Today is Prime Day! Amazon donates to The Shepherd’s Center of Richmond when you shop Prime Day deals through Amazon Smile. Click HERE to start shopping and pass a bit on to us, at no cost to you!! Prime Day starts today at 3pm and runs throughout the day on July 17.
We appreciate your support! Thanks so much – Julie 
Well, it is for TSCOR. It’s the beginning of our new fiscal year and this is a special year for us – we celebrate our 35th ANNIVERSARY!! And, it also means that is time for you to renew your membership or become a new member today!
In honor of our anniversary, we are running a Member-Get-A-Member campaign. Find out all the details at the link below and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact the office (804-355-7282 or pgrimes@TSCOR.org). Help us commemorate TSCOR by growing our membership so that we may continue our mission for another 35 years. Thank you so very much – Julie
Member-Get-A-Member Information
Good Summer Everyone!
I miss seeing you all at the Open University and Lunch and Life. I hope everyone is enjoying themselves and keeping cool in the humidity (and dry in the rain!). Since you may not be in classes right now, I would like to share a lecture that I attended at another lifelong learning program about a month ago. It is eye-opening. Do yourself a favor and watch it. Take good care – Julie
Click here to see Dr. Bill Thomas talk about living in an ageist society.

This morning, Susie Wiltshire’s French class gathered for what has become their annual end of the year celebration. Yours truly was a guest (and the one behind the camera!) and I thoroughly enjoyed myself and got to experience their magic time together. What a great group of people!

The Open University starts up again in the fall, on September 17, 2018. Don’t you want to learn French too (or German, or Spanish, or Latin, or Russian, or Japanese)?!? You know you do – Julie
Would you like to hear a pretty incredible story? Then join us Monday, May 21st, to hear Curtis Monk, president and CEO of The Community Idea Stations, share with us about his personal experience being a heart transplant recipient. He will speak at 12:30 pm at St. Luke Lutheran, 7757 Chippenham Parkway. Come at noon and bring a sandwich. Coffee and cake will be available. I’m going to be there – hope you will be too!
And, we have a lunch speaker schedule change for next Thursday, May 24, at First Presbyterian. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Maria Howard will not be speaking about Warm Weather Exercises at lunch. Instead, we welcome James Garton, Associate Wellness Director at the Tuckahoe YMCA, who will speak on Wellness and Fitness for Seniors, at 12:30 pm. Again, join us at noon and bring a sandwich.
It’s the last week of the OU. Come see everyone before summer begins – Julie
Come to lunch Monday and hear Deirdra McAfee and Betty Joyce Nash, award-winning writers, editors and teachers, talk about their literary anthology, Lock and Load: Armed Fiction. It is a collection of contemporary stories about America’s guns, a collaboration filled with action, suspense and fun. Note: This presentation is not associated with any recent gun issues.
We hope to see you there – Julie
Make Every Day Earth Day!!

Good morning everyone!
To read Gray Matters online now CLICK HERE. The print version should be arriving in your mail boxes this week. In the meantime, take a look online.
If you would like to receive your Gray Matters and Schedule via email (like you are right now!), please let us know in the office. If you do, it will not only save us a bit of money, but it will also save a few trees. Thanks – Julie
The Open University begins again on Monday, April 2nd and the schedule is available for you now – CLICK HERE! We hope everyone will come out and enjoy another session. And remember to bring your friends – they can visit for one day free! See you at the OU!
Tomorrow is President’s Day and many things will be closed – but not Open University! We will meet tomorrow, February 19, at St. Luke Lutheran.
And stay for lunch to hear our speaker, Shahan Mufti, assistant professor in journalism at the University of Richmond, present, The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War.