PRESIDENT'S CORNER - August 19, 2016

Last Day: Our summer term is ending today, so we’ll be turning our attention to the fall term, due to begin on September 26. Stay tuned for the catalog…there are about 55 courses coming your way. I hope by now you have ALL renewed your memberships or will do so very soon. We need you and some of your friends, as well.

Film Forum:  I have been thrilled at the response to the Summer Film Series, with 30 to over 40 people coming out for some good films and discussion. Two films remain for the summer series: Gosford Park, written by Julian Fellows, creator of Downton Abbey, and directed by the great Robert Altman. Finally, we’ll look at Michael Moore’s newest documentary, Where to Invade Next? No matter your politics, Moore’s films make you think deeply about issues affecting us all for good or ill. Both are on Wednesdays at 3 PM. The Fall Film Forum will begin the very next week, Sept. 7 with a mini-Robin Williams festival showing of Moscow on Hudson. We’ll return to the first and third Wednesday slot at 3 PM.

Recruiting: Jae and I made the first of many visits to faculty meetings at WVU to shamelessly shill for new instructors. We visited my old Creative Arts College and hope to schedule several more faculties this fall.

A few bits of humor to end…

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” ~James Dent

“I wonder what the blood alcohol level is of all these mosquitos that keep biting me?”

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy” ~Anton Chekhov

“If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ~Steven Wright

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you” ~Erma Bombeck

“Summer is the season when a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than his wife can on an indoor stove”

That’s all, folks!

Jim Held, President