On an ORICL-sponsored trip to Chattanooga during the winter-spring term, Carolyn Krause, left, Richard Wright, Murray Martin, and Pat DeRoos enjoy the trip along the Tennessee River in a catamaran. (Submitted photo)
Would you like to know how to develop an estate plan, protect your life’s savings from investment mistakes, take better photos with a digital camera, and control the growth of kudzu?
If so, you may want to consider becoming a member of the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning, or registering for summer classes and trips if you already are.
The summer semester of ORICL starts June 10 and ends Aug. 9. The early registration deadline is May 15.
ORICL has more than 400 members who take courses in a classroom and auditorium at Roane State Community College’s Oak Ridge campus on Briarcliff Road.
If you like to reflect on the past, you might enjoy courses on memoir writing, the geopolitical history of Boston, or the history of rock and roll, interior decoration, and the Civil War in Knoxville.
You may be interested in learning about President Ulysses S. Grant, America’s worst maritime disaster, and the stories of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
ORICL members also sign up for bus trips and take tours in the state.
Tours this summer are offered to the University of Tennessee’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Culinary Institute and Archaeological Research Laboratory, as well as to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility and the Spallation Neutron Source.
Other trips include going to see “The King and I” at the Cumberland County Playhouse and exploring the Loudon County Appalachian Quilt Trail, the Trail of Tears and historic sites of the French and Indian War and the Civil War.
Members will need a catalog to register for ORICL’s Oct. 14-16 fall retreat, which will be held at Henry Horton State Park. The fee for the retreat must be paid by June 13, and the last date to cancel with a refund is Aug. 15.
Anyone interested in becoming a member of ORICL and receiving a catalog should call Laura Bowles, administrator, at (865) 481-8222. The cost for the summer semester for new members is $25—a one-time offer.
The courses range from one to nine sessions. Each session lasts 70 minutes. The presentations are enlivened by the perceptive questions of ORICL’s inquiring minds and the corresponding answers.
For the summer semester, ORICL offers courses in art and culture, computers, finance, history, language, literature, medicine and health, music, philosophy, religion, science and technology, social science, and economics.
The ORICL office is located in Room F-111, RSCC, 701 Briarcliff Ave. For more information, e-mail the ORICL office at oricl@roanestate.edu or visit the ORICL website at www.roanestate.edu/ORICL.
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