We do today. I always look forward to we're talking to OLI, of
course, because whenever we get together, we kind of we giggle a little
bit. We try to give a little bit of information on what's going on
with OLI through Oklahoma State University. How you doing? First of all,
I'm doing fun. But if you don't get an elevator here or something for
those stairs, yeah, I've I've been lobbying for it myself, if you
know what I mean. Keep going really strong, because I'm a age out
on that one. It's Mount k one. Well, we've got registration that's
coming up right now, and the OLI classes they're a lot of fun,
a great way to socialize too and as well as get informed and really stretch
your mind a little. So which we got going on here, Well,
the summer session is getting ready to start this month, and we've got kind
of a short scheduled this summer. But what we've got going is good.
We have Paul Gustison. He's very interested in saving bees, so he's gonna
do a class on saving the bees. He's very interested in that. Well,
we were, actually we all should because if the bees go away six
weeks later, we're going right they I don't think people realize how important they
are to the food chain. They are and probably many other things as well,
but not to mention the lovely honey. Oh yeah, there you go,
put me down for a gallant. Yeah. I was in the store
and they had small bottles and I said, do you get this bigger?
And I said, unfortunately, he will bottle bigger. And I said,
okay, well we understand that. Yes, then we have Gary Nilus is
gonna do a series on our wild Earth. Cool, and I think everybody
should identify with that right now. Yeah, it doesn't get much wilder than
what we've had this week. Yes, he did a really good series on
the out in the universe. Huh. And so now he's going to do
the Earth, and you never know what he's going to put together. It's
always really interesting. But he'll do a four summer session. Is only four
weeks, so he'll have four weeks on that one. And then we've got
some field trips planned. Oh good. We're gonna go up to Coffeeville and
visit the Dalton Museum and the Brown Mansion. Both of those are you can
spend a day in each of those, You certainly can. So then of
course we'll have lunch up there as well, and we're gonna go over to
No Water. We'll go through the glasshouse and I haven't seen any of these,
and then the Presbyterian Church with the beautiful windows, and the museum useum
is quite a quite a piece there. They get a lot of things from
the smith Oni and in that little museum, in that little one, yeah
they do so. Yeah, and then get this one. There's gonna be
another tour and it's gonna have go to a butterfly farm in the Honey Creek
Farm which does lavender, that's the interest there, and the Franco mar pottery.
That'll all be in one day trip. My goodness. You go to
get around well, yeah, we do. I know. It's amazing for
the folks who've never been you know, informed or bothered you with. Look,
this is your chance to do this now because you're gonna say, wow,
there's a lot of opportunity here and this is all good stuff. This
is all you know, things you need to know and things you just might
want to know. Yeah, we're we're venturesome. We're very social and always
always out there to learn. Yeah, well I had a meeting Insteaday's staff
meeting. Excuse men. So we were talking about snacks and what different groups
like, and I said, my group likes sugar. We gotta have cookies.
So and that's a big part of it. Okay, oh man.
But the thing is this OLI stands for something really kind of cool. And
every time I have you in here, I have you refresh everybody's memory.
What does allie stand for? Well? OLI was created by a retired gentleman
back east who decided, you know what, just because I'm retired doesn't mean
I have to just retire from everything. So he started This is a grant.
It was originally started with a grant Oceer Lifelong Learning Institute started by mister
Osher. And here we have still Water has a group, Oklahoma City has
a group, Tulsa and Bartlesrill. Of course Bartlesville is a small group,
and we're kind of removed from still Water, but we still We managed quite
well. We managed and of course I'm always there for my people. That's
what I call it. They laugh when I say that, but there are
my people. Okay, no kidding, no kidding. You had a great
spring, didn't you. We did? You really brought it home. From
what I understand, folks were really impressed with that, especially with the count
Hall things that were going on. That has been a big hit. And
what I'm trying to do there is now we're not having it this summer.
We understood in the fall. In the spring, everybody retired by the way
he left. That's another thing. It's hard to catch people in the summertime
because they're shakers and movers, always on the go. You gotta get awaken,
yeah you do. But yeah, it was. It was really a
great group, and it's always been a big hit. What I try to
do with the town hall is to bring people in who have either businesses,
organizations or whatever that as part of our everyday life and or one of the
organization or companies that maybe people don't know much about. So anyway, that's
it's really interesting for myself as well. So but that'll be coming up in
the fall. I'm already, needless to say, working. I have to
get these in really early. Yeah, so I'm already right like six months
ahead, you know at least, and that gets people time to change jobs
or whatever, and then I got to do it all over again. Yeah,
how do people actually sign up for this? I mean they're hearing this,
they're going, well, this sounds prett interesting. What do we do?
