ENDACOTT
SOCIETY — October 2008
Retired
Faculty and Staff of The University of Kansas —
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SCHEDULED
EVENTS
All
activities meet at the Adams Alumni Center unless otherwise noted.
Afternoon
Lecture Series
Maxine
Patterson (843-7905), Mary Schweppe (schweppe@ku.edu,
842-1147), and Howard O'Connor (843-1884). Stan and Janet Roth (sdroth@ku.edu, jroth@ku.edu,
843-4764), and Bill Hambleton (wwhamble@ku.edu,
843-2508) are in charge of programs.
October 9—Program at 2:30,
sherry at 2:00, in the Summerfield Room. Following the celebration of
October birthdays, the program will be provided by Bob Hohn, Professor Emeritus
of the School of Education. His topic will be "How to Solve All of Your Problems."
Armchair
Travel
Stitt
Robinson (wsrobin@ku.edu, 843-1499)
October 23—Program at 2:30,
coffee and tea at 2:00. "Travel on the Mississippi and Columbia
Rivers" will be presented by Dick Moore and Barbara McCorkle.
Card
and Game Theory
Art
Lamb (artlamb@sunflower.com,
749-4647)
October 16—1:30 in the Paul
Adam Lounge. The usual games of bridge and scrabble will be played. A
sign-up sheet is available at the Wednesday Coffee, or call Ruth Ann
Culvahouse, 840-0626.
Cinema
Studies
Grant
Goodman (plim@ku.edu, 841-1066) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu, 841-4939)
October 21—Film at 2:00,
coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. Cinema Studies will see the first of
two Cyd Charisse "memorial films": Silk Stockings with Fred Astaire and
Peter Lorre. This is the musical version of the film Ninotchka which we have
seen in our Cinema Studies series. Cyd Charisse plays the part originated
by Greta Garbo. Guests are always welcome.
Computer
Study
Jerry
Niebaum (jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com,
842-3127)
All meetings are at
9:00 in the Paul Adam Lounge.
October 1—Introduction to
e-mail, Part 1 (Jerry Niebaum).
October 8—Backing up
Address Book and Outlook Express files ( Jerry Niebaum).
October 15—Applied
Computing: Architecture (Stan Hernly, Hernly Associates).
October 22—Application
Software: Genealogy (Judy Sweets).
October 29—Dr. Fixit (Jerry
Niebaum).
Domestic
Public Policy Study
Jim
Drury (jdrury@ku.edu, 842-3308), John Poertner (jpoertner@sunflower.com, 749-2599) and Ev
Swartz (evswartz@ku.edu, 841-4065)
October 6—3:30 in the
Library. Our guest speaker is David Woosley, Traffic Engineer for the City of
Lawrence. His topic is "Traffic in Lawrence."
Drama
Study Group
Arnold
Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu, 842-5502)
October 10—1:30 in the Music
Room. Heavy discussion by the group of Act II of Arthur Miller's Death of a
Salesman,
in addition to the challenge posed by Miller's ingeniously designed alternation
between present and past action delayed completion of the play's reading to the
October meeting—at which even livelier discussion can be expected.
Evening
Lecture Series
Tom
Eblen (teblen@sunflower.com,
865-3634) and John Mullens (841-0958)
October 2—5:30 wine and
cheese, 6:00 dinner, 7:00 presentation. Tom Waechter of KU's Design and
Construction Management will present "Images of Campus."
Foreign
Policy Study
Marilyn
Bradt (mbradt@carrollsweb.com,
843-7751)
October 13—3:30 in the
McGinnis Library. Jim Drury will lead the discussion on "Talking to Our
Enemies."
Gardening
Arno
Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
and Dick Schiefelbusch (843-5869)
October 1, 8, 15,
22, 29—9:00
in the Music Room.
Great
Books Study Group
Dave
Hiebert (gundave@sunflower.com,
842-8706) and Ellen Gold (843-6933)
October 8—1:45. This month,
the group will discuss Thorstein Veblen's, Theory of the Leisure Class. Moderator will be Don
Chambers.
