The Learning Institute for Elders LIFE at UCF

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The Learning Institute for EldersLIFE at UCF

• A History of an Extraordinary
• Partnership in Lifelong Learning

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The Official History of LIFE at UCF
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Outline

• The conceptual foundations
• The organizational beginnings and pioneers
• The Open House
• The first classes on campus
• LIFE (across the street from) UCF
• The return to LIFE AT UCF
• The Partnership Agreement
• The Instructors

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Our conceptual parents
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Elderhostel Institute Network

• Institute for Retired Professionals 1962
  affiliated with New School for Social Research
• 1988 30 (of 50) I.L.L.s (Institutes for
  Learning in Retirement) formed a voluntary
  association under the auspices of Elderhostel,
  named Elderhostel Institute Network (EIN)
• Goals of EIN
• Help establish new programs throughout the U.S.
• Provide resources to established institutes
• Develop an all-inclusive organization for I.L.L.s

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3 Communalities among I.L.L.s

• Sponsored by a college/university to ensure
  academic integrity and exposure to the many
  benefits of being on a college campus.
• Encouraging older adults to take ownership of
  their institute by joining as members and paying
  dues to support it.
• Encouraging volunteer member participation in
  their institute and a sense of community among
  the older adult members.

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Broader conceptual issues

• Emphasis on active, productive aging.
• Confronting the negative stereotypes of aging.
• Ability of older adults to learn new things.
• Providing for wisdom sharing
• Providing models of lifelong learning to the
  university community.

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Organizational IssuesTasks for the Steering
Committee

• Who should run the organization?
• Marketing Where and how should we try to
  recruit members?
• Curriculum Who should be our presenters?
• Where can we meet? On campus? Other?
• When should we meet?
• Age and educational requirements?
• How much to charge?

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LIFEs Founders
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Louise Franklin Sheehy
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Dr. Richard Tucker
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Joan Nelson
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First Board of Directors
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LIFEs First President
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Dave and Patty Jenkins
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The First Classes

• Trevor Colbourn, President Emeritus and Professor
  of History Colonial History
• Thaddeus Seymour, President Emeritus, Rollins
  College Selected Poems
• Annette McLain, Prof. of Educ., Live and Learn
  Why we remember how we forget
• Frank Sheehy, Architect Mark Stern, UCF,
  Political Science Barry Allen, Rollins
• The Environment and Us

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Presentations by LIFE members

• Richard OSullivan, Visiting Prof. of Educ.
• Towards the 21st Century
• Hy Meltz Esperanto The International
  Language
• Roy Connally Psychology Control of Behavior
• Dick Tucker Love and Sex After 60

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Luncheon Lectures

• Charles Millican, President Emeritus, FTU/UCF --
  The Unreachable Star Creation of a Great
  University
• (Our first luncheon lecture)
• Tess Wise, Director, Holocaust Memorial Ctr.
• The Holocaust
• Ed Hayes, Orlando Sentinel Columnist, Heydays
  Everydays a Heyday

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Where did we meet?
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First Newsletter May, 1991
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1993-1994
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1995
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Hy Meltz - 1996
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Rosemary DeSamper1997
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1998
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Rosemary DeSamper1999
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2000-2002
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2003-2004
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Chief Engineer
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2005-2006
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2006-2008
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2008-Present
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LIFE (across the street from) UCF
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The Return to LIFE AT UCF
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Some of the important contributors
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A Sampling of Presenters
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The Music Department
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Science
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Popular Presenters
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Original Partnership Agreement Signing