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WinterCourses

2015

ScholarshipsAvailable!See page 3 for more information!

Russia - 2007

Basque Country Tour - 2013

Canada Rail Tour - 2008

Eclipse Cruise - March 2013

An idea of continued learning…

OSHER@Dartmouth is short for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth. We were originally founded as ILEAD in November, 1990 by 38 members of the Upper Valley intrigued with the “idea of continued learning.” Our founders relished the challenge of self-administered and peer-taught discussion programs. Over 28,000 people have participated in the Institute’s programs since we were founded 24 years ago.

A volunteer-run learning organization for Upper Valley adults…

As a self-supporting department of Dartmouth College, OSHER@Dartmouth provides educational opportunities that encourage discovery and stimulate thinking through participation in courses, lectures, and related travel programs.

With over 1,700 members, we are one of the largest lifelong learning institutes in the country.

Mission – Vision – Core Values

OSHER@Dartmouth’s Mission:To provide outstanding lifelong educational opportunities to those in the greater Upper Valley.

OSHER@Dartmouth’s Vision:To be recognized as a national leader for excellence in lifelong education.

Core Values:• An unwavering commitment to lifelong education;• Membership open to all, regardless of educational background;• A diverse, high quality program, led by dedicated volunteers;• A welcoming social environment, within and beyond the classroom;• An appropriate fee structure that provides for financial sustainability, member affordability, innovation,

and growth; • Strong and continuing two-way relationships with Dartmouth College and the Osher Foundation; and • Excellence in everything we do.

Please turn to inside back cover for more informationregarding programs and membership.

10 Hilton Field RoadHanover, NH 03755

(603) 646-0154osher.dartmouth.edu

ON OUR COVER: Members and volunteers of OSHER@Dartmouth have provided hundreds of images from classes, Study/Travel trips, special events, lectures, and social gatherings over the years, and we thank them for their generosity. We wish to particularly thank the following members featured in the main images on this cover, as well as those who provided the images:Eclipse Cruise - Joan Wilson (subject); photograph by Tom WilsonCanada Rail Tour - Stew Wood, Susan Pierson, Jay Pierson, Bob Hargraves (subjects, l to r); image provided by Bob and Ann HargravesRussia - Carl Larson, Evva Larson, Barbara Jones, Bin Lewis (subjects, l to r); photograph by Emily JonesBasque Country - Tom Blinkhorn, unidentified kiss recipient (subjects, l to r); image provided by Bob and Ann Hargraves

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Letter From the PresidentNovember, 2014

Dear OSHER@Dartmouth Members and Friends:

Welcome to OSHER@Dartmouth’s winter term 2015. The winter term begins Monday, January 12th, 2015, and runs through Friday, March 6th, 2015.

Your Curriculum Committee has been working diligently to develop fifty-one course offerings this winter; 39 full-length courses and 12 mini-courses. Participants will have a chance to hear a first-hand account of what life was like in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, examine the re-emergence of Gothic themes in literature, art and entertainment, and consider the role of religion on our personal perspectives and outlook. Courses this term cover a wide range of subjects and involve topics in science, literature, art, entertainment, as well as practical lessons on popular games. This should prove to be yet another exciting winter term!

We want to thank our Study Leaders for the energy and knowledge they bring to the classroom. All Study Leaders are volunteers who develop their own courses. Some are experienced teachers, some have never taught before, but all are eager to share their passion for their subjects. If you, or any of your acquaintances, are interested in leading a course, please contact the OSHER@Dartmouth office.

In addition to the courses listed in this catalog, OSHER@Dartmouth continues to offer study-travel trips that may be of interest to you. Check out all of these opportunities on our website: osher.dartmouth.edu.

Enjoy your winter courses.

Sincerely,

Stew WoodPresident

Vice President Sylvia PaxtonTreasurer C. J. SmithSecretary Martha Clark



Classrooms & Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Winter Term at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-7Winter Term by Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-9Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-36Course Applications for Winter Term . . . . . . . . 37 & 39

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Registration Procedures!OSHER@Dartmouth members can take advantage of online registration!

Don’t be alarmed; this is just an additional registration option.We will still happily process printed registration forms!

To register online, visit osher.dartmouth.edu and click on the ‘Register Now’ link.

1. Class placement is on a first-come, first-served basis. Wait-lists will be utilized for courses that receive registration numbers that exceed the class size.

2. Registration will open on November 18th at 9 AM and will close on December 10th. This is true for both online registration and registrations submitted via printed forms. The office will continue to accept applications sent via post, or delivered to our location by hand. We will process printed applications in the order in which they are received beginning November 18th.

3. Payment in full is due when you submit your completed registration form. This is true for both online and printed registration forms. You must pay for all courses in which you plan to participate at time of registration. (You will receive a full refund of course fees should your course(s) be cancelled, or should you withdraw from a course prior to the start of the term.)

4. Online registration allows payment via credit card. If you choose to register online, you must use a valid credit card (MasterCard or Visa only) at time of registration; you will NOT be able to submit an alternate form of payment online.

5. Do not sign up for a new account. If you have ever participated in our program, or receive regular communications from our office, you already have an account in our registration system. If you are unaware of or cannot remember your user name and password, please contact the office before registering online.

6. Printed registration forms require payment in full via check or cash. If you choose to register via printed form, you must use either a check or cash to pay for your course(s) - payment via credit card is only possible for online registration.

Members who wish to register online and require help in doing so may take advantage of one of our drop-in registration events on Wednesday, November 18th:The first will take place at the DOC House from 8:30 am to 3 pm, and the second at Kendal from 8:30 am to 12 pm. At each location, volunteers and staff members will

be available to assist members wishing to access online registration.** The OSHER@Dartmouth staff will continue to be available in the office throughout the winter term

registration period to help members who require assistance with the online registration system.



Winter Course RegistrationA. You must be a 2014-2015 OSHER@Dartmouth

member to take courses.The annual membership year runs from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015 and costs $60. Membership is open to anyone regardless of age, academic background or college affiliation.

B. Make sure your personal schedule will permit you to attend the majority of the course meetings for each course you select.Please do not request enrollment in a course if your schedule will not permit regular attendance.

C. Read the following information carefully before filling out the Application Form(s) pps. 37 & 39.

1. COURSE DATES: Our 2015 winter term begins the week ofJanuary 12th; courses end the week of March 2nd.

2. COURSE COSTS:(please make checks payable to Dartmouth College)$55 for any Full-Length Course (5-8 weeks)$30 for any Mini-Course (4 weeks or less)

The OSHER@Dartmouth office will be closedfrom December 24th, 2014 through January 2nd, 2015.

Enjoy the OSHER@Dartmouth Experience of Discovery!

D. ADDITIONAL COURSESIf you are interested in taking additional course(s), you must indicate on your application the number of courses you wish to take. Courses are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and applications will be accepted until December 10th, 2014.

To register online, visitosher.dartmouth.edu

and click on the ‘Register Now’ link.

E. REGISTRATION DATES Registration Opens: November 18th, 2014 Registration Closes: December 10th, 2014

Online registration will close on December 10th. Printed registration forms should arrive at our office beginning Wednesday, November 18th, 2014 and no later than Wednesday, December 10th, 2014. (See below for contact information.)

F. MINIMUM COURSE ENROLLMENTIf minimum enrollment in a course is not achieved, the course will be cancelled, and you will be offered your alternate course (if available). If you did not make an alternate choice, your course fee will be refunded.

G. COURSE MATERIALSStudy group participants may be requested to spend up to $60 for course materials.

H. SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLEAlthough the costs of our courses are considerably less than those of many similar organizations, limited financial aid is available. Please call the OSHER@Dartmouth office for more information at (603) 646-0154.

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New or non-active members must pay their $60 membership feeprior to registration,

or include it with their course feeand winter term course application.

Printed registration forms should be mailed to:Osher at Dartmouth10 Hilton Field RoadHanover, NH 03755



Fall 2014 Term at a GlanceOsher@Dartmouth Classrooms & LocationsThe following are locations utilized by OSHER@Dartmouth courses for the winter 2015 term. For quick online or mobile access to these sites, please visit the ‘Courses’ page on our website at osher.dartmouth.edu.

To better enable participants to locate their classrooms, we are providing street addresses, telephone numbers, and links to each location’s website below. The web addresses listed here will take you directly to the “Directions” page of each website, or to their main page if directions are not provided online.

D.O.C. House 10 Hilton Field Rd., Hanover NH 03755 (603) 646-0154 http://www.dartmouth.edu/ilead/about/contact.html

The Greens at Hanover 53 Lyme Rd., Hanover NH 03755 (603) 643-5512 http://thegreensathanover.net/contact-us/

Hanover Senior Center 48 Lebanon St., Hanover NH 03755 (603) 643-5315 http://www.hanovernh.org/Pages/HanoverNH_Recreation/DIRECTIONS/black

Hood Museum 4 East Wheelock St., Hanover NH 03755 (603) 646-1110 http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/about/visit/index.html

Kendal at Hanover 80 Lyme Rd., Hanover NH 03755 (603) 643-8900 http://kah.kendal.org/

Kilton Library 80 Main St., West Lebanon NH 03784 (603) 298-8544 http://www.leblibrary.com/getting-here

Lebanon Co-op 12 Centerra Parkway, Lebanon NH 03766 (603) 643-4889 http://www.coopfoodstore.com/lebanon-store

Montshire Museum One Montshire Road, Norwich VT 05055 (802) 649-2200 http://www.montshire.org/visit/directions/

Roth Center 5 Occom Ridge, Hanover NH 03755 (603) 646-0154 http://m.dartmouth.edu/map/

Stephanie’s Studio 25 Pleasant St., Lyme NH 03768 (603) 646-0154 (Phone number is for the OSHER@Dartmouth office)

VINS 6565 Woodstock Rd., Route 4, Quechee VT 05059 (802) 359-5000 http://www.vinsweb.org/index.php/visit/hours-and-directions

Wilder Center 2087 Hartford Ave., Wilder VT 05088 (802) 698-8368 http://www.wildercenter.com/location/

The Woodlands 30 Alice Peck Day Drive, Lebanon NH 03766 (603) 448-7416 http://www.thewoodlandsnh.org/


http://www.dartmouth.edu/ilead/about/contact.html

http://http://thegreensathanover.net/contact-us/

http://www.hanovernh.org/Pages/HanoverNH_Recreation/DIRECTIONS/black

http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/about/visit/index.html

http://kah.kendal.org/

http://www.leblibrary.com/getting-here

http://www.coopfoodstore.com/lebanon-store

http://www.montshire.org/visit/directions/

http://m.dartmouth.edu/map/

http://www.vinsweb.org/index.php/visit/hours-and-directions

http://www.wildercenter.com/location/

http://www.thewoodlandsnh.org/


Materials FeesIf an OSHER@Dartmouth study leader provides printed materials to class members in the form of packets, hand-outs, or photocopies, participants in that course may be required to pay a materials fee. This additional fee is separate from the cost of the course.

