Osher News

Check out the latest program updates and news from Osher at UC San Diego Extension.

• Osher's New Home: Coming Fall 2023

  

  by Amy Patterson, Osher Program Director 

  In order to meet the growing UC San Diego enrollment, the university complex that houses Extension and our Osher facilities, will be demolished in order to expand student housing in Marshall College. After more than 45...
  

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• A Look Ahead to the Summer 2021

  

  Welcome to Osher’s Summer Quarter. We hope that you and your families are safe and well and that you have all been vaccinated. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have spent the last year off-campus learning and engaging with each other via Zoom. We thank you for your active ...
  

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• Note from the Osher President

  

  By Carol Roberts, Osher President

  As I reflect on this last year of my presidential term, it is so rewarding to see the many things that have been accomplished during trying times. When our in-person classes were suspended, the strength and resiliency of our Program Director...
  

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• President's Message Spring 2021

  

  From Osher President Carol Roberts

  As winter becomes a memory, we are all looking forward to changes from many places. The weather should be bringing spring flowers and fresh grass, we all should have had our Covid-19 vaccines by now, and hopefully we will have returned...
  

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• A Look Ahead to Spring 2021

  

  By Steve Clarey, Chair of the Curriculum Committee

  We hope you have enjoyed the winter quarter online lectures and seminars that now features speakers from across the nation. We missed the annual migration of snowbirds to Osher here in San Diego this year due to the...
  

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• Osher Classes to the Rescue

  

  Like most of you, we were members of Osher long before the pandemic changed our lives. In those days, we had our days planned well in advance, often having to select among several options. Now, all our days seem indistinguishable; Mondays are like Tuesdays; Tuesdays like Wednesdays; and...
  

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• Suffragists Teach Students Why Voting Is Important

  

  by Eileen Coblens 
  
  On June 3, the League of Women Voters premiered a video at Osher called “They Were Here Before Us,” which I had been working on as a scripted stage play for the past year. The play, offered as an Osher Theatre World class, tells the story of two...
  

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• A Look Ahead to Winter 2021

  

  By Steve Clarey, Chair of the Curriculum Committee
  
  It has been a pleasure to welcome so many new members to Osher this fall. We especially welcome those from other states, who have joined for our live, but remote online program. A very special thanks to our...
  

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• Looking Ahead to the Fall

  

  From Carol Roberts, Osher President:
  
  After a quiet, stay-at-home summer, at Osher we continued our wonderful schedule of classes presented on Zoom. It was evident that this different way of presenting was accepted by a huge number of Osher members who enjoy being...
  

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• Zooming with Osher!

  

  by Maria Penny, Osher Member and Facilitator of Inquiring Minds 
  
  I live in a retirement community, and management declared a lockdown on March 11, 2020, asking us to not leave our apartments for anything other than doctors’ appointments, pharmacy pickups...
  

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