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ON DECEMBER 4, 2009
a record number of OLLI members and their guests (about 175 total)
celebrated the holiday season with a wonderful OLLI Holiday Party at
the International Country Club, Fairfax, Virginia. Rod Zumbro created
the following movie that contains numerous close-up clips of attendees;
if you attended, you may find yourself in this video.
2009
OLLI HOLIDAY PARTY (LENGTH 6:46)
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IN DECEMBER 2008
OLLI members celebrated the holiday season with an elegant OLLI Holiday
Luncheon at
the International Country Club, Fairfax, Virginia. Rod Zumbro created
the following video slideshow of photos taken by Dan Feighery.
2008
OLLI HOLIDAY LUNCHEON (LENGTH 0:57)
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IN APRIL 2008 OLLI honored its
teachers at a reception held on Grand Tier 3 of Mason's Center for the
Arts Concert Hall.
Mason Provost Dr. Peter Stearns was the featured speaker, and OLLI
awarded scholarships to four Mason students who had been selected by
their respective department heads. A Rod Zumbro movie.
2008 TEACHER
APPRECIATION RECEPTION (LENGTH 3:54)
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WE ALL OWE A GREAT DEBT TO THREE
DISTINGUISHED LADIES
who were instrumental in the establishment in 1991 of the
Learning in Retirement Institute (later renamed the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute): Founder Kathryn Brooks and Founding Members
Shirley Fox and Lilyan Spero, who became the first three presidents.
Watch very short videos of these leaders here.
Left to right,
Kathryn Brooks (1:56); Shirley Fox (1:44); Lilyan Spero (1:10).
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The late Kathryn Brooks,
Founder, first
president
(video is from two early 1992 televised interviews; length 1:56). If
you cannot view the embedded one-click video above, you can watch now
by clicking
a player--
The late Shirley Fox, Founding
Member,
second president (video is from an early 1992 televised interview;
length
1:44). If
you cannot view the embedded one-click video above, you can watch now
by clicking
a player--
Lilyan
Spero, Founding Member, third president (video is from the 2004 Story of OLLI video; length
1:10). If
you cannot view the embedded one-click video above, you can watch now
by clicking
a player--
MEMBER
TESTIMONIALS (LENGTH 3:27)
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THREE
OLLI TESTIMONIALS: OLLI
members Roxanne Cramer, Manuel Pablo
and Vera DeWeese tell how they heard about OLLI and what they like
about our wonderful institute. A Rod Zumbro
movie. If the above
embedded video does not display or work for you, you can watch now by
clicking the Windows Media Player or the
Real Player movie below--
EGYPT
HIGHLIGHTS (LENGTH 3:36)
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THE
SUBJECT OF
ONE TRIP TALE, COURSE 903, WAS AN EGYPTIAN
SIGHTSEEING TOUR. If you attended the class or have an interest
in Egypt, you might like to view our video, "Egypt Highlights."
This three-and-a-half-minute video is edited
from a longer video made by the editor after a one-week visit
he and Susanne made to Egypt several years ago.
You will see the pyramids and sphinx at Giza,
the temple at Abu Simbel (photo above) that was moved up 200 feet in
the 1960s to avoid flooding, cruising the Nile River, temples in the
Valley of the Queens and Karnak, and as a grand finale, the amazing treasures
of King Tut that were discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 ("What do you
see?" "I see wonderful things."). A Rod Zumbro
movie. If the above
embedded video does not display or work for you, you can watch now by
clicking the Windows Media Player or the Real Player movie below--
A FORMER OLLI
WINTER-TERM COURSE, "ICONS: WINDOWS INTO
HEAVEN," included a final class visit to a nearby Coptic Church
to view icons 'written' by instructor Evelyn Avery Rophael.
OLLI member Charles Meyer, an attendee in my
OLLI class on video editing some time ago, had videotaped this visit
and created a six-minute movie to share with class members and other
OLLI members who are interested. At my request, he created
progressive-download versions of his movie in Windows Media Player and
Real Player formats so you can watch them right away without waiting
for them to fully download. He gave me the files and I posted them to
our OLLI Web server.
