Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Fall 2018
CLASS SCHEDULE
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RELIGION
POLY SCI
Thomas Merton: Monk and Writer
Instructor: Raph Martin Op-Ed Wednesdays
4 Sessions: Tuesdays, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 Instructors: Doug Chatem and John Hamilton
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 4 Sessions: Wednesdays, Oct. 31, Nov. 14, 28,
Cost: $36 Dec. 12
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
This course will introduce students to the life and Cost: $36
works of one of the most significant voices for
peace and spirituality in the Catholic Church since Op-Ed Wednesdays is a discussion forum for po-
the publication of his autobiography: THE SEVEN litical, social and economic issues. For each class
STOREY MOUNTAIN in 1948 by Thomas Merton. session, class members are asked to select a topic
We will look at his influential writings on war and suited for discussion based on a published article
peace, Gandhi, prayer, contemplation, poetry, and or short video, such as a TED talk or a public
Asian religions. speech. Videos will be shown just prior to discus-
sion, although links and articles will be distributed
SCIENCE in advance to allow participants to prepare for
each meeting. Each reporter is asked to explain
The Brain, Consciousness and Artificial why he/she chose his/her topic and provide reac-
tion to the group’s discussion. The instructors will
Intelligence facilitate all discussions.
Instructor: Joseph Aibinder
4 Sessions: Tuesdays, Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $36
ARIZONA LAW
This course will review the human brain, its net-
work and functioning and the maintenance activi- Asset Ownership, Disability and Health
ties that help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. We then Management, Passing Assets at Death,
explore the nature and mysteries of conscious- and Estate Planning in Arizona
ness and their leading current scientific theories. Instructor: Robert F. Jeckel
Lastly we review progress in developing artificial 4 Sessions: Wednesday, Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14
consciousness and intelligence and their potential 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
benefits and dangers. Cost: $36
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HOBBIES
DSLR Photography
GARDENING Instructor: Carol Komassa
Landscaping Ideas and Tips for Your 1 Session: Wednesday, Dec. 5
Home 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Instructor: Harry Graham Cost: $9
1 Session: Friday, October 26
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Do you have a new camera, or never quite mastered
Cost: $9 the DSLR camera you already have? Relying on your
cell phone for great shots? Learn about all of those
Learn about planting, care and techniques to help “Buttons, Modes and Dials” and become more familiar
your new plantings survive the winter freeze and with the options of when, where and how to use them.
how to renew their growth in the spring. Proper Suitable for beginners to intermediate photographers.
soil preparation, required watering and fertiliza-
tion requirements specific to Arizona winters will Saving Our Monarchs One at a Time - Start a
be discussed, as well as how to prevent damage
Special Rewarding Hobby at Home
and loss to plants due to freezing temperatures. We
Instructor: Carol Komassa
will also share helpful tips and ideas specific to the
1 Session: Wednesday, Nov. 7
homeowner’s property. 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Cost: $9
Container Gardening
Instructor: Carol Komassa Most of us are aware that our pollinators are rapidly
1 Session: Thursday, Nov. 15 declining, including the amazing Monarch butterfly.
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Learn about them, and how little time and little equip-
Cost: $9 ment it takes to safely raise them from eggs and then
release them back into nature. No club needed to join
Get color and variety into your yard with contain- and you only need five minutes a day! Join Carol Ko-
er gardening to brighten your home and help pol- massa, who has successfully raised and released over
linators (like hummingbirds, butterflies and bees) 100 Monarchs over four years and will share her tips
survive in the desert. Container gardening in our for success. See if this could be a rewarding hobby you
other states will also be discussed. might enjoy doing at home.
