ENDACOTT
SOCIETY February
2004
Retired
Faculty and Staff of the University of Kansas
www.ukans.edu/~emeritus
All activities meet at the Adams Alumni
Center unless otherwise noted.
SNOW POLICY REMINDER—There will be no meeting on Wednesday morning if the
Lawrence Public Schools are closed due to bad weather. This will directly
affect the Computer Study Group, Gardening Seminar, Ten O'clock Scholars, and
the Music Group. KANU, KLWN and Channel 6 as well as the Alumni Center office
will be informed. All other interest groups should develop their own policies.
The Executive Committee
Armchair Travel—Chris & Bruce Linton (balinton@ku.edu &
843-6796)
[Meets
the 4th Thursday of selected months].
Thursday, February 26 at 2:30—Be part of
"A Peruvian Adventure" with Allen and Sandra Wiechert as they give a
power point (with luck!) presentation of their October 2002 trip to Peru.
Armchair adventurers will be greeted with Peruvian music before landing in
coastal Lima. Then the group flies up to Cusco, high in the Andes at 11,000 ft
where all will receive cups of coca tea* to relieve altitude sickness. (It
does, too!) Days will be spent touring ancient Inca ruins, visiting markets,
and photographing the beautiful Peruvian children before taking the train to
Machu Picchu, surely one of the world's most amazing ruins. Then it's on to
Lake Titicaca, at 15,000 ft the world's highest navigable lake. Float on reed
boats among the lake's floating reed villages. Then fly back down to Lima (and
oxygen) before your return home.
*Coca tea is brewed from South American Huanuco coca trees. The
dried leaves are used in several medicines including cocaine, tropacocaine, and
hygrine. The minute amounts in tea are both medically harmless and legal.
Card
& Game Theory—Edna
& Karmie Galle
(galle@ku.edu & 843-2950)
Thursday,
February 19 at 2:00—The sign up sheet will be available during the Ten-O’clock Scholars Coffee hour on
Wednesday mornings. Any questions
should be referred to Karmie or Edna Galle.
Cinema
Studies—Bill
Kelly
(wkelly1301@aol.com & 842-0523) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu
& 841-4939)
Tuesday, February 17th at 2:00—Film title
TBA.
Monday, February 2 at 3:30
Library—Discussion of Water Problems in Eastern Kansas—Margaret Fast, Kansas
Water Office
Resuming its customary second Friday
schedule, Drama Study Group will meet on Friday, February 13, at 1:30 in
the Music Room. Title of the new play to be undertaken at that time TBA. As
always, queries and suggestions may be addressed to Arnold Weiss via phone or
e-mail or in person at Ten O'clock Scholars gatherings.
Evening
Lecture Series—Tom
Eblen
(teblen@sunflower.com & 865-3634)
Thursday evening, February
19—Wine and cheese at 5:30, buffet at 6:00. The speaker will be Mary
Banwart, an assistant professor of communications and an expert on political
rhetoric.
Monday, February 9
at 3:30 P.M.—
Howard Baumgartel will lead the discussion on "Diversity in Islam,"
(provided our study books have come in time.)
I will send an email as soon as I have the books and will make every
effort to get them to all who ordered them, as soon as possible.
Gardening—Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu
& 312-9422) and Dick Shiefelbusch (843
5869)
February 4, 11, 18, 25 at 9:00 A.M.
Wednesday,
February 11 at 1:30—Mary Boyden will lead the discussion of “Troth” from Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five
Stories by Gregory Von Rezzori.
Metropolitan
Opera Radio—Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com & 841-7432) and Jim Seaver (843-4081 &
jseaver@ku.edu)
We meet at the home of Vic Wallace, 1509 Massachusetts, for operas beginning at
12:30 P.M. each Saturday. Come for both music and goodies.
February 7 "Rigoletto" Verdi
February 14 "The
Queen of Spades" Tchaikovsky
February 21
Three by Stravinsky
February 28 "The Italians in
Algeria" Rossini
Music—Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu
& 312-9422)
February 4, 11, 18, 25 —Wednesdays—immediately
following Ten O’clock Scholars, Music Room.
Pre-Concert
Dinner—Saturday, February 7 at 5:00—Sign-up for this
pre-concert dinner will be available at the Ten O'clock Scholars meetings on
Wednesdays or you may call Grant Goodman at 841-1066 to reserve. All dinners
are $10.00 per person and will be held at the Smith Center, Brandon Woods.
Ten
O’clock Scholars AKA Wednesday Coffee/Business Meeting—Margery Lamb
(marjlamb@earthlink.net & 749-4647)
February 4, 11, 18, 25 —Wednesdays at 10:00 A.M.
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*The final pre-concert dinner will be on Friday, March 5
(“La Traviata”).
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