SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The University of Rhode Island has updated its health guidelines to include universal indoor masking for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors on campus, regardless of vaccination status. Face coverings will be required in indoor spaces where people gather, including classrooms, laboratories, dining and residential facilities. Like the state, the University allows for medical exemptions to its face-coverings guidance.
This Week at OLLI
Monday
- 9:30AM Improvisation- The Power of Play
- 4:00PM The Spice Trade and the Age of Exploration (Zoom)
Tuesday
- 9:30AM Decisive Moments in Photography
- 1:45PM Golf
- 3:30PM History of Vice Presidents
Wednesday
- 10:00AM Tree Identification
- 1:00PM Walking Group
- 3:30PM Purpose Driven Retirement
- 4:00PM Rhode Island Fresh
Thursday
- 1:00PM Mah Jonng
- 4:00PM Finance Committee
Friday
- 1:00PM Book Club
FALL CLASSES You should have received your Fall program guide with over 75 new classes. The guide has abbreviated descriptions but you can view the full descriptions online. Registration begins on August 25. Log on to your OLLI account for complete details and to register. If you have any questions or need help, please call the office at 401-874-4197.
Class Spotlight: Register online or call the office at 874-4197.
EXPLORING THE GILDED AGE SPORT OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL
*Register and Bring a Friend! Class meets in person at OLLI
Masks required.
Thursday, August 26, 4:00-5:30PM $10
Instructor: Ed Achorn
The explosive growth of power and wealth in America in the late nineteenth century emerged from its extraordinarily robust and competitive society. Historian and author Edward Achorn reveals the gritty world behind that amazing transformation by exploring the Gilded Age sport of professional baseball — a grueling game played barehanded by hard-drinking, ill-educated and combative athletes. He looks at Rhode Island’s incredible Providence Grays, who won baseball’s first World Series, and explores the role that immigrants and beer played in saving baseball.
Suggested Readings: The Summer of Beer and Whiskey and Fifty-nine in ’84 Both are available on Amazon as well as Wakefield Books and Savoy Bookshop and Cafe. Olli members receive a 20% discount at both bookstores.
The final Great Decisions of 2021 will be held on Friday, August 27, at 11:30AM at OLLI. Registration is free and you can Register online today or call 401-874-4197. The topic is The End of Globalization.
As the United States enters another election season, the merits and drawbacks of globalization are again being debated by the presidential candidates. With the passing of the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s America First doctrine, protectionist policies have become more prevalent, challenging globalization. What is globalization and how will it be affected by protectionist trade policies? How will the United States and the world be affected by such policies? Is globalization really at an end, or in need of a refresh?
Reminders: You can register for your parking pass online. Log on to your OLLI account to get your Learner ID and then click here to register for parking. Make sure you choose the OLLI Members icon.
Check this out:
OLLI at the University of South Dakota invites all OLLIs to:
Current Threats to U.S. Democracy with Dr. Bob Burns
Thursday, September 2, 10 to 11:15 a.m. CENTRAL TIME
Dr. Burns will discuss the essential elements of a modern representative democracy, including separation of powers, rule of law, simple majority rule, periodic popular elections, freedom of expression and political equality. The class will identify present day threats to each of those elements and conclude by discussion potential safeguards of our democracy.
Bob Burns, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science from SDSU. He has taught OLLI courses since 2008 when he retired from SDSU after 38 years of teaching.
Email Olli@usd.edufor the Zoom link.