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MUSIC HISTORY
LITERATURE
Aaron Copland
Instructor: Lou-ellen Finter Book Discussion: Can’t We Talk About
1 Session: Thursday, Nov. 29 Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Instructor: Nancy Middlemas
Cost: $9 1 Session: Thursday, Nov. 29
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
A look at his life, his music, and the historical time Cost: $9
frame in which he wrote. We will also discuss the
background of the composer as well. Selections This quirky memoir features the wit and storytelling
from two suites, Rodeo and Billy the Kid will be of Roz Chast, longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker
used for listening examples. magazine. With humor, grim honesty, and under-
standing, Chast portrays her shift to a parental role for
HISTORY her elderly parents. We’ll explore everything from the
unusual form—a blend of cartoons, photos, and nar-
Presidential Children rative—to very relevant themes such as amazing lives
Instructor: Linda Wangner nearing the end, evolving responsibilities, conflicting
2 Sessions: Thursdays, Nov. 1 and 8 emotions, and practical care issues. Chast’s book and
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. our discussion will help us find comfort and comic
Cost: $18 relief in the complicated, often problematic, relations
between the generations. (Class size is limited to 14.
George and Martha did not have any children. Many The instructor will send enrollees a Reader’s Guide.)
great Presidents followed, some were the founders
of our great country. Other Presidents were accom-
plished individuals. What happened to the children
of these great leaders? Were they equally successful?
Please enroll to find out!
Scandal II
Instructor: Linda Wangner
2 Sessions: Wednesdays, Oct. 31 and Nov. 7
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $18
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TRAVEL
Australia as a Tourist Destination
Instructor: Trevor Wilson
1 Session: Thursday, Oct. 18
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $9
Want to take a photo on your smartphone and resize it Want to learn about streaming alternatives to watch
to post on the Sun City Festival classified ads? Home- local and cable networks? This class will review the
sick for an out of state radio station, or want a custom major companies that stream local stations and many
music channel that plays artists you select? Have a cable networks including major news, entertainment
weak spot in your WIFI network at home, and want and sports channels. We will review a comparison
an app to map signal strength so you can find a better of the four major applications that will allow you to
placement for your router? Do you have Cox cable, and drop your cable and/or satellite services. It will also
want to watch live TV on your phone? There are free include a list of stations provided by each company, the
Android apps for all of these, and we will look at how equipment needed to stream, menu differences, cloud
they can be set up to work best for you. We’ll spend a DVR capabilities and costs. Please note that Internet
few minutes each on Pandora and iHeart Radio, the services provided by Cox or Zona are still required and
Cox Contour app, and several other utility programs you should be familiar with streaming Netflix, Hulu, or
for your Android phone or tablet. While most of these other online viewing applications.
have versions for Apple products, we will not be dis-
cussing iPhone or iPad apps in this session.
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HEALTH
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ART
Learning to Look at Sculpture
Picasso: His Life, His Women, His Art Instructor: Allen Reamer
Instructor: Allen Reamer 2 Sessions: Mondays, Oct. 22 and 29
1 Session: Monday, Oct. 15 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Cost: $18
Cost: $9
Did you ever look at a piece of sculpture and wonder
Picasso is often viewed as producing ‘wild’ or ‘odd’ if there is more there than you see? There are specific
paintings that we may not like, and think Picasso ways to view sculpture that will increase your enjoy-
cannot draw or do better. We will look at his art and ment and understanding of it, whether it is realistic or
discover his early drawing skills. We will discover he abstract. In this course we learn to look at sculpture
painted in cycles: his blue period, his pink period, his from a variety of ways and discover its artistic lan-
cubist period. We will also look at the eight leading guage. In addition, we will cover sculpture’s historical
women in this life. This will begin with his birth and periods and styles.
continue until we run out of time.
