Bill Pence, M.A. biology, aquanaut, U.S. Hydrolab, NOAA, research scientist

Tuesday, August 17, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Free for OLLI members and Lake Park residents/ $5 for non-members

Did you know that the United States has an "Undersea Research Program" where Aquanauts spend one week living sixty feet down in an undersea habitat next to a coral reef? Well, it does. So, what are our tax dollars up to? Let Mr. Pence, one of those who spent a week sixty feet under, tell you all about it. He will fill us in on the good, the bad, and the ugly of living "under the sea." Come take the plunge.

Tuesday, September 14, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.* (*please note lecture time difference)

Free for OLLI members and Lake Park residents / $5 for non-members

San Francisco born Lincoln Beachey became a household name in the early years of the twentieth century. Orville Wright labeled him ‘the flying fool.’ Beachey used the sky as his canvas and created a new art form – aerial aerobatics. Join OLLI for a rediscovery of a man once fêted and recognized as a national hero. Congress even proposed ‘Lincoln Beachey Day’ as a national holiday. Let Mr. Marrero show you how a reputation can soar and then descend.

Robin Williams, M.A. Shakespearean authorship, author, Sweet Swan of Avon

Tuesday, October 19, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Free for OLLI members and Lake Park residents/ $5 for non-members

For many, talking about the authorship of Shakespeare's works is like talking about religion or politics: positions are fixed, minds closed. Ms. Williams asks some provocative questions. Are there legitimate reasons for speculating about who wrote the great works? Is it possible that a woman, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, is the true author? Join Ms. Williams in a search for answers and hear her views on how one might separate fact from fiction about the Bard of Avon.

Birgit Urmson, M.A., lecturer art history, UCB

Tuesday, November 16, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Free for OLLI members and Lake Park residents / $5 for non-members

A sensation ensued in Rome when a larger-than-life marble copy of the work known today as the Laocoon was discovered in 1506. A grateful Pope Julius II granted lifetime pensions to the discoverers, who had donated it to the Vatican. But the story of this remarkable work goes back a thousand years to the original Greek sculptors, Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus, and back farther still to legends of the Trojan War. Let Ms. Urmson unfold for you the story of how myth and artistic inspiration combined to produce a work whose pathos and beauty still touch our hearts.