ENDACOTT SOCIETY — October 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.
Afternoon Lecture Series
Maxine Patterson (843-7905), 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 Bill Hambleton (wwhamble@ku.edu, 843-2508) are in charge of programs.
October 11—Program at 2:30, sherry at 2:00, in the Bruckmiller Room. Following the celebration of October birthdays, we will hear Curtis Marsh who will speak on "The Culture and Challenge of International Adoption." His presentation will be about his personal experiences in adopting two three-year old children from Krasnoyarsk, Russia which is in southern Siberia. People can get a preview of the topic and pictures of the boys at the blog: www.cnmboys.blogspot.com.
Armchair Travel
Stitt Robinson (wsrobin@ku.edu, 843-1499)
October 25—Program at 2:30, coffee and tea at 2:00. Richard Kershenbaum will present a program on Rumania.
Card and Game Theory
Art Lamb (artlamb@sunflower.com, 749-4647)
October 18—1:30 in the Paul Adam Lounge. The usual games of bridge and scrabble and whatever will be played. A sign-up sheet is available at the Wednesday Coffee.
Cinema Studies
Grant Goodman (plim@ku.edu, 841-1066) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu, 841-4939)
October 16—Film at 2:00, coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. We will see the 1948 MGM musical The Pirate with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, directed by Vincente Minelli. Music is by Cole Porter, with the wonderful song "Be a Clown!" All are welcome, of course.
Computer Study
Jerry Niebaum (jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com, 842-3127)
All meetings are at 9:00 in the Paul Adam Lounge.
October 3—Introduction to E-mail, Part 1 (Jerry Niebaum).
October 10—Applied Computing: Lawrence Public Library (library staff).
October 17—Application Software: Quicken (Jan Stewart).
October 24—Microsoft Vista. (KU staff).
October 31—Dr. Fixit, led by Jerry Niebaum.
Domestic Public Policy Study
Jim Drury (jdrury@ku.edu, 842-3308), John Poertner (jpoertner@sunflower.com, 749-2599) and Ev Swartz (evswartz@ku.edu, 841-4065)
October 1—3:30. The program will be devoted to planning for the year. Bring your favorite domestic planning issue!
Drama Study Group
Arnold Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu, 842-5502)
No meeting in October. As confidently predicted, the larger forces that reported for duty on September 14 completed the reading of Long Day's Journey into Night just short of going into overtime. Meetings will resume in November. The Group's next vehicle will be G. B. Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, copies of which will be available by request from Arnold after October 18, and will be on hand at Wednesday coffee beginning October 24.
Evening Lecture Series
Tom Eblen (teblen@sunflower.com, 865-3634) and John Mullens (841-9658)
October 4—5:30 wine and cheese, 6:00 dinner, 7:00 presentation. The program will feature Michael Devine, Director of the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo. His topic will be "Presidential Libraries," focusing on the Truman Library.
Foreign Policy Study
Marilyn Bradt (mbradt@carrollsweb.com, 843-7751)
October 8—3:30 in the McGinnis Library. The topic will be "Central Asia: three-power resource rivalry." Hob Crockett will lead the discussion.
Gardening
Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422) and Dick Schiefelbusch (843-5869)
October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31—9:00 in the Music Room.
Great Books Study Group
Dave Hiebert (gundave@sunflower.com, 842-8706) and Ellen Gold (843-6933)
October 10—1:45. The subject is Boys and Girls by Alice Munroe, and the discussion will be led by Don Chambers.
Music
Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31—Immediately following coffee.
Singing for Fun
Roberta Spires (rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820)
October 4—2:00 in the Music Room. Please join us for a fun-filled song fest down memory lane with Winnie Gallup on the piano and Roberta Spires leading.
Opera Study
Jim Seaver (jseaver@ku.edu, 843-4081) and Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com, 841-7432)
October 19—1:30, on the second floor. Continuing our 2007-2008 study of Italian verismo operas, we will present an excellent VCR of Umberto Giordano's masterpiece Andrea Chenier, which had its very successful premiere at La Scala, Milan, in 1896. Giordano's librettist, Luigi Illica, was inspired by the life of the French poet Andre Chenier, who was executed during the "Reign of Terror" of the French Revolution in 1794.
This opera is the most popular of Giordano's operas, although his Fedora still has occasional revivals. Great Cheniers have been the Italiam tenors Borgatti, who created the title role, Tamagno, and Gigli, and more recently the tenor of our DVD, Placido Domingo. We will also hear the Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as Maddallena and the baritone Giorgio Zancanaro as the revolutionary leader Gerard. The opera was filmed at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 1985. The London Sunday Times pronounced this production "triumphantly successful." The Royal Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House were conducted by Julius Rudel, famous as the conductor of the New York Opera at Lincoln Center.
Andrea Chenier has four acts and will last a total of 112 minutes. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served after the second act.
Ten O'clock Scholars, AKA “Wednesday Coffee”
Genevieve McMahon (841-2116).
October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31—10:00.
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