Each term, study leaders who require reading packets for their course are asked to provide an original copy to the office. The office staff reviews the originals; study leaders are granted a 50-page allowance for printed materials each term, and it is only when that total is exceeded that a materials fee is calculated for class participants. Any participant who receives a printed copy of their course reading materials will be charged this materials fee.

Some study leaders may add materials as the term progresses; in those situations, the additional materials will be added into the office’s cost calculations before a charge is issued to the class participants.

Once the total for the class is finalized, invoices are issued to class participants, who are then asked to remit payment to the office. In cases where the study leader has provided the materials without the use of office resources, participants will be asked to remit payment directly to their study leader. See your course welcome packet for details, or consult the office staff to determine the appropriate recipient for your materials fee payment.

If you would prefer to receive your materials online instead of receiving paper copies, you should discuss your preferences and options with your study leader and/or your class representative. Many course materials are made available electronically via a course folder on Google Drive. After confirming your choice with your study leader, be sure to notify the OSHER@Dartmouth office if you will NOT be receiving printed materials for your course.

IMPORTANT!If you have successfully registered for a course, the office will mail or e-mail you a course

welcome packet between December 15th and 22nd.

If you do not receive a welcome packet, contact the office before attending the course, as your registration may not have processed successfully.


Winter 2015 Term at a GlanceDAY/TIME COURSE TITLE DURATION LOCATION PAGEMONDAYS9:30-11:30 Deepening A Sense Of Place (4 wks) VINS 119:30-11:30 Propositions For A Government (6 wks) D.O.C. House 119:30-11:30 Nevil Shute’s Business Novels (6 wks) D.O.C. House 129:30-11:30 Collaborative Meditation Workshop (7 wks) D.O.C. House 1210:00-1:00 Watercolor For Timid Souls (6 wks) Stephanie’s Lyme Studio 1311:00-1:00 Gastronomy Of The Netherlands (2 wks) Lebanon Co-op 1312:00-2:00 Comparative Religion: Finding Common Ground (6 wks) Kendal at Hanover 1412:00-2:00 Richard Wagner And The Ring Of The Nibelung (6 wks) D.O.C. House 1412:00-2:00 Fundamental Ideas Of Physics (7 wks) D.O.C. House 152:30-4:30 Learn And Improve Your KenKen Skills (3 wks) D.O.C. House 152:30-4:30 Indirections To Independence (6 wks) D.O.C. House 162:30-4:30 Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine (5wks) Kendal at Hanover 165:00-7:00 Promoting Brain And Cognitive Health (4 wks) D.O.C. House 175:00-7:00 Language, Connection And Healing: Lit & Med III (8 wks) D.O.C. House 17

TUESDAYS9:30-11:30 Actually Reading The Constitution (6 wks) D.O.C. House 189:30-11:30 Dr. Faustus And His Friends (6 wks) D.O.C. House 189:30-11:30 Remaking The Nation: America After The Civil War(7 wks) D.O.C. House 1910:00-12:00 The Gothic Re-enchantment Of The World (6 wks) Kilton Public Library 1910:30-12:30 Glimpses Into The Workings Of The Universe (6 wks) Hanover Senior Center 2012:00-2:00 Food For Life: The Power Of Food For Health (6 wks) D.O.C. House 2012:00-2:00 Football Frenzy: A Playbook For The Super Bowl (6 wks) D.O.C. House 212:00-4:00 Exploring Color (4 wks) The Greens at Hanover 212:30-4:30 Boston & New York - Then And Now (6 wks) D.O.C. House 22

WEDNESDAYS9:30-11:30 Screenwriting Workshop (6 wks) D.O.C. House 229:30-11:30 Reflections On The Dawn Of Consciousness (6 wks) D.O.C. House 239:30-11:30 Aeschylus’ Oresteia (7 wks) D.O.C. House 239:30-11:30 The Legacies Of The Great War (6 wks) Kendal at Hanover 2410:00-12:00 Poseidon And The Sea: Myth, Cult And Daily Life (3 wks) Hood Museum 2412:00-2:00 Difficult Conversations About Race (4 wks) D.O.C. House 2512:00-2:00 Life In East Germany: Growing Up (6 wks) D.O.C. House 2512:00-2:00 What Would Justice Holmes Say? (6 wks) D.O.C. House 2612:00-2:00 Unbiased Financial Education For Women (2 wks) D.O.C. House 262:30-4:30 Writer’s Notebook: Ideas For Creative Nonfiction (6 wks) D.O.C. House 272:30-4:30 George Orwell: Political Prophet (6 wks) D.O.C. House 272:30-4:30 Short Fiction By The Russian Masters (6 wks) D.O.C. House 283:30-5:00 The Folk Revival Or The Great Folk Scare (4 wks) Kendal at Hanover 28


Winter 2015 Term at a GlanceDAY/TIME COURSE TITLE DURATION LOCATION PAGETHURSDAYS9:00-12:30 Time And Consequences: Movies (8 wks) Wilder Center 299:30-11:30 Medical School For Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases (6 wks) D.O.C. House 299:30-11:30 Frank Lloyd Wright In The 1930’s (6 wks) D.O.C. House 3010:30-12:30 Estate Planning: It’s More Than Money (8 wks) Hanover Senior Center 3012:00-2:00 Palestine: 67 Years Of “Al Naqba” (6 wks) D.O.C. House 3112:00-2:00 The Bible’s Take On Human Nature (6 wks) D.O.C. House 312:00-4:30 AC-DC: Power To The Plug (6 wks) Montshire Museum 322:30-4:30 Humanism: A Way Of Life (6 wks) D.O.C. House 322:30-4:30 The Shrinking Middle Class: Can It Be Saved? (6 wks) D.O.C. House 334:30-6:30 A First Person Perspective Of T. Roosevelt (5 wks) Hanover Senior Center 33

FRIDAYS9:30-11:30 Margaret Thatcher: Conservative Revolutionary (6 wks) D.O.C. House 349:30-11:30 Thorny Conversations: Principles And Practices (4 wks) D.O.C. House 3410:00-12:00 Westward Ho! How America Developed The West (4 wks) Hanover Senior Center 3510:30-3:00 Identity And Culture On The Page (1 session) Hanover Senior Center 351:30-3:30 Beginning Cribbage (8 wks) The Woodlands 36


Winter 2015 Term by Subject

ARTS COURSE NO. DAY STUDY LEADERCollaborative Meditation Workshop 15W100F M Julie Puttgen 12Exploring Color 15W101M T Ann Semprebon 21Identity And Culture: Writing Workshop About Roots 15W102M F Elayne Clift 35Poseidon And The Sea: Myth, Culture And Daily Life 15W103M W Jeanne Shafer 24Screenwriting Workshop 15W104F W Samantha Davidson Green 22The Folk Revival Or The Great Folk Scare 15W105M W Ford Daley 28The Writer’s Notebook: Ideas For Creative Nonfiction 15W106F W Mary Otto 27Time And Consequences: Movies With A Chance 15W107F Th Roger Feldman 29Richard Wagner And The Ring Of The Nibelung 15W108F M Robert Santulli 14Watercolor For Timid Souls 15W109F M Stephanie Reininger 13

CURRENT AFFAIRSPalestine: 67 Years Of “al Naqba”, The Catastrophe 15W200F Th Anne Campbell Chandler 31

HUMANITIESAeschylus’ Oresteia 15W300F W William Scott 23Comparative Religion: Finding Common Ground 15W301F M Patricia Cashman 14Dr. Faustus And His Friends 15W302F T Joe Medlicott 18George Orwell - Political Prophet 15W303F W Wayne Gersen 27Humanism: A Way Of Life 15W304F Th Ackerly, Paxton, & Hart 32Language, Connection & Healing: Lit & Med III 15W305F M Dan Collison 17Nevil Shute’s Business Novels 15W306F M Laura Schneider 12On Propositions For A Government 15W307F M Werner Kleinhardt 11Short Fiction By The Russian Masters 15W308F W Scherr & Galton 28The Bible’s Take On Human Nature 15W309F Th Heidi Hoskin 31The Gothic Re-enchantment Of Contemporary World 15W310F T Concilio & Secord 19What Would Justice Holmes Say? 15W311F W Sheldon Novick 26

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For your convenience, following is a list of our courses by subject matter with definitions of each subject heading. The abbreviation key at the bottom of the page identifies the day of the week that the courses are taught.

M=Monday T=Tuesday W=Wednesday Th=Thursday F=Friday Sp=Special Schedule

Please note: Some courses fall into one or more of these subject listings - in such cases, the course in question has been assigned to the category that most closely resembles the main theme of the class. We apologize for any errors in placement.

CATEGORY DEFINITIONSARTS (100s) - Creative arts, media arts, fine arts, and cultureCURRENT AFFAIRS (200s) - Issues appearing in today’s headlines; topics may cover a wide variety of subjects

and disciplinesHUMANITIES (300s) - Languages, literature, philosophy, religionINSTRUCTIONAL (400s) - Personal development or practical instructionINTERDISCIPLINARY (500s) - Topics combine more than one major disciplineNATURAL SCIENCE (600s) - Topics include biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, etc.SOCIAL SCIENCE (700s) - Anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociologyTRAVEL (800s) - May include material regarding past journeys as well as study in anticipation of future travel

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Winter 2015 Term by SubjectPAGE

M=Monday T=Tuesday W=Wednesday Th=Thursday F=Friday Sp=Special Schedule

INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE NO. DAY STUDY LEADERBeginning Cribbage 15W400F F Roger Smith 36Estate Planning: It’s More Than Money 15W401F Th Richard Peck 30Football Frenzy: A Playbook For The Super Bowl 15W402F T David Hagerman 21Food For Life: The Power Of Food For Health 15W403F T Beth Perera 20Learn And Improve Your KenKen Skills 15W404M M Pete Bleyler 15Unbiased Financial Education For Women 15W405M W Moquin & Boulter 26Thorny Conversations - Principles And Practices 15W406M F Dunton & Schweizer 34

INTERDISCIPLINARYGastronomy Of The Netherlands & Culinary Inspirations 15W500M M Lorden & Morse 13

NATURAL SCIENCEAC-DC: Power To The Plug 15W600F Th Smith, Smith & Donegan 32Deepening A Sense Of Place 15W601M M Hannah Putnam 11Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine: 2,500 Years 15W602F M Charles Meyers 16Fundamental Ideas Of Physics 15W603F M George Angwin 15Glimpses Into The Workings Of The Universe 15W604F T Smith & Finney 20Medical School For Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases 15W605F Th Robert Christie 29Promoting Brain And Cognitive Health 15W606M M John Randolph 17Reflections On The Dawn Of Consciousness 15W607F W Bob Russell 23

SOCIAL SCIENCE“De-lighted!” A First Person Perspective Of T. Roosevelt 15W700F Th Dwight Wilder 33Actually Reading The Constitution 15W701F T Larry Crocker 18Boston & New York - Then And Now 15W702F T Charles Buell 22Difficult Conversations About Race 15W703M W Ellen Bettmann 25Frank Lloyd Wright In The 1930’s: Rebirth & Revolution 15W704F Th Harte Crow 30Indirections To Independence 15W705F M Jacques Harlow 16Life In East Germany - Growing Up Behind The Wall 15W706F W Jurgen Ewert 25Margaret Thatcher: Conservative Revolutionary 15W707F F Iain Sim 34Remaking The Nation: Reconstruction After Civil War 15W708F T John Garfield 19The Legacies Of The Great War In The 20th Century 15W709F W Roland Kuchel 24The Shrinking Middle Class - Can It Be Saved? 15W710F Th Evangeline Monroe 33Westward Ho! How America Developed The West 15W711M F Gerry Jones 35


Winter2015

Monday


Course #15W601M

Deepening A Sense Of Place

This course builds on skills developed in the Sense of Place: Our Land, Our Selves course (offered in Spring 2014), allowing us to explore in more depth what connects us to the land, our communities, and to our special places. Weekly readings and class discussions will help us delve into placemaking, place identity, place attachment, and the neuroscience behind a sense of place. As we head outside into the winter world we will explore the science behind winter adaptations. We will also continue to build our skill set as naturalists while investigating animal signs and identifying trees by their bark and twigs. This course includes a balance of indoor lectures, class discussions and outdoor exploration, and is centered on a dynamic, participant-driven learning environment. There is a one-time additional fee of $13 to cover admission to the VINS Nature Center. There will be reading materials for this course.

