ENDACOTT SOCIETY — May 2007
Retired Faculty and Staff of The University of Kansas — groups.ku.edu/~endacottsociety
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SCHEDULED EVENTS
All activities meet at the Adams Alumni Center unless otherwise noted.
Notice to Committee Chairs: Chairs should begin preparing their yearly reports on activities. (Due May 23.)
Afternoon Lecture Series
Roberta Spires (rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820), 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 Ellen Gold (843-6933) are in charge of programs.
May 10—Program begins at 2:30; sherry at 2:00. Following the celebration of May birthdays, our speaker will be David Ambler, Vice Chancellor Emeritus. He will speak on “The Kent State Tragedy: Legal Issues and Lessons Learned.”
Card and Game Theory
Ruth Ann Culvahouse (842-0626)
May 17—1:30 in the Paul Adam Lounge. The usual games of bridge and scrabble will be played. If you have an interest in playing a different game, please add it to the sign-up sheet at the Wednesday Coffee.
Cinema Studies
Grant Goodman (plim@ku.edu, 841-1066) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu, 841-4939)
May 15—Film at 2:00, coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. We will see the hilarious Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera with the ever reliable Margaret Dumont. This movie should be of particluar interest to all of the opera goers among us.
Computer Study
Jerry Niebaum (jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com, 842-3127)
May 2—9:00. Early users: Spreadsheets, part 1. (Jerry Niebaum).
May 9—9:00. Application Software: Online travel assistance (Richard Kershenbaum)
May 16—9:00. Evaluation & planning (Jerry Niebaum)
May 23—9:00. To be announced.
May 30—9:00. Herb Harris Computing Lab. - Memorial Union (Jerry Niebaum)
Domestic Public Policy Study
Jim Drury (jdrury@ku.edu, 842-3308) and John Poertner (jpoertner@sunflower.com, 749-2599)
May 7—3:30. Topic: "The Kansas Tax Structure and the Case for Modernization," with April Holman of Kansas Action for Children.
Drama Study Group
Arnold Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu, 842-5502)
May 11—1:30 in the Music Room. With playwright J. B. Priestley showing the way with Act III of his Time and the Conways, Drama Study Group follows the troubled Conway family of Act II back some twenty years in time, from the strained depression-era days of the late 1930s, to the sunny, confident—and harmonious—life we had watched it enjoy in Act I in the course of Britain's newly peaceful post-World War I year of 1919. Copies of the play will be available at Wednesday Coffee.
Foreign Policy Study
Marilyn Bradt (mbradt@carrollsweb.com, 843-7751)
May 14—3:30 in the McGinnis Library. John Poertner will lead a discussion on "Helping the World's Endangered Children."
Gardening
Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422) and Dick Schiefelbusch (843-5869)
May 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30—9:00 in the Music Room.
Great Books Study Group
Dave Hiebert (gundave@sunflower.com, 842-8706) and Ellen Gold (843-6933)
May 9—1:45. Ellen Gold will lead the discussion of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse.
Music
Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
May 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30—Immediately following coffee.
Metropolitan Opera Radio
Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com, 841-7432)
The last Met Radio broadcast is on May 5, but we will have one additional program. The program which we could not hear on January 13 due to the ice storm on that date will be replayed on May 12 (thanks to an opportune off-the-net recording). Both programs will be played at the home of Vic and Mary Wallace, 1509 Massachusetts St. Parking is avalable in the church lot next door. Jim Seaver comes with his expert knowledge, and with librettos. Snacks are served too.
May 5 --12:30. Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck.
May 12—12:30. The First Emperor, Tan Dun. (This was a world premier broadcast of the brand new opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
Singing for Fun
Roberta Spires (rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820)
May 3—2:00 in the Music Room. Please join us for a fun-filled song fest. Winnie Gallup is our able accompanist.
Ten O'clock Scholars, AKA “Wednesday Coffee”
Genevieve McMahon (841-2116).
May 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30—10:00.
(The May 30 meeting will be in the Bruckmiller Room.)
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Copy for the June Newsletter should be in the hands of the editor no later than Sunday, May 20. E-mail Vic Wallace (wallace@ku.edu).