Course facilitators have always been a cornerstone of the LETS and OLLI program, and the planning committee wished to recognize the value they bring to the program. OLLI member Sharon Carey volunteered to ask some of our long-term facilitators to give lectures on various topics throughout our anniversary year. The first lecture was on October Read More…
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Dinner with the Directors
June 21, 2019. One of our earlier events was the Dinner with the Directors at the lovely waterfront home of OLLI members Steve Vorenberg and Kerry Marshall. We had space for 24 dinners so we had a lottery to raise money for the Friends of OLLI fund. This unique fundraiser allowed the founding director and Read More…
Anniversary Kick-off Event
On June 23, 2019, exactly 20 years from the first LETS Open House, we held our big Anniversary Kick-off event. The cocktail hour, with plentiful and tasty appetizers, was in the lovely Campus Center lobby. At noon we moved upstairs to the ballroom, which was beautifully decorated in blue and white. At each seat was the LETS Read More…
Mosaic 2020
20th Anniversary Reflection. OLLI’s Writing Special Interest Group went to work in the spring of 2019 to create a publication of members’ poems, essays, and stories. Written works were solicited, edited, and published in Mosaic 2020, which debuted at the January 2020 Facilitators’ Luncheon. OLLI member and editor Hugh Stringer wrote the following reflection on Read More…
OLLI Timeline
20th Anniversary Reflections. One of the first tasks that needed to be accomplished was chronicling OLLI’s rich history. It was important to have legacy members from our early years, when we were called LETS (Life Enrichment Transition Studies), be a part of this undertaking. A group was created that met at the Braintree Library from Read More…
LETS Talk About OLLI Panel
20th Anniversary Reflections. June 10, 2019 – The “LETS Talk About OLLI Panel” started with a 10 a.m. coffee hour with donated cakes, cookies, and fruit in the Beacon Café in University Hall. At 11 a.m., we moved to the nearby auditorium for the panel discussion monitored by Sharon Carey. Our panelists were all legacy Read More…