HANNAH PUTNAM is the Director of Environmental Education at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS). She has grown up exploring the woods, fields, and wetlands of her New Hampshire home and delights in sharing her knowledge and love of nature. She has also formed deep connections to the Maine coast, the deserts in the Southwest, and the landscape of northern Minnesota. Hannah has a BA in Biology, a Graduate Certificate in Environmental Education, and a M.Ed in Elementary Education.

4 weeks, 9:30 – 11:30 AMJanuary 12 through February 2, 2015VINS - Quechee, VTCourse Fee: $30

Course #15W307F

On Benevolent And Malevolent Propositions For A Government

A sequential Socratic symposium during Winter, Spring, Fall 2015, reviewing benevolent modes of government as described in the philosophical text of Plato, Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Tommaso Campanella. We will also review malevolent modes of government as described in satirical narratives by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury. Furthermore, we shall comment on actual conditions as constituted by the existing structures of democracy, oligarchy, plutocracy, and autocracy. This term will focus on Plato and Machiavelli. The books to be discussed are Plato’s The Republic (Books 7, 8, and 9), and Machiavelli’s The Prince. Members are not required to read the entire texts, for the liberal discussion will focus on the major related issues of each book. There are required texts for this course.

WERNER KLEINHARDT is a Professor Emeritus of Dartmouth College. He considers himself a skeptical humanist since he survived torture and five years of Gulag. He graduated from the Collège Français in Berlin, studied history, philosophy, political sciences, classics, and European literatures. His PhD came from the University of Hamburg. He taught at the Sorbonne before coming to Dartmouth in 1965. He is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books.

6 weeks, 9:30 – 11:30 AMJanuary 12 through February 16, 2015D.O.C. HouseCourse Fee: $55

Monday


Course #15W100F

Collaborative Meditation Workshop

What are some basic building blocks of medi-tation practice? How can embodied contemplative practices help relax within challenging situations, de-velop focus & empathy, and work skillfully with pow-erful emotions? Come find out in this co-creative, experiential course! We will experiment with guided meditation in sitting, standing, gentle movement, and dialogue. In the latter part of the course, with assistance, par-ticipants will take turns offering practices they have found useful in their own daily lives. No previous meditation experience is required, and participants of all spiritual/religious/atheist backgrounds are welcome. For beginners, this work-shop will provide a good introduction to meditation, with early encouragement to find what works and de-velop it well. More advanced practitioners may enjoy the opportunity to ground their meditation practice in the body and in daily life. Participants will be ex-pected to spend time each day (as little as 10 minutes) cultivating a personal meditation practice. Meditation instruction materials for this course will be available for purchase directly from the instructor/author. Total cost of course texts will be $32.JULIE PUTTGEN, MFA, is an artist and educator, a long-time Buddhist practitioner, and a passionate advocate for contemplative creativity. She has taught meditation through Dartmouth College, Valley Insight Meditation Society, AVA, Hanover High School, and as a Chaplain Intern at DHMC. Current projects include the Inner Beauty Bar, a playful exploration of what makes us all beautiful. Her work is online at www.justsospace.com, www.turtlenosedsnake.com, and www.108namesofnow.com.


Course #15W306F

Nevil Shute’s Business Novels

Nevil Shute had several careers and was successful in them all. He was an engineer, a partner in an Aeroplane manufacturing company and a best selling author. Shute knew something about business and incorporated that knowledge and experience in several novels. This course will delve into some of Shute’s novels that specifically examine businesses and entrepreneurial operations. Shute’s businessmen do what they have to do and try not to hurt anybody. They do not always obey all the rules. The following three books will be read during the course but other books will be recommended. Shute’s autobiography, Slide Rule, is not required reading, but course participants are encouraged to read it before or during the course. Ruined City (Kindling) The setting is a depressed English shipbuilding town where no ships are being built and the people are undernourished, unoccupied and sickly. The widespread unemployment affects the physical and emotional health of the entire community. Henry Warren has a plan to rebuild the town. This enduring novel raises many questions about the purpose and the ethics of business enterprises. Beyond the Black Stump covers many themes and the one we will focus on is comparing self-made businessmen in Western Australia and small town America. The Lairds of Oregon consider themselves pioneers, while the Regans of “The Lunatic” truly are. Both families are prosperous but they reached their success very differently. An Old Captivity is an early novel that tells the story of a young pilot who lands a unique job. Nevil Shute wanted to spread understanding of the business of aviation to the British people. This story demonstrates what was involved in planning and executing such a difficult project. There will be required texts for this course.

LAURA SCHNEIDER discovered Nevil Shute through the PBS mini-series, A Town Like Alice. Since then, Schneider has presented papers at three Nevil Shute Norway Foundation Biennial international conferences and managed two others. Schneider has led four Nevil Shute OSHER@Dartmouth courses and is gratified to learn Shute remains a relevant author 55 years after his death. Recently, Schneider put down her Shute novels long enough to earn her MA in Health Advocacy.


Monday


Course #15W109F

Watercolor For Timid Souls

Each of the five weeks will have a different focus, and will prove to participants that watercolor is easy to do. All sessions will allow participants to practice three basic techniques for brushing pigment and water onto paper. Useful information about our tools of the trade will be introduced. Participants will be using sketching and minimal drawing skills (whether you think you have them or not). The exuberant use of color will be emphasized. I will give you the How-To’s of composition, including color theory. Be aware I insist on your using the best materials. They are not cheap. I will try to pare down materials costs to the fewest you can use and still keep engaged and wanting to keep painting. The anticipated cost of these materials is approximately $35 per person, and will be payable directly to Stephanie. Those who enroll will receive further information in the syllabus. There will be an optional text for this course. PLEASE NOTE: Participants must be able to climb stairs to Stephanie’s studio.STEPHANIE REININGER has been making art all of her life. She majored in art in college but it was later when her children were older that she chose watercolor because it was easy to do amidst the laundry and cooking.Her subject matter is rendered loosely, recording her life and travels. She has lived many places, teaching and painting for the love of it.

6 weeks, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PMJanuary 12 through February 16, 2015Stephanie’s Home Studio - Lyme, NHCourse Fee: $55

Course #15W500M

Gastronomy Of The NetherlandsAnd Culinary Inspirations

The Co-op Culinary Learning Center, in partnership with OSHER@Dartmouth, is offering a two-part class on the gastronomy of the Netherlands. This introduction to the history of Dutch cuisine will include sampling classic dishes at the end of the first class. The second class will focus on culinary twists to traditional dishes, with demonstration and sampling of pickled herring, cheeses pairings, chocolate, and more! Although the Netherlands is generally not thought of as a culinary destination, years of colonial and trading of spices greatly influenced diet and tastes, creating a colorful, exotic cuisine alongside the traditional dishes of Dutch households. Indian curry and Indonesian rijsttafel (rice table) restaurants are as much a part of the Dutch cuisine as are pancakes, pickled herring, hearty pea and bean soups, and the meat-and-potatoes hutspot. In addition, the Dutch also boast an expertise and long history in the art of chocolate and cheese. In addition to the course fee, a lab fee of $60, payable to the Co-op, will be charged. (Registrants will receive lab fee payment information in their welcome packet.) A reading packet for this course will be provided by the instructors.

MARTHA ESERSKY LORDEN is a local culinary historian, instructor, and food writer who reviews cookbooks for Publishers Weekly and other trade publications. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of New York (CHNY) and the owner of Kitchen D’Or, a personal chef service here in the Upper Valley.

ELI MORSE started out in restaurants as a teenager washing dishes and learned from others around him before enrolling at Culinary Institute of America. He currently serves as Director of Food Service at The Co-op. Previous work experience includes The Inn at Little Washington (Washington, VA), Willow Wood Market and Café (Sonoma County, CA), The Blue Room (Cambridge, MA), Keeper’s (Reading, VT), and Morsels (on-site chef services).

2 weeks, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PMJanuary 19 through 26, 2015Culinary Learning Center, Lebanon Co-op, NHCourse Fee: $30

Monday


Course #15W108F

Richard WagnerAnd The Ring Of The Nibelung

Richard Wagner’s music dramas forever changed the course of music history and are cherished by opera-lovers worldwide. Devoted Wagnerites flock to performances of his works like pilgrims to a holy shrine. This is particularly true for his masterwork, The Ring of the Nibelung, a four-opera cycle which has been called one of the greatest artistic creations in the history of mankind. Wagner felt that no opera house in the world was capable of performing The Ring to his standards, and so he built his own theater in Bayreuth, Germany, where there continues to be an annual festival of Wagner’s music every summer. Opera fans typically must wait 10 years to receive tickets to Bayreuth. This course will contemplate the genius and transcendent beauty of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung. No previous knowledge of Wagner’s music is necessary. There will be a reading textbook for this course.

ROBERT SANTULLI, M.D., is Honorary Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth. Prior to his retirement from clinical practice, he was director of Geriatric Psychiatry and the Dartmouth Memory Clinic at DHMC. He continues to teach at Dartmouth, and is the founder and director of Perspectives, a program that brings people with dementia to the Hood Museum to view and discuss artworks. He has taught two previous OSHER@Dartmouth courses on Alzheimer’s disease. He is a long-time opera lover, a former board member of Opera North, and each season introduces a number of Metropolitan Opera Simulcasts at the Hopkins Center.

6 weeks, 12:00 – 2:00 PMJanuary 12 through February 16, 2015D.O.C. HouseCourse Fee: $55

Course #15W301F

Comparative Religion:Finding Common Ground

Join us for a fascinating journey into Buddhism, Judaism, Taoism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Confucianism. Guided by the perennial classic, The World’s Religions, by Houston Smith, we will focus on the philosophical aspects in these religions rather than their metaphysical creditiblity. We will discuss the basic tenets of these religions, highlighting the often-overlooked cultural and psychological perspectives. This is not a course in which we will argue about what is true and false nor holy and profane. For those individuals with a strong opinion for or against any religion, this is not a course that will debate or discuss such personal issues. The theme of the course is to find common ground among these religions and expand our knowledge and awareness of these world beliefs. This class requires 60 to 75 pages of reading per week.PATRICIA CASHMAN lives in Newbury, VT. She has a M.A. in Human Development and Holistic Counseling from Salve Regina University. She has been studying philosophy, mythology, and psychology for over 25 years and finds bliss in teaching.

