Request for Nominations for OLLI’s Bill Wright Award
OLLI at Duke thrives in large part because of work by our many talented and dedicated volunteers. Each year, we present the Bill Wright Award to a volunteer—or volunteers—who have provided exceptional, often extensive, service to our organization. We invite OLLI members to submit nominations for this award to olli@olliatduke.org by April 15, 2019. In your email, please use the word "Award" in the subject line, include the name of the OLLI member(s) you are nominating, and explain the exceptional nature of the service this person(s) contributed during the past year.
OLLI at Duke thrives in large part because of work by our many talented and dedicated volunteers. Each year, we present the Bill Wright Award to a volunteer—or volunteers—who have provided exceptional, often extensive, service to our organization. We invite OLLI members to submit nominations for this award to olli@olliatduke.org by April 15, 2019. In your email, please use the word "Award" in the subject line, include the name of the OLLI member(s) you are nominating, and explain the exceptional nature of the service this person(s) contributed during the past year.
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Get Your Memory Examined as Part of a Duke Study Zach Monge, a PhD student at Duke, is looking for participants for his MRI research study examining the neural bases of memory across the lifespan. The study consists of three study visits, including two MRI scans, and pays $15/hr + compensation for travel. If you are interested in participating, please read more here for requirements and contact information. NEW HORIZONS BAND & CHORUS: Invitation for New Members Come sing and play with us! We welcome singers as well as woodwind, brass and percussion players. We have immediate openings in Chorus, Contra Band (Beginning) and Concert Band (Intermediate/Advanced). No auditions necessary. Join us through OLLI and we will find a spot for you no matter what your ability level is. Beginning Contra Band meets Tuesdays at 4 PM. Chorus meets Wednesdays at 3:30 PM. Concert Band meets Thursdays at 3:30 PM. For more information contact New Horizons Band Director Jeffery Zentner at 919-218-5015 (jeff.zentner@da.org ). To enroll, contact the OLLI Registration at 919 – 684 – 6259 (learnmore@duke.edu). More here. NC Symphony Offers Discounts to OLLI Members OLLI at Duke members save up to 30% off regular ticket prices to all remaining Raleigh Classical and Pops concerts, Young People’s Concerts, Chapel Hill concerts, and select Special Events with promo code OLLIDUKE. Read more here. Community Engagement SIG Needs Volunteers for Two Projects The Community Engagement SIG needs volunteers for two projects in Durham, one implementing a new project with Meals on Wheels and one working on an evaluation of the Farmer Foodshare’s Donation Program. The group is also developing some new projects in the education area in Durham. Learn more here. Volunteer Opportunity with Durham Center for Senior Living EATS Program Few people realize that an estimated 7,300 senior citizens in Durham are food insecure and lack limited or uncertain access to adequate food. The Durham Center for Senior Life (DCSL) in partnership with Durham County Social Services has begun a new program to help address this program and needs volunteers. Read more here. DUKE BRAIN STUDY
Volunteers are needed for neuroscience research at the Duke University Medical Center. These noninvasive research studies generally last 1-2 hours and participants will be compensated for their time. For more information, email Angela Cook at angela.cook@duke.edu and read more here. 
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A Closer Look at Some New OLLI Instructors
From a doctor to a rabbi, from professional educators to entrepreneurs, from an engineer to an author, the Winter 2019 OLLI term offers an impressive array of new instructors presenting classes in their areas of expertise. Read more here. Spring Course Preview: U.S. Southern Autobiography in the Twentieth Century
The South has a great literary history – renowned for its fiction. But one of the richest areas of southern literature in the twentieth century was autobiography. We invite you to spend some time with Fred Hobson, Lineberger Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, this spring to engage in a discussion of southern autobiography. Looking at four self-writings, from the 1940s and later, we’ll see what these southern authors reveal about the various “minds” of the South. Find out more here. Spring Course Preview: Pink Flamingos and Time Warps
You don’t have to come in costume to join instructor Jackson Carter as he slips the class back a few decades to explore classic cult films of our youth. Films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eraserhead, Reefer Madness, It's A Wonderful Life and others have gained a following for many reasons, primarily our fascination with reliving the love we felt when we first watched them. This course explores how movies become "cult classics" over the years—exploring a myriad of filmmakers, forgotten Hollywood stars, late career bloomers, and out-and-out so-bad-they're-great films. Members of the course will learn how to identify a film as a cult classic, their own personal cult films, and why we love the films we love when we love them. Students will experience the joy of watching a cult classic and revisiting films that may not be considered cult but upon second viewing will change their mind. |
Durham-based Film “An Unlikely Friendship” Shows Possibilities of Racial Reconciliation“
An Unlikely Friendship” tells the story of the altogether surprising friendship that emerged between C.P. Ellis, the Exalted Grand Cyclops of the Durham Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an outspoken Black woman and civil rights activist. A special showing of the film will take place on March 6. Read more here. Growing Through Grief:
A Program Supporting Those Who Mourn 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm March 12- April 23 St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 1200 W. Cornwallis Rd. Durham Get a Taste of the Movement that Sparked the Idea of “Life Long Learning” in the US
Deborah Sunya Moore, Vice President of performing and visual arts at the Chautauqua Institution, is the guest speaker at the Triangle Chautauquan Luncheon on Friday, March 22, in Raleigh. Some OLLI members already join thousands of other lifelong learners in enjoying leading thinkers and performers at the scenic campus in western New York each summer. Reserve by March 15 to attend the noon lunch at the NCSU University Club. Read more here. For more information about events listed, click the blue titles. They are links leading to our website.
Many Special Interest Groups (SIGs) hold regular monthly meetings. Be sure to click on the OLLI Calendar to learn dates, times and places. Read more about all the SIGs at OLLI at Duke here.
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OLLI Writer Published in Chicken Soup for the Soul
Getting published in a national anthology like Chicken Soup for the Soul is not easy, but OLLI student Nancy Haines managed just that after Erika Hoffman’s class. Read more here.
Getting published in a national anthology like Chicken Soup for the Soul is not easy, but OLLI student Nancy Haines managed just that after Erika Hoffman’s class. Read more here.
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