Learning in Retirement programs start with national parks out west

The Washington Chapter of Learning in Retirement Inc. opens its fall program of courses with the Skeet Willingham and Virginia King course on "National Parks and Monuments of the Western United States."

The course is specially scheduled on Saturday morning, September 22, from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., deviating from the usual Monday programming. The program will be held in the Mary Willis Library.

The instructors emphasize that it is a tourist study of selected sites along the old Lewis and Clark route west to Idaho. The study will shift south to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and east to New Orleans along the Old Spanish Trail. Guests are welcome.

For October, a one-session course is scheduled for Monday, October 1, from 2 to 4 p.m., also at the Mary Willis Library. "Gentle Pilates (Puh-lah'-teez) for Skeletal and Muscular Health" will be presented by Dr. Kandy Duke of Athens. Her programs and clinics are in high demand and include the techniques for total body health favored by ballerina and other training routines for over the hundred years since their development by Joseph Pilates.

"Shanghai and Sevastopol -- Cultural Backgrounds and Economic Development" is also scheduled for October. Coming on October 15, 22, and 29 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Mary Willis Library, Eugene Allison and Tanya Fair will cover histories and recent changes in a major eastern and western city.

Shanghai is the most rapidly changing city in China and one of the largest cities in the world. Sevastopol, the largest port city on the Black Sea, has been completely rebuilt three times, most recently since World War II. Allison spent seven years with Rockwell International in a joint venture project in Shanghai. Mrs. Fair is a native of Sevastopol.

Anne Myers will complete the fall program course series with "Brief History of Music in Christian Usage." She will trace sacred music history from its development in Europe through current, mostly American, style and character.

"Early ritualized styles," she says, "were changed by the Renaissance to anthems and these were subsequently influenced by gospel, country western and bluegrass."

The course is scheduled for Mondays, November 12 and 19, 2-4 p.m., in the sanctuary of the Church of the Mediator. Mrs. Myers has degrees in both music and nursing.

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