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August
Club OLLI Newsletter
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August 23, 2024 | Issue 26 | |
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OLLI Fall 2024 - It's Not Too Late to Register!
Fall Classes Begin Next Monday, August 26th
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OLLI Fall 2024 courses begin next week on Monday, August 26th with new classes starting throughout the semester, ending December 6th. We have something for everyone!
- In-Person/On-Ground Classes
- Field Trips
- Online-Zoom Classes
- Special Interest Groups
Visit OLLI at Sierra College’s website to view courses, check class availability, and register today at www.sierraolli.org.
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OLLI Annual Membership
Please Renew Before Registering for Fall Courses
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If you haven't renewed your OLLI Membership, please do so before registering for Fall classes. OLLI Membership 2024-2025 is valid through July 31, 2025 and it covers our Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and Summer 2025 Terms. Current OLLI Membership must be purchased before registering for Fall 2024 course offerings or you must have a Membership in your shopping cart before you can see the Add to Cart button on our website. You also must be signed in!
To renew or purchase your OLLI Membership 2024-2025: Click Here!
Visit Sign In Page: Click Here!
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Featured OLLI Fall 2024 Course Offerings | | |
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Click on the course title below to view full class description/details and to register! | | |
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Communications and Media
Family History
Field Trips
Fitness and Wellness
Literature and Writing
Sandra Cisneros "My Name" and "Eleven"
Eudora Welty "A Worn Path"
Alice Walker "Everyday Use"
Amy Tan "Two Kinds"
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Water and Wetlands Series (Roseville)
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OLLI Fall 2024 Course Updates
Changes Made from OLLI Fall 2024 Catalog
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We've had a few course changes from what is printed in our Fall 2024 Course Catalog (pictured left). All Fall 2024 course changes, thus far, are noted below.
All Fall 2024 OLLI Bus and Overnight Field Trips are full. We still have room for some drive yourself options. You must be a current Member to be added to the Waitlist. We do not take payment for Waitlisted status items. If something opens up, we will contact you for payment.
Ongoing Memoir Writing (NCC-Grass Valley) Judie Rae - CRN: 82122
*Class on 9/10 meets Online via Zoom (not in person) at 3:30pm-5:30pm - For this class only.
Women's History Through Literature: The Women by Kristin Hannah (Online-Zoom) and (Roseville) Joan Griffin - SKU: FalCLIT331 and FalCLIT332
*Class days and dates differ from what is printed. Dates are correct Online. Class now meets on Thursdays, 9/26/2024 - 10/10/2024.
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Tai Chi Beginning and Beyond and Tai Intermediate are now one class! The new combined levels class will meet at Roseville Center on Tuesdays/Thursdays at 10:00am-10:50am.
Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series for October and November switched dates. Author, Mary Helen-Fein now meets on 10/18 (not 11/15). Author, Pat Miller now meets on 11/15 (not 10/18).
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Parking Permits
Parking permits are required on the main Sierra College campuses (Rocklin and Nevada County). A complimentary parking permit will be mailed to registered members and instructors of in-person classes happening at either campus.
- If you have not received your mailed parking permit prior to class, you can visit the Admissions and Records office at the Nevada County Campus to claim one before your class or purchase a daily parking permit from the dispensers in the parking lots for $3 per day.
- If you do not display a parking permit you will receive a parking ticket.
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Do not park in Staff or ADA parking unless you have a valid permit.
- Roseville Center has free street and garage parking (so classes here do not require a parking permit).
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Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series
Fall 2024 Lineup Now Available!
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Our Fall 2024 lineup of Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series is now available on our registration website Home page > under OLLI Extras > Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series or CLICK HERE!
*Note: Current OLLI Membership is required. Register for each Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series separately to receive the Zoom links to your email!
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Series Description — Our region is home to a variety of terrific authors who write a wide assortment of books. This monthly series of interviews will introduce us to some of these interesting, local writers and their books.
An Added Benefit — Your class fee is a donation to the Sierra College Food Pantry. One hundred percent of the registration proceeds made from the Author Spotlight Lunch Pail Series will be donated to the Sierra College Food Pantry. Thank you for joining our cause to help end student food insecurity on our campuses and in our community.
Thank you, OLLI members, for your support of this crucial resource for our Sierra College student body!
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September 20 – Catharine Bramkamp – Mystery – Deep Trouble: Sensible Adults - More Bad Choices
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Catharine Bramkamp, one of our very own OLLI instructors, is a writing coach, workshop facilitator and author of 22 fiction, non-fiction, and poetry books! She holds a BA in English from UCSB and a MA in English from Sonoma State University. Born and raised in Nevada City, she serves on the board for the Nevada County Arts Council, and is on the organizing committee for the Sierra Poetry Festival and the Sierra Writers Conference. She hosts writing groups and writing workshops. Her favorite activity is travel. She lives with her husband in Nevada City.
We will chat with Catharine about many things, but a big focus will be on her cozy mystery novel series whose main characters are all members of the “over sixty” crowd—people just like us OLLI members!
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October 18 – Mary Helen Fein – Fictionalized Family History – Stitching a Life | |
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Mary Helen Fein was born in Riverdale, New York, to a large New York family. She has a BA in English Literature from Temple University, an MS in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and for two years, she studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, America’s oldest art school. Today, she lives in Northern California where she writes, paints, and draws.
Mary Helen’s book, Stitching a Life, An Immigration Story, is a historical novel based on the amazing story of her grandmother, Helen, who came to New York City from Lithuania all by herself at the age of 16, in 1900. Not just the story of her grandmother, it is the story of each one of the millions of immigrants who crossed the ocean and entered through Ellis Island to find a better life in the New World.
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November 15 – Pat Miller – Memoir – Bamboo Secrets: One Woman’s Quest Through the Shadows of Japan | |
Patricia Dove Miller is a third-generation Californian, born and raised in the Berkeley hills. She has lived in the mountains outside of Cali, Colombia, in a tiny rice-farming village in North Thailand, and also at the edge of the northeastern hills in Kyoto, Japan. She attended Stanford University, and much later, at the age of sixty-six, completed her MFA in creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Pat lives in Grass Valley, where she is writing her second book and teaching creative writing.
Her memoir, Bamboo Secrets, focuses on the beauty and the difficulties she encountered while living in the cultural center of Kyoto, Japan.
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December 6 – Gary Noy – Narrative Nonfiction Short Story Collections about local history – Hellacious California! | |
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A Sierra Nevada native, Gary Noy has been a renowned history instructor at Sierra College for decades. The son and grandson of Cornish hardrock gold miners, Gary was born and raised in Grass Valley. He is a graduate of both UC Berkeley and CSU Sacramento. Gary is the founder and former director of the Sierra College Center for Sierra Nevada Studies and Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the Sierra College Press. His love of California history comes through in all his writing.
Above all else, Gary is a gifted storyteller, with many books of California stories to his name. We’ll chat with him about his book Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality! Revelry! Dissipation! Depravity! and the Birth of the Golden State.
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Sierra College Holiday 2024 Closure Dates
*Please Note: The OLLI Office will be closed on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 in celebration of the OLLI Instructor Appreciation Luncheon.
Monday, September 2...... Labor Day (No Courses, OLLI Closed)
Monday, October 14......... Start of Mid-Term Break (No Courses, OLLI Closed)
Friday, October 18............ End of Mid-Term Break (No Courses, OLLI Closed)
Friday, November 10........ Veterans Day (No Courses, OLLI Closed)
Thursday, November 28.. Thanksgiving Break (No Courses, OLLI Closed)
Friday, November 29.........Thanksgiving Break (No Courses, OLLI Closed)
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