ENDACOTT
SOCIETY — November 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.
November 8—Program at 2:30,
sherry at 2:00, in the Summerfield Room. Following the celebration of
November birthdays, Dorothy Kurtz
and Terry Sikes from the Palliative Care Unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
will talk about the purpose and management of this unit.
Card
and Game Theory
Art
Lamb (artlamb@sunflower.com,
749-4647)
November 15—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)
November 20—Film at 2:00,
coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. We will see the hilarious Noel Coward
comedy Private
Lives
with Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Bring your friends!
Computer
Study
Jerry
Niebaum (jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com,
842-3127)
All meetings are
at 9:00 in the Paul Adam Lounge. Check out our yearly tentative schedule at our
Web site at http://www.wizardofkansas.com/OLDKU/
November 7—Introduction to
E-mail, Part 2 (Jerry Niebaum).
November 14—Application
Software: Digital Video Recording (Richard Kershenbaum).
November
21—No
session - Thanksgiving.
November
28—Application
Software: Microsoft Office 2007 (Jennifer Church-Duran).
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)
November 5—3:30. State
Representative Tom Sloan will discuss anticipated legislative issues for the
next legislative session.
Drama
Study Group
Arnold
Weiss
(ahweiss@ku.edu, 842-5502)
November 9—1:30 in the music
room.
With
its (and Eugene O'Neill's not inappropriately titled) Long Day's
Journey
now behind it, Drama Study Group returns from its October sabbatical to
undertake a quite different dish of Irish tea: George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's
Profession.
As is customary, copies of the play will be available at Wednesday Coffee.
Evening
Lecture Series
Tom
Eblen
(teblen@sunflower.com, 865-3634) and John Mullens (841-9658)
November 29—5:30 wine and
cheese, 6:00 dinner, 7:00 presentation. The speaker will be Dr. Charles Yockey,
now a hospitalist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Many of our members know him
well.
Foreign
Policy Study
Marilyn
Bradt
(mbradt@carrollsweb.com, 843-7751)
November 19—3:30 in the
McGinnis Library. Please note the change of date. The Adams Center will be
closed for Veterans Day on our usual meeting date so we will meet the following
Monday instead. The topic, led by
Al Sellen, will be "War Crimes."
Gardening
Arno
Knapper
(knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422) and Dick Schiefelbusch (843-5869)
November 7, 14,
21, 28—9:00
in the Music Room.
Great
Books Study Group
Dave
Hiebert
(gundave@sunflower.com, 842-8706) and Ellen Gold (843-6933)
November 14—1:45. The subject
is Ibsen's Enemy
of the People.
The discussion will be led by Ellen Gold.
Music
Arno
Knapper
(knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
November 7, 14,
21, 28—Immediately
following coffee.
Pre-Concert
Dinner
Grant
Goodman
(841-1066)
November 17—5:00 in the
Springhill Suites Ballroom. Reservations may be made by signing up at Wednesday
coffees or by calling Grant Goodman at 841-1066. Checks should be made payable to the Endacott Society. Deadline is 5 p.m. on November 14.
Price is $15.00 per person including all libations.
Singing
for Fun
Roberta
Spires
(rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820)
November 1—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. A few World War I songs will be sung.
Ten
O'clock Scholars, AKA “Wednesday Coffee”
Genevieve
McMahon
(841-2116).
November 7, 14,
21, 28—10:00.
The building will be closed November 21.
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NEWS
EVENTS
• Oral Histories: The following oral
histories are newly completed and are now in the Adams Alumni Center's library:
Greg Wade, Douglas McKay, and Leslie Dienes.
• Phoenix Awards: Two active members of
the Endacott
Society
are among the eight winners of the 12th annual Phoenix Awards, a project of the
Lawrence Arts Commission through the City of Lawrence.
Joyce
Schild
will receive the Volunteer
in the Arts
award. Joyce has been active in the arts for over 60 years in Lawrence. She is
the major founder of Art in the Park, which led to her subsequent work in
establishing the Lawrence Art Guild which in turn led to the development of the
Lawrence Arts Center. She has taught art and volunteered her art for many local
and state projects. She is herself an artist working in charcoal, watercolor,
enamel, stained glass and other media. Her art appears in many Lawrence homes,
and beyond. Joyce was nominated by Phyllis Lawton with support from Betty
Alderson.
Ted Johnson is the first winner of
the newly designated Phoenix
Award
for Arts
Advocate.
He has been a part of the KU faculty since 1968. Ted is well known for his Stop
Day Walking Tours of the KU campus, tours reaching out to all Lawrence
residents which focus on the art and architecture of the campus. In addition to
his years of teaching French and Art History, Ted does life drawing and figure
studies and exhibits locally and in Topeka. He is an advocate for the
humanities and an active concert-goer. Nominated by his wife Mary and children
Anne and Stephen, the latter a 2004 Phoenix winner, Ted becomes the first
Phoenix winner to share honors within a family unit.
The Phoenix
Awards
will be
presented Sunday, November 4, at 2:00, in the auditorium of the Lawrence Arts
Center. A reception will follow. The public, and certainly all Endacott
members, are invited.
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