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eNAUTILUS November 2006

NEWS from the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement

This newsletter is also available at www.unca.edu/ncccr/newsletter/eNautilus_November_2006.htm
Additionally, a print version of this newsletter will be available at the Reuter Center.

In this issue of eNautilus learn more about:

 

* Calendar of Events

* Music, Music, Music! At Reuter Center

* Blue Ridge Naturalist Teachers Appreciation

* NCCCR’s Newest Staff Member

* Call for Health Topics

* Photoshop Workshop

* LTOP and Vials for Life

* Bill Sabo’s Election Wrap

* Travel Opportunity

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Calendar of Upcoming Events

 

NOVEMBER

3          CFS Faculty Appreciation Event (3 pm)

8          Mountain Music with Don Pedi and Friends (12 noon)

10        TGIF (East Meets West) HAS BEEN CANCELLED

12        Blue Ridge Naturalist Concert: Laura Boosinger – Music of the Southern Mountains (tickets on sale at reception desk) (2 pm)

14        NCCCR Winter Term catalogs mailed

15        Catamount Concert (7 pm)

17        Symphony Talk with Daniel Meyer (3 pm)

19        Reuter Center Singers Concert (3 pm)

20        Catamount Concert (7:30)

23 & 24     Holiday - Reuter Center closed

 

DECEMBER

1          Winter Term Initial Registration

6          Catamount Concert (7 pm)

15        CFS Summer Course Proposals due

21-31  Winter Break - Reuter Center closed

 

 

 

 

 

Music at the Reuter Center

 

Mountain Music

Don Pedi is opening up his last class on mountain music to the public. He invites anyone interested to join the fun on Wednesday, November 8 in Room 102 from 12-2 pm.

 

Laura Boosinger in Concert

Laura Boosinger is an award-winning performer and recording artist of traditional music from the Southern Appalachian region. She will be in concert with “Music of the Southern Mountains” on Sunday, November 12 at 2:00 pm in the Chestnut Ridge Room of the Reuter Center.  Refreshments will be served and there are door prizes for lucky ticket holders. The $12 tickets are on sale now at the front desk at the Reuter Center. Proceeds will benefit the Blue Ridge Naturalist scholarship fund. 

 

Special Music Opportunity

Join Western Carolina University’s Will Peebles, music department chair, and his students on Wednesday, November 15 at 7 pm for an exotic musical experience. Gamelan is an Indonesian form of music. You will not see these instruments in western orchestras.

 

Gamelan is the main element of the Indonesian traditional music.  Each gamelan is slightly different from the other. The instruments in a gamelan are composed of sets of tuned bronze gongs, gong-chimes, metallophones, drums, one or more flute, bowed and plucked string instruments, and sometimes singers.  In some village gamelan, bronze is sometimes replaced by iron, wood, or bamboo.  The most popular gamelan can be found in Java, and Bali. Don’t miss this unique musical experience.

 

Reuter Center Singers Fall Concert

Reuter Center Singers will present its Fall concert on Sunday, November 19 at 3 pm in the Chestnut Ridge Room of the Reuter Center.  Directed by Chuck Taft, the Singers will present a potpourri of American music, from Appalachian Gospel favorites to the "Missa Festiva" (Festival Mass) by John Leavitt, including pieces composed by Aaron Copland and other American composers.  Concert is free.  Donations are invited.  Refreshments will be served during intermission.  Information: 298-1058

 

 

Blue Ridge Naturalists Say Thanks

The Blue Ridge Naturalist certificate students are having a Teacher Appreciation Potluck on Wednesday, November 15^th at 6:30 at the Reuter Center 230.  If you have taken classes in the Blue Ridge Naturalist program and wish to say thank you to the program’s talented teachers, please bring a covered dish and join us.  Please RSVP to Jeanie Martin, program coordinator, by November 9^th at jmartin@unca.edu or 251-6198. 

 

 

Meet Our Newest Staff Member

Mike Honeycutt has joined the Center for Creative Retirement staff to help with computer issues. Mike has worked at UNCA for 24 years and has held a variety of computer-related jobs. Most recently, he worked in Special Collections at UNCA’s Ramsey Library.

 

A native of Asheville, Mike lived in Woodfin for most of his life. He is frequently heard on Conversations on WCQS where he is part of a group that answers computer questions.

