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Lifelong Learning Is Our Journey
WISE … Once a Secret … Now a Gift
By Pat Hurton, Chairman of the Outreach Committee 
Do you drive a car? The Outreach Committee members have designed auto decals for you, our members, as gifts for your active membership in WISE. In addition, we hope that when you put them on the windows of your car, you will increase the visibility of WISE. Imagine how great it will be to see several hundred WISE auto decals in Worcester and suburbs and hopefully have many people asking, “What is WISE?" We plan to distribute WISE decals at our Spring classes. However, if you would like additional decals or do not have one, please contact Pat Hurton at pjhurton@yahoo.com or the WISE office at wise@assumption.edu or 508-767-7513. Thank you for being outstanding WISE ambassadors.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford
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Class Assistants for 2017-18 Session C courses
By Elaine Bloom
A very important group of volunteers are the Class Assistants who keep attendance, pass out evaluation forms, and provide pertinent information to the students in each class. We extend heartfelt gratitude to Bobbi Corn for enlisting and coordinating over fifteen WISE members for this endeavor each session. They are there to help Group Leaders and class members as well.
C 1 Sandra Hakkarainen, for “50 Years since 1968,” at Briarwood
C 2 Kathy Drew, for “Thinking for Oneself,” at the JCC
C 3 Bob Dyer, for “Energy,” in Kennedy 119
C 4 Bob Fancy, for “Films of the 50”s,” in Kennedy 119
C 5 Sandy Congdon, for “Oh, the Places you will go!” in Plourde
C 6 Dianne Stoler, for “FUNdamental Physics,”in Kennedy 119
C 7 Anne McIntosh, for “King Lear & The Tempest,” in Kennedy 119
C 8 Hanna Solska, for “The Guilty and Innocent,” at The Willows
C 9 Sharon Jones, for "Gun Control & 2nd Amendment,” in Kennedy 119
C10 Bobbi Corn, for “Money in Politics,” in Kennedy 119
C11 Rosemary Cronin, for “Wills, Trusts & Asset Protection,” in Plourde
C12 Donna Crocker, for “Favorite Tours at the Worcester Art Museum” at WAM
C13 Carol Fauerbach, for “Italian Renaissance,” in Kennedy 119
C14 Elaine Bloom, for “Victor Herbert,” in Kennedy 119
C15 Doris Tivnan, for “Intro to Birding,” at Audubon Center
C16 Janet Shainheit, for “Connected Inventions,” in Kennedy 119
C17 Roseanne Ferrandino, for “Operas of Smetana,” in Kennedy 119
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 Events of Interest at Assumption
The following events are free of charge. They are sponsored by the programs in Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Women’s Studies, and Community Service Learning. The Assumption community invites attendees to share their thoughts about these events afterwards!
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Monday, February 26, 7pm, Kennedy 112
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Toilet: A Love Story (India, 2017), Part One (81 min) and Part Two (80 min), comedy, directed by Shree Narayan Singh, in English and Hindi.
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Tuesday, February 27, 7pm, Kennedy 112
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Toilet: A Love Story (India, 2017), Part Two only (80 min)
Note: Due to the length of this Bollywood movie, which is designed with an intermission break, it will be shown in two screenings. On the first night, the entire film will be shown. There will be the option to leave at the intermission, at the end of Part One (81 min) or to stay for the entire film (161 min). After a brief introduction recapping the plot of Part One, the second day’s screening will be only of Part Two.
Based on a true story, a progressive young Indian woman threatens to divorce her husband when she discovers his house does not have a toilet. It is filled with songs and fun—a wedding and Holi color festivals—as well as some serious depictions of village councils, government bureaucracy, and non-violent community organizing by women.
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Tuesday, March 13, 7pm, Kennedy 112
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Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock (USA, 2017), documentary, directed by Myron Dewey, James Spione and Josh Fox
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe captured world attention through their peaceful resistance in 2017. Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock, captures the story of Native-led defiance that changed how we fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
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Saturday, March 17, 7:30pm, Curtis Performance Hall in Tsotsis.
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A special concert features New York Metropolitan Opera Tenor Matthew Polenzani. Tickets are $50 each. Proceeds will benefit the purchase of a Steinway concert grand piano for the Curtis Performance Hall.
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Monday, April 9, 7pm, Curtis Performance Hall in Tsotsis
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Gulistan: Land of Roses (Canada, 2016), documentary, directed by Zayne Akyol.
Note: The director will be available for questions at the presentation.
The mission of these female fighters is to defend Kurdish territory in Iraq and Syria, and defeat ISIS, while embodying a revolutionary ideal advocating female empowerment. Offering a window into this largely unknown world, Gulîstan, Land of Roses exposes the hidden face of this war: the feminist face of a revolutionary group united by a common vision of freedom.
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In addition, these two free lectures may be of interest to the WISE members.
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Friday, March 23, 3:00pm, Curtis Performance Hall in Tsotsis.
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Dr. John Klein from the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis will speak on Henri Matisse’s “Rosary Chapel” in Vence, France. The lecture is to address the relationship between art and liturgical space and rites. This will be the Marie-Eugenie Milleret Lecture, sponsored by the Ecumenical Institute and the Department of Art, Music, and Theatre.
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Tuesday, March 27, 7:00pm, Fuller Auditorium in Testa Science Center, Room 006
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Dr. Ronna Burger from Tulane will speak about the “The Fall from Our Ancient Nature: Plato’s Aristophanic Speech on Eros and the Biblical Story of Adam and Eve,” a Rabbi Joseph Klein Lecture.
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Save the Date
WISE members are invited to these special events. Members will receive details from the WISE office as time gets closer to the event. And, don’t forget the WISE Movie Club and Book Club! Coordinators of these clubs also send out notices about upcoming events.
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Brown Bag lunch with Worcester Art Museum Director Emeritus James Welu as presenter
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Worcester Night dinner at Leo’s Ristorante and presentation. Bill Wallace, Executive Director of the Worcester Historical Museum, will speak about the Worcester diner.
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25th Anniversary lecture with Maria Sirois in Curtis Performance Hall at Tsotsis Family Academic Center. She is speaking on leading a resilient and happy life.
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WISE day trip to New Bedford with museums and lunch
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WISE 25th Anniversary Celebration on Assumption College campus at Tsotsis Family Academic Center Ballroom A
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WISE Annual meeting, with guest speaker Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus
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New Member Orientation Pics
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