by Gretchen Lytle
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Each year LLI provides grants to students in Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) to support them during the summer between their junior and senior years of high school when they volunteer to work and learn in specific areas of interest. There was a bumper crop of applicants this year.
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by Felice Gelman
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If you meet our new first vice president, Collin Lovas, in the village of Red Hook or walking in the woods at Clermont, you’ll most likely meet his dog Daffy as well. She is a well-trained eight-year-old rescue dog—as sweet as her picture here suggests.
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by L. Walker
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How do museum exhibits come to life for the viewer? Twenty-seven LLI members got to find out, first hand, in our Interactive Discovery Day at the Hessel Museum on May 21st. As a backdrop, we used the thesis exhibitions of this year’s CCS graduating class,
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by Deborah Lanser
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On the northern edge of Bard’s campus lies a 1.24-acre farm that harvests more than 20,000 pounds of organic produce for the Bard community every year. Some of that produce is sold at their farm stand for reasonable prices. The stand is well worth a visit for anyone who relishes local foods.
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by Felice Gelman
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Our annual LLI membership meeting on May 15 this year began with an enjoyable brunch, organized by our Hospitality Chair Betti Steel, giving our members a chance to socialize and enjoy spring weather before filing into Olin Auditorium to begin the day’s events.
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by Gretchen Lytle
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Serkin Gravestone
Rosenberg Gravestone
Roth Gravestone
Mekas Gravestone
Hecht Gravestone
Arendt and Blücher
Stokas Headstone Inscription…
by Nanci Kryzak, president 2020-2022
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If you read Felice Gelman’s article about former president Tom Esposito in the May newsletter—and I hope you did!—you now have a concise history of Bard LLI’s impressive development in the decade before COVID.
In March 2020, we were days away from starting our usual in-person spring semester,
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by Mary McClellan
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On February 27, Bard LLI conducted a pilot priority preregistration program. On that day, members were permitted to sign on to ProClass and register for one spring semester course. The decision to run this pilot was made after hearing our members’ frustration with the registration process that favored those with better technical skills and faster fingers.
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by Joyce Carter-Krawczyk
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In February of 2015, LLI President Lou Klein needed to retire to deal with personal issues. Council then unanimously elected first vice president Joyce Carter-Krawczyk to fill out his term of office until September 2016. In that time, she accomplished so much. Here is what Joyce remembers.
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by Deborah Lanser
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Get ready to start planning your spring class schedule when the catalog comes out on Wednesday, February 19. Once again, the Curriculum Committee has ensured we will be spoiled for choice. Are you interested in gardening, writing your memoir, learning to play bridge, speaking better,
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