In this talk, Georgia O’Keeffe’s life and art will be dis- Surprisingly the National Gallery of Art in Washing-
cussed year by year. We will see how her painting style ton, D.C. was neither conceived by politicians nor were
changed, when it changed, where it changed and why it the works of art in the museum bought by the govern-
changed. You will discover how sickness influenced her ment. During the 1920s, Andrew Mellon began col-
life at critical times and how specific people helped her lecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for
career. We will discuss her works of art, some in great the nation in Washington, D.C. This class will cover a
detail. brief history of the museum, some of the works of art
given to the National Gallery by major collectors, and
look at the permanent installations and collections of
the museum. You will hear how the National Gallery
got the only Leonardo da Vinci painting that is open
to public viewing in the United States. The Gallery has
a wide and extensive range of paintings, prints, pho-
tographs and sculptures, both historic and modern,
including paintings by Vermeer and Rembrandt and
over 300 prints by Rembrandt.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie’s II, 1930
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MEET THE FACULTY
Joseph Aibinder, B.S., M.S. is a Sun City Festival resident
and Del Webb scholar who served as a Connecticut high Carol Komassa (born in London, England) is a Sun City
school science teacher, a college advanced placement in- Festival resident and spends her time between the desert
structor, an adjunct professor at the University of Connecti- southwest and Wisconsin. Carol is an award winning free-
cut, and as a NASA Endeavor Teaching Fellow. lance photographer, writer, and photography instructor at
the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, and ASU, as well
Eric Brown is a Sun City Festival resident who has over 50 as at The Cedarburg Art Museum in Wisconsin, the Weyen-
years of experience playing the 10 diatonic harmonica. Eric berg Library and two digital camera clubs in Arizona. Carol
was born and raised in New York City and was fortunate is a Photography Coach and teaches on private photo walks,
enough to be surrounded by a great musical environment workshops, classes and has gallery representations at The
growing up. He is the author of eight self published books Pink Llama Gallery in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Her photog-
and also performs a bit of magic. raphy articles have also been printed in the Ozaukee News
Graphic, Wisconsin.
Doug Chatem, M.B.A., is a Sun City Festival resident and
community scholar who has over 40 years of experience in Raph Martin, M.A., has spent his career as a teacher having
information systems engineering and management. Doug’s taught in high school, college, university, diocese, and adult
avocations include over twenty years of leading and teach- community education centers. He is also a lifetime student
ing boys and adults for the Boy Scouts. –having studied theology at St. John’s University in NYC
and religious education (M.R.E.) at St. Michael’s College/
Linda Cinnamond, B.S.N., Rn (retired) was a practic- University in Toronto, Canada. He trained as a Spiritual
ing registered nurse for 38 years. She worked in hospitals Director at the Institute for Spiritual Leadership at Loyola
and clinics, as well as in the educational arena for several University in Chicago and employs Ignatian/Jesuit style ap-
major corporations and community colleges. She owned a proaches to spirituality in counselling and retreat work. For
health club for over 10 years and has a special interest and the past 20 years he has worked in parishes of the Diocese
advanced certifications in Health and Wellness, Aromather- of Oakland, CA as adult faith formation coordinator. He’s a
apy, and Essential Oil Counseling. She is a Sun City Festival native of NYC (Manhattan) and a recent retiree in our Sun
resident and community scholar. City community.
Lou-ellen Finter, Ph.D., has been in the educational field Nancy Middlemas, M.A., is a Sun City Festival resident and
for 50 years. She has taught musicology as well as been a a community scholar. In her 37-year career as an educa-
guest lecturer across the valley. She shares her passion for tor, she taught high school English in Indiana, Georgia,
Southwest Archeology and History in her classes. and California, and retired as curriculum coordinator for a
national charter school, developing diploma programs for
John Hamilton, BASc., is a resident of Kelowna, BC, a Sun at-risk youth.
City Festival resident and community scholar. His 37-year
career included work as a geophysicist, chief mine geologist, Steve Miller, B.S., has been a Sun City Festival resident
and manager of exploration and acquisition evaluations, since early 2007. He was a Principal in a large local CPA
traveling to all the continents except Antarctica. John is a firm located in Los Angeles and was a Chief Financial
past President of the Geological Institute of Canada. Officer for several companies after his move to Northern
California. He also started Barrel Buddies almost 10 years
Robert F. Jeckel, J.D., has practiced law in Sun City for over ago and was a Neighborhood Representative for three years.
40 years and taught courses on various aspects of Ari-
zona and federal law for the ASU Osher Lifelong Learning
Program, the ASU Extended Campus, and in the Maricopa
Community College system.
