Course Catalog | Fall 2014

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Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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Please join us at our Fall Reception, and bring a friend. Here’s your chance to meet other Wonderlust members, the Board and

our volunteers who make Wonderlust possible.

Our faculty will be available to talk with you about upcoming courses and side trips. Refreshments and musical entertainment will be provided. You (or your friend!) can join Wonderlust or renew your membership, register for courses and sign up if you

would like to become a volunteer.

— All are welcome! —

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WONDERLUSTJourneys for the Mind

Wonderlust is about expanding knowledge. We are a member-run organization dedicated to bringing stimulating courses to those who want to continue learning throughout their lives.

We offer non-credit classes, book clubs, writing workshops and a variety of other activities for the intellectually curious who want to study and learn in a socially dynamic setting. There are no “requirements”. No grades. No papers. Simply learning more about topics of interest to you.

Benefits of MembershipMembership is $35 per person annu-

ally and includes: •Reduced tuition for full length

courses • Free Side Trip short courses (mem-

bers are encouraged to bring one guest to one Side Trip)

• Friday Forums • Invitations to Wonderlust social

events

Wonderlust OfferingsWe offer two types of courses. Full length courses meet for two hours every week for typically 4-6 weeks. Side Trip short courses meet only once and may be anything from a lecture to an all-day field trip. During each semester, we also offer a variety of other learning opportunities such as writing workshops, opera club, and book discussion groups.

Our courses are usually lecture format but with plenty of time for questions and discussion. Book groups and writing workshops have a leader but are primarily member interactive discussions.

If you cancel before a course starts, you may apply the tuition fee as a credit toward a future course. If you want a refund, there is a $25 processing fee. There will be no refunds / credits after the course begins. Social security numbers are required in order to process refunds by check.

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Wonderlust Board Members 2014-2015

Eva Patten ................................................................................................ President

Gerry Wheeler ............................................................................... Vice President

Stephen Guggenheim .............................................................................Secretary

Roger Breeding ....................................................................................... Treasurer

Richard Young ........................................................... Immediate Past President

Sally Maison .............................................. .Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee

Kathryn Earley .......................................... Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee

Lane Harris .............................................................Chair, Side Trip Committee

Linda Clark ....................................................Chair, New Ventures Committee

Doug Young ................................................... Chair, Friday Forum Committee

Cathy Conover ................................................... Chair, Reception Committee

Gena Funk ................................................................................................ Member

Chris O’Connor .......................................................................................Member

Marilyn Jarvis ........................................................... MSU Extended University

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WONDERLUSTJourneys for the Mind

Courses■ Still Not Over: The First

World War and a Century of Consequences

■ The Role of Dance in Western Culture

■ Asian Music: India, China and Indonesia

■ World Religions■ Cultures of Hate: The Sites and

Sounds of Europe’s Radical Right■ Sun Power! The Past, Present and

Future of Solar Energy■ Health and Wealth Around the

World■ Shakespeare’s Feisty Females

Special Workshops & Events ■ The Friday Forum■ Memoir Writing ■ Opera Club■ Book Discussion Group:

International Mystery Series■ Book Series

Side Trips■ Great Falls Army Air Force Base

in World War II■ Genomics: The Information Age

of Biology■ Lasers and Their Applications■ Museums and Native American

Studies■ Columbus, the Sun, and Darkness

at Sea■ Wilderness...The Act, the

Progress and the Promise

CATALOG CONTENTSCalendar .....................................p. 4Courses.............................. pp. 5-10Friday Forum ......................... p. 10Side Trips ........................pp. 11-14Memoir Writing ..................... p. 15Opera Club ............................. p. 16Mystery Book Discussion .... p. 17Book Series ............................. p. 18Registration ....................pp. 19-20Locations map .............back cover

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Still Not Over: The First World War and a Century of Consequences• Instructor: Dale Martin• Dates: Tuesdays, Sept. 16 to Oct. 21  • Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.• Location: Aspen Pointe• Max Enrollment: 45

We will begin with details of several crucial episodes of World War I, such as the Dardanelles-Gallipoli campaigns of 1915 and the naval blockades in the North Atlantic. Post-war consequences, including contemporary issues, will comprise most of the course. The half decade after 1918 featured continuing con-flict in Ireland, Russia, Turkey, and elsewhere, as well as diplomacy that resulted in new nations and borders. The long-term consequences include fascism, the U.S.S.R., the post-Otto-man Middle East, the Second World

War, and deep damage to optimism for human progress.