6 weeks, 12:00 – 2:00 PMJanuary 12 through February 16, 2015Kendal at Hanover - Training RoomCourse Fee: $55

Monday


Course #15W603F

Fundamental Ideas Of Physics

Natural philosophers began the scientific inves-tigation of how nature works in the 17th Century. In the 19th Century, the study of electricity and mag-nestims began to cast doubts on the earlier mechanical view of natural phenomena. Scientists developed the more abstract idea of “field” to make further progress in understanding. However, as experimental accuracy improved, physicists encountered results that implied contradictions in their conceptual frames. They needed to rethink the fundamental ideas. In the 20th Century, they developed the bizarre, counter-intuitive theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in order to resolve contradictions and understand more natural phenom-ena. In this course we will follow four centuries of progress in understanding nature, focusing on the fun-damental ideas behind the theories. Our guide will be the remarkable book written in 1937 by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. Our aim will be to understand the ideas of physics using very little mathematics. To make predictions using these theories, a scientist must use sophisticated mathematics; however, the ideas can be readily understood by non-experts with simple dia-grams and explanations. Students will be expected to read Einstein and In-feld’s book The Evolution of Physics and to contribute to discussions based on the readings. My role will be to explain the fundamental ideas, set them in historical context, and clarify points in the text. There will be required texts for this course.

GEORGE ANGWIN earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago. He has been an electronics technician on a US Navy destroyer and a college mathematics professor. As a Silicon Valley engineer, he developed software to plot time-scaled project management diagrams and designed data structures for digital road maps. He now sings baritone with the North Country Chordsmen and tenor with the Bel Canto Chamber Singers.


Course #15W404M

Learn And Improve Your KenKen Skills

Learn to play the math game Kenken, or improve your skills if you’re already a player. In this three-session course, we will review the basic approaches to solving puzzles, and provide techniques for attacking the most challenging ones. This course is designed for new players as well as those experienced players who haven’t ventured much beyond solving 6x6 easy to intermediate puzzles. The noted puzzle master Will Shortz calls Kenken the most addictive puzzle since SoDoku. For new players: test your interest in learning KenKen by trying some easy 4x4 and 6x6 puzzles online. The New York Times presents six new puzzles daily at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/kenken.html?_r=0. Unlimited puzzles from easy to expert and from 3x3 to 9x9 puzzles can be found at http://www.kenken.com/play_now#. There are no required texts for this course, but participants will need a reliable internet connection to successfully practice outside of class. The instructor will supply additional files via e-mail.

PETE BLEYLER spent 30 years as a management consultant dealing with employee benefits and compensation. A mathematics major at Dartmouth, he entered the actuarial field after five years in the U.S. Naval Submarine service. He completed his career as the Chief Human Resource Officer of William Mercer, Inc.

3 weeks, 2:30 – 4:30 PMJanuary 12 through 26, 2015D.O.C. HouseCourse Fee: $30

Monday


Course #15W602F

Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine:2,500 Years Of Empiric Study

Traditional Chinese Medicine is a three-thousand year old comprehensive healthcare system. The patriarchs of Chinese medicine stressed the importance of lifestyle modifications and dietary changes in order to prevent disease. We will look at the basic paradigm concepts of Chinese Medicine, to include, but not be limited to; the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, Qi (life force), Meridian theory, Zang Fu (Organ theory), Pulse Diagnosis (28 qualities), Tongue diagnosis, and a look at the Three Treasures of Shen (spirit), Qi (life force) and Jing (dense bodily substances). Reading the book The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted Kaptchuk will be helpful, but is not required. Question, answer, and discussion will be paramount to our explorations in this vast, wide, deep subject. There will be optional texts for this course.

CHARLES MEYERS has a Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, NM. He received National Certification in 1994 and has been licensed in Wisconsin, Vermont and New Hampshire, maintaining a practice of 20-40 treatments per week, from 1994 to the present. His present clinic is in Lebanon, NH.

5 weeks, 2:30 – 4:30 PMJanuary 19 through February 23, 2015(No class February 16)Kendal at Hanover - Steere RoomCourse Fee: $55

Course #15W705F

Indirections To Independence

The question is how did 13 rather insignificant and completely disparate colonies evolve by indirections to independence from the largest empire in the world. It was no accident. An undeclared war began, even if the colonies had no chance of success. Yet despite many losses, these colonies prevailed against an inherently stronger and more disciplined British army. The first issue is how did these colonies arrive at the point of rebellion? Why did the decision to assert their rights take so long? In the process the course reviews some of the greater battles and a few of the minor ones of the Revolutionary War. The course analyzes the background of these battles, how they were fought, why they were important, and what were the consequences. In the last analysis, were any of their final decisions or the subsequent actions a surprise? New insights and a different view! There will be required texts for this course.

JACQUES HARLOW served as an engineer with Seabees during World War II. He subsequently received his AB in philosophy from Dartmouth College, studied electronic engineering at Purdue, and completed his doctoral studies in statistics and economics at NYU. He served as a Fulbright professor in Athens, Greece. After a career in systems engineering, computer programming, and communications, Jacques retired as an executive from ITT. He served as a consultant on computing and software to the Air Force and the National Research Council.


Monday


Course #15W606M

Promoting Brain And Cognitive Health: What Helps And What’s Hype

Popular culture has become increasingly saturated with information about and strategies purported to enhance brain and cognitive health. For example, there are multiple online video games claiming to improve brain functioning and nutritional supplements heralded as antidotes to memory problems. But what does the science say? What’s hype, and what actually works? In this course, we will provide background information about the brain and how it functions, consider prevalent beliefs about the brain that may or may not be accurate, and provide an overview of factors associated with promoting cognitive health across the lifespan. We will discuss lifestyle activities that have been found to promote cognitive health, and consider lifestyle changes that may reduce the likelihood of cognitive problems. We will also discuss cognitive abilities known as “executive functions” and review strategies to promote these skills across settings. Notable psychological, neuropsychological, and neuroscience studies will be incorporated as they relate to course topics. The course will involve a combination of lecture, class participation, reading, and participant exercises. There will be required and optional texts for this course.

JOHN RANDOLPH, Ph.D., is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in neuropsychological assessment and management of individuals across the lifespan. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology from Washington State University, and completed clinical and research fellowships in Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where he currently serves on the adjunct faculty. He is Past President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association and editor of the recent book, Positive Neuropsychology: Evidence-Based Perspectives on Promoting Cognitive Health.


Course #15W305F

Language, Connection And Healing:Literature And Medicine III

As humans, we are thrown into life and struggle. Yet goodness exists; we crave and experience love, connection, beauty and kindness. Language and stories are two of the best ways to express or witness struggle, to connect and to experience or create goodness. Our study of texts will not only show how writers do this, but we will also explore how to bring the creative attributes of goodness into our own capabilities. This course focuses on poems, short stories and essays that deal with medicine, illness or healing. Typical authors include William Carlos Williams, Leslie Jamison, Jane Kenyon and Richard Selzer. These writers explore what it means to be struggling humans and how connection, goodness and meaning are crucial to our humanity. Selected short texts will be read, analyzed and discussed. This course is offered for those able and willing to engage a text at intermediate to advanced levels. Learners should expect friendly curiosity and challenge. Neither Literature and Medicine I nor II are prerequisites, nor will the readings from those courses be repeated here. There will be a reading packet for this course.

DAN COLLISON is a practicing physician and writer with a lifelong interest in combining the humanities and sciences. His college degrees are in European literature (German Studies) and biology. Dan also has training in pastoral care and theology. Fellowships in the history of medicine at Oxford and at Georgetown allowed him to research and write on the work of two physician humanists and innovators, Sir William Osler and John Shaw Billings. Writings on Rilke and Joyce discussed their finding and expressing the transcendent in the mundane.

8 weeks, 5:00 – 7:00 PMJanuary 12 through March 2, 2015D.O.C. HouseCourse Fee: $55

Tuesday


Course #15W701F

Actually Reading The Constitution

What does the U.S. Constitution say? We will focus on the language of the Constitution and the history that helps show what that language meant when it was ratified. We will touch only lightly on constitutional law as developed by the Supreme Court. The first topic will be the religion clauses. Then we will move to the legal force of the Constitution, judicial powers, congressional powers, and states’ rights. After that what we discuss will be a matter of class choice. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: guns and swords; property rights; punishment; racial, gender, and orientation equality; plea bargaining; online privacy; presidential power; and impeachment. The format will be lecture-discussion. Reading, in addition to the Constitution, will include some selections from case law, and possibly some other reading available online. There will be no required texts for this course, but the instructor will provide readings to the class.

LARRY CROCKER received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard and taught philosophy at the University of Washington. With a JD from Duke, he clerked for a federal judge, then litigated, successively, corporate cases from Wall Street, air crash cases from Seattle, then prosecuted criminals in Manhattan. Next, he taught law at NYU, mostly criminal law subjects, and then litigated a variety of cases in a small New York firm. From 2004 thru 2012 he taught at Dartmouth, including classes in philosophy of law, crime and punishment, ethics, and political and social philosophy. His blog is www.lawrencecrocker.blogspot.com. For a clip of a public lecture see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXzS0N4P_fc&feature=player_embedded or Google the keywords crocker colleges prisons.


Course #15W302F

Dr. Faustus And His Friends:Was The Price Paid Worth It?

This six week offering takes a close look at Christopher Marlowe’s great Renaissance drama, Doctor Faustus, and two other literary works which focus on the high price men and women pay to achieve what they believe they must have in order to survive, to prosper. The texts: In addition to Doctor Faustus, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. The class format: Some background lectures and lots of challenging discussions aimed at enriching what’s been read in this course and its pertinence to the world we live in now. There will be required texts for this course.JOE MEDLICOTT graduated from Dartmouth in 1950. He worked as a newspaper reporter before taking an MA at Trinity College and a Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle. He taught at several universities and at Deerfield Academy.


Tuesday


PETER CONCILIO currently teaches graduate seminars in literature, film, and philosophy at Connecticut’s Graduate Institute for Teachers. He is the founder and artistic director of Hartland’s annual JazzFest, and performs at Skunk Hollow Tavern and the Windsor Station Restaurant with his own groups monthly.

BILL SECORD moved to the Upper Valley from Connecticut after a career in secondary education. He received a BA from Fordham, an MAT from Harvard, and an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University.

