ENDACOTT SOCIETY
December 2004
Retired Faculty and Staff of the University of Kansas
www.ukans.edu/~emeritus
SCHEDULED EVENTS—December 2004
All activities meet at the Adams Alumni Center unless otherwise
noted.
Endacott Society will not
meet on December 22, 2004.
Afternoon Lecture Series—Rita Haugh (843-7613), Megan Schoeck
(mschoeck@sunflower.com & 841-6008), and Howard O’Connor
(843-1884)
December 9 at
2:30—Our speaker will be our own Jack
Davidson who will discuss the problems and rewards of serving on the Lawrence
School Board. Sherry and birthday cake. Y'all come.
Bill Hambleton
(wwhamble@ku.edu & 843-2508) is in charge of programs for the Afternoon
Lecture Series.
Cinema Studies—Grant
Goodman (plim@ku.edu & 841-1066) and Fred Madaus
(fmadaus@ku.edu & 841-4939)
December
21 at 2—A Star is Born with
Judy Garland and James Mason will be shown. Everyone is welcome.
Computer Study Group—Oliver Phillips (ophil@ku.edu & 842-1020
December
1, Jeff Perry, Internet Technology
Center: Security and Sophos
December
8, Julie Zuel, USBank: Internet
Banking
December
15, Kent Politsch and Zack McDougall:
iMac and Virtual PC, a Field Trip to the Kansas Union Bookstore.
Domestic Public Policy Study Group—Jim Drury
(jdrury@ku.edu & 842-3308) and John Poertner
(jpoertner@sunflower.com & 749-2599)
December
6 at 3:30—The topic is the
Medicare drug benefit. The speaker will be Molly Wood who is an elder law
attorney. John Poertner will be moderator.
Drama Study Group—Arnold Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu & 842-5502)
Operating
without a net, the DSG faithful gathered at their November meeting yet managed
to negotiate handily the tricky trapeze work that is the anything but
transparent poetic language of the First Part of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the
Cathedral—not to mention making light work of the demands of a cast of
characters well beyond their own modest number. The Interlude and the Second
Part await, to be undertaken—and dispatched—at the Group's next gathering,
scheduled for Friday, December 10, at 1:30 P.M. in the Music Room. Some
time will also be devoted to settling on a play—better still, plays—to be read
beginning with the January 2005 meeting. Suggestions and/or queries may be
addressed to Arnold Weiss.
Gardening—Arno Knapper
(knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422) and Dick Shiefelbusch (843
5869)
December 1, 8, 15 & 29 at 9:00.
Great Books Study Group—Mary Boyden (843-8897)
December 8 at 1:30—Al Sellen will
lead the discussion of Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian novelist Chinua
Achebe. This first novel has been translated into 50 languages. Subsequent
novels have earned him numerous international honors and prizes.
Music—Arno Knapper
(knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422)
December 1,
8, 15 & 29—in the Music
Room immediately following Coffee.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art or Nelson-Atkins Museum—Lunch on your own at Museum
Afternoon Tea at Fairmont Hotel (optional) $15.00 for light tea;
$22 for full tea
Shopping
on Plaza & Plaza Lights
Leave Hillcrest Shopping Center
@ 11:30
Lunch and Tour of
Museum—12:30-3:00
Tea or Shopping— 3:00-5:00
Plaza Lights @ 5:00
Leave for Lawrence—About 5:30
Cost: $15 per person for bus. Do
not pay until the day of the trip. Reservations may be made at Wednesday
coffees or by contacting Ev Swartz at 841-4065 or evswartz@ku.edu.
In case of bad weather, the
trip will be cancelled
Ten O’clock Scholars AKA Wednesday Coffee/Business Meeting—Margery Lamb
(marjlamb@earthlink.net & 749-4647)
December 1,
8, 15 & 29
FYI:
· ORAL HISTORY
PROJECT
Thanks to the generous financial support of the KU Endowment
Association through the Grace Medes Fund, and other support from the KU Alumni
Association, the Oral History Committee is able to continue compiling histories
of retired KU faculty and staff. Because more money was needed to complete this
year’s work, Dale Seuferling, President of the KU Endowment Association made a
one-time contribution available to us. We appreciate his support. Because the
yearly amount from the Grace Medes Fund is limited, the Oral History Committee
encourages you to show support for the Oral History Project by making
contributions to the fund. Checks should be made to KU Endowment
Association/Grace Medes Fund.
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Foreign
Policy’s next meeting
will be January l0, 2005.
Card and Game Theory’s next meeting is Thursday, January 20 at 1:30.
The sign-up sheet will be available during Coffee on Wednesday
mornings. Any questions should be referred to Ruth Culvahouse (842-0626
& jwcul@ku.edu)
The
next Puccini opera on video comes January 21. Il Trittico
consists of three one-act operas with Gianni Schicchi being best known.
The last opera of the year will be Turandot on March 4.
Next Evening
Lecture will be February
3, 2005.
The two preconcert dinners
for the spring term will be on February 26 prior to the opera Carmen
and on April 15 prior to the concert of Jubilee Sykes. Sign-ups
will be available after the New Year.