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IN DECEMBER 2008 OLLI members celebrated the holiday season with an elegant OLLI Holiday Luncheon at the International Country Club, Fairfax, Virginia. Rod Zumbro created the following video slideshow of photos taken by Dan Feighery.

IN APRIL 2008 OLLI honored its teachers at a reception held on Grand Tier 3 of Mason's Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Mason Provost Dr. Peter Stearns (shown below) was the featured speaker, and OLLI awarded scholarships to four Mason students who had been selected by their respective department heads. A Rod Zumbro movie.

Highlights of OLLI-Mason members' participation in the 2008 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics. Members shown won medals in track and field events and in swimming. A Rod Zumbro movie.

WE ALL OWE A GREAT DEBT TO THREE DISTINGUISHED LADIES who were instrumental in the establishment in 1991 of the Learning in Retirement Institute (later renamed the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at George Mason University: Founder Kathryn Brooks and Founding Members Shirley Fox and Lilyan Spero, who became our first three presidents.Watch very short videos of these leaders here.

Immediately below: The late Kathryn Brooks, Founder, first president (video is from two early 1992 televised interviews; length 1:56).

Immediately below: The late Shirley Fox, Founding Member, second president (video is from an early 1992 televised interview; length 1:44).

Immediately below: The late Lilyan Spero, Founding Member, third president (video is from the 2004 "Story of OLLI" movie; length 1:10).

In the below short video from 2006, OLLI members Roxanne Cramer, Manuel Pablo and Vera DeWeese tell how they heard about OLLI and what they like about our wonderful Institute. A Rod Zumbro movie.

THE SUBJECT OF ONE OLLI TRIP TALE WAS AN EGYPTIAN SIGHTSEEING TOUR. If you attended the class or have an interest in Egypt, you might like to view our video, "Egypt Highlights." This three-and-a-half-minute video is edited from a longer video made by the editor after a one-week visit to Egypt several years ago. You will see the pyramids and sphinx at Giza, the temple at Abu Simbel that was moved up 200 feet in the 1960s to avoid flooding, cruising the Nile River, temples in the Valley of the Queens and Karnak, and as a grand finale, the amazing treasures of King Tut that were discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 ("What do you see?" "I see wonderful things."). A Rod Zumbro movie.