FALL PROGRAMMING
October 6, 2008

Bulletin Board Locations. Remember to pick up your copy of the OLLI at Auburn Bulletin Board. Look for the Bulletin Board on the second floor across from the drink station and on the first floor on the drink table.

Fall Term Course Changes and Cancellations. Please note that the Spanish Conversation: Beginning and Advanced Beginning class will now meet in the Magnolia Room and the Brain and Mind: Fitness and Mindfulness will meet in the Gardenia Room for the reminder of the Fall Term.

OLLI Clubhouse. OLLI members are invited to socialize and relax between classes and during lunch time at the Best Western on the second floor in the restaurant area, now called the “OLLI Clubhouse.” The management of the Best Western has graciously offered use of this space to OLLI members. Please avoid gathering near the hotel front desk since happy conversations make it difficult for the staff to hear when when speaking on the telephone. Thanks much!

Winter Course Proposal Forms. Please pick up a Winter Course proposal form located on the second floor of the Best Western or you may download a copy at www.olliatauburn.org/documents/course_proposal.pdf . Winter 2009 Course Proposals are due October 13. For more information, please call Yvonne Kozlowski at 887-7136.

Care and Concern: A get well card was a to Randy Bowling who has been in the hospital. Calls to him are welcome; his home number is 864-8183 or cell is 744-7005.Call Helen Brown, 887-6911, Chair of Care & Concern committee, if you know of someone who needs remembering.

Guest Speaked Scheduled. The Health Care Dilemma class will have a very special speaker at 10:15 a.m. on October 14 and would like to invite any interested OLLI members to join us. Our guest is Dr. Kieke Okma from the Netherlands. She is an internationally recognized expert on health care systems around the world and has been a consultant to the World Bank, WHO and OECD. She currently is a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City and is an adjunct professor at NYU. Contact Marilyn Garrett, 749-2655, for more information.

OLLI (Auburn University) I.D. Cards: Once you join OLLI as a $10 member, you are eligible for an Auburn University ID card, which you have made on campus. The ID card entitles you to use the AU library and Tiger Transit, the campus bus system. You will only need to go through the procedure of having a card made once, although you will have to renew your $10 membership with OLLI each year for the card to remain valid. If you are a lifelong member of the Auburn Alumni Association and have an ID card made through that organization, it is good forever and serves as your library card.

Dress for Class. Don’t forget to bring a jacket or sweater or dress in layers when attending OLLI classes at the Best Westsern, Jule Collin Smith Museums, or Southern Union.

OLLI Safety and Emergency Training Seminar
Learn what to do in case of emergency and how to keep OLLI members safe during this 45 minute session led by Susan McCallister, AU Assc. Director of Public Safety Information and Education. Designed for all OLLI instructors, coordinators, assistant coordinators, and Board members, the program will be held Tuesday, Oct. 14, during the lunch hour, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the OLLI Clubhouse on the second floor of the Best Western. Complimentary lunch from Barbeque House provided to seminar participants. RSVP no later than Thursday, October 9, by emailing lgs0003@auburn.edu or calling 844-5100.

On Campus/Around Town: (please feel free to submit notices of events giving us two weeks lead time)

• Gnu’s Room Literary Events: Contact tina@gnusroom.com for lecture schedule. First Saturday of each month at 7 pm you can attend “Words Café Live!”, a poetry reading. First Monday of each month at 7 pm a Book Discussion Group meets. Scrabble Club meets on Tuesdays at 6 pm–all skill levels. Also Thursday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. the Sun Belt Reading Series; free & open to all. This first installment of this year's Sun Belt Reading Series will feature four writers: Jordan Sanderson, Barbara Wiedemann, Joanna Grant & Marian Carcache.