The group is nearing
the end of "Great
Conversations I." This series
of anthologies was truly remarkable, including mostly world renowned authors. While we still have several
presentations to complete in this series, we have selected "Great
Conversations II" as our next series. It should prove as stimulating as the previous one. We hope
all will join us.
The entries of
"Great Conversations II" are:
1. The Story of
Samson (Judges 13-16).
2. Selected Poems, John Donne.
3. Meditations 1 and
2, Rene
Descartes.
4. The Nose, Nikolai Gogol.
5. The Grand
Inquisitor, Fyodor
Dostoevsky.
6. The Fall of the
House of Usher,
Edgar Allen Poe.
7. Bartley the Scrivener, Herman Melville.
8. Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti.
9. Physics and World
Philosophy, Max
Planck.
10. The Playboy of
the Western World, John
M. Synge.
11. Planning and
Democracy, Friedrich
Hayek.
12. Distributive
Justice, John
Rawls.
13. Guests of the
Nation, Frank
O'Connor.
14. Which New Era
Would That Be? Nadine
Gordimer.
15. What We Talk
About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver.
Music
Arno
Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
October 1, 8, 15,
22, 29—Immediately
following coffee.
Opera
Study
Jim
Seaver (jseaver@ku.edu, 843-4081)
and Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com,
841-7432)
October 17—1:30, on the
second floor. The second opera in our study of Czech opera this year will be
Antonin Dvorak's Russalka, which is based on one of the most beloved of
European fairy tales, the story of a human man who falls in love with a
beautiful supernatural woman who causes his death even though she loves him.
The most popular
operatic setting of this story before Dvorak's Russalka had been Albert
Lortzing's Undine,
which was produced in Magdeberg, Germany, in 1845, but Dvorak's opera,
first performed at Prague in 1901, is far more often heard in the great opera
houses of the world today than is Lortzing's version of the story.
We will be seeing and
hearing a very beautiful DVD of Dvorak's Russalka, recorded in 2002 at the
Opera National de Paris, and starring the American soprano Renee Fleming in one
of her most popular roles, as Russalka. Her lover, the Prince, will be
sung by tenor Sergei Larin, the water spirit will be bass Franz Hawlata, and
the witch Jezibaba will be mezzo-soprano Larissa Diadkova. The chorus and
orchestra will be led by conductor James Conlon.
The opera will last
about two and one-half hours. Coffee and cookies will be served after Act
I.
Out
of Town Travel
Fred
Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu, 841-4939)
October 20— Wine Tasting
Road Trip
Visit two Northeast
Kansas wineries and finish with dinner at Bichelmeyer's in Tonganoxie.
We will depart the
parking lot at 9th and Iowa (west of the bowling alley) at 1 p.m. and return at
approximately 7 p.m. The $37
charge will include transportation and dinner (choice of three meats,
potatoes, green beans/corn, salad, drink, tax and tip). It will not include the tip for the bus
driver ($1 or $2 per person is suggested). There will not be a charge at the wineries. However, participants
are encouraged to consider purchasing wine or grape products at the shops.
Reservations must be
made by Wednesday, October 8. Checks are being accepted now and should
be made payable to the Endacott Society. For more information or questions,
contact Fred Madaus by phone or email.
Pre-Concert
Dinner
Grant
Goodman (841-1066)
November 5—Dinner at 5:30,
wine service at 5:00, at the Smith Center at Brandon Woods. The cost will be
$15 per person. Please make checks payable to the Endacott Society.
A sign-up sheet will be available at the Wednesday Coffees, or
reservations can be made by phone to Grant Goodman. The menu is a good
one, and I hope you can all come!
Singing
for Fun
Roberta
Spires (rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820)
October 2—2:00 in the Music
Room. Please join us for a fun-filled song fest down memory lane with
Winnie Gallup on the piano and Roberta Spires leading.
Ten
O'clock Scholars, AKA “Wednesday Coffee”
Genevieve
McMahon (841-2116).
October 1, 8, 15,
22, 29—10:00.
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