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Spring 2017 Seminars

MONDAYS April 10 ? May 15

The University of Texas at Austin TEXAS Extended Campus

Thompson Conference Center 2405 Robert Dedman Drive Austin, TX 78712-1523 512-471-3124

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UT OLLI SAGE Spring Session 2017

Fall seminars will meet for six Mondays, April 10 ? May 15, 2017. The UT OLLI SAGE curriculum committee has approved 13 seminars for the Spring 2017 session. Seminars will meet on Mondays at the Thompson Conference Center (TCC) except where noted in the seminar description. Each Monday the room numbers for all seminars will be posted in the lobby. Rooms do change so please check the lobby reader board daily.

Seminar registration begins Monday, March 13th at 9:00 am. Seminar registration is done on a first come, first served basis and the number of registrants is limited based on classroom size and instructor preference. Volunteers for class assistant or a/v tech receive priority in seminar selection.

Please indicate your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices within each time slot. When there are limited spaces available for a seminar, out of respect for fellow members, please be certain of your interest in the topic and your commitment to consistent attendance before you register.

CE17009A CE17009B CE17009C

9:30 AM 9:30 AM 9:30 AM

Bad Girls From Rocks to Cognitive Blocks Future Leaders of US Army

Martha Wofford

Pete Rose Thomas Ewing

Dougald McMillan

CE17009D 11:00 AM

CE17009E 11:00 AM CE17009F 11:00 AM

Archetypes - Familiar Characters or Situations That Transcend Time, Place, & Culture

The United States Navy Building a 21st Century Downtown in Austin

Marye Tharp

Brian Teets Dorothy Reiser

CE17009G 1:15 PM CE17009H 1:15 PM CE17009I 1:15 PM

The Genius of Gilbert and Sullivan Part 1

Evolution of Life by Natural Selection from Darwin to Evo-Devo

Leadership in Life: Ancient Stories and Modern Practices

Paul Lehman Nancy AufderHeide

Sandy Kress

CE17009J 3:00 PM

CE17009K CE17009L CE17009M

3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM

Ethical Decision-Making for Young Adults and Why They Need It Treasures at Our Fingertips Cuba Libre Memoir Writing

Eli Cox

Patricia Brown Jerry Buttrey Fatima Kola

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09:30 ? 10:45 AM Seminars

CE17009A ? Bad Girls

What do YOU think is meant by the label, "bad girl?" How you define the term depends on your gender, your religious/cultural/political beliefs, your sense of humor, your upbringing and life experiences, your age, and the prevailing societal viewpoints of your times. Martha Wofford will dig deep into the lives of some of history's most complex women. We think we know all about them - but we don't! We'll find that even so-called bad girls have a good side - and good girls have a so-called bad side - but we won't overlook the deeds that made these women simultaneously famous and infamous. They raised more than a few eyebrows in their time, but they also accomplished a great deal.

Bad girls aren't clueless; they KNOW the rules, but may or may not play by them, and they are always interesting. Martha Wofford looked at a lot of women in her search for six bad girls to present. Some were flat-out evil (Bloody Mary), some were true criminals with no compassion for others (Bonnie Parker). Martha's selection criteria included the following: 1) Her whole life had to be interesting; 2) She had to be worthy of respect; and 3) We'd all love to sit down and have a glass of wine with her. Meet the winners of the bad girls competition, each of whom will be profiled in a seminar session:

Week 1: Janis Joplin Week 2: Mae West Week 3: Sally Ride Week 4: Belle Starr Week 5: Eva Peron Week 6: Shirley MacLaine

Director: Martha Wofford was born and raised in the Texas Panhandle, and is a retired audiologist. She worked at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, as well as in private practice. She has taught at Southwest Texas State University and Lamar University. She served as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Chief Audiology/Speech Pathology Service at the Houston Veterans Administration Medical Center and worked as a Quality Coordinator in a small hospital in the Texas Panhandle after retirement from the VA system.

Martha attended The University of Texas at Austin where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1967, her Master's in 1969, and her Ph.D. in 1977.

She loves to attend the ballet, visit museums, and go to UT football games, art exhibits, the symphony, movies, theater, and festivals.