How do we Well, we're online, and of course the university is
trying to get us to go all online. Of course they are. I
mean, yes, but we're from the generation we like paper, Yes,
we like to read it, so we continue. But I have the the
course offerings at the library. And where else did I put them? Anyway?
I put them on in different different places, so you can go pick
one up. You can go online. Just go to ali at Okay State,
that's right, yeah, and then just go to the courses and you
can sign up there. Now you can hit a year's membership and that starts
in the fall. The summer session will end this year and we'll start July
first is when the new membership starts, and you can get one for two
hundred dollars and that'll get you into any of these classes. You can pay
a forty dollars annual membership and then you would need to pay twenty five dollars
for each class. There's also scholarships available for anyone who feels like they can't
afford that forty dollars. Of course, they would still need to pay for
the courses. But that is available to anybody that wants it. And like
I said, it's good for a year. What else. That's the main
thing. And then they notify you. This is where we have troublesometimes is
people may have email, but they don't read them. Yeah, I got
family like that, Yes, but they have two ways of being notified,
like if something like we have an instructor or speaker that happens to get up
that morning and they're sick, then we rush out either a text or it's
usually a text, but to try to tell everybody. Sometimes we don't know
soon enough, but we always do something. Always keep in contact. We
all like to talk. So oh yeah, there you go. So we
can we can do that and I can get I'm always open, needless to
say, for some a speaker or a subject or whatever. And I try
to glean this out of my people, and so we can do some of
the planning like that if something happens. But and like I said, we
have the books so far ahead, you know, and nobody plans on being
sick, so nobody does no, Well, I don't know. There was
this guy in eighth grade. Every time there was a test, you have
the stomach ache or something something like that. I know in the real world
where we're talking about you know, the one thing that's great about this is
it's like we, you know, the the fellow who got this thing all
started. And you know, once you retire from your job, doesn't mean
you've retired from your life. And your mind's still going like it was going
at thirty. Oh, I don't know about that, but well, but
you know, but your your interests are pretty much the same. You know,
you still have a strong desire to want to pick up on something new
or something that just really interests you. Well, I just had this discussion
with a friend the other day and because we travel together we work together and
all this and talking about our adventures that we'd had, and she said,
well, I pretty much threw with that, and I said, I'm not
through with that, no doing that at all. Maybe when I get ninety
I will be because I won't be able to. But yeah, as long
as you're still moving around and you know able to, you know, add
two and two and let let's go. Let's get those neurons firing. They
say, young people keep you young, but they can also make you old.
You know, think of wear you are and hurry what they can do.
Yes, well, all of us we moved about the same pace.
We all like to talk, we all like cookies, and nobody's in a
hurry. Nobody's in a hurry. In fact, sometimes it's hard to get
out of the classroom because we all got talking to do. Well. It's
called communication, it's called socialization, and that's a grand thing, it really
is, especially when you don't have to wear a watch or punch a clock
or anything else. You get that that's your time. Yes, you earned
it, Yes we have. Also thanks to COVID, we've been able to
start some online classes. Yeah, kind of push that agenda did in a
little bit, so we could get it done on the back burner for quite
a while, but it had to move to the front burner then. And
our bee class, incidentally, is going to be online. There are some
people who might be thankful for that. Yes, I like the bees.
I like looking at the bees of what to be near me. Though,
thank you. Some people just think there's something still uprom that because it'll and
they will hurt you. But only if you hurt then yes, yes,
so I felt really good about providing that class that they were going to put
out to everybody. And that's another thing you can there's ALI units all over
the states and you can go into any of them as an OLI member with
the online classes, so and so that gives you a lot of information.
Great once again, folks. If you're looking for the online address, it
is O L L I DOT Okay State dot E d U, which is
short for education. That's right, man, this is gonna be good.
And we got to get this done because classes start July first. Oh no,
they start this month. That's fine, Okay, all right, that
Mike, I got myself all confused. They say they start the twenty twentieth
twenty first, Oh, twenty first. Yeah, I didn't hear that.
I didn't hear the twenty part. I heard the first. They get twenty
first. Well I didn't say it. That's why. Yeah, okay,
bub But that's when they start. And this one's only for four weeks,
and we don't have something going on class every day, okay, but we're
kind of give them a little break, let them have their own adventures.
I like that. And don't forget the field trips. To read up on
that. If it's something that you're interested in. You sign up for the
for that as well, the Dalton Museum and the Brown Mansion and also the
No Lot of History thing. That's a that's gonna be a lot of fun.
It's gonna be great interest, that's for sure. We love the field
trips. Oh yeah, who doesn't get me out of town for a little
bit here right Amy, Thank you very much for me with us today.
There's something I might have looked over. I think we pretty much okay.
Well, you see sometimes that take you far a field here, and I
worry about that. Us standing here, sitting here having fun should be an
example of what I'm talking about. This is how ALLI works. Well,
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