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MEET THE FACULTY
Allen Reamer, B.A., M.F.A., represents the fifth genera-
tion of a family of artists. He has completed 60 additional Alicia Weinkrantz, E-RYT, RPYT is a Sun City Festival
graduate credits in art history and education and has taught resident, and has been teaching yoga since 2010. She cur-
a variety of studio art and art history courses for 33 years rently teaches Gentle Yoga, Chair Yoga and Restorative
before coming to Arizona in 1999. During this time, he Yoga at Sun City Festival and is a Registered Yoga Teacher
was the president of a state art education association for through Yoga Alliance. She has many years in other forms
ten years and very active for a decade with the National Art of physical training in martial arts: Tae Kwon Do, Karate
Education Association. He has been a member or chair of and Judo, but found that Yoga fulfilled her needs of physical
various art related boards and has gratefully been recog- strength, flexibility, energy and mental calmness.
nized in a variety of ways including art teacher of the year,
a fellowship to China, letters from President Clinton and Trevor Wilson is a Sun City Festival resident and a com-
other elected officials, plus sells his paintings. Allen teaches munity scholar who spent his entire professional career as
for ASU and a number of other educational institutions and a tour guide on trips throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.
art organizations. He exhibits with his friends in the Neu Over this time, he has gained significant knowledge of the
Art Group in Arizona. “ins and outs” of the cruise, air travel, hotel and tour busi-
ness.
John Schneeg, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and a Mas-
ters in Industrial Engineering, has lived in Sun City Festival
since 2007. John taught as lead faculty in Mechanical En-
gineering Technology at a community college in Michigan.
He had been a practicing engineer in industrial automation
prior to that, and has done engineering design consult-
ing and technical training for Honda America, the former
Chrysler Corporation, and La-Z-Boy Chair Company.
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FESTIVAL LEARNING
Fall 2018
CLASS SCHEDULE
Picasso: His Life, His Women, His Art Oct 15 9am-11am $9
Petrified Forest Nat’l Park and Zuni Pueblo Oct 17 10am-11:30am $9
The Gentle Pace of Savoring Oct 17 1pm-2:30pm $9
Australia as a Tourist Destination Oct 18 1pm-2:30pm $9
Learning to Look at Sculpture Oct 22, 29 9am-11am $18
Brain, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 30, Nov 6, 13 (Tues) 1pm-3pm $36
Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord Oct 24 10am-11:30am $9
AZ Assets, Disability, Health, Estate Planning Oct 24, 31, Nov 7,14 (Wed) 3pm-4:30pm $36
Landscaping Ideas and Tips for Your Home Oct 26 10am-11:30am $9
Thriving Through Adversity Oct 29 1pm-2:30pm $9
Op-Ed Wednesday Oct 31, Nov 14, 28 , Dec 12 (Wed) 10am-11:30am $36
Scandal 2 Oct 31, Nov 7 (Wed) 12:30pm-2:30pm $18
Presidential Children Nov 1, Nov 8 (Thurs) 9am-11am $18
Writing Circles Nov 1 1pm-2:30pm $9
National Gallery of Art Nov 5 9am-11am $9
Essential Oils 101 Nov 5 1pm-3pm $9
Thomas Merton: Monk and Writer Nov 6, 13, 20 ,27 10:30am -12n $36
Saving Our Monarchs One at a Time Nov 7 9am-11am $9
Intro to the Harmonica Nov 8 1pm-2pm $9
Georgia O’keefe Nov 12 9am-11am $9
Essential Oils : Common Issues Nov 12 12:30pm-2:30pm $9
Container Gardening Nov 15 9am-11am $9
Intro to Journaling Nov 15 1pm-3pm $9
Using Your New Android Phone or Tablet Nov 28 1pm-2:30pm $9
Aaron Copland Nov 29 10am-11:30am $9
Book Discuss: Can’t We Talk About Something…. Nov 29 12:30p-2:30pm $9
Theory of Yoga Dec 3 9am-10:30am $9
Healthy Holiday Oils Dec 3 1pm-3pm $9
Canyon de Chelly- A Navajo Gem Dec 4, 11 10am-11:30am $18
DSLR Photography Dec 5 9am-11am $9
Free Android Cell Phone Apps Dec 5 1pm-2:30pm $9
Internet of Things Dec 12 1pm-2:30pm $9
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