Although it is intended as a sequel to the Spring 2014 course on World War I, an overview of the war years 1914-1918, first-time students are welcome, because we will begin each specific topic with a brief refresher of relevant background material. Class Format: Lecture and discussionReadings: (highly recommended but not

required) Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMil-lan (Random House, 2001, 2003).

Dale Martin teaches history at MSU-Bozeman, with special interest in the First World War and its consequences.  He believes the centennial of the war years offers opportunities to study the conflict as arguably the most influential episode of the 20th Century for the world centered on Europe and the Atlantic.

The Role of Dance in Western Culture• Instructor: Amy Stoddart• Dates: Wednesdays, Sept. 17 to Oct. 15• Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.• Location: Hope Lutheran Church

This class offers an introduction to dance as an art form, including the study of the historical, cultural, social and performative contexts of diverse dance forms. Students will develop an appreciation of dance as a form of

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communication and personal ex-pression and understand how dance reflects and comments upon contem-porary society.Class Format: Lecture, discussion and film

reviewingReadings: If interested: No Fixed Points

by Nancy Reynolds, What is Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism by Roger Copeland.

Amy Stoddart is the Co-Artistic Director of Montana Ballet Co. and owner of Bridger Pilates. Ms. Stoddart has danced professionally and holds a B.A. from Mercyhurst College and an M.F.A from the University of Colorado. Ms. Stoddart serves as a professor of dance as the University of Oregon from 1998-2008 and has presented and published her scholarly research.

Asian Music: India, China & Indonesia• Instructor: Alan Leech• Dates: Thursdays, Sept. 18 to Oct. 16• Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.• Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church

Jump into a mid-depth investiga-tion of three cultures that have developed traditional music that is

unique to each of them, as well as different from our Western ap-proaches. Elements of these Asian musical personalities have crept into American music and often surprise us today as we encounter them in our own “melting pot” of culture. Of course, we have had our influence on traditional music of Asia, too.Class Format: Lecture and discussionCourse Materials: Students will be asked

to listen to music selections that can be found on the Internet, and the instruc-tor will recommend CDs for those who would like to purchase them. Text mate-rial will be e-mailed; paper copies will be available for those without e-mail access.

Alan Leech is a retired professor from Montana State University School of Music, where he developed his popular course, World Music. His travels around the world have informed him on many topics, including cooking food from many cultures. Leech led a rewarding tour to Bali for MSU students, faculty, and townsfolk. He is a published composer, as well as an active performer in the Bozeman Symphony and in various chamber music groups in the Bozeman area.

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World Religions• Instructor: Barton Scott• Dates: Fridays, Sept. 19 to Oct. 24 and

Nov. 7 (no class Oct. 31)• Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.• Location: Hope Lutheran Church

An essential aspect of human cultures since antiquity, religion is also a major force in twenty-first century world affairs, shaping policy from Paris to Tehran, and from Washington to Delhi. This course seeks to provide students with basic familiarity with five major world traditions closely as-sociated with the Indian subconti-nent: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. We will study the history, beliefs and prac-tices of these five traditions with particular attention to the interre-lations among them. Students can expect to learn about the diversity of religion in South Asia, as well as gain a sense for how religion fits into daily life.

Class Format: LectureReadings: Materials will be sent by e-mail.

Recommended (but not required), Reli-gious Literacy by Stephen Prothero.

