dine & discover
OLLI’s Dine & Discover series offers you the opportunity to experience an overview of an interesting topic while enjoying lunch with your peer group. Dine & Discover programs are held 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. and include a boxed lunch and beverage, and programs cost just $15 each for members.
9428 Hey Dad! What did you do in the War
Date: September 17,
11:30 am -1:30 pm
Location: Center for Continuing Education, Room 405
Instructor: Jim Johnson
Cost: $15.00
A practical guide to researching military personnel and unit records. How to do basic research in the national archives and the national personnel records center. Review of the military history institute, military museums and base records, ships logs, unit histories and local sources.
B – Family clues and searches: Introduction to army units, marine corps divisions, Navy installations and the Coast Guard! Introduction to SSI, awards and decorations! Sign up...
Date: September 24,
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center, Room 107
Instructor: Larry Ropp
Cost: $15.00
Discuss the real facts of identity theft; programs that can be used to give the individual a solution to helping prevent it; current laws; assistance to children; questions to ask when providing information; different types of services that are on the market; and reasons for the growing crime of identity theft. Sign up...
9390 Insider Insights: Presidential Election 2008
Date: October 1,
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center, Room 107
Instructor: Angela DeLille
Cost: $15.00
Rarely do people get the chance to listen and question someone about national politics in a presidential election, much less someone not formally associated with either party. This will be a short formal presentation with significant time allotted for questions. Sign up...
9391 Moon Shining in the Ozarks
Date: October 8,
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center, Room 107
Instructor: Susan Young
Cost: $15.00
Historically how much is fact and how much is fiction to this Hillbilly stereotype. Sign up...
Date: October 15,
11:30 am -1:30 pm
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center, Room 107
Instructor: Joel Giarrusso
Cost: $15.00
During the 100th anniversary year of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, hear how it grew from a small group of 34 investigators into a cadre of 30,000 employees, evolving right along with the changing threats facing our nation. The FBI has 12,600 special agents, but who are the other 17,000+ employees and what do they do? Learn about the FBI's motto, "Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity," and its core values. Hear about the "Hoover years," some of the FBI's historic cases, and the dramatic changes in focus "post 911" - the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Hear a recruitment spiel, and pass it on to your friends and grandkids. Sign up...
9393 Anatomy of a Peace Corps: The Early Days
Date: October 22,
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Center for Continuing Education, Room 409
Instructor: Dr. Jules Beck
Cost: $15.00
Walk in the footsteps of a then naïve, impressionable recent college graduate, a peace corps volunteer who was part of the one and only group to be assigned to the Bolivian tin mines back in the mid-1960’s. Visually experience the grandeur of the Andes as well as the political foment of the times from one who survived both revolution and culture shock. A must see for those who remember flower-power, hippies, and wide ties; and, an eye opener for those who could only imagine those times. Sign up...
Date: October 29,
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center, Room 107
Instructor: Kim Jones
Cost: $15.00
For over 35 years, Elderhostel participants have enjoyed educational travel programs on a myriad of topics around the globe – and in our own back yard. Come and learn how this groundbreaking organization began, its mission, and how you can be a part of it. We will discuss the different types of programs, how to navigate the catalog and web site to find the right program for you, and answer any questions you have about Elderhostel. We will also describe the wonderful Elderhostel program opportunities that exist right here in Arkansas. Sign up...
Date: November 5, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center, Room 107
Instructor: Vivian Hill
Cost: $15.00
Want to lower your carbon footprint, get healthier AND grow a better garden all at the same time? This class will offer tips, suggestions and how-to information to have a greener home and lifestyle, as well as discussing the reasons behind why we need to take these actions. Special attention will be paid to the food choices we make and how to make more sustainable choices. Sign up...
Date: November 12,
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Son's Chapel
Instructor: Christine Klinger
Cost: $15.00
Usually the word, “quilt,” conjures up an image of a traditional patchwork bed covering but there are other genres of quilts, the narrative art quilt, being one. These quilts are not created as comforters for beds but as a means of expressing social, political or personal concerns. The visual impact of a narrative art quilt may be bold and obvious to the eye, but in between the quilted trio of layers – the top, the back, and the batting – there is often a powerful story waiting to be told; poetry, eulogy, epiphany, rendered in cloth. Sign up...