6 weeks, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PMJanuary 13 through February 17, 2015Kilton Public Library - West Lebanon, NHCourse Fee: $55

Course #15W310F

The Gothic Re-enchantmentOf The Contemporary World

As the scientific rationalism of the Enlightenment slowly squeezed the mystery and enchantment out of nature and loosened the hold of religion on the popular imagination, literary works of the Romantic Movement often incorporated Gothic elements that affirmed spiritual qualities dismissed by science and the industrial revolution. Similarly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writers have employed the Gothic to challenge the mechanical version of reality embraced by scientific reductionism, and authors like Flannery O’Connor adapted the Gothic vision as one means of affirming spiritual realities in an otherwise soulless world. We will use The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom to give us an historical perspective for discussing the presence of Gothic elements in contemporary literary works and in television programming such as Game of Thrones. We will view and compare the two films Nosferatu (1922) and Twilight (2008) to understand the remarkable change that has taken place in the role of Gothic sensibility. Each class participant will be responsible for describing the use of the Gothic motif in a contemporary or classic work of fiction of his or her choosing. There will be a required text for this course.

Course #15W708F

Remaking The Nation:Reconstruction After

The American Civil War

In the years before the Civil War, our country split over economic, political, and racial issues. The Constitution was not working to unify the people but rather to exacerbate issues of disagreement among them. While the resulting Civil War was fought (at least in part) to free the slaves, that war did not end that or other crises. The country’s new leaders proposed major “Re-construction” reforms in the late 1860’s. This flexing of national power focused on Constitutional amend-ments and Civil Rights Acts. We will see how they were intended to remake the country, especially the Southern States, and see how successful they were at that time. The final part of our course covers the decline in Reconstruction fervor and the eclipse of Recon-struction measures, starting from the 1870’s and last-ing into the 1940’s. These trends coincided with the introduction into social theory, of the ideas of Social Darwinism, and may lead to reflections on ideologi-cal and political problems of today. There will be reading material for this course.

JOHN M. GARFIELD received the BA in history from Williams, his Master’s in Social Sciences from Wesleyan, and a PFC from USAREUR. He has also attended the University of Edinburgh and Yale Law School. A veteran secondary-school teacher, he read AP examinations in U. S. history between 1985 and 2005. He has coached other AP teachers at the exam grading itself and in College Board-sponsored courses. He received a Teacher Commendation Award from the College Board in 1998.


Tuesday


BETH PERERA holds a BS in computer science from the State University of NY at Plattsburgh, and a Certification in Plant-Based Nutrition from Cornell. She is a Certified Food For Life Nutrition and Cooking instructor with the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (www.pcrm.org). Ms. Perera became interested in nutrition when she was able to reverse her own health issues with simple diet changes. She teaches throughout central Vermont, near her home in Goshen.


Course #15W403F

Food For Life:The Power Of Food For Health

When food is the number one cause of death and disability in the U.S., we owe it to ourselves to be educated on which foods best prevent (and often reverse) chronic conditions, and which foods should be avoided for optimal health. What “runs in the family”, brown eyes, perhaps, or small feet is certainly of interest, but for our purposes, it’s what we eat! With a few changes we can enjoy improved health, drastically lower our health care costs, look forward to meals that are quick, easy, colorful, and all without sacrificing what a good meal should be - delicious. Our six sessions will cover the basics of what a plant-based menu looks like, breaking the food seduction, digestive health, blood pressure, and an introduction to how foods fight diabetes and cancer. Each class will include 2-3 live recipe demonstrations and sampling, plus a video segment of top experts offering evidence-based nutrition facts and advice. When those sessions yield leftovers, members will be welcome to tote them home. We all know that we should be eating better, but how that translates onto our plates can be tricky. This class series will answer that and many other practical questions. Helpful hint: view the documentary Forks Over Knives prior to the first class. There will be optional texts for this course, and the instructor will supply additional reading materials.

Course #15W604F

Glimpses Into The WorkingsOf The Universe

The course will attempt to explain Relativity, Quantum Behavior, and Gravity in a simple fashion and to stimulate a group discussion on how the Universe really works. (A recollection of some High School algebra will be helpful but is not a requirement.) Relativity will be explored starting with the speed of light and will cover the relativistic effects this has on time and space and why it is important in maintaining causality. We will examine the four dimensions of space-time and look at its consequences; such as why energy and mass are interchangeable. Quantum Behavior will be explored starting with the wave/particle duality of matter and its impact on how matter, especially subatomic particles, actually move and interact. We will explore how quantum behaviour imposes uncertainty and why this is important in enabling nondeterministic behaviour that was not contemplated by Newton. Gravity will be explored using guided weekly reading assignments followed by in-class discussion. There will be required and optional texts for this course.ROY FINNEY holds 1st Class Honors degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Imperial College, London. After graduating in 1966, he entered the nascent Mini-Computer industry centered in Boston, moving to the Computer Software industry in the mid eighties. He retired as President of a corporation providing proprietary application software to industrial and financial organizations.

C.J. SMITH served as Chief Accounting Officer for an international mining conglomerate, after a 35-year career and has 25 years part-time university teaching experience. He currently is the principal associate of a financial systems and reporting consulting firm. He holds a BS degree in Accounting and Mathematics and an MBA in Finance.

6 weeks, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PMJanuary 13 through February 17, 2015Hanover Senior Center - Room 212Course Fee: $55

Tuesday


Course #15W402F

Football Frenzy:A Playbook For The Super Bowl

This course contains (almost!) everything you wanted to know about football but were afraid to ask, and is designed for those that are new to football. It will run for three weeks prior to the Super Bowl on February 1, 2015, and three weeks following the Super Bowl. Much of the course will be centered on questions from those participating in the course. We will cover topics such as: rules of the game, football injuries, football terminology, college recruiting, scholarships/financial aid, and the future of football. There are no required texts for this course.

DAVID HAGERMAN comes from a 35 year career in secondary education. David and wife Brooke head up the Mentors Program for Dartmouth Football. They find interested individuals in the Upper Valley to mentor each freshman football player. David’s Dad played football for Dartmouth in 1935 and his son-in-law, Mike Bobo, was Captain of Dartmouth Football in 1991.


Course #15W101M

Exploring Color

The class is designed for people who wish to understand the phenomenon of color and may want to use color more effectively. By viewing and discussing art and design reproductions we will cover the scientific perception of color, cultural history of color, and materials to produce it, psychological experience and meaning of colors, color theories, relative color studies, and hands-on experience with color-aid papers following discussion. No art experience needed to attend. Students must bring sharp scissors or Exact-o knives (or similar) to each class to use in cutting paper. Papers and glue sticks will be provided. There are no required texts for this course, but the instructor will supply occasional reading materials. There will be a $5 materials fee for this course.

ANN SEMPREBON received her B.A. and M.A. in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the University of California at Los Angeles, and also took classes at Dartmouth College. She taught children of all ages for many years in local public schools, and has instructed adults at local art and recreation centers as well as her own Garden Studio in Hanover. Her etchings and watercolors have been exhibited widely in the New England area.

4 weeks, 2:00 – 4:00 PMJanuary 13 through February 3, 2015The Greens at Hanover - SunroomCourse Fee: $30


Course #15W702F

Boston & New York -Then And Now

Most Osher members have spent time in the greater Boston and/or New York areas in their lifetimes. But besides their sizes, what made these cities different? Their differences were laid out between the 1620s and the 1820s, but continue to have an influence to this day. In the first four meetings, we will pay special attention to the different geographies, economies and especially different populations that came to Boston and New York, and the effect that those differences had on their development. In the last two meetings, we will jump ahead 150 years to cover the responses that each city had to their urban issues from the 1960s on. We will emphasize the views of Jane Jacobs and her ideas on how to create a livable city for all its residents, and how these views have influenced the mainstream of urban planning. I will provide maps and pictures of both cities and their surroundings, but will only have suggested reading for the first four weeks. I will require some reading from Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), which will amount to about an hour’s worth for the last two classes.

CHARLES BUELL has had close ties to both Boston and New York by visiting family and working in the Boston area through the late 1960s. He spent some years in graduate school at NYU and worked in that metropolitan area.


WednesdayCourse #15W104F

Screenwriting Workshop

Do you have a screenplay in you? This screenwriting workshop will help you get it on the page. In our six sessions, we will engage the process of story development, including the pitch, plot and character fundamentals, theme and genre elements, screenplay structure, and screenplay format. Students will share their ideas and pages, giving and receiving feedback in a supportive environment. There are no required texts for this course.SAMANTHA DAVIDSON GREEN is a Brooklyn, NY- and Cornish, NH-based screenwriter and filmmaker who received her MFA in Film Directing at UCLA. A Hanover High graduate, Samantha studied English and the Humanities at Stanford University after which she taught high school English, Drama and Creative Writing in rural Mississippi. Her short films have played in festivals, including Tribeca and Sundance. She is currently writing her third feature script, editing a new short, and enjoying working with the Parish Players and the Cornish Drama Club.


Tuesday

Wednesday


Course #15W607F

Reflections On TheDawn Of Consciousness

We will discuss the theory of Julian Jaynes that he described in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. This revolutionary idea has been met with both admiration and ridicule in the field of psychology. Jaynes’ theory purports to explain, among other things, the voices of the god(s) in the Old Testament and the etiology of schizophrenia. It is his contention that until about 3500 years ago human beings were not ‘conscious’ in the sense of realizing their individual persons. The decisions in their lives were guided by hallucinated voices, like schizophrenics today. Jaynes presented copious evidence. Was he right? There will be optional texts for this course.

R. HEATHCOTE RUSSELL is a graduate electrical and mechanical engineer. He worked in aerospace, industrial, and biomedical engineering creative design for over 50 years. He was a referee of youth soccer for 40 years and was also a member of Toastmasters International for 10 years. Consciousness and the workings of the human brain have been his interest for many decades.


Course #15W300F

Aeschylus’ Oresteia

In the year 458 B.C. Aeschylus produced his version of the “House of Atreus” myth. Not only is his Oresteia often judged the finest of the Greek tragedies, it has deeply influenced later versions of the myth by dramatists, philosophers, and artists - e.g., Wagner, O’Neill, and Sartre. We will read through the Oresteia slowly and deliberately with constant attention to the highly individualized method Aeschylus chose to divide the generations of the House and to dramatize the major figures in this remarkably dysfunctional family. Early events in an Aeschylean trilogy are developed to delineate an expanded moral universe for the Athenians of the Periclean age. In this play Aeschylus offers a three-act analysis of the origins and nature of the democratic city-state. Because we will be reading a tightly written and difficult play and will be seeking the precise meaning of Aeschylus’ words, it is necessary that we all use the same text. As a result, we will use exclusively the translation by Richmond Lattimore published by the University of Chicago Press. There will be a required text for this course. NOTE: This is a 7-week course. The March 4th session will only take place if a previous session is cancelled and a make-up session is required.

WILLIAM SCOTT is an Emeritus Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College where he taught for 37 years. His career has been focused on Hellenism - especially the performance poetry of Homer and the Greek tragedians.