Barton Scott is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at Montana State University. He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University and his B.A. at Swarthmore College. At MSU, he teaches large survey courses in South Asian religions, Hinduism and Islam, as well as courses on topics such as secularism, guru culture and religion and media. His research focuses on Hinduism in colonial and postcolonial India.

Cultures of Hate: The Sites and Sounds of Europe’s Radical Right• Instructor: Patricia Anne Simpson• Dates: Tuesdays, Sept. 23 to Oct. 28• Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.• Location: Aspen Pointe

Whether at the margins or in the mainstream of global media, right-wing movements and their propo-nents continue to make a variety of headlines, from astonishing po-litical victories in some of Europe’s weakening democratic states, to choreographed terrorist acts. The Internet today is an instrument of communication and community, a malleable tool easily wielded by invisible hands. The class will focus on transnational right-wing movements and the ways in which

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2014 Fall Coursesmembers of extremist groups use popular music, sports events, and political rallies, but also Face-book, YouTube, blogs, and other means of mechanical and digital reproduction to form virtual and face-to-face communities for the purpose of disseminating their political message.

Class Format: Lecture and discussionReadings: Short readings from the instruc-

tor’s co-edited volume.

Patricia Anne Simpson (Ph.D. Yale University) is professor of German Studies at Montana State University. Her research interests range from the literature and philosophy of German Classicism and Romanticism to contemporary popular culture. An award-winning instructor, Simpson taught at the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, and Hunter College before coming to Bozeman in 2002. In addition, she has received grants from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, DAAD, and the U.S. Department of Education. Simpson is currently co-editing a book on the far right and media strategies in Europe and the U.S.

Sun Power! The Past, Present, and Future of Solar Energy• Instructor: Susan Bilo• Dates: Wednesdays, Oct. 22 to Nov. 19• Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.• Location: Hope Lutheran Church

Circle the globe to learn solar en-ergy’s rich history: how the ancient Puebloans, Romans, Greeks, Chi-nese (and Clarence Kemp from Baltimore) used the sun’s energy.

Not a lot has changed since the first solar water heater was patented in 1891, but the technology for solar electricity has come a long way since scientists developed the first solar cell from an element of sand. Learn how photovoltaics power everything from calculators to cars, buildings to boats, and appliances to airplanes!

The journey will encompass the basic science, applications, econom-ics, and policies of solar energy

In 2010, Patricia Anne Simpson, pro-fessor of German studies at MSU, was selected as a research ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service, abbreviated DAAD, the Ger-man national agency for the support of international academic cooperation.Photo by Theo Lipfert.

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2014 Fall Coursesprinciples and technologies, includ-ing solar’s role in the Smart Grid and Net Zero Energy projects. Class Format: Lecture and discussionReadings: Chapters from the books below

will be e-mailed with copies provided for those without email access.

Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory Lovins, Anasazi Architecture and American Design by Baker H. Morrow and V.B. Price and Let It Shine: the 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy by John Perlin.

Susan Bilo is a renewable energy advocate on the local, state, and national level. She serves on Montana State University’s Campus Sustainability Advisory Council and is a member of the American Solar Energy Society, Montana Renewable Energy Association, Passive House Institute, U.S., and the Net Zero Energy Coalition. Susan served as an energy specialist with a state energy office, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She lives in a solar powered-home and bakes with a solar oven.

Health and Wealth Around the World• Instructor: Doug Young• Dates: Tuesdays, Nov. 4 to Dec. 2• Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.• Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church

This course will examine facts and issues in international economic development. Why is the USA so rich and healthy? And why is India

not? Is income related to “happi-ness”? How are health and income related? What is the outlook for world population and poverty? How does international trade affect job opportunities in both exporting and importing nations? Are Ameri-can jobs going to China? What are exchange rates and what role does China’s manipulation of its currency play? Looking to the future, do Federal Budget deficits threaten our (grand-) children’s future?Class Format: Lecture and discussionReadings: Readings will be e-mailed. If

interested: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli and Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Doug Young bought a VW van in Europe in 1971 and drove it to India (and back). After getting his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, he taught economics at MSU from 1977 to 2013. He has been a visiting professor at half a dozen universities in Africa and Asia and in 2013 travelled to Kenya with MSU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2014 Fall CoursesClass Format: Lecture and discussionReadings: Familiarity with The Taming

of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra would be helpful. Passages for study will be distributed during class.

