I feel fortunate living here and being able to participate in the offerings this community offers. The Osher Life-Long Learning Institute located here as the second location in North Dakota after first being established in Grand Forks. It exists in many of the states - how many I don't know - and provides non-credit classes to seniors which are limited in subject matter only by the imagination of those who suggest them.
The winter session just started up again where I found three offerings to attend: The History of Rock and Roll; Myths, Fables, and Legends; and The Military in the Dakota Frontier. After attending each of them one time now, I am still excited about going.
A retired University of Mary music educator conducts the rock and roll session. Also, he now works full time for the public broadcasting system as a disc jockey playing classical music. He likes rock and roll, however, and almost blasted us out of our seats with some high-volume recordings to illustrate his points. He brought in a guest musician to demonstrate a few electric guitars.
A retired public school English teacher offers the Myths, Fables,and Legends class. She has developed a personal interest in material of this type and presented us with a highly organized session. It will be a good one, too.
An active Captain in the North Dakota National Guard teaches the military frontier class. I am especially interested in this one, and told him of the research I am doing to support story writing. After the class another fellow who is an active amateur historian and I hung back to talk to him. We told him the members of the class were a pretty well-educated bunch. One man is a retired district judge, another is a retired UND history professor, and "that lady sitting over here on this side," a sitting supreme court justice. After being apprised of all this, he remarked, "Oh, God, I think I'll just stay home." The class holds high promise.
The winter session just started up again where I found three offerings to attend: The History of Rock and Roll; Myths, Fables, and Legends; and The Military in the Dakota Frontier. After attending each of them one time now, I am still excited about going.
A retired University of Mary music educator conducts the rock and roll session. Also, he now works full time for the public broadcasting system as a disc jockey playing classical music. He likes rock and roll, however, and almost blasted us out of our seats with some high-volume recordings to illustrate his points. He brought in a guest musician to demonstrate a few electric guitars.
A retired public school English teacher offers the Myths, Fables,and Legends class. She has developed a personal interest in material of this type and presented us with a highly organized session. It will be a good one, too.
An active Captain in the North Dakota National Guard teaches the military frontier class. I am especially interested in this one, and told him of the research I am doing to support story writing. After the class another fellow who is an active amateur historian and I hung back to talk to him. We told him the members of the class were a pretty well-educated bunch. One man is a retired district judge, another is a retired UND history professor, and "that lady sitting over here on this side," a sitting supreme court justice. After being apprised of all this, he remarked, "Oh, God, I think I'll just stay home." The class holds high promise.
