August 19, 2016

The OLLI Office is open Monday through Friday, 8:30-4:30.  Our telephone number is 864-294-2998.

 

Fall registration continues! We sincerely hope registration went well for all of those who registered this week and we appreciate your patience as we worked through a few glitches. Please refer to your confirmation e-mail and note the “class status” for the courses for which you registered (registered, registered not paid, waitlist). For anyone showing a “registered not paid” status, you are registered for the course.  (You may have been “waitlisted” for a course and we have a check we cannot deposit until you get into the course or you are mailing us payment.)

 

**If you are on a waitlist, please know that we are working on those.  Any time we can let more people into a class, we do.  It all depends on space in the room, instructor preference, and/or whether we can move to a different room.  You will get a call from the office if a space opens up for you.**

 

If you are brand-new member, we will make a nametag for you, which you can pick up at the New Member Orientation OR at your first class.  The same is true for parking passes.  All OLLI members will receive parking passes at Back to OLLI or your first class.  There is no need to make a special trip out to the office for your nametag or parking sticker.  Returning OLLI members, please use the nametag you already have.

 

In order to ensure that all of our members can enjoy our free Friday bonus events, members can only sign up for TWO bonus trips or events during the initial registration period.  Throughout the term, we will publish bonus trip and event openings each week in OLLI Notes; at that point, all members will be eligible to sign up.

 

Stop by the office to pick up OLLI Brochures to share with friends, neighbors and at spots around town. YOU are our best advertisement.

 

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

 

Social Committee                  Monday, August 22   10 a.m.                        HC103

OLLI Council                          Friday, August 26      10 a.m.                        HC102

 

OLLI HAPPENINGS

 

Ce semestre le SIG français deviendra un club du livre. Nous lirons un livre français et l’utiliserons comme point de départ pour notre discussion.  Nous commencerons avec “Le Chien Jaune,” un livre de Georges Simenon. Vous pouvez acheter l’édition français en ligne à Amazon. Nous accueillerons les personnes qui ont des notions de français, parlé ou écrit. Le SIG se réunira le mardi au centre Herring de  12:20 de 13:20, salle 105.

 

The Bowling SIG will once again be rolling their bowling balls in the OLLI Fall Bowling League at AMF Star Lanes (740 Pleasantburg Dr.). The league will begin Monday, Sept. 12 and run 10 weeks. Practice starts at 12:45 p.m. and matches begin at 1 p.m. with the first week serving as an organizational meeting. Cost is $10 and bowlers of all levels are welcome! You may sign up as an individual or as a team of three. Contact Mike Halloran with questions or to sign up.

 

The OLLI @ Furman Fall term Baiden Wall Exhibit will be September 12 – October 28, 2016. The exhibit will feature works from those who participated in the following Painting and Drawing classes; Acrylic Painting, Basic Watercolor, Zentangle, Chinese Painting, Pen & Ink, Portraits in Watercolor, Watercolor in Motion, and Commercial Oil Portraits. OLLI members and instructors may submit one or two works. All artwork must be framed and ready to hang with wire attached. NO saw tooth hangers please. Submission dates are August 22 to September 7. Entry forms will be available beginning in August in the OLLI office. Questions? Contact Sandy Roback at sroback0329@yahoo.com or call 879-6783.

 

Road trip with OLLI to the National Story-telling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, October 8-9!  Two days of story-tellers, plus transportation, overnight-and-breakfast at the delightful General Morgan Inn, and some regional history en route delivered by trip leader Chumley Cope. Drop by the OLLI office to register.

 

What’s GOING ON at Furman University?  

 

Spirit of ’45 Upstate:  Sunday, August 14 at Younts Conference Center at Furman.  2 p.m. exhibits, 3 p.m. celebration of the end of WWII on August 14, 1945.  Sponsored by the Travelers Rest Historical Society.  Visit www.travelersresthistoricalsociety.org for more details.

 

What’s GOING ON around Greenville?  

 

The Japan American Association of South Carolina invites you to the Bon Dance Festival on Saturday, August 20, 12:30 -4:30 p.m. at McAlister Square (225 Pleasantburg Dr.)  Admission is Free. Visit the website for more information.

 

Take a break from the heat at the Upcountry History Museum!  Enjoy classic films and documentaries at the museum’s theater.  Monday Matinees are on Mondays at 2 p.m. and are free to museum members, and free with museum admission.  Drinks and snacks will be for sale.  August 22, Edison:  the Father of Invention, in honor of the soon-to-open Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, “Things Come Apart.”

 

Dr. Barry Schneider, former Director of the Counterproliferation Center, will present two lectures as part of a series entitled Preventing a Nuclear Catastrophe at North Anderson Community Church in Anderson (4200 Liberty Hwy.).  “Dealing with Adversary Nuclear Threats” will be on August 24, 7 p.m. and “The Iran Nuclear Deal: Good or Bad Idea” will be held August 25, 7 p.m.  Free and open to the public. Questions? Call Diane at 864-226-4529.

 

 

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