Sharon Beehler, MSU professor emeritus of English, has spent nearly 40 years studying , teaching and enjoying Shakespeare. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1978 and joined the faculty of MSU in 1985. She has lectured and published widely on Shakespeare and was a featured speaker and instructor for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a collaborator with MSU’s Shakespeare in the Parks. She is an award-winning teacher and scholar.

Shakespeare’s Feisty Females• Instructor: Sharon Beehler• Dates: Thursdays, Nov. 6 to Dec. 11 (no

class on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27)• Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.• Location: Hope Lutheran Church

Why have Shakespeare’s female characters always held such appeal for actors and audiences alike? This class will seek to answer this question by delving into Shakespeare’s use of source materials, the influences of 16th century English societal norms, the attitudes and practices of stagecraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and – most importantly – the richness of language spoken by the most popu-lar characters: Kate, Portia, Rosalind, Beatrice, Lady Macbeth and Cleopa-tra. These feisty females share a strong independence that manifests itself in different ways within the confines of their dramatic circumstances and milieu. Joining us will be actors who will bring to life Shakespeare’s creative imagination and artistry.

Friday Forums are held monthly from September to May, usually on the second Friday of the month, from noon until 1:30 p.m at the Bozeman Public Library in the large Community Room

Speakers will address timely topics related to local city, county and state issues, or national/international issues of relevance to us here in Montana.

For upcoming topics, visit http://eu.montana.edu/wonderlust

Brown bag lunches are encouraged. Coffee and tea are provided.

Bozeman Public Library Foundation co-sponsors the Friday Forums.

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Great Falls Army Air Force Base in World War II• Presenter: Anne Millbrooke• Date: Monday, Sept. 29• Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.• Location: Aspen Pointe

Built to train bomber crews, the Great Falls Army Air Force Base became the point of departure for aircraft being ferried to the Soviet Union via Canada and Alaska. From the fall of 1942 to the fall of 1945, the U.S. sent 8,000 airplanes out of Great Falls to Fairbanks, Alaska, where the aircraft were transferred to Soviet airmen for the flight across Siberia. These aircrafts were for use against Germany’s Eastern Front — to keep the Soviets in the war, to keep German forces divided be-tween two fronts. This is the Great Falls story.Reading: Gary Glynn, Montana’s Home

Front during World War II (Missoula: Pictorial Histories, 1994)

Anne Millbrooke grew up in Washington. She went east to college, first to Boise State College in Idaho, then to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and finally to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for her doctorate. She ran the history program at United Technologies Corporation. She taught history at universities. She wrote an award-winning aviation history textbook used at universities, including the Air Force Academy.

Genomics: The Information Age of Biology• Presenter: Chris Organ• Date: Monday, Oct. 13• Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.• Location: Aspen Pointe

Dr. Organ’s research focuses on large-scale evolutionary questions, which have traditionally been the purview of paleontology. The rise of genom-ics, computational biology, and phy-logenetic theory now render macro-evolutionary questions tractable for other disciplines, such as genomics. His research seizes this opportunity to confront fundamental questions about how the genome evolves over hundreds of millions of years.

Dr. Chris Organ received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at MSU under the mentorship of Jack Horner, Regents’ Professor and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.  In 2005 he was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship for work on evolutionary genomics at Harvard University with Scott V. Edwards. In 2010 he joined the Department of Genetics and Genomics at Biogen Idec in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then returned to Bozeman in 2013 to take a visiting professorship at MSU.

