Week of April 22, 2024
COME HELP URI STUDENTS: We all know the best way to learn is to practice. You can help the URI pharmacy students by stopping by the lobby on Wednesday, April 24, between 11:00AM and 1:00PM to have your blood pressure read!
TEACH FOR OLLI! Are you interested in teaching for OLLI or do you know someone that might make a great instructor? Fall course proposals are due April 30. Visit our website for all the details and click here to fill out a course proposal form. If you have any questions, please call the office at 401.874.4197.
CLASS SPOTLIGHT- Register online or call 401.874.4197
To Be or Not to Be: The Question of Modern Man with Teresa Testa
5 Sessions on Tuesdays (Zoom) starting April 23 10:00AM-11:30AM
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Women Writing About Marriage in Changing Times: Three Short Novels with Jane Barstow
4 Sessions on Fridays, starting May 10, 10:00AM-11:30AM. Click to watch PREVIEW VIDEO
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THIS WEEK AT OLLI
Monday
- 9:30AM Beginning Italian
- 11:30AM “I Found My Talk”
- 12:30PM Landscape Photography (Zoom)
- 1:30PM Purpose Drive Retirement
- 2:30PM Cold War Relations with Central America
- 4:00PM Contemporary Economic Policy Issues (Zoom)
- 5:00PM The Age of Sail
Tuesday
- 10:00AM To Be or Not To Be (Zoom)
- 1:00PM Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon
Wednesday
- 9:30AM Gloria Exercitus
- 10:00AM Taming of the Shrew
- 10:30AM The Hazard Family Legacy (offsite)
- 11:00AM Fabulous Fingers, Part II
- 11:30AM The Concerto
- 11:30AM-1:00PM Blood Pressure Readings in lobby
- 12:00PM Beginner Drawing
- 12:30PM Bowling
- 1:00PM Tennessee Williams
- 1:00PM Hiking Group
- 2:30PM Beginner Watercolor
- 4:00PM Advisory Council
Thursday
- 9:00AM Let’s Skate!
- 10:00AM Compassionate Conversations
- 11:00AM Current Events Discussion Group
- 11:30AM Tech Talk-Cutting the Cord (Zoom)
- 12:00PM Watercolor Practices
- 1:00PM Mahjong
- 2:30PM Movement Medicine
- 3:00PM Program Committee
Friday
- 10:00AM Square Foot Gardening
- 11:30AM Travel Preview: Iceland and Nashville
- 12:30PM New Nuclear is Hot (OLLI Dartmouth Zoom)
- 1:00PM The Chakra Energy System
- 1:00PM Music and Events of the 80s
NEW FREE CLASS AT OLLI: Estate Planning 101: My Estate Plan Can do That? Who Knew? Register for this free interactive season on planning for a successful future. Join us Tuesday, April 30, at 11:00AM. John Garcia, Assistant Vice President, Annual Initiatives and Gift Planning, at the URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement and Paul A Silver, partner at Hinckley Allen in Providence will help you Learn how to help yourself, your family and your charity with a properly designed and executed estate plan. It is the best way to plan for your future and to ensure your good intentions are met. During this session, you will learn about estate planning basics, why you should create a plan, what a good plan should do and how you can continue your good work by creating a legacy. Click here to view the flyer or here to register.
CLASS REMINDERS: If you have a class or tour off site, please read and save the class confirmation and class reminder carefully. Both will include information on meeting locations and parking.
AMERICORPS RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM- Are you looking to channel your skills and experience to serve the community? RSVP is recruiting volunteers ages 55+. Join us on May 2, at 1:00PM to learn more about this program. Discussion will include current needs, how to sign up and the perks of volunteerism. For more information, visit www.westbaycap.org. Click here for the program flyer.
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT OLLI! Do you belong to a group or organization that might want to know more about OLLI? We would love to come speak about our OLLI program! Email OLLI@URI.EDU or call 401.874.4197.
TRAVEL WITH OLLI – Enjoy a virtual tour of two of our upcoming trips in our OLLI classroom on Monday, April 29, at 11:00AM. Our Collette Tour Rep will showcase Nashville & the Smoky Mountains Holiday, December 2-9, 2024, and Iceland’s Magical Northern Lights, March 19-25, 2025. Visit our website to preview the full tour schedule. Bring along a friend and consider traveling together.
SUPPORT RHODY OUTPOST THIS MONDAY- Stock up on your summer Rhody gear and support URI students! Purchase clothing or gifts at the URI Bookstore on 4/22 and receive 20% off. Five percent of sales will be given to Rhody Outpost. Online shoppers use promo code NORAMHUNGRY. Click here to visit the Rams Zone.
RHODY OUTPOST– Rhody Outpost is URI’s principal basic needs pantry for students experiencing food insecurity. The Outpost provides fresh and non-perishable food and personal care items at no charge to students. Click here to see the updated Spring wish list. High demand items include raisins and other dried fruit, nuts and seeds, crackers, and cookies.Donations can be dropped off in the OLLI office.
FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION EVENT: Please join the Foreign Policy Association for their annual Elbrun Kimmelman Distinguished Lecture on U.S.-India Relations. Dr. Milan Vaishnav, Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will be the speaker. Click here to register. The lecture will be on Tuesday, April 30, at 6PM.
FUTURE TEXTILES FORUM- The University of Rhode Island will host its first “Future Textiles Forum” on Monday, April 22, with the participation of URI students and faculty from across the University, from diverse programs — textiles and engineering — as well as members of the Rhode Island Textile Innovation Network (RITIN) and other textile industry partners, and representatives from U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s office. The 2024 Future Textiles Forum will take place April 22, from 9 to 10:45 a.m. in 401 Lippitt Hall, Kingston, as part of Earth Day at URI. Register here.