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CE17009B ? From Rocks to Cognitive Blocks

Pete Rose will present the first two classes of the seminar focusing on cognitive bias, how it can result in bad decision making, and developing various methods to combat it. Cognitive bias is believed to be a factor in the retraction of multiple scientific papers over the past few years, which is, of course, detrimental to science. This sort of bias affects decisions from finance, petroleum engineering, medicine, social policy (e.g. war on drugs), psychology, etc.

Rose will then present three lectures on the geology of Texas, especially of the Austin area. This will be based in part on his recent major paper concerning the geologic history of central Texas, before and after Balcones Faulting, which has generated some new insights about the Hill Country - Edwards Plateau landscape evolution.

The final class, given by Thomas Ewing, will be an exploration of the landscapes, rocks, and resources of Texas and 1.7 billion years of Earth history in Texas as presented in Ewing's recent book, Texas Through Time.

Director: Peter R. Rose earned his Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Texas, Austin and has been a professional geologist for 55 years, specializing in Petroleum Geology, E&P Risk Analysis, and Mineral Economics. In 1998 he founded Rose & Associates, LLP. Pete retired in 2005, but the firm continues as the global standard among consulting companies in that field, providing instruction, software and consulting services on an international scale. His 2001 book, Risk Analysis and Management of Petroleum Exploration Ventures, now in its 7th printing, is considered by many as the "Bible" on that topic, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.

In 2005, Pete was the 89th President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. In 2013, the Geological Society of London awarded him its prestigious Petroleum Group Medal for lifetime contributions to Petroleum Geology, the first American to be so recognized, and in 2014 the AAPG honored him with its Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award.

He is a lifelong compulsive reader and a man of wide interests and skills: geology, global energy, history, economics, psychology, philosophy, ranching, water, writing, music, baseball and golf. His talents as a teacher are widely recognized.

Rose is a fifth-generation Texan, and hails from an old Texas ranching family. He and his wife, Alice have five children between them, and eight grandchildren. They divide their time between Austin and their El Segundo Ranch near Telegraph, Kimble County, Texas.

Director: Thomas E. Ewing has been an earth scientist in Texas for 35 years, first with the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) and later as owner of Frontera Exploration

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Consultants, and also an occasional lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has given talks and led field trips across Texas for geologists and others, and his extensive publications include serving as principal author of the Tectonic Map of Texas (BEG, 1990) and writing Landscapes, Water, and Man: Geology and History in the San Antonio Area of Texas (South Texas Geological Society, 2008). Ewing has held offices in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, as well as in local and regional geology groups, and has received several awards for his service to the field.

CE17009C ? Future Leaders of the U.S. Army

Six active members of the U.S. Army War College will give a series of presentations on current topics.

Week 1: The U.S. Army War College and its role in today's Army - Dougald MacMillan

Week 2: U.S. Army response to a Chemical, Biological, Nuclear threat to the Homeland - Will Dionne

Week 3: The Joint Communication Support Command and its response to the Ebola epidemic - Marne Sutten

Week 4: U.S. Army Signal Corps response to the threats of Cyberspace Vanessa Ragsdale

Week 5: The U.S. Army Reserve Civil Affairs Corps - Straus Scantlin Week 6: The role of a female chaplain in a military environment - Julie

Rowan

Director: LTC Dougald MacMillan II serves as the Program Coordinator for the Army War College Fellowship and as Research Associate, LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Master of Public Affairs degree in 2002 at the LBJ School and taught Organizational Leadership in the College of Communication from 2005-2007.

Lieutenant Colonel MacMillan graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1975 and was commissioned in the Infantry. He served with the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas; twice with the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina; on the Commandant's Staff at West Point; with the 8th Infantry Division in Mainz, Germany; as Assistant Inspector General, Army Criminal Investigation Command, Washington, D.C.; on the Army Chief of Staff's Congressional Activities Team in the Pentagon; and with the 18th Airborne Corps, Ft. Bragg. His awards include the Expert Infantry Badge, Master Parachutist wings, Pathfinder Badge, Legion of Merit (2 awards), Meritorious Service Medal (4 awards), British and German jump wings.

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