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What is Love?
Valentine’s Day was just a couple of days ago and you may still be on a sugar-high from all the candy you ingested. If you are like me—90% cynical, 5% romantic, and 5% other—then perhaps it was a day like any other. But perhaps, that 5% of your makeup made you reflect on love for a minute or two. What is love and how have you experienced and expressed love? There is, of course, romantic love, and then there’s also love for a child, a parent, or a sibling. There is love for family and love for friends, our “chosen family.” Despite my crusty exterior, I’m a hugger and I don’t hesitate to tell my friends and family that I love them. Life’s too short not to! I even have a little place in my heart for my co-workers. Just the other day, I overheard two of them talking in the hallway outside of my office. I don’t know exactly what they were talking about but at one point I heard them talking about tennis. I hate to eavesdrop, but they were loud enough for me to hear, and I love tennis, so what was a girl to do? I had to interject when I heard one of them ask what “love” meant. The other guessed but got it all wrong. “Love is zero!” I yelled from my office. I guess we can thank the aristocratic origins of tennis scoring for this. I like to think that I taught them both a little something about love that day. When you play tennis, “love” means nothing. In most other areas of life, though, it means absolutely everything.
Stay safe and healthy,
Tracy Jacobs
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Classes start March 6
Join us for in-person classes and a few Zoom lectures. Click on the links to:
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The final winter lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 22 at 1 p.m. via Zoom. You must register to receive the Zoom link.
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Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust
Irving Lubliner, Wednesday, February 22 at 1 p.m. via Zoom
Before she passed away in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her life in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Holocaust, including her internment in ghettos and two concentration camps, Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen. Her powerful stories have been published by her son, Irv Lubliner, an emeritus professor at Southern Oregon University. He will share excerpts from Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust, shedding light on his mother’s experiences and indomitable spirit, as well as his experience as a child of Holocaust survivors and his process in bringing the book to fruition.
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Irving Lubliner teaches math, blues harmonica, and literature classes for the OLLI program at Southern Oregon University (SOU). An emeritus SOU professor specializing in mathematics education, he taught for 40 years (at all levels, kindergarten through graduate school), led seminars for teachers in 39 states, and gave over 350 conference presentations, including several keynote addresses. In 2019, he created Felabra Press (onlyhopebook.com) and published his mother’s writings about her experiences during the Holocaust, the book that will serve as the theme for this presentation.
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March 27–May 4, $145 non-members, $110 members
SPARK is the perfect opportunity for curious minds, empty nesters, and retirees to explore topics in a relaxed environment. SPARK is divided into three courses. Each course meets once per week on TU’s campus for a total of six sessions per course.
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The Birth of Social Activism in America
Instructor: Robert Baer
Time: Begins Monday, March 27, 6:30–8 p.m.
Discover uniquely American endeavors that helped lay the foundation for many of our democratic traditions.
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Wakandans, Amazons, and Robotmen: Representation and Culture in Comics
Instructor: Scott West
Time: Begins Tuesday, March 28, 6:30–8 p.m.
Learn how comics have expressed and evolved representation and culture over the last 80 years.
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The Fitzgeralds and The Lost Generation
Instructor: Jack Burkert
Time: Begins Thursday, March 30, 6:30–8 p.m.
Dive into the writings of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and examine the personalities of the ‘lost generation.’
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Maryland Humanities seeks judges and other volunteers for Maryland History Day
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