ENDACOTT SOCIETY May 2005

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SCHEDULED EVENTS--May 2005

All activities meet at the Adams Alumni Center unless otherwise noted.

Afternoon Lecture Series--Rita Haugh (843-7613), Megan Schoeck

(mschoeck@sunflower.com & 841-6008), and Howard O'Connor (843-1884)

May 12 at 2:30-- David Lambertson, Department of State and Ambassador to Thailand. What does an ambassador do?

Bill Hambleton (wwhamble@ku.edu & 843-2508) is in charge of programs for the Afternoon Lecture Series.

Card and Game Theory--Ruth Culvahouse (842-0626 & jwcul@ku.edu)

May 19 at 1:30--The sign-up sheet will be available during the Ten-O'clock Scholars Coffee. 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)

May 17 at 2:00--Love Me or Leave Me starring Doris Day and James Cagney.  This is the story of the singer Ruth Etting.  Coffee will be available from 1:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

Computer Study Group--Oliver Phillips (ophil4988@sbcglobal.net & 842-1020)

May 4 at 9:00--Sam Hunsinger:  A “Dr. Fixit” led by a pro.

May 11 at 9:00--Jerry Niebaum: Microsoft Photo Story 3

May 18 at 9:00—Earl Schweppe, Picasa2

May 25 at 9:00--Planning for 2005-06

Domestic Public Policy Study Group--Jim Drury (jdrury@ku.edu & 842-3308) and John Poertner (jpoertner@sunflower.com & 749-2599)T

May 2 at 3:30--The topic is Kansas School Finance.  The presenter/facilitator will be Bruce Baker, Associate Professor KU School of Education.

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Drama Study Group--Arnold Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu & 842-5502)

May 13 at 1:30 in the Music Room. Attendees are asked to come prepared to confer on and eventually to select--if not at the May meeting, then surely before the June meeting--from the embarrassment of choices presented by the following plays of August Wilson (all seen in the area in the last several years): Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Two

Trains Running; Fences. Copies--certainly of the first three, and hopefully of all four--will be available at Wednesday Ten O'Clock Scholar gatherings. Calls or emails to Arnold are always in order.

Foreign Policy Study--Margo Gordon (msgordon@ku.edu & 842-1848)

May 9 at 3:30--Topic will be "China: Economic Giant Emerges."  John Poertner and Edith Black are in charge of the program and they have invited Dr. John Kennedy, to be with us. He is a  Political Science faculty member whose area of research and teaching is Chinese politics.  He teaches a course on Reform in Contemporary China.  He will speak to us and serve as resource person for our discussion.   All are welcome

Gardening--Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422) and Dick Shiefelbusch (843 5869)

May 4, 11, 18, and 25 at 9:00

Great Books Study Group--Mary Boyden (843-8897)

May 11 at 1:45--Jane and Earl Gates will lead the discussion of “The Antheap” from African Stories by Doris Lessing, a British novelist who grew up on a farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Music--Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422)

May 4, 11, 18, and 25--immediately following Coffee.

Metropolitan Opera Radio--Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com & 841-7432)

The Met radio broadcasts conclude this season with one more opera. Come to 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.

May 7 La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart  12:30

Ten O'clock Scholars AKA Wednesday Coffee/Business Meeting--Margery Lamb (marjlamb@sbcglobal.net & 749-4647)

May 4, 11, 18, and 25

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Opera Study

The enjoyable year with Puccini operas has ended. For the future the group decided on the following: 2005-06-Operas of Richard Strauss; 2006-07-French operas of the late 19th century; 2007-08-Italian Verismo (realistic) Operas

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