#8 - Sunday, June 9, 1991~ North Shore News

Elder extension program will begin this fall

Eleanor
Godley

THE VINTAGE YEARS

LIVE AND learn, eh?

We've always used that expres-
sion in a wry sort of way, as hav-
ing been diddled by yet another
expert. It held connotations of
gullibility as well as rueful ac-
knowledgement of the genius of
certain slickers.

Well, you can’t fool us now,
boy, we're old hands at slick, we
finally know a hawk from a
hand-saw. Nowadays when we say
“‘live and learn’? we mean exactly
that, as we crowd fibraries and
night-school classes and trips to
the Galapagos and Stonehenge.

We can take it quite literaily,
having at last come to earned
leisure with lively minds still look-
ing for the answers.

That’s why there’s about to be
born an Elder College on these
shores. It :s to be a department,
or an extension, of Capilano Col-
lege. and is expected to be regis-
tering its historic first students by
October of this year.

Multiple meetings have brought
together a great assortment of
people well past the usual age of
college students. They feel strong-
ly that nor learning something is a
sort of death, so they are bending
efforts, wills and spare time to
this creation.

Some of them are already grad-
uates of this or that discipline in
other universities. But that gradu-
ation was years ago, and they've
been busy, working, using the
knowledge of that specialty, liv-
ing, piling life on top of
scholasticism, growing away from
the pure joy of learning for its
own sake.

So now, ripe as we are we’re
not about to fall off the trees of
knowledge. We'll hang on till the
end, hoping at last to have got to
the bottom of it, whatever it is.

The college named Lynn Jest,
program developer in their exten-
sion staff, to dig out people
possibly interested in the idea, and
a series of mectings culminated in
an invitation to the public to at-
lend an inaugural discussion
meeting May IC. If 50 people
turned up it would be considered
a howling success.

One hundred and twenty came.

Surprise number two was that
80 of those people indicated will-

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ingness to get down to the bones
of structuring the dream.

It’s pretty exciting to be in on
the foundation of anything. The
meeting got help and inspiration
from Dr. Fisher of Seattle’s Life-
time Learning Centre about his
own experiences with retreaded
students like ourselves. We were
told there isn't any particular
blueprint, that each community of
grown-up learners works out its
own ways to enrichment.

That's the only prize offered,
there aren't any quizzes or grades
handed out, but he emphasized
the ‘‘psychic income’ that derives
from this kind of coming together
to learn.

For the October beginning, ex-
pect an offering of a few courses,
with roughly !5 people per leader
in each discussion group. The

For the 70th Annual
Ambleside
Par 3 Tournament

The 1991 edition of the popular local tournament is set for
Saturday, July 13. Sponsored by the North Shore News and Park

Royal Shopping Centre, this tournament is open to all golfers,
regardless of club affiliation or membership.

Again this year, there are four divisions: Men, women, seniors

classes will convene in daylight
hours only, from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. to miss the rush hours, on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays.

Classes will last two or three
hours, and it may take two or
three to make up a course, or as
many as six or eight, for weightier
subjects.

You could find yourself learn-
ing about the North Shore's bird
and fauna population, or studying
alternative dispute resolution to
family and other crises. Maybe
you could train as an ESL tutor,
or get involved in our aboriginals’
history and art.

Some intergenerational forums
are possible, and maybe you
would like to know more of the
history and religion and literature
and food that defines your new

and youth (16 years and under), each with plenty of prizes.

Gualifying Fiounds

May be played on any day through Saturday, June 30. Place

your score cards in the tournament box in the clubhouse.

Entry fee ... $5.00 (includes souvenir hat)

Green fee ticket $5.75 (Seniors and youth —
under 18, $3.25 — weekends $5.75)

Finals

Saturday, July 13 weather permitting.

For information

Call Trygg Wynn, Tournament Director, at 921-7353

European or Asian neighbor.

If you can’t decide on a class
tight off, a membership in Elder
College will entitle you to receive
newsletters and announcements so
that you can maintain a presence
within the group until the very
thing you're looking for is of-
fered. There will be a modest fee
for cach course, but it has been
agreed that no one will be denied
access for lack of money.

If you have a hobby or an ex-
pertise or a lifetime of learning
you long to impart to others, by
all means get in touch.

If you want to find out more
about this great undertaking, call
Lynn Jest — 986-1911, local 2700
— or cali me and I may be able to
Steer you: to an answer. Bear in
mind — the project is our own,
we can make it wonderful.

You can win! —

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Gift Certificates, redeemable at
stores in Park Royal, for the top
three finishers in each of the four
divisions.

Trophies for the winners in each
of the four divisions, men, women,
seniors and youth, and for the
winner overall. —

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