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AGENDA                         LAS XVII                   September 17, 2003


Orientation to Leadership Asheville Seniors and
History of Asheville Buncombe County

Chestnut Ridge Room
Reuter Center, UNC Asheville

September 17, 2003

"One may lead perhaps with no more than a question in hand"-Ronald Heifetz
 

  9:00 Coffee, muffins and mingling

9:30 Welcome to UNCA and Leadership Asheville Seniors
         James H. Mullen, Jr., chancellor, University of North Carolina at Asheville

9:45 Who's the Answer Introductions

10:15 What To Expect from LAS
           Denise Snodgrass, director, Leadership Asheville Seniors and assistant director
           North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement

10:30 Table Task Group Activity

11:15 Creative Retirement, Older Learners and Social Change
          Ronald J. Manheimer (LA 12), executive director, North Carolina Center for Creative
          Retirement

11:45 Lunch and Conversation

12:30 Social History
          Dan Pierce, assistant professor of history, University of North Carolina at Asheville

1:15 Connecting with the History of Asheville/Buncombe County
         John Ager, author and historian

2:00 Break

2:15 Conversation: The African American Experience
         Lettie Polite (LAS X) and Everette Parrish

3:00 Dismiss


Suggested activities:
  • Urban Trail
  • Smith McDowell House, 283 Victoria Road (10-4 T-S, 1-4 Sun) $3.50 (seniors)
  • Vance Homestead, Reems Creek Road, Weaverville (9-5 M-S, 1-5 Sun) Free
  • Thomas Wolfe House Memorial, 52 N. Market St. (9-5 M-S, 1-5 Sun) (Winter: closed M, 10-4 T-S, 1-4 Sun)
  • Building Bridges Program, 253-0749 (Sept. and Jan.)
  • Pack Memorial Library, Carolina Collection photographs
  • Biltmore Village Historic Museum (1-4:30 M-S)
  • Grove Park Inn (old photographs in Sammons Wing)
  • YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.
  • Biltmore House
  • UNCA Ramsey Library Special Collections (M-TH, 9-3)
     

Special thanks to Liz Pritchard (LAS XIII), Angela Baisley (LAS XV), Lettie Polite (LAS X), Ty Erickson (LAS XV)

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  Leadership Asheville Seniors
Reuter Center, CPO # 5000
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville  NC 28804-8516
Tel: (828) 251-6140  Fax: (828) 251-6803
Last revised:  August 01, 2008