A very warm welcome to our 2017 Fall Semester! As you return from your summer activities, we hope you will find the new Fall catalog in your mailbox this week, and that you will like its new, easier to handle format. A few important announcements for this month:
1) Due to the extended remodeling needed to get our new facility ready, our start date this Fall is Oct 2. Online Enrollment is available now at http://www.olli.unr.edu. In-Person Enrollment will be at Redfield on Sept 18 from 10am- 2pm. See the Fall 2017 CATALOG for updated information about special Fall events.
2) FREE FILM FESTIVAL TICKETS FOR OLLI MEMBERS – this Saturday, Sept 9, 6pm at the Galaxy Theater in Sparks - Eric Rasmussen, president of the Reno Tahoe International Film Festival, is offering OLLI members free tickets to a special screening of The Father and the Bear with director John Putch. The film is a heartwarming journey that follows a retired character-actor with dementia who longs to perform at his beloved summer theater one last time. There will be a Q&A with John Putch and the cast following the film. To claim your free tickets, go to: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/RenoTahoeInternationalFilmFestival/tickets and select “Single Ticket – Block #10” and enter code at checkout: RTIFFERFB
3) I hope you plan to join us on Monday, Oct 2 for all or part of our fall NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION at 10am and OLLI EXPOs beginning at noon. It is an excellent opportunity to find out more about the new OLLI building, our Fall classes, interest groups, volunteer openings and tours. See your catalog for more details.
4) And finally, PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE NEW BUILDING BEFORE OCT. 2!
It is an active construction site. Visitors might easily, if inadvertently, cause delays in our opening schedule.
Thanks, and hope to see you all soon,
Lynne E. Gray, Ph.D., President, OLLI at UNR