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Course Catalog | Fall 2014

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Wonderlust Board Members 2014-2015
Eva Paten ................................................................................................ President
Gerry Wheeler ............................................................................... Vice President
Stephen Guggenheim .............................................................................Secretary
Roger Breeding ....................................................................................... Treasurer
Richard Young ........................................................... Immediate Past President
Sally Maison .............................................. .Co-Chair, Curriculum Commitee
Kathryn Earley .......................................... Co-Chair, Curriculum Commitee
Lane Harris ............................................................. Chair, Side Trip Commitee
Linda Clark .................................................... Chair, New Ventures Commitee
Doug Young ................................................... Chair, Friday Forum Commitee
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Gena Funk ................................................................................................ Member
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Marilyn Jarvis ........................................................... MSU Extended University
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WONDERLUST
Journeys for the Mind
Courses
Still Not Over: Te First
World War and a Century of
Consequences
Te Role of Dance in Western
Culture
Asian Music: India, China and
Indonesia
World Religions
Cultures of Hate: Te Sites and
Sounds of Europes Radical Right
Sun Power! Te Past, Present and
Future of Solar Energy
Health and Wealth Around the
World
Shakespeares Feisty Females
Special Workshops & Events
Te Friday Forum
Memoir Writing
Opera Club
Book Discussion Group:
International Mystery Series
Book Series
Side Trips
Great Falls Army Air Force Base
in World War II
Genomics: Te Information Age
of Biology
Lasers and Teir Applications
Museums and Native American
Studies
Columbus, the Sun, and Darkness
at Sea
Wilderness...Te Act, the
Progress and the Promise
CATALOG CONTENTS
Calendar .....................................p. 4
Courses.............................. pp. 5-10
Friday Forum ......................... p. 10
Side Trips ........................ pp. 11-14
Memoir Writing ..................... p. 15
Opera Club ............................. p. 16
Mystery Book Discussion .... p. 17
Book Series ............................. p. 18
Registration .................... pp. 19-20
Locations map .............back cover
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Still Not Over: Te First
World War and a Century
of Consequences

Instructor: Dale Martin

Dates: Tuesdays, Sept. 16 to Oct. 21

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Location: Aspen Pointe

Max Enrollment: 45
We will begin with details of several
crucial episodes of World War I,
such as the Dardanelles-Gallipoli
campaigns of 1915 and the naval
blockades in the North Atlantic.
Post-war consequences, including
contemporary issues, will comprise
most of the course. Te half decade
afer1918 featured continuing con-
fict inIreland, Russia, Turkey, and
elsewhere, as well as diplomacy that
resulted in new nations and borders.
Te long-term consequences include
fascism, the U.S.S.R., the post-Oto-
man Middle East, the Second World
War, and deep damage to optimism
for human progress.
Although it is intended as a sequel
to the Spring 2014course on
World War I,an overview of the
war years 1914-1918, frst-time
students are welcome, because
we will begin eachspecifc
topic with abriefrefresher of
relevantbackgroundmaterial.
Class Format: Lecture and discussion
Readings: (highly recommended but not
required) Paris 1919: Six Months Tat
Changed the World by Margaret MacMil-
lan (Random House, 2001, 2003).
Dale Martin teaches history at MSU-
Bozeman, with special interest in the First
World War and its consequences. He
believes the centennial of the war years ofers
opportunities to study the confict as arguably
the most infuential episode of the 20th Century
for the world centered on Europe and the
Atlantic.
Te Role of Dance in
Western Culture

Instructor: Amy Stoddart

Dates: Wednesdays, Sept. 17 to Oct. 15

Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Hope Lutheran Church
Tis class ofers an introduction to
dance as an art form, including the
study of the historical, cultural, social
and performative contexts of diverse
dance forms. Students will develop
an appreciation of dance as a form of
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communication and personal ex-
pression and understand how dance
refects and comments upon contem-
porary society.
Class Format: Lecture, discussion and flm
reviewing
Readings: If interested: No Fixed Points
by Nancy Reynolds, What is Dance?
Readings in Teory and Criticism by Roger
Copeland.
Amy Stoddart is the Co-Artistic Director
of Montana Ballet Co. and owner of Bridger
Pilates. Ms. Stoddart has danced professionally
and holds a B. A. fom Mercyhurst College and
an M.F. A fom the University of Colorado. Ms.
Stoddart serves as a professor of dance as the
University of Oregon fom 1998-2008 and has
presented and published her scholarly research.
Asian Music: India, China
& Indonesia

