Fall 2009 Class Schedule1,2
First semester: September 8th, 2009 – December 3rd, 2009 |
BREAKING NEWS1,2
Before proceeding to the Class Schedule, please check out these items of breaking news.
REPAIRS TO FORD 122 EQUIPMENT COMPLETE We will return to Ford 122 for our sessions until further notice. Note that the Thursday afternoon November 19th session will be in Smullin B-17 at the request of the ICL performers. Continue to check your website schedule regularly for all room and schedule changes and also for announcements pertaining to ICL matters.
FURTHER DISCUSSION ON NUCLEAR ENERGY Curriculum Committee member Hardin King would like to call ICL's attention to an analysis noted in the Fall 2009 Catalyst, the Union of Concerned Scientists magazine, entitled Nuclear Power: A Resurgence We Can't Afford. It gives an opposite view to that by the 10/29 speaker, Ron Graham, on Making a Case for Nuclear Energy. The full text can be read at http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power.
REPAIRS TO FORD 122 EQUIPMENT COMPLETE We will return to Ford 122 for our sessions until further notice. Note that the Thursday afternoon November 19th session will be in Smullin B-17 at the request of the ICL performers. Continue to check your website schedule regularly for all room and schedule changes and also for announcements pertaining to ICL matters.
FURTHER DISCUSSION ON NUCLEAR ENERGY Curriculum Committee member Hardin King would like to call ICL's attention to an analysis noted in the Fall 2009 Catalyst, the Union of Concerned Scientists magazine, entitled Nuclear Power: A Resurgence We Can't Afford. It gives an opposite view to that by the 10/29 speaker, Ron Graham, on Making a Case for Nuclear Energy. The full text can be read at http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power.
REMINDER Our End-of-Semester Luncheon is Thursday, December 3rd, at 12:15 pm in Montag Den. Tickets for the Luncheon are $13.00. If you are unable to hand in your reservation/payment, please mail your check made to WUICL before November 24th to Evelynn Smith (address in Membership Directory). Thank You!
BRENDA HILLMAN ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 200, 7:00 PM, IN CONE CHAPEL
Brenda Hillman, one of America’s leading poets and professor at Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA is the author of seven volumes of poetry—Practical Water (2009), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), Cascadia (2001), Loose Sugar (1997), Bright Existence (1993), Death Tractates (1992), Fortress (1989), White Dress (1985)*, all with Wesleyan UP—and numerous poems in such magazines as New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Gulf Coast, New American Writing, and others. Hillman has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, has co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). A recipient of numerous awards, Hillman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area; she is married and has a daughter. She is a committed activist and links her poetry to her activism on her Saint Mary’s website, (http://galileo.stmarys-ca.edu/bhillman/). She is most connected with the anti-violence group, Code Pink, but also works with several other organizations.
Hillman’s presentations are exactly about her vocation as a poet and activist: she blends reading with reflection, ties the writing of poetry to a life of civic engagement and responsibility. There are links to some poems at her website as well. A additional poems, including Walking the Dunes, are found here.
*Using New Math, I make that eight (Ed.)
RULES FOR THE USE OF FORD 122
We have been graciously allowed access to Ford Hall Room 122 for ICL classes subject to the strict rule that NO FOOD OR DRINK IS ALLOWED. Any spills on the desks in this room could short out electrical connections and constitute a hazard, to say nothing of the expense of repair. Please adhere to this rule. As a courtesy to our presenters, we also request that all cell phones, beepers, alarm watches and other noise-making devices be turned off before any presentation.
SCHEDULE CHANGE
Don Gallagher advises that the Great Decisions presentation on Egypt will move from November 24 to November 10, and the Great Decisions presentation on Energy will move from November 10 to November 24.
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
The last day of Fall Semester will be December 3, 2009.
The first day of Spring Semester will be January 19, 2010.
The last day of Spring Semester will be May 4, 2010.
Spring Break will be March 22 through 26, 2010.
TALENT SEARCH
At present, our Director of Information Services, Peter Ronai, is the only ICL member with the responsibility for designing and maintaining the ICL web site. With the increasing dependence of ICL on communication through the web site, the ICL Board is anxious to find a back-up person who can contribute to web site maintenance and who could take over in case of illness or other incapacity of our "webmaster." Peter is starting to implement the web site in Adobe's Dreamweaver, an advanced web design software program, so an aspiring "assistant webmaster" will need to be familiar with both HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and Dreamweaver. Please contact Peter or Don Gallagher if you are interested.
FULL ICL NEWSLETTER
For the full ICL Newsletter, please click here. To navigate to the Class Schedule, click on the appropriate month links at the top or bottom of this page.
Peter Ronai
Director of Information Services
1 Click on the appropriate month (September, October, November or December links above or below on this page) to go to that month's schedule.
2 For changes & updates during the semester, please refer periodically to this web site.
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