• Forest Ecology Preserve: Hosts Autumn walks every Tuesday and Thursday at the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve at 8:30 a.m. Walks are geared toward exercise and enjoying the preserve's fall beauty. Meet at the pavilion. Walks will last approximately one hour. Canceled if raining. No registration required. For more information, call Jennifer Lolley at 707-6512. The preserve is located on North College Street just past the Auburn fish ponds on the right. The preserve is open seven days a week from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Also at the FEP, Creepy Wonderful Critters Saturday, Oct. 18th at 10 a.m. and the Preserve 5K Trail Run set for Nov. 1; forms available at the preserve or on the website, www.auburn.edu/preserve .

• Pebble Hill Speaker. Memoirist Richard Goodman will be at Pebble Hill on Monday, Nov.3 from 3-4:30. The Alabama Center For The Book is bringing Mr. Goodman to Auburn where he will read from his books and offer writing time and discussion for adult writers in the afternoon. The public is invited.

• Sundown Concert Series: Held at Kiesal Park on Thursday, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., featuring music. Bring a picnic supper and lawn chairs. Dogs welcome. For additional information, please contact the Dean Road Recreation Center at 501-2930. Future concerts in this series: October 9: Dave Potts; October 16: Noisy Deirdre.

• Lunch Music. Enjoy lunch noon to 1 p.m. in JCSM’s Café with music provided by Auburn Chamber Music Society sponsored local musicians. Visit www.jcsm.auburn.edu for the menu, updated weekly.

• Vote for Aubie. Auburn's beloved mascot Aubie has been chosen as one of 12 mascots to make up the seventh annual Capital One All-America Mascot Team. Each week Aubie will face off against another mascot while attempting to claim the title of "Capital One National Mascot of the Year." Vote for Aubie online at www.capitalonebowl.com .

• Sports Photography Exhibition. The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is hosting "Visions of Victory Presented by Mutual of Omaha: A Century of Sports Photography" through Nov. 29. The museum open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Admission for adults is $5, senior citizens $4 and free for Auburn faculty and staff (ID required) and all students. If you have not yet visited this exhibit, it is well worth your time…and for some it will be a trip down memory lane!

• Should Diversity, Democracy, and Responsible Citizenship be a part of Auburn University's Mission? A panel discussion addressing these questions and Stanley Fish's recently published Save the World on Your Own Time (Oxford) will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 3 pm in room 239, Broun Hall. The panelists will include Dr. Royrickers Cook, Assistant Vice President for University Outreach; Dr. Christa Slaton, College of Liberal Arts’ Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, professor of political science, and winner of the 2007 Award for Excellence in Faculty Outreach; and Al Head, Executive Director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

• Raptor Center on Game Weeks. The Southeastern Raptor Center, which hosts educational programs on Fridays before home football games, will now accept cash for entrance to the program. Previously, it could only accept checks. The program, "Eagles, Owls, and Other Critters," is scheduled for Oct. 10; and Nov. 7 and 14. Each show begins at 4 p.m. in the 350-seat Edgar B. Carter Educational Amphitheater on Raptor Road off Shug Jordan Parkway. Tickets will be available at the raptor center gate for $5 each. Tickets are $3 a person for school groups, which should call ahead at 844-6943. Children under three years old are admitted free.

• Littleton-Franklin Lecture: Richard Leakey. On Monday, October 6, at 4 p.m. Richard Leakey will be the second lecturer in the 2008-2009 Little Franklin Lecture Series. His talk will be held at the Sciences Center Auditorium. Richard Leakey has been making international headlines for more than 30 years as a global thinker, influential environmentalist, and the world’s best-known paleoanthropologist. Currently a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, Leakey, one of the foremost authorities on wildlife and nature conservation, continues to educate others about the dangers of environmental degradation. Leakey is the author of over 100 articles and books and was named one of TIME’s 100 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century.

• PPE Volunteer Opportunity. If you are interested in participating in the Pharmacy Practice Experience (PPE) program at AU Harrison School of Pharmacy, please contact Kathy Kyle, 844-8345, or Dave Brackett, 844-2988. PPE is designed to provide individuals with assistance with health-related needs and to serve as a health resource for clients.