ENDACOTT SOCIETY
February 2005
Retired Faculty and Staff of the University of Kansas
www.ukans.edu/~emeritus
SCHEDULED EVENTS—February 2005
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 KU Alumni Center office will be informed. All other
interest groups should develop their own policies. The Executive Committee
Afternoon Lecture Series—Rita Haugh (843-7613),
Megan Schoeck
(mschoeck@sunflower.com & 841-6008), and Howard O’Connor
(843-1884)
February 10 at 2:30—Deanell Tacha, Chief
Justice of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will tell how one is appointed to
the court and what are the responsibilities and problems.
Bill Hambleton
(wwhamble@ku.edu & 843-2508) is in charge of programs for the Afternoon
Lecture Series.
Armchair
Travel—Stitt Robinson (wsrobin@ku.edu &
843-1499)
Thursday, February 24. "Revisiting
Austria and Germany with special attention to Salzburg and Munich" with
Hal and Charlyn Orel. Coffee and tea at 2 o’clock program at 2:30.
Card
and Game Theory—Ruth Culvahouse (842-0626 & jwcul@ku.edu)
February 17 at 1:30—The sign-up sheet will be
available during Coffee on Wednesday mornings. Any questions should be
referred to Ruth Culvahouse.
Cinema Studies—Grant Goodman (plim@ku.edu & 841-1066) and Fred Madaus
(fmadaus@ku.edu & 841-4939)
February 15
at 2:00—By
request the film for February will be Lion in Winter, which was
previously scheduled but was canceled due to mechanical difficulties. Coffee
and other beverages will be served.
Computer Study Group—Oliver Phillips
(ophil@ku.edu & 842-1020)
February 2 at 9:00—Pat Kindle,
E-Bay: Nuts and Bolts (rescheduled)
February 9 at 9:00—Dave Greenbaum:
Wireless Again
February 16 at 9:00—Brett Garland: Adobe PhotoShop
February 23 at 9:00—Amy Barnes: What’s New
at the Senior Center (rescheduled)
Domestic Public Policy Study Group—Jim Drury
(jdrury@ku.edu & 842-3308) and John Poertner
(jpoertner@sunflower.com & 749-2599)
February 7 at
3:30—Loring Henderson from the Lawrence Open Shelter and Drop In Center
will speak about issues regarding homeless people in Lawrence.
Drama Study Group—Arnold Weiss
(ahweiss@ku.edu & 842-5502)
February 4 at
1:30 in the Music Room (N.B. Note change from usual seond Friday
meeting date.) We will begin J.B. Priestley's Eden End. The play is set in
1912, so brush up your. . .Edwardian and just-post-Edwardian English culture,
politics and history (piece of cake for all, I'm sure).
Evening
Lecture Series—Tom Eblen (teblen@sunflower.com
& 865-3634)—Program Chairs: Tom Hedrick (843-7311) & Tom
Eblen (teblen@sunflower.com & 865-3634
February
3 at 5:30—Wine, cheese and bread before dinner at six. At seven Ranjit
Arab, who works at the University Press of Kansas, will show his video on
education of immigrants in Kansas.
Foreign
Policy Study—Margo
Gordon (msgordon@ku.edu & 842-1848)
February 14
at 3:30—The
topic will be Global Poverty Gap. John Conard and Jim Drury will lead the
discussion. We will also complete program assignments for the year since we had
to cancel our January meeting.
Gardening—Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422) and Dick
Shiefelbusch (843
5869)
February 2, 9, 16, & 23 at 9:00
Great Books Study Group—Mary Boyden (843-8897)
February 9 at
1:45—a new series of readings on "Clashes of Culture."
Mary Boyden will lead the discussion of Deep Play: Notes on the
Balinese Cockfight by Clifford Geertz.
Music—Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu &
312-9422)
February 2, 9, 16, & 23 at 9:00—immediately
following Coffee.
Pre-Concert
Dinner—Grant
Goodman (plim@ku.edu & 841-1066)
February 26 at 5:00 in
Smith Center, Brandon Woods. The cost will be $11.50 per person.
Sign-ups will be available at the Ten O’clock Scholars gatherings or by phone
to Grant Goodman at 841-1066. This meal precedes the performance of the
opera Carmen.
Metropolitan
Opera Radio—Al
Sellen
(jnalsellen@aol.com & 841-7432)
Radio broadcasts of the
Met come each Saturday at 12:30 at the home of Vic and Mary Wallace, 1509
Massachusetts. Parking is in the church lot next door. Jim Seaver is there with
his expert knowledge.
February 5: Pelleas et
Melisande by Debussy
February 12: The Marriage of
Figaro by Mozart
February 19: La Boheme by
Puccini
February 26: Nabucco by
Verdi
Ten O’clock Scholars AKA Wednesday Coffee/Business Meeting—Margery Lamb
(marjlamb@earthlink.net & 749-4647)
February 2, 9, 16, & 23
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Opera Study—Jim Seaver (jseaver@ku.edu &
843-4081) and Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com & 841-7432)
March 4 at 1:30—Turandot by
Puccini. Details will come in the next newsletter and will be online a bit
earlier at the Endacott Society web site.
Leave from Hillcrest Shopping Center Parking Lot
@ 7:30 A.M.
Lunch—On your own at Food Court,
Cosmosphere—12:00–1:00
Cosmosphere, IMAX movie, museum tour, Dr.
Goddard’s Lab 1:00-4:30
Dinner in Yoder, Kansas—5:00-6:00
Shopping at the Kansas Station (KS products),
Yoder—6:00-6:30
Return to Lawrence between 10:30-11:00P.M.
Cost of Trip:
$46.00 per person. Includes bus,
entrance fees, and dinner. Make checks payable to Endacott Society.
Reservation deadline: March 6.
Sign up at Wednesday coffees, or contact Ev
Swartz.
Mark
your calendars for an overnight trip to Bartlesville, Tulsa, and Claremore, OK—
April
29-30.
Activities will include art museums, opera for those who are interested,
Will
Rogers Center, and Woolaroc. Details of the trip will be in the March
newsletter.
May—Train trip to St.
Louis, MO for a two-night stay. Details
will be in March newsletter.
EVENING LECTURE: Thursday,
March 31, 5:30 wine, cheese and Arno's staff of
life; 6 p.m. potluck; 7 p.m.
presentation by Philip Brownlee, editor of the editorial
page, Wichita Eagle.