LLI@NCC – Announcements
Visit the LLI website to learn about us and see our current calendar.
Visit the NCC website for more about the college. For the latest college news, click the link to This Week at NCC. Follow the Resources links to the Library and the Wellness/Fitness Center.
For schedules of multi-date LLI and NCC events, see Pages in the right column.
Learning and the aging brain
How to train the aging brain?
From the New York Times, December 29, 2009
An article by Health Editor Barbara Strauch
Excerpt:
“Brains in middle age, which, with increased life spans, now stretches from the 40s to late 60s, also get more easily distracted. Start boiling water for pasta, go answer the doorbell and — whoosh — all thoughts of boiling water disappear. Indeed, aging brains, even in the middle years, fall into what’s called the default mode, during which the mind wanders off and begin daydreaming.
Given all this, the question arises, can an old brain learn, and then remember what it learns? Put another way, is this a brain that should be in school?
As it happens, yes.”
Spring term registration
Fifty courses will be offered for the LLI spring term that begins on March 22. Catalogs will be mailed and on the LLI website on February 18. Here is a notice from the Membership Committee about registration procedures:
Are You Still a Member?
If you registered in the fall, your membership is in effect until June 1, so please do not pay duplicate membership dues in the winter or spring. If you are a former member and did not renew your membership in the fall, you must do so before taking any spring courses. This renewed membership is in then effect until June 1. It does not carry over into the following fall. In case of doubt, look at the mailing label on your catalog. It contains a statement of your current membership status.
First Come / First Served
We enter enrollments in the order received. To assist members, there will be three walk-in registration sessions in the West Campus main lobby.
Monday, February 22, 10 am – 12 noon
Tuesday, February 23, 10 am – 12 noon
Wednesday, February 24, 12 noon – 2 pm
While we are accepting walk-in registrations, we are also receiving registration forms by mail.
Although we would like to be able to assure you at walk-in registration that a class remains open, we cannot be certain. We may have received mail-in forms which fill the class.
Closed Classes
A class must be closed when the number of students equals the maximum enrollment set for that class. We will adjust for errors or for issues of fairness, for example, two enrollments received simultaneously. If a Facilitator wishes to have more students in a closed class, the Facilitator must increase the maximum enrollment number, after giving consideration to space and other issues.
Refunds
A refund for a class enrollments can be given only if you cannot and do not attend any sessions of your class. If you attend but do not wish to continue, you may transfer to any open class without an additional charge.
Guest Policy
A member – or a non-member guest of a member – may attend one class one time during each term. We do review attendance records and contact those who are over-using this privilege.
Call for Board of Directors nominations
LLI is run by a Board of Directors that has the important, busy but satisfying job of running LLI smoothly and efficiently for their elected term of one or two years, according to their appointment. Any member may propose his/her own candidacy or nominate others. A Nominating Committee begins its work in January of each year. Nominations must be received by February 15. Voting is done by mail ballot, and the results are reported at the Annual Meeting.
The Nominating Committee, headed by Charles P. Lamb, is already hard at work to assure LLI a fully staffed Board of Directors to swing into action in June of 2010. This year there are four openings. Please help by submitting your potential candidate’s name to Charles by phone (203-226-1614) or email c1614b@aol.com. The committee will interview the proposed candidates and present the slate to the Board and subsequently to the membership for election.
February 6: Lumina String Quartet in concert
On Saturday, February 6, at 2:00 pm in the NCC Theater, the Lumina String Quartet will perform quartets by Haydn and Mozart.
LLI members only are invited to attend as guests of Lynn Boyar, NCC Director of Special Programming.
If you would like to be there, give Lynn your name and address, and number of tickets.
Her phone: 203 857-7054. Email: LBoyar@ncc.commnet.edu
