by Susan Phillips
Introduction
The 2025 Stuart Levine Seniors-to Seniors Scholarship Presentations
A modest crowd of Bard LLI members, Bard faculty, and students gathered in the early evening on May 9th in the Reem-Kayden Auditorium to hear presentations from the six seniors who received a scholarship to help with expenses to support their senior projects.
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by Gretchen Lytle
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It’s midsummer on the Bard campus and a good time for a shady walk. How about a return visit to the Bard cemetery for some peaceful time under the trees there. Walk north on the Main Campus up the pathway that runs between the Stevenson Library and the President’s House.
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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 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 Alan Katz
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I may only be 17 months old, but wherever I hang my bib is my home, and I get around. That being said, I can be somewhat exacting about my accommodations, and if my every id-driven whim is not immediately satisfied, well, I can get a bit histrionic.
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by Deborah Lanser
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Mark your calendar for the arrival of the SummerFest catalog on May 21. As always, the Curriculum Committee is providing us with a broad feast of options. Art lovers may rejoice in the opportunity to visit local artists and revisit the masterworks of John Singer Sargent.
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by Gretchen Lytle
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Some winters feel longer than others. The cold days just don’t let up. Apparently, this may have been the case this year on the Bard campus. The first bulbs to flower, like the white snowdrops and the sharp yellow aconite, and the early-budding shrubs like witch hazel,
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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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