LLL season details available online September 1
All the information you’ve been waiting for is now online at www.lifelonglearningatpc.org. See what lectures and classes are planned, learn about the new Premier Lecture Season Ticket, and make plans for an exciting and educational season.
The printed SCHEDULE will be available at the clubhouses and other locations in mid-September.
Are you ready to register?
Ruth Shaffer
Staggered registration begins at 8:00 a.m. on October 1 for classes only. Registration for trips begins at 8:00 a.m. on October 7 and on October 14 for Premier Lectures.
You need to have a LifeLong Learning account in order to register. Go to www.lifelonglearningatpc.org to create an account if you don’t already have one. If you do have an account, visit the LLL website and make sure that you can sign in with your user name and password. Visit the LLL Center if you need help or if you have questions. You can also contact LLL at [email protected]. The center opens on Monday, September 16 from 9:00 a.m. to noon.
Premier Lecture season tickets
Ruth Shaffer
This season LifeLong Learning is offering a season ticket package for the six Premier Lectures on topics as diverse as cybersecurity and migration around the globe.
One free ticket to a Premier Lecture and two free tickets to any of the 16 Monday Morning Lectures can be yours if you buy the season ticket package – only $75, a savings of $25. You will receive tickets for all six Premier Lectures and the two free Monday Morning Lectures and you will be guaranteed a seat for all of the exciting speakers that are scheduled.
The package will be available online at www.lifelonglearningatpc.org from September 16 to October 12. After those dates, only $15 individual tickets will be available.
The first Premier Lecture will be Friday, November 8 when PebbleCreek resident Steve Chealander speaks about his “Recollections of Ronald Reagan.” Steve carried the “nuclear football” for President Reagan and his stories will enthrall you.
Linda Bolon
Free Monday Morning Lecture kicks off LLL season
Lorna Bray
Beginning in October, the Monday Morning Lecture series will offer specially chosen lectures presented by expert speakers to educate, inspire, rejuvenate, and stimulate!
At 10:00 a.m. Monday, October 21, Linda Bolon, PC resident, will discuss coyote characteristics and types, diet, territory size, reproduction, overpopulation, ecological importance and benefits, normal-versus-aggressive behaviors, attack statistics, and proven hazing/scaring techniques. She lectures throughout Arizona, providing information and dispelling myths. In lieu of the normal $5 admission, LifeLong Learning will give all optional donations made that morning to the PC Pet Companions Club.
At 10:00 a.m. Monday, October 28, an agent from Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) Phoenix field office will provide an overview of the organization, including how it conducts investigations. The presentation will also address HSI’s legal boundaries, as well as the unique challenges of operations in Arizona.
HSI, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), carries out its mission in an increasingly complex world that poses immense technical challenges to America’s security. HSI is the principal investigative component of DHS.
China’s relationship with the United States has been a roller coaster since the 19th century. Professor Emeritus Stephen MacKinnon will be in PebbleCreek at 10:00 a.m., Monday, November 4, to discuss the relationship in more recent decades, beginning with normalization of ties in the 1970s. He will review the evolving relationship between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China, as the two nations established closer cultural, political, and economic links in the 1980s and 1990s.
MacKinnon has studied and taught in China on many occasions since the 1970s and has been a visiting scholar at numerous, prominent institutions throughout the world. He regularly lectures on China issues in the Valley and is a founding member of the Phoenix Committee for Foreign Relations.
For a complete schedule of this season’s lectures, visit www.lifelonglearningatpc.org. All lectures are in the Renaissance Theater and tickets are $5 at the door.
Exciting trips planned – registration begins October 1
Sue Roth
Remember your sense of excitement and anticipation for the first day of school, the beginning of a new sports season, or the first day of a new job? Registration for Trips begins Monday, October 7.
