Annual Meeting 3

SHAKESPEARE TRIP

GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE

TWELFTH NIGHT

 WEDNESDAY JULY 10, 2013

Trip Hosts:   Char and Bill Carlson

Jointly Sponsored by NORTHFIELD SENIOR CENTER & CVEC

9:45  Depart from Northfield Senior Center

12:00  Arrive Winona State University for Light Lunch provided by Trip Ticket

and relax before performance

1:00  . . . → Read More: Shakespeare!]]>  

9:45  Depart from Northfield Senior Center

Choice 1.  Pork Entree        
Choice 2.  Chicken Entree

Choice 3.  Vegetarian Pasta Entree

 5:45 Depart for Northfield

Total Cost of Trip is $85. per person

Register for the trip at the Senior Center Desk including a check or credit card for $85 to hold your place.  Indicate your dinner choice and any special seating needs such as movement or hearing restrictions.              

Malvolio courts a bemused Olivia, in an engraving by R. Staines  (Wikipedia)

From the spiral of a fern frond or the roundness of an acorn, to the pattern of cells under a microscope or a line that defines the horizon, . . . → Read More: A Workshop in Ceramics]]> Ceramics Workshop at the Northfield Arts Guild
“Nature’s Design”
Instructor:  Juliane Shibata (Visiting Assistant Professor at Carleton
2011-2013 and former Gallery Coordinator at the Northfield Arts Guild)

From the spiral of a fern frond or the roundness of an acorn, to the
pattern of cells under a microscope or a line that defines the horizon,
nature is bountiful in the visual material if offers us.  Participants
in this handbuilding class will examine the natural world for subtleties
of shape, design, texture and color to enhance slab, pinch, or coiled
pieces.  This course is open to those at the beginning and intermediate
levels.

When:  Tuesdays 6:30-9pm
Dates: April 23 & 30, May 7 & 14
Fee:   $130 non-members ($117 Arts Guild Members) + $30 materials fee

Register by calling the Guild 645-8877 (or online at
northfieldartsguild.org).

Please email Juliane at js@julianeshibata.com with any specific
questions about the workshop.

Please save this date,  Sunday,  May 5

Attention CVEC Members!

We are approaching the end of another CVEC academic year with much to celebrate. We hope you’ve been able to sample a few of the diverse courses available this past year. We encourage you to join us for a celebration . . . → Read More: Save This Date!]]> Annual Meeting of CVEC Members

Please save this date,  Sunday,  May 5

Attention CVEC Members!

We are approaching the end of another CVEC academic year with much to celebrate. We hope you’ve been able to sample a few of the diverse courses available this past year. We encourage you to join us for a celebration at our Annual Membership Meeting.

Please mark your calendars to join us on Sunday, May 5, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, from 2-3:30 PM.   In addition to a wonderful selection of homemade pies, we will briefly attend to the organizational requirements of electing new board members, recognizing retiring members of our board, 5 and 10 year instructors, and a report of our finances.

We urge you to join us as we recognize three special staff members who are retiring this year. Ed Lufkin, Jim McDonnell and Dave Halsor are passing their job descriptions and notebooks on to new staff members. Each of them will offer personal reflections from their roles and introduce their successors.    As always, a centerpiece will be the presentation of our courses and faculty for next fall, all accompanied by our memorable desserts and coffee.

Please join us to celebrate the successes of the past three years and personally welcome our new staff members. The afternoon promises another pleasant gathering of the CVEC members.

Hope to see you there!

ReJean Schulte, CVEC Board Chair

Conversations that Matter

Co-sponsored by the CVEC, the Northfield Senior Center is presenting a series intended to help people think about, and plan for, their own death.   This is a topic many would rather avoid until a health crisis forces decisions to be made.   Attending this series will help individuals identify what is . . . → Read More: A Series of Interest to Seniors]]>  

Conversations that Matter

Co-sponsored by the CVEC, the Northfield Senior Center is presenting a series intended to help people think about, and plan for, their own death.   This is a topic many would rather avoid until a health crisis forces decisions to be made.   Attending this series will help individuals identify what is important to them, what their resources are, and how to effectively communicate their end-of-life wishes.   The series may also be helpful to spouses or adult children as they anticipate the death of a family member.   The hope for the whole series is that it will engage people in significant conversation with each other, and eventually with their loved ones.  In addition we will be offering concrete tools, eg. on writing of wills, advance-care directives, etc.

