CONCERT: U.S. COAST GUARD

Tuesday, October 1
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #48249

Cost: Free

Presenters: Members of the USCG Clarinet Quartet

Program Description

We are fortunate to have a return visit from the USCG Clarinet Quartet. The quartet is comprised of members of the clarinet section of the U.S. Coast Guard Band.  They have performed recitals and master classes for audiences around the world. Their musical style includes light classical and jazz.

JUSTICE DENIED: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

Wednesdays, October 2
10:00 a.m.  Zoom
Program #48250

Cost: $3

Presenter: Margie Yamamoto

Our speaker spent more than forty years in the communications and public relations fields including eighteen years at GBH, Boston’s Public Broadcasting Station. Today she is co-president of the New England Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, a national human rights and educational organization.

Program Description 

This illustrated Zoom lecture tells the story of the Japanese incarceration during World War II as seen through the eyes of Margie Yamamoto’s Japanese-American family. The talk will also focus on the plight of the 120,00 Japanese people, two thirds of whom were American citizens, who were imprisoned through a Presidential order, sometimes for years. 

KNOW US BEFORE YOU NEED US: HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE 101

Tuesday, October 8
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #48251

Cost: $3

Presenter: Susan Daniels. MSN, RN

Susan Daniels holds a Master of Science degree in Nursing. In her thirty plus years as a Registered Nurse, Susan has worked in the fields of Oncology, Telemetry, Dementia Special Care, and, for the last fifteen years, Hospice and Palliative Care. She was the recipient of the Florence Wald Award of Excellence in End-of-Life Care from the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home in 2021 and Middlesex Health’s Family Medicine Residency program’s Nurse of the Year in 2023.

Program Description

Our speaker will talk about Hospice and palliative care as options for supporting yourself or a loved one with a serious illness that affects quality of life.

TRIP: BUS TOUR OF HISTORIC HOMES IN WETHERSFIELD, CT

Wednesday, October 9
9:30 a.m. at SGC
Program #48252

Cost: $15

Program Description

Travel to Wethersfield where we will enjoy a docent-led tour by a member of the Wethersfield Historical Society. We will visit two historic properties, the Hurlbut-Dunham House and the Cove Warehouse followed by lunch on your own at Heirloom Restaurant.

GREAT DECISIONS

Thursday, October 10, 17, 24 & 31
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #482553

Cost: $5 (plus an additional $35 if you need the 2024 guidebook)

Facilitator: Shirley Benjamin

Shirley Benjamin has a background in the Performing Arts and has been facilitating Great Decisions discussion groups in Tucson and Guilford for many years.

 Program Description

Great Decisions is a world affairs discussion program produced by the Foreign Policy Association. We will discuss four topics from the 2024 briefing book.

Topics: 10/10, NATO’s Future: 10/17, Understanding Indonesia: 10/24, High Seas Treaty: 10/31, Pandemic Preparedness.

THE HOLOCAUST AS IT UNFOLDED IN ITALY

Tuesday, October 15
10:00 a.m. GCC
Program #48254

Cost: $3

Presenter: Ira Kleinfeld, Ph.D. 

Our speaker earned his BS, MS, and Doctorate in Engineering from Columbia University. He served as professor of Industrial Engineering and was the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, Research and Faculty Development at the University of New Haven. There he initiated UNH’s annual Holocaust Remembrance event and continues to chair its planning committee as Professor Emeritus.

Program Description

The Italian Jewish Community was distinct, its origin traceable over 2000 years as the Arch of Titus in Rome illustrates. The Holocaust had a monumental impact not only on Italian Jewry but on all of Italy as well as the Roman Catholic Church.

TRIP: PEABODY MUSEUM

Wednesday, October 16
9:15 a.m. SGC
Program #48255

Cost: $10

Program Description

Join us as we visit the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum. See your old favorites like the dinosaur exhibits and the dioramas and discover everything new. 

GREAT DECISIONS

Thursday, October 17
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #482553

Same details, time and location as above. See October 10 for details.

GOVERNMENT DEBT AND DEFICITS 2025 AND BEYOND

Tuesday, October 22
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #48256

Cost: $3

Presenter: Professor Ray Lombra, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Penn State University

Ray Lombra served as a senior staff economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is a specialist in monetary economics and macroeconomics with a focus on central bank policy, financial markets, and international finance. Ray is an award-winning teacher, author, and a consultant to the government and numerous financial firms

Program Description

Regardless of election outcomes there are major fiscal challenges that will drive interest rate fluctuations and impact the Federal Reserve.  The presenter will discuss how this could influence financial markets and fiscal policy.

TRIP: FASCIA’S CHOCOLATES

Wednesday, October 23
11:30 a.m. at SGC
Program #48257

Cost: $20

Presenters: Fascia’s Staff of Chocolate Makers

Program Description

Fascia’s is a working chocolate factory with a retail store. See the factory, learn how chocolate is made, and try your hand at your own creation. Bring your own lunch.

GREAT DECISIONS

Thursday, October 24
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #48253

Same details, time and location as above. See October 10 for details.

BOOK DISCUSSION: NORTH WOODS  by DANIEL MASON

DUE TO A FAMILY ILLNESS, OUR FACILITATOR HAS CANCELLED THIS PROGRAM!

Friday, October 25
10:00 a.m. at SML
Program #48258

Cost: $3

Facilitator: Hedda Kopf, Associate Professor Emerita 

Hedda Kopf taught literature and gender studies at Quinnipiac University for more than three decades. She now shares her love of literature with our members as well as with other shoreline programs and libraries.

Program Description

This novel is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of a single house in New England over the course of several centuries.

THE LIVING VILLAGE

Tuesday, October 29
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #48259

Cost: $3

Presenter: Gregory E. Sterling, Dean of the Yale Divinity School

Gregory E. Sterling has served as The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean and Lillian Clause Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School since 2012. He is a leading theological and moral voice for addressing inequality and injustice in society. He has led efforts to create the Living Village for student housing, where he aims to train students to become “apostles of the environment”.

Program Description

We welcome the Dean of the Yale Divinity School to learn how YDS is developing a “Living Village”, an on-campus  regenerative living and learning community – a model for the world! The goal of the Living Village is to inspire and teach our community the ways to live in harmony with each other and with the Earth.

GREAT DECISIONS

Thursday, October 31
10:00 a.m. at GCC
Program #48253

Same details, time and location as above. See October 10 for details.