Instructor: Alan Leech

Dates: Tursdays, Sept. 18 to Oct. 16

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church
Jump into a mid-depth investiga-
tion of three cultures that have
developed traditional music that is
unique to each of them, as well as
diferent from our Western ap-
proaches. Elements of these Asian
musical personalities have crept into
American music and ofen surprise
us today as we encounter them in
our own melting pot of culture. Of
course, we have had our infuence on
traditional music of Asia, too.
Class Format: Lecture and discussion
Course Materials: Students will be asked
to listen to music selections that can be
found on the Internet, and the instruc-
tor will recommend CDs for those who
would like to purchase them. Text mate-
rial will be e-mailed; paper copies will be
available for those without e-mail access.
Alan Leech is a retired professor fom
Montana State University School of Music,
where he developed his popular course, World
Music. His travels around the world have
informed him on many topics, including
cooking food fom many cultures. Leech led
a rewarding tour to Bali for MSU students,
faculty, and townsfolk. He is a published
composer, as well as an active performer in the
Bozeman Symphony and in various chamber
music groups in the Bozeman area.
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World Religions

Instructor: Barton Scot

Dates: Fridays, Sept. 19 to Oct. 24 and
Nov. 7 (no class Oct. 31)

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Hope Lutheran Church

An essential aspect of human
cultures since antiquity, religion is
also a major force in twenty-frst
century world afairs, shaping
policy from Paris to Tehran, and
from Washington to Delhi. Tis
course seeks to provide students
with basic familiarity with fve
major world traditions closely as-
sociated with the Indian subconti-
nent: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Jainism and Sikhism. We will
study the history, beliefs and prac-
tices of these fve traditions with
particular atention to the interre-
lations among them. Students can
expect to learn about the diversity
of religion in South Asia, as well
as gain a sense for how religion fts
into daily life.
Class Format: Lecture
Readings: Materials will be sent by e-mail.
Recommended (but not required), Reli-
gious Literacy by Stephen Prothero.
Barton Scot is an assistant professor of
Religious Studies at Montana State University.
He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University
and his B. A. at Swarthmore College. At
MSU, he teaches large survey courses in South
Asian religions, Hinduism and Islam, as
well as courses on topics such as secularism,
guru culture and religion and media. His
research focuses on Hinduism in colonial and
postcolonial India.
Cultures of Hate: Te Sites
and Sounds of Europes
Radical Right

Instructor: Patricia Anne Simpson

Dates: Tuesdays, Sept. 23 to Oct. 28

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Aspen Pointe

Whether at the margins or in the
mainstream of global media, right-
wing movements and their propo-
nents continue to make a variety
of headlines, from astonishing po-
litical victories in some of Europes
weakening democratic states, to
choreographed terrorist acts. Te
Internet today is an instrument of
communication and community,
a malleable tool easily wielded
by invisible hands. Te class will
focus on transnational right-wing
movements and the ways in which
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members of extremist groups use
popular music, sports events, and
political rallies, but also Face-
book, YouTube, blogs, and other
means of mechanical and digital
reproduction to form virtual and
face-to-face communities for the
purpose of disseminating their
political message.
Class Format: Lecture and discussion
Readings: Short readings from the instruc-
tors co-edited volume.
Patricia Anne Simpson (Ph.D. Yale
University) is professor of German Studies
at Montana State University. Her research
interests range fom the literature and
philosophy of German Classicism and
Romanticism to contemporary popular culture.
An award-winning instructor, Simpson taught
at the University of Michigan, Kenyon College,
and Hunter College before coming to Bozeman
in 2002. In addition, she has received grants
fom Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, DAAD, and
the U.S. Department of Education. Simpson is
currently co-editing a book on the far right and
media strategies in Europe and the U.S.
Sun Power! Te Past,
Present, and Future of
Solar Energy

Instructor: Susan Bilo

Dates: Wednesdays, Oct. 22 to Nov. 19

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Hope Lutheran Church
Circle the globe to learn solar en-
ergys rich history: how the ancient
Puebloans, Romans, Greeks, Chi-
nese (and Clarence Kemp from
Baltimore) used the suns energy.
Not a lot has changed since the frst
solar water heater was patented in
1891, but the technology for solar
electricity has come a long way since
scientists developed the frst solar
cell from an element of sand. Learn
how photovoltaics power everything
from calculators to cars, buildings to
boats, and appliances to airplanes!
Te journey will encompass the
basic science, applications, econom-
ics, and policies of solar energy
In 2010, Patricia Anne Simpson, pro-
fessor of German studies at MSU, was
selected as a research ambassador
for the German Academic Exchange
Service, abbreviated DAAD, the Ger-
man national agency for the support
of international academic cooperation.
Photo by Theo Lipfert.
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principles and technologies, includ-
ing solars role in the Smart Grid and
Net Zero Energy projects.
Class Format: Lecture and discussion
Readings: Chapters from the books below
will be e-mailed with copies provided for
those without email access.

Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions
for the New Energy Era by Amory Lovins,
Anasazi Architecture and American Design
by Baker H. Morrow and V.B. Price and
Let It Shine: the 6,000-Year Story of Solar
Energy by John Perlin.
Susan Bilo is a renewable energy advocate
on the local, state, and national level. She
serves on Montana State Universitys Campus
Sustainability Advisory Council and is a
member of the American Solar Energy Society,
Montana Renewable Energy Association,
Passive House Institute, U.S., and the Net
Zero Energy Coalition. Susan served as an
energy specialist with a state energy ofce, the
U.S. Department of Energy, and the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory. She lives in a
solar powered-home and bakes with a solar
oven.
Health and Wealth
Around the World

Instructor: Doug Young

Dates: Tuesdays, Nov. 4 to Dec. 2

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church
Tis course will examine facts and
issues in international economic
development. Why is the USA so
rich and healthy? And why is India
not? Is income related to happi-
ness? How are health and income
related? What is the outlook for
world population and poverty? How
does international trade afect job
opportunities in both exporting
and importing nations? Are Ameri-
can jobs going to China? What are
exchange rates and what role does
Chinas manipulation of its currency
play? Looking to the future, do
Federal Budget defcits threaten our
(grand-) childrens future?
Class Format: Lecture and discussion
Readings: Readings will be e-mailed. If
interested: Te Travels of a T-Shirt in the
Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli and Half
the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl
WuDunn.
Doug Young bought a VW van in Europe
in 1971 and drove it to India (and back).
Afer geting his Ph.D. fom the University of
Wisconsin, he taught economics at MSU fom
1977 to 2013. He has been a visiting professor
at half a dozen universities in Afica and Asia
and in 2013 travelled to Kenya with MSUs
chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
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Class Format: Lecture and discussion
Readings: Familiarity with Te Taming
of the Shrew, Te Merchant of Venice, As
You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing,
Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra
would be helpful. Passages for study
will be distributed during class.
Sharon Beehler, MSU professor emeritus
of English, has spent nearly 40 years studying,
teaching and enjoying Shakespeare. She
received her Ph.D. fom UCLA in 1978 and
joined the faculty of MSU in 1985. She has
lectured and published widely on Shakespeare
and was a featured speaker and instructor
for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a
collaborator with MSUs Shakespeare in the
Parks. She is an award-winning teacher and
scholar.
Shakespeares Feisty Females

Instructor: Sharon Beehler

Dates: Tursdays, Nov. 6 to Dec. 11 (no
class on Tanksgiving, Nov. 27)

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Hope Lutheran Church
Why have Shakespeares female
characters always held such appeal
for actors and audiences alike? Tis
class will seek to answer this question
by delving into Shakespeares use of
source materials, the infuences of 16
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century English societal norms, the
atitudes and practices of stagecraf in
Elizabethan and Jacobean England,
and most importantly the richness
of language spoken by the most popu-
lar characters: Kate, Portia, Rosalind,
Beatrice, Lady Macbeth and Cleopa-
tra. Tese feisty females share a strong
independence that manifests itself
in diferent ways within the confnes
of their dramatic circumstances and
milieu. Joining us will be actors who
will bring to life Shakespeares creative
imagination and artistry.
Friday Forums are held monthly
from September to
May, usually on the
second Friday of the
month, from noon
until 1:30 p.m at the Bozeman Public
Library in the large Community Room
Speakers will address timely topics
related to local city, county and state
issues, or national/international issues
of relevance to us here in Montana.
For upcoming topics, visit
htp://eu.montana.edu/wonderlust
Brown bag lunches are encouraged.
Cofee and tea are provided.
Bozeman Public Library Foundation
co-sponsors the Friday Forums.
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Great Falls Army Air Force
Base in World War II

Presenter: Anne Millbrooke

Date: Monday, Sept. 29

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Aspen Pointe
Built to train bomber crews, the
Great Falls Army Air Force Base
became the point of departure for
aircraf being ferried to the Soviet
Union via Canada and Alaska. From
the fall of 1942 to the fall of 1945,
the U.S. sent 8,000 airplanes out
of Great Falls to Fairbanks, Alaska,
where the aircraf were transferred
to Soviet airmen for the fight across
Siberia. Tese aircrafs were for use
against Germanys Eastern Front
to keep the Soviets in the war, to
keep German forces divided be-
tween two fronts. Tis is the Great
Falls story.
Reading: Gary Glynn, Montanas Home
Front during World War II (Missoula:
Pictorial Histories, 1994)
Anne Millbrooke grew up in Washington.
She went east to college, frst to Boise State
College in Idaho, then to the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, and fnally to the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for
her doctorate. She ran the history program at
United Technologies Corporation. She taught
history at universities. She wrote an award-
winning aviation history textbook used at
universities, including the Air Force Academy.
Genomics:
Te Information Age of Biology

Presenter: Chris Organ

Date: Monday, Oct. 13

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Aspen Pointe
Dr. Organs research focuses on large-
scale evolutionary questions, which
have traditionally been the purview
of paleontology. Te rise of genom-
ics, computational biology, and phy-
logenetic theory now render macro-
evolutionary questions tractable for
other disciplines, such as genomics.
His research seizes this opportunity
to confront fundamental questions
about how the genome evolves over
hundreds of millions of years.
Dr. Chris Organ received his Ph.D. in 2004
fom the Department of Cell Biology and
Neuroscience at MSU under the mentorship of
Jack Horner, Regents Professor and Curator of
Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.In
2005 he was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein
Fellowship for work on evolutionary genomics
at Harvard University with Scot V. Edwards.
In 2010 he joined the Department of Genetics
and Genomics at Biogen Idec in Cambridge,
Massachusets and then returned to Bozeman in
2013 to take a visiting professorship at MSU.
Side Trips
Side Trips are fee for Wonderlust members
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Side Trips
Side Trips are fee for Wonderlust members
Lasers and Teir
Applications

Presenter: Rufus Cone

Date: Monday, Oct. 20

Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
(NOTE special time)

Location: MSU EPS Building, Room 108
Lasers are unique sources of light
with applications varying from
simple pointers, to cuting sheet
steel and welding cars, to measure-
ments of the earth-moon distance
with centimeter accuracy and the
consequent ploting of the motion
of the earths continents, to measure-
ments of the fastest events under
human control, and even to trigger-
ing nuclear fusion. Tis Side Trip on
Lasers and Teir Applications will
start from simple physical pictures to
develop an intuitive grasp of impor-
tant principles and features of lasers.
Demonstrations will illustrate
concepts and provide connections
to the experimental and practical
world. A few key applications will
be described ranging from medicine
to technology. Te Bozeman optics
industry, which has perhaps the
greatest per capita density of its type
in the entire U.S., with more than 30
companies and hundreds of employ-
ees, will be surveyed, illustrating an
important impact that MSU has on
the local economy.
Rufus Cone, honored as a Fellow of the
American Physical Society for contributions to
rare earth material physics, received his Ph.D.
fom Yale University and his B.S. fom Georgia
Tech. A Distinguished Professor of Leters and
Science at Montana State University, he is a co-
founder of MSU Spectrum Lab and has been
active on the faculty since 1974. Cones group
has developed optical materials relevant to the
Bozeman optical industries and to fontier
areas like quantum communications. Tey
have fequency-stabilized lasers to ultranarrow
spectra in Bozeman-grown materials to
precisions of a part in 1014 over milliseconds
an application now being used by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology.
Museums and Native
American Studies

Presenter: Charlie Spray

Date: Monday, Oct. 27

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Christ the King Lutheran
Museums have over 850 million visi-
tors every year and contribute over
$21 billion to the economy annu-
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Side Trips
Side Trips are fee for Wonderlust members
ally. In this modern era of diversity
and information, ths Side Trip is
designed to inform and highlight the
role and relationship that museums
have had in the past with indigenous
peoples and explores the role that
museums will play in the future in
regards to Native American people.
Te presentation will introduce Na-
tive American Studies as a genre and
explore its multi-faceted applica-
tions as they relate to contemporary
events, especially museums.
Charlie Spray will fnish his masters degree
in Native American Studies at Montana State
University in 2014. He has a degree in Bible
Studies, as well as a B. A. in History fom
MSU with minors in Museum Studies and
Native American Studies. He has served as
an adjunct faculty member at Montana State
University for the past year and a half teaching
Introduction to Native American Studies
and also Native American Cinema. He also
serves as a researcher for the Gallatin History
Museum located in Bozeman.
Columbus, the Sun, and
Darkness at Sea

Presenters: Loren Acton, Steve Hample

Date: Monday, Nov. 10

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Christ the King Lutheran
(A) Te late 15th Century was a tur-
bulent time in Spain. Te Muslims
were making a last stand against the
Christians, Isabella and Ferdinand
were determined to marry against
the wishes of their parents, and this
no-account Columbus kept showing
up in court trying to raise funds for a
crazy voyage to India by sailing west.
(B) Our Sun is a remarkably lovely
magnetic star surrounded by super-
hot gas a corona visible only at
times of total solar eclipse.
(C) In 2013 intrepid Bozemanites
set sail, following a route of Colum-
bus to, hopefully, view a total solar
eclipse at sea. Come to this Won-
derlust Side Trip to see how A, B,
and C can be woven together into an
illustrated tale.
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Side Trips
Side Trips are fee for Wonderlust members
Loren Acton is a native Montanan. He
received his B.S. in Engineering Physics fom
MSU and his Ph.D. in Astro-Geophysics fom
the University of Colorado. In 1985, he was
the payload specialist on the Challenger 8
space shutle mission called SPACELAB 2. It
launched July 29 (afer a launch abort at T-3
seconds on July 12) and landed on August 6.
Tis eight-day mission emphasized astronomy
but our 13 experiments ranged fom life sciences
to high energy astrophysics. He is a research
specialist at MSU.
Steve Hample, CFP is a fnancial planner
in Bozeman whose hobbies are international
travel, owning a small banking corporation
and writing a newspaper column. For his next
career, hed like to be a travel photo journalist
Wilderness Te Act, the
Progress and the Promise

Presenter: Roger A. Jenkins, Ph.D.

Date: Monday, Nov. 17

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Aspen Pointe
Afer decades of work by conser-
vationists around the country, the
Wilderness Act was signed into law
in early September 1964, following
overwhelming bi-partisan support
in the Senate and House. Te Act
established procedures and criteria
for the highest form of protection
our nation can provide to public
lands. Critics of the Act today claim
that designating a piece of land as
big W Wilderness locks it up so
that people can not use it, a com-
mon misconception. How the Act
came about, what sort of constraints
Wilderness designation imposes on a
landscape, the current status of des-
ignated Wilderness in Montana and
the U.S. as a whole will be discussed,
along with some of the authors
experiences in the many conserva-
tion batles with which he has been
involved.
Roger Jenkins is a retired scientist fom Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee.
He has acted as an advisor to government
agencies in the U.S. and Canada in the general
area of aerosol chemistry and exposure and
feld analytical chemistry, and as an expert
witness in several high-profle litigations. He
has also been active in conservation groups for
nearly 40 years, and is the former chairman
of the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club.
He currently is the president of the Madison-
Gallatin Chapter of the Montana Wilderness
Association. An avid hiker and backpacker
(with over 290 backpacking trips to his
credit), he, along with his wife, runs the website,
TwoHikers.org
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In this course, we will use free-writing to explore mem-
oir. What are your big or small memories? Where do
you come from? Where are you going? What about your
family lineage, traditions, pivotal choices youve made,
charged moments that have shaped your understanding
of selfood and community? Trough short sketches,
you will build momentum, play with syntax, and en-
courage your unique voice. Geting words on paper will
become natural. At the end of our 8 weeks together, your
notebook will contain a collection of your histories,
and we will have learned more about each other and
ourselves. Come engage in the ancient art of storytelling!
Come listen to each other, give and receive feedback, and
ultimately, have a lot of fun.
Molly Caro May is a writer who leads place-based writing
workshops across the country. Her work has appeared in Orion
Magazine, Salon, and Fourth Genre, among others. She is the
author ofTeMap of Enough: One Womans Search for
Place. Learn more at www.mollycaromay.com
Special Workshop
Memoir
Writing
Molly Caro May
How to Compose a Life Story in Short Sketches

Date: Wednesdays,
Sept. 24 to Nov. 12

Time: 10 a.m. to noon

Location: Pilgrim
Congregational
Church

Maximum
Enrollment: 10
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Wonderlust Opera Club

Instructor: Stephen Guggenheim and
guests.

Te Wonderlust Opera Club meets
Fridays, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Pilgrim
Congregational Church:

on Oct. 17 to discuss the Oct. 18 tele-
cast of Te Marriage of Figaro,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

on Dec. 12 to discuss the Dec. 13 tele-
cast of Te Meistersingers of
Nuremburg, Richard Wagner

Opera telecasts are at the Regal Teater
complex, Gallatin Valley Mall (Oct. 17
telecast at 11 a.m.; Dec. 13 telecast at 10
a.m.)

Cost: Free to members ($25 non-mem-
bers). Telecast admission is additional
and paid to the theater.
Te Wonderlust Opera Club pro-
vides an introduction to opera and
a forum for discussion of some of
the operas which can be seen and
heard in the Gallatin Valley, either in
live performances of Intermountain
Opera Bozeman or in HD telecasts
Live from Te Metropolitan Opera
in New York. Discussions will pro-
vide background on selected operas,
ofer an opportunity for partici-
pants to share their knowledge and
experiences of opera and atempt
to explain the great appeal of this
implausible art form. Topics include
history of opera, musical and theatri-
cal styles in opera, characteristics of
famous opera singers past and pres-
ent, and issues of opera production.
We anticipate presenting introduc-
tory material for people new to
opera and the club and enough new
material to interest people who have
joined us in previous years. Regis-
trants will receive e-mail bulletins
describing opera opportunities in
the Bozeman area.
Stephen Guggenheim is a retired
physician and medical educator who
started listening to Metropolitan Opera
(radio) broadcasts in the 1950s. He was a
member of the Bozeman Symphony and
the Intermountain Opera Orchestra, and
he is a member of the Advisory Board of
Intermountain Opera Bozeman.
Opera Club
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Wonderlust International
Mystery Book Discussion
Group

Tursdays, Noon to 1 p.m.

Country Bookshelf, 28 W. Main

Discussion leader: Ariana Paliobagis

Free to Wonderlust members
No charge or registration is required for
Wonderlust members to participate in the
Mystery Series. Participants must acquire their
own books.Tey are available through Country
Bookshelf, other retailers and possibly your local
library.
Mystery novels are a great way to
travel vicariously, and tend to give a
much gritier, less polished version
of life in a particular place and cul-
ture than most Westerners experi-
ence when we visit. And while so
many have long been a fan of British
mysteries, and more recently Scandi-
navian ones, there are books to take
one to all corners of the globe and
even to the past. We will read a wide
sampling of mysteries from around
the world and discuss them as we
would any book, looking at themes,
characters, plot, language and style,
and particularly in this case, genre,
but we will also look at books as
armchair passports, exploring what
we can and can not learn about the
world and the people in it from
books.
Ariana Paliobagis, owner of the Country
Bookshelf, is a Montana native and
received both a B.A. and M.A. in English
fom MSU and was an instructor for the
English Department for several years.
Oct. 30 Summertime, All the Cats
are Bored
by Philippe Georget
Nov. 20 Te Crossing Places
by Elly Grifths
Jan. 15 City of Veils
by Zoe Ferraris
Feb. 19 Salvation of a Saint
by Keigo Higashino
March 19 Case of the Missing Servant
by Tarquin Hall
April 16 Cocaine Blues
by Kerry Greenwood
May 21 Murder in the Marais
by Cara Black
Mystery Book Discussion Group
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Book Series
Wonderlust Book Series

Dates: First Mondays, October 2014 to
June 2015

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Pilgrim Congregational
Church

Free to Wonderlust members
Each session will be limited to 25 participants.
Obtaining books is the responsibility of
each participant. Te Country Bookshelf, a
Wonderlust sponsor, will stock a supply of the
books scheduled for discussion.
Jan Zauha, associate professor and MSU
librarian, will be the discussion leader for each
of these programs. She has extensive experience
in leading book discussion programs and makes
each session lively, informative and interesting.
We are fortunate to be able to again have Jan
Zauha as the professional book discussion
leader for our programs.
Wonderlust will again ofer its
popular Wonderlust Book Discus-
sion Program, made possible by a
grant from Humanities Montana
Atendance at all sessions is not
necessary in order to atend any of
the sessions, but it is encouraged to
enhance the individuals experience
of the literature and enjoyment of
the discussions.
Te books were chosen by a group
of English and Literature professors
who are Wonderlust members. Te
books for fall semester are listed
below:
Book List
Oct. 6, 2014 Goldfnch
by Donna Tart
Nov. 3, 2014 Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
Dec. 1, 2014 Te Tird Man
by Graham Greene
Jan. 5, 2015 Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Feb. 2, 2015 No Great Mischief
by Alistair MacLeod
March 2, 2015 Te Possessed: Adventures
With Russian Books and the
People Who Read them
by Elif Batuman
April 6, 2015 People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
May 4, 2015 Julys People
by Nadine Gordimer
June 1, 2015 Swanns Way
by Marcel Proust
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* New and renewal membership dues are payable at the beginning of our Wonderlust year,
Sept. 1. The membership year continues through Aug. 31 of the following year. Membership
dues can be accepted at any time; however, dues will not be prorated.
Courses
Course, # of Sessions Names of attendee(s) Member
Non-
member
First World War (6) $75 $110
The Role of Dance (5) $62.50 $97.50
Asian Music (5) $62.50 $97.50
World Religions (7) $87.50 $122.50
Cultures of Hate (6) $75 $110
Sun Power! (5) $62.50 $97.50
Health and Wealth (5) $62.50 $97.50
Shakespeare (5) $62.50 $97.50
Special Workshops
Opera Club Free $25
Memoir Writing $210 $245
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pGenomics: The Information
Age of Biology
pLasers and Their Applications
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pColumbus, the Sun, and
Darkness at Sea
pWilderness...The Act, The
Progress and the Promise
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