Side Trips • Side Trips are free for Wonderlust members

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Side Trips • Side Trips are free for Wonderlust members

Lasers and Their Applications• Presenter: Rufus Cone• Date: Monday, Oct. 20• Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

(NOTE special time) • Location: MSU EPS Building, Room 108

Lasers are unique sources of light with applications varying from simple pointers, to cutting sheet steel and welding cars, to measure-ments of the earth-moon distance with centimeter accuracy and the consequent plotting of the motion of the earth’s continents, to measure-ments of the fastest events under human control, and even to trigger-ing nuclear fusion. This Side Trip on “Lasers and Their Applications” will start from simple physical pictures to develop an intuitive grasp of impor-tant principles and features of lasers. Demonstrations will illustrate concepts and provide connections to the experimental and practical world. A few key applications will be described ranging from medicine to technology. The Bozeman optics industry, which has perhaps the greatest per capita density of its type

in the entire U.S., with more than 30 companies and hundreds of employ-ees, will be surveyed, illustrating an important impact that MSU has on the local economy.

Rufus Cone, honored as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions to rare earth material physics, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and his B.S. from Georgia Tech. A Distinguished Professor of Letters and Science at Montana State University, he is a co-founder of MSU Spectrum Lab and has been active on the faculty since 1974. Cone’s group has developed optical materials relevant to the Bozeman optical industries and to frontier areas like quantum communications. They have frequency-stabilized lasers to ultranarrow spectra in Bozeman-grown materials to precisions of a part in 1014 over milliseconds – an application now being used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Museums and Native American Studies• Presenter: Charlie Spray• Date: Monday, Oct. 27• Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.• Location: Christ the King Lutheran

Museums have over 850 million visi-tors every year and contribute over $21 billion to the economy annu-

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Side Trips • Side Trips are free for Wonderlust members

ally. In this modern era of diversity and information, ths Side Trip is designed to inform and highlight the role and relationship that museums have had in the past with indigenous peoples and explores the role that museums will play in the future in regards to Native American people. The presentation will introduce Na-tive American Studies as a genre and explore its multi-faceted applica-tions as they relate to contemporary events, especially museums.

Charlie Spray will finish his master’s degree in Native American Studies at Montana State University in 2014. He has a degree in Bible Studies, as well as a B.A. in History from MSU with minors in Museum Studies and Native American Studies. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Montana State University for the past year and a half teaching Introduction to Native American Studies and also Native American Cinema. He also serves as a researcher for the Gallatin History Museum located in Bozeman.

Columbus, the Sun, and Darkness at Sea• Presenters: Loren Acton, Steve Hample• Date: Monday, Nov. 10• Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.• Location: Christ the King Lutheran

(A) The late 15th Century was a tur-bulent time in Spain. The Muslims were making a last stand against the Christians, Isabella and Ferdinand were determined to marry against the wishes of their parents, and this no-account Columbus kept showing up in court trying to raise funds for a crazy voyage to India by sailing west. (B) Our Sun is a remarkably lovely magnetic star surrounded by super-hot gas … a “corona” visible only at times of total solar eclipse. (C) In 2013 intrepid Bozemanites set sail, following a route of Colum-bus to, hopefully, view a total solar eclipse at sea. Come to this Won-derlust Side Trip to see how A, B, and C can be woven together into an illustrated tale.

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Side Trips • Side Trips are free for Wonderlust members

Loren Acton is a native Montanan. He received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from MSU and his Ph.D. in Astro-Geophysics from the University of Colorado. In 1985, he was the payload specialist on the Challenger 8 space shuttle mission called SPACELAB 2. It launched July 29 (after a launch abort at T-3 seconds on July 12) and landed on August 6. This eight-day mission emphasized astronomy but our 13 experiments ranged from life sciences to high energy astrophysics. He is a research specialist at MSU.

