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Osher Lifelong LearningInstitute at UCSCMarch 2015Volume 30, Issue 4General Meeting, Sunday, March 15th, 10 a.m.Stevenson College Event Center, UCSCSpeaker: Jill Steinberg, Ph.D.Clinical Psychologist, Professor Emeritus, SJSU,Founder of MyRetirementWorks.comWhen thinking about successful retirement, most people and the researchliterature focus on financial planning.Although having enough financial resources is generally necessary, itdoesn't by itself lead to a successfulretirement.in creating a successful retirement. Itwill: ContentsInstead of emphasizing financial preparedness, this presentation deals withthe personal and interpersonal factors identify key factors associated withretirement adjustment & happinessdiscuss how retirement impactsmen and women differentlyexplore issues affecting couplesand some ways to resolve themoffer insights from retirees whohave proven what works.The Presentation is based on a reviewof the scholarly research literature,web-based resources, and Jill's research interviewing and doing focusgroups with over 65 members of OLLIat UCSC.March General Meeting . 12015 Courses . 1–2Call for Nominations . 3Summer Party . 3April Speaker . 3Interest Group News . 4April Speaker . 4Course Registration . 5Board of Directors . 6A publication of Osher LifelongLearning Institute at UCSC (OLLI), aUCSC Friends Group.Published September, November,January, March, and May. OLLI atUCSC is a community of men andwomen from diverse educational,occupational, and geographic backgrounds who are devoted to the pursuit of learning. We enjoy spiriteddiscussion, reading, and exploringnew interests. Money raised from ouractivities is used to fund scholarshipsfor re-entry students at UCSC. Editor:Steve Zaslaw, zaslaw@comcast.net.2015 CoursesOur courses provide opportunities forour members to delve more deeply intofascinating subjects, hear from outstanding teachers, and have fun as well:no exams, no grades, but ample opportunities to participate in discussions.The donation we ask for each course isthe same — 20/person/course. Because the lecturers are not compensated (except for the pleasure of having truly interested and interesting students), your contributions are used forscholarships for re-entry and transferstudents.Whether you send in the registrationform or register for the course on-line,you will be receive an email confirming the registration. Later you will re-ceive a letter from the university acknowledging your donation.Some courses have limited enrollment.If you are registering on line, it’s notpossible to register for a course that’sfull. If you register with a mail-in formand request enrollment in a course thatis full, you will get a phone call oremail to discuss or to explain the situation. No-one will be charged for acourse she or he is unable to enroll in.If your payment is by check, it will bereturned to you.To register for a course, see page 5 ofthis newsletter or go to http://ucscosher.wikispaces.com/classes.(Continued on page 2)

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSCMarch 20142015 Courses(Continued from page 1)Three courses are starting soon:1515. Santa Cruz ShakespeareProf. Michael WarrenThree Thursdays,March 5, 19 & 26MAH, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.1517. History of WritingProf. Gildas HamelTwo Tuesdays, April 14 & 21MAH, 10 a.m. to noon1518. Fantastic FictionsProf. Helene MoglenFour Thursdays, April 2, 9,16, & 23MAH, 2 to 4 p.m.Course Descriptions1515) Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Prof. Michael WarrenProfessor Michael Warren is emeritusprofessor of literature at UCSC andhas been a consultant to ShakespeareS.C. since its inception.We are fortunate to again have Prof.Michael Warren, a very knowledgeable and vastly entertaining Shakespeare scholar presenting a course forus. His Shakespeare courses for OLLIfor the previous five years have beenenthusiastically praised by our members.The two plays that Santa Cruz Shakespeare will be presenting this year arePage 2“Much Ado About Nothing” and“Macbeth.” These plays will be thefocus of Professor Warren’s course.Thursdays, March 5, 19, and 26, from10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Please note: noclass on March 12.). At the Museumof Art and History.Professor Warren requests that students read the first four acts of “MuchAdo About Nothing” before the firstclass.1517) History of Writing.Prof. Gildas HamelProfessor Gildas Hamel was born inBrittany; he taught high school inJerusalem in 1966-68 while attendingcourses at the École Biblique wherehe fell in love with