7 weeks, 9:30 – 11:30 AMJanuary 14 through February 25, 2015(If a class is cancelled due to weather, a make-up session will take place on March 4)D.O.C. HouseCourse Fee: $55

Wednesday


Course #15W709F

The Legacies Of The Great WarIn The 20th Century

Although WWI had been curiously forgotten by most Americans (until reminded by its 100th an-niversary), it was the defining event of the 20th cen-tury in its replacement of the old order by a new, unstable one. This course examines the Great War’s impact (and changing interpretations) on the global political, economic, and social landscape, includ-ing American global power, ethnic nationalism, de-colonization, mass democracy, and the new role of women. Our guide will be Cambridge professor Da-vid Reynold’s book, The Long Shadow. In examining how WW II, the Cold War, and the collapse of com-munism shaped and reshaped attitudes of different nations to the 1914-1918 conflict, class discussion should be lively and engaging. There will be a required text for this course.

ROLAND KUCHEL is a retired Ambassador and Senior Foreign Service Officer who is a passionate student of history as key to understanding the contemporary world. He has led several Osher courses, including one on World War I in Modern Memory.

6 weeks, 9:30 – 11:30 AMJanuary 21 through March 4, 2015(No class on February 11)Kendal at Hanover - Steere RoomCourse Fee: $55

Course #15W103M

Poseidon And The Sea:Myth, Culture And Daily Life

An Exhibition at the DartmouthHood Museum of Art

Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, ruled over not just the sea but also horses and natural phenomena. His figure representation was prominent throughout the Mediterranean world on many forms of art depicting vivid mythological stories, cult images and providing assistance in daily activities. This exhibition of over 100 art pieces of sculpture, pottery, glass, metalwork and coins is from the antiquity collection of the Tampa Museum of Art. By studying these images of Poseidon, students will gain rich insights into the ancient world of shipbuilding, maritime trade, fish breeding and naval warfare. One will learn the importance and reverence of the sea in the ancient Mediterranean world. This will be a hands-on course discussing the various art objects at the Hood Museum with some light reading for further information. There will be reading materials for this course.

JEANNE SHAFER has a masters in Art History and a minor in Archeology and Jewelry from Indiana University. She has taught for Osher some 14 years and again thanks the Hood Museum of Art for these wonderful teaching opportunities. Ancient art is of particular interest to her as she spent a summer in 1970 doing archeological research at a Roman site named Sirmium in what was then Yugoslavia.

3 weeks, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PMFebruary 4 through 25, 2015(No class on February 18)Hood Museum - Hanover, NHCourse Fee: $30

Wednesday


Course #15W703M

Difficult Conversations About Race

Following the election and reelection of Barak Obama in 2008 and 2012, the term “post-racial era” became widely used to describe the current state of race relations in the United States. The strongly-held conviction that race no longer matters was reflected regularly in newspapers, magazines, TV news, internet blogs, and social media sites. But the reality of racism’s persistence is revealed in national events such as the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and so many others, the gerrymandering of local and state election districts, and in less-publicized incidents that occur daily which have a negative effect on the lives of people of color in the U.S. The terms “racist,” “race baiter,” and “race card” often make productive conversations about race feel almost impossible. Confusion about when and how to address racism, and confront insensitivity, jokes, and slurs is common. In four interactive sessions this course will explore racism among the well-intentioned, how systems of inequality are maintained, and what all of us can do to confront the issue of race in our own lives. There will be short readings for this course, supplied by the instructor.

ELLEN BETTMANN was one of the creators of the Anti-Defamation League’s award-winning A World of Difference® Institute, an international anti-bias education and diversity training program created to combat prejudice and discrimination. In addition to her implementation of numerous training programs for teachers and administrators, she has conducted diversity workshops for special agents at the FBI and for National Basketball Association and Major League Soccer staff in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Sport in Society.


JÜRGEN EWERT was born in 1949 and grew up in a small village near the Baltic Sea in East Germany. After finishing school in 1968 he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau in the south of East Germany. In 1972 Jürgen started his work life as a design engineer at a large company in East Berlin and in 1985 he joined the Academy of Science in Berlin-Adlershof. Jürgen had an opportunity to travel to the United States in August 1989 shortly before the wall in East Berlin fell that November. He came to Woodstock, VT in September 1989 through a family connection and started working for the family business. Jürgen still lives in Woodstock, Vermont.


Course #15W706F

Life In East Germany -Growing Up And Living For 40 Years

Behind The Wall

We will start with a time-line of political events, then overlay personal stories of how the omnipresent party doctrine influenced my life, my family, my co-workers and friends. Starting school in 1956 meant becoming a “Young Pioneer.” To attend High School, my teacher urged me to join the “Free German Youth”. Starting college in 1968, the year of “The Prague Spring,” we were urged to demonstrate loyalty to the state. A surprise visit from the Stasi put me into a difficult situation. Upon graduation, I started work in East Berlin for a large electronics company in 1972, joining a “Socialist-Collective.” But I also made new friends who had forbidden books and who played records by the dissident, Wolf Biermann. Visiting my aunt in West Germany in 1987 and my cousin in the United States two years later changed my life completely. Some of my friends suggested that I should give a course about East Germany. I am planning to talk about my personal life in East Germany with many references to political events. It will show how politics is influencing our lives and how we make decisions based on circumstances created by governments. The course will be presented using PowerPoint slides and I will refer to online information. There will be required texts for this course.

Wednesday


Course #15W311F

What Would Justice Holmes Say?

A look at the influence today of the adventurous life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, soldier and scholar, who became arguably the greatest American judge and certainly the most famous and often quoted. On the occasion of a new and revised eBook edition of my Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, we will talk about the life itself - from Civil War combat to a famous visit from President FDR - and Holmes’s landmark opinions for the Supreme Court and in dissent. We will consider his importance today for freedom of expression, privacy, and as a representative of the traditions of the common-law, respectful of precedent and hostile to the doctrine, recently revived and occasionally adopted by a Conservative majority of the Supreme Court, of textual originalism. No prior background in law is required. There will be required and optional texts for this course.SHELDON NOVICK is author of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. A new eBook edition was published in October, 2013. The New York Times Sunday Book Review said of the print edition, “One opens [this] book with high hopes, and as chapter follows masterly chapter the hopes mature into admiration of author and awe of subject.” The New Yorker magazine said, “[T]he fascination [Holmes] exerts, a combination of toughness and style, shines through this book.” Novick teaches American Legal History at Vermont Law School.


Course #15W405M

Unbiased Financial Education,Especially For Women

This two-class course provides basic financial investor education specifically designed for women to face the complex world of finance. Research shows that virtually all women will be financially responsible for themselves or their families at some point in their lives. Many are under-prepared to face these challenges. The first class includes techniques to detect fraud and prevent becoming a victim. We will review the latest scams. We will also review how to evaluate salespeople and avoid doing business with unscrupulous sales people. The second class addresses special considerations for women when investing while retired, how to select the right financial professional to assist you, and simple estate planning concepts. We will review recent studies on senior investing psychological tendencies and common mistakes made investing when retired. Extensive time will include Q & A and class discussion with extensive free educational brochures. There will be no required texts for this course.

KEVIN MOQUIN, ESQ., is Senior Staff Attorney of the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation. He has many years of regulatory oversight experience and is considered a leader in investment advisory regulation.

TOM BOULTER is a special consultant to the Bureau for Investor Education. Tom has over 40 years of financial services industry experience with many years as a Chief Compliance Officer for a major national broker dealer and investment advisors.

2 weeks, 12:00 – 2:00 PMFebruary 18 through 25, 2015D.O.C. HouseCourse Fee: $30

Wednesday


Course #15W106F

The Writer’s Notebook:Discovering Ideas For

Creative Nonfiction

Using a dedicated notebook for nonfiction writing may be a common practice for some and an intimidating but intriguing possibility for others. Whichever camp you fall into, this writing workshop is designed to help you initiate or continue a vibrant writing practice that begins with scribbly, sketchy journals, moves on to rough drafts, and culminates in a final draft or two by the time of our last meeting. Sessions will involve in-class journal writing in response to a variety of prompts intended to connect you with memories and ideas; opportunities to read several of your drafts aloud to the class for their feedback; and brief discussions of selections from well-known journal writers including Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Alfred Kazin. One goal of the six-week course will be for you to contribute a finished piece to a class book, to be assembled and enjoyed during the last session. Weekly assignments will ideally foster experimentation and creativity as you consider using such things as photos and found objects as starting points. Kim Stafford, in The Muses Among Us, comments that for writers who put pen to paper daily, “the rug has a biography. Ideas gather their bones and rise up. A face becomes a life, a place a story.” There will be no required texts for this course.MARY OTTO worked for many years as a high school English teacher and as a teacher educator, specifically as part of the National Writing Project. She is a graduate of Grinnell College, in Iowa, and of New York University, from which she has a Ph.D. degree. She has most recently taught at The Sharon Academy, in Sharon, VT, and before that in Scarsdale, New York, and at the American School in London. She is a writer herself, and she regularly offers writing courses through Osher.


Course #15W303F

George Orwell - Political Prophet

The essays of British writer George Orwell are as relevant today as they were when they were published decades ago. The essays are full of first-hand descriptions of life as a British colonist, as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, and as a citizen of Britain during the years leading up to, during, and after World War II. Orwell’s essays are also full of insights, political analyses, and prescient forecasts that are pertinent to today’s national and international political discourse. In this course we will read and discuss Orwell’s well known essays such as “My Country Right or Left,” “Shooting an Elephant,” and “Politics and the English Language,” as well as lesser-known essays that address issues and trends in today’s world. Weekly assignments will consist of 30-50 pages that will serve as the basis for some thought provoking dialogue. When you conclude the course, you will likely join me in asking, “Where is George Orwell today when we need him the most?” There will be reading materials for this course.

WAYNE GERSEN is a local educational consultant who retired after serving as a public school superintendent for 29 years, concluding his career as Superintendent in Hanover, NH. As a student-teacher in Philadelphia he taught 1984 to senior high school students in West Philadelphia and as a result became a devotee of George Orwell.


Wednesday


Course #15W105M

The Folk RevivalOr The Great Folk Scare

The Folk Revival was one of the most memorable occurrences in American popular music. This course will trace its precursors, its humble - and not so humble - beginnings, its growth and the dimensions of its popularity, and, of course, its apparent demise. It grabbed our cultural attention in a perfect storm of happenings, events, personalities, and changes. And it kept so much of it all alive through entirely new means of expression and distribution. We will listen and view examples of the Revival and local performers will visit, play, and talk about their take on it all. All are welcome regardless of musical ability or training. Just bring an open mind, a contributing spirit, and some fond memories. There will be required texts for this course.

FORD DALEY has had a lifelong interest in non-classical music, and since childhood has been a performer, student, and teacher. He sings and plays guitar, harmonica, and Dobro.

4 weeks, 3:30 – 5:00 PMJanuary 14 through February 4, 2015Kendal at Hanover - Training RoomCourse Fee: $30

Course #15W308F

Short Fiction By The Russian Masters

During the nineteenth century Russian authors felt, with some justification, that to achieve full acceptance by critics and readers they sooner or later needed to turn to the novel. However, all the major novelists also wrote shorter fiction, in which it is possible to see both their major themes and their literary mastery in a concentrated form. In this course we will read shorter works by some of that century’s best writers: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, and Gogol. We will conclude by reading a selection of stories by one author who never embraced the novel, Anton Chekhov. There will be required texts for this course.

BARRY SCHERR received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages from the University of Chicago and began his teaching career at the University of Washington in Seattle, before coming to Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Russian Department for 38 years. His teaching interests have included Russian prose of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Russian poetry, film and theater; and Comparative Literature.

JOHN GALTON was born in New York City. He earned a B.A. from Columbia in English and a Ph.D., with a dissertation on Virginia Woolf, from the University of Rochester. He taught at Adelphi University before moving to California, where he taught elementary and high school in the Oakland Public Schools. Galton married Dori, another New Yorker, in California. He taught English at HHS for twenty years and loves teaching - especially Shakespeare; he has been on stage locally in Hamlet and directed Twelfth Night at HHS.


Thursday


Course #15W107F

Time And Consequences:Movies With A Chance To Get It Right!

There are no do-overs in life. One can set a course and change it - fall in love and fall out - make a fortune and lose it - do good or do evil. But, we only go around once - and the only direction for time-travel is forward. The one thing we can’t get more of is time. We’ve all lingered in the realm of the if only - felt the agonies of the woulda, coulda, shoulda’s. We’ve recognized that, as we travel through time, there are consequences to our actions. By revisiting and knowing the past, we can find and alter the future. The failures of the past can inform the acts of the future. Each day is an opportunity to “go back” and learn, to choose differently and recast that forward journey called a lifetime. The movies we’ll study are romantic-comedic variants of time-travel. They’re the trips all travelers make - the beautiful struggle of loving and laughing at this mortal coil. Our cinematic journey traverses the paths taken or not - the choices made - the consequences for life and love - as time moves inextricably forward. The movies are:

• Sliding Doors (Howitt, 1998) Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah

• Next Stop Wonderland (Anderson, 1998) Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Philip Seymour Hoffman

• Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell

• The Family Man (Ratner, 2000) Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni

• About Time (Curtis, 2013) Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleason

• Kate and Leopold (Mangold, 2001) Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber

• The Time Traveler’s Wife (Schwentke, 2009) Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams

• Time After Time (Meyer, 1979) Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen

ROGER FELDMAN has had a lifelong, passionate love affair with “The Movies.” He has a critically sensitive eye and has studied numerous critiques of cinema. His career was in Foreign Affairs, retiring as Assistant Secretary Of State from the U.S. Department of State. He was educated at Brown University and NYU-Graduate School.

8 weeks, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PMJanuary 15 through March 5, 2015Wilder Center - Wilder, VTCourse Fee: $55

Course #15W605F

Medical School For Everyone:Grand Rounds Cases

This six-week hybrid course offers participants an opportunity to experience and participate in the Sherlock Holmesian approach doctors use (or should use) in diagnosing and managing a patient’s illness. You will learn how doctors are trained to think and act. Challenging adult, pediatric, and geriatric cases will be included. “Grand Rounds” is a key element in a young doctor’s educational hands-on experience in every teaching hospital: a member of the hospital house staff (intern or resident) presents a current challenging medical case to an audience made up of practicing physicians and medical faculty members who criticize the patient work-up and pass judgment on the management of the case; medical experience and wisdom ooze out of the ensuing discussion. The first hour of each session will present a Great Courses video of an illustrated mystery medical case by a medical faculty member from a distinguished teaching hospital. The presentation will then be interrupted before the solution to the mystery is revealed, allowing participants to discuss their thoughts about what the correct diagnosis might be. After this opportunity, the video will be resumed, and the diagnosis and treatment revealed. The remaining portion of each two hour session will include a wide-open group discussion and critique by participants, with one or more local physicians available as a resource at each session. There will be no required texts for this course.

ROBERT W. CHRISTIE, M.D. is a retired physician who has been associated with Dartmouth as a post-doc and adjunct faculty member since 1951. He has participated in and led an eclectic variety of OSHER@Dartmouth courses including medical subjects, aboriginal art, jazz, book editing, religion, and early childhood education. He characterizes himself as an “OSHER@Dartmouth junkie, and a jouster of windmills.”


Thursday


Course #15W704F

Frank Lloyd Wright In The 1930’sRebirth And Revolution

This course explores Wright’s career during an exceedingly productive period, the mid-1930s, when at the age of 67+ he produced more or less simultaneously four of his greatest projects. Down and out, but by no means defeated, Wright seized the opportunity presented by a group of unusual clients to design these disparate buildings, not related in concept or stylistically in any significant way. Almost overnight these projects became famous icons of “modern” architecture both here and abroad, rejuvenated Wright’s moribund career, and led to the phenomenally productive final two decades of his life. The lectures include slides with both text and illustrations. A printed synopsis including all the text will be made available on-line.

1. Introduction: Wright’s background, work in Chicago and Buffalo; the Cheney affair, the Imperial Hotel in Japan; and building in California.

2. Wright takes on the International School and makes his big break-through: Edgar and Liliane Kaufman, Pittsburgh, Bear Run, and Fallingwater - place

3. Wright rejoins the commercial world and embraces streamlining: Hib Johnson, the Johnson Wax Complex, and Wingspread - space

4. Wright eschews the right angle: Paul and Jean Hanna, the hexagon, and the Honeycomb House - geometry

5. Wright designs for Everyman - the Usonian concept realized at last: Herbert and Katherine Jacobs and the first Jacobs House - economy

6. Field trip to the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH to visit the Zimmerman House and view the Zimmerman archives.

There will be optional texts for this course.

HARTE CROW is a retired physician with a life-long interest in architecture which developed when, as an undergraduate, he took a course taught by Yale’s renowned architectural historian, Vincent Scully.


Course #15W401F

Estate Planning: It’s More Than Money

Many people avoid drafting estate documents because they fear their complications. Others feel strangely dissatisfied after completing their own estate plan. This course can help! Over seven weeks, you will meet two estate planning attorneys, two palliative care specialists, a financial advisor, an accountant, two real estate specialists, a continuing care retirement community representative, a long-term care insurance agent, a charitable giving expert, and an estate auctioneer. How’s that for variety? Nowhere in the Upper Valley will you find such a comprehensive estate planning course. Each presentation is meant to be interactive, and dialogue is certainly welcome. Presenters will use examples to illustrate their points, but they will not be able to go into complex details of individual cases, including personal cases presented by attendees. There will be no required texts or outside reading for this course.RICHARD PECK, a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® and a Certified Financial Planner™, is Director of Individual Giving and Gift Planning at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Prior to this, he served almost four years as Associate Director of Gift Planning at Dartmouth. For seven years before joining Dartmouth, Rick managed a private practice as a personal financial advisor in Williston, VT, and West Lebanon, NH.

8 weeks, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PMJanuary 15 through March 5, 2015Hanover Senior Center - Room 212Course Fee: $55

Thursday


Course #15W200F

Palestine:67 Years Of “Al Naqba,” The CatastropheThe Palestinian View Of The Conflict With Israel

The period from 1947-1949 is known as the War of Independence to Israelis. The Palestinians, however call this “al Nakba”, the “Catastrophe”. How can the narratives of the same event be so diametrically opposed? The intent of this course is to examine the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from the perspective of the Palestinian people. Americans are largely unaware of the Palestinian position. To fully comprehend the forces that continue to prolong the conflict, an understanding of both narratives is absolutely necessary. How has Israel been able to replace Palestine on international maps? Why has the entire area of historic Palestine been under Israeli control since 1967? How does the military occupation affect Palestinians in their daily lives? Why has Israel been allowed to continue the longest military occupation in modern history? Why are there still 6.5 million Palestinians refugees in the world today? The class will hear from experts on the Palestinian story with the use of filmed presentations and interviews. My own experiences in Palestine and Israel in 2013 combined with subsequent research will also be included. Civil discussion on the topics will be welcomed. Lengthy personal statements will not. Prior to class, participants are asked to read or view one book or DVD from a list to be provided in the course welcome packet.

ANNE CHANDLER is an alumna of Williams College majoring in International Relations. She holds a BS in Education from the University of Tennessee, Martin. Daughter of an Army officer, Anne traveled extensively and discovered early in her life that every story has at least two versions. She believes that all versions must be heard in order to make informed choices.


Course #15W309F

The Bible’s Take On Human Nature

In the beginning there are the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the tower builders of Babel. They are pretty sordid. Do the players of the first Common Era decade (Mary Joseph, shepherds, magi, King Herod and others) fare any better? Are these characters typical and acceptable to the culture in which their tales where gathered and delivered? Or are they prototypes of human nature any where, any time? Maybe both? How so? Regardless of your level of Biblical literacy, you will gain valuable insights as we read the stories of glory and calamity in the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis and in the New Testament infant narratives of Jesus. In addition to exploring the characters of these texts we will compare the first two creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2 with the story of Noah and the flood, also considered a creation myth. We will view the recently released film Noah to discover features not readily identified with the Bible. There will also be rough Biblical timelines and text overviews to lead us into the Jesus infant narratives. Is there more of the same, good and evil intertwined? Are there clues to turnings of the human mind? Are there universal themes in both the creation and birth narrations? We will read and interpret these stories together and thus explore the wiles and ways of human nature presented in the Bible. A copy of the Bible will be the only required text for this course, with weekly hand-outs supplied by the instructor.

HEIDI HOSKIN is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She has served congregations in New Hampshire, Vermont and Miami, Florida. Now retired from the parish ministry she is still active with United Church of Christ congregations in the Upper Valley. She has taught Osher courses on the Bible before and has long been committed to fostering Biblical literacy.


Thursday


Course #15W304F

Humanism: A Way Of LifeCalling Us To Lead Ethical Lives Aspiring

To The Greater Good Of Humanity

Humanism has roots that reach back to ancient civilizations in both Europe and Asia. We shall trace those roots from Buddhism and Epicureanism through the Renaissance and Enlightenment, touching briefly on Lucretius, Spinoza, Erasmus, Hume, Jefferson, Darwin, Einstein, and other modern day thinkers. We shall use as the basis for this course a book by the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, Greg Epstein’s Good Without God. We shall postulate that humanistic practices pre-date Homo Sapiens and organized religions as evidenced by contemporary studies of primates and other mammals. We will study what it means to be a Humanist, learning about man’s innate goodness and his need to live responsibly and ethically in community without fear and superstition, with the goal that all peoples can fulfill their potential. There will be a required text and readings for this course.

BILL ACKERLY is a retired physician and psychiatrist; SYLVIA SANDS PAXTON is a retired attorney; and DOUG HART is a retired businessman.

None of us has an academic background in religion, but we have been discussing atheism and humanism monthly after a course Bill led five years ago. This group read Good Without God by Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, and The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal. We were fascinated, and wanted to learn more and see what other Osher class members think.