 

His outside interest include a passion for UNCA basketball, history (with special interest in the Maya and Incas), and planning for retirement. He says, however, that his next career (after computing) will be teaching high school history.

 

The movie Mike has watched more time than he can remember is Hunt for Red October. He likes seafood, diet cola and hiking anywhere in Cataloochee (see www.mikehoneycutt.com for bugling elk). Mike also admits that he’d like to try repelling and hang gliding and would like to visit Machu Picchu.

 

Please stop by Room 208 and introduce yourself.

 

 

What Health Topics Interest You?

The Health Education Series Committee would like to hear from you. What topics would you like to have addressed during the free Health Education Series on Tuesdays at lunch time? Email you suggestions to Fred Meyer fred_meyer@verizon.net

 

 

Workshop: Photoshop for Photographers

Are you interested in improving your photo editing skills? Consider enrolling in a 2-day workshop on December 4 and 7. Each day will feature a classroom presentation (9-12 noon) and instructor-assisted lab sessions (1-3 pm). The computer lab is also reserved for practice on December 5 and 6.

 

“During the sessions you will learn to enhance your digital photographs with easy-to-use software techniques,” according to workshop instructor, Gerry Pasternack. Using the professional (CS) version of Photoshop, the premier software tool for graphics, he will introduce digital photo editing. He will focus on features and commands that are also available in Elements and the soon-to-be-released Lightroom software. This workshop will be valuable to all new users of Photoshop and will also provide transition from Elements to Photoshop CS for those desiring more advanced features. (NOTE:  This workshop will be a pre-requisite for a more advanced workshop to be offered in Spring ’07.)

 

Participants should be familiar with photography concepts and digital photography hardware (camera, either PC or MAC, printer and scanner.)  Class size is limited to 24. Fee: $75.  You can register now by contacting Ann Bass abass@unca.edu or 251-6873. For further workshop information contact Gerry Pasternack at gpmp@brinet.com

 

Leadership Training for Older Persons (LTOP) Saves Lives

During the fall, Leadership Training for Older Persons (LTOP) class met at the Reuter Center for six sessions honing such skills as team building, public speaking, and coordination. Class members then chose group service projects allowing them to help others while practicing their leadership skills.

 

To help those who can’t speak for themselves in a medical emergency, class members David Herbert, Rosa Davis, Minnie Jones, Gladys Richardson, Jo and Richard Majka, Louise Chase, Mary Churney and Linda Harper chose Vials of Life as their project in collaboration with the American Red Cross.

The Vial of Life is a hard plastic tube (usually a prescription bottle) that contains your medical history along with personal information. The completed Vial of Like is stored in the refrigerator and a special magnet is placed on the outside of the refrigerator indicating that a Vial of Life is completed and stored inside. EMS personnel are trained to check the refrigerator for the Vials of Life magnet.

To learn more about the Free Vials of Life program you can go to http://www.redcrosswnc.org/is/  and follow the link to Community Services or call 828-258-3888 ext. 207.

 

Bill Sabo Fan Club

Whenever Bill Sabo, professor of political science gives a talk at the Reuter Center, he draws a crowd. Some Reuter Center members might be interested in going to an off-campus luncheon event to hear him on November 15, 2006, 11:30-1:00 at the Asheville Country Club. His topic will be "Did the 2006 Election Mean Anything Other than Politics is Really Expensive?" The event is sponsored by the Leadership Asheville Forum. For information or to make a reservation, contact Terry Wooten Woot683@bellsouth.net

 

Travel Opportunity

Members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke hope some of our members may join them on a tour of South Africa, May 12 through 24, 2007. The tour is being escorted by Ian Goddard, a native of South Africa currently teaching a course on South Africa at the Duke OLLI. The tour includes Cape Town and the breathtaking Table Mountain, visits to the famous South African vineyards and Cape Point as well as places of historical interest in Johannesburg and Pretoria.  Also spend four days in the exciting Mashatu game park in Botswana.  Click here for further information:

http://www.travelearn.com/southafrica07duke_main.htm

 

 

ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER

eNAUTILUS is the monthly newsletter of the

North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement

Please submit questions or suggestions about eNAUTILUS to

Denise Snodgrass, Snodgrass@unca.edu

 

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North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement:

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University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA)

One University Heights

Asheville, NC 28804-8516

 

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