scholarship. Hebecame an instructor in French atUCSC in 1974, got a Ph.D. in Historyof Consciousness in 1983, and continued to teach French as well as classical languages and history.This illustrated course will presentthe extraordinary systems of writingthat appeared several thousand yearsago in Sumer, Egypt, China, and theAmericas. Why did certain societiestend to represent the flow of ideasand objects while others were moredisposed to point to the stream ofsounds? What were they particularlykeen on representing? What were thereligious, economic, and political aspects of writing? How did the notionof Scripture develop together withwriting? We will pursue the parallelstories of these systems and give particular attention to the long history ofalphabetic scripts, from Proto-Canaanite to our modern computerkeyboards.Tuesdays, April 14 and 21, from 10a.m. to noon at the Museum of Artand History.1518) Fantastic Fictions. Prof.Helene MoglenFantastic fictions expose the illusionsof realism through nightmarish representations of middle-class society.Revealing culture’s deep anxietyabout families, sexuality, religion,science, and the self, they enact—through character and narrativeform―their ambivalence about gender, class and racial identities. Textsare Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,Bram Stoker’s Dracula, R.L. Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, andeither Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness or Toni Morrison’s Beloved.Professor Emerta Helene Moglen is aliterary feminist psychoanalytic critic. At UCSC, she was Professor ofLiterature and Dean of Humanities.She has published books in literarystudies and was selected as the firstwoman ever to give the UCSC Emeriti Lecture, At our meeting last May,she gave a very well-received talk,“From Frankenstein to Facebook.”At that time, many of our memberswere hoping she would teach acourse for us.The class is limited to 30 students.Thursdays, April 2, 9,16 and 23, from2 to 4 p.m. at the Museum of Art andHistory.http://ucsc-osher.wikispaces.com

March 2014Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSCCall for NominationsOur organization is run by volunteers. Elections for officers are heldat our May general meeting. TheOLLI Board will offer a slate of candidates for office but invites nominations from members. If you havequestions or wish to nominate some-one for an office, please contactRobert Franson, rfranson@cruzio.com, Florence Orenstein,santacruzflos@aol.com, or DoreeSteinmann, tvdoree@sbcglobal.netSummer Party: Sunday, June 7Enjoy good company, great views,music, dancing, good food and wine,and celebrate Lifelong Learners’ 30thanniversary at our Greeting the Summer party on Sunday, June 7, 2015,from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Seascape GolfClub, 610 Clubhouse Drive, Aptos.Registration information in subsequent newsletter and on home page.Request for Interest-Group PhotographsEnjoy fame and fortune: see yourselfor your friends on the big screen!Have you seen those photos of theInterest Groups up on the screen atour General Meetings? We havemany new groups, and they aren’trepresented. Please send photos ofyour group doing whatever they do(even if it is sitting around talking) toCindy Margolin, crmargol@gotsky.com. Make sure to identifyyour group and what the membersare doing.http://ucsc-osher.wikispaces.comApril 19, 2015General Meeting“A God ThatCould Be Real”Nancy Ellen AbramsBy Nancy Ellen AbramsWe are living at the dawn of a newpicture of the universe. For almostfour centuries people have thoughtthat Earth was an average planet ofan average star in possibly endlessspace scattered with stars. But astronomers have discovered that thispicture is completely wrong: everything visible with our best telescopesout to the most distant galaxies isless than one percent of what’s reallyhappening out there. Our universe ismade almost entirely of “dark matter” and “dark energy” – two invisible, dynamic presences whose 13.8billion year competition with eachother has spun the galaxies into beingand thus created the only possiblehomes for evolution and life. Earth isextraordinary. We are not living inthe universe we thought we were in,so how could this not change the waywe think about God?I’m a philosopher of science, marriedto one of the astrophysicists who created the new picture of the cosmos,Joel Primack. For ten years we cotaught “Cosmology and Culture” atUCSC, we coauthored two books,and we gave lectures around theworld about the new understandingof the universe and how humans fitin. But it seemed everywhere we(Continued on page 4)Page 3