Assistant Director Casserly Wins Award / Summer Dates / Lifelong Learning Opportunities

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OLLI at SOU NEWSFLASH

June 14, 2021

OLLI Assistant Director Wins Award

OLLI's Assistant Director Rob Casserly received Southern Oregon University's Service Excellence Award at the University's Annual End-of-Year Meeting on June 9. In nominating Rob for this honor, Rachel Jones, Director of Outreach and Engagement, said:

"Throughout the pandemic, Rob has shown tremendous commitment to ensuring that OLLI at SOU seamlessly transitioned its operations and instruction to a virtual model. Despite all of the challenges of the past year, he has provided OLLI leaders, instructors, and members with the highest level of support. He is always accessible, always thinking through potential issues for members and how to avoid them, and always keeping in mind the importance of the relationship between OLLI and SOU. He consistently anticipates the needs of OLLI, ensures the entire OLLI team is responsive to its members, and has shown unwavering dedication to service excellence."

OLLI congratulates you, Rob, and thanks you for your work!

Summer Dates to Note

July 1: Registration opens for OLLI 2021-2022 membership

July 5: Office closed for the July 4 holiday

July 26: Fall catalog available online and course request lottery period opens

August 1: Winter course proposal period opens

August 6: Fall course request lottery closes

August 16: Fall course assignments mailed/emailed

August 23: Fall open enrollment begins

August 31: Winter course proposal period closes

September 6: Labor Day Holiday - Office closed

September 13: Fall term begins

November 19: Fall term ends

Free Lifelong Learning Opportunities

OLLI at Berkshire Community College invites all OLLI members to attend an online discussion with presidential historian and speechwriter Jeff Shesol on his new book, one of the Washington Post's "20 books to read this summer:" Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War. Thursday, June 17, 7:00 PM EDT. Free. Click here to sign up.

Attend the virtual Aspen Ideas Festival Celebrate June 27 through July 1. The Festival features renowned speakers on a variety of topics. Free and all are welcome, click here to register.

"The Elders," an organization of world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, offers thought-provoking articles, blogs, and podcasts on issues facing the world today. Click here to learn more.

Celebrate Brain Health Awareness Month with a series of podcasts from Aspen Ideas on building and maintaining your brain. Click here to listen.

The Stanford Center on Longevity summarizes current research conducted on healthy aging in a series of articles available on their website. Click here to read more.

On vacation without a book? Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks offering free epub and Kindle eBooks to download or read online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Click here to start browsing their virtual shelves.