Steve Hample, CFP is a financial planner in Bozeman whose hobbies are international travel, owning a small banking corporation and writing a newspaper column.  For his next career, he’d like to be a travel photo journalist

Wilderness… The Act, the Progress and the Promise• Presenter: Roger A. Jenkins, Ph.D.• Date: Monday, Nov. 17• Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.• Location: Aspen Pointe

After decades of work by conser-vationists around the country, the Wilderness Act was signed into law in early September 1964, following overwhelming bi-partisan support in the Senate and House. The Act established procedures and criteria for the highest form of protection our nation can provide to public lands. Critics of the Act today claim that designating a piece of land as

“big W” Wilderness “locks it up” so that people can not use it, a com-mon misconception. How the Act came about, what sort of constraints Wilderness designation imposes on a landscape, the current status of des-ignated Wilderness in Montana and the U.S. as a whole will be discussed, along with some of the author’s experiences in the many conserva-tion battles with which he has been involved.

Roger Jenkins is a retired scientist from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee. He has acted as an advisor to government agencies in the U.S. and Canada in the general area of aerosol chemistry and exposure and field analytical chemistry, and as an expert witness in several high-profile litigations. He has also been active in conservation groups for nearly 40 years, and is the former chairman of the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club. He currently is the president of the Madison-Gallatin Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association. An avid hiker and backpacker (with over 290 backpacking trips to his credit), he, along with his wife, runs the website, TwoHikers.org

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In this course, we will use free-writing to explore mem-oir. What are your “big” or “small” memories? Where do you come from? Where are you going? What about your family lineage, traditions, pivotal choices you’ve made, charged moments that have shaped your understanding of selfhood and community? Through short sketches, you will build momentum, play with syntax, and en-courage your unique voice. Getting words on paper will become natural. At the end of our 8 weeks together, your notebook will contain a collection of your “histories,” and we will have learned more about each other and ourselves. Come engage in the ancient art of storytelling! Come listen to each other, give and receive feedback, and ultimately, have a lot of fun.

Molly Caro May is a writer who leads place-based writing workshops across the country. Her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Salon, and Fourth Genre, among others. She is the author of The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Place. Learn more at www.mollycaromay.com

Special Workshop

Memoir Writing

Molly Caro May

How to Compose a Life Story in Short Sketches

• Date: Wednesdays, Sept. 24 to Nov. 12

• Time: 10 a.m. to noon• Location: Pilgrim

Congregational Church

• Maximum Enrollment: 10

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Wonderlust Opera Club• Instructor: Stephen Guggenheim and

guests.• The Wonderlust Opera Club meets

Fridays, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational Church: –on Oct. 17 to discuss the Oct. 18 tele-cast of The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart –on Dec. 12 to discuss the Dec. 13 tele-cast of The Meistersingers of Nuremburg, Richard Wagner

• Opera telecasts are at the Regal Theater complex, Gallatin Valley Mall (Oct. 17 telecast at 11 a.m.; Dec. 13 telecast at 10 a.m.)

• Cost: Free to members ($25 non-mem-bers). Telecast admission is additional and paid to the theater.

The Wonderlust Opera Club pro-vides an introduction to opera and a forum for discussion of some of the operas which can be seen and heard in the Gallatin Valley, either in live performances of Intermountain Opera Bozeman or in HD telecasts Live from The Metropolitan Opera

in New York. Discussions will pro-vide background on selected operas, offer an opportunity for partici-pants to share their knowledge and experiences of opera and attempt to explain the great appeal of this implausible art form. Topics include history of opera, musical and theatri-cal styles in opera, characteristics of famous opera singers past and pres-ent, and issues of opera production. We anticipate presenting introduc-tory material for people new to opera and the club and enough new material to interest people who have joined us in previous years. Regis-trants will receive e-mail bulletins describing opera opportunities in the Bozeman area.

Stephen Guggenheim is a retired physician and medical educator who started listening to Metropolitan Opera (radio) broadcasts in the 1950s. He was a member of the Bozeman Symphony and the Intermountain Opera Orchestra, and he is a member of the Advisory Board of Intermountain Opera Bozeman.