Course #15W600F

AC-DC: Power To The Plug

Electric power is the force that makes our industrial civilization possible. We plug into outlets everywhere, our transportation systems depend on it, and in the sophisticated form of modern electronics, it makes a bewildering array of devices and services, such as cell phones, GPS, and the Internet, possible. Most of us have only a very rough grasp of the basic elements of this wizardry, and one of the goals of this course is to learn, together, about the fundamental concepts that govern electricity, such as voltage, current, resistance, and power. We will also explore the history and nature of the vast distribution systems that carry electric power from the many locations where it is generated to the homes, offices, and factories where it is consumed. In particular we will study the early conflict between advocates of direct current distribution (DC), particularly Thomas Edison, and of alternating current distribution (AC), namely Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, the reasons AC has been the worldwide system of choice, and recent technological advances which are bringing DC back to viability for long-distance transmission. We will study these topics with readings, hands-on experiments, videos, photographs, and outside speakers. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of the elements of electricity and the historical and technological choices that underlie our modern electrical systems. There will be a required text for this course and additional readings will be distributed by the instructors.

C.J. SMITH enjoyed a career in finance. He has led a variety of courses and serves as Treasurer at OSHER@Dartmouth.

MARTIN SMITH enjoyed a career in geophysics. He has led courses at OSHER@Dartmouth, and volunteered at Montshire Museum.

RACHEL DONEGAN is the Science Educator & Program Manager at the Montshire Museum.

6 weeks, 2:00 – 4:30 PMJanuary 15 through February 19, 2015(If weather causes a class to be cancelled, make-up sessions will be available on Feb. 26 and Mar. 5.)Montshire Museum - Norwich, VTCourse Fee: $55

Thursday


Course #15W710F

The Shrinking Middle Class:Can It Be Saved?

The middle class is a pillar of American democracy, yet it has declined in strength and number during the past 30 years. Despite American economic growth, the middle class’s declining share of income and wealth has limited its ability to fulfill the American dream. This course will examine the economic, political, and cultural factors that have contributed to the shrinking of the middle class. We will take a multi-disciplinary approach and make use of brief lectures, moderate reading and, hopefully, lively discussion. Our aim will be to identify solutions that would permit our children and grand children to enjoy living in a country with a strong middle class. There will be a required text for this course. Reading requirements will vary, but will not exceed 35 pages per week.

EVANGELINE MONROE is a retired foreign service officer. During her years overseas she examined and analyzed host country realities as they might affect U.S. interests. Old habits die hard. She now focuses on American strengths and challenges. She has led numerous OSHER@Dartmouth courses.


Course #15W700F

“De-lighted!”A First Person Perspective

of Theodore Roosevelt

This course uses the medium of living history to illuminate the life, accomplishments, and thoroughly kaleidoscopic personality of Theodore Roosevelt, as historian, rancher, hunter, police commissioner, cavalry officer, governor, explorer, parent, friend, and, of course, the 26th President of the United States - a partial list! In a 5-session format that is more story-telling and conversation than lecture, re-enactor Dwight Wilder takes on the character of “TR,” exploring his early years, political career, rise to power, and the manner in which he diverged from tradition to define an activist role for the Presidency it has since never lost. The result is an understanding of the man and leader that reaches far beyond the stereotypes of the Rough Rider, trust-buster, and wielder of the “Big Stick.”

Session One: The Crafting of Character (1858-1896)Session Two: Destiny or Happenstance? (1896-1901)Session Three: A New Vision of the Presidency

(1901-1909)Session Four: Taking America onto the World Stage

(1901-1909)Session Five: At Home: Family, Friends, and the Last

Decade (1909-1919)

There will be reading materials for this course.

DWIGHT WILDER passionately believes the best history teaches not just “what happened,” but also “what it was like.” A retired school administrator, he is a long-time volunteer educator for the Appalachian Mountain Club, and since 1995 has been portraying Theodore Roosevelt to classes in schools, at historical societies and sites, with conservation organizations, and through Colby-Sawyer College’s Adventures in Learning program. Audiences have described the experience as “being in the same room with TR - he speaks like him, dresses like him, and even looks like him!” Wilder earned his BA in History from Johns Hopkins, with graduate work at Harvard, Southern NH University, and Rivier College.

5 weeks, 4:30 – 6:30 PMJanuary 15 through February 12, 2015Hanover Senior Center - Room 212Course Fee: $55

Friday


Course #15W406M

Thorny Conversations:Principles And Practices

Do you fret when you are facing a difficult conversation whether it be with a family member, a friend, a service provider, or just anyone? Do you wish you could be more comfortable when dealing with tough situations? Are you aware of how you deal with disputes or disagreements? If these questions “hit home” consider this course. We will be looking at factors that get in the way of conversations such as anger, the ladder of inference, emotions, and identity. You will learn your own conflict style and what steps you can take to maximize or minimize it in a given situation. In addition, discussions will explore principles related to tough conversations such as how to listen, elements of a difficult exchange, contribution versus blame, reflecting/paraphrasing, re-drawing the conflict, and the third story. While practicing the techniques presented is desired, those who feel more comfortable listening and observing will also gain from the course. There are required texts for this course.

LYNN DUNTON and SUSAN SCHWEIZER are conflict specialists and partners at Mediation Partners of New England. Their practice focuses on conflict between people in four settings: business, families dealing with elder decisions, organizations, and divorce/post-divorce. By providing a forum for constructive discussions, they focus on preventing problems as well as shaping a way forward in existing disputes. Susan and Lynn also provide conflict coaching for individuals who would like guidance and support to engage in, manage, and productively resolve conflict.


Course #15W707F

Margaret Thatcher:Conservative Revolutionary

When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, a memorial service with full military honors was held in St Paul’s Cathedral. While thousands lined the streets of London to pay their respects, people in the coal mining villages of northern England flocked to the pubs to celebrate her death. In death as in life she was a controversial and divisive figure. We shall study her decade as Prime Minister when she set out to break the stranglehold of the trade unions and revolutionize the British economy, took an unflinching stand against the perceived evils of the European Union, and all the time maintained a very special relationship with President Reagan. The Iron Lady rose to power in 1979 on a wave of public discontent with the management of the economy by the British Labour party, but ultimately her own policies raised new grievances among the populace which led to riots in the streets of London. Rejected by her own Conservative party, she was forced from office in 1990. Nonetheless, she left British society transformed; there has been no U-turn. Prior to the course, participants will have familiarized themselves with the period of Thatcher’s premiership through selective reading of her autobiography (The Downing Street Years) or from any of a number of books by others. From this jumping-off point we will use videos, additional reading assignments, and live interaction with one or more professors to synthesize an assessment of her character, motivation, successes and weakness. There will be reading materials for this course.

IAIN SIM grew up in Britain but left in 1984 and flew to New York on a one-way ticket as Thatcher’s crusade to liberate the economy from the unions and state-controlled enterprises reached its peak. He landed in the middle of the Reagan Revolution but never looked back. Now retired in Hanover, he reflects from time to time on how different his life might have been without the Iron Lady.


Friday


Course #15W711M

Westward Ho!How America Developed The West

Join a group of OSHER@Dartmouth history buffs and read and discuss Simon Winchester’s new book, The Men Who United the States. This award-winning book discusses how America moved west by building railroads, canals, communications, infra-structure - and in the process, created a unified na-tion. Winchester, who we hope will visit OSHER@Dartmouth during the winter of 2015, also wrote The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Map that Changed the World and Atlantic. Our 4-week course will discuss why Winchester believes that the “ties that bind” in America are practical and physical things like canals, railroads, bridges, highways and now the internet. His book mixes popular history with a contemporary travelogue. Winchester believes that a modern transporta-tion infrastructure was essential to forging an endur-ing union. He also focuses on the communications revolution that began with Samuel Morse’s telegraph. Learn about Cornelius Vanderbilt, Alexander Gra-ham Bell, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. Westward Ho! There will be required texts for this course.

GERRY JONES has taught OSHER@Dartmouth history courses since 2004. These courses have included a study of the life of Theodore Roosevelt, an analysis of the so-called “great American presidents”, several courses on Russia (including a course on Catherine the Great), “Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America”, several courses on World Wars I and II and, recently, a course on a portrait of Europe from 1900-1914 and the reasons for the outbreak of World War I.

4 weeks, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PMJanuary 16 through February 6, 2015Hanover Senior Center - Room 212Course Fee: $30

Course #15W102M

Identity And Culture On The Page:A Writing Workshop About Our Roots

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” - Audre Lorde, African-American “By having roots, you can see the direction in which you want to go.” - Joenia Wapixana, Brazilian “My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.” - Woody Allen, Jewish Culture and tradition play a large part in shaping our individual and group identities. This workshop, which draws upon cultural traditions, rituals and experience, provides an opportunity to write about who we are and where we come from - geographically, historically, and emotionally. Whether whimsical or wise, join in crafting written explorations that takes us back to our roots. Sharing is voluntary and encouraged. There will be no required text for this course.ELAYNE CLIFT is an award-winning writer and journalist and an adjunct professor of English and Gender Studies at several New England colleges. A senior correspondent for the India-based news syndicate Women’s Feature Service and a regular columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and the Brattleboro Commons, her first novel, Hester’s Daughters, a contemporary, feminist re-telling of The Scarlet Letter, was published in 2012. Her works of fiction, poety and creative non-fiction have been widely anthologized and published internationally. She lives in Saxtons River, Vt. (www.elayneclift.com)

1 session, 10:30 AM – 3:00 PMJanuary 23, 2015Hanover Senior Center - Room 215Course Fee: $30

Friday


Course #15W400F

Beginning Cribbage

A card game for 2, 3, or 4 players, and one of a few card games whose invention can be ascribed to one person, Sir John Suckling (1609-1642). It is a streamlined version of another game of the day, Noddy. Sir John’s improvements, his enthusiasm and his quirky rules earned it great popularity. Keeping score is greatly facilitated by the use of a cribbage board with its scoring pegs. Reading is limited to a half dozen pages of a summary of the rules. Class sessions will be spent in actually playing the game and honing individual skills. There will be reading materials for this course.

ROGER SMITH was taught cribbage by his father, but his attempts to pass it on to his own children were rebuffed. He is hoping to do better with his own generation; but even they will quickly discover that digital versions can be found on the hated internet. If you want to play against yourself, you can do it there for free.

8 weeks, 1:30 – 3:30 PMJanuary 16 through March 6, 2015The Woodlands, Lebanon, NH - CaféCourse Fee: $55

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Winter 2015 Course Application1. You must be a current member of OSHER@Dartmouth in order to enroll in courses. The annual cost of

membership is $60. If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact the OSHER@Dartmouth office.

2. List courses in order of preference.3. Do not register for a course if your schedule does NOT permit your attending a MAJORITY of the classes.4. Your completed Course Application form and accompanying check must be sent to the OSHER@Dartmouth

office. Registration opens Tuesday, November 18th, and closes Wednesday, December 10th, 2014.

COURSE # COURSE NAME

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5. _________ _____________________________________________________________

How many of the courses listed above do you wish to take? 1 2 3 4 5 (Any courses over this total will be treated as back-up selections should your first choices be unavailable.)

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Deadline for registration is Wednesday, December 10th, 2014.Mail applications with your course fee to

Osher at Dartmouth, 10 Hilton Field Road, Hanover, NH 03755-1413 or call (603) 646-0154 for questions and additional information.

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