republic of Georgia

Workshop Wednesdays
September 14 4:30-6:00pm	Sept 28, Oct 19, Nov 9 4:30-6:00pm	October 12 4:00-4:45pm
Telfair Peet backstage tour	Robotics	Gogue Performing Arts Center backstage tour

Last Updated: August 3, 2022