Category: Shepherd’s Center
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Yes, it is only July, but July 1st marks the beginning of a new fiscal year for TSCOR.
July 1st also kicks off a new membership cycle for TSCOR. Keep a lookout for the Annual Membership renewal notice coming to one of your mailboxes right after July 4th (email or snail mail, or you can always find it on our website). Please check your email spam or junk mail folder to be sure we didn’t end up there. If so, please mark us as “not spam.”
Membership is only $25 for the entire year (July 1 – June 30) but it means a great deal to our organization. Membership can be mailed to our office or submitted with your Open University registration. And now, for the first time, you will be able to pay online with your credit card. There is a link on our website homepage that will take you to a secure site (GoEMerchant) where you can pay membership.
Your financial support and participation means everything to us. Remember to tell your friends and neighbors about us too – your recommendation is worth so much more than any kind of advertisement. Thank you so much and here’s to another wonderful year to come!! Enjoy your summer – Julie
TSCOR Women’s Group Update
We had the initial planning meeting of the women’s group on May 17 where it was pointed out that this group could be anything that its members wanted it to be. That is an exciting prospect, don’t you think?
The attendees decided that this group would be freeform, with no one leader and could evolve over time. A few guidelines were established. To begin, the group will come up with a short list of topics to assign to each meeting. At the meeting, everyone will have a bit of time to share what she thinks about the subject and then there will be group discussion. Meeting frequency is undecided, but there is another planning meeting scheduled where that, and other particulars, will be discussed. Hope you can join us! Please let Julie know if you are interested at jadams@TSCOR.org or 804-355-7282.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, August 16 at 2:30 pm
Location: The Shepherd’s Center Office, 3111 Northside Ave., Suite 400, Richmond, 23228
Two Timely Topics at the OU
Don’t miss Dr. George Munro’s lunch talk on “Vladimir Putin: World’s Most Powerful Leader?” on Thursday, May 18, at our Open University site at First Presbyterian Church, 4602 Cary Street Road. Dr. Munro is an award-winning professor of history at V.C. U. and travels frequently to Russia for research.
Then on Monday, May 22, at St. Luke Lutheran, 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Dr. Dan Palazzolo, award-winning professor of political science at the University of Richmond, will discuss “Governing in the New Congress.“
Both talks begin at 12:30 and will last about 45 minutes, including Q & A. Come earlier at noon with a sandwich, if you like. Coffee, tea, and cake are available for purchase. Bring your friends for these important lunchtime talks.
What a Celebration It Was!
This past Tuesday, we gathered together and honored our volunteers and their service to Richmond’s older community. Enjoy the pictures (thank you Susan B.!). If you click on them, they will get larger. Thank you again to all of our volunteers, who are drivers, transportation coordinators, handy men & women, friendly callers, Open University instructors and support crew, board and committee members.
You ARE The Shepherd’s Center!
And you thought we forgot….
Happy National Volunteer Week!!!!
In fact, we would not exist without our volunteers!
Many, many thanks to ALL of you for making us the great organization we are and for helping us to create a more caring community for older adults here in the River City.
We really couldn’t do it without ewe (big grin) – Julie
Lunch and Life This Wednesday
Hello Everyone!
Just a reminder that Lunch and Life will meet this Wednesday, April 26 – the last in our Spring Series. Craig Reynolds, director of the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, will be speaking on Thomas Jefferson as Architect and Designer. The program begins at noon at St. Mary Catholic Church, 9505 Gayton Road. Bring a bag lunch. The church will provide beverages and desserts. The talk begins at 12:30 pm.
Date and Speaker Switch at St. Mary
Two of the Shepherd’s Center’s most popular speakers are Bill Lohmann, columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Ed Slipek, architectural historian and senior contributing editor of Style Weekly . Because of a family emergency on Wednesday, March 29th, Lohmann will be unable to speak on his assigned date. Ed Slipek, who was scheduled for April 5th at St, Mary, has agreed to switch his date with that of Bill Lohmann. We are pleased that we will keep both men on the schedule, although in a different order! Here, then, is the new schedule:
Wednesday, March 29: Ed Slipek on “Richmond Architectural Gems”
Wednesday, April 5: Bill Lohmann on “On the Road Again: More People, Places and Pie Around Virginia”. Lohmann will bring copies of his books to sell and to sign.
The other two great speakers in the Lunch and Life series: Curtis Monk, president and CEO of Commonwealth Public Broadcasting, and Craig Reynolds, director of the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, keep their original dates of April 12 and April 26, respectively.
All the excitement takes place at St. Mary Catholic Church, 9505 Gayton Road. Bring a bag lunch at noon. The church will provide beverages and desserts The talks begin at 12:30.
PS – Spring Session begins TODAY! Hope to see everyone – Julie
Spring 2017 Gray Matters Newsletter
The Gray Matters for Spring 2017 is now available on our website and at the link right here. Hope you enjoy!
PS – It says that our Annual Volunteer Celebration is in April, but in fact, it will be in May – Tuesday, May 2, 2017, to be exact. Mark your calendars!
OU Schedule Change
Tony Pelling will present his talk, Another Great Migration – The Irish Famine as a part of the Special Topics course at the Open University on Monday, February 27 at 9:45 a.m. Hope to see everyone there!
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