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Wonderlust International Mystery Book Discussion Group• Thursdays, Noon to 1 p.m.• Country Bookshelf, 28 W. Main • Discussion leader: Ariana Paliobagis• Free to Wonderlust members

No charge or registration is required for Wonderlust members to participate in the Mystery Series. Participants must acquire their own books. They are available through Country Bookshelf, other retailers and possibly your local library.

Mystery novels are a great way to travel vicariously, and tend to give a much grittier, less polished version of life in a particular place and cul-ture than most Westerners experi-ence when we visit. And while so many have long been a fan of British mysteries, and more recently Scandi-navian ones, there are books to take one to all corners of the globe and even to the past. We will read a wide sampling of mysteries from around the world and discuss them as we would any book, looking at themes,

characters, plot, language and style, and particularly in this case, genre, but we will also look at books as armchair passports, exploring what we can and can not learn about the world and the people in it from books.

Ariana Paliobagis, owner of the Country Bookshelf, is a Montana native and received both a B.A. and M.A. in English from MSU and was an instructor for the English Department for several years.

Oct. 30 Summertime, All the Cats are Bored by Philippe Georget

Nov. 20 The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

Jan. 15 City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris

Feb. 19 Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino

March 19 Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall

April 16 Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood

May 21 Murder in the Marais by Cara Black

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Book Series

Wonderlust Book Series• Dates: First Mondays, October 2014 to

June 2015• Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.• Location: Pilgrim Congregational

Church• Free to Wonderlust members

Each session will be limited to 25 participants.

Obtaining books is the responsibility of each participant. The Country Bookshelf, a Wonderlust sponsor, will stock a supply of the books scheduled for discussion.

Jan Zauha, associate professor and MSU librarian, will be the discussion leader for each of these programs. She has extensive experience in leading book discussion programs and makes each session lively, informative and interesting. We are fortunate to be able to again have Jan Zauha as the professional book discussion leader for our programs.

Wonderlust will again offer its popular Wonderlust Book Discus-sion Program, made possible by a grant from Humanities Montana Attendance at all sessions is not necessary in order to attend any of the sessions, but it is encouraged to enhance the individual’s experience

of the literature and enjoyment of the discussions.

The books were chosen by a group of English and Literature professors who are Wonderlust members. The books for fall semester are listed below:

Book ListOct. 6, 2014 Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

Nov. 3, 2014 Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Dec. 1, 2014 The Third Man by Graham Greene

Jan. 5, 2015 Middlemarch by George Eliot

Feb. 2, 2015 No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

March 2, 2015 The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read them by Elif Batuman

April 6, 2015 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

May 4, 2015 Julys People by Nadine Gordimer

June 1, 2015 Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

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Membership fee* Name(s) Total

$35/person

* New and renewal membership dues are payable at the beginning of our Wonderlust year, Sept. 1. The membership year continues through Aug. 31 of the following year. Membership dues can be accepted at any time; however, dues will not be prorated.

CoursesCourse, # of Sessions Names of attendee(s) Member Non-

memberFirst World War (6) $75 $110

The Role of Dance (5) $62.50 $97.50

Asian Music (5) $62.50 $97.50

World Religions (7) $87.50 $122.50

Cultures of Hate (6) $75 $110

Sun Power! (5) $62.50 $97.50

Health and Wealth (5) $62.50 $97.50

Shakespeare (5) $62.50 $97.50

Special Workshops

Opera Club Free $25

Memoir Writing $210 $245

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Side Trips—for members only. Please contact Extended University if you are unable to attend.

Which Side Trips will you attend? Names of attendee(s) [Members only]

pGreat Falls Army Air Force Base

pGenomics: The Information Age of Biology

pLasers and Their Applications

pMuseums and Native American Studies

pColumbus, the Sun, and Darkness at Sea

pWilderness...The Act, The Progress and the Promise

This semester, members are encouraged to bring one guest to one Side Trip.

Cancellations before a course begins will be assessed a $25 processing fee if refunded or may be held on your account as a credit. There will be no refunds after the course begins. Social security numbers are required in order to process refunds by check.

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