Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning Meetings

Monthly meetings are held at 10 a.m. on the third Friday of the month. We meet in the Franciscan Center on the Lourdes campus

Lifelong Learning Monthly Meetings

Upcoming Events

Canoeing Along the Maumee River

May 18

Steve Pollick, retired outdoors editor of the Blade, and rowing companion Matt Horvat paddled from Kreager Park in Fort Wayne, Ind., to International Park in Toledo last summer. The week-long canoeing trip along the Maumee River was 122.8 miles long and required 72,000 paddle strokes, roughly! Steve wrote about outdoors columns and features for the Toledo Blade, traveling the world for nearly 30 years in a 40-year career at the paper. He is the author of two books of essays and in 2011 co-authored Best of the Outdoors Page with Blade illustrator/designer Jeff Basting.

Plus: Spring luncheon after the meeting!

Past Events

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Monthly meetings are held at 10 a.m. on the third Friday of the month. We meet in the Franciscan Center on the Lourdes campus.

Amelia Earhart

February 17

A pioneer in American aviation, Amelia Earhart set many records: first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first woman to earn the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross. A faculty member of Purdue University, Earhart was also an avid supporter of women's rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Mary Ellen Pratt has portrayed Amelia Earhart for 17 years through the Toledo Branch of the American Association of University Women's Women in History Project. A graduate of BGSU, Mary Ellen has taught at Anthony Wayne High School and has served as president of the American Association of University Women. She currently lives on a farm in Perrysburg that has been in the family since 1818.

The Veterans History Project: Honoring the Veterans of NW Ohio and SE Michigan

March 16

Andrew "Bud" Fisher has been a volunteer with the University of Toledo/Library of Congress Veterans History Project since 2002, during which time he has interviewed more than 500 veterans. Bud will explain the formation of this history project, discuss his involvement, and highlight some excerpts from his two books of selected interviews. After graduating from the University of Toledo, Bud served in the US Army during the Korean War. He then settled in Sylvania and ran a wholesale heating and air conditioning company before retiring.

Bonus: Music!

March 16, 11:20 - Noon

Cheryl Trace, violinist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, together with Rene Schiffer, who plays cello & viola with the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, will give a special presentation that is free to all in the Franciscan Center Commons. The focus will be the music of Romantic composer Anton Bruckner, and a prelude to the TSO concert April 15.

Current Issues Facing the City of Toledo

April 13

Many issues that affect our daily lives are decided by our municipal government, and this is your opportunity to hear about how those decisions are made. D. Michael Collins has been serving as the elected Toledo City Councilman for the largest district in Toledo since January 2008. He will discuss some of the many issues that face Toledo today. Michael served in the Marine Corps before becoming a police officer in Toledo for 28 years. After retiring, he joined the faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Toledo.