There will be four sessions, all on Wednesdays, 10 – 11:30am, each with a different focus:

March 6, Introduction; Definitions of death (ethical, legal, spiritual, financial considerations)

March 20, Changes in the Medical Field; Options for hospice and palliative care

April 3, Spirituality and Family Concerns

April 17, Resources (who to talk to; health care directives; wills; finances)

Each of the four sessions will include one of the video programs developed by Bill Moyers for PBS (we’ve borrowed its title, “Conversations That Matter”), with guided discussion following the videos.   Local experts who work in related fields will participate as presenters and panelists.  Experts include: Karen Gervais, visiting St. Olaf professor of Philosophy specializing in ethics;  Mary Carlson, nurse practitioner specializing in family practice; Susan Lohmann, Director of Social Services, Northfield Hospital & Clinics;  Kathy Blomquist, Director of Home Care & Hospice, Northfield Hospital & Clinics;  Catherine Kelley, Hospice Social Worker, Northfield Hospital & Clinics; Mary Carlsen, St. Olaf professor of Social Work; Jackie Dorsey, lawyer, Hvistendahl, Moersch, Dorsey & Hahn, P.A.; and Judd Lohmann, Senior investment manager, Carlson Capital Management.

There is a $20 fee for the series, and registration is required.  Register through the Senior Center, 507-664-3700, or on-line, www.northfieldseniorcenter.org (through the “Sign-Ups+” button).

Perry Mason’s Class has been cancelled. 

All other classes have started

 Registration Form Spring 2013 Click on this link for a downloadable copy of the form.

Spring  2013 Class Schedule  Use this link to view current registrations.

If you do,  then we’re sure you’d like our current class in particle physics, being taught at the Senior Center by Rich Noer, an emeritus physics teacher at Carleton.    The photos below show him in action, discussing a slide (1).    Then he explained how one can study the structure of atoms by analyzing . . . → Read More: Do You Like Physics?]]>  

If you do,  then we’re sure you’d like our current class in particle physics, being taught at the Senior Center by Rich Noer, an emeritus physics teacher at Carleton.    The photos below show him in action, discussing a slide (1).    Then he explained how one can study the structure of atoms by analyzing their spectral lines, which display the frequencies of light emitted by heated elements.   We see a glowing mercury vapor lamp (2).   Then students are shown viewing, through a prism, the light given off by that mercury vapor .   (3) They see a rainbow pattern from stray room lights,  also a pattern of vertical colors at the bottom right (4).    These vertical colors are different for each known element,  and enable scientists to know what makes up our sun and stars.

We’ll finally discuss the Higgs boson, now receiving a great deal of attention.     Ed

Perhaps the credit for this should go to . . . → Read More: Records Are Made to be Broken]]> Yes, it’s true;   records don’t always last long.     Therefore no tears were shed when we realized that CVEC set another record for registrations in the current winter term, 227.     This eclipses all previous registrations, for any term,  since our founding in 1997.

Perhaps the credit for this should go to the fine performance of our Curriculum committee.    We certainly have an impressive roster of classes and teachers for this term.     Perhaps it’s because word-of-mouth is still the best form of publicity,  and attendance keeps improving over the years.    Whatever the reasons,  we’re grateful, and we’ll not rest on our oars.     Plenty of work for our board remains to be done.

Here is a picture of one of our most popular classes,  the cinema class taught by Eric Nelson at the Nygaard theater, which totals 60 students.  What people seem to like about this class is the guarantee of new material, the chance to discuss each movie with like-minded friends and an expert such as Eric,  and the comfortable surroundings.   TV just doesn’t quite compete!                       Ed

Newsletter November 2012