We are bringing back some trips that have been popular and sold out in previous seasons. Two visits to the Arizona Culinary Institute are on the calendar and one visit to Luke AFB. A visit to the ASU School of Earth and Science has always been popular and as 2019 is the 50th Anniversary year of the first manned walk on the moon this is timely.
Remember the trip to the Dwarf Cars Museum and the Shamrock Dairy? We called this trip “Cars and Cows” and it’s also on this season’s schedule. Falcon Field and the Commemorative Air Force Museum as well as the St. Vincent De Paul “LLL Gives Back” trips are being offered again. Due to the tremendous response to the clothing drive that was held as part of the St. Vincent De Paul trip last season, we will again rely on the generosity of our PebbleCreek community.
Trips being offered are a visit to the MIM, a fabulous private charter sunset dinner cruise on Lake Pleasant, and a visit to the College of Medicine and the Simulation Lab at the University of Arizona. Closer to home will be a trip that includes a visit to the new REI Distribution Center and then on to the Goodyear 911 Call Center and Police Department. We also have a tour of the Arizona State Capital and Basha’s Salmeri Gallery scheduled.
Lunch, all entry fees, gratuities, and two knowledgeable LLL escorts are included on each trip as well as a comfortable ride on a climate-controlled motor coach.
For more detailed information about each trip visit www.lifelonglearningatpc.org and read the LLL SCHEDULE you will find at each clubhouse reception desk, Activities Center and other locations. We look forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new participants. See you on the bus!
Widen your global perpective – join Great Decisions
Dave Hungerford
Would you like to understand how U.S. foreign policy is determined? Or have a deeper understanding of critical trends shaping the world?
If so, LifeLong Learning offers Great Decisions discussions in five different sections on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, with classes meeting once a week for eight weeks beginning in January. Each class typically begins with a documentary DVD, followed by discussion based on the video and the readings from the briefing book that accompanies the class which features impartial, thought provoking analysis on eight important issues impacting America today. Each week is a different topic. This is an opportunity to share your opinions and learn from the views of others in a polite, non-partisan discussion forum.
Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA,), Great Decisions has been ongoing since 1954. In 2020, tens of thousands of participants across the country will be participating in America’s largest discussion program on world affairs. At the end of eight weekly sessions from January to March, participants will send their opinions on the topics via an FPA survey to Congress, the White House, and other national agencies.
Although 2020 topics have not yet been released by the FPA, previous issues included: China and America – The New Geopolitical Equation; Turkey – a Partner in Crisis; U.S. Global Engagement and the Military; Global Health – Progress and Challenges; Refugees and Global Migration; and Nuclear Negotiations – Back to the Future?
For compelling conversations in a collegial atmosphere, register on the LLL website, www.lifelonglearningatpc.org, and then click on “Classes,” then “Great Decisions.” More details will be on the website or come to the LLL Center weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to noon beginning September 16. Class registration opens Tuesday, October 1 at 8:00 a.m.
Luke trip lottery opens September 8
Barbara Younker
This year the only trip to Luke Air Force Base – LifeLong Learning’s most popular trip – will be on December 17. To help alleviate the frustration of the seemingly impossible chance to attend this trip, which has consistently sold out within two minutes of registration opening, LLL will hold a lottery drawing on September 26 to fill the 28 places available.
The lottery will be open from September 8 to September 20 and can be entered online only with your LLL account. Go to the LLL website, www.lifelonglearningatpc.org, and click on the link for the Luke Lottery on the first page.
Only one name can be entered per LLL account and payment will not be required unless your name is drawn in the lottery. If you do not have an account, go to the website and click on “Sign up” on the right side of the page to create one. If you need help, go to [email protected] and you will receive a quick response.
You must be a resident or renter of PebbleCreek and not been on a Luke trip before. There will be a drawing of lottery winners at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 26 in the Renaissance Theater. Winners will be announced and need not be present. Names for a waiting list will also be drawn. Winners will be immediately notified by email with instructions for immediate payment and the requirements of Luke AFB for personal identification.