Director's letter

Lucille Salerno Dear Colleagues of the Third Age,

“The winter that would not go away” finally has yielded, replaced with wonderful, plush, lush green everywhere. Overnight! Spurred on by the renewal, considerable activity is happening in our offices, now, as we do what’s needed to bring you back into our classrooms for the 2008 four-week summer session. Note, please, that it’s not simply an abbreviated semester; it will be an abbreviated week, too -- with formal classes meeting only Monday through Wednesday. But wonderful films will fill Friday afternoons with a new film series director, us.

Three days per week should be enough “cognitive exercise” for the month of June, with some pleasure and reflectiveness on Fridays. No classes in July and August. However, the beat goes on during those two months with the Friday Film Festival. With no classes competing with the film schedule, you will be able to take a leisurely lunch, then join us for the film at 1:30 p.m. -- that’s a one-hour later start time for the films in June, July and August -- and right up until the fall semester launches Monday, Sept. 15.

Six courses will be offered this summer. They’re wonderfully different.

If you, as a voter, have felt the burden of making decisions with great uncertainty about the technical principles underlying issues, join us for a course that will increase your scientific literacy. This is likely to be one of those one-time incredible opportunities for such a class.
Ah, the birders are back -- and inviting you to spend wonderful early Tuesday mornings in awe, in meadows, woods and fields learning even more about warblers and “little brown jobs”, etc., etc.
And, our most dynamic horticulturist is giving up a portion of her summer to help you with the challenges of summer gardening.
While it is said that you cannot be “thin enough or rich enough,” clearly you cannot know enough about the Civil War in Missouri -- especially with this new focus on the northern portions of our state.
Empowering yourself in the face of “our physical evolutionary changes” is the goal of the Wednesday morning course. You will learn much about self-directed interventions that keep you strong and healthy.
Finally, you have the chance to put it all together artistically with an instructor who will teach both sketching and watercolor in the same course.

You may well wish to take all six courses -- and certainly we will aid and abet you in that pursuit.

That’s it. We have extended the invitation. Registration is in your court. Coffee, iced tea, comfortably cool classrooms, camaraderie and new knowledge await you.

All the best, always,
Lucille Salerno, Director
SalernoL@missouri.edu
573-884-5927

Laura Ward, Program Coordinator
WardLA@missouri.edu
573-882-7478

Adam Ross Newman, Office Assistant
arncde@missouri.edu
573-882-2585

Updated 5/5/08

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