Summer Day Trips
Click on the topic for details and to register
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Fall Catalog:
How do you want to receive yours?
Our fall catalog is currently in the layout and proofreading phase, and will head to the printer soon.
On June 30, we emailed all active contacts in our current registration system letting you know what we have on file as your current catalog preference. Please do not respond unless you want to make a change. Sorting through hundreds of emails that just say "thanks" really slows us down. :)
Here are the options:
- Mail my catalog to my primary address.
- I'll pick up my catalog at the OLLI office (we'll notify you when it's ready, around Aug. 1)
- I don't want a paper catalog; I'll view it online (we'll send you a link when it's ready)
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Registration System Change
UAF-OLLI is migrating to a new online registration vendor with the goal of ending the extreme computer slow-downs and other problems we have with our current system. We will go live with the new site in mid-August for our fall 2022 registration.
The new system will allow us to return to a lottery to assign high-demand courses. If demand exceeds the number of seats for a course, the computer will assign those seats by lottery based on your priority rankings. For example: Suppose enrollment in the course is limited to 12. If 15 people list that course as their first choice, only those 15 people will be put into the lottery for the 12 available seats. If only 10 people list it as their first choice, all 10 would automatically get in and a lottery for the two remaining seats would be run from those who listed that course as their 2nd choice.
As usual, OLLI staff and/or volunteers will enter registration requests for members who cannot or prefer not to use the computer to register themselves.
REGISTRATION TIMELINE:
Aug. 15 - 22: Submit registration requests (either online or to OLLI staff)
Aug. 23 & 24: Lotteries run (registration paused)
Aug. 25 onward: Immediate enrollment available for all unfilled seats
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Annual Meeting & Picnic Lunch
for current UAF-OLLI members
Thursday August 11
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Pioneer Park, Wilderness Pavilion
We'll have a brief business meeting to vote on Advisory Board members, plus enjoy a picnic lunch together. Food is provided by OLLI.
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Host Alabama OLLI Visitors for Dinner in Your Home
and raise money for our OLLI!
SUNDAY August 14*
(*note date has changed by one day)
A group from OLLI at University of Alabama - Huntsville will be visiting Alaska this summer. We need UAF-OLLI volunteers to host 2 - 4 visitors each in your homes for dinner the evening of Sunday August 14. Hosts will need to pick the visitors up at their hotel in Fairbanks and return them to the hotel after dinner.
We've done this in the past and it's been a win-win. Visitors love the chance to meet "real" Alaskans, see our homes, and share conversation and a meal. (Alaskan foods like salmon, moose, wild berries and garden vegetables are appreciated, but not required. The meal doesn't have to be fancy.) As a thank-you, the Huntsville OLLI group will make a donation to UAF-OLLI, so our volunteer hosts are also helping raise money for our OLLI.
Contact the OLLI office to volunteer.
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More Volunteer Opportunities to Publicize OLLI
Golden Days Parade
Sat. July 23, 9:30 am - noon-ish
Please let the OLLI office know you plan to participate and ALSO fill out the UAF sign-up form.
The route is 2.1 miles.
Tanana Valley Fair Senior Day
Wed. Aug. 3
We need volunteers to hand out flyers to people waiting in line for the free Senior lunch and talk to them about OLLI.
Contact the OLLI office to volunteer.
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Guys/Gals Read Presentation
Oct. 10, 12:15 - 1:30
FREE; membership not required
Guys Read Gals Read needs your help! Interest in reading wanes at the 4th grade so GRGR brings adult readers into the 4th grade lunch time to read a graphic novel excerpt to provide a role model and encouragement. It’s a ~20min lunch time commitment. Reading via a zoom recording is also an option. All it takes is a willingness to read and a few minutes at lunch. The presentation on Oct. 10 will discuss more but interested folks could get lined up for school’s start now! Contact Bud Kuenzli at 907-590-1472 for more information. https://guysgalsread.org/
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Lifelong Learning Book Club
The Lifelong Learning Book Club is jointly sponsored by OLLI and the FNSB Public Library. They have recently finalized their 2022-23 Book list for their meetings, and you can find the list HERE.
Starting in September 2022, meetings will change to the fourth Wednesday of each month, still 1:30 - 3:00 pm, in person at Noel Wien Library. ____________________________
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Got Grandkids?
Check out these programs
from UAF Summer Sessions
(907) 474-7021
summer@alaska.edu
Kids' Camps:
Camps on topics ranging from Alaska Native Arts to Water Park Physics; many haven't started yet.
Click here for more information
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Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday events take place at the BP Design Theater, located in the ELIF building on UAF Campus, located at 1764 Tanana Loop
All lectures will be recorded and posted to the web following the live presentation.
Mondays: "Fairbanks Tall Timbers"
Interviews with Robert Hannon, honoring those who have served the Fairbanks community well.
July 11: Bishop McCormick
July 18: Matt Atkinson
July 25: Shirley Gordon
Aug. 1: June Rogers
Aug. 8: Mary Nordale
Tuesdays: Healthy Living
July 12: "The Evolution of Diagnostic Imaging in Fairbanks and What's Around the Corner"
Dr Kier Fowler, MD and Dr Jordan Ross, MD, Diagnostic Radiologists
July 19: "Responding to a Pandemic: What They Never Taught in Medical School"
Dr Kathleen Carey, DO, Family Medicine
July 26: "The Aging Eye: Common Disorders and Treatments"
Dr Stan Fuller, MD, Opthomologist
Aug 2: "Alaska’s Health Scorecard: Moving Towards a Healthier Alaska"
Anne Zink, MD, Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer
Aug 9: "Resuming Normal Activity after a Heart Scare"
Ivy Hollinrake, RN, Nurse Manager
Aug 16: "Aging in Place in Fairbanks"
Beth Grey, Project Manager
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Wednesdays: Discover Alaska
July 13: "Flying to the Future: Drones in Alaska"
Cathy Cahill, Director for the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI)
July 20: "UAF Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (Center ICE): Supporting Innovative Researchers and the Statewide Entrepreneurial Ecosystem"
Peter Webley, Associate Director of Research
July 27: "The Air We Breathe: Indoor Air Quality in Alaska"
Bill Simpson, Professor of Biochemistry
Aug 3: "Ranked Choice Voting: Will it Work for Alaska?"
Dermot Cole, Journalist, Historian, Fairbanks Treasure
Aug 10: "From Nanook to Atanarjuat: The Evolution of Recording Culture in the North"
Lenny Kamerling, Professor and Curator of Film Emeritus at the UA Museum of the North
Aug 17: "Portraits"
JR Ancheta, Geophysical Institute, Chief Storyteller
Thursdays: Music In The Garden
Outdoors at the Georgeson Botanical Garden (may be rescheduled to an indoor venue if smoke is heavy; call Summer Sessions at 474-7021 for info.)
Enjoy the "welcome band" 5:30 - 6:30 as you get settled in. The main attraction begins at 7:00 pm.
Accessibility: For more information, or to make an accommodation request at least five days in advance of the event, please contact the UA HR Accessibility Team at ua-ada-accessibility@alaska. edu or by phone at (907) 450-8200.
July 7: Red Hackle Pipe Band
July 14: Serevende
July 21: Emily Anderson
July 28: Dry Cabin String Band
Aug. 4: Fairbanks Community Jazz Band
Aug. 11: The ET Barnette String Band
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