ENDACOTT
SOCIETY Ñ September 2008
Retired Faculty and Staff of The University of
Kansas Ñ 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.
September 11ÑProgram at 2:30, sherry
at 2:00, in the Summerfield Room. Come celebrate the 25th birthday of the
Endacott Society! Those with September birthdays will be honored as well
as the organization. The program will be provided by Evelyn Swartz,
Professor Emeritus of the School of Education. Her topic will be
"Revisiting the Past."
Armchair
Travel
Stitt Robinson (wsrobin@ku.edu,
843-1499)
September 25ÑProgram at 2:30, coffee
and tea at 2:00. "European Cathedrals," will be presented by Al
Sellen.
Card
and Game Theory
Art Lamb (artlamb@sunflower.com,
749-4647)
September 18Ñ1:30 in the Paul Adam
Lounge. The usual games of bridge and scrabble will be played. A sign-up
sheet is available at the Wednesday Coffee, or call Ruth Ann Culvahouse,
840-0626.
Cinema
Studies
Grant Goodman (plim@ku.edu,
841-1066) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu,
841-4939)
September16ÑFilm at 2:00, coffee at
1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. Cinema Studies will present the third and final
film in our Otto Preminger festival: Advise and Consent (1962). This film,
as relevant today as ever, stars Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon,
Franchot Tone, Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith and Lew Ayres. Guests are
welcome.
Computer
Study
Jerry Niebaum (jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com,
842-3127)
All meetings are at 9:00 in the Paul
Adam Lounge.
September
3ÑIntroduction
to Files & Folders (Jerry Niebaum).
September
10ÑLong
distance telephone via the Internet - Skype (Jerry Niebaum).
September
17Ñ
Applied Computing - Lawrence Police Department (Steve Zarnowiec).
September
24Ñ To
be announced
Drama
Study Group
Arnold Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu,
842-5502)
September 12Ñ1:30 in the music room.
The group will complete Act I and will proceed with reading of Act II and the
Requiem/Finale of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Furtther information,
as required, will be furnished at Wednesday Coffees.
Evening
Lecture Series
Tom Eblen (teblen@sunflower.com,
865-3634) and John Mullens (841-0958)
October 2Ñ5:30 wine and cheese, 6:00
dinner, 7:00 presentation. Tom Waechter of KU's Design and Construction
Management will present "Images of Campus." Sign up at Wednesday Coffee by September 24.
Foreign
Policy Study
Marilyn Bradt (mbradt@carrollsweb.com, 843-7751)
September 8Ñ3:30 in the McGinnis
Library. Jim Seaver will lead the discussion on "Iraq: Strategies for
Dealing with Uncertainty."
Gardening
Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu,
312-9422) and Dick Schiefelbusch (843-5869)
September 3, 10, 17, 24Ñ9:00 in the Music Room.
Great
Books Study Group
Dave Hiebert (gundave@sunflower.com, 842-8706) and Ellen
Gold (843-6933)
September 10Ñ1:45. This month, the
group will discuss Carl Jung's, The Stages of Life. Moderator will be Jo
Scannell.
Music
Arno Knapper (knapper@ku.edu,
312-9422)
September 3, 10, 17, 24ÑImmediately following
coffee.
Out
of Town Travel
Ev Swartz (evswartz@ku.edu, 841-4065)
September 25Ñ Dinner at Circle S
Ranch
Cash
bar open at 5:00, and dinner at 6:00. Dinner includes salad, fresh vegetables,
oven-roasted potatoes, bread and dessert.
Entrees are herb roasted salmon ($31.89), marinated chicken ($31.89), or
beef tenderloin ($38.27). Two people can share an entree with individual side
dishes for $44.65, $44.65, and $51.03 respectively.
Reservations are due no later than September
16.
Make checks payable to "Endacott Society." Contact Ev Swartz for
details.
Singing
for Fun
Roberta Spires (rspires@ku.edu,
842-6820)
September 4Ñ2:00 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.
Ten
O'clock Scholars, AKA ÒWednesday CoffeeÓ
Genevieve McMahon (841-2116).
September 3, 10, 17, 24Ñ10:00.
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Endacott
Society Membership List
Copies of the Endacott Society membership list
may be obtained from Bryan Greve at the KU Alumni Association.
To subscribe to our list-serve, send an e-mail
to: listproc@ku.edu with message content:
"Subscribe retirees your-name".
Endacott Society Newsletter online? Check
groups.ku.edu/~endacottsociety.
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Newsletter
Copy
Copy for the October Newsletter should be in
the hands of the editor no later than Sunday, September 14. E-mail Vic Wallace (wallace@ku.edu).