OLLI at SOU NEWSFLASH
July 12, 2021
A Taste of OLLI
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Open to All & Accessible from Anywhere!
Don't miss the OLLI Summer Speakers Series. Four experienced OLLI instructors will each provide a one-hour talk that exemplifies the diverse OLLI curriculum. Here's the line-up, held Tuesdays from 4:00 – 5:00 PM PDT.

  • July 20: Anna Sloan, Remarkable Women in Southern Oregon History
  • July 27: Lorenzo Taylor, The African-American Experience in History and Poetry
  • August 3: Karen Grove, See Like a Geologist—the Landscapes Around Us
  • August 10: Irv Lubliner, There's Magic in Math (and Vice Versa)

Click here for more details about the speakers and topics and to register for any or all of the programs in which you are interested. Registration is required to obtain a Zoom link. Tell a friend!
OLLI in the News
Interesting reading in an article in the Ashland Tidings by volunteer instructor Lorenzo Taylor talking about the courses he teaches at OLLI and his upcoming presentation for a "Taste of OLLI." Click here to read the article online, or here to download a PDF.

Thank you, Lorenzo! And special thanks to Mitzi Loftus for encouraging Lorenzo to teach at OLLI, too. OLLI instructors and members do a great job of recruiting new instructors. If you know someone who would be a good instructor, please let them know that the course proposal period for winter term will open in August and the Curriculum Committee is available to meet with potential instructors.
Free Lifelong Learning Opportunities
OLLI-UA (University of Arizona) Online Speaker Series: Monsoon 2021 features an exciting array of speakers at no cost to all current Osher Network members using zoom webinar. Click here for the full series including upcoming live events and recordings of speakers past.
  • Next up is "Dear Bob... Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G. I.s of World War II" on Monday, July 19, at 1:00 PM PDT. Click here to learn more and register.
  • Followed by Inside the FBI with Frank Figliuzzi – NBC News National Security Analyst on Monday, July 26 at 1:00 PM PDT. Click here for more information and registration.
  • And in August, check out Voice Acting Deep Dive with Dee Bradley Baker – An Intergenerational Event on Monday, August 9, at 1:00 PM PDT. Click here for more information and registration.
  • Then New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond with Larry Simon on Monday, August 23 at 1:00 PM PDT. Click here for more information and registration.

Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center invites you to learn more about the importance of serpentine rock in our area in the first of a two-part series on our soil on Thursday, July 15, 6:00 – 7:00 PM PDT. Click here for more information and to sign up. Part 2 is on Wednesday, August 25, 6:00 – 7:00 PM PDT. More information here.

Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument present SOU instructor Chelsea Rose speaking on Archeology: Oregon Heritage Excellence Award – The Buck Tunnel and the Chinese Diaspora, Thursday, July 29, 6:00 PM PDT. Southern Oregon University's Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project archaeology field school spent the first week in July 2019 conducting archaeological investigations at the Buck Rock Tunnel – the original Oregon and California Railroad route through the Siskiyou mountains south of Ashland. Click here to learn more and to sign up. Andif you live in the area, you can follow it up with a hike to see Buck Rock Tunnel entrances for yourself, a short drive from Ashland.

SOU's Schneider Museum of Art wraps up its current exhibition "Art Beyond," which takes place in various locations around the Rogue Valley, on July 18. This innovative integration of natural space and art is a fun, COVID-safe way to enjoy art and the outdoors. Click here to learn more.