2025 Newsletters

Winter 2025

January 2025: Message from the President; Profile of our Founders: Sylvia Erber; Nominations and Elections; WinterFest Reminder; Pilot Pre-Registration for Spring ’25; Perspectives From My First Fall at LLI; Stargon; Upcoming Hikes; Council Notes; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

February 2025: Message from the President; We Can Build It, but Will They Come?; Spring’s Learning Adventures; Spring Registration Update; LLI’s Upcoming Election; Help Needed on the Visuals Team; The Fairy Tale Experience; Bard Hessel Features A Don’t Miss Exhibit; Funny Bones: Bard LLI 25th Anniversary Top Ten; Council Notes for January 2025; Highlight of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

March 2025: Message from the President; Anne Sunners: From Cookie Lady to LLI President; Meet the 2025 Candidates for Council; Dropping a Class? Here’s How!; LLIcense to Learn; Becoming a Garden Tour Guide at Bard; Council Notes for February 2025; Highlight of the Bard Calendar; Lecture on Recent Egyptian History; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

Spring 2025

April 2025: Message from the President; Joyce Carter-Krawczyk Remembers; You Are Cordially Invited; SummerFest Alert; Reaction to the Priority Preregistration Pilot; 25th Anniversary Gala; Funny Bones: Bard LLI: Do You Love Me? (A Play in 1/16th of an Act); Bocce and Pickleball Return!; Council Notes for March 2025; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

May 2025: Message from the President; Tom Esposito on Creating a Lasting Organization; Bard LLI Election ’25 Results; June Is Membership Month; SummerFest Preview; SummerFest Etiquette; Hessel Museum Tour; Funny Bones: An Airbnb Review … by my Grandson; Spring Wildflower Walk; Having Fun Outdoors; Council Notes for April 2025; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

June 2025: Message from the President; Navigating Change and Finding Silver Linings; Munch and Music Marked Annual Meeting; Celebrating LLI’s First 25 Years; So That’s What a Curator Does!; Having Fun Outdoors; Locavores, Rejoice!; Hear Overlooked Young Bard Composers; In Memoriam: Deborah Schwartz; For Deborah Schwartz 11-02-1950 to 05-14-2025; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

SUMMER 2025

July 2025: Message from the President; Update Your Information – New Nametags Are Coming Soon!; SummerFest 2025 Was a Hit!; 2025 Seniors-to-Seniors Tea; Summer Walk at the Bard Cemetery; Funny Bones: Bard LLI To Issue Its Own Meme Coin; Come Play Bocce; Council Notes; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

August 2025: Message from the President; Parking on Bard’s Campus; Our New First Vice President — Collin Lovas; Anticipating Fall Classes; Bard LLI Celebrates its 25th Anniversary With a Terrific Party!; Say Hello to the Green Dots!; Want to Make a Difference at Bard LLI?; Wow! Moment; LLI Gives Grants to BHSEC Students’ Summer Work; Reflecting on Modern and Contemporary Iraqi Art at the Hessel; In Memoriam: Roy Hochberg and Patricia Loeber; Having Fun Outdoors; Council Notes; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

September 2025: Message from the President; LLI Speaker Series Will Open with Leon Botstein on an Urgent Topic; Parking on Bard’s Campus; Dropping a Class? Here’s How; LLI Contacts for Help and Information 2025; I Need Help!; Help Bard’s Foreign Students and Scholars with Taxes; Montgomery Place Farm Stand. Worth a Visit; Having Fun Outdoors; In Memoriam: Tony Herles; Council Notes; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Important Dates for Members, September 2025.

FALL 2025

October 2025: Message from the President; It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over; Wordsmiths Wanted; You’re Invited to Curriculum; Lesser-Known Perks of LLI Membership; Bard Prison Initiative; Thank You Notes from BHSEC Recipients; LLI Supports the Photography Reading & Looking Group; Funny Bones: And So It Goes: Impressions of a New Bard LLI Member; Sawkill Trail at Montgomery Place; The Bard Hannah Arendt Center Conference Meets the Moment; Having Fun Outdoors; Council Notes; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

November 2025: Message from the President; Launch of LLI Mentoring Program for Bard Students; Bard LLI Distinguished Speaker Series; You’re Invited to Curriculum; Four First Impressions; Fall 2025 Thanksgiving Volunteer Families; Council Notes; Highlights of the Bard Calendar; Upcoming Meetings and Important Dates for Members.

December 2025: