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Anticipating Fall Classes

by Deborah Lanser
Introduction

Mark your calendar for August 19, when the fall course catalog will be released. That will give you a week to select your courses before preregistration on August 27 and registration on August 28. Zoom classes begin on September 4, and in-person classes start on September 5.

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LLI Gives Grants to BHSEC Students’ 2025 Summer Work

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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Introducing Collin Lovas, Our New First Vice President

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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2025 Seniors-to-Seniors Tea

by Susan Phillips
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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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Summer Walk at the Bard Cemetery

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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So That’s What a Curator Does!

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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Locavores, Rejoice!

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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Munch and Music Marked Annual Meeting

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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Navigating Change and Finding Silver Linings

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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Funny Bones: An Airbnb Review … by my Grandson

by Alan Katz
Introduction

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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