We thank Charlie for sharing his movie with
us, and we welcome similar contributions of OLLI-related movies from
other OLLI members (please email the
editor). Created
by OLLI member Charles Meyer. Since this movie is not a
one-click Flash video, it requires
opening
a separate media player; we strongly recommend Microsoft Internet
Explorer as
your Web browser rather than Firefox
(Firefox takes much longer because it downloads the entire movie before
starting to play it). Watch
now
by clicking the Windows Media Player or the Real Player movie below--
FALL OF THE HOUSE OF TALLWOOD (LENGTH 3:24)
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TALLWOOD
HOUSE
IS NO MORE. Your intrepid editor
braved the light snowfall Wed morning, Feb 22, 2006, to videotape
scenes of
the demolition of the building.
"The Fall of the
House of Tallwood" gives you a brief glimpse of how Tallwood has
looked for as long as OLLI has been located at Tallwood campus (since
1995), with Tallwood House standing tall amidst the big trees,
and then shows how quickly a master heavy-equipment operator can tear
down a large building.
A Rod Zumbro movie. If the above
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or the Real Player movie below--
ANCIENT
EPHESUS (LENGTH 4:02)
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IF
YOU ENJOYED
A PREVIOUS OLLI COURSE ON TURKEY OR TRIP TALE COVERING EPHESUS or
if you are just interested in ancient Greece and Rome, you might enjoy
our
third installment of OLLI Video News, "Ancient
Ephesus."
Enjoy a video tour of the ancient city of
Ephesus, located in southwestern Turkey. Walk the marble streets that
Antony and Cleopatra walked more than 2,000 years ago. See the
well-preserved
ruins of the odeum (small
theater), temples, public restrooms, Library
of Celsus (photo at right), agora
(open market/gathering place) and amphitheater in a
short movie set to classical music.
This four-minute video is a shortened version
of the Ephesus portion of a movie created by the editor after a trip he and
Susanne made several years ago to Greece and Turkey. A Rod
Zumbro
movie. If the above one-click embedded video does not display or
work for
you, you can watch now by clicking the Windows Media Player or the Real
Player movie below--
ISTANBUL
(LENGTH 5:34)
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IF
YOU ENJOYED
A PREVIOUS OLLI COURSE ON TURKEY OR A TRIP TALE COVERING ISTANBUL or
if you are just interested in Turkey, you might enjoy our second
installment
of OLLI Video News.
In 5 1/2 minutes, experience "One Day in
Istanbul," where you will see some of the famous sights of this exotic
city -- including the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia (photo at right) and
Topkapi Palace.
This video is a shortened
version of the Istanbul portion of a movie created by the editor after a trip he and
Susanne made several years ago to Greece and Turkey.
A Rod Zumbro movie. If the above
embedded video does not display or work for you, you can watch now by
clicking the Windows Media Player or the Real Player movie below--
OLLI
2005 HOLIDAY PARTY (LENGTH 2:58)
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YouTube site).
INSTALLMENT
#1
OF OLLI VIDEO NEWS is a three-minute video of the OLLI
Holiday Party at the Fairfax Country Club in December 2005. Watch
Palmer McGrew and David Mason in "Who's on First?" and Thelma Weiner,
Manuel Pablo and Gordon Canyock in costume among other highlights. A Rod
Zumbro movie. If the above
embedded video does not display or work for you, you can watch now by
clicking
either the Windows Media Player or the Real Player movie below--
AFRICAN
VIDEO PREVIEW (LENGTH 1:50)
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IF YOU ENJOYED ROZ
SCHANZER'S TRIP TALE about Tanzania (October 2009) or Rod and
Susanne's Trip Tale about their Kenya safari presented in previous
years at Tallwood and Reston, you may enjoy this old-timey preview of
the 40-minute video of Rod and Susanne's African
safari; the safari visited Amboseli Game Park, Lake Nakuru Game Park
and the Masai Mara Game Reserve. A Rod